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Unmixing the Intellect - Aristotle on Cognitive Powers and Bodily Organs (Hardcover, New): Joseph Magee Unmixing the Intellect - Aristotle on Cognitive Powers and Bodily Organs (Hardcover, New)
Joseph Magee
R3,152 Discovery Miles 31 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In recent years the majority of scholarship on Aristotle's philosophy of mind has concentrated on his account of sensation and has generally sought to find in his ancient account insights applicable to contemporary materialistic explanations of mental life. Challenging cognitivist and functionalist interpretations, this volume argues that Aristotle believed the mind to be unmixed, or separate from the body. Through careful textual analysis of De Anima and other key texts, the author shows that the Greek philosopher made a clear distinction between perception-an activity realized in material sense organs-and thinking-a process that cannot occur in any material organ. This innovative interpretation of Aristotle's theory of cognitive activities is a worthy contribution to an ongoing debate.

Suggestion and Auto-Suggestion (Hardcover): William Walker Atkinson Suggestion and Auto-Suggestion (Hardcover)
William Walker Atkinson
R795 Discovery Miles 7 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A philosophical study by W.W. Atkinson, Suggestion and Auto-Suggestion is written, in his usual style, like an essay on suggestion. In other words, he discusses the definition of suggestion, the different forms it takes (such as authority, habit, imitation, character, and so on), the influence of suggestion, and how suggestion can be healthy and therapeutic, plus build character. As always, Atkinson is descriptive and holds the readers attention with anecdotes and examples. American writer WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON (1862-1932) was editor of the popular magazine New Thought from 1901 to 1905, and editor of the journal Advanced Thought from 1916 to 1919. He authored dozens of New Thought books under numerous pseudonyms, including "Yogi," some of which are likely still unknown today.

Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality (Hardcover): Alvin Plantinga Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality (Hardcover)
Alvin Plantinga; Edited by Matthew Davidson
R3,978 Discovery Miles 39 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume collects the most important articles on the metaphysics of modality by noted philosopher Alvin Plantinga. The book chronicles Plantinga's thought from the late 1960's to the present. Plantinga is here concerned with fundamental issues in metaphysics: what is the nature of abstract objects like possible worlds,properties, propositions, and such phenomena? Are there possible but non-actual objects? Can objects that do not exist exemplify properties? In this thorough and searching book, Plantinga addresses these and many other questions that continue to preoccupy philosophers in the field. This volume contains some of the best work in metaphysics from the past 30 years, and will remain a source of critical contention and keen interest among philosophers of metaphysics and philosophical logic for years to come.

From Concept to Objectivity - Thinking Through Hegel's Subjective Logic (Paperback, New Ed): Richard Dien Winfield From Concept to Objectivity - Thinking Through Hegel's Subjective Logic (Paperback, New Ed)
Richard Dien Winfield
R1,497 Discovery Miles 14 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From Concept to Objectivity uncovers the nature and authority of conceptual determination by critically thinking through neglected arguments in Hegel's Science of Logic pivotal for understanding reason and its role in philosophy. Winfield clarifies the logical problems of presuppositionlessness and determinacy that prepare the way for conceiving the concept, examines how universality, particularity, and individuality are determined, investigates how judgment and syllogism are exhaustively differentiated, and, on that basis, explores how objectivity can be categorized without casting thought in irrevocable opposition to reality. Winfield's book will be of interest to readers of Hegel as well as anyone wondering how thought can be objective.

African Metaphysics, Epistemology and a New Logic - A Decolonial Approach to Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Jonathan  O.... African Metaphysics, Epistemology and a New Logic - A Decolonial Approach to Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Jonathan O. Chimakonam, L. Uchenna Ogbonnaya
R3,119 Discovery Miles 31 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book focuses on African metaphysics and epistemology, and is an exercise in decoloniality. The authors describe their approach to "decoloniality" as an intellectual repudiation of coloniality, using the method of conversational thinking grounded in Ezumezu logic. Focusing specifically on both African metaphysics and African epistemology, the authors put forward theories formulated to stimulate fresh debates and extend the frontiers of learning in the field. They emphasize that this book is not a project in comparative philosophy, nor is it geared towards making Africa/ns the object/subjects of philosophy. Rather, the book highlights and discusses philosophical insights that have been produced from the African perspective, which the authors argue must be further developed in order to achieve decoloniality in the field of philosophy more broadly.

