Interest in the age-old problems of universals and individuation has received a new impetus from the current revival of ontology in the analytic tradition, the development of theories of individual properties (and the related application of mereological calculi to the analysis of predication), and the particular problems posed by relational predication and the nature of particulars. The essays explore aspects of the history of the issues and attempt to deal with the issues and with challenges to the distinctions that give rise to them. They continue the debates stemming from the revival of metaphysics rooted in Freges realism, the Austrian tradition of Brentano-Husserl-Meinong, and the early 20th century revolt against idealism embodied in writings of Moore and Russell and culminating in Wittgensteins Tractatus.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 250 Seiten
• Verlag: ontos
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 393720251X
• ISBN-13: 9783937202518
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Dualistische Ansichten über den Menschen galten bis vor kurzem als veraltet oder gar als tot. In neuester Zeit sind sie aber von namhaften Philosophen zu neuem Leben erweckt worden. Warum vertreten sie dualistische Positionen? War Platon Dualist? Brauchte Aristoteles einen Dualismus? Müssen Christen, die an die Auferstehung glauben, den Menschen dualistisch deuten? Gibt es eine aristotelische Mittelposition zwischen Naturalismus und Dualismus? Teilen Naturalisten und Dualisten ein problematisches Körperverständnis? Antworten auf diese Fragen finden Sie in den Beiträgen des vorliegenden Buches. Mit Beiträgen von Eleonore Stump, Richard Swinburne, Uwe Meixner, Edmund Runggaldier, Bruno Niederbacher, Josef Quitterer, Anselm Winfried Müller, Michael Bordt, Uwe Voigt, Marianne Schark, Michael-Thomas Liske.

• SC: 249 Seiten
• Verlag: ontos
• ISBN-10: 3938793341
• ISBN-13: 9783938793343
• Verpackungsabmessungen: 21 x 14,8 x 1,8 cm

Nicholas Rescher stands as a major figure in American Philosophy today. His philosophical contribution, ranging over fifty years, is marked by a profound respect for the fate of the human condition in a world of unparalleled scientific and technological innovation. This work brings under the centrally unifying theme of 'rationality' some of the issues on values and personal responsibility he has addressed during his long and distinguished career. The book is intended to illustrate the synthesis of Rescher’s thinking relative to these ideas, as expounded upon for many decades.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 251 Seiten
• Verlag: ontos
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3938793635
• ISBN-13: 9783938793633
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The book contains studies in ontology and analysis that focus on the 'revolt against idealism' of Russell, Moore, and Wittgenstein in the early part of the 20th century and the resulting development of analytic philosophy and revival of realism. Taking up the problems posed by reference and predication, truth, facts, causality, dispositions, intentionality, propositions, particulars and universals, the analytic-synthetic distinction, logicism, abstract entities, and materialism, the essays present a systematic analysis of such issues in the context provided by classical works of the three Cambridge philosophers

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 350 Seiten
• Verlag: Hänsel-Hohenhausen
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3826700201
• ISBN-13: 9783826700200
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,2 x 2,5 x 21 cm

• SC: 288 Seiten
• Verlag: Fouqué Literaturverlag
• ISBN-10: 3826746139
• ISBN-13: 9783826746130

• Broschiert: 210 Seiten
• Verlag: Focus Verlag-Ges. Mbh
• ISBN-10: 3883493260
• ISBN-13: 9783883493268

Der orientalische Gott Eros ist in seinen Ursprüngen ein Zerreisser dieser Welt. Er wirft sie aus dem Takt und zerstört ihre Harmonie. Das jedoch war den frühen griechischen Baumeistern des Abendlandes gar nicht recht. In einem aufregenden Akt wurde der Zerreisser zum Versöhner umgedeutet. Besonders anschaulich wird diese Geschichte beim großen Philosophen Platon. Dort liegen die Wurzeln für eine erregende Spiritualität auf der einen und für die technisch-wissenschaftliche Welteroberung auf der anderen Seite. Mit didaktischem Geschick entfaltet der Autor mit zahlreichen Ausblicken auf kulturgeschichtliche Hintergründe die faszinierende Denkwelt Platons. Dies erschließt ein tieferes Verständnis für die feurige Leidenschaft des Fortschritts, den wir hassen und lieben, der uns befreit und knechtet, der uns Hoffnung ist und Angst auslöst und von dem wir - so scheint es - doch nicht loskommen.

• SC: 199 Seiten
• Verlag: ontos
• ISBN-10: 3937202374
• ISBN-13: 9783937202372
• Verpackungsabmessungen: 20,8 x 14,8 x 1,8 cm

• SC: 137 Seiten
• Verlag: Fouqué Literaturverlag
• ISBN-10: 3826743873
• ISBN-13: 9783826743870

We live today surrounded by countless digital gadgets and navigate through cyberspace as if it were the most natural thing in the world. This digital cast of being, however, comes from a long history of philosophical and mathematical thinking in which the Western will to productive power over movement has attained its consummation. This study traces the digital dissolution of beings from the Pythagoreans, Plato and Aristotle's ontology via Cartesian mathematical science through to our digitized economy and telecommunications. With an appendix reinterpreting quantum mechanical indeterminacy phenomenologically.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 137 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380450
• ISBN-13: 9783868380453
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This volume is devoted to problems within analytic metaphysics. It defends an ontology and theory of categories inspired by Aristotle, but revised in such a way as to be compatible with modern science. The ontology of both natural and social reality is addressed, starting out from the view that universals exist but only in the spatiotemporal world (immanent realism). In attempting to bring Aristotle's ontology up-to-date, the author relies very much on the thinking of Edmund Husserl, conceiving the cement of the universe as Husserlian relations of existential dependence and regarding intentionality as a non-reducible category in the ontology of mind. The work is thoroughly realistic in spirit, but large parts of it should nonetheless be of interest to conceptualists and nominalists, too.

Philippa Foots Natural Goodness (dt. Die Natur des Guten) ist eines der interessantesten Werke der Gegenwartsphilosophie. Ihr Ansatz stellt nicht nur wesentliche Annahmen in Frage, die moralphilosophische Debatten bis in die Gegenwart hinein bestimmen. Foot entwirft auch einen Begriff der menschlichen Natur, der die reduktiven Tendenzen des modernen Szientismus vermeidet. Praktische Rationalität erscheint nicht als das Andere der menschlichen Natur, sondern als entscheidendes Merkmal unserer Lebensform. Natürlich gut dokumentiert erstmals die kritische Auseinandersetzung der deutschsprachigen Philosophie mit Foots ethischem Naturalismus.

• Broschiert: 337 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• ISBN-10: 3868380744
• ISBN-13: 9783868380743
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Was Milan Kundera an einer Stelle in seinem Roman "Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins" knapp, aber doch plastisch schildert, gibt eine Erfahrung wieder, die mich veranlaßt hat, dieses Buch zu schreiben: "Er hörte sich ihre Lebensgeschichte begierig an, und sie hörte ihm genauso begierig zu. Sie verstanden zwar die Bedeutung der Wörter, die sie einander sagten, doch das Rauschen des semantischen Flusses, der diese Wörter durchströmte, konnten sie nicht hören." Stellt nicht, so fragte ich mich beim Lesen dieser Stelle, "das Rauschen des semantischen Flusses, das man nicht hören kann", die Metapher dar, die das von einer Person Ungesagte bezeichnet - das, was sie vielleicht zu verstehen gab, vielleicht aber auch nicht zu verstehen geben wollte oder vielleicht auch das, was nicht verstehbar ist? Und wie ist es mit dem Verstehen, wenn eine Person einer anderen gar nicht ihre Lebensgeschichte erzählt, sondern einfach nur mit ihr zusammen lebt? Und was ist der Fall, wenn eine Person über viele Jahre nur Arbeitskollege ist, immer die "Bedeutung der Wörter, die sie einander sagten" verstanden hat und trotzdem nicht weiß, was dieser Arbeitskollege für ein Mensch ist? Und wer kennt nicht das Erlebnis einer großen und gegenseitigen Zuneigung zu einem anderen Menschen, die irgendwann zu Ende geht und nur noch ein absolutes Rätsel des Verstehens übrig bleibt, worum es sich bei diesem Menschen gehandelt hat?

• SC: 234 Seiten
• Verlag: ontos
• ISBN-10: 3937202544
• ISBN-13: 9783937202549
• Verpackungsabmessungen: 20,8 x 14,8 x 1,6 cm

The history of twentieth century philosophy is characterized by the gap between analytic and continental philosophy - even though both have their roots in a tradition referred to as "Austrian" or "Central-European" philosophy. The essays in this volume show in historical and systematic studies, how a reassessment of this "Central-European" tradition can build an interesting bridge between phenomenology and analytic philosophy and, thus, create a new foundation that allows for an original perspective on central problems of philosophy. Contributors: Wilhelm Baumgartner (Würzburg), Christian Beyer (Erfurt), Arkadiusz Chrudzimski (Salzburg/Zielona Góra), Dagfinn Føllesdal (Stanford/Oslo), Wolfgang Huemer (Erfurt), Dale Jacquette (Pennsilvania State University), Edgar Morscher (Salzburg), Tommaso Piazza (Florence), Roberto Poli (Trento), Robin Rollinger (Louvain), Peter Simons (Leeds), Barry Smith (Buffalo/Leipzig), Gianfranco Soldati (Fribourg), Jan Wolenski (Cracow).

• Taschenbuch: 350 Seiten
• Verlag: ontos
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3937202366
• ISBN-13: 9783937202365
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 14,6 x 3,2 x 20,3 cm

Frank Plumpton Ramsey was born on February 22, 1903 and died at the age of 26 on January 19, 1930. Few philosophers of the twentieth century have influenced the sciences as much as Ramsey. He did pioneering work in pure mathematics, logic, economics, statistics, probability theory, decision theory and cognitive psychology. He also did ground-breaking work in epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics and semantics. And he accomplished all this before the age of twenty-seven. His work in metaphysics, however, has not really received the attention it deserves. The essays published in this volume are all, in one way or another, inspired by Ramsey's ontology, or better, by the ontological questions discussed, problems solved and methods developed in some of his celebrated papers. With contribution from: Herbert Hochberg, Arnold Koslow, Fraser MacBride, Anna-Sofia Maurin, Martin Palmé and Nils-Eric Sahlin

• SC: 120 Seiten
• Verlag: ontos
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3937202722
• ISBN-13: 9783937202723
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,2 x 1,3 x 21,6 cm

