Books in category Western Philosophy
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Author: Ken Wilber
Publisher : Shambhala Pubns
ISBN : 9781570627446
In this tour de force of scholarship and vision, Ken Wilber traces the course of evolution from matter to life to mind and describes the common patterns that evolution takes in all three of these domains. From the emergence of mind, he traces the evolution of human consciousness through its major stages of growth and development. He particularly focuses on modernity and postmodernity: what they me
Author: Anthony T. Kronman
Publisher : Yale Univ Pr
ISBN : 9780300122886
In this thought-provoking work, an academic reveals how university courses have moved away from tackling a fundamental question that was once fully integrated into humanities curricula: the meaning of life. He urges university leaders to shift from the current overemphasis on research and political correctness to the more philosophical, less measurable questions that can have a deep impact on the
Author: John F. Haught
Publisher : Westview Pr
ISBN : 9780813343709
An eminent theologian explains the relationship between theology and evolution
Author: Alvin Plantinga
Publisher : Oxford Univ Pr
ISBN : 9780195131932
This is the third volume in Alvin Plantinga`s trilogy on the notion of warrant, which he defines as that which distinguishes knowledge from true belief. In this volume, Plantinga examines warrant`s role in theistic belief, tackling the questions of whether it is rational, reasonable, justifiable, and warranted to accept Christian belief and whether there is something epistemically unacceptable in
Author: Patricia W. Kitcher, Howard Caygill, J. Meiklejohn, Gary Banham, Norman Kemp Smith
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN : 9780879755966
Kant devoted over 10 years to writing the Critique of Pure Reason , one of the fundamental works in all of Western philosophy. In it, Kant considers basic philosophical questions--the nature of reason, experience, science, morality, religion, truth, and reality--and attempts to reconcile the two dominant philosophical schools of his day: the empiricism of Locke and Hume and the rationalism of Des
Author: Eduardo Velasquez
Publisher : Isi Books
ISBN : 9781933859286
Author: Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher : Cambridge Univ Pr
ISBN : 9780521531825
In this hefty volume, Nussbaum discusses the forceful ability that emotions such as fear, grief, and anger have to disrupt our thoughts and plans. By dividing the text into three major sections and drawing on philosophy, psychology, and literature, Nussbaum focuses her analysis on the various brands of need, compassion, and love.
Author: Richard Wolin
Publisher : Princeton Univ Pr
ISBN : 9780691125992
Author: Burrhus Frederic Skinner
Publisher : Hackett Pub Co Inc
ISBN : 9780872206274
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Author: Herman Melville
Publisher : Univ of Chicago Pr
ISBN : 9780226321325
Unpublished in Melville`s lifetime, BILLY BUDD is considered one of his greatest works. It began as a ballad, but grew into a short novel with an ambiguous plot that raises more questions than it answers, about good and evil, justice and injustice. Billy Budd, a handsome, angelic, and beloved young sailor, is wrongly accused of inciting mutiny. He lashes out in a rage and accidentally kills his ac
Author: John R. Searle
Publisher : Free Pr
ISBN : 9780684831794
In The Construction of Social Reality, John Searle argues that there are two kinds of facts--some that are independent of human observers, and some that require human agreement.
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ISBN : 9780521439718
Peter Singer's remarkably clear and comprehensive Practical Ethics has become a classic introduction to applied ethics since its publication in 1979 and has been translated into many languages. For this second edition the author has revised all the existing chapters, added two new ones, and updated the bibliography. He has also added an appendix describing some of the deep misunderstanding of and
Author: Richard Rorty
Publisher : Princeton Univ Pr
ISBN : 9780691020167
Author: David Bentley Hart
Publisher : Eerdmans Pub Co
ISBN : 9780802829214
The Beauty of the Infinite is a splendid extended essay in btheological aesthetics.b David Bentley Hart here meditates on the power of a Christian understanding of beauty and sublimity to rise above the violence -- both philosophical and literal -- characteristic of the postmodern world.The book begins by tracing the shifting use and nature of metaphysics in the thought of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche,
Author: Henry Hardy, Ian Harris, Isaiah Berlin
Publisher : Oxford Univ Pr
ISBN : 9780199249893
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Publisher : Random House Inc
ISBN : 9781400063512
Taleb delivers a groundbreaking look at the role played by the unexpected in life and history, and a fascinating examination of why we know less than we think we do--and what to do about it. A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random
Author: Richard Rorty
Publisher : Harvard Univ Pr
ISBN : 9780674003125
Derived from a series of 1997 lectures, this scholarly work takes the form of a social history in its examination of 20th-century leftist ideas. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.
Author: Max Horkheimer, Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, Edmund Jephcott, Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher : Stanford Univ Pr
ISBN : 9780804736336
This is a new, improved translation of the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Adorno and Horkheimer aimed to explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism.
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Mit Pr
ISBN : 9780262240512
In Zizek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the parallax gap in the ontological, the scientific, and the political--and rehabilitates dialectical materialism.
