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Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Analytical & linguistic philosophy

Analytic Philosophy and Avicenna - Knowing the Unknown (Hardcover): Mohammad Azadpur Analytic Philosophy and Avicenna - Knowing the Unknown (Hardcover)
Mohammad Azadpur
R4,152 Discovery Miles 41 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This work engages in a constructive, yet subtle, dialogue with the nuanced accounts of sensory intentionality and empirical knowledge offered by the Islamic philosopher Avicenna. This discourse has two main objectives: (1) providing an interpretation of Avicenna's epistemology that avoids reading him as a precursor to British empiricists or as a full-fledged emanatist and (2) bringing light to the importance of Avicenna's account of experience to relevant contemporary Anglo-American discussions in epistemology and metaphysics. These two objectives are interconnected. Anglo-American philosophy provides the framework for a novel reading of Avicenna on knowledge and reality, and the latter, in turn, contributes to adjusting some aspects of the former. Advancing the Avicennian perspective on contemporary analytic discourse, this volume is a key resource for researchers and students interested in comparative and analytic epistemology and metaphysics as well as Islamic philosophy.

Frank Ramsey - Truth and Success (Paperback): Jerome Dokic, Pascal Engel Frank Ramsey - Truth and Success (Paperback)
Jerome Dokic, Pascal Engel
R1,801 Discovery Miles 18 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Despite his tragic death at the age of 26, Frank Ramsey (1903 - 1930) remains one of the most intriguing minds of the twentieth century. His thought had a profound influence on both Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, and many strands of contemporary analytic philosophy find their origin in Ramsey's ideas.
Frank Ramsey: Truth and Success provides a much-needed introduction to the work of this undervalued thinker, and makes an important and profound contribution to our understanding of Ramsey's work and his place in twentieth century philosophy. It will be of interest to all students of logic, metaphysics and the history of philosophy.

Approaches to Wittgenstein (Paperback): Brian Mcguinness Approaches to Wittgenstein (Paperback)
Brian Mcguinness
R1,501 Discovery Miles 15 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Approaches to Wittgenstein brings together for the first time the many varied aspects of Wittgenstein's life, philosophy, and aesthetic attitudes.

Wittgensteinian Values: Philosophy, Religious Belief and Descriptivist Methodology - Philosophy, Religious Belief and... Wittgensteinian Values: Philosophy, Religious Belief and Descriptivist Methodology - Philosophy, Religious Belief and Descriptivist Methodology (Paperback)
Emyr Vaughan Thomas
R1,132 Discovery Miles 11 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This title was first published in 2001. This work examines the self-renouncing dimension which Wittgensteinian philosophy subscribes to ethico-religious ideals. "Wittensteinian values" are explored through a range of literary and cultural illustrations from Wittgenstein's own European milieu. The book also highlights an alternative model of self-renouncing faith, which has methodological implications for how a Wittgensteinian descriptivist approach should be carried out. Wittgensteinian assumptions about the nature of self-renunciation, the religious believer's orientation to the world and the place of the metaphysical in religion are among some of the elements that need to be reappraised.

Wittgenstein, Aesthetics and Philosophy (Hardcover, New Ed): Peter B. Lewis Wittgenstein, Aesthetics and Philosophy (Hardcover, New Ed)
Peter B. Lewis
R4,467 Discovery Miles 44 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Although universally recognised as one of the greatest of modern philosophers, Wittgenstein's work in aesthetics has been unjustly neglected. This is the first book exclusively devoted to Wittgenstein's aesthetics, exploring the themes developed by Wittgenstein in his own writing on aesthetics as well as the implications of Wittgenstein's wider philosophical views for understanding central issues in aesthetics. Drawing together original contributions from leading international scholars, this book will be an important addition to studies of Wittgenstein's thought, but its discussion of issues in literature, music and performing art, and criticism will also be of interest to many students of literary and cultural studies. Exploring three key themes - the capacity of the arts to illuminate our lives; the nature of the particular responses involved in understanding and appreciating works of art; the role of theory and principle in artistic and critical practice - the contributors address issues raised by contemporary philosophers of art, and seek to make connections between Wittgenstein's work and that of other significant philosophies of art in the Western tradition. Displaying the best practice of modern philosophical writing - clarity, cogency, respect for but not blind obedience to common sense, argument illustrated with detailed examples, rejection of speculation and pretension - this book demonstrates how philosophy can make a valuable contribution to understanding the arts.

