A provocative new look at concepts of the present, their connection to ideas about time, and their effect on literature, art, and cultureThe problem of the present-what it is and what it means-is one that has vexed generations of thinkers and artists.
Presenting the first comprehensive, in-depth study of hyperintensionality, this book equips readers with the basic tools needed to appreciate some of current and future debates in the philosophy of language, semantics, and metaphysics.
Die Frage nach den gedanklichen Verbindungslinien zwischen Kant und Bacon als dem Wegbereiter des englischen Empirismus hat in der Kant-Forschung bisher nur wenig Beachtung gefunden.
Das Werk des spätantiken Philosophen und Theologen Dionysius Areopagita (~500) hat in der abendländischen Geistesgeschichte eine außerordentlich reiche Wirkung entfaltet.
The central idea developed by the contributions to this book is that the split between analytic philosophy and phenomenology - perhaps the most impor- tant schism in twentieth-century philosophy - resulted from a radicalization of reciprocal partialities.
Nearly everyone has brief moments of exalting communion with his or her own divine Soul and its finest possibilities: This book shows how to make the most of those moments; how to recognize, develop, test, and follow through on intuitions; how to contact the source of inspiration and make its vitalizing power a continuous presence.
Freedom and its internal relation to reason is fundamental to Descartes' philosophy in general, and to his Meditations on First Philosophy in particular.
Anhand der Zielbestimmung des Einzelnen (in seiner Effabilität oder logischen Aussagbarkeit) wird in dieser Arbeit in erster Linie die Bewegung der spekulativen Logizität exakt und kohärent in allen Schritten und Unterschritten aufgewiesen.
This book is about our ordinary concept of matter in the form of enduring continuants and the processes in which they are involved in the macroscopic realm.
Many, perhaps most textbooks of quantum mechanics present a Copenhagen, single system angle; fewer present the subject matter as an instrument for treating ensembles, but the two methods have been silently coexisting since the mid-Thirties.
Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind presents cutting-edge work in the philosophy of mind, combining invited articles and articles selected from submissions.
I first became interested in the relationship between Locke's anti- essentialism and his theory of identity in a first-year graduate course on metaphysics taught at Syracuse University by Jose Benardete.
Based upon the Kenan Lectures that Karl Popper delivered at Emory University in 1969, Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem raises problems connected with human freedom, creativity, rationality, and the relationship between human beings and their actions.
Quantum theory is the most successful of all physical theories: it has a towering mathematical structure, a vast range of accurate predictions, and technological applications.
The idea of the pre-existence of the soul has been extremely important, widespread, and persistent throughout Western history--from even before the philosophy of Plato to the poetry of Robert Frost.
Mit diesem Werk wird zum ersten Mal der Willensbegriff gegründet, indem der intellektuelle Wille im Unterschied und in Erweiterung von einem rein vorstellenden rationalen Willen deutlich erfasst wird.