Resemblance Nominalism - A Solution to the Problem of Universals (Hardcover): Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Resemblance Nominalism - A Solution to the Problem of Universals (Hardcover)
Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
R3,937 Discovery Miles 39 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra offers a fresh philosophical account of properties. How is it that two different things (such as two red roses) can share the same property (redness)? According to resemblance nominalism, things have their properties in virtue of resembling other things. This unfashionable view is championed with clarity and rigour.

The Question of Being in Western and African Analytic Metaphysics - Comparative Metaphysics Using the Analytic Framework... The Question of Being in Western and African Analytic Metaphysics - Comparative Metaphysics Using the Analytic Framework (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Grivas Muchineripi Kayange
R3,123 Discovery Miles 31 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The main aim of this book is to discuss fundamental developments on the question of being in Western and African philosophy using analytic metaphysics as a framework. It starts with the two orthodox responses to the question of being, namely, the subject-verb-object language view and the rheomodic language view. In the first view, being is conceived through the analysis of language structure, where it is represented by subjects (particulars), objects, and relations (often universals). In the second view, there are different variations; however, the common idea is that the world's structure is revealed in the root verb of terms. This suggests a holistic and dynamic conception of being, where everything is in a continuous process of action. The book builds on analytic philosophy and explores metaphysical concepts such as space-time, modality, causation, indeterminism versus determinism, and mind and body. The book shows that in both Western and African thought, (i) similarities in different studies confirm that philosophy is a universal activity, (ii) differences within a context and beyond confirm the perspectival nature of human knowledge as individuals attempt to interpret reality, and (iii) language influences the conceptualization of being in a particular area. One of the novel aspects is the development of visual and mathematical African models of space and time.

Models, Truth, and Realism (Hardcover): Barry Taylor Models, Truth, and Realism (Hardcover)
Barry Taylor
R3,275 Discovery Miles 32 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Barry Taylor's book mounts an argument against one of the fundamental tenets of much contemporary philosophy, the idea that we can make sense of reality as existing objectively, independently of our capacities to come to know it. Part One sets the scene by arguings that traditional realism can be explicated as a doctrine about truth - that truth is objective, that is, public, bivalent, and epistemically independent. Part Two, the centrepiece of the book, shows how a form of Hilary Putnam's model-theoretic argument demonstrates that no such notion of truth can be founded on the idea of correspondence, as explained in model-theoretic terms (more traditional accounts of correspondence having been already disposed of in Part One). Part Three argues that non-correspondence accounts of truth - truth as superassertibility or idealized rational acceptability, formal conceptions of truth, Tarskian truth - also fail to meet the criteria for objectivity; along the way, it also dismisses the claims of the latterday views of Putnam, and of similar views articulated by John McDowell, to constitute a new, less traditional form of realism. In the Coda, Taylor bolsters some of the considerations advanced in Part Three in evaluating formal conceptions of truth, by assessing and rejecting the claims of Robert Brandom to have combined such an account of truth with a satisfactory account of semantic structure. He concludes that there is no defensible notion of truth which preserves the theses of traditional realism, nor any extant position sufficiently true to the ideals of that doctrine to inherit its title. So the only question remaining is which form of antirealism to adopt.

Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 2 (Hardcover): Laura M. Castelli Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 2 (Hardcover)
Laura M. Castelli
R3,549 Discovery Miles 35 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Aristotle's Topics is a handbook for dialectic, which can be understood as a philosophical debate between a questioner and a respondent. In book 2, Aristotle mainly develops strategies for making deductions about 'accidents', which are properties that might or might not belong to a subject (for instance, Socrates has five fingers, but might have had six), and about properties that simply belong to a subject without further specification. In the present commentary, here translated into English for the first time, Alexander develops a careful study of Aristotle's text. He preserves objections and replies from other philosophers whose work is now lost, such as the Stoics. He also offers an invaluable picture of the tradition of Aristotelian logic down to his time, including innovative attempts to unify Aristotle's guidance for dialectic with his general theory of deductive argument (the syllogism), found in the Analytics. The work will be of interest not only for its perspective on ancient logic, rhetoric, and debate, but also for its continuing influence on argument in the Middle Ages and later.

