The first comprehensive scrutiny of the theories associated with new materialisms including speculative realism, new materialism, Object-oriented ontology and actor-network theory.
Thomas von Aquin ist 'der' Denker des Mittelalters, der die am längsten anhaltende Orientierung geboten, die intensivsten historischen Interessen auf sich gezogen und - neben seiner Bedeutung als Kirchenlehrer - für die vielfältigsten denkerischen Konzeptionen Pate gestanden hat und dessen Werk daher noch heute auf praktisch allen Feldern philosophischer Problemstellungen Anregungen zu geben vermag.
This book aims to redress the balance in the field of Contemporary Philosophy, considered predominantly male, by highlighting the philosophical achievements of various female figures during the period 1870-1970.
Diese frühen und umfänglichsten Untersuchungen des Thomas von Aquin werden mit dem Begriff der Wahrheit eröffnet, der diesen Erörterungen den Titel gegeben hat.
El desfondamiento sustancial de los referentes civilizatorios que ha tenido lugar en el sentir y en la conciencia actuales nos obliga a mirar, con una nueva profundidad, los retos y los alcances de la forma de habitar el mundo: condición siempre en vilo, suspendida entre la amenaza del colapso y la insobornable dignidad que hace posible la confianza y la alegría.
In den 16 Quaestionen zur Erörterung der Frage nach dem Ursprung und dem Wesen des Schlechten und Bösen in der Welt und im Handeln der Menschen, also des Übels, versucht Thomas zu zeigen, dass das Übel (ipsum malum) nicht als die andere Seite oder der Antipode des Guten aufzufassen ist, sondern als eine akzidentiell bewirkte Verfehlung des Guten, nach dem alles strebt: Das Übel wirkt nicht aus eigener Kraft, der wir ausgeliefert sind und der wir begegnen müssen, sondern es ist die Folge falschen Handelns - ein vermeidbarer Defekt.
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring This book provides an introduction to the most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn Sina, often known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna.
In an era of cancel culture, digital identities and thriving conversation surrounding parasocial relationships, we question today the nature of the celebrity, the scope of their power and influence, as well as the ethical issues these implicate.
Segun el diagnostico de una buena parte de la filosofia del siglo pasado, nuestra epoca habria consumado definitivamente el ocaso de la metafisica, un hito consagrado por la superacion del humanismo y el triunfo de diversas formas de historicismo.
Thomas von Aquin ist 'der' Denker des Mittelalters, der die am längsten anhaltende Orientierung geboten, die intensivsten historischen Interessen auf sich gezogen und - neben seiner Bedeutung als Kirchenlehrer - für die vielfältigsten denkerischen Konzeptionen Pate gestanden hat und dessen Werk daher noch heute auf praktisch allen Feldern philosophischer Problemstellungen Anregungen zu geben vermag.
La cuestión de la "felicidad" en Nietzsche cobra centralidad curiosamente a partir de su lateralidad, como si se tratara de ese pensamiento lateral que aúna todos los tópicos nietzscheanos bajo la órbita del itinerario que nace desde la memoria y desemboca en el olvido.
Immanuel Kant famously said that he was awoken from his "e;dogmatic slumbers,"e; and led to question the possibility of metaphysics, by David Hume's doubts about causation.
This book newly articulates the international and interdisciplinary reach of Whitehead's organic process cosmology for a variety of topics across science and philosophy, and in dialogue with a variety historical and contemporary voices.
This book introduces a novel hylomorphic theory of material objects, according to which material objects are understood as comprised or composed of both matter and activity, where activity plays the role of form.
The central theme of this book is that it's not enough to invoke omnipotence and omniscience as answers to the questions of God's ability to create and causally affect the world (i.
This book initiates the discussion between psychoanalysis and recent humanist and social scientific interest in a fundamental contemporary topic - the nonhuman.
This novel contributed volume advances the current debate on free will by bridging the divide between analytic and historically oriented approaches to the problem.
This compelling book defends realism concerning the aesthetic-in particular, concerning the aesthetic properties of works of art (including works of literature).
This volume collects seventeen new essays by well-established and junior scholars on the philosophical relevance of metaxological philosophy and its main proponent, William Desmond.
Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction examines questions of truth and relativism, turning to detectives, both real and imagined, from Poe's C.
According to dispositional realism, or dispositionalism, the entities inhabiting our world possess irreducibly dispositional properties - often called 'powers' - by means of which they are sources of change.
This book is a critical re-evaluation of Jean-Paul Sartre's phenomenological ontology, in which a theory of egological complicity and self-deception informing his later better known theory of bad faith is developed.
This book uses the concepts of freedom, indeterminism, and fallibilism to solve, in a unified way, problems of free will, knowledge, reasoning, rationality, personhood, ethics and politics.
Hailed by the Washington Post as "e;a sure-footed and witty guide to slippery ethical terrain,"e; a philosophical exploration of AI and the future of the mind that Astronomer Royal Martin Rees calls "e;profound and entertaining"e;Humans may not be Earth's most intelligent beings for much longer: the world champions of chess, Go, and Jeopardy!
