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Beyond Speech - Pornography and Analytic Feminist Philosophy (Hardcover): Mari Mikkola Beyond Speech - Pornography and Analytic Feminist Philosophy (Hardcover)
Mari Mikkola
R3,648 Discovery Miles 36 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection of eleven new essays contains the latest developments in analytic feminist philosophy on the topic of pornography. While honoring early feminist work on the subject, it aims to go beyond speech act analyses of pornography and to reshape the philosophical discourse that surrounds pornography. A rich feminist literature on pornography has emerged since the 1980s, with Rae Langton's speech act theoretic analysis dominating specifically Anglo-American feminist philosophy on pornography. Despite the predominance of this literature, there remain considerable disagreements and precious little agreement on many key issues: What is pornography? Does pornography (as Langton argues) constitute women's subordination and silencing? Does it objectify women in harmful ways? Is pornography authoritative enough to enact women's subordination? Is speech act theory the best way to approach pornography? Given the deep divergences over these questions, the first goal of this collection is to take stock of extant debates in order to clarify key feminist conceptual and political commitments regarding pornography. This volume further aims to go beyond the prevalent speech-acts approach to pornography, and to highlight novel issues in feminist pornography-debates, including the aesthetics of pornography, trans* identities and racialization in pornography, and putatively feminist pornography.

Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume I - Exploring and Evaluating the Debate (Hardcover): William J. Abraham Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume I - Exploring and Evaluating the Debate (Hardcover)
William J. Abraham
R3,678 Discovery Miles 36 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume I lays the groundwork for a constructive contribution to the contemporary debate regarding divine action. Noted scholar, William J. Abraham argues that the concept of divine action is not a closed concept-like knowledge-but an open concept with a variety of context-dependent meanings. The volume charts the history of debate about divine action among key Anglophone philosophers of religion, and observes that they were largely committed to this erroneous understanding of divine action as a closed concept. After developing an argument that divine action should be understood as an open, fluid concept, Abraham engages the work of William Alston, Process metaphysics, quantum physics, analytic Thomist philosophy of religion, and the theology of Kathryn Tanner. Abraham argues that divine action as an open concept must be shaped by distinctly theological considerations, and thus all future work on divine action among philosophers of religion must change to accord with this vision. Only deep engagement with the Christian theological tradition will remedy the problems ailing contemporary discourse on divine action.

The Construction of Logical Space (Hardcover): Agustin Rayo The Construction of Logical Space (Hardcover)
Agustin Rayo
R2,743 Discovery Miles 27 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Our conception of logical space is the set of distinctions we use to navigate the world. In The Construction of Logical Space Agustin Rayo defends the idea that one's conception of logical space is shaped by one's acceptance or rejection of 'just is'-statements: statements like 'to be composed of water just is to be composed of H2O', or 'for the number of the dinosaurs to be zero just is for there to be no dinosaurs'. The resulting picture is used to articulate a conception of metaphysical possibility that does not depend on a reduction of the modal to the non-modal, and to develop a trivialist philosophy of mathematics, according to which the truths of pure mathematics have trivial truth-conditions.

Relativism and Monadic Truth (Hardcover): Herman Cappelen, John Hawthorne Relativism and Monadic Truth (Hardcover)
Herman Cappelen, John Hawthorne
R883 Discovery Miles 8 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Relativism has dominated many intellectual circles, past and present, but the twentieth century saw it banished to the fringes of mainstream analytic philosophy. Of late, however, it is making something of a comeback within that loosely configured tradition, a comeback that attempts to capitalize on some important ideas in foundational semantics. Relativism and Monadic Truth aims not merely to combat analytic relativism but also to combat the foundational ideas in semantics that led to its revival. Doing so requires a proper understanding of the significance of possible worlds semantics, an examination of the relation between truth and the flow of time, an account of putatively relevant data from attitude and speech act reporting, and a careful treatment of various operators. Throughout, Herman Cappelen and John Hawthorne contrast relativism with a view according to which the contents of thought and talk are propositions that instantiate the fundamental monadic properties of truth simpliciter and falsity simpliciter. Such propositions, they argue, are the semantic values of sentences (relative to context), the objects of illocutionary acts, and, unsurprisingly, the objects of propositional attitudes.