Structure or system is a ubiquitous and uneliminable feature of all our experience and theory, and requires an ontological analysis. The essays collected in this volume provide an account of structure founded upon the proper analysis of polyadic relations as the irreducible and defining elements of structure. It is argued that polyadic relations are ontic predicates in the insightful sense of intension-determined agent-combinators, monadic properties being the limiting and historically misleading case. This assay of ontic predicates has a number of powerful explanatory implications, including fundamentally: providing ontology with a principium individuationis, demonstrating the perennial theory that properties and relations are individuated as unit attributes or ‘instances’, giving content to the ontology of facts or states of affairs, and providing a means to precisely differentiate identity from indiscernibility. The differentiation of the unrepeatable combinatorial and repeatable intension aspects of ontic predicates makes it possible to properly diagnose and disarm the classis Bradley Regress Argument aimed against attributes and universals, an argument that trades on confusing these aspects. It is argued that these two aspects of ontic predicates form a ‘composite simple’, an explanation that sheds light on the nature and necessity of the medieval formal distinction, e.g., the distinctio formalis a parte rei of Scotus. Following from this analysis of ontic predication there is given a number of principles delineating realist instance ontology, together with a critique of both nominalistic trope theory and modern revivals of Aristotle’s instance ontology of the Categories. It is shown how the resulting theory of facts can, via ‘horizontal’ and ‘vertical’ composition, account for all the hierarchical structuring of our experience and theory, and, importantly, how this can rest upon an atomic ontic level composed of only dependent ontic predicates. The latter is a desideratum for the proposed ‘Structural Realism’ ontology for micro-physics where at its lowest level the physical is said to be totally relational/structural. Nullified is the classic and insidious assumption that dependent entities presuppose a class of independent substrata or ‘substances’, and with this any pressure to admit ‘bare particulars’ and intensionless relations or ‘ties’. The logic inherent in realist instance ontology-termed ‘PPL’-is formalized in detail and given a consistency proof. Demonstrated is the logic’s power to distinguish legitimate from illegitimate impredicative definitions, and in this how it provides a general solution to the classic self-referential paradoxes. PPL corresponds to Gödel’s programmatic ‘Theory of Concepts’. The last essay, not previously published, provides a detailed differentiation of identity from indiscernibility, preliminary to which is given an explanation of in what sense a predicate logic presupposes an ontology of predication. The principles needed for the differentiation have the significant implication (e.g., for the foundations of mathematics) of implying an infinity of logical entities, viz., instances of the identity relation.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 252 Seiten
• Verlag: ontos
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3938793333
• ISBN-13: 9783938793336
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,9 x 0,6 x 21,6 cm

Einstein's General Theory of Relativity links the metrical structure of the cosmic order (or "cosmology") to the contingent distributions of matter and energy throughout the universe, one of the chief areas of investigation in astrophysics. However, presently we have neither devised nor discovered system of uniform relations whereby we can make our cosmological measurements intelligible. This is "the measurement problem of cosmology." Using both historical ideas (such as A.N. Whitehead's work in the 1920s) and contemporary evidence and theories, argue that the measurement problem has neither been fully understood nor rightly interpreted. With better grasp of this problem, such as am attempting to provide, the prospects for solution look brighter.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 210 Seiten
• Verlag: ontos
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3937202951
• ISBN-13: 9783937202952
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,2 x 2,5 x 21 cm

On the one hand, the concept of truth is a major research subject in analytic philosophy. On the other hand, mathematical logicians have developed sophisticated logical theories of truth and the paradoxes. Recent developments in logical theories of the semantical paradoxes are highly relevant for philosophical research on the notion of truth. And conversely, philosophical guidance is necessary for the development of logical theories of truth and the paradoxes. From this perspective, this volume intends to reflect and promote deeper interaction and collaboration between philosophers and logicians investigating the concept of truth than has existed so far.Aside from an extended introductory overview of recent work in the theory of truth, the volume consists of articles by leading philosophers and logicians on subjects and debates that are situated on the interface between logical and philosophical theories of truth. The volume is intended for graduate students in philosophy and in logic who want an introduction to contemporary research in this area, as well as for professional philosophers and logicians.

• SC: 244 Seiten
• Verlag: ontos
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3937202455
• ISBN-13: 9783937202457
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 14,6 x 1,9 x 20,3 cm

For over thirty years Professor Rescher has been preoccupied with exploring the scope and limits of human knowledge from an array of different points of view. This book collects together these various threads into a unified treatment of this overall terrain. It argues in detail that while scepticism is about the prospect of factual knowledge about the world is emphatically unwarranted, nevertheless the project of amplifying this knowledge does encounter some specifiable and insuperable limits.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 133 Seiten
• Verlag: ontos
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3938793007
• ISBN-13: 9783938793008
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Mit Handlungsweisen wie Eheschließungen und Staatsgründungen, die selbst neue Realitäten erschaffen, mit Eigenschaften wie Vereinsmitglied oder Vorstandsvorsitzender eines Unternehmens zu sein, die normativ zur Geltung kommen, mit Artefakten wie Banknoten, Uniformen oder Verdienstorden, deren Identitätsbedingungen nicht einfach an ihrem physikalischen Substrat festzumachen sind, stellt die soziale Wirklichkeit eine Herausforderung für jede Ontologie dar. Und dies nicht nur, weil sich die Vielfalt der zu berücksichtigenden Entitäten als kaum übersehbar erweist, sondern vor allem weil unklar ist, welche ontologischen Konzepte - seien sie revisionär oder deskriptiv - hier überhaupt greifen und welcher explanatorische Wert ihren Kategorien zuwächst. In aller Schärfe stellen sich diese Fragen dann für soziale Entitäten wie Institutionen, die über ihre adäquate ontologische Beschreibung hinaus noch nach einer Erklärung für ihre Identität durch alle Veränderungen hindurch - vom Eigenschaftswechsel bis hin zur zeitweisen Unterbrechung ihrer Existenz - verlangen. Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes versuchen dieses bisher vernachlässigte Forschungsgebiet zu erkunden, in seinem Umfang zu vermessen und in Problemzonen aufzuteilen, für die erste Lösungsansätze entwickelt werden.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 332 Seiten
• Verlag: ontos
• ISBN-10: 3937202757
• ISBN-13: 9783937202754
• Verpackungsabmessungen: 21,4 x 15,6 x 3 cm

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 374 Seiten
• Verlag: ontos
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3938793112
• ISBN-13: 9783938793114
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,9 x 2,5 x 21,6 cm

The term "method" of realist phenomenology and philosophy can refer to three kinds of things which are being explored extensively in this work: (1) Kinds of philosophical knowledge used to return to things themselves: intellectual "vision" of necessary intelligible essences, insights into necessary states of affairs, knowledge of less than necessary essences, knowledge of existence as such, of the ego cogitans and of a concretely existing world, other persons, and the absolute being, deductive forms of reasoning, and others. (2) Ways to achieve such knowledge: such as various types of distinctions, asking proper questions, correct use of analogies, and replies to objections. (3) Finally, these methods include several "tricks" and devices such as methodic doubt and epoché; these are subordinated to the other methods, and neither necessary nor universal tools of all philosophical knowledge.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 112 Seiten
• Verlag: ontos
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380248
• ISBN-13: 9783868380248
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,2 x 3,2 x 21,6 cm

The belief is widely held that the physical world is causally-driven. The world is one because a tangled web of causally-driven processes keeps it together. However, both the psychological and the social worlds cannot be articulated in causal terms only. Hereby, “motivation” is used as the most general term referring to whatever keeps (synchronically) together and provides (diachronic) reasons explaining the behavior of psychological and social systems. In order to systematically address these problems, a categorical framework is needed for understanding the various types of realities populating the world and their multifarious interrelations. The papers collected in this volume dig into some of the intricacies presented by these problems. The papers here presented have been selected from those presented at the workshops bearing the very same name, “Causality and Motivation” organized in Bolzano and Rome.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 192 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 386838068X
• ISBN-13: 9783868380682
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,9 x 1,9 x 21,6 cm

Otto Muck (*1928) verbindet in seinem Denken analytische Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie mit bleibend gültigen Einsichten der aristotelisch-scholastischen und transzendentalphilosophischen Traditionen. Zentral ist dabei eine integrative Konzeption von Metaphysik: Metaphysik erstellt keine Zusatz- oder Alternativtheorien zu anderen Wissenschaften, sondern expliziert den fundamentalen kategorialen Rahmen, in dem speziellere wissenschaftliche Begrifflichkeiten und Theorieansätze konstituiert werden und ihre Problemlösungsfähigkeit entfalten. Die Essays in diesem Band widmen sich auch Mucks Wahrheitsauffassung, der Rolle von Retorsionsargumenten, seiner Konzeption von wissenschaftlichen und weltanschaulichen Erklärungen sowie theologischen Anwendungen seines Denkens.

Beiträge von E. Runggaldier, C. Kanzian, H. Weidemann, G. Siegwart, W. Löffler, H.-D. Mutschler und N. Wandinger.

• Broschiert: 151 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Deutsch
• ISBN-10: 3868380590
• ISBN-13: 9783868380590
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 14,9 x 1,5 x 21 cm

The aim of the book is to show that the Five Ways of Thomas Aquinas, i.e. his five arguments to prove the existence of God, are logically correct arguments by the standards of modern Predicate Logic. In the first chapter this is done by commenting on the two preliminary articles preceeding the Five Ways in which Thomas Aquinas points out that on the one hand the existence of God is not self-evident to us and on the other hand, that, similar as in some scientific explanations, the mere existence of a cause for an effect which is evidently known to us can be proved. In the second chapter every argument is translated into the symbolic form of Predicate Logic and its logical validity is shown. Additionally a detailed and critical discussion of the premises of each argument is given

• SC: 116 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380752
• ISBN-13: 9783868380750
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,2 x 1,3 x 21,6 cm

The articles in this volume discuss the relation between values and ontology, focusing on the significance of ontology for ethics and aesthetics, i.e., themes which due to the raising interest in ontology come to play a central role in contemporary philosophical debate. The contributors address the questions of whether and in which sense values can be considered to be real, whether it is possible to experience them, and in which sense we can speak about their objective validity. These topics – which were also discussed by early phenomenologists like Brentano, Meinong, Ehrenfels, proponents of Gestalt psychology like Köhler, by Husserl, and by French phenomenologists like Merleau-Ponty – are approached by both historical and systematic analysis.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 295 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380221
• ISBN-13: 9783868380224
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,2 x 2,5 x 21 cm

The question raised in this book is why Spinoza’s work which comes so close to the modern view of natural science is not prominent in the social sciences. The answer suggested is that this is due to the lingering influence of the Cartesian differentiation between the domain of science, dealing with material bodies in space and time, and the realm of thought to which the mind belongs. Spinoza’s rejection of this mind/body dualism was based on his conviction that the human mind was an essential part of the ‘forces’ which maintain human existence. Since this view fits so well the evolutionary view of life, the book suggests that after Darwin, when this dualism became untenable, it was replaced by a nature versus culture dichotomy. The book examines whether the history of the philosophy of science supports this explanation. The author believes that answering this question is important because of the rising influence of cultural relativism  which endangers the very survival of modern science and political stability.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 425 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380647
• ISBN-13: 9783868380644
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,2 x 2,5 x 21 cm

The present book brings together several case studies, dealing with relevant facets of the work of some of philosophy’s all-time greats. The subject-matter topic being addressed differs significantly, but in each case there is an attempt to apply mathematical methods and perspectives to the solution of a key philosophical issue in a way that throws instructive light upon it. On this basis it emerges that the question “Are mathematical methods useful in philosophy?” finds a suggestive response in the fact that over two millennia key figures in the history of the subject have indeed thought so. And they have substantiated this view not so much by abstract argumentation on the basis of general principles, but by making this point through actual practice.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 167 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380655
• ISBN-13: 9783868380651
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,2 x 1,3 x 21 cm

The essays collected in this volume are all concerned with the connection between fiction and truth. This question is of utmost importance to metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic and epistemology, raising in each of these areas and at their intersections a large number of issues related to creation, existence, reference, identity, modality, belief, assertion, imagination, pretense, etc. All these topics and many more are addressed in this collection, which brings together original essays written from various points of view by philosophers of diverse trends. These essays constitute major contributions to the current debates that the connection between truth and fiction continually enlivens, and give a sense of the directions in which research on this question is heading.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 308 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380922
• ISBN-13: 9783868380927
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,9 x 1,9 x 21,6 cm

If we read Ludwig Wittgenstein’s works and take his scientific formation in mathematical logic into account, it comes as a surprise that he ever developed a particular interest in anthropological questions. The following questions immediately arise: What role does anthropology play in Wittgenstein’s work? How do problems concerning mankind as a whole relate to his philosophy? How does his approach relate to philosophical anthropology? How does he view classical issues about Man’s affairs and actions? The aim of this book is to investigate the anthropological questions that Wittgenstein raised in his works. The answers to the questions raised in this introduction may be found on the intersection between forms of life and radical translation from another culture into ours. The book presents an extensive analysis of anthropological issues with emphasis on language and social elements.

