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On Preserving - Essays On Preservationism And Paraconsistent Logic

by Bryson Brown, Peter Schotch e Raymond Jennings

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 Assembling the previously scattered works of the Preservationist School, this collection contains all of the most significant works on the basic theory of the preservationist approach to paraconsistent logic.
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New Dialectic - Conversational Contexts Of Argument

by Douglas Walton

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 Because developments in informal logic have been based, for the most part, on idealized and abstract models, the tools available for argument analysis are not easily adapted to the needs of everyday argumentation. In this book Douglas Walton proposes a new and practical approach to argument analysis based on his theory that different standards for argument must apply in the case of different types of dialogue.By refining and extending the existing formal classifications of dialogue, Walton shows that each dialogue type, be it inquiry, negotiation, or critical discussion, has its own set of goals. He goes on to demonstrate that an argument can best be evaluated in terms of its contribution, positive or negative, to the goals of the particular dialogue it is meant to further. In this way he illustrates how argument can be brought into the service of many types of dialogue, and thus has valuable uses that go well beyond the mere settling of disputes and differences.By reaching back to the Aristotelian roots of logic as an applied, practical discipline and by formulating a new framework of rationality for evaluating arguments, Douglas Walton restores a much-needed balance to argument analysis. This book complements and extends his Argument Structure: A Pragmatic Theory (University of Toronto Press, 1996).
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Kant'S Intuitionism - A Commentary On The Transcendental Aesthetic

by Lorne Falkenstein

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 Kant's Intuitionism examines Kant's account of the human cognitive faculties, his views on space, and his reasons for denying that we have knowledge of things as they are in themselves.
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Rationality And Cognition - Against Relativism-Pragmatism

by Nenad Miscevic

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 Cognitive science has posed some radical challenges to philosophy in recent years, particularly in the study of the cognitive activities and capacities of individuals. Many philosophers have taken up the challenge, and one result has been the emergence of a radical new wave of relativism, one that assaults the credibility of rationalist views. In this book Nenad Miševi defends naturalistic rationalism against these recent relativist attacks.The book begins with an excellent introduction to cognitive science, and goes on to create a searching defence of human rationality and of a traditional role for truth in epistemology. Miševi presents a critical scrutiny of the relativism championed by Stephen Stich and Paul Churchland and their followers, showing that it not only exaggerates the subversive impact of science, but relies on its links with naturalism for much of its crediblity. His careful dissection of relativist arguments establishes the main outlines of a positive rationalistic picture that is both original and convincing.
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Philosophical Perspectives On Bioethics

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 The contributors to the volume discuss various approaches to bioethical thinking and the political and institutional contexts of bioethics, addressing underlying concerns about the purposes of its practice.
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Inroads - Paths In Ancient And Modern Western Philosophy

by Murray Miles

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 In each of its five main parts â€" in turn, focusing on Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Hume, and Sartre â€" Inroads discusses, from a philosophical rather than a religious or scientific perspective, those questions that make up the common inheritance of academic philosophy and ethico-religious thought.
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Descartes'S Legacy - Mind And Meaning In Early Modern Philosophy

by Alan Hausman e David Hausman

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 Debates current in the philosophy of mind regarding the gathering and processing of information, and the nature of perception and representation, also animated some of the most important figures in early modern philosophy, among them Descartes, Hume, and Berkeley. The authors of Descartes''s Legacy: Minds and Meaning in Early Modern Philosophy use certain problems in contemporary information theory to elucidate the concerns of the early modern philosophers. This critical study attempts to uncover what was once called the logic of the theory of ideas, and to explore the questions it was meant to solve, given the limits of the ontological categories available. The authors begin their discussion of Descartes by examining his response to established models of perception in light of his understanding of the contemporary new science. Since Descartes proposed that any likeness between representation and the thing represented was unreliable, what was his solution to how an internal representation, an idea, gives us information? The authors'' central claim is that Descartes''s answer to the problem of how the mind knows matter involves a theory of ''intentional ideas.'' This provocative divergence from recent discussions of Descartes''s philosophy of mind, which have revolved around whether he is a ''realist'' or a ''representationalist,'' leads the authors to consider the idealism of Hume and Berkeley in light of Descartes''s notion of the intentional. Hume and Berkeley, they maintain, explored alternatives to Descartes''s conception, which led them to abandon traditional notions of meaning and truth. Descartes''s Legacy concludes by suggesting that Descartes''s picture can be reconciled with twentieth-century materialism, and asking whether the philosophy of mind can live without a primitive notion of the intentional.By shedding light on Descartes''s crucial ontological innovation and on Hume''s and Berkeley''s reactions to it, the authors of Descartes''s Legacy have repositioned early modern philosophy within a truly contemporary framework.
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Problem Of Difference - Phenomenology And Poststructuralism

by Jeffrey A. Bell

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 Jeffrey A. Bell here presents a finely constructed survey of the contemporary continental philosophers, focusing on how they have dealt with the problem of difference.
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Picturing Knowledge - Historical And Philosophical Problems Concerning The Use Of Art In Science

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 The contributors to this volume examine the historical and philosophical issues concerning the role that scientific illustration plays in the creation of scientific knowledge.
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Philosophy And Freedom - The Legacy Of James Doull

