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Robert Hanna argues for the importance of Kant's theories of the epistemological, metaphysical, and practical foundations of the 'exact sciences'--- relegated to the dustbin of the history of philosophy for most of the 20th century.
Hanna's earlier book Kant and the...
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Clarendon Press
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2006-10-19
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Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein's Philosophy is a concise and readable study of five intertwined themes at the heart of Wittgenstein's thought, written by one of his most eminent interpreters. David Pears offers penetrating investigations and lucid explications of...
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OUP Oxford
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2006-09-28
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Immanuel Kant's work changed the course of modern philosophy; in these essays Karl Ameriks examines how. He compares the philosophical system set out in Kant's Critiques with the work of the major philosophers before and after him (Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, Reid,...
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Clarendon Press
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2006-09-14
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Oxford University Press is proud to present the third volume in a new annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of philosophy.
Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries—the...
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OUP Oxford
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2006-08-10
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Thought's Footing is an enquiry into the relationship between the ways things are and the way we think and talk about them. It is also a study of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: Charles Travis develops his account of certain key themes into a unified view...
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Clarendon Press
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2006-08-03
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Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) is an original systematic thinker and representative of the Marburg School of Critical Idealism. The Marburg School was a leading school in German academic philosophy and in German Jewish philosophy for a period of over thirty years preceding...
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Springer
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2006-07-19
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Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Philosophy
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Sir Anthony Kenny's engaging new history of Western philosophy now advances into the modern era. The Rise of Modern Philosophy is the fascinating story of the emergence, from the early sixteenth to the early nineteenth century, of great ideas and intellectual systems...
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OUP Oxford
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2006-06-29
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Recent years have seen a great revival of interest in Wittgenstein's early masterpiece, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The Enchantment of Words is a study of that book, offering novel readings of all its major themes and shedding light on issues in metaphysics,...
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Clarendon Press
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2006-06-29
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Michelle Kosch's book traces a complex of issues surrounding moral agency - how is moral responsibility consistent with the possibility of theoretical explanation? is moral agency essentially rational agency? can autonomy be the foundation of ethics? - from Kant through...
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OUP Oxford
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2006-05-25
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Philosophy has been always received or bypassed for its resonance or aloofness with the spirit of the time. Should not philosophy/phenomenology of life be expected to do more to ascertain its validity? Should it not pass the pragmatic test, that is to respond directly...
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Springer
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2006-03-30
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This book provides a historical analysis of the philosophical problem of individuation, and a new trajectory in its treatment. Drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze, C.S. Peirce and Gilbert Simondon, the problem of individuation is taken into the realm of modernity....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2006-03-13
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Andrews Reath presents a selection of his best essays on various features of Kant's moral psychology and moral theory, with particular emphasis on his conception of rational agency and his conception of autonomy.
The opening essays explore different elements of Kant's...
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Clarendon Press
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2006-02-23
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'I concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature resides only in thinking, and which, in order to exist, has no need of place and is not dependent on any material thing.'
Descartes's A Discourse on the Method of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and...
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OUP Oxford
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2006-01-12
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'I concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature resides only in thinking, and which, in order to exist, has no need of place and is not dependent on any material thing.'
Descartes's A Discourse on the Method of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and...
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OUP Oxford
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2006-01-12
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Of the many questions provoked by Blanchot's thought and writing, that of understanding its ethical and political significance is perhaps the most pressing. Spanning his literary critical and philosophical writings, and addressing such major concepts as the image and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2005-11-29
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Hegelian philosophy is now enjoying an enormous renaissance in the English-speaking world. At the very centre of his work is the monumental Science of Logic . Hegel's theory of subjectivity, which comprises the final third of the Science of Logic , has been...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2005-10-26
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The work of Bertrand Russell had a decisive influence on the emergence of analytic philosophy, and on its subsequent development.The essays collected in this volume, by one of the leading authorities on Russell's philosophy, all aim at recapturing and articulating...
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OUP Oxford
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2005-09-22
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In his well-known Discourse on Metaphysics, Leibniz puts individual substance at the basis of metaphysical building.In so doing, he connects himself to a venerable tradition. His theory of individual concept, however, breaks with another idea of the same tradition, that...
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Springer
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2005-08-22
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Topoi Library
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The Cambridge philosopher Frank Ramsey (1903-1930) died tragically young, but had already established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century. Besides groundbreaking work in philosophy, particularly in logic, language, and metaphysics, he...
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OUP Oxford
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2005-07-28
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