The Significance of Religious Experience (Hardcover): Howard Wettstein The Significance of Religious Experience (Hardcover)
Howard Wettstein
R2,634 Discovery Miles 26 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is collection of published and unpublished essays on the philosophy of religion by Howard Wettstein, who is a widely respected analytic philosopher. Over the past twenty years, Wettstein has attempted to reconcile his faith with his philosophy, and he brings his personal investment in this mission to the essays collected here. Influenced by the work of George Santayana, Wittgenstein, and A.J. Heschel, Wettstein grapples with central issues in the philosophy of religion such as the relationship of religious practice to religious belief, what is at stake in the debate between atheists and theists, and the place of doctrine in religion. His discussions draw from Jewish texts as well as Christianity, Islam, and classical philosophy. The challenge Wettstein undertakes throughout the volume is to maintain a philosophical naturalism while pursuing an encounter with God and traditional religion. In the Introduction to this volume, Wettstein elucidates the uniting themes among the collected essays.

The American Pragmatists (Hardcover): Cheryl Misak The American Pragmatists (Hardcover)
Cheryl Misak
R2,090 Discovery Miles 20 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Cheryl Misak presents a history of the great American philosophical tradition of pragmatism, from its inception in the Metaphysical Club of the 1870s to the present day. She identifies two dominant lines of thought in the tradition: the first begins with Charles S. Peirce and Chauncey Wright and continues through to Lewis, Quine, and Sellars; the other begins with William James and continues through to Dewey and Rorty. This ambitious new account identifies the connections between traditional American pragmatism and twentieth-century Anglo-American philosophy, and links pragmatism to major positions in the recent history of philosophy, such as logical empiricism. Misak argues that the most defensible version of pragmatism must be seen and recovered as an important part of the analytic tradition.

Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation - Philosophical Essays Volume 2 (Hardcover, New edition): Donald Davidson Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation - Philosophical Essays Volume 2 (Hardcover, New edition)
Donald Davidson
R3,822 Discovery Miles 38 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Now in a new edition, this volume updates Davidson's exceptional Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (1984), which set out his enormously influential philosophy of language. The original volume remains a central point of reference, and a focus of controversy, with its impact extending into linguistic theory, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. Addressing a central question--what it is for words to mean what they do--and featuring a previously uncollected, additional essay, this work will appeal to a wide audience of philosophers, linguists, and psychologists.

Modal Logic as Metaphysics (Hardcover): Timothy Williamson Modal Logic as Metaphysics (Hardcover)
Timothy Williamson
R1,921 Discovery Miles 19 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently? Are there future people, who have not yet been conceived? Questions like those raise deep issues about both the nature of being and its logical relations with contingency and change. In Modal Logic as Metaphysics, Timothy Williamson argues for positive answers to those questions on the basis of an integrated approach to the issues, applying the technical resources of modal logic to provide structural cores for metaphysical theories. He rejects the search for a metaphysically neutral logic as futile. The book contains detailed historical discussion of how the metaphysical issues emerged in the twentieth century development of quantified modal logic, through the work of such figures as Rudolf Carnap, Ruth Barcan Marcus, Arthur Prior, and Saul Kripke. It proposes higher-order modal logic as a new setting in which to resolve such metaphysical questions scientifically, by the construction of systematic logical theories embodying rival answers and their comparison by normal scientific standards. Williamson provides both a rigorous introduction to the technical background needed to understand metaphysical questions in quantified modal logic and an extended argument for controversial, provocative answers to them. He gives original, precise treatments of topics including the relation between logic and metaphysics, the methodology of theory choice in philosophy, the nature of possible worlds and their role in semantics, plural quantification compared to quantification into predicate position, communication across metaphysical disagreement, and problems for truthmaker theory.

