Stimulating and often startling discussions between three friends, all highly original thinkers: Rupert Sheldrake, controversial biologist, Terence McKenna , psychedelic visionary, and Ralph Abraham , chaos mathematician.
The traditional account of mind/body union attributed to Descartes supposes that the immaterial, thinking mind and the material, non-thinking body interact by means of efficient causation - that the mind causes events in the body, e.
These writings chart Harman's rise from Chicago sportswriter to co founder of one of Europe's most promising philosophical movements: Speculative Realism.
For an object in the world to be known by the knower, the knower must also be in the world; thus, our consciousness is not in the head, it is in the world.
Dieses eBook: "Weltgeschichtliche Betrachtungen" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
In his new book, perhaps the most cogent expression of his mature thought, Jean Baudrillard turns detective in order to investigate a crime which he hopes may yet be solved: the "e;murder"e; of reality.
Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Change, written by American literary theorist Kenneth Burke, was first published in 1935, at the height of the Great Depression.
In this present volume, the author of Man the Unknown makes clear why civilisation is on the edge of an abyss and propounds three basic laws of nature in which, he believes, lies mankind's only salvation: Effects of Chemical Factors, Effects of Physical Factors, and Effects of Physiological Habits.
A clear, solid and succinct textbook in metaphysics, An Introduction to Metaphysics, which was first published in 1963, begins with a chapter on the existence of all things (including ourselves) and then proceeds to discuss the subjects of changing existents; participating, multiple existents; efficient causes; final and exemplary causes; the Primary Cause; the transcendental properties; categories of limited being; and the analogy of being.
THE EXCITING "e;BULL SESSIONS"e; that so often generate more heat than light, and absorb college students and others in animated arguments far into the night, are nine times out of ten on subjects discussed in these pages.
A brief yet informative book by one of the founders of analytic philosophy in which he introduces the reader to various analytic movements throughout the 20th century-Philosophy, Logicism, and Mathematics-and their application.
Originally published in 1961, the present volume is a collection of thoughts from the essays and journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, leader of the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
Operating as a machine upon the terrain of theoretical truth procedures, philosophy's radical potential describes a militant cartography: interpretation, demarcation, clarification, and demystification.
Embodied in this compact volume is a journey of discovery through Jungian thoughtscapes never before revealed with the depth, force and scholarly rigor you are about to encounter.
