Author : Robert Kilwardby
Publisher : Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN :
Part 2 which contains an introduction and translation of Kilwardby's treatises, written in the mid 13th century, for teaching at Oxford university. Part 1 (also available) contains the original text.
Author : R.D. Ingthorsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 26,89 MB
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1317195825
McTaggart’s argument for the unreality of time, first published in 1908, set the agenda for 20th-century philosophy of time. Yet there is very little agreement on what it actually says—nobody agrees with the conclusion, but still everybody finds something important in it. This book presents the first critical overview of the last century of debate on what is popularly called "McTaggart’s Paradox". Scholars have long assumed that McTaggart’s argument stands alone and does not rely on any contentious ontological principles. The author demonstrates that these assumptions are incorrect—McTaggart himself explicitly claimed his argument to be dependent on the ontological principles that form the basis of his idealist metaphysics. The result is that scholars have proceeded to understand the argument on the basis of their own metaphysical assumptions, duly arriving at very different interpretations. This book offers an alternative reading of McTaggart’s argument, and at the same time explains why other commentators arrive at their mutually incompatible interpretations. It will be of interest to students and scholars with an interest in the philosophy of time and other areas of contemporary metaphysics.
Author : Christopher Janaway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 28,67 MB
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139493434
This translation is the first volume of Schopenhauer's major work, which was highly influential on subsequent thinkers including Nietzsche, Freud and Beckett.
Author : Molly McQuade
Publisher : Sarabande Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 12,14 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1932511695
One Word asks the question writers and readers love to answer: what word means the most to you, and why?
Author : Dean Anthony Brink
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 31,6 MB
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1350141127
This book offers the first introduction to a major Japanese philosophical movement through the interests and arguments of its founder, Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945), his successor, Tanabe Hajime (1885-1962), and student-turned-critic, Tosaka Jun (1900-1945). Focusing on their contributions to thinking about place, space, and dialectics, this concise introduction brings these influential thinkers to life by connecting their work to issues still debated in the philosophy of science and physics today. Beginning with an overview of the reception of quantum physics and relativity theory in Japan and concluding with an account of the direct relevance of the Kyoto School to the development of world philosophy in a posthuman age, each clearly-written chapter engages historical contexts and includes: · Carefully-chosen excerpts and original translations of Nishida, Tanabe, and Tosaka · Focus boxes explaining complex concepts and problems of contextualization · A timeline, glossary and index · Further reading lists featuring relevant and significant articles and books in English This introduction is an ideal starting point for students and lecturers looking to become better acquainted with three central Japanese philosophers and learn why their work impacts our current thinking about science.
Author : Neil deGrasse Tyson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393866890
“Who can ask for better cosmic tour guides?” —Michio Kaku Our true origins are not only human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and cross-pollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, Origins illuminates the soul-stirring leaps in our understanding of the cosmos. This revised and updated edition features such startling discoveries as the now more than 5,000 detected exoplanets that promise to reveal exciting possibilities for life in the cosmos, and data from a new generation of ground-based and spaceborne observatories that have fundamentally changed what we know about the expanding universe?and maybe even the laws of physics themselves. From the first image of a galaxy’s birth to tantalizing evidence of water not only on Mars but also on the asteroid Ceres, as well as on moons of Jupiter and Saturn, coauthors Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith conduct an exhilarating tour of the cosmos with clarity and exuberance.
Author : Guido Bacciagaluppi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 50,97 MB
Release : 2009-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521814219
Translation of the Fifth Solvay Congress proceedings, for graduate students and researchers in physics and quantum theory.
Author : John C. Cahalan
Publisher : John C. Cahalan
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Current Events
ISBN : 0819146226
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Author : David S. Nah
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 15,85 MB
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1621890007
The question of religious pluralism is the most significant yet thorniest of issues in theology today, and John Hick (1922-2012) has long been recognized as its most important scholar. However, while much has been written analyzing the philosophical basis of Hick's pluralism, very little attention has been devoted to the theological foundations of his argument. Filling this gap, this book examines Hick's theological attempts to systematically deconstruct the church's traditional incarnational Christology. Special attention is given to evaluating Hick's foundational theses "that Jesus himself did not teach what was to become the orthodox Christian understanding of him" and "that the dogma of Jesus' two natures . . . has proved to be incapable of being explicated in any satisfactory way." By elucidating the ways in which Hick's arguments fail, David Nah demonstrates that Hick was unwarranted in breaking away from the church's incarnational Christology that has been at the core of Christianity for almost two thousand years.
Author : Mark Siderits
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 37,60 MB
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 164792068X
A shorter and less technical treatment of its subject than the author’s acclaimed Buddhism As Philosophy (second edition, Hackett, 2021), Mark Siderits's The Buddha’s Teachings As Philosophy explores three different systems of thought that arose from core claims of the Buddha. By detailing and critically examining key arguments made by the Buddha and developed by later Buddhist philosophers, Siderits investigates the Buddha's teachings as philosophy: a set of claims—in this case, claims about the nature of the world and our place in it—supported by rational argumentation and, here, developed with a variety of systematic results. The Buddha’s Teachings As Philosophy will be especially useful to students of philosophy, religious studies, and comparative religion—to anyone, in fact, encountering Buddhist philosophy for the first time.
