Indefinability

Indefinability PDF Author: Zhozefina Leonidovna Pasternak
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788772895314
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Pasternak (1900-94), sister to the famous Russian writer Boris, discusses various issues within philosophy that are not usually tackled by professional philosophers. They include categories, the wavicle, a seemingly absurd though perhaps really well-founded statement, and neuro-psychological considerations. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Indefinability

Indefinability PDF Author: Zhozefina Leonidovna Pasternak
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788772895314
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Book Description
Pasternak (1900-94), sister to the famous Russian writer Boris, discusses various issues within philosophy that are not usually tackled by professional philosophers. They include categories, the wavicle, a seemingly absurd though perhaps really well-founded statement, and neuro-psychological considerations. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Inquiries

Inquiries PDF Author: Israel Scheffler
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1625640838
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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About the Contributor(s): Israel Scheffler is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Philosophy Emeritus at Harvard University. He taught philosophy at Harvard from 1952 to 1992 and, from 1983 to 2003, was codirector, then director of the Philosophy of Education Research Center there. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a founding member of the National Academy of Education, and a past president of both the Philosophy of Science Association and the Charles S. Peirce Society. Among his previous books are ""The Anatomy of Inquiry""( 1963), ""Four Pragmatists""(1974), ""Of Human Potential""(1985), ""In Praise of the Cognitive Emotions""(1991), and ""Worlds of Truth""(2009). His main interests lie in the philosophical interpretation of language, symbolism, science, and education.

G E Moore

G E Moore PDF Author: Abdul Hamid
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788170991748
Category : Ethics, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Niels Bohr's Philosophy of Physics

Niels Bohr's Philosophy of Physics PDF Author: D. R. Murdoch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521379274
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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This book gives a clear and comprehensive exposition of Niels Bohr's philosophy of physics. Bohr's ideas are of major importance, for they are the source of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics; yet they are obscure, and call for the sort of close analysis that this book provides. The book describes the historical background of the physics from which Bohr's ideas grew. The core of the book is a detailed analysis of Bohr's arguments for complementarity and of the interpretation which he put upon it. Special emphasis is placed throughout on the contrasting views of Einstein, and the great debate between Bohr and Einstein is thoroughly examined. The book traces the philosophical influences on Bohr, and unravels the realist and anti-realist strands in his thinking. Bohr's philosophy is critically assessed in the light of recent developments in the foundations of quantum physics (the work of Bell and others) and in philosophy (the realism-anti-realism debate) and it is revealed as being much more subtle and sophisticated than it is generally taken to be. While the book will be of interest to specialists, it is written in a style that will make it accessible to those who have no specialist knowledge of the relevant physics and philosophy.

From Frege to Wittgenstein

From Frege to Wittgenstein PDF Author: Erich H. Reck
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198030533
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Analytic philosophy--arguably one of the most important philosophical movements in the twentieth century--has gained a new historical self-consciousness, particularly about its own origins. Between 1880 and 1930, the most important work of its founding figures (Frege, Russell, Moore, Wittgenstein) not only gained attention but flourished. In this collection, fifteen previously unpublished essays explore different facets of this period, with an emphasis on the vital intellectual relationship between Frege and the early Wittgenstein.

G. E. Moore's Ethical Theory

G. E. Moore's Ethical Theory PDF Author: Brian Hutchinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139430440
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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This 2001 book is a comprehensive study of the ethics of G. E. Moore, the most important English-speaking ethicist of the twentieth century. Moore's ethical project, set out in his seminal text Principia Ethica, is to preserve common moral insight from scepticism and, in effect, persuade his readers to accept the objective character of goodness. Brian Hutchinson explores Moore's arguments in detail and in the process relates the ethical thought to Moore's anti-sceptical epistemology. Moore was, without perhaps fully realizing it, sceptical about the very enterprise of philosophy itself, and in this regard, as Brian Hutchinson reveals, was much closer in his thinking to Wittgenstein than has been previously realized. This book shows Moore's ethical work to be much richer and more sophisticated than his critics have acknowledged.

The Contribution of Anandabodha to Advaita

The Contribution of Anandabodha to Advaita PDF Author: E. I. Warrier
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788170995975
Category : Advaita
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Heidegger's Ontological Project

Heidegger's Ontological Project PDF Author: John Sallis
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253070619
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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This long-awaited volume of The Collected Writings of John Sallis presents his lectures on Martin Heidegger's monumental Being and Time. The lectures were presented during the 1985–86 academic year at Loyola University of Chicago and during the fall semester of 1999 at Pennsylvania State University. The fourteen years separating the beginning of the two courses is significant in that numerous additional volumes appeared in the Gesamtausgabe and influenced Sallis's interpretation of Being and Time. This book is a synthesis of the manuscripts of the two separate lecture courses. This volume makes Being and Time accessible to students, while the most advanced scholars will also profit from it.

Alfred Tarski: Philosophy of Language and Logic

Alfred Tarski: Philosophy of Language and Logic PDF Author: Douglas Patterson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230367224
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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This study looks to the work of Tarski's mentors Stanislaw Lesniewski and Tadeusz Kotarbinski, and reconsiders all of the major issues in Tarski scholarship in light of the conception of Intuitionistic Formalism developed: semantics, truth, paradox, logical consequence.

The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge

The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge PDF Author: Dallas Willard
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429958870
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Based on an unfinished manuscript by the late philosopher Dallas Willard, this book makes the case that the 20th century saw a massive shift in Western beliefs and attitudes concerning the possibility of moral knowledge, such that knowledge of the moral life and of its conduct is no longer routinely available from the social institutions long thought to be responsible for it. In this sense, moral knowledge—as a publicly available resource for living—has disappeared. Via a detailed survey of main developments in ethical theory from the late 19th through the late 20th centuries, Willard explains philosophy’s role in this shift. In pointing out the shortcomings of these developments, he shows that the shift was not the result of rational argument or discovery, but largely of arational social forces—in other words, there was no good reason for moral knowledge to have disappeared. The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge is a unique contribution to the literature on the history of ethics and social morality. Its review of historical work on moral knowledge covers a wide range of thinkers including T.H Green, G.E Moore, Charles L. Stevenson, John Rawls, and Alasdair MacIntyre. But, most importantly, it concludes with a novel proposal for how we might reclaim moral knowledge that is inspired by the phenomenological approach of Knud Logstrup and Emmanuel Levinas. Edited and eventually completed by three of Willard’s former graduate students, this book marks the culmination of Willard’s project to find a secure basis in knowledge for the moral life.