Post-Analytic Tractatus (Hardcover, New Ed): Barry Stocker Post-Analytic Tractatus (Hardcover, New Ed)
Barry Stocker
R4,465 Discovery Miles 44 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Post-Analytic Tractatus establishes Wittgenstein's early work in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus as an invaluable source for exploring current debate on analytic philosophy in its origins, history, limits and relations with European philosophy. Drawing together new work from the leading figures in interpretation of the Tractatus - Conant and Diamond - with work by respected Wittgenstein commentators such as Kremer and Hutto, together with a reprint of a relevant and striking text by Brouwer, this timely collection offers a valuable resource for exploring the Tractatus' connections to approaches other than logical positivism, mathematical logic and formal semantics. Examining links with the work of Leibniz, Kant, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Frege, Russell, James, Heidegger and others, the contributors consider key themes in twentieth-century philosophy including symbols and expression, language and metaphysics, objects and signs, logical form, structure and syntax, limits of philosophical discourse, Idealism and transcendental arguments, distinguishing sense and nonsense, showing and saying in communication, mysticism and transcendence in experience, ethical and aesthetic value, the worlds of solipsism and religion, philosophy as an activity and as a system. Particularly timely in establishing the Tractatus as a source for comparable debates across Continental and Analytic philosophy, this collection will prove of value to scholars of twentieth-century philosophy, Wittgenstein, and Post-Analytic philosophy.

Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion (Paperback): Mark Addis, Robert L. Arrington Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion (Paperback)
Mark Addis, Robert L. Arrington
R1,456 Discovery Miles 14 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion sheds new light on the perennial debate between faith and reason. It highlights the disagreements between Wittgenstein and religious sceptics, resulting in a collection that is both informative and stimulating. The themes discussed include Wittgenstein's views on creation, magic and free will, and Wittgenstein's thought is compared to that of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and contemporary reformed epistemologists.

Philosophy and Ordinary Language - The Bent and Genius of our Tongue (Paperback, 2nd edition): Oswald Hanfling Philosophy and Ordinary Language - The Bent and Genius of our Tongue (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Oswald Hanfling
R1,705 Discovery Miles 17 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What is philosophy about and what are its methods? Philosophy and Ordinary Language is a defence of the view that philosophy is largely about questions of language, which to a large extent means ordinary language. Some people argue that if philosophy is about ordinary language, then it is necessarily less deep and difficult than it is usually taken to be but Oswald Hanfling shows us that this isn't true.
Hanfling, a leading expert in the development of analytic philosophy, covers a wide range of topics, including scepticism and the definition of knowledge, free will, empiricism, folk psychology, ordinary versus artificial logic, and philosophy versus science. Drawing on philosophers such as Austin, Wittgenstein, and Quine, this book explores the nature of ordinary language in philosophy.

The Voices of Wittgenstein - The Vienna Circle (Hardcover): Friedrich Waismann The Voices of Wittgenstein - The Vienna Circle (Hardcover)
Friedrich Waismann; Edited by Gordon Baker
R4,515 Discovery Miles 45 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


The Voices of Wittgenstein brings for the first time in both the original German and English translation over one hundred short essays in philosophical logic and the philosophy of mind of historical importance to understanding Wittgenstein's philosophical thought and development in the 1930's. Transcribed from the papers of Friedrich Waismann and dating from 1932-35, the majority are highly important dictations by Wittgenstein to Waismann and it also included texts of redrafted material by Waismann closely based on the dictations.

eBook available with sample pages: 0203412028

Midwest Studies in Philosophy V25 - Figurative Language (Paperback, Volume XXV): PA French Midwest Studies in Philosophy V25 - Figurative Language (Paperback, Volume XXV)
PA French
R1,137 Discovery Miles 11 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Analytic philosophy was born from philosophic reflection on logic and mathematics. It has been at its strongest in these and related domains of reflection, domains that are friendly to definition and analytic clarity. From time to time, analytic philosophers, some very distinguished, have produced fine work on literature and the arts. But these areas remain underexplored in the analytic tradition. This volume is focused upon language that does not fit within the usual analytic paradigms. It's highlights include two pieces of original poetry on philosophic subjects (by philosophers who are also published poets), and philosophic reflection on poetry, literature more generally, metaphor, and related subjects.

Wittgenstein and the Human Form of Life (Hardcover): Oswald Hanfling Wittgenstein and the Human Form of Life (Hardcover)
Oswald Hanfling
R4,454 Discovery Miles 44 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Wittgenstein's later writings generate a great deal of controversy and debate, as do the implications of his ideas for such topics as consciousness, knowledge, language and the arts.

