Examining Philosophy Itself

Author : Yafeng Shan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1394160720
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Examining Philosophy Itself written by Yafeng Shan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EXAMINING PHILOSOPHY ITSELF One of the most distinctive features of philosophy is self-reflection. Philosophers are not only concerned with metaphysical, epistemological, conceptual, ethical, and aesthetic issues of things around us, they also pay serious attention to the nature, value, methods, and development of philosophy itself. This book examines some of the most important metaphilosophical issues: Is philosophy progressive? Are metaphysical claims meaningful? What is the aim of philosophy? Should analytic metaphysics be replaced by naturalised metaphysics? What is the prospect of a digital approach to philosophy of science? Can poetry play a substantial role in philosophy? Examining Philosophy Itself will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in philosophy.

Author : Michael Chase
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118609220
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy as a Way of Life written by Michael Chase and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy as a Way of Life This unique collection of essays on the late Pierre Hadot’s revolutionary methodological approach to studying and practicing philosophy explores Hadot’s primary conviction that philosophy itself goes beyond solving puzzles and analyzing abstract arguments. Hadot believed that philosophy is a key part of humanity’s search for happiness, that it can transform our perception of the world, and thus can alter our very mode of being. His argument that the goal of philosophy is to shift our focus away from our habitual obsession with individuality, and to embrace universality and objectivity, has resonated with thinkers across the Academy – and outside it. Offering genuinely interdisciplinary analysis of Hadot’s work and philosophical practice, this volume includes papers written from a gamut of philosophical, historical, and geographical perspectives. Articles address issues in the history of philosophy from Pythagoras to Descartes, by way of Islamic thought, thus corresponding to Hadot’s view of the importance of philologically based analysis of ancient texts and historical contexts. Others study the presence of ideas related to, or influenced by, Hadot in contemporary thought, from Wittgenstein to Leonard Nelson, analytic philosophy, and French postmodernism. The result is a wide-ranging publication pointing to an additional “third way” alongside the traditional approaches of Continental and analytic philosophy, one that expands our horizons with secular spiritual exercises designed to enable us to be in a fuller, more authentic way.

Author : Massimo Pigliucci
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226668355
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Evolution written by Massimo Pigliucci and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Sense of Evolution explores contemporary evolutionary biology, focusing on the elements of theories—selection, adaptation, and species—that are complex and open to multiple possible interpretations, many of which are incompatible with one another and with other accepted practices in the discipline. Particular experimental methods, for example, may demand one understanding of “selection,” while the application of the same concept to another area of evolutionary biology could necessitate a very different definition. Spotlighting these conceptual difficulties and presenting alternate theoretical interpretations that alleviate this incompatibility, Massimo Pigliucci and Jonathan Kaplan intertwine scientific and philosophical analysis to produce a coherent picture of evolutionary biology. Innovative and controversial, Making Sense of Evolution encourages further development of the Modern Synthesis and outlines what might be necessary for the continued refinement of this evolving field.

Author : Bob Lichtenbert
Publisher : 978-1-955206-02-0
ISBN 13 : 9781955206020
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Meaning By Philosophy written by Bob Lichtenbert and published by 978-1-955206-02-0. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Making Meaning by Philosophy," tells you how the fields of philosophy can make meaning, defined as "positive impact," for yourself and others. Making meaning by philosophy involves having good effects in all areas of your life. This book begins by exploring philosophy itself for what it can do for the reader, especially as the highest type of knowing truths and as the study of wisdom. The third chapter develops for the first time how you can make meaning. The fourth chapter treats the universal laws of logic to guide all your thinking. Then this book asks whether or not nonphysical concepts such as love, justice, and beauty really exist and make meaning. Next, it asks what are the main ways of knowing big truths. How can you live a good or ethical life is the topic of Chapter 7. Then the book explains how to interpret and judge good artworks as meaningful to you. Arguments regarding whether God truly exists then determine if your meaning is immortal. This book concludes by examining ways in which you can be free from extremely powerful causes forcing all your choices. Isn't the main purpose that you exist to be free and to make meaning?

Author : Robert Nozick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671725017
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Examined Life written by Robert Nozick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1990-12-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of topics of everyday importance in the Socratic tradition.

Author : Yafeng Shan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000780902
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress written by Yafeng Shan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays offers a comprehensive examination of scientific progress, which has been a central topic in recent debates in philosophy of science. Traditionally, debates over scientific progress have focused on different methodological approaches, notably the epistemic and semantic approaches. The chapters in Part I of the book examine these two traditional approaches, as well as the newly revived functional and newly developed noetic approaches. Part II features in-depth case studies of scientific progress from the history of science. The chapters cover individual sciences including physics, chemistry, evolutionary biology, seismology, psychology, sociology, economics, and medicine. Finally, Part III of the book explores important issues from contemporary philosophy of science. These chapters address the implications of scientific progress for the scientific realism/anti-realism debate, incommensurability, values in science, idealisation, scientific speculation, interdisciplinarity, and scientific perspectivalism. New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the history and philosophy of science.

Author : Joseph de Maistre
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773567186
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Examination of the Philosophy of Bacon written by Joseph de Maistre and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998-04-08 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although often neglected, An Examination of the Philosophy of Bacon is crucial to understand the epistemological basis for Maistre's critique of modern science as well as his criticisms of other aspects of Enlightenment thought. Given Maistre's stature in the history of conservative thought, his critique of Bacon remains significant for what it tells us about Maistre's own thought, what it reveals about attitudes toward science in his time, and what it contributes to issues that are still debated today. The work also showcases Maistre's polemical skills and his powerful prose style. Richard Lebrun's annotated translation includes Maistre's complete text, an extensive introduction that places the work in context and provides a critical exposition and assessment of Maistre's criticisms of Bacon, biographical notes on persons cited or mentioned by Maistre, and a bibliography. Differences between Maistre's manuscript and the printed text, first published fifteen years after the author's death, are noted, and Maistre's numerous citations have been identified, verified, and translated, making this the only authoritative and fully accurate edition of the work in either French or English.

Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy ... written by John Stuart Mill and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442655909
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy written by John Stuart Mill and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1979-12-15 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy, first published in 1865, with a second edition in the same year, and third and fourth editions in 1867 and 1872, has long been out of print. The Examination was, for his contemporaries, a most significant and popular work, presenting an extended treatment of some matters central to empiricism that found little space in Mill's Logic, the best known being his treatment of matter and mind from a psychological viewpoint. Appearing just before his successful parliamentary candidature, the Examination, with its deliberate and explicit onslaught on the intuitionists who were, in Mill's view, allied with anti-progressive political and religious forces, brought his beliefs into the public arena in a new way. Some of those who supported him politically found themselves viciously attacked because they had associated themselves with one who assailed settled religious beliefs. Other religionists who rejected many of Mill's attitudes strong expressed their admiration of the Examination because of its exposure to what they, with him, saw as dangerous theological and moral positions. Alan Ryan's analytical and historial introduction dwells on the most significant philosophical elements in the work, placing them in perspective and showing their relations to other aspects of Mill's thought. The textual introduction, by John M. Robson, examines the treatise in context of Mill's life in the 1860s, outlines its composition, and discusses, among other matters, the importance of the extensive revisions Mill made, mostly in response to critics. These revisions appear in full in the textual apparatus. Also provided are a bibliographical index, which gives a guide to the literature on the subject, and a collation of Mill's quotations, an analytical index, and appendices giving the reading of manuscript fragments and listing textual emendations.

Author : John Evan Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Examination of William James's Philosophy written by John Evan Turner and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: