Philosophical traditions and schools of thought

In the fall of 1994, Hendrik-Jan van Leusen, an acquisitions editor from Kluwer Academic Publishers, visited me in my home to discuss a proposal for a handbook in the philosophy of religion.

What is "e;scientific"e; about the natural and human sciences?

Quine is one of the twentieth century's most important and influential philosophers.

Kant's Critique of Judgment accounts for the sharing of a common world, experienced affectively, by a diverse human plurality.

For some twenty years now, I have been working on a philosophical programme which falls into two parts, a systematic metaphysics, to be entitled Being and Becoming, conceived in the general framework of ontological phenomenology, but employing what I call a 'genetic' methodol- ogy, and an historical interpretation, designed to support and confirm the ontological philosophy in question.

Despite, or perhaps better by virtue of, its very brevity, Appearance and Sense is a difficult text to read and understand, particularly if we make the attempt independently of Husserl's Ideas I.

The original idea for a conference on the "e;shapes of knowledge"e; dates back over ten years to conversations with the late Charles Schmitt of the Warburg Institute.

What can the philosophy of language learn from the classical Indian philosophical tradition?

The purpose of this collection of papers is to introduce English- speaking philosophers and theologians to something of the variety of the contemporary debate about the religious relevance of Hegel's thought.

The question of relativism is a perennial one, and as fundamental and far- reaching as the question of truth itself.

Peter Chaadaev emerges from the pages of history as one of Russia's most provocative and influential thinkers.

The most comprehensive view of the evolution of dancing in India is one that is derived from Sanskrit textual sources.

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This collection is the final volume of a four book survey of the state of phenomenology fifty years after the death of Edmund Husserl.

This collection of essays draws together work done during a period of more than fifteen years.

Ernst Mach -- A Deeper Look has been written to reveal to English-speaking readers the recent revival of interest in Ernst Mach in Europe and Japan.

Kaun&ddotu;abhatta's Vaiyakarana-bhusana is a massive work on semantic theory written in India in the 17th century.

The volume before us is the fourth in the series of proceedings of what used to be the Israel Colloquium for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science.

The papers in this volume are in honor of Bowman L.

A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH My interest in exploring the nature of the patient's and the physician's understanding of illness has grown out of my own experience as a multiple sclerosis patient.

Contemporaryphilosophyseems a great swirling almost chaos.

Galileo is revered as one of the founders of modern science primarily because of such discoveries as the law of falling bodies and the moons of Jupiter.

In the great libraries of Europe and the United States, hidden in fading manuscripts on forgotten shelves, lie the works of medieval Hebrew logic.

The present publication is a continuation of two earlier series of chronicles, Philosophy in the Mid-Century (Firenze 1958/59) and Contemporary Philosophy (Firenze 1968), edited by Raymond Klibansky.

This book investigates one aspect of the story of how our religiously-oriented culture became a secular one.

explanation might be understood in relationship to our mental, moral, and spiritual life, leapt to his attention and was to occupy it from that day until his death.

The guiding dictum of phenomenology is "e;to the things themselves.

Otto von Guericke has been called a neglected genius, overlooked by most modern scholars, scientists, and laymen.

This volume grew out of the experience of the First Inter-American Congress on Philosophy of Technology, October 1988, organized by the Center for the Philosophy and History of Science and Technology of the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagiiez.

Jabir ibn Hayyan, for a long time the reigning alchemical authority both in Islam and the Latin West, has exercised numerous generations of scholars.

Rationality in its various expressions and innumerable applications sustains understanding and our sense of reality.

Thomas White, in the quatercentenary of his birth, is due for historical rehabilitation.

In this book, I deal with some fundamental problems of the Hegelian dialectic.

The first Symposium consisted of three people in a cafe in Warsaw in 1973.

Merleau-Ponty in contemporary perspective: this was the theme of the conference at the Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.

In this book Martin Bunzl considers the prospects for a general and comprehensive account of explanation, given the variety of interests that prompt explanations in science.

To know the work of Jitendra Nath Mohanty even slightly is to commence to appreciate it immensely.