Author : Jorge J. E. Gracia
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 35,89 MB
Release : 1996-07-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791429020
Provides an ontological characterization of texts, explores the issues raised by the identity of various texts, and presents a view of the function of authors and audiences, and of their relations to texts.
Author : Jorge J. E. Gracia
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780887066269
The author begins by distinguishing six fundamental issues on the metaphysics of individuality. He then proceeds to examine the relation among these issues and to demonstrate that ignorance of the interrelationships has caused confusion in philosophy. In spite of the intricacy of the subject matter, the discussion is always clear, the arguments explicitly evaluated, and the solutions original. In addition, Gracia has assembled an array of historical and contemporary information, from Plato to Strawson, that is unavailable elsewhere.
Author : Michel Weber
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,53 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3110328348
This volume gathers prominent international scholars to celebrate the complex legacy of Reiner Wiehl, whose work has been instrumental in bringing together the European tradition of prima philosophia as represented by Plato, Spinoza, Kant and Hegel, with the adventurous speculative renewal of the twentieth century by Alfred North Whitehead. Grouped into four sections (Process and Universals, Nature and Subjectivity, Ethics and Civilization, Psychology and Phenomenology) the fifteen papers collected in this book cover a range of topics which is as wide and as intertwined as Wiehl's own expertise. The common thread running through all contributions is the problematic nature of subjectivity and especially of its process slant, which easily eludes the static and abstract schemes of rationality.
Author : Judith Rich Harris
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 48,36 MB
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0393079511
"A display of scientific courage and imagination." —William Saletan, New York Times Book Review Why do people—even identical twins reared in the same home—differ so much in personality? Armed with an inquiring mind and insights from evolutionary psychology, Judith Rich Harris sets out to solve the mystery of human individuality.
Author : Orlin Ottman Fletcher
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 18,9 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Author : Stephen David Ross
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,56 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780873955546
The richness of art is manifested in contrast: contrast with other works of art, other features of human experience, other times and places, and other forms of judgment and understanding. The possibilities of contrast are inexhaustible. Every being shares this inexhaustibility of openness to novel possibilities, although inexhaustibility is most fully realized in art. The general theory of art and aesthetic value developed in this book is based on the notions of inexhaustibility and contrast and has important forebears in Kant, Coleridge, and Whitehead. The theory allows art to be located relative to otheR spheres of judgment--science, action, and philosophy. The theory allows a new perspective on interpretation and criticism. Ross presents and defines a new synthetic form of understanding works of art that offers an alternative to the skepticism that haunts so many theories of interpretation.
Author : Gerard Casey
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 12,94 MB
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1788360257
We're all in favour of free speech — except when we're not! Often it's a case of 'free speech for me, but not for thee’. The regulation of speech is a matter that is typically dealt with arbitrarily without there being any obvious principled basis for the decisions that are made. Is hate speech, so-called, a form of free speech? What of blasphemy, in either its ancient or contemporary forms? Should certain forms of speech be mandatory? As with free speech, we’re all in favour of tolerance — except when we're not! Tolerance is increasingly coming to seem, well, intolerable and new and improved forms of intolerance are everywhere on the rise, not least as embodied in the currently fashionable doctrines of diversity, inclusion and equality. In ZAP, Gerard Casey presents a critical and unified approach to both free speech and tolerance based on the Zero Aggression Principle, keeping the critical discussion topical and grounded by reference to current events.
Author : Andrea Nini
Publisher : Elements in Forensic Linguisti
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 30,51 MB
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108971385
Introduces a formal theory of linguistic individuality, a perspective-changing framework moving the field towards more cognitively realistic methods of authorship analysis.
Author : Michael Boylan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 39,68 MB
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1118658019
The second edition of Environmental Ethics combines a strong theoretical foundation with applications to some of the most pressing environmental problems. Through a mix of classic and new essays, it discusses applied issues such as pollution, climate change, animal rights, biodiversity, and sustainability. Roughly half of the selections are original essays new to this edition. Accessible introduction for beginners, including important established essays and new essays commissioned especially for the volume Roughly half of the selections are original essays new to this edition, including an entirely new chapter on Pollution and climate change and a new section on Sustainability Includes new material on ethical theory as a grounding for understanding the ethical dimensions of the environment, our interactions with it, and our place in it The text incorporates helpful pedagogy, including extensive editorial material, cases, and study questions Includes key information on recent developments in the field Presents a carefully selected set of readings designed to progressively move the reader to competency in subject comprehension and essay writing
Author : Douglas Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 26,15 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317321979
This is the first book to explore national representations of slavery in an international comparative perspective. Contributions span a wide geographical range, covering Europe, North America, West and South Africa, the Indian Ocean and Asia.