Comrades In Arms (Hardcover): John Travers Comrades In Arms (Hardcover)
John Travers
R864 Discovery Miles 8 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
From Deleuze and Guattari to Posthumanism - Philosophies of Immanence (Hardcover): Christine Daigle, Terrance H. McDonald From Deleuze and Guattari to Posthumanism - Philosophies of Immanence (Hardcover)
Christine Daigle, Terrance H. McDonald
R3,387 Discovery Miles 33 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Uncovering the theoretical and creative interconnections between posthumanism and philosophies of immanence, this volume explores the influence of the philosophy of immanence on posthuman theory; the varied reworkings of immanence for the nonhuman turn; and the new pathways for critical thinking created by the combination of these monumental discourses. With the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari serving as a vibrant node of immanence, this volume maps a multiplicity of pathways from Deleuze, Guattari and their theoretical allies - including Spinoza and Nietzsche - to posthuman thought. As positions that insist, respectively, on the equal yet distinct powers of mind and body (immanence) and the urgent need to dismantle human privilege and exceptionality (posthumanism), each chapter reveals concepts for rethinking established notions of being, thought, experience, and life. The authors here take examples from a range of different media, including literature and contemporary cinema, featuring films such as Enthiran/The Robot (India, 2010) and CHAPPiE (USA/Mexico, 2015), and new developments in technology and theory. In doing so, they investigate Deleuzian and Guattarian posthumanism from a variety of political and ethical frameworks and perspectives, from afro-pessimism to feminist thought, disability studies, biopolitics, and social justice. Countering the dualisms of Cartesian philosophy and flattening the hierarchies imposed by Humanism, From Deleuze and Guattari to Posthumanism launches vital interrogations of established knowledge and sparks the critical reflection necessary for life in the posthuman era.

A Not-So-Elementary Christian Metaphysics - Volume Two (Hardcover): Peter Redpath A Not-So-Elementary Christian Metaphysics - Volume Two (Hardcover)
Peter Redpath
R891 Discovery Miles 8 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Categories We Live By - The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories (Hardcover): Asta Categories We Live By - The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories (Hardcover)
Asta
R2,849 Discovery Miles 28 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

We are women, we are men. We are refugees, single mothers, people with disabilities, and queers. We belong to social categories and they frame our actions, self-understanding, and opportunities. But what are social categories? How are they created and sustained? How does one come to belong to them? Asta approaches these questions through analytic feminist metaphysics. Her theory of social categories centers on an answer to the question: what is it for a feature of an individual to be socially meaningful? In a careful, probing investigation, she reveals how social categories are created and sustained and demonstrates their tendency to oppress through examples from current events. To this end, she offers an account of just what social construction is and how it works in a range of examples that problematize the categories of sex, gender, and race in particular. The main idea is that social categories are conferred upon people. Asta introduces a 'conferralist' framework in order to articulate a theory of social meaning, social construction, and most importantly, of the construction of sex, gender, race, disability, and other social categories.

The Possibility of Metaphysics - Substance, Identity, and Time (Hardcover, Revised): E.J Lowe The Possibility of Metaphysics - Substance, Identity, and Time (Hardcover, Revised)
E.J Lowe
R4,568 Discovery Miles 45 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Jonathan Lowe argues that metaphysics should be restored to a central position in philosophy, as the most fundamental form of inquiry, whose findings underpin those of all other disciplines. He portrays metaphysics as charting the possibilities of existence, by identifying the categories of being and the relations between them. He sets out his own original metaphysical system, within which he seeks to answer many of the deepest questions in philosophy.

Philosophy of Being (Hardcover): Gerard S J Smith, Lottie H Kendzierski Philosophy of Being (Hardcover)
Gerard S J Smith, Lottie H Kendzierski
R1,785 R1,455 Discovery Miles 14 550 Save R330 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
From an Ontological Point of View (Hardcover, New): John Heil From an Ontological Point of View (Hardcover, New)
John Heil
R3,905 Discovery Miles 39 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From an Ontological Point of View is a highly original and accessible exploration of fundamental questions about what there is. John Heil discusses such issues as whether the world includes levels of reality; the nature of objects and properties; the demands of realism; what makes things true; qualities, powers, and the relation these bear to one another. He advances an account of the fundamental constituents of the world around us, and applies this account to problems that have plagued recent work in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics (colour, intentionality, and the nature of consciousness).

