Descartes' Philosophy of Science
Author: Desmond M. Clarke
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780719008689
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Legisprudence
Author: Luc J. Wintgens
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-22
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1317105915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book establishes legisprudence, in contrast to jurisprudence, as a legal theory of rational law-making. It suggests that by rejecting the common wisdom about the nature of political law-making, legislation could be improved and streamlined. Using the methods, theoretical insights and tools of current legal theory and philosophy of law in a new way, the book suggests the creation of law by legislators rather than government. Raising new questions and problems of the validity of norms, the book opens a new perspective on legitimacy of norms, their meaning and the structure of the legal system. In distinguishing legitimacy and legitimation of law, the book ventures into the philosophical roots of legal theory and suggests the articulation of a new conception of sovereignty. In shifting the emphasis to the position of the legislator and legislation, this book opens a number of new insights into the relationship between legislative problems and legal theory. Its main claim is that legislation should be justified by the legislator.
Doubt, Faith, and Certainty
Author: Thiselton, Anthony C.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 0802873537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDoubt, faith, certainty. In this book celebrated theologian Anthony Thiselton provides clarity on these complicated, long-misunderstood theological concepts and the practical pastoral problems they raise for Christians. He reminds us that doubt is not always bad, faith can have different meanings in different circumstances, and certainty is fragile. Drawing on his expertise in the fields of exegesis and hermeneutics, biblical studies, and the history of Christian thought, Thiselton works his way through the labyrinth of past definitions while offering better, more nuanced theological understandings of these three interrelated concepts. The result is a book that speaks profoundly to some of our deepest existential concerns.
Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts
Author: Richard Allen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-02-25
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1135199515
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first full exploration of the implications of Wittgenstein's philosophy for understanding the arts and cultural criticism. These original essays by philosophers and critics address key philosophical topics in the study of the arts and culture, such as humanism, criticism, psychology, painting, film and ethics. All exemplify Wittgenstein's method of conceptual investigation and highlight his notion of philosophy as a cure.
Dead Certainty
Author: Jennifer Louise Culbert
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDead Certainty is about the challenge of judging matters of public concern without a common sense of the good or other shared criteria that validate final decisions. Examining both the philosophical and the practical aspects of this challenge, this book focuses on United States Supreme Court opinions that authorize and regulate the practice of sentencing people to death. Unlike other books that discuss capital punishment, it does not argue for or against the death penalty. Instead, Dead Certainty contributes to a larger project in contemporary political and legal philosophy: re-imagining how people in today's world give coherence and meaning to their shared experience. Culbert's work will be of interest to scholars of political theory, jurisprudence, law and society, rhetoric, continental philosophy, and ethics.
Contract Formation
Author: Michael Furmston
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2010-03-25
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 0199284245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProviding a practical analysis of the legal principles which govern the formation of contracts in English law (with additional authorities from the Commonwealth), this work on contract formation offers those involved in litigation and in drafting contracts a guide to the application of those principles in practice.
Irony and Religious Belief
Author: Gregory L. Reece
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9783161477799
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe concept of irony is difficult to pin down, difficult to capture. This book is a critical examination of how Soren Kierkegaard and the pragmatist Richard Rorty approach the complex subject of irony. Gregory L. Reece traces the development of the philosophical concept of irony from Socrates to Hegel, Schlegel, Kierkegaard and Rorty, while addressing the very question that is central for both Kierkegaard and Rorty, the question of the relationship of ironic philosophy to an ironic life. Must ironic philosophy result in what Kierkegaard calls infinite, absolute negativity or in what Rorty describes as doubt and meta-stability? Gregory L. Reece argues that the answer is no, and that the belief that it must is based on an important philosophical mistake which in different forms is committed by both the early Kierkegaard and by Rorty. The insights of these philosophers, as well as those developed by Wittgenstein, are used to develop the beginning of an ironic philosophy of religion. Specifically, this work follows Kierkegaard and pursues these questions with special concern for the relation of ironic philosophy to religious belief.
Mind
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 588
ISBN-13:
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Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mind (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Ashok Vohra
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-08
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 1317688260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhilosophers since Descartes have felt themselves compelled to make a choice between mind and body. Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mind, first published in 1986, argues that there is no genuine epistemological problem of mind, and that the widespread philosophical scepticism with regard to our knowledge of other minds is without foundation. Ashok Vohra applies Wittgenstein’s method to show that the problem has arisen through a tendency to over-philosophise our simple experiences. Vohra presents a positive account of Wittgenstein’s philosophy of mind, arguing that to consider his philosophy entirely destructive is misleading. He shows that knowledge of mind is gained through a large complex of intersubjectively identifiable factors such as the linguistic and non-linguistic past, present and future behaviour of the person concerned. He thus justifies the belief, on which psychology and psychoanalysis are based, that mind is not a mystery to which only the owner has privileged access.
The Principles of Knowledge, with Remarks on the Nature of Reality
Author: Johnston Estep Walter
Publisher:
Published: 1904
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13:
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