Author: Carl Porter, Carl J. Porter
Publisher : Open Court Pub Co
ISBN : 9780812695922
The legions of Bob Dylan fans know that Dylan is not just a great composer, writer, and performer, but a great thinker as well. In Bob Dylan and Philosophy, eighteen philosophers analyze Dylan's ethical positions, political commitments, views on gender and sexuality, and his complicated and controversial attitudes toward religion. All phases of Dylan's output are covered, from his early acoustic f
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Author: Ken WilberPublisher : Shambhala Pubns
ISBN : 9781570627446
In this tour de force of scholarship and vision, Ken Wilber traces the course of evolution from matter to life to mind and describes the common patterns that evolution takes in all three of these domains. From the emergence of mind, he traces the evolution of human consciousness through its major stages of growth and development. He particularly focuses on modernity and postmodernity: what they me
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Education`s End
Author: Anthony T. KronmanPublisher : Yale Univ Pr
ISBN : 9780300122886
In this thought-provoking work, an academic reveals how university courses have moved away from tackling a fundamental question that was once fully integrated into humanities curricula: the meaning of life. He urges university leaders to shift from the current overemphasis on research and political correctness to the more philosophical, less measurable questions that can have a deep impact on the
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God After Darwin
Author: John F. HaughtPublisher : Westview Pr
ISBN : 9780813343709
An eminent theologian explains the relationship between theology and evolution
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Warranted Christian Belief
Author: Alvin PlantingaPublisher : Oxford Univ Pr
ISBN : 9780195131932
This is the third volume in Alvin Plantinga`s trilogy on the notion of warrant, which he defines as that which distinguishes knowledge from true belief. In this volume, Plantinga examines warrant`s role in theistic belief, tackling the questions of whether it is rational, reasonable, justifiable, and warranted to accept Christian belief and whether there is something epistemically unacceptable in
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Critique of Pure Reason
Author: Patricia W. Kitcher, Howard Caygill, J. Meiklejohn, Gary Banham, Norman Kemp SmithPublisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN : 9780879755966
Kant devoted over 10 years to writing the Critique of Pure Reason , one of the fundamental works in all of Western philosophy. In it, Kant considers basic philosophical questions--the nature of reason, experience, science, morality, religion, truth, and reality--and attempts to reconcile the two dominant philosophical schools of his day: the empiricism of Locke and Hume and the rationalism of Des
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A Consumer`s Guide to the Apocalypse
Author: Eduardo VelasquezPublisher : Isi Books
ISBN : 9781933859286
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Upheavals of Thought
Author: Martha C. NussbaumPublisher : Cambridge Univ Pr
ISBN : 9780521531825
In this hefty volume, Nussbaum discusses the forceful ability that emotions such as fear, grief, and anger have to disrupt our thoughts and plans. By dividing the text into three major sections and drawing on philosophy, psychology, and literature, Nussbaum focuses her analysis on the various brands of need, compassion, and love.
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The Seduction of Unreason
Author: Richard WolinPublisher : Princeton Univ Pr
ISBN : 9780691125992
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Beyond Freedom and Dignity
Author: Burrhus Frederic SkinnerPublisher : Hackett Pub Co Inc
ISBN : 9780872206274
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Billy Budd, Sailor
Author: Herman MelvillePublisher : Univ of Chicago Pr
ISBN : 9780226321325
Unpublished in Melville`s lifetime, BILLY BUDD is considered one of his greatest works. It began as a ballad, but grew into a short novel with an ambiguous plot that raises more questions than it answers, about good and evil, justice and injustice. Billy Budd, a handsome, angelic, and beloved young sailor, is wrongly accused of inciting mutiny. He lashes out in a rage and accidentally kills his ac
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The Construction of Social Reality
Author: John R. SearlePublisher : Free Pr
ISBN : 9780684831794
In The Construction of Social Reality, John Searle argues that there are two kinds of facts--some that are independent of human observers, and some that require human agreement.
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Practical Ethics
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ISBN : 9780521439718
Peter Singer's remarkably clear and comprehensive Practical Ethics has become a classic introduction to applied ethics since its publication in 1979 and has been translated into many languages. For this second edition the author has revised all the existing chapters, added two new ones, and updated the bibliography. He has also added an appendix describing some of the deep misunderstanding of and
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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Author: Richard RortyPublisher : Princeton Univ Pr
ISBN : 9780691020167
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The Beauty Of The Infinite
Author: David Bentley HartPublisher : Eerdmans Pub Co
ISBN : 9780802829214
The Beauty of the Infinite is a splendid extended essay in btheological aesthetics.b David Bentley Hart here meditates on the power of a Christian understanding of beauty and sublimity to rise above the violence -- both philosophical and literal -- characteristic of the postmodern world.The book begins by tracing the shifting use and nature of metaphysics in the thought of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche,
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Liberty
Author: Henry Hardy, Ian Harris, Isaiah BerlinPublisher : Oxford Univ Pr
ISBN : 9780199249893
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The Black Swan
Author: Nassim Nicholas TalebPublisher : Random House Inc
ISBN : 9781400063512
Taleb delivers a groundbreaking look at the role played by the unexpected in life and history, and a fascinating examination of why we know less than we think we do--and what to do about it. A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random
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Achieving Our Country
Author: Richard RortyPublisher : Harvard Univ Pr
ISBN : 9780674003125
Derived from a series of 1997 lectures, this scholarly work takes the form of a social history in its examination of 20th-century leftist ideas. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.
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Dialectic of Enlightenment
Author: Max Horkheimer, Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, Edmund Jephcott, Theodor W. AdornoPublisher : Stanford Univ Pr
ISBN : 9780804736336
This is a new, improved translation of the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Adorno and Horkheimer aimed to explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism.
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The Parallax View
Author: Slavoj ZizekPublisher : Mit Pr
ISBN : 9780262240512
In Zizek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the parallax gap in the ontological, the scientific, and the political--and rehabilitates dialectical materialism.
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Bob Dylan and Philosophy
Author: Carl Porter, Carl J. PorterPublisher : Open Court Pub Co
ISBN : 9780812695922
The legions of Bob Dylan fans know that Dylan is not just a great composer, writer, and performer, but a great thinker as well. In Bob Dylan and Philosophy, eighteen philosophers analyze Dylan's ethical positions, political commitments, views on gender and sexuality, and his complicated and controversial attitudes toward religion. All phases of Dylan's output are covered, from his early acoustic f
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