Philosophy.
A Confusion of Prophets
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From the 1830s, horoscopic astrology staged a comeback among the urban middle-classes in England. Part of the popular Victorian fascination with mesmerism, magic and the occult, astrology was particularly disturbing...
Action, Art, History: Engagements with Arthur C. Danto (Columbia Themes in Philosophy)
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Arthur C. Danto is unique among philosophers for the breadth of his philosophical mind, his eloquent writing style, and the generous spirit embodied in all his work. Any collection of...
Against Coherence: Truth, Probability, and Justification
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t is tempting to think that, if a person's beliefs are coherent, they are also likely to be true. Indeed, this truth-conduciveness claim is the cornerstone of the popular...
Anselm's Proslogion
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St. Anselm (1033-1109) was an Italian theologian and philosopher and the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093-1097. He is best known for his work, Proslogion , in which he defends the...
Antiques: The History of an Idea
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by : Leon Rosenstein | Dec 11, 2008 The notion of retrieving a bit of the past-by owning a material piece of it-has always appealed to humans. Often our most...
Appointment Denied
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In the spring of 1940, the Great Depression was still spreading misery throughout the world, and war in Europe threatened to drag America into the conflict. Amid these global troubles...
Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic
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Each Briefly volume provides a very short chapter setting the scene by explaining who this writer is and why this book in particular was so important, or why it became...
Berkeley's 'Principles of Human Knowledge
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Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge is a key text in the history of British Empiricism and 18th-century thought. As a free-standing systematic exposition of Berkeley's ideas, this is a hugely...
Berkeley's Three Dialogues : A Reader's Guide
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Berkeley's Three Dialogues is a key text in the history of philosophy - the dialogues are, with the exception of Hume's, arguably the most important philosophical dialogues written in...
Confrontation: A Conversation with Aude Lancelin
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Everything in their respective positions divides them: Alain Badiou is the thinker of a revitalized communism and Alain Finkielkraut the mournful observer of the loss of values. The two opponents,...
Contemporary Perspectives in Critical and Social Philosophy
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Contemporary Perspectives in Critical and Social Philosophy brings together a range of essays concerning ways of conceptualising modernities, subjectivities, and recognition. It highlights recent developments in German critical and...
Deontic Morality and Control
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This book addresses a dilemma concerning freedom and moral obligation (obligation, right, and wrong). If determinism is true, then no one has control over one's actions. If indeterminism is true,...
Desperate Clarity: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1942
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hese articles gradually outline a practical project that both looks back to the radical artistic doctrines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and anticipates the most original developments...
Essential History: Jacques Derrida and the Development of Deconstruction
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However widely--and differently--Jacques Derrida may be viewed as a "foundational" French thinker, the most basic questions concerning his work still remain unanswered: Is Derrida a friend of reason, or philosophy,...
Every Valley Shall be Exalted : The Discourse of Opposites in Twelfth-Century Thought
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In high medieval France, men and women saw the world around them as the product of tensions between opposites. Imbued with a Christian culture in which a penniless preacher was...
Eye for an Eye
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Analyzing the law of the talion--an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth--literally, William Ian Miller presents an original meditation on the concept of "pay back". Miller's unique theory...
Faithful to the Earth: Nietzsche and Whitehead on God and the Meaning of Human Life
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On the surface, Friedrich Nietzsche and Alfred North Whitehead represent very different positions on God and the meaning of human life. Put simply, Nietzsche is an atheist--belief in God, he...
Fathering Your Father: The Zen of Fabrication in Tang Buddhism
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by : Alan Cole (Author)
Fichte: The Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762-1799
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n this biographical study of the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte from his birth in 1762 to the crisis in his university career in 1799, Professor La Vopa uses...
Fortunate Fallibility: Kierkegaard and the Power of Sin
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For more than 1,500 years, the claim that Adam's Fall might be considered 'fortunate' has been Christianity's most controversial and difficult idea. While keepers of the Easter vigil in...
Genuine Individuals and Genuine Communities: A Roycean Public Philosophy
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A cogent blueprint for the development of a public philosophy that integrates shared principles and values into our troubled social structure and articulates a consensus vision of society's future. The...
Gilles Deleuze and the Fabulation of Philosophy: Powers of the False, Volume 1
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Although much has been written about Deleuze’s engagement with the arts, Gilles Deleuze and the Fabulation of Philosophy concerns the art of his philosophy. Gregory Flaxman suggests that Deleuze’s notorious...
Grounded Consequence for Defeasible Logic
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This is a title on the foundations of defeasible logic, which explores the formal properties of everyday reasoning patterns whereby people jump to conclusions, reserving the right to retract them...
Identifying the Mind: Selected Papers of U.T. Place
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This is the one and only book by the pioneer of the identity theory of mind. The collection focuses on Place's philosophy of mind and his contributions to neighboring issues...
Journey of a Skeptic
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Journey of a Skeptic is the intriguing transformation of a Fortune 500 executive and stalwart skeptic to a committed believer in reincarnation. A businessman buried in the world of science...
Kant and the Fate of Autonomy: Problems in the Appropriation of the Critical Philosophy
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by : Karl Ameriks It has been argued that Kant's all-consuming efforts to place autonomy at the center of philosophy have had, in the long-run, the unintended effect of leading...
Kierkegaard's Metaphors
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Keirkegaard's Metaphors offers an explaination of a more accessible way to understand Kierkegarrd by analyzing his persistent use of metaphors. by : Jamie Lorentzen
Leibniz and His Correspondents
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Unlike most of the other great philosophers Leibniz never wrote a magnum opus, so his philosophical correspondence is essential for an understanding of his views. This collection of new...
Magic Language of the Fourth Way: Awakening the Power of the Word
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An application of Gurdjieffian principles to fully and properly activate the power of language - Explains the relationship between the Gurdjieff enneagram and sacred geometry and harmonics - Shows that...
Minds and Persons
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The nature of the mind and of consciousness, the reality of freedom, the concept of agency and the relation of language to the mental: all are central and perennial...
Nietzsche Unbound: The Struggle for Spirit in the Age of Science
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Nietzsche Unbound presents a new and unusual interpretation of Nietzsche as a genuinely religious thinker who not only grasped the nature of humanity's current spiritual predicament, but also set...
Norms and Practices
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by : James D. Wallace | Nov 15, 2008 We spend a great deal of time learning our vocations and avocations as we work at jobs, participate in home life,...
Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic
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by : Claudia Baracchi | Dec 1, 2001 Baracchi has identified pivotal points around which the Republic operates; this allows a reading of the entire text to unfold.... a very...