Oswald Hanfling addresses a widespeard tendency to ascribe to Wittgenstein views that go beyond those he actually held. Separate chapters deal with important topics such as the private language argument, rule-following, the problem of other minds, and the ascription of scepticism to Wittgenstein. Describing Wittgenstein as a 'humanist' thinker, he contrasts his views on language, art humanity and philosophy itself with those of scientifically minded philosophers. He argues that 'the human form of life' calls for a kind of understanding that cfannot be achieved by the methods of emirical science; that consiousness, for example, cannot properly be regarded as a property of the bran; and that the resulting 'problem of consoiusness is an illusion.

Wittgenstein and the Human Form of Life is essential reading for anyone interested in Wittgenstein's approach to what it means to be human. It will be invaluable to all Wittgenstein scholars, and all who are interested in the philosophy of mind, language and aesthetics.


eBook available with sample pages: 0203166868

The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Volume 1 - The Private Years 1884-1914 (Paperback, 2nd edition): Nicholas Griffin The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Volume 1 - The Private Years 1884-1914 (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Nicholas Griffin
R1,117 R1,018 Discovery Miles 10 180 Save R99 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days


Those who knew the famous philosopher Bertrand Russell at the turn of the century referred to him as 'the Day of Judgement'. This acclaimed selection of his early letters, available in paperback for the first time, reveals the full scope of Russell's life and innermost thoughts up to the First World War. It includes letters to his first wife, Alys Pearsall Smith, reveals the background to his now famous work in philosophy and the foundations of mathematics and how his mind was stirred by socialism, free trade and votes for women. It also contains letters on his famous affair with Ottoline Morrell, providing yet another insight into one of the great intellectual figures of the twentieth century.

Reading McDowell - On Mind and World (Hardcover): Nicholas Smith Reading McDowell - On Mind and World (Hardcover)
Nicholas Smith
R4,475 Discovery Miles 44 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Reading McDowell: On Mind and World brings together an exceptional list of contributors to analyse and discuss McDowell's challenging and influential book, one of the most influential contributions to contemporary philosophy in recent years. In it McDowell discusses issues in epistemology, philosophy of mind and ethics as well as surveying the broader remit of philosophy. Reading McDowell clarifies some of these themes and provides further material for debate across philosophy of mind, ethics, philosophy of language and epistemology.
The internationally renowned contributors include: Richard Bernstein, Gregory McCulloch, Hilary Putnam, Charles Taylor, Crispin Wright, Jay Bernstein, Rudiger, Bubner, Robert Pippin, Charles Lamour, Axel Honneth, Barry Stround, Robert Brandom and Michael Williams. In conclusion, John McDowell responds to all the contributions.
This critical contribution to analytic philosophy is likely to shape philosophical debate for years to come. It will be of interest to professional philosophers, as well as students of contemporary epistemology, philosophy of mind and ethics.

eBook available with sample pages: 0203460901

Reading McDowell - On Mind and World (Paperback, New): Nicholas Smith Reading McDowell - On Mind and World (Paperback, New)
Nicholas Smith
R1,293 Discovery Miles 12 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Reading McDowell: On Mind and World brings together an exceptional list of contributors to analyse and discuss McDowell's challenging and influential book, one of the most influential contributions to contemporary philosophy in recent years. In it McDowell discusses issues in epistemology, philosophy of mind and ethics as well as surveying the broader remit of philosophy. Reading McDowell clarifies some of these themes and provides further material for debate across philosophy of mind, ethics, philosophy of language and epistemology.
The internationally renowned contributors include: Richard Bernstein, Gregory McCulloch, Hilary Putnam, Charles Taylor, Crispin Wright, Jay Bernstein, Rudiger, Bubner, Robert Pippin, Charles Lamour, Axel Honneth, Barry Stround, Robert Brandom and Michael Williams. In conclusion, John McDowell responds to all the contributions.
This critical contribution to analytic philosophy is likely to shape philosophical debate for years to come. It will be of interest to professional philosophers, as well as students of contemporary epistemology, philosophy of mind and ethics.