Wittgenstein's Tractatus, A Student's Edition (Paperback, A Student's ed.): Duncan Richter Wittgenstein's Tractatus, A Student's Edition (Paperback, A Student's ed.)
Duncan Richter
R999 Discovery Miles 9 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Baby Boomer's Last Stand - The Prologue (Hardcover): Jon Alexander Young A Baby Boomer's Last Stand - The Prologue (Hardcover)
Jon Alexander Young
R981 Discovery Miles 9 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
How to Analyze People - How to Read and Influence People with the Ultimate Guide to Reading Body Language and Nonverbal... How to Analyze People - How to Read and Influence People with the Ultimate Guide to Reading Body Language and Nonverbal Communication - (Hardcover)
Tony Brain
R785 Discovery Miles 7 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
How to Analyze People - How to Read and Influence People with the Ultimate Guide to Reading Body Language and Nonverbal... How to Analyze People - How to Read and Influence People with the Ultimate Guide to Reading Body Language and Nonverbal Communication - (Hardcover)
Tony Brain
R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Analytic Philosophy of Clinical and Community Medicine (Hardcover): Lucien Karhausen Analytic Philosophy of Clinical and Community Medicine (Hardcover)
Lucien Karhausen
R1,075 Discovery Miles 10 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Wicca For Beginners - The Guide to Wiccan Beliefs, Magic, Rituals, Witchcraft, and Living a Magical Life (Hardcover): Amy White Wicca For Beginners - The Guide to Wiccan Beliefs, Magic, Rituals, Witchcraft, and Living a Magical Life (Hardcover)
Amy White
R570 R519 Discovery Miles 5 190 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Guided Meditation for Anxiety - and Kundalini Awakening - 2 in 1 - Align Your Chakras, Awaken Your Third Eye, Reduce Stress and... Guided Meditation for Anxiety - and Kundalini Awakening - 2 in 1 - Align Your Chakras, Awaken Your Third Eye, Reduce Stress and Anxiety, Find Inner Peace, and Heal Your Soul (Hardcover)
Kaizen Mindfulness Meditations
R506 R469 Discovery Miles 4 690 Save R37 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Chakras - For Beginners - How to Awaken and Balance Your Chakras and Heal Yourself with Chakra Healing, Reiki Healing and... Chakras - For Beginners - How to Awaken and Balance Your Chakras and Heal Yourself with Chakra Healing, Reiki Healing and Guided Meditation (Empath, Third Eye) (Hardcover)
Amy White
R592 R537 Discovery Miles 5 370 Save R55 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Purposehood - Transform Your Life, Transform the World (Hardcover): Ammar Charani Purposehood - Transform Your Life, Transform the World (Hardcover)
Ammar Charani
R738 Discovery Miles 7 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Valerius Terminus - of the Interpretation of Nature (Hardcover): Francis Bacon Valerius Terminus - of the Interpretation of Nature (Hardcover)
Francis Bacon
R538 Discovery Miles 5 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Third Eye - Simple Techniques to Awaken Your Third Eye Chakra With Guided Meditation, Kundalini, and Hypnosis (psychic... Third Eye - Simple Techniques to Awaken Your Third Eye Chakra With Guided Meditation, Kundalini, and Hypnosis (psychic abilities, spiritual enlightenment) (Hardcover)
Amy White
R621 R559 Discovery Miles 5 590 Save R62 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reason, Metaphysics, and Mind - New Essays on the Philosophy of Alvin Plantinga (Hardcover): Kelly James Clark, Michael Rea Reason, Metaphysics, and Mind - New Essays on the Philosophy of Alvin Plantinga (Hardcover)
Kelly James Clark, Michael Rea
R3,042 Discovery Miles 30 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In May 2010, philosophers, family and friends gathered at the University of Notre Dame to celebrate the career and retirement of Alvin Plantinga, widely recognized as one of the world's leading figures in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of religion. Plantinga has earned particular respect within the community of Christian philosophers for the pivotal role that he played in the recent renewal and development of philosophy of religion and philosophical theology. Each of the essays in this volume engages with some particular aspect of Plantinga's views on metaphysics, epistemology, or philosophy of religion. Contributors include Michael Bergman, Ernest Sosa, Trenton Merricks, Richard Otte, Peter VanInwagen, Thomas P. Flint, Eleonore Stump, Dean Zimmerman and Nicholas Wolterstorff. The volume also includes responses to each essay by Bas van Fraassen, Stephen Wykstra, David VanderLaan, Robin Collins, Raymond VanArragon, E. J. Coffman, Thomas Crisp, and Donald Smith.

Persistence and Spacetime (Hardcover): Yuri Balashov Persistence and Spacetime (Hardcover)
Yuri Balashov
R2,513 R2,196 Discovery Miles 21 960 Save R317 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Material objects persist through time and survive change. How do they manage to do so? What are the underlying facts of persistence? Do objects persist by being "wholly present" at all moments of time at which they exist? Or do they persist by having distinct "temporal segments" confined to the corresponding times? Are objects three-dimensional entities extended in space, but not in time? Or are they four-dimensional spacetime "worms"? These are matters of intense debate, which is now driven by concerns about two major issues in fundamental ontology: parthood and location. It is in this context that broadly empirical considerations are increasingly brought to bear on the debate about persistence.
Persistence and Spacetime pursues this empirically based approach to the questions. Yuri Balashov begins by setting out major rival views of persistence -- endurance, perdurance, and exdurance -- in a spacetime framework and proceeds to investigate the implications of Einstein's theory of relativity for the debate about persistence. His overall conclusion -- that relativistic considerations favour four-dimensionalism over three-dimensionalism -- is hardly surprising. It is, however, anything but trivial. Contrary to a common misconception, there is no straightforward argument from relativity to four-dimensionalism. The issues involved are complex, and the debate is closely entangled with a number of other philosophical disputes, including those about the nature and ontology of time, parts and wholes, material constitution, causation and properties, and vagueness.