• SC: 188 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380671
• ISBN-13: 9783868380675
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,2 x 1,9 x 21 cm

Fester Bestandteil unserer Alltagswelt sind Dinge. Was aber sind, genau genommen, Dinge? Wie heben sich Dinge ab von anderen konkreten Individuen? Sind Dinge eine ontologische Kategorie? Welche Unterscheidungen können wir innerhalb der Dinge anstellen und begründen?, etwa: Worin unterscheiden sich künstlich hergestellte Dinge (Artefakte) von Lebewesen? Kann man unter den Lebewesen nochmals eine besondere Gruppe festmachen, die traditionell Personen genannt werden? Was sind Personen? Derartigen Fragen geht diese Monographienach und versucht einen ontologischen Rahmen zu entwickeln, vor dessen Hintergrund die damit verbundenen Probleme einer Lösung zugeführt werden können. Der hier verfolgte Ansatz ist systematisch und problemorientiert, nicht exegetisch-historisch und nicht gegen andere ontologische Zugangsweisen gerichtet. Er bekennt sich zu methodischen Vorgaben einer „deskriptiven-“ oder Alltagsontologie.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 343 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae (4. November 2009)
• Sprache: Deutsch
• ISBN-10: 3868380574
• ISBN-13: 9783868380576
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 16,1 x 3 x 21,8 cm

Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) was one of the outstanding thinkers of the 20th century. In a memorial note, Hilary Putnam considers him to be "one of the two or three greatest analytic philosophers of the post-World War II period". Goodman has left his mark in many fields of philosophical investigation: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Logic, Metaphysics, the General Theory of Symbols, Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Art, all have been challenged and enriched by the problems he has shown up, the projects he developed from them and the solutions he has suggested. In August 2006 a couple of Goodman aficionados met in Munich to celebrate the Centennial. The proceedings of the ensuing international conference are documented in this volume. The contributions attest the fact that Goodman's thinking still holds many treasures.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 346 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380191
• ISBN-13: 9783868380194
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,9 x 3,2 x 21 cm

The primary goal of this volume is to describe the contemporary state of affairs in Western psychotherapy, and to do so in a Whiteheadian spirit: with genuine openness to the relative ways in which creativity, beauty, truth, and peace manifest themselves in various cultural traditions. This Whiteheadian Dialogue explores afresh an important cross-elucidatory path: what have we, and what can be learned from a dialogue with Eastern worldviews? In order to generate meaningful contrasts between these different systems of thought, all the papers address common core issues. On one hand, how does the given system understand the interaction of the individual, society, and nature (or cosmos)? On the other hand, what is the paradigm of all pathology and what is its typical or curative pattern?

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 243 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380396
• ISBN-13: 9783868380392
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,9 x 2,5 x 21 cm

States of affairs raise, among others, the following questions: What kind of entity are they (if there are any)? Are they contingent, causally efficacious, spatio-temporal and perceivable entities, or are they abstract objects? What are their constituents and their identity conditions? What are the functions that states of affairs are able to fulfil in a viable theory, and which problems and prima facie counterintuitive consequences arise out of an ontological commitment to them? Are there merely possible (non-actual, non-obtaining) states of affairs? Are there molecular (i.e., negative, conjunctive, disjunctive etc.) states of affairs? Are there modal and tensed states of affairs? In this volume, these and other questions are addressed by David M. Armstrong, Marian David, Herbert Hochberg, Uwe Meixner, L. Nathan Oaklander, Peter Simons, Erwin Tegtmeier and Mark Textor.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 219 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 386838040X
• ISBN-13: 9783868380408
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,9 x 2,5 x 21 cm

The book aims to provide a process-philosophical perspective philosophizing itself. It employs the perspectives of process philosophy for elucidating the historical development of philosophical ideas. The doctrine of historicism in the history of ideas has it that each era and perhaps even each thinker employs philosophical ideas in such a user-idiosyncratic way that there is no continuity and indeed no connectivity of public access across the divides of space, time, and culture. In opposition to such a view, the present processist deliberations see the development of ideas as a matter of generic processes that have ample room for connectivity and recurrence, permitting the very self-same conception to be shared by philosophers of different settings. Beyond arguing this histico-processism on general principles, the book presents a series of case studies of significant philosophical topics that illustrate and elaborate upon the developmental connectivities at issue.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 148 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380388
• ISBN-13: 9783868380385
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,2 x 1,9 x 21 cm

Concentrating mainly on the process philosophy developed by Alfred North Whitehead, this series of essays brings together some of the newest developments in the application of process thinking to the physical and social sciences. These essays, by established scholars in the field, demonstrate how a wider and deeper understanding of the world can be obtained using process philosophical concepts, how the distortions and blockages inevitably inherent in substantivist talk can be set aside, and how new and fertile lines of research in the sciences can be opened as a result.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 420 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380345
• ISBN-13: 9783868380347
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,9 x 3,8 x 21 cm

Nicholas Maxwell's provocative and highly-original philosophy of science urges a revolution in academic inquiry affecting all branches of learning, so that the single-minded pursuit of knowledge is replaced with the aim of helping people realize what is of value in life and make progress toward a more civilized world.  This volume of essays from an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars engages Maxwell in critical evaluation and celebrates his contribution to philosophy spanning forty years. Several of the contributors, like Maxwell, took their inspiration from Sir Karl Popper's philosophy of science and were connected to the department he created at the London School of Economics. In the introductory chapter, Maxwell provides an overview of his thought and then defends his views against objections in a concluding essay.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 324 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380280
• ISBN-13: 9783868380286
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,9 x 3,2 x 21,6 cm

During 2007-2008 Nicholas Rescher continued his longstanding practice of writing occasional studies on philosophical topics, both for formal presentation and for informal discussion with colleagues. While his forays of this kind have usually been issued in journal publications, this has not been so in the present case so that the studies offered here encompass substantially new material. Notwithstanding their thematic variation, these exemplify a problem-oriented method in the treatment of philosophical issues that is characteristic of Rescher's philosophical modus operandi and inherent in its endeavors to treat classical issues from novel points of view. For Rescher usually more concerned with what should be said about a philosophical question than with what X, Y, and Z have said about it, and he inclined to address issues of the latter sort primarily as a means for addressing the former.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 109 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380302
• ISBN-13: 9783868380309
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,2 x 1,9 x 21,6 cm

"I do not expect a good reception from professional philosophers" wrote Whitehead in 1929, immediately after the publication of Process and Reality. Indeed, it took nearly thirty years before scholars seriously started to try to decipher the book taken as a whole. And there remains today "professional" Whiteheadians who claim that this work can-or even should-be bracketed by anyone wishing to get a clear picture of Whitehead's true speculative agenda. Creativity and Its Discontents aims to provide evidence of the conditions for this state of affairs by gathering and contextualizing all the major reviews (translated where need be) of Process and Reality: its original 1929 edition, its various translations (some of them still ongoing) and its 1978 corrected edition. It is designed as the ideal tool to accompany the recently published Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 250 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380183
• ISBN-13: 9783868380187
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,2 x 2,5 x 21,6 cm

Nicholas Rescher has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in philosophy, writing on many different areas from logic to philosophy of language, epistemology, pragmatism, ethics and political philosophy, and metaphilosophy. Reason, Method, and Value: A Reader on the Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher offers a selection of Rescher's writings over a span of decades representing the core of his prodigious research interests in six key areas. Each section of the *Reader* is accompanied by a compact critical introduction written by a leading philosophical scholar with spezial expertise in Rescher's philosophy, and the volume opens with an appreciative introduction written by the editor and a concluding retrospective by Rescher, looking back over his oeuvre and explaining connecting themes and the unity of system contained in this extensive body of work. Taken together, the volume encapsulates the heart of Rescher's impressive lifelong contributions to philosophy between two covers, in a single volume that provides a solid overview of his thought while serving to direct readers to the corpus of Rescher's writings for amore complete picture.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 643 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380213
• ISBN-13: 9783868380217
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,2 x 5,1 x 21,6 cm

This book opens up a new area of research by not only considering the rationality of such diverse phenomena as ordinary emotions, generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia, psychotic depression, major depressive disorder, and bipolar disorder, but also by evaluating the question whether the vagueness of these diverse disorders and emotions poses an obstacle to the rationality of these phenomena. As these emotional phenomena turn out to be vague on many different levels, an explanation is found for the millennia long dispute of which kind of phenomena fall under the emotions and whether such diverse phenomena as hope and alexithymia fall under the emotions. Since vagueness can be most easily identified in mixed feelings, the rationality of mixed feelings will also be dealt with.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 273 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380310
• ISBN-13: 9783868380316
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,2 x 2,5 x 21,6 cm

Der VIII. Internationale Kongress der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Philosophie war dem Thema "Gehirne und Personen" gewidmet. Einen weiteren Schwerpunkt bildete die Österreichische Philosophie. Darüber hinaus war der Kongress auch für Beiträge aus allen anderen Bereichen der Philosophie offen. Die Beiträge zur Österreichischen Philosophie sowie zu den übrigen Sektionen finden sich in diesem Band. Insbesondere die Beiträge zur Metaphysik, zur Philosophie des Geistes und zur Erkenntnistheorie, aber auch einige Beiträge zur Phänomenologie-Sektion komplementieren den Band, in dem die Arbeiten über das Hauptthema abgedruckt sind.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 513 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Deutsch
• ISBN-10: 3868380159
• ISBN-13: 9783868380156

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 286 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380612
• ISBN-13: 9783868380613
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,2 x 1,9 x 21 cm

