The present volume contains many of the papers presented at a four-day conference held by the Husserl-Archives in Leuven in April 2009 to c- memorate the one hundred and ?
This volume handles in various perspectives the concept of function and the nature of functional explanations, topics much discussed since two major and conflicting accounts have been raised by Larry Wright and Robert Cummins' papers in the 1970s.
This volume congregates articles of leading philosophers about potentials and potentiality in all areas of philosophy and the empirical sciences in which they play a relevant role.
Insights developed in the past two decades by philosophers of the social sciences can serve to enrich the challenging intellectual tasks of conceptualizing, investigating, and representing the human past.
This key collection of essays sheds new light on long-debated controversies surrounding Kant's doctrine of idealism and is the first book in the English language that is exclusively dedicated to the subject.
Although the creative impulse surges in revolt against everyday reality, breaking through its confines, it makes pacts with that reality's essential laws and returns to it to modulate its sense.
Building upon Husserl's challenge to oppositions such as those between form and content and between constituting and constituted, The Concept of Passivity in Husserl's Phenomenology construes activity and passivity not as reciprocally exclusive terms but as mutually dependent moments of acts of consciousness.
The present volume is an exciting new collection of original essays by outstanding feminist theorists including Sally Haslanger, Marilyn Frye and Linda Alcoff.
Singular reference to ourselves and the ordinary objects surrounding us is a most crucial philosophical topic, for it looms large in any attempt to understand how language and mind connect to the world.
Culture and Cultural Entities provides an original philosophical analysis of the nature and explanation of cultural phenomena, with special attention to ontology and methodology.
Drawing on the results of his own scholarly research as well as that of others the author offers, for the first time, a comprehensive and documented history of theories of the atom from Democritus to the twentieth century.
Quantum Closures and Disclosures thinks together two seemingly irreconcilable discourses: An application of quantum field theory to brain functioning, called quantum brain dynamics, and the continental postphenomenological tradition, especially the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida.
Unlike standard attempts to address the so-called ‘hard problem’ of consciousness, which assume our understanding of consciousness is unproblematic, this book begins by focusing on phenomenology and is devoted to clarifying the relations between intentionality, propositional content and experience.
Die Philosophie des Barockscotismus war einerseits durch die rückwärtsgewandte Anknüpfung an den mittelalterlichen Denker Johannes Duns Scotus, andererseits durch die Anknüpfung an die Entwicklung in der zeitgenössischen Scholastik, vor allem der Jesuitenscholastik, geprägt.
Las palabras ánima y ánimo no tienen, siempre y en todo caso, el mismo significado ni tampoco pertenecen siempre a las mismas esferas: la humana y la divina.
This book explores and compares the reflections on space and quantity found in the works of five philosophers: Spinoza, Leibniz, Bergson, Whitehead, and Deleuze.
"La filosofía, más que ninguna otra disciplina, necesita ser vivida", escribe García Morente al inicio de estas lecciones, refiriéndose a la falta de sentido de dar una definición de filosofía sin haberla "explorado" antes como una vivencia.
"La filosofía, más que ninguna otra disciplina, necesita ser vivida", escribe García Morente al inicio de estas lecciones, refiriéndose a la falta de sentido de dar una definición de filosofía sin haberla "explorado" antes como una vivencia.
'Richard Rorty: una alternativa a la metafísica occidental' de José Antonio García-Lorente es principalmente una reconstrucción atenta y cuidadosa de la filosofía de Richard Rorty y, en particular, de su crítica a la verdad y a la metafísica.
Filosofo hungaro, politico y critico literario, Gyorgy Lukacs (1885-1971) es considerado uno de los intelectuales marxistas mas influyentes del siglo pasado.
Desde hace unas decadas la filosofia vive hechizada bajo el encanto del giro linguistico, que a la vez fue fruto de su propia evolucion interna y fiel reflejo de la tendencia al verbalismo, que siempre ha sido uno de sus pecados capitales.