Western philosophy from c 1800

This work advances a theory in the metaphysics of phenomenal consciousness, which the author labels "e;e-physicalism"e;.

The years of study on Husserl's theory of intentionality have led to a number of non-equivalent interpretations.

While many of the phenomenological currents in philosophy allegedly utilize a peculiar method, the type under consideration here is characterized by Franz Brentano's ambition to make philosophy scientific by adopting no other method but that of natural science.

Philip Kitcher has deeply influenced many of the current debates in the philosophy of biology.

In the 19th century, the history of philosophy becomes the history of a particular science.

Fifty years after Willard Van Orman Quine published From a logical point of view (1953), John Heil brought out his book 'From an ontological point of view' (2003).

Thanks to their heterogeneity, the nine essays in this volume offer a clear testimony of Donald Davidson's authority, and they undoubtedly show how much his work - even if it has raised many doubts and criticisms - has been, and still is, highly influential and significant in contemporary analytical philosophy for a wide range of subjects.

Reinhardt Grossmann is one of the most sophisticated, knowledgeable and original contemporary metaphysicians.

Throughout the greater part of the twentieth century, both in the analytic and continental traditions, metaphysics was deemed to be passe.

No detailed description available for "Les principes de la connaissance naturelle d'Alfred North Whitehead".

No detailed description available for "La science et le monde moderne".

The second international Chromatiques whiteheadiennes conference was devoted exclusively to the exegesis and contextualization of Whitehead's Science and the Modern World (1925).

No detailed description available for "Les rythmes éducatifs dans la philosophie de Whitehead".

No detailed description available for "La dialectique de l'intuition chez Alfred North Whitehead".

Jerzy Perzanowski's ideas were based on an original blend of logic and ontology in what he called onto/logic, where the slash is meant to suggest a quotient of ontology by logic.

To what extent can we doubt certainties?

Ludwig Wittgenstein's writings inspired contemporary philosophical thinking and advanced many issues that had been addressed by traditional philosophy.

This book explores Wittgenstein's conception of ethics, religion and philosophy.

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If we read Ludwig Wittgenstein's works and take his scientific formation in mathematical logic into account, it comes as a surprise that he ever developed a particular interest in anthropological questions.

Is all that exists part of the natural world?

Although there is a huge literature on Nietzsche's philosophy, this is the first study in English that focuses on his ontology.

The present book is a natural outgrowth of Rescher's longstanding preoccupation with the rational systematization of our knowledge as manifested in such earlier works as Cognitive Systematization (Oxford: Blackwell, 1979), and Complexity (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1998).

During 2007-2008 Nicholas Rescher continued his longstanding practice of writing occasional studies on philosophical topics, both for formal presentation and for informal discussion with colleagues.

Few ideas have played a more continuously prominent role throughout the history of philosophy than that of dialectic, which has figured on the philosophical agenda from the time of the Presocratics.

Over the years Nicholas Rescher has published various essays on religious issues from a philosophical point of view.

During 2005-2006 I continued my longstanding practice of writing occasional studies on philosophical topics, both for formal presentation and for informal discussion with colleagues.

The traditional and lively interest in Meinong's philosophy and related topics among Italian philosophers gives rise to this volume of MEINONG STUDIES.

Philosophy took a "e;linguistic turn"e; in the twentieth century that was marked by the focus on theories of meaning, reference, description, predication and truth.

Philosophical Deliberations continues for the 2011/12 biennium Rescher longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays.

This book supports a version of the trope-bundle view of individual substances matching also with a coherent account of change, individuation and individual essences.

No short book on the explanation of existence can afford the hubris of claiming to accomplish this task.

The first aim is to provide well-articulated concepts by thinking through elementary phenomena of today's world, focusing on privacy and the digital, to clarify who we are in the cyberworld - hence a phenomenology of digital whoness.

The "e;aphoristic form causes difficulty,"e; Nietzsche argued in 1887, for "e;today this form is not taken seriously enough.

The question of meaning in life is as relevant and central as ever - in spite of all attempts at declaring it senseless.

This anthology assembles original contributions by leading analytical philosophers to a broad range of topics on which Suppes has set out ideas which still point the way ahead.

Having its seeds in the 2nd International Lauener Symposium held in honour of Dagfinn Follesdal, the present collection contains a rich, kaleidoscopic ensemble of previously unpublished contributions by leading authors, representing diverse approaches to a variety of philosophical themes on which Follesdal has had a longstanding, formative impact.