Farben sind für uns sowohl objektive, als auch phänomenale Eigenschaften. In seinem Buch argumentiert Fabian Dorsch, daß keine ontologische Theorie der Farben diesen beiden Seiten unseres Farbbegriffes gerecht werden kann. Stattdessen sollten wir akzeptieren, daß letzterer sich auf zwei verschiedene Arten von Eigenschaften bezieht: die repräsentierten Reflektanzeigenschaften von Gegenständen und die qualitativen Eigenschaften unserer Farbwahrnehmungen, die als sinnliche Gegebenheitsweisen ersterer fungieren. Die Natur der Farben gibt einen detaillierten Überblick über die zeitgenössischen philosophischen und naturwissenschaftlichen Theorien der Farben und bietet sich aufgrund seines systematischen und umfassenden Charakters auch als ein seminar- oder vorlesungsbegleitendes Textbuch an.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 493 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Deutsch
• ISBN-10: 3868380507
• ISBN-13: 9783868380507
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,9 x 3,7 x 21,8 cm

Few philosophical issues have had as long and elaborate a history as the problem of free will, which has been contested at every stage of the history of the subject. The present work practices an extensive bibliography of this elaborate literature, listing some five thousand items ranging from classical antiquity to the present.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 309 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380582
• ISBN-13: 9783868380583
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,2 x 1,9 x 21 cm

Philosophers often have tried to either reduce "disagreeable" objects or concepts to (more) acceptable objects or concepts. Reduction is regarded attractive by those who subscribe to an ideal of ontological parsimony. But the topic is not just restricted to traditional metaphysics or ontology. In the philosophy of mathematics, abstraction principles, such as Hume's principle, have been suggested to support a reconstruction of mathematics by logical means only. In the philosophy of language and the philosophy of science, the logical analysis of language has long been regarded to be the dominating paradigm, and liberalized projects of logical reconstruction remain to be driving forces of modern philosophy. This volume collects contributions comprising all those topics, including articles by Alexander Bird, Jaakko Hintikka, James Ladyman, Rohit Parikh, Gerhard Schurz, Peter Simons, Crispin Wright and Edward N. Zalta.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 414 Seiten
• Verlag: ontos
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380477
• ISBN-13: 9783868380477
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,9 x 3,2 x 21 cm

This book models and simulates metaphysics by presenting the metaphysics of a model. The small size of the model makes it possible to treat metaphysical matters with a more than usual systematicity and comprehensiveness. In the mirror of sustained analogy, simulation-metaphysics offers a wealth of insights on the real thing: on the doctrines, the methods, and the epistemology of metaphysics.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 274 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380604
• ISBN-13: 9783868380606
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,2 x 1,9 x 21 cm

The two eminent metaphysicians Armstrong and Grossmann exchanged letters for ten years in which they discussed crucial points of their respective ontologies. They have a common basis. Both do metaphysics proper and not linguistic philosophy. Both advocate universals and acknowledge the key position of the category of states of affairs. However, they differ on the simplicity of universals and the nature of states of affairs. There is also a fundamental methodological disagreement between them. Armstrong accepts only the evidence of natural science and has a materialist view on mind while Grossmann is a dualist and grants also the same evidential status to the phenomenological data of perception and introspection. The letters are grouped into three phases. The first is the issue of universals, the second the ontological analysis of laws of nature and the third the ontology of numbers. The book contains also longer comments and reviews, partly not published until now.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 139 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380515
• ISBN-13: 9783868380514
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,2 x 1,9 x 21 cm

The investigation of the mind has been one of the major concerns of our philosophical tradition and it still is a dominant subject in modern philosophy as well as in science. Many philosophers in the scientific tradition want to solve the "puzzles of the mind". But many philosophers in the very same tradition do regard these puzzles as puzzles of the brain. So, whilst the former think of the mental as something of its own kind, the latter deny that philosophy of mind has to do with anything else but the brain. And then there are those who think that reduction is the way to go: maybe the mental is brain-dependent and hence reducible to the physical, in some way. This volume collects contributions comprising all those points of view, including articles by William Bechtel, Jerry Fodor, Jaegwon Kim, Joëlle Proust and Patrick Suppes.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 216 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380469
• ISBN-13: 9783868380460
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,2 x 1,9 x 21 cm

The present book continues Rescher's longstanding practice of publishing occasional studies written for formal presentation and informal discussion with colleagues. They form part of a wider program of investigation of the scope and limits of rational inquiry in the pursuit of knowledge.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 112 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380485
• ISBN-13: 9783868380484
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,2 x 1,9 x 21 cm

Dieser Band ist eine Sammlung von Vorträgen, die auf einer Tagung mit dem Titel "Aktuelle Probleme der Philosophie der Wahrnehmung" gehalten wurden, die im Sommer 2007 an der Universität Siegen stattfand. Der Band verfolgt das Ziel, den Reichtum und die Lebendigkeit von wichtigen gegenwärtigen Debatten in der Philosophie der Wahrnehmung zu dokumentieren. Die Philosophie der Wahrnehmung spielt in verschiedenen philosophischen Kerndisziplinen - in der Metaphysik, in der Erkenntnistheorie, in der Philosophie des Geistes - eine ganz wesentliche Rolle. Die in diesem Band versammelten Aufsätze beschäftigen sich mit zentralen Aspekten grundlegender philosophischer Fragestellungen dieser Kerndisziplinen.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 252 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• ISBN-10: 3868380426
• ISBN-13: 9783868380422
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,6 x 2,5 x 22 cm

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 267 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• ISBN-10: 3868380434
• ISBN-13: 9783868380439
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21 x 2,3 x 15 cm

A. H. Louie's More Than Life Itself is an exploratory journey in relational biology, a study of life in terms of the organization of entailment relations in living systems. This book represents a synergy of the mathematical theories of categories, lattices, and modelling, and the result is a synthetic biology that provides a characterization of life. Biology extends physics. Life is not a specialization of mechanism, but an expansive generalization of it. Organisms and machines share some common features, but organisms are not machines. Life is defined by a relational closure that places it beyond the reach of physicochemical and mechanistic dogma, outside the reductionistic universe, and into the realm of impredicativity. Function dictates structure. Complexity brings forth living beings.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 388 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380442
• ISBN-13: 9783868380446
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,9 x 3,2 x 21 cm

In Hans-Peter Kleihs "Erkenntnisse - III. Buch" erfahren wir, mit welchen Gedanken über sein Sein oder Nichtsein und das des Menschen, über Verantwortung und Freiheit, über sein Wissen und Nichtwissen der Autor sich trägt und welche Erkenntnisse er dabei gewonnen hat. Und welche Rolle spielen die Religionen in dem universalen Kampf zwischen dem Sichtbaren und dem Unsichtbaren und warum tun wir, was wir tun. Der Autor geht auf seinem individuellen Weg Schritt für Schritt und unter großer Anstrengung den Fragen auf den Grund, die sich ihm in diesen Zusammenhängen stellen.

• Broschiert: 85 Seiten
• Verlag: Cornelia Goethe Literaturverlag
• ISBN-10: 3865483836
• ISBN-13: 9783865483836
• Verpackungsabmessungen: 20,4 x 14,6 x 0,6 cm

This first of two volumes brings together invited papers of the 32nd International Wittgenstein Symposium (Kirchberg/W. (Austria), 2009). The relation between language and the world was undoubtedly one if not the central issue in Wittgenstein’s whole philosophical oeuvre. His one hundred and twentieth birthday provided an occasion for foregrounding this aspect of his work. A special workshop was dedicated to new aspects of Wittgenstein’s Nachlass. In this volume Frank Cioffi, Peter Hacker, Ian Hacking, Roy Harris, Lars Hertzberg, Jaakko Hintikka, Marie McGinn, Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, Hans Sluga among others provide substantial contributions on various aspects of Wittgenstein’s writings such as the philosophy of mathematics, the problem of rule following or the relation between meaning and use.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 399 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380795
• ISBN-13: 9783868380798
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 16,5 x 2,5 x 22,2 cm

Philosophizing is an activity—a process carries on by mind-endeavored creatures. But philosophy itself—the product of philosophy—is an abstraction which, as such, exists in its own way. Like chemistry or poetry, the things it deals with may be ever so real, but it itself exists in the realm of textuality. However the nature of philosophy’s textual domain is seldom studied as such. The present discussion will take one very small step towards filling this gap.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 93 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380787
• ISBN-13: 9783868380781
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,9 x 1,3 x 22,2 cm

The work of L. Wittgenstein addresses a huge variety of topics. The spectrum ranges from mathematics to the analysis of ethical problems. These issues have generated many important philosophical discussions and the aim of this book is to examine a the broad range of philosophical problems. Michael Le Du investigates the relevance of the problems and solutions proposed by Wittgenstein in his philosophy of social sciences. Sabine Plaud explores the synoptic views vs. the primal phenomena in Wittgenstein on Goethe’s Morphology. Eric Lemaire makes several critical remarks on Wittgenstein’s anti-metaphyscial readings. Ay?egül Çakal asks what the repudiation of private language means in Wittgenstein’s Philosophy. Alejandro Tomasini Bassols looks into Wittgenstein and the myth of hinge propositions. Lars Hertzberg discusses P.M.S. Hacker’s point of view about Wittgenstein’s meaning of “concept”. Jesús Padilla Gálvez analyzes Wittgenstein’s criticism against Gödel’s project of metalogic.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 150 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380833
• ISBN-13: 9783868380835
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 16,5 x 1,3 x 22,2 cm

This second of two volumes brings together invited papers of the 32nd International Wittgenstein Symposium (Kirchberg/W. (Austria), 2009). The collection not only contains articles related to some of Wittgenstein’s central arguments but also holds contributions that deal with the role and function of signs, as well as with the relations between language and action, consciousness and metaphysics. An interdisciplinary workshop was dedicated to “Wittgenstein and Literature”, an area of study which has been prominent in the philosophical discourse of the last decade.

Contributors to this volume are Anat Biletzki, Michael Dummett, Laurence Goldstein, Peter Janich, Brian McGuinness, Marjorie Perloff, David Schalkwyk, Joachim Schulte, Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer, David Stern, Eike von Savigny among others.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 336 Seiten
• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380809
• ISBN-13: 9783868380804
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 16,5 x 2,5 x 22,2 cm

Der Gang durch die Natur als Heilmittel gegen die Unbilden der Zivilisation: Für den berühmten Autor von 'Walden' sind solche Streifzüge Akte der Reinigung von Körper und Geist. 'On Walking' ist ein ebenso lebenskluger wie stilistisch brillanter Essay.

ISBN/EAN: 9783730602973

Seitenzahl: 80
Format: 187 x 122 mm
Produktform: HC geb.

Hier wird eine neue Bruno-Interpretation vorgelegt, in der dieser als Vorläufer der großen Relativitätstheorie in der Wende zu unserem Jahrhundert sich zeigt, was auf Albert Einstein vorgreift.

96 Seiten, 17 x 24 cm
engl. Broschur
8 Abb.
ISBN 3-901190-22-8

Ein Stundenbuch über den Tod und das Leben, über Lust und Schmerz, Sterben und Trauer, über Werden und Sein, Vergehen und Auferstehen, über den Umgang mit Leid und seine Überwindung und über den Weg zur ewigen Quelle der Liebe in uns. Ausgewählte Gedanken und Gedichte, Märchen und Mythen aus Kultur und Wissenschaft, aus Gesellschaft und Religion zum Thema Sterben, Tod und was danach kommt - in einen feinen Teppich von Lebensfragen und möglichen Antworten, universellen menschlichen Überlegungen und praktischen Übungen verwoben.

Gebunden Ausgabe mit 109 Seiten
Format: 13 x 21 cm

Es geht hier um Glauben. Was ist Glauben, eigentlich? Es geht dabei nicht um ein vages Wissen. Glauben ist etwas ganz anderes.
Dafür werden Beispiele gegeben.
Etwa der Shintoismus, der "Weg der Götter", wo hochgradige Techniker in Japan glauben, dass ihr Kaiser von der Sonnengöttin abstammt. Sie untersuchen diesen Mythos jedoch nicht mit Wissen, denn Wissen hat hier nichts zu suchen. 
Dann geht es um den Unterschied zwischen transzendenten und immanenten Religionen. Fruchtbarkeitsreligionen sind immanent. Abstrakte Buchreligionen, wie das Judentum sind transzendent und vor allem der Islam ist absolut und transzendent, dem hier ein weiter Raum gewidmet ist. 
Es wird erzählt wie in Nairobi am Bett eines sterbenden Kindes der Medizinmann, der Hexer und der Pfarrer einträchtig sitzen.
Das Buch ist zwar essayistisch geschrieben, bezeichnet seinen Inhalt, wegen der prägnanten Kürze, jedoch als "Notizen".


Edgar Sommer hat vor seinem Sprachstudium Kunst studiert: Malerei bei Oskar Holweck und Fotografie bei Otto Steinert.

This book is focused on a problem that has aroused the most controversy in recent epistemological debate, which is whether the truth can or cannot be the fundamental epistemic goal. Traditional epistemology has presupposed the centrality of truth without giving a deeper analysis. To epistemic value pluralists, the claim that truth is the fundamental value seems unjustified. Their central judgement is that we can be in a situation where we do not attain truth but something else that is also epistemically valuable. In contrast, epistemic value monists are committed to the view that one can only attain something of epistemic value by attaining truth. It was necessary to rethink the long-accepted platitude that truth is our primary epistemic goal, once several objections about epistemic value were formulated. The whole debate is instructive for understanding how the epistemic value domain is structured.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 165 Seiten
• Verlag: Ontos Verlag
  
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3868380620
• ISBN-13: 9783868380620
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 1,3 x 15,2 x 21 cm

Was ist soziale Freiheit? Wo endet die Freiheit des Einzelnen? Und wann darf der Staat das Freiheitsrecht des Individuums beschränken? In seinem brillanten Essay »Über die Freiheit« setzt sich der englische Philosoph und Ökonom John Stuart Mill (18061873) mit diesen und ähnlichen Fragen kritisch auseinander. Seine ungebrochen aktuelle These: Die Freiheit des Einzelnen endet dort, wo sie der Freiheit der anderen und damit dem Wohl der Allgemeinheit entgegensteht. Mills streitbare Schrift ist bis heute ein Schlüsseltext des politisch-philosophischen Liberalismus.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 191 Seiten
• Verlag: Anaconda
• ISBN-10: 3866474121
• ISBN-13: 9783866474123
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 13,3 x 2,3 x 19,6 cm

Was wissen wir am Beginn des dritten Jahrtausends vom Menschen, von seinem Verhältnis zu sich selbst und seiner Umwelt eigentlich zu sagen? Wie hat sich aus anthropologischer Sicht das Bild vom Menschen, das Bild von der Welt verändert? In diesem interdisziplinären Kompendium geht der Erziehungswissenschaftler Christoph Wulf gemeinsam mit einer Vielzahl renommierter Autoren verschiedener Fachrichtungen diesen drängenden Fragen nach. Mit Beiträgen u. a. von Silvia Bovenschen, Norbert Bolz, Jochen Hörisch, Friedrich Kittler, Gert Mattenklott und Jürgen Trabant.

• Gebundene Ausgabe: 1160 Seiten
• Verlag: Anaconda
• ISBN-10: 3866475241
• ISBN-13: 9783866475243
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 24,6 x 17,4 x 6,2 cm

Bevor wir wissenschaftlich zu denken beginnen, müssen wir uns Klarheit darüber verschaffen, wie Bewusstsein überhaupt zu Stande kommt. Damit beschäftigt sich die postmoderne Philosophie mehr und mehr. Dieses Buch versucht zur Grundlagendiskussion beizutragen.

Verlag: Informationslücke-Verlag
Einband: Paperback
Seiten: 163

Thomas Binder (Herausgeber), Arkadiusz Chrudzimski (Herausgeber)

Der vorliegende zweite Band der „Veröffentlichten Schriften“ enthält die zwei Schriften Brentanos „Über ein optisches Paradox“, sowie „Zur Lehre von den optischen Täuschungen“, „Zur Lehre von der Empfindung“, „Von der psychologischen Analyse der Tonqualitäten in ihre eigentlich ersten Elemente“, und die „Untersuchungen zur Sinnespsychologie“. Eine Einleitung von Wilhelm Baumgartner eröffnet den Zugang zu den vorliegenden Schriften.

ISBN: 978-3-86838-054-5
224 pp
Hardcover

Collected Papers of Nicholas Rescher

His Philosophy under Discussion (Munster Lectures on Philosophy)

Without doubt Richard Rorty is one of the most honored, famous and disputed philosophers of our days. All over the world interest in his inspiring and provoking thoughts goes beyond the circles of academic philosophy. The present volume includes "The Brain as Hardware, Culture as Software" and "Philosophy-Envy" of Richard Rorty, papers presented by students of the philosophy department at university of Münster and Rorty's responses to and comments on them. Rorty's lecture has been publicly presented at the 8. Münstersche Vorlesungen zur Philosophie on may 26th 2004. The students presented their intensively prepared papers on the following day. The volume gives an overview of the main topics of his philosophy as well as a detailed analysis of central concepts. "The papers are of very high quality indeed, and the level of discussion during the day I spent with the students was equally high. I have never, in any university, encountered students who combined such detailed knowledge of my writings with such penetrating criticisms of my views." (Richard Rorty)

Beiträge zum VII. Internationalen Kongress der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Philosophie

Der VII. Internationale Kongress der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Philosophie war dem Thema "Gerechtigkeit: Auf der Suche nach einem Gleichgewicht" gewidmet, war aber darüber hinaus für Beiträge aus allen anderen Bereichen der Philosophie offen. Die Sektionsbeiträge dieses Kongresses finden sich in diesem Band. Das Buch weist einen deutlichen Schwerpunkt in "Gerechtigkeit" auf, ein Thema, das aus der Sicht verschiedener philosophischer Disziplinen beleuchtet wird. Daneben wird aber die Breite philosophischer Themen und die Vielfalt philosophischer Zugänge deutlich. So gesehen ist dieser Band eine Bestandsaufnahme von Philosophie im deutschsprachigen Raum Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts. Fragen und Probleme der Philosophie werden ebenso deutlich wie die Landschaft philosophischer Teilbereiche.

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Metaphysics and Logic

Philosophy has been called the science of the possible by philosophers as diverse as Christian Wolff and Bertrand Russell. The modal concepts of possibility and necessity, however, have proved to be ambiguous and recalcitrant to analysis, and their relation to the concept of reality have remained problematic up to the present day. Transcending the worn-out dichotomy between analytic and continental philosophy, this collection of papers takes a fresh look at the metaphysics and logic of possibility and reality, and illuminates them from a great variety of perspectives. Topics include the history of philosophy (from Greek antiquity to David Lewis) as well as the semantics of possible worlds; logic, mathematics and computer science as well as literature and the new media; forms of scientific as well as fictional discourse.

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Over the past forty years, Nicholas Rescher has carried on a series of investigations on epistemology which have issued in some dozen books ranging from "Hypothetical Reasoning" (1964) to "Epistemetrics" (2006) - as well as various articles on particular issues and problems. Ten of these are gathered together in the present volume, and combine to provide a panoramic overview of the methods and results of his work in the field.

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Philosophical Analysis

Universality is not sufficient to distinguish laws of nature from accidental regularities. A multitude of additional defining features have been suggested. Yet, once it is acknowledged that exceptionless universality is not the only criterion for lawhood it is possible to start questioning whether it is necessary. Markus Schrenk's The Metaphysics of Ceteris Paribus Laws takes this bold step and it's provocative conclusion is that existing theories - especially David Lewis's and David Armstrong's - are, in fact, strong enough to guarantee lawhood even if there are instances that do not conform to the laws. Schrenk also advances two novel theories for special science ceteris paribus laws. His unorthodox exploration has the potential to stimulate a new debate about laws, lawhood and exceptions. This work has received the Award for Furthering Research in Ontology of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy

A Theory of Knowledge (Phenomenology & Mind)

The study aims at exposing Meinong's ideas that may be of interest to analytic philosophers. It contains all the basic information concerning Meinong's theory of objects with a special focus upon 'objectives', which are Meinong's propositions. Meinong's theory of meaning and his epistemological views are discussed in detail. An outline of his conception of truth, which is classified as firmly realistic, is followed by a review of the critical works touching upon Meinong's epistemological ideas. Finally, Meinong's theory of objects is presented as inspiring the development of Meinongian logics, with his Aussersein as the prototype of an all-inclusive semantic domain. The issues considered include reference of terms and sentences as well as the general features of a Meinongian-style semantics.

Toward a Phenomenological Explanation (Phenomenology & Mind)

The book sets out to analyze the notion of a priori justification and of a priori knowledge. The most influential explanations of the a priori within the contemporary analytic tradition are analyzed. It is shown that the theories which group around the notion of implicit definition ultimately entail that the propositions which can be known a priori are to be analyzed along conventionalist lines. It is argued that the notion of objective a priori knowledge requires a commitment to the existence of a faculty which is the source of and justifies that kind of knowledge. The existence and functioning of this faculty cannot be explained within a strictly naturalistic set of constraints. Attention to the phenomenology of justification (validation) both of observational and purportedly a priori statements however reveals that the naturalistic demands are based on an asymmetry thesis among perception (and credited genuine sources of justification) and rational insight which is false. Therefore it is argued that a corresponding symmetry thesis must be accepted, according to which rational insight should be regarded as a justification-conferring faculty. In the final part of the book it is argued that Husserl’s conception of the analytic/synthetic distinction, and of concept constitution, allow for an objective interpretation both of analytic and synthetic a priori knowledge.

ntroduction

1. A Priori, Analyticity, and Implicit Definition

Empiricism, Analyticity, and the A Priori
Reductive and Non-Reductive Conceptions of Analyticity
Implicit Definition, Logical Truth, and the Recalcitrant A Priori
Problems with Implicit Definition
BonJour’s Objection
Fodor and Lepore’s Objection
Horwich’s Objection
Hale and Wright’s defence of the traditional connection
Logic and Convention
Coda

2. Realism about Logic

Introduction
Logical Principles, Justification and Epistemic Relativity
Objective Truth
Resnik’s Attack
Wittgenstein on the necessity of ‘1 inch = 2.54 cm’
and logical inference
Dummett’s Objection
Rule Following considerations and the adoption of a convention
Summarising Remarks
Wright’s Attack

3. Objective Knowledge

Introduction
What the Tortoise Said to Boghossian
What Boghossian would say to the Tortoise
Rule-circular Arguments
The Side-Argument
Rejecting the Side-Argument
First Horn: Simple Internalism and Rational Insight
Second Horn: Epistemic Responsibility and the Lack
of Epistemic Irresponsibility
Realism, the A priori and Rational Insight
Boghossian’s Argument against Relativism
Epistemological Realism about Justification
Conclusion

4. Phenomenology and Rational Insight

Naturalism and Justification
Phenomenology, Justification, and Eidetic Seeing
Is Holism a Possibility for the Empiricist?
Intuition of Essences and the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction
Husserl’s Conception of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction
Eidetic Variation
Passive synthesis and Concept Constitution
Knowledge of Reality and Conceptual Truth
Absolute vs Relative Objectivity
Are Conceptual Truths True?

Conclusion

References

There is no question: We are all persons. But what exactly are persons? Are we immaterial souls or Cartesian Egos which only contingently have bodies? Or are persons nothing over and above their bodies? Are they essentially or most fundamentally animals, evolved beings of a certain sort? Or are we something other or more than animals, namely constituted beings with a certain capacity that distinguishes persons from everything else? What is necessary, and what is sufficient, for an entity to be classified or (re-)identified as a person? What's the value of an analysis of such (biological or psychological) conditions? What does it contribute to our understanding of ourselves as free agents or as beings wanting to live their individual live? The essays collected in this anthology try to answer these questions. They are primarily concerned with the metaphysics of persons and the criteria of personal identity, but also touch on problems of the theory of action and of practical philosophy.

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In dieser Arbeit wird die Frage nach der Handlungsfähigkeit künstlicher Systeme im Schnittfeld von Philosophie und KI behandelt. Eine positive Antwort auf Seiten der Philosophie hat deren anthropozentrischer Handlungsbegriff verhindert. Daher wird unterhalb des philosophischen Handlungsbegriffes der Begriff einer Quasi-Handlung entwickelt, welcher die Möglichkeit bietet, zwischen verschiedenen Kategorien des Verhaltens künstlicher Systeme zu unterscheiden. Als wesentliches Kriterium werden hierzu Unterschiede in der Flexibilität des Informationensverarbeitungsprozesses zur Differenzierung verschiedener Verhaltensklassen vorgeschlagen. Dies führt auch zu einer Auseinandersetzung mit dem Begriff der Kognition und den verschiedenen Arten des Lernens.

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Church's Thesis (CT) was first published by Alonzo Church in 1935. CT is a proposition that identifies two notions: an intuitive notion of a effectively computable function defined in natural numbers with the notion of a recursive function. Despite of the many efforts of prominent scientists, Church's Thesis has never been falsified. There exists a vast literature concerning the thesis. The aim of the book is to provide one volume summary of the state of research on Church's Thesis. These include the following: different formulations of CT, CT and intuitionism, CT and intensional mathematics, CT and physics, the epistemic status of CT, CT and philosophy of mind, provability of CT and CT and functional programming.

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Since the late 1960's Professor Rescher has carried on a series of investigations in value theory in an endeavor to clarify the nature of values and the ways in which they impact on human affairs. This book collects together some dozen of these studies in a way that showcases the author's characteristic perspective on this important range of basic philosophy issues. It bring clearly to view the author's characteristic combinations of analytical accuracies within a broad luminative outlook.

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While philosophers from Plato to Kant and beyond have discussed the mission and methodology of philosophy, this area of deliberation has only recently been acknowledged as a distinctive branch of philosophy as such, duly entitled metaphilosophy. There are, as yet, very few books on the subject so that the present volume joins a rather select group. Professor Rescher has published in the field for some thirty years and this book gathers together a representative sampling of his contributions. Taken together these pieces convey an instructive overview of the field, as well as vividly conveying their author's take on the key issues that constitute its problem domain.

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The place of humans in nature's scheme of things and the conditions and circumstances of our existence have been at the forefront of philosophical deliberation since the very dawn of the subject. Over the past three decades, Rescher from time to time ventured into discussions of some of the key themes that crop up in this domain. A representative sampling of such papers are assembled in the present volume. He trusts that this collection will give some indication of the tenor of thought that characterises Rescher's approach to these philosophically crucial concerns.

Einführungen mit interaktiven Übungen

Das Buch vermittelt die Grundlagen der Aussagen- und erweiterten Prädikatenlogik in 12 Lektionen. Neben Techniken zum Überprüfen der Schlüssigkeit von Argumenten bilden die Kunst des Formalisierens wissenschaftlicher Argumente und metalogische Fragen den Inhalt des Buches. Das Buch eignet sich in Verbindung mit begleitenden interaktiven Übungseinheiten und Klausuren, die über Internet zugänglich sind, sowohl zum Selbststudium als auch für Einführungskurse in die Logik. Die zweite überarbeitete Auflage erscheint in einem größeren und besser lesbaren Format.

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Essays in Honor of Jason W. Brown (Process Thought)

This volume celebrates the life achievements of Jason W. Brown, who, along with Jean Piaget, Heinz Werner, Alexander Luria and the Würzburg school, has significantly contributed to the development of a process-based theory of brain/mind capable of challenging the currently fashionable modularist or cybernetic approaches to understanding human thought and feeling. As a paradigm, Brown's microgenetic theory is thus applicable in both brain science (where Brown was inspired by the pioneering work of Schilder and Pick) and the philosophy of mind (where the influence of Bergson, Whitehead, Cassirer, and Merleau-Ponty can be seen). Essays with a range of focus as wide as Brown's expertise have been collected in such diverse areas as neuropsychology (microstructure of action, symptomatology, neuro-rehabilitation, neurolinguistics, locationism), theoretical psychology (consciousness, hypnosis, morphogenesis, personality development, psychoanalysis, Buddhist psychology, mysticism), and philosophy of mind (evolutionary epistemology, emergence/novelty/creativity, subjectivity, will and action, Whiteheadian process philosophy).

Michel Weber obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Université de Louvain (Belgium). He is the director of the Centre for philosophical practice "Chromatiques whiteheadiennes" (Brussels). In 2008-2009, he is visiting Professor at the New Bulgarian University (Sofia), Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology & Department of Philosophy and Sociology. He has published four monographs: La dialectique de l'intuition chez A. N. Whitehead (2005), Whitehead's Pancreativism (2006), L'épreuve de la philosophie (2008) and Eduquer (à) l'anarchie (2008). Maria Pachalska - Full Professor of Neuropsychology, Gdansk University; Clinical Consultant, Center for Cognition and Communication, New York. Author of numerous international publications. A leading advocate of microgenetic theory in neuropsychology. Editor-in-Chief of Acta Neuropsychologica, member of the Editorial Board of Aphasiology and Medical Science Monitor (both listed in Current Contents).

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Set Theory, Measuring Theories, and Nominalism (Logos.Studies in Logic, Philosophy of Language)

Russel and Wittgenstein's Tractatus (Logos: Studies zur Logik, Sprachphilosophie und Metaphysik

Collected Essays in Ontology (Philosophical Analysys)

A Classical Approach to Inquiry

Proceedings of the 29th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg

What can systematic philosophy contribute to come from conflict between cultures to a substantial dialogue? - This question was the general theme of the 29th international symposium of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society in Kirchberg. Worldwide leading philosophers accepted the invitation to come to the conference, whose results are published in this volume, edited by Christian Kanzian Edmund Runggaldier. The sections are dedicated to the philosophy of Wittgenstein, Logics and Philosophy of Language, Decision- and Action Theory, Ethical Aspects of the Intercultural Dialogue, Intercultural Dialogue, and last not least to Social Ontology. Our edition include (among others) contributions authored by Peter Hacker, Jennifer Hornsby, John Hyman, Michael Kober, Richard Rorty, Hans Rott, Gerhard Schurz, Barry Smith, Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer, Franz Wimmer, and Kwasi Wiredu.

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The aim of this volume is to investigate the topic of Substance and Attribute. The way leading to this aim is a dialogue between Islamic and Western Philosophy. Our project is motivated by the observation that the historical roots of Islamic and of Western Philosophy are very similar. Thus some of the articles in this volume are dedicated to the history of philosophy, in Islamic thinking as well as in Western traditions. But the dialogue between Islamic and Western Philosophy is not only an historical issue, it also has systematic relevance for actual philosophical questions. The topic Substance and Attribute particularly has an important history in both traditions; and it has systematic relevance for the actual ontological debate. The volume includes contributions (among others) by Hans Burkhardt, Hans Kraml, Muhammad Legenhausen, Michal Loux, Pedro Schmechtig, Muhammad Shomali, Erwin Tegtmeier, and

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Naturalism is the reigning creed in analytic philosophy. Naturalists claim that natural science provides a complete account of all forms of existence. According to the naturalistic credo there are no aspects of human existence which transcend methods and explanations of science. Our concepts of the self, the mind, subjectivity, human freedom or responsibility is to be defined in terms of established sciences. The aim of the present volume is to draw the balance of naturalism’s success so far. Unlike other volumes it does not contain a collection of papers which unanimously reject naturalism. Naturalists and anti-naturalists alike unfold their positions discussing the success or failure of naturalistic approaches. "How successful is naturalism? shows where the lines of agreement and disagreement between naturalists and their critics are to be located in contemporary philosophical discussion. With contributions of Rudder Lynne Baker, Johannes Brandl, Helmut Fink, Ulrich Frey, Georg Gasser & Matthias Stefan, Peter S.M. Hacker, Winfried Löffler, Nancey Murphy, Josef Quitterer, Michael Rea, Thomas Sukopp, Konrad Talmont-Kaminski and Gerd Vollmer.

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What is desert? The aim of this book is to give an analysis of this notion. Starting from Feinberg's seminal paper, the argument goes on to Chisholm, 18th-century British Rationalism, and Kant, who developed the concept of propriety that is the foundation of the concept of desert and the key to understanding it. Beyond the analysis, the concept of desert is applied to two problems of moral philosophy, punishment and moral residue, that can be solved only by means of this notion. Desert is an indispensable moral concept we do well to understand clearly and to incorporate into our moral practice.

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Timothy Sprigge has been a major player on the philosophical scene contributing to discussions as diverse as consciousness, the ontology of time, personal identity, animal rights, punishment, censorship and wider issues in metaphysics, ethics and the history of philosophy. He is, however, less well known for his own highly original system of metaphysics and ethics'a synthesis of Absolute Idealism, panpsychism and utilitarianism. The contributions gathered in this volume, written by philosophers of international reputation or by acknowledged scholars in their specialized fields of inquiry, engage themes in his metaphysics and ethics and provide a critical assessment of his ideas and arguments. In a concluding essay, Sprigge answers the most significant objections raised by his critics: the final result is an engaging dialogue on the perennial and most fundamental questions of philosophy.

