ways of doing it, but it is wrong to project it far into the past: it did not exist at the turn of the century and only became clearly apparent after the Second World War.
According to Ariel Meirav, the root of some of our most noteworthy difficulties in the metaphysics of concrete entities has been the traditional tendency to focus on the horizontal dimension of wholes (i.
Essentialism--roughly, the view that natural kinds have discrete essences, generating truths that are necessary but knowable only a posteriori--is an increasingly popular view in the metaphysics of science.
At the heart of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy is an epistemological and metaphysical position he calls transcendental idealism; the aim of this book is to understand this position.
Der Unternehmer, Coach und Autor Wolfram Berghüser nimmt Dich mit auf eine faszinierende Reise zu einigen seiner bewegendsten Lebensstationen und taucht mit Dir ein in die Erkenntnisse über die tiefgreifendsten Fragen + Antworten des Lebens, die er in 41 Jahren seines Unternehmertums sammeln und als Coach bereits vielen Menschen vermitteln durfte:Warum sind wir eigentlich aus dem Paradies gefallen - und wie gelingt uns die "Rolle-Rückwärts" dahin zurück?
In diesem Band werden die abschließenden Erörterungen der ›Untersuchungen über die Wahrheit‹ vorgelegt, die Thomas von Aquin zwischen 1256 und 1259 in Paris verfasst hat.
There has been an upsurge in scholarship concerned with theories of social practices in various fields including sociology, geography and management studies.
In Naturally Free Action, Oisin Deery argues that free will exists, where free will is understood as the ability to act freely, and free actions as exercises of that ability.
In Heidegger, Metaphysics and the Univocity of Being, Philip Tonner presents an interpretation of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger in terms of the doctrine of the 'univocity of being'.
Since 2013, an organization called the Nonhuman Rights Project has brought before the New York State courts an unusual request-asking for habeas corpus hearings to determine whether Kiko and Tommy, two captive chimpanzees, should be considered legal persons with the fundamental right to bodily liberty.
Social robots are an increasingly integral part of society, already appearing as customer service assistants, care-home helpers, teaching assistants and personal companions.
Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods and justification of science will value Alex Rosenberg's updated and substantially revised Third Edition of Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction.