Immanence and Illusion in Sartre's Ontology of Consciousness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Caleb Heldt Immanence and Illusion in Sartre's Ontology of Consciousness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Caleb Heldt
R1,518 Discovery Miles 15 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is a critical re-evaluation of Jean-Paul Sartre's phenomenological ontology, in which a theory of egological complicity and self-deception informing his later better known theory of bad faith is developed. This novel reinterpretation offers a systematic challenge to orthodox apprehensions of Sartre's conceputualization of transcendental consciousness and the role that the ego plays within his account of pre-reflective consciousness. Heldt persuasively demonstrates how an adequate comprehension of Sartre's theories of negation and reflection can reveal the world as it appears to human consciousness as one in which our reality is capable of becoming littered with illusions. As the foundation upon which the rest of Sartre's philosophical project is built, it is essential that the phenomenological ontology of Sartre's early writings be interpreted with clarity. This book provides such a reinterpretation. In doing so, a philosophical inquiry emerges which is genuinely contemporary in its aim and scope and which seeks to demonstrate the significance of Sartre's thought, not only as significant to the history of philosophy, but to ongoing debates in continental philosophy and philosophy of mind.

An Introduction to Bradley's Metaphysics (Hardcover, New): W.J. Mander An Introduction to Bradley's Metaphysics (Hardcover, New)
W.J. Mander
R4,451 Discovery Miles 44 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

F. H. Bradley was the greatest of the British Idealists, but for much of this century his views have been neglected, primarily as a result of the severe criticism to which they were subjected by Russell and Moore. In recent years, however, there has been a resurgence of interest in and a widespread reappraisal of his work. W. J. Mander offers a general introduction to Bradley's metaphysics and its logical foundations, and shows that much of his philosophy has been seriously misunderstood. Dr Mander argues that any adequate treatment of Bradley's thought must take full account of his unique dual inheritance from the traditions of British empiricism and Hegelian rationalism. The scholarship of recent years is assessed, and new interpretations are offered of Bradley's views about truth, predication, and relations, and of his arguments for idealism. This book is a clear and helpful guide for those new to this difficult but fascinating thinker, and at the same time an original and stimulating contribution to the re-evaluation of his work.

Telepathy - Its Theory, Facts, and Proof (Hardcover): William Walker Atkinson Telepathy - Its Theory, Facts, and Proof (Hardcover)
William Walker Atkinson
R678 Discovery Miles 6 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Telepathy: Its Theory, Facts, and Proof discusses the theme of telepathy and its existence. Focusing on proving that telepathy is real, author W.W. Atkinson first defines his subject, telepathy, and goes on to describe a series of scientific experiments and their results to theorize that telepathy is real and useful. While focusing on the realm of the otherworldly and therefore introducing debate, Atkinson's work is enjoyable to read either for pleasure or study, and as always he includes useful examples and stories for the reader to follow. American writer WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON (1862-1932) was editor of the popular magazine New Thought from 1901 to 1905, and editor of the journal Advanced Thought from 1916 to 1919. He authored dozens of New Thought books under numerous pseudonyms, including "Yogi," some of which are likely still unknown today.

Inevitability - Determinism, Fatalism, and Destiny (Hardcover): Leonard W. Doob Inevitability - Determinism, Fatalism, and Destiny (Hardcover)
Leonard W. Doob
R2,759 Discovery Miles 27 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Doob's central thesis is that some beliefs function mainly to help the believer cope with life's uncertainties. The coping mechanism that is the focus of Doob's book is a belief that certain things in life are inevitable. . . . Doob methodically explores the origin and nature of inevitablility beliefs, and like his pervious titles in social psychology, this is a theoretical analysis. . . . The book is well written and carefully organized but demanding to read; Doob attributes this to the inherent difficulty of the subject--he is probably right. Choice This book examines the ways in which human beings seek to cope with uncertainty by means of doctrines that postulate degrees of inevitability. These doctrines originate in natural science, social science, philosophy, and religion. Their adequacies and inadequacies are carefully assessed, with special reference to the ways in which they deal with intervention by the very persons who would reduce uncertainty. The possibility of intervention in turn raises questions concerning freedom and responsibility that challenge people in all societies and throughout the lifespan.