Advaita Epistemology and Metaphysics - An Outline of Indian Non-Realism (Hardcover): Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad Advaita Epistemology and Metaphysics - An Outline of Indian Non-Realism (Hardcover)
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
R5,709 R4,619 Discovery Miles 46 190 Save R1,090 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
Introduction
Section I: Sankara: Externality
1. Sankara and the philosophical framework of Advaita
2. Sankara, Vasubandhu and the idealist use of dreaming
3. Sankara, dreaming and non-realism
Section II: Vacaspati: Determinacy
1. Vacaspati on anirvacaniyatva
Section III: Sri Harsa: Existence
1. Knowledge and Existence
2. The non-realist critique of Existence
Discursive Appendix: Reading Sri Harsa through 20th century anti-sceptical naturalism
Section IV: Applying Non-Realism
1. Causal connections, cognition and regularity: comparativist remarks on David Hume and Sri Harsa
2. Immediacy and the direct theory of perception: problems with Sri Harsa

Wittgenstein, Rules and Institutions (Paperback): David Bloor Wittgenstein, Rules and Institutions (Paperback)
David Bloor
R1,266 Discovery Miles 12 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Author Biography:
David Bloor is the Director of the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Wittgenstein: A Social Theory of Knowledge and Knowledge and Social Imagery, and co-author of Scientific Knowledge.

Approaches to Wittgenstein (Hardcover): Brian Mcguinness Approaches to Wittgenstein (Hardcover)
Brian Mcguinness
R4,474 Discovery Miles 44 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Approaches to Wittgenstein brings together for the first time the many varied aspects of Wittgenstein's life, philosophy and aesthetic attitudes.

eBook available with sample pages: 0203404920

Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts (Hardcover, New): Richard Allen, Malcolm Turvey Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts (Hardcover, New)
Richard Allen, Malcolm Turvey
R5,328 R4,474 Discovery Miles 44 740 Save R854 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This is the first full exploration of the implications of Wittgenstein's philosophy for understanding the arts and cultural criticism. These original essays by philosophers and critics address key philosophical topics in the study of the arts and culture, such as humanism, criticism, psychology, painting, film and ethics. All exemplify Wittgenstein's method of conceptual investigation and highlight his notion of philosophy as a cure.

Religion Within the Limits of Language Alone - Wittgenstein on Philosophy and Religion (Hardcover, New Ed): Felicity McCutcheon Religion Within the Limits of Language Alone - Wittgenstein on Philosophy and Religion (Hardcover, New Ed)
Felicity McCutcheon
R1,079 Discovery Miles 10 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Religion Within the Limits of Language Alone provides a critical examination of the Wittgensteinian philosophers of religion who claim that the word 'God' cannot be understood as referring to a metaphysical being who may or may not exist. McCutcheon traces the arguments offered by these philosophers of religion back to Wittgenstein's own criticisms of speculative metaphysics, arguing that in its religious usage the concept of God does not fall under Wittgenstein's anti-metaphysical gaze. In presenting a detailed account of Wittgenstein's own philosophical method, including his criticisms of metaphysics, McCutcheon shows that it is possible to accept Wittgenstein's criticisms of metaphysics whilst retaining the metaphysical content of religious language. This book offers a fresh understanding of Wittgenstein's philosophical method and a new critique of religious discourse for those studying philosophy and religious studies.

Whitehead and Continental Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century - Dislocations (Paperback): Jeremy D. Fackenthal Whitehead and Continental Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century - Dislocations (Paperback)
Jeremy D. Fackenthal; Contributions by William Hammrick, Walter Bo Eberle, J. R. Hustwit, Carl Dyke, …
R1,038 Discovery Miles 10 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines how the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, a speculative philosopher from the first half of the twentieth century, converses and entangles itself with continental philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries around the question of a sustainable civilization in the present. Chapters are focused around economic and environmental sustainability, questions of how technology and systems relate to this sustainability, relationships between human and nonhuman entities, relationships among humans, and how larger philosophical questions lead one to think differently about what the terms sustainable and civilization mean. The book aims to uncover and explore ways in which the combination of these philosophies might provide the "dislocations" within thought that lead to novel ways of being and acting in the world.

Wittgenstein's Vienna Revisited (Hardcover): Allan Janik Wittgenstein's Vienna Revisited (Hardcover)
Allan Janik
R4,472 Discovery Miles 44 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Fin de siecle Vienna was once memorably described by Karl Kraus as a "proving ground for the destruction of the world." In the decades leading to the World War that brought down the Austro-Hungarian empire, the city was at once an operetta dream world masking social and political problems and tension, as well as a center for the far-reaching explorations and innovations in music, art, science, and philosophy that would help to define modernity. One of the most powerful critiques of the retreat into fantasy was that of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose early career in Vienna has helped frame debates about ethical and aesthetic values in culture. In Wittgenstein's Vienna Revisited Allan Janik expands upon his work Wittgenstein's Vienna (co-authored with Stephen Toulmin) to amplify a number of significant points concerning the genesis of Wittgenstein's thought, the nature of Viennese culture, and criticism of contemporary culture.

