Book Description
Offers examples of oral narratives and literature from the nineteenth century to the present
Author : Tey Diana Rebolledo
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816513840
Offers examples of oral narratives and literature from the nineteenth century to the present
Author : Dale Jacquette
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004116498
This new study of David Hume s philosophy of mathematics critically examines his objections to the concept of infinity, and his alternative phenomenalist theory of space and time as constituted by minima sensibilia or sensible extensionless indivisibles.
Author : Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Philosophical Letters is a compilation by Margaret Cavendish. It features a series of letters to prominent persons, debating issues within natural philosophy.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004686029
This volume sheds new light on Alexander of Aphrodisias’ On Mixture and Growth as an intelligent and carefully crafted rebuttal of Stoic blending, which Alexander regarded as the closest rival of his own brand of hylomorphism. The authors explore Alexander’s dialectical method and determine the precise character of the Stoic theory he attacks. The problematic notions of mutual co-extension and infinite division appear in their proper context, while the successive stages of the process of blending are carefully distinguished from the resulting state of the blend. In this perspective the discussion of growth that closes Alexander’s work finds its natural place.
Author : Donald Rutherford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 18,52 MB
Release : 2005-03-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198032870
The revival of Leibniz studies in the past twenty-five years has cast important new light on both the context and content of Leibniz's philosophical thought. Where earlier English-language scholarship understood Leibniz's philosophy as issuing from his preoccupations with logic and language, recent work has recommended an account on which theological, ethical, and metaphysical themes figure centrally in Leibniz's thought throughout his career. The significance of these themes to the development of Leibniz's philosophy is the subject of increasing attention by philosophers and historians. This collection of new essays by a distinguished group of scholars offers an up-to-date overview of the current state of Leibniz research. In focusing on nature and freedom, the volume revisits two key topics in Leibniz's thought, on which he engaged both contemporary and historical arguments. Important contributions to Leibniz scholarship in their own right, these articles collectively provide readers a framework in which to better situate Leibniz's distinctive philosophy of nature and the congenial home for a morally significant freedom that he took it to provide.
Author : Michael Bennett McNulty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 33,77 MB
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108758568
In his Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (1786), Kant accounts for the possibility of an acting-at-a-distance gravitational force, demonstrates the infinite divisibility of matter, and derives analogues to Newtonian laws of motion. The work is his major statement in philosophy of science, and was especially influential in German-speaking countries in the nineteenth century. However, this complex text has not received the scholarly attention it deserves. The chapters of this Critical Guide clarify the accounts of matter, motion, the mathematization of nature, space, and natural laws exhibited in the Metaphysical Foundations; elucidate the relationship between its metaphysics of nature and Kant's critical philosophy; and describe the historical context for Kant's account of natural science. The volume will be an invaluable resource for understanding one of Kant's most difficult works, and will set the agenda for future scholarship on Kant's philosophy of science.
Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,81 MB
Release : 1983
Category : First philosophy
ISBN : 9780198720690
A new translation of Aristotle's classic work on the natural sciences.
Author : Andrew Ter Ern Loke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 22,42 MB
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3319575473
This book develops a novel argument which combines the Kalam with the Thomistic Cosmological Argument. It approaches an ongoing dispute concerning whether there is a First Cause of time from a radically new point of view, namely by demonstrating that there is such a First Cause without requiring the controversial arguments against concrete infinities and against traversing an actual infinite (although the book presents original defenses of these arguments as well). This book also develops a novel philosophical argument for the Causal Principle, namely that ‘everything that begins to exist has a cause’, and offers a detailed discussion on whether a First Cause of time can be avoided by a causal loop. It also addresses epistemological issues related to the Cosmological Argument which have been relatively neglected by recent publications, and demonstrates (contra Hawking et al) the continual relevance and significance of philosophy for answering ultimate questions.
Author : Adolf Grünbaum
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 903 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 940102622X
It is ten years since Adolf Griinbaum published the first edition of this book. It was promptly recognized to be one of the few major works in the philosophy of the natural sciences of this generation. In part, this is so because Griinbaum has chosen a problem basic both to philosophy and to the natural sciences - the nature of space and time; and in part, this is so because he so admirably exemplifies that Aristotelian devotion to the intimate and mutual dependence of actual science and philosophical understanding. More than this, however, the quality of his work derives from his achievement in combining detail with scope. The problems of space and time have been among the most difficult in contemporary and classical thought, and Griinbaum has been responsible to the full depth and complexity of these difficulties. This revised and enlarged second edition is a work in progress, in the tradition of reflective analysis of modern science of such figures as Ehrenfest and Reichenbach. In publishing this work among the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, we hope to contribute to and encourage that broad tradition of natural philosophy which is marked by the close collaboration of philoso phers and scientists. To this end, we have published the proceedings of our Colloquia, of meetings and conferences here and abroad, as well as the works of single authors.
Author : Catherine Osborne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 2004-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0192840940
A lively and thematic treatment of early Greek philosophy, this work discusses the invention of western philosophy - the first thinkers to explore ideas about the nature of reality, time, and the origin of the universe.