Author : Stephen Houlgate
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 22,25 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791441435
Confirms that Hegel's philosophy of nature continues to have great significance for our understanding of the natural world.
Author : W. Hugh Woodin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 29,52 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3110804735
The series is devoted to the publication of high-level monographs on all areas of mathematical logic and its applications. It is addressed to advanced students and research mathematicians, and may also serve as a guide for lectures and for seminars at the graduate level.
Author : Brian Bix
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,40 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : Andrew Lugg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 28,88 MB
Release : 2002-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134572298
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Lars Albinus
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 311045372X
This volume is dedicated to Wittgenstein's remarks on Frazer's The Golden Bough and represents a collaboration of scholars within philosophy and the study of religion. For the first time, specialized investigations of the philological and philosophical aspects Wittgenstein's manuscripts are combined with the outlook of philosophical anthropology and ritual studies. In the first section of the book Wittgenstein's remarks are presented and discussed in light of his Nachlass and relevant lecture-notes by G.E. Moore, reproduced in this book as facsimiles. The second section deals with the cultural and philosophical background of the early remarks, while the third section focuses specifically on the general problem of understanding as being a main issue of these remarks. The fourth section concentrates on the philosophical development characteristic of the later remarks. Finally, the fifth section reviews Wittgenstein's opposition to Frazer, and the ramifications of his remarks, in light of ritual studies. The book is intended for scholars in philosophy and religious studies, as well as for the general reader with an academic interest in philosophy and the philosophy of religion.
Author : Richard Dien Winfield
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 16,12 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780887067105
This is a finely argued, detailed, and comprehensive systematic theory of justice, brilliantly extending Hegelian ethics much as Rawls's Theory of Justice rehabilitated and extended classical Liberalism. Winfield argues that justice, like reason, must be self-grounding, and that to achieve this, it must be self-determined. The theory of justice must therefore abandon its appeal to metaphysically given or transcendentally constituted norms and instead determine the institutions of freedom. In pursuit of this task, Winfield offers insightful discussions of property relations, morality, the family, capital and commodity relations, economic and social justice, and the state. In contrast to Liberalism, which sees the state as instrumental to non-political ends, Winfield defends the democratic state as the just realization of freedom. Throughout, it is argued that justice is defined interactively, where one's freedom is determined by how one's interactions respect and foster the institutional freedom of others. Although the author's arguments proceed systematically, at each stage he deals adroitly with the relevant major thinkers in the Western tradition--not only with Hegel, but with the ancients, the classical liberals, Marx, and contemporaries such as Rawls.
Author : Zhen Mei
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3662041774
This monograph is the first to provide readers with numerical tools for a systematic analysis of bifurcation problems in reaction-diffusion equations. Many examples and figures illustrate analysis of bifurcation scenario and implementation of numerical schemes. Readers will gain a thorough understanding of numerical bifurcation analysis and the necessary tools for investigating nonlinear phenomena in reaction-diffusion equations.
Author : William Child
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 17,74 MB
Release : 1994-03-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191519537
William Child examines two central ideas in the philosophy of mind, and argues that (contrary to what many philosophers have thought) an understanding of the mind can and should include both. These are causalism, the idea that causality plays an essential role in our understanding of the mental; and interpretationism, the idea that we can gain an understanding of belief and desire by considering the ascription of attitudes to people on the basis of what they say and do.
Author : J. C. Beall
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 41,91 MB
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199268738
Jc Beall presents a new theory of 'transparent' truth. A prominent philosophical view of truth is as an entirely see-through device introduced for only practical (expressive) reasons. Beall's modest dialetheic theory shows how the notorious paradoxes associated with transparency can be dealt with.
Author : J. Melvin Woody
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 28,86 MB
Release : 2007-04-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0271030313
To be free is to escape all limitations and obstacles&—or so we think at first. But if we probe further, we discover that freedom embraces its own necessities, a set of conditions without which it could not exist. Freedom's Embrace explores these necessities of freedom. J. Melvin Woody surveys competing conceptions of freedom and traces debates about the nature and reality of freedom to confusions about knowledge, humanity, and nature that are rooted in some of the most fundamental assumptions of modern Western thought. The preemption of freedom as an exclusively human privilege with all nature relegated to mechanical necessity is a fatal error that renders both humanity and nature equally unintelligible. What distinguishes human beings from other animals is not freedom but the use of symbols, which vastly extends the range of available options and enables us to envision freedom as an ideal by which customary institutions and norms may be judged and transformed. By carefully surveying its necessary conditions and limitations, Woody reconciles the salient competing conceptions of freedom and weaves them together into a richer and broader theory that resolves old controversies and opens the way toward an ethics of freedom that can meet the challenges of relativism and nihilism that arise from recognizing the historicity and malleability of culture.
