Philosophy category: 55395 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
As a Festschrift, this book celebrates and honours the scholarly achievements of Professor Jaysankar Lal Shaw, one of the most eminent and internationally acclaimed comparative philosophers of our times. Original works by leading international philosophers and logicians are presented here, exploring...
by Michael Hampe
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
What is the state of philosophy today, and what might it be tomorrow? With What Philosophy Is For, Michael Hampe answers these questions by exploring the relationships among philosophy, education, science, and narrative, developing a Socratic critique of philosophical doctrines.
Philosophers...
American Philosophy and Rudolf Steiner
Emerson, Thoreau, Peirce, James, Royce, Dewey, Whitehead, Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Few thinkers from outside the United States have touched American culture in as many ways as Rudolf Steiner. Agriculture, education, spirituality, and medicineor more precisely, alternative practices in these fieldsall bear clear marks of his influence, for those with eyes to see. Yet the very breadth...
The Philosophy of Literature
Four Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
The Philosophy of Literature: Four Studies puts forth the question of the extent to which philosophers must go to school with the poets. It begins with a new interpretation of the famous Platonic quarrel with the poetic wisdom of Homer. It brings this question forward through the humanism of thinkers...
Anthology of Philosophical and Cultural Issues
An exploration into new frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
This book argues that a general understanding of traditional Chinese philosophy can be achieved by a concise elaboration of its truth, goodness and beauty; that goodness and beauty in Chinese philosophy, combined with the integration of man and heaven, knowledge and practice, scenery and feeling,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Building on the breakthrough text Philosophy and Engineering: An Emerging Agenda, this book offers 30 chapters covering conceptual and substantive developments in the philosophy of engineering, along with a series of critical reflections by engineering practitioners. The volume demonstrates how reflective...
by Immanuel Kant
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Ethics of Immanuel Kant: Metaphysics of Morals - Philosophy of Law & The Doctrine of Virtue + Perpetual Peace + The Critique of Practical Reason: Theory of Moral Reasoning" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents....
by Jon Nuttall
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
This new textbook is a lively and highly accessible introduction to philosophy. From the fundamental issues of philosophical thought to the latest theories in the philosophy of mind, An Introduction to Philosophy provides clear and incisive discussion of the key areas of philosophy for students new...
Worldviews
An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Winner of the 2018 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title!
PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS EDITIONS
"This is a brilliantly clear introduction (and indeed reframing) of the history and philosophy of science in terms of worldviews and their elements…. In addition, the book is incredibly...
by Michael Picard, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
A collection of essays and other texts of popular philosophy written by best-selling author, Michael Picard, MSc PhD, the MIT-trained philosopher who has facilitated hundreds of Cafe Philosophy dialogues with the public, for which the entries in this accidental lexicon were composed. Intended to stimulate...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
For many decades, race and racism have been common areas of study in departments of sociology, history, political science, English, and anthropology. Much more recently, as the historical concept of race and racial categories have faced significant scientific and political challenges, philosophers...
by Johannes Brachtendorf, John D. Caputo, Jesse Couenhoven
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Augustine of Hippo was a philosopher as well as theologian, bishop and saint. He aimed to practice philosophy not simply as an academic discipline but as a love for divine wisdom pervading everything in his life and work. To inquire into Augustine and philosophy is thus to get to the heart of his...
Indian Philosophy in English
From Renaissance to Independence
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
This book publishes, for the first time in decades, and in many cases, for the first time in a readily accessible edition, English language philosophical literature written in India during the period of British rule. Bhushan's and Garfield's own essays on the work of this period contextualize the...
Logic, Language, and Probability
A Selection of Papers Contributed to Sections IV, VI, and XI of the Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Bucharest, September 1971
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philos ophy of Science was held in Bucharest, Romania, on August 29-September 4, 1971. The Congress was organized, under the auspices of the Inter national Union for History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology...