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Author : John Hawthorne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199693676
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reference Book written by John Hawthorne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do language and thought connect to things in the world? John Hawthorne and David Manley offer an original and ambitious treatment of the semantic phenomenon of reference and the cognitive phenomenon of singular thought, leading to a new unified account of definite and indefinite descriptions, names, and demonstratives.

Author : John Hawthorne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199269556
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge and Lotteries written by John Hawthorne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is organized around an epistemological puzzle: in many cases, we seem consistently inclined to deny that we know a certain class of propositions while crediting ourselves with knowledge of propositions that imply them. The text explores questions on the nature and importance of knowledge.

Author : John Hawthorne
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199291241
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaphysical Essays written by John Hawthorne and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Hawthorne is widely regarded as one of the finest philosophers working today. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to metaphysics, and this volume collects his most notable papers in this field. Hawthorne offers original treatments of fundamental topics in philosophy, including identity, ontology, vagueness, and causation. Six of the essays appear here for the first time, and there is a valuable introduction to guide the reader through the selection.

Author : Matthew A. Benton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198798709
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge, Belief, and God written by Matthew A. Benton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epistemology has flourished in this millennium, with new ideas and approaches of many kinds: Knowledge, Belief, and God shows how these developments can illuminate the philosophy of religion and analytic theology. And philosophy of religion is shown to be a valuable testing-ground for epistemology.--

Author : Juhani Yli-Vakkuri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198785968
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrow Content written by Juhani Yli-Vakkuri and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can there be 'narrow' mental content, that is entirely determined by the goings-on inside the head of the thinker? This book argues not, and defends instead a thoroughgoing externalism: the entanglement of our minds with the external world runs so deep that no internal component of mentality can easily be cordoned off.

Author : J. A. Cover
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139427474
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Substance and Individuation in Leibniz written by J. A. Cover and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-09 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a sustained re-evaluation of the most central and perplexing themes of Leibniz's metaphysics. In contrast to traditional assessments that view the metaphysics in terms of its place among post-Cartesian theories of the world, Jan Cover and John O'Leary-Hawthorne examine the question of how the scholastic themes which were Leibniz's inheritance figure - and are refigured - in his mature account of substance and individuation. From this emerges a sometimes surprising assessment of Leibniz's views on modality, the Identity of Indiscernibles, form as an internal law, and the complete-concept doctrine. As a rigorous philosophical treatment of a still-influential mediary between scholastic and modern metaphysics, this study will be of interest to historians of philosophy and contemporary metaphysicians alike.

Author : Theodore Sider
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118712323
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics written by Theodore Sider and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of thought-provoking and original essays, eighteenleading philosophers engage in head-to-head debates of nine of themost cutting edge topics in contemporary metaphysics. Explores the fundamental questions in contemporary metaphysicsin a series of eighteen original essays - 16 of which are newlycommissioned for this volume Features an introductory essay by the editors on the nature ofmetaphysics to prepare the reader for ongoing discussions Offers readers the unique opportunity to observe leadingphilosophers engage in head-to-head debate on cutting-edgemetaphysical topics Provides valuable insights into the flourishing field ofcontemporary metaphysics

Author : John E. Alvis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351503820
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nathaniel Hawthorne as Political Philosopher written by John E. Alvis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne as a case study, John E. Alvis shows that a novelist can be a political philosopher. He demonstrates that much of Hawthorne's works are rooted in the American political tradition. Once we view his writings in connection with the principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence, we grasp that what Thomas Jefferson and John Adams had stated explicitly, Hawthorne's fiction conveys dramatically. With examples drawn from Hawthorne's shorter works, as well as acknowledged classics, such as The Scarlet Letter, John E. Alvis shows that Hawthorne's characters bear something sacred in their generic humanity, yet are subject to moral judgment. He conveys reciprocity between obligations regulating individual relations and the responsibilities of individuals to their community.From America's founding proclamations in the Declaration of Independence we take a sense of national aspirations for a political order that conforms to laws of nature and nature's God. From this higher law emerge the principles enumerated in that revolutionary document. Are these principles confined to the political, or do they reach into the experience of citizens to inform conduct? Do they include family, local community, and individual face-to-face relations with neighbors and strangers? Can one make a distinct way of life by fidelity to such standards as higher law, equality, liberty, natural rights, and consent?This study is distinguished from other writings on Hawthorne in its largely positive focus on America. Alvis characterizes Hawthorne as a rational patriot who endorses America's new terms for human association. This fascinating study provides new insights into the mind of one of the greatest American writers.

Author : John W. Hawthorne
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1620329476
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A First Step into a Much Larger World written by John W. Hawthorne and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do Christian students approach their years at a Christian college or university? What are the connections between all those hours of study and the Christian life? A First Step into a Much Larger World invites students, parents, and educators into a broad conversation about faith and learning in a postmodern age. Students will explore how to respond to diversity while maintaining community, how to make learning sensible as an expression of faith, and how to move from passive recipients of education to active and engaged co-learners with others. In so doing, they can transform their undergraduate years into a springboard for engaging the culture beyond the university.

Author : Cian Dorr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192661957
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bounds of Possibility written by Cian Dorr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In general, a given object could have been different in certain respects. For example, the Great Pyramid could have been somewhat shorter or taller; the Mona Lisa could have had a somewhat different pattern of colours; an ordinary table could have been made of a somewhat different quantity of wood. But there seem to be limits. It would be odd to suppose that the Great Pyramid could have been thimble-sized; that the Mona Lisa could have had the pattern of colours that actually characterizes The Scream; or that the table could have been made of the very quantity of wood that in fact made some other table. However, there are puzzling arguments that purport to show that so long as an object is capable of being somewhat different in some respect, it is capable of being radically different in that respect. These arguments rely on two tempting thoughts: first, that an object's capacity for moderate variation is a non-contingent matter, and second, that what is possibly possible is simply possible. The Bounds of Possibility systematically investigates competing strategies for resolving these puzzles, and defends one of them. Along the way it engages with foundational questions about the metaphysics of modality.