Although Wittgenstein is the central figure in this volume, Janik places considerable emphasis on other influential figures, both Viennese and non-Viennese, in order to break down some of the persistent stereotypes about the philosopher and his surrounding culture, especially the myths of "carefree" Vienna and Wittgenstein the positivist. The persistence of these myths, in Janik's view, stems in part from the inability of many historians to differentiate past from present in the evaluation of intellectual currents. Janik reviews a number of figures overlooked in assessing Wittgenstein: Otto Weininger, Kraus, Schoenberg, Nietzsche, Wagner, Ibsen, Offenbach, and Georg Trakl. All of these, Janik demonstrates, are absolutely necessary to understand what was at stake in the debates on aestheticism and the critique of a modern culture.

Wittgenstein's efforts to recognize the limits of thought and language and thus to be fair to science, religion, and art account for his place of honor among critical modernists. These essays elucidate Wittgenstein's perspective on our culture.

Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion (Hardcover, New): Mark Addis, Robert L. Arrington Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion (Hardcover, New)
Mark Addis, Robert L. Arrington
R4,458 Discovery Miles 44 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


An exciting introduction to the contribution which the later Wittgenstein made to the philosophy of religion. Although his writings on the subject have been few, Wittgenstein developed influential and controversial theories on both religion (and magic) which emphasise the distinctive nature of religious discourse and how this nature can be misunderstood when viewed in direct competition with science.
The contributors of this collection shed new light on the perennial debate between faith and reason. The result is a collection that is both informative and stimulating.

eBook available with sample pages: 0203462580

The Relevance of Phenomenology to the Philosophy of Language and Mind (Hardcover): Sean D. Kelly The Relevance of Phenomenology to the Philosophy of Language and Mind (Hardcover)
Sean D. Kelly
R4,158 Discovery Miles 41 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This work discusses philosophical problems of perceptual content, the content of deomonstrative thoughts, and the unity of proposition. By demonstrating a connection between phenomenology and analysis, Kelly suggests ways in which they can be fruitfully pursued.

Metaphysicians of Meaning - Frege and Russell on Sense and Denotation (Hardcover): Gideon Makin Metaphysicians of Meaning - Frege and Russell on Sense and Denotation (Hardcover)
Gideon Makin
R4,463 Discovery Miles 44 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Russell's "On Denoting" and Frege's "On Sense and Reference" are now widely held to be two of the founding papers of 20th-century philosophy and form the heart of the famous "linguistic turn". They have generated a wealth of secondary literature and remain at the forefront of contemporary discussion in philosophy of language, thought and logic. This book challenges the accepted understanding of these two seminal papers. It forces us to reconsider contemporary approaches to the semantics of proper names and definite descriptions through a historically sensitive interpretation of Russell's and Frege's work on meaning. Gideon Makin compares the work Russell did shortly before his famous essay "On Denoting" with the essay itself and argues that this comparison shows that the traditional view of the problem Russell was trying to solve is untenable. Makin then examines Frege's classic essay and argues that some of the less well-known views that Frege held have radical implications for our understanding of this essay.

Metaphysicians of Meaning - Frege and Russell on Sense and Denotation (Paperback): Gideon Makin Metaphysicians of Meaning - Frege and Russell on Sense and Denotation (Paperback)
Gideon Makin
R1,520 Discovery Miles 15 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Russell's "On Denoting" and Frege's "On Sense and Reference" are now widely held to be two of the founding papers of 20th-century philosophy and form the heart of the famous "linguistic turn". They have generated a wealth of secondary literature and remain at the forefront of contemporary discussion in philosophy of language, thought and logic. This book challenges the accepted understanding of these two seminal papers. It forces us to reconsider contemporary approaches to the semantics of proper names and definite descriptions through a historically sensitive interpretation of Russell's and Frege's work on meaning. Gideon Makin compares the work Russell did shortly before his famous essay "On Denoting" with the essay itself and argues that this comparison shows that the traditional view of the problem Russell was trying to solve is untenable. Makin then examines Frege's classic essay and argues that some of the less well-known views that Frege held have radical implications for our understanding of this essay.

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