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 Commentaries on his intricate works by twelve former colleagues and students explore various aspects of Doull's history and place it within the context of contemporary scholarship, allowing the reader to judge the depth and rigour of Doull's writing.
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Taking Life Seriously - A Study Of The Argument Of The Nicomachean Ethics

by F.E. Sparshott

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 Sparshott expounds Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as a single continuous argument, a chain of reasoned exposition on the problems of human life.
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Hateful And The Obscene - Studies In The Limits Of Free Expression

by Leonard W. Sumner

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 The Hateful and the Obscene is a compelling interpretation of freedom of expression that combines serious philosophical thought with a focus on Canadian law, thus maintaining the breadth to deal with both obscenity and hate literature.
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Emergence And Convergence - Qualitative Novelty And The Unity Of Knowledge

by Mário Bunge

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 Bunge proposes a clear definition of the concept of emergence to replace that of supervenience and clarifies the notions of system, real possibility, inverse problem, interdiscipline, and partial truth that occur in all fields.
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On Preserving - Essays On Preservationism And Paraconsistent Logic

by Bryson Brown, Peter Schotch e Raymond Jennings

51,68€ + 10% CARD

 Assembling the previously scattered works of the Preservationist School, this collection contains all of the most significant works on the basic theory of the preservationist approach to paraconsistent logic.
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Reexamining Berkeley'S Philosophy

by Stephen H. Daniel

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 Ultimately, this volume represents a major contribution to the study of Berkeleyâ€™s philosophy by critiquing the tendency to generalize his thought as a version of theologically modified solipsism. In this way, it is a unique and invaluable addition to Berkeley scholarship.
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Kant And The Scandal Of Philosophy - The Kantian Critique Of Cartesian Scepticism

by Luigi Caranti

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 Kant considered it to be scandalous that philosophy still had not found a rational proof of the existence of the external world during his time. Arguably, the scandal continues today because scepticism remains a widely debated and extremely divisive issue among contemporary thinkers. Although scholars have devoted considerable attention to Kant''s arguments against Cartesian scepticism, the literature still presents gaps and inaccuracies that obscure a full understanding of this issue and its significance for contemporary philosophy. In Kant and the Scandal of Philosophy, Luigi Caranti corrects this omission, providing a thorough historical analysis of Kant''s anti-sceptical arguments from the pre-critical period up to the ''Reflexionen zum Idealismus'' (1788-93).Caranti demonstrates how reconstructing Kant''s critique of scepticism is crucial for understanding the origin of his philosophy and for avoiding serious mistakes that still serve as obstacles to the proper understanding of the Critique of Pure Reason. In particular, Caranti shows how the sceptical challenge leads Kant to the critical stage of his thought. Moreover, this study responds to recent criticism of transcendental idealism, showing how it can serve as the main premise of a powerful anti-sceptical argument whose main structure is suggested by Kant in the 1781 Fourth Paralogism. Erudite and engaging, Kant and the Scandal of Philosophy fills an important void in the literature and breathes new life into this field of inquiry.
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Bernard Bosanquet And The Legacy Of British Idealism

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 William Sweet and other leading scholars examine Bosanque';s contribution to some of philosophy's central questions. They provide a solid introduction to British Idealism and the idealist movement as a whole, and bring the scholarship on Bosanquet fully up-to-date.
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William James On Radical Empiricism And Religion

by Hunter Brown

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 Hunter Brown shows that Henry James's views of religious experience do not in fact lapse into subjectivism or fideism that critics have accused him of but occasions hardships and self-sacrifice which James describes.
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Utilitarianism - Restorations; Repairs; Renovations

by David Braybrooke

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 Substituting comparative censuses for the hedonistic calculus that figures in standard utilitarianism, Braybrooke excludes gratuitous sacrifices also of happiness short of life-sacrifices.
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The Sovereignty Of Joy - Nietzsche''S Vision Of Grand Politics

by Alex Mcintyre

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 In The Sovereignty of Joy: Nietzsche's Vision of Grand Politics, Alex McIntyre suggests that a sense of tragic joy is the legislating experience at the heart of Nietzsche's philosophy. A Dionysian exuberance animates all of Nietzsche's central ideas, which McIntyre argues is the political elaboration of the sovereignty of joy.
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The Self And Its Body In Hegel'S Phenomenology Of Spirit

by John Russon

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 Russon argues that Hegel has not only taken account of the body in his philosophy, but has done so in a way that integrates both modern work on embodiment and the approach to the body found in ancient Greek philosophy.
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The Rule Of Reason - The Philosophy Of C.S. Peirce

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 The essays explore Peirce's work from various perspectives, considering the philosophical significance of his contributions to logic; the foundations of his philosophical system; his metaphysics and cosmology; his theories of inquiry and truth; and his theories of mind, agency, and selfhood.
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The Problem Of Evil In Early Modern Philosophy

by Elmar J. Kremer e Michael J. Latzer

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 The papers in this collection represent some of the best original work being done today on the theodicies of such early modern philosophers as Leibniz, Suarez, Spinoza, Malebranche, and Pierre Bayle.
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The Parmenides And Plato'S Late Philosophy - Translation Of And Commentary On The Parmenides With Interpretative Chapters On The Timaeus, The Theaetetus, The Sophist, And The Philebus

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 Turnbull offers a close and detailed reading of the Parmenides, using his interpretation to illuminate Plato's major late dialogues. The picture presented of Plato's later philosophy is plausible, highly interesting, and original.
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