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Les 31 mai, 1er et 2 juin 2006, la Faculté de Théologie de l'Université catholique de Louvain a organisé, en collaboration avec le Centre de philosophie pratique Chromatiques whiteheadiennes, un colloque international consacré à la pensée d'Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947). Les échanges ont privilégié les aspects les plus actuels d'une pensée apte à rencontrer les défis contemporains. Rejoindre l'actualité de Whitehead tant en science et en philosophie qu'en théologie suppose de pratiquer une interdisciplinarité qui est au coeur de ses intuitions. Le dialogue entre scientifiques, philosophes et théologiens a permis d'apporter des précisions importantes sur la manière whiteheadienne d'appréhender les sphères en interaction de la religion, de la science et de la politique.

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Representational systems such as language, mind or brain exhibit a structure that is widely assumed to be compositional, i.e. the semantic value of complex representations is determined by the semantic values of their parts. Dating back to the late 19th century, the principle of compositionality has regained wide attention recently. Since the way the principle has been dealt with differs largely across the disciplines, the aim of the two volumes is to conjoin the diverging approaches. They assemble a collection of original papers that cover the topic of compositionality from virtually all perspectives of interest in the contemporary debate. The well-chosen international list of authors includes psychologist, neuroscientist, computer scientist, linguists and philosophers.

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Reinhardt Grossmann argues that a realistic ontology in regard to perceptual, physical, and mathematical objects can be combined with an empiricistic theory of knowledge. In the first part of the book he shows that the traditional distinction between primary and secondary qualities leads to idealism, while the common Cartesian conception of knowledge by way of ideas leads to scepticism. In order to avoid these twin scourges of modern philosophy, the authors argues for the existence of ordinary perceptual objects and explains how we know these objects directly through simple acts of perception. The second part of the book is concerned with the way in which we know what is in our minds. Grossmann maintains that this kind of knowledge is just as fallible as perception. In the third part the author concludes that logic, arithmetic, and set theory concern matters of facts and that we discover these facts empirically.

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Recasting Political Philosophy Through a Phenomenology of Whoness

Freedom, value, power, justice, government, legitimacy are major themes of the present inquiry. It explores the ontological structure of human beings associating with one another, the basic phenomenon of society. We human beings strive to become who we are in an ongoing power interplay with each other. Thinkers called as witnesses include Plato, Aristotle, Anaximander, Protagoras, Hobbes, Locke, Adam Smith, Hegel, Marx, Schopenhauer, Heidegger, Schumpeter, Hayek, Schmitt, Ernst Jünger, et al.

About the Author
Michael Eldred, born in Katoomba, Australia in 1952, gained degrees in mathematics and philosophy at Sydney University, being awarded a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1984 with a dissertation aimed at rethinking the social theories of Marx (Kapital) and Hegel (Rechtsphilosophie). Numerous publications (also online) in the areas of political philosophy and phenomenology. Books published include Phänomenologie der Männlichkeit in 1999 and Kapital und Technik: Marx und Heidegger in 2000 (also in English and Chinese). He currently lives as a translator in Cologne.

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Philosophie des Handelns am Beispiel der Erziehung

Mit diesem Buch geht die analytische Handlungstheorie neue Wege. Statt den von Davidson vorgezeichneten Mustern zu folgen, knüpft der Autor an die aristotelische Unterscheidung von poiesis und praxis an, um die komplexen teleologischen Strukturen menschlichen Handelns zu untersuchen. Als überraschend ergiebiger Leitfaden erweist sich dabei der Begriff der Erziehung. Eine Fülle detaillierter Analysen zeitigt nicht nur anthropologisch und moralphilosophisch bedeutsame Resultate, sondern auch zeitkritische Folgerungen. "Wie im Bereich der Erziehung, so gewöhnen wir uns auch sonst daran, die Wirklichkeit unseres Handelns mit Kategorien des Hervorbringens zu überziehen und auch da nach Produkten zu suchen, wo es eigentlich um die Qualität des Lebens geht. Angesichts solcher Verirrungen fundamentale Strukturen und Ansprüche praktischer Vernunft erneut zu bedenken, ist heute vielleicht die vornehmste Aufgabe der Handlungsphilosophie."

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This essay proposes that Hume's non-substantialist bundle account of minds is basically correct. The concept of a person is not a metaphysical notion but a forensic one, that of a being who enters into the moral and normative relations of civil society. A person is a bundle but it is also a structured bundle. Hume's metaphysics of relations is argued must be replaced by a more adequate one such as that of Russell, but beyond that Hume's account is essentially correct. In particular it is argued that it is one's character that constitutes one's identity; and that sympathy and the passions of pride and humility are central in forming and maintaining one's character and one's identity as a person. But also central is one's body: a person is an embodied consciousness: the notion that one's body is essential to one's identity is defended at length. Various concepts of mind and consciousness are examined - for example, neutral monism and intentionality - and also the concept of privacy and our inferences to other minds.

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In this collection of papers by Laird Addis, published over approximately a quarter century, the main topics are the ontology of mind and the role of mind in the explanation of behavior. Addis defends a theory of natural signs, by which there is, in every conscious state including emotional states, an intrinsically intentional entity. He also argues that explanations of behavior by dispositional mental states, while not themselves causal explanations, presuppose the possibility of such explanations. The theory of dispositions is applied also to the theories of Chomsky and Freud. In broad strokes, Addis holds that, while there is a distinct realm of mental properties, behaviors admit of purely physical explanations.

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Robert Brandom is one of the most renowned philosophers in the analytic tradition today. This volume contains his programmatic essay "Towards an Analytic Pragmatism", in which Brandom shows how analytic philosophy can broaden its perspective so as to incorporate important insights of pragmatism. In addition, this volume contains nine papers dealing critically with themes from Brandom's writings, ranging from his 1994 book Making it Explicit to Between Saying and Doing, last year's Locke Lectures. Finally, there are replies by Robert Brandom to these papers

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Initial Explorations in Theory and Research
Concentrating mainly on the process philosophy developed by Alfred North Whitehead, this series of essays brings together some of the newest developments in the application of process thinking to the physical and social sciences. These essays, by established scholars in the field, demonstrate how a wider and deeper understanding of the world can be obtained using process philosophical concepts, how the distortions and blockages inevitably inherent in substantivist talk can be set aside, and how new and fertile lines of research in the sciences can be opened as a result.
About the editors Dr Mark R. Dibben is Associate Professor of Management and Deputy Head of the School of Business and Economics at Monash University Gippsland. He is Executive Director-elect of the International Process Network and a 'professor in residence' in the Centre for Process Studies at the Claremont School of Theology. He serves on the editorial boards of, amongst others, Process Studies and Philosophy of Management.
Professor Thomas A.F. Kelly, a native of Dublin, is Head of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He was educated at University College Dublin, from which he holds a First Class Honours MA, and the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, from which he holds a Doctorate summa cum laude. He is the author of Language, World and God: An Essay in Ontology, Dublin: Columba, 1996 and Language and Transcendence: A Study in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger Karl Otto Apel, Bern: Lang, 1994. He was co-editor, with Philipp W. Rosemann of the University of Dallas, Texas, of Amor Amicitiae—On the Love that is Friendship: Essays in Medieval Thought and Beyond in Honor of the Reverend Professor James McEvoy. Leuven: Peeters, 2004. He also edited Between System and Poetics: William Desmond and Philosophy After Dialectic. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. He is the founder editor of the journals Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society and Maynooth Philosophical Papers. His research interest include philosophical theology and ontology.

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From a Logical Point of View
The aim of the book is to clarify the concept of omniscience. This is done first by discussing basic questions on omniscience (chs.1-12) and secondly by offering a theory of omniscience as an axiomatic system in which also a definition of omniscience is given (ch.13). The twelve chapters deal with questions like whether everything is true what God knows, whether GodŽs knowledge is bound to time, whether it concerns singular truths or only laws, whether it extends also to contingent future events ...etc. The book is neither a book about the existence of God nor about proofs for his existence. It is a book about the possibility of a consistent concept of omniscience which can be attributed to God. And it invalidates opposite claims and shows that they are based on wrong or very doubtful premises. The pros and cons at the beginning of each chapter represent different positions and objections which are clarified and discussed in the answer to the objections.
About the Author
Paul Weingartner, Ph.D. 1961 (Philosophy/Physics) Univ. of Innsbruck, Prof. of Philosophy 1971- (em.1999) Univ. of Salzburg and Institut fuer Wissenschaftstheorie. Honory Doctorate 1995 Marie Curie Univ. Lublin, Member of the New York Academy of Sciences. 10 books, 36 books edited, 150 articles. Guest professorships and guest lectures at more than 100 universities. Paul Weingartner is one of the most distinguished philosophers and logicians in German language countries. He has published many books and articles in the domains of philosophy of sciences, logic, ethics and philosophy of religion.

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For many years value theory has figured high on the agenda of my interests, a fact attested by Introduction to Value Theory published by Prentice Hall in 1969. This interest has continued in recent years inter alia, finding earlier expressions in the articles constituting chapters 2-4 of the present book. (See the footnotes for publication details.) The remaining six chapters are new, and combine to form overall a synoptic overview of fundamental issues in the theory of value.

CONTENTS: By the Standards of their Day; On the Import and Rationale of Value Attribution; Nomic Hierachies and Problems of Relativism; Is Reasoning About Values Viciously Circular?; Rational Economy and the Evolutionary Impetus; Evaluation and the Fallacy of Respect Neglect; Credit for Making a Discovery; Optimalism and the Rationality of the Real (On the Prospect of Axiological Explanation); The Revolt Against Absolutes in Twentieth Century American Philosophy

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La pensée de Whitehead a été abordée à partir de plusieurs perspectives, convergeant le plus souvent vers Procès et réalité. Cet ouvrage difficile, obscur parfois, reste un livre essentiel. Le danger est de croire qu'il est un centre à partir duquel on mesure l'écart par rapport aux autres livres. Ainsi Modes de pensée marque une étape nouvelle dans la conceptualisation du procès. Faut-il suivre l'ordre d'apparition des livres et procéder à leur examen linéaire ? Comment s'y prendre pour rendre compte d'une pensée, partie de problèmes mathématiques et s'achevant sur des problèmes concernant la valeur, la vie de la nature et Dieu ? Peut-on se fier à l'ordre temporel de publication ? Voici les principales questions que cette monographie s'attache à cerner

• ISBN-10: 3-938793-65-1
• ISBN-13: 9783938793657
• Einband: gebunden,
• Seitenzahl: 446
• Gewicht: 760 g
• Sprache(n): Französisch
• Ontos Verlag

Mit den jüngsten Fortschritten in der Hirnforschung haben einige der klassischen Fragestellungen der Philosophie wieder neue Aktualität erhalten und das Interesse einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit auf sich gezogen. Kontroversen wurden vor allem durch manche weit über das Gebiet der Neurophysiologie hinausreichende Schlussfolgerungen prominenter Forscher ausgelöst. Die Diskussion wird aber nicht nur in den Disziplinen der Metaphysik, der Ontologie und der Erkenntnistheorie geführt. Auch Handlungstheorie, Ethik und Sozialphilosophie sehen sich erneut szientistischen Herausforderungen gegenüber. Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge sollen einen Eindruck von der Vielfalt der Probleme und Argumentationslinien verschaffen.