The Contradictory Christ (Hardcover): J.C. Beall The Contradictory Christ (Hardcover)
J.C. Beall
R2,864 R1,960 Discovery Miles 19 600 Save R904 (32%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this ground-breaking study, Jc Beall shows that the fundamental "problem" of Christology is simple to see from the role that Christ occupies: the Christ figure is to have the divine and essentially limitless properties of the one and only God but Christ is equally to have the human, essentially limit-imposing properties involved in human nature, limits essentially involved in being human. The role that Christ occupies thereby appears to demand a contradiction: all of the limitlessness of God, and all of the limits of humans. This book lays out Beall's contradictory account of Jesus Christ - and thereby a contradictory Christian theology.

Uncertain Values - An Axiomatic Approach to Axiological Uncertainty (Hardcover): Stefan Riedener Uncertain Values - An Axiomatic Approach to Axiological Uncertainty (Hardcover)
Stefan Riedener
R3,518 Discovery Miles 35 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How ought you to evaluate your options if you're uncertain about what's fundamentally valuable? A prominent response is Expected Value Maximisation (EVM)-the view that under axiological uncertainty, an option is better than another if and only if it has the greater expected value across axiologies. But the expected value of an option depends on quantitative probability and value facts, and in particular on value comparisons across axiologies. We need to explain what it is for such facts to hold. Also, EVM is by no means self-evident. We need an argument to defend that it's true. This book introduces an axiomatic approach to answer these worries. It provides an explication of what EVM means by use of representation theorems: intertheoretic comparisons can be understood in terms of facts about which options are better than which, and mutatis mutandis for intratheoretic comparisons and axiological probabilities. And it provides a systematic argument to the effect that EVM is true: the theory can be vindicated through simple axioms. The result is a formally cogent and philosophically compelling extension of standard decision theory, and original take on the problem of axiological or normative uncertainty.

Self, No Self? - Perspectives from Analytical, Phenomenological, and Indian Traditions (Hardcover): Mark Siderits, Evan... Self, No Self? - Perspectives from Analytical, Phenomenological, and Indian Traditions (Hardcover)
Mark Siderits, Evan Thompson, Dan Zahavi
R2,668 R2,318 Discovery Miles 23 180 Save R350 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The nature and reality of self is a subject of increasing prominence among Western philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists. It has also been central to Indian and Tibetan philosophical traditions for over two thousand years. It is time to bring the rich resources of these traditions into the contemporary debate about the nature of self. This volume is the first of its kind. Leading philosophical scholars of the Indian and Tibetan traditions join with leading Western philosophers of mind and phenomenologists to explore issues about consciousness and selfhood from these multiple perspectives. Self, No Self? is not a collection of historical or comparative essays. It takes problem-solving and conceptual and phenomenological analysis as central to philosophy. The essays mobilize the argumentative resources of diverse philosophical traditions to address issues about the self in the context of contemporary philosophy and cognitive science. Self, No Self? will be essential reading for philosophers and cognitive scientists interested in the nature of the self and consciousness, and will offer a valuable way into the subject for students.

Reading Frege's Grundgesetze (Hardcover): Richard G. Heck Jr Reading Frege's Grundgesetze (Hardcover)
Richard G. Heck Jr
R2,375 R1,979 Discovery Miles 19 790 Save R396 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Gottlob Frege's Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, or Basic Laws of Arithmetic, was intended to be his magnum opus, the book in which he would finally establish his logicist philosophy of arithmetic. But because of the disaster of Russell's Paradox, which undermined Frege's proofs, the more mathematical parts of the book have rarely been read. Richard G. Heck, Jr., aims to change that, and establish it as a neglected masterpiece that must be placed at the center of Frege's philosophy. Part I of Reading Frege's Grundgesetze develops an interpretation of the philosophy of logic that informs Grundgesetze, paying especially close attention to the difficult sections of Frege's book in which he discusses his notorious 'Basic Law V' and attempts to secure its status as a law of logic. Part II examines the mathematical basis of Frege's logicism, explaining and exploring Frege's formal arguments. Heck argues that Frege himself knew that his proofs could be reconstructed so as to avoid Russell's Paradox, and presents Frege's arguments in a way that makes them available to a wide audience. He shows, by example, that careful attention to the structure of Frege's arguments, to what he proved, to how he proved it, and even to what he tried to prove but could not, has much to teach us about Frege's philosophy.

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