From Physics to Faith (Hardcover): Mackenzie Neufeld From Physics to Faith (Hardcover)
Mackenzie Neufeld
R591 Discovery Miles 5 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Philosophy and Psychology of Time (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Bruno Moelder, Valtteri Arstila, Peter Ohrstrom Philosophy and Psychology of Time (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Bruno Moelder, Valtteri Arstila, Peter Ohrstrom
R2,579 R2,047 Discovery Miles 20 470 Save R532 (21%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is an edited collection of papers from international experts in philosophy and psychology concerned with time. The collection aims to bridge the gap between these disciplines by focussing on five key themes and providing philosophical and psychological perspectives on each theme. The first theme is the concept of time. The discussion ranges from the folk concept of time to the notion of time in logic, philosophy and psychology. The second theme concerns the notion of present in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and psychology. The third theme relates to continuity and flow of time in mind. One of the key questions in this section is how the apparent temporal continuity of conscious experience relates to the possibly discrete character of underlying neural processes. The fourth theme is the timing of experiences, with a focus on the perception of simultaneity and illusions of temporal order. Such effects are treated as test cases for hypotheses about the relationship between the subjective temporal order of experience and the objective order of neural events. The fifth and the final theme of the volume is time and intersubjectivity. This section examines the role of time in interpersonal coordination and in the development of social skills. The collection will appeal to both psychologists and philosophers, but also to researchers from other disciplines who seek an accessible overview of the research on time in psychology and philosophy.

Over the Human - Post-humanism and the Concept of Animal Epiphany (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Roberto Marchesini Over the Human - Post-humanism and the Concept of Animal Epiphany (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Roberto Marchesini
R2,376 Discovery Miles 23 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents a new way to understand human-animal interactions. Offering a profound discussion of topics such as human identity, our relationship with animals and the environment, and our culture, the author channels the vibrant Italian traditions of humanism, materialism, and speculative philosophy. The research presents a dialogue between the humanities and the natural sciences. It challenges the separation and oppression of animals with a post-humanism steeped in the traditions of the Italian Renaissance. Readers discover a vision of the human as a species informed by an intertwining with animals. The human being is not constructed by an onto-poetic process, but rather by close relations with otherness. The human system is increasingly unstable and, therefore, more hybrid. The argument it presents interests scholars, thinkers, and researchers. It also appeals to anyone who wants to delve into the deep animal-human bond and its philosophical, cultural, political instances. The author is a veterinarian, ethologist, and philosopher. He uses cognitive science, zooanthropology, and philosophy to engage in a series of empirical, theoretical, and practice-based engagements with animal life. In the process, he argues that animals are key to human identity and culture at all levels.

Wisdom - Integrating Torah and Science (Hardcover): Yitzchak Ginsburgh, Moshe Genuth Wisdom - Integrating Torah and Science (Hardcover)
Yitzchak Ginsburgh, Moshe Genuth
R1,105 Discovery Miles 11 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Metaepistemology - Realism and Anti-Realism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Christos Kyriacou, Robin Mckenna Metaepistemology - Realism and Anti-Realism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Christos Kyriacou, Robin Mckenna
R4,123 Discovery Miles 41 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book contains twelve chapters by leading and up-and-coming philosophers on metaepistemology, that is, on the nature, existence and authority of epistemic facts. One of the central divides in metaepistemology is between epistemic realists and epistemic anti-realists. Epistemic realists think that epistemic facts (such as the fact that you ought to believe what your evidence supports) exist independently of human judgements and practices, and that they have authority over our judgements and practices. Epistemic anti-realists think that, if epistemic facts exist at all, they are grounded in human judgements and practices, and gain any authority they have from our judgements and practices. This book considers both epistemic realist and anti-realist perspectives, as well as perspectives that 'transcend' the realism/anti-realism dichotomy. As such, it constitutes the 'state of the art' with regard to metaepistemology, and will shape the debate in years to come.

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