• 408 Seiten
• Verlag: Ontos (15. Dezember 2008)
• Sprache: Deutsch
• ISBN-10: 3868380140
• ISBN-13: 978-3868380149
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,6 x 15,6 x 3 cm

Ontos Verlag

The texts of the book are concerned with G. Bergmann's open and new problems and their active role on issues in contemporary metaphysics, like the ontology of ties, connexions and relations, problems of exemplification, substrates and tropes theories, particulars, persistence and the metaphysics of space, time and existence. Papers deal with these themes by themselves, or discuss them in an associated way: some of them aim to clarify the complicated conceptual Relations Bergmann have enlarged with major themes of philosophers like Aristotle, Brentano, Meinong and Sellars. The purpose of the book is to provide some light on his central interests, but also in regard of the evolution of the actual scope of his thought.

About the Editors

Bruno Langlet is preparing a Ph. D on Ontology and Psychology in the work of Alexius Meinong. He is also teaching philosophy at University of Provence (Aix-Marseille I) and IBS of Provence, and he’s co-translating David Armstrong in French for Ithaque Editions.

Jean-Maurice Monnoyer is Ph.D. in the Department of Philosophy (Aix-Marseille I), and in the SEMa (séminaire de métaphysique d’Aix en Provence). He was first the editor of Descartes, Frege, La Structure du monde : objets, propriétés, états de choses (Vrin, paris, 2004), Metaphysics and Truthmakers (Ontos verlag, 2007). Advisory editor of Science et métaphysique (Paris).

The book discusses contemporary metaphysics of science and deals with the central question which ontology fits best with our knowledge of the world. Two competing positions in today''s metaphysics of science are analysed: Humeanism and dispositionalism. There are physical and metaphysical arguments to show that orthodox Humeanism is in trouble. The unorthodox metaphysical turn consists in taking the fundamental properties to be relations rather than intrinsic properties. The book spells out in detail what an unorthodox version of Humeanism amounts to and shows that in turning unorthodox Humeanism offers a competitive metaphysical framework for science without commitment to irreducible causation. 

Georg Sparber has received his PhD at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is interested in the metaphysics of science and nature.

• ISBN-13: 9783868380330
• Einband: gebunden,
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Gewicht: 480 g
• Ontos Verlag

mit Geleitworten von Eberhard Bethge, Heinz Robert Schlette und Peter L. Berger

Aus den Geleitworten

»Welch ein Reiz: Was und wer nicht zusammengehören kann und darf, das ›korrespondiert‹ in der Tiefe miteinander. [...] Das muß man lesen, wie jeder bleibt, der er ist. Sabine Dramm macht den Leser ja lange bei ihnen bleiben. Ich glaube, Dietrich Bonhoeffer hätte gern ihre Wanderung mit den beiden mitgemacht und keinem schnellen Friedensschluß zugestimmt.« (Eberhard Bethge)

»Es versteht sich, daß dieser Vergleich nur auf der Basis fundierter Kenntnis zweier bedeutender Œuvres und mit großem Einfühlungsvermögen für die jeweiligen Erfahrungen und Texte möglich war. [...] Konfrontiert der Leser sich ohne Vorurteile mit diesen beiden ›Lebensmodellen unseres Jahrhunderts‹, wie Sabine Dramm formuliert, wird er die heute mehr denn je bedeutsame Entdeckung machen, daß auch von Lebensformen und ›Positionen‹ aus, die weit auseinanderliegen, jenes menschliche Miteinander möglich ist, dessen wir bedürfen.« (Heinz Robert Schlette)

»In den Jahrzehnten seit dem zweiten Weltkrieg sind Bonhoeffer und Camus zu paradigmatischen Figuren geworden, der erstere als Prototyp christlicher Existenz in der modernen Welt, der letztere als ebenso prototypischer Vertreter einer Haltung des modernen Menschen ohne religiösen Glauben. Es ist leicht, die beiden Figuren als krasse Gegensätze zu verstehen. Das Buch von Sabine Dramm zeigt feinfühlig und eingehend auf, wie viele Affinitäten zwischen den beiden Figuren bestehen [...]. Sie nimmt die Gegensätze ernst, und gerade dadurch wird die Lektüre ihres Buches zu einem geistigen Abenteuer für den Leser. [...] Dramm schreibt mit Einfühlung und mit Leidenschaft, ohne dabei die wissenschaftliche Sorgfalt in der Bearbeitung der jeweiligen Texte aufzugeben. Dramms Buch ist ein meisterhaftes Beispiel von verantwortlicher Exegese. Darüber hinaus ist es ein Buch, das den Leser zur eigenen Auseinandersetzung mit den wichtigen Fragen des Lebens herausfordert.« (Peter L. Berger)

192 S. SC

Zum Verhältnis von Geist und Welt

Ich weiss etwas, was du nicht weisst. Die ist der Kindervers, der neckisch damit lockte, dass Zurückgehaltenes die Neugier weckt. Ich weiss etwas, was du nicht wissen darfst: Dies ist die Formel, nach der Wissen sich in Macht verwandelte und die einstmals die Grundfigur pädagogischen Schutzdenkens wurde - es ist nicht gut, in jungen Jahren zu viel zu wissen. Ich weiss etwas, was ich nicht wissen darf: Das war Nietzsches Problem, das in Philosophie des verbotenen Wissens ausarbeiten wollte. Dazu ist er nicht mehr gekommen. Inspiriert von Notizen aus Nietzsches Nachlass, entwirft Konrad Paul Liessmann mit diesem Buch eine Philosophie, die gerade nicht um das Wahre, Gute und Schöne kreist, sondern eine Theorie des Unwahren, eine Ästhetik des Unschönen und eine Ethik des Bösen ins Zentrum drückt.

 Konrad Paul Liessmann, geb. 1953 in Villach, Studium der Germanistik, Geschichte und Philosophie in Wien, Professor am Institut für Philosophie der Universität Wien, Essayist, Literaturkritiker und Kulturpublizist. Zahlreiche wissenschaftliche und essayistische Veröffentlichungen zu Fragen der Ästhetik, Kunst- und Kulturphilosophie, Gesellschafts- und Medientheorie, Technikphilosophie, Philosophie des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts.

• ISBN-13: 9783868200034
• Einband: gebunden, 22,5 cm
• Auflage: 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 381

Philo-poetische Dialoge

"Die Architektur des liebenden Seins" ist die philosophische Auseinandersetzung mit der Frage "Was ist Liebe?" Warum wollen Menschen lieben und geliebt werden? Autor Heinz Rataj unterscheidet in seiner Abhandlung zwischen Sexus, Eros , Agape und Philia. Antworten auf seine Fragen findet er bei grossen Gelehrten und Literatein, darunter J. W. von Goethe, Meister Eckehart oder Walt Whitman.

ca. 82 S. SC

978-3-8372-1061-3

Fragen von Gabi zum Universum, zum Leben und zu den Erkenntnissen

Marc Mathys, geboren 1946 in Bern, Schweiz. Nach Abschluss des Ingenieurstudiums in der Industrie, mehrere Jahre im Ausland, u.a. als Dozent, danach in Telekom-Unternehmen tätig. Er verfasste vor allem technische Artikel, Texte für eigene Aufgaben und agierte als Ghostwriter für Buchausschnitte, Artikel, Referate und Kommunikationen.

• ISBN-13: 9783837211696
• Einband: SC
• Auflage: 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 204

Wenn aus dem Recht auf Arbeit bloß das Recht auf Elend wird, heißt es, sein ‘Recht auf Faulheit’ einzufordern! Paul Lafargues gleichnamiges Pamphlet ist nicht nur aus historischer Sicht interessant: Allzu leicht lässt sich die Ausbeutung des Proletariats zu Zeiten der Industrialisierung auf die Situation der leistungsorientierten und Burn-out-bedrohten Gesellschaft der Gegenwart übertragen. Auch die Satire ‘Die Religion des Kapitals’ ist mit spitzer Feder geschrieben und offenbart schnell ihre verblüffende Aktualität.

Lafargue, Paul
Das Recht auf Faulheit und Die Religion des Kapitals
Übers.: Bernstein, Eduard
128 Seiten, 122 x 187 mm, gebundene Ausgabe
ISBN 978-3-7306-0206-5

Wo immer vom Glück und vom Leid, von den Wonnen und Sehnsüchten der Liebe die Rede ist, sind die Dichtungen Goethes nicht fern. Kaum einer hat wie er in kristallklarer Sprache und anrührend sanften Versen die "Nähe der Geliebten" beschworen.
Für diesen Auswahlband hat die Herausgeberin die eindrücklichsten Gedichte, Sentenzen und Passagen aus den Werken des bedeutendsten Dichters deutscher Sprache zusammengetragen.

Wo immer von Glück und Leid, den Wonnen und Sehnsüchten der Liebe die Rede ist, sind die Dichtungen Goethes nicht fern. Dieser Band enthält die schönsten Gedichte und Passagen aus den Werken des Weimarer Klassikers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
John, Waltraud (Hrsg.)
Worte der Liebe (IRIS®-Leinen mit Banderole)
96 Seiten, 122 x 187 mm, gebundene Ausgabe,
geprägtes IRIS®-Leinen mit Banderole
ISBN 978-3-7306-0243-0

• Ledereinband: 144 Seiten
• Verlag: Anaconda
• ISBN-10: 386647007X
• ISBN-13: 9783866470071
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15 x 11 x 1,8 cm

• Ledereinband: 144 Seiten
• Verlag: Anaconda
• ISBN-10: 3866470088
• ISBN-13: 9783866470088
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15 x 11 x 1,8 cm

• Ledereinband: 144 Seiten
• Verlag: Anaconda
• Sprache: Deutsch
• ISBN-10: 3866470053
• ISBN-13: 9783866470057
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15 x 11 x 1,8 cm

Ein altes Sprichwort sagt: Angst ist ein schlechter Ratgeber. Und das gilt auch heute noch. Obwohl es Mode geworden ist, zu jammern und zu klagen und ängstlich in die Zukunft - oder auch die Gegenwart - zu blicken. Um dem entgegenzuwirken, bietet dieses Lesebuch Stimmen und Worte der Ermutigung und der Aufmunterung, der Zuversicht und des Trostes - Worte gegen die Angst - aus vielen Ländern und Zeiten versammelt.

• Ledereinband: 144 Seiten
• Verlag: Anaconda
• Sprache: Deutsch
• ISBN-10: 3866470061
• ISBN-13: 9783866470064
• Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,2 x 11 x 1,8 cm