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Psychological Index; an Annual Bibliography of the Literature of Psychology and Cognate Subjects; 9-10 (Hardcover): Anonymous Psychological Index; an Annual Bibliography of the Literature of Psychology and Cognate Subjects; 9-10 (Hardcover)
Anonymous
R941 Discovery Miles 9 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Spiritual Exercises for the Postmodern Christian (Hardcover): Matthew C Kruger Spiritual Exercises for the Postmodern Christian (Hardcover)
Matthew C Kruger
R995 R845 Discovery Miles 8 450 Save R150 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Knowledge, Number and Reality - Encounters with the Work of Keith Hossack (Hardcover): Nils Kurbis, Bahram Assadian, Jonathan... Knowledge, Number and Reality - Encounters with the Work of Keith Hossack (Hardcover)
Nils Kurbis, Bahram Assadian, Jonathan Nassim
R3,208 Discovery Miles 32 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Throughout his career, Keith Hossack has made outstanding contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics and the philosophy of mathematics. This collection of previously unpublished papers begins with a focus on Hossack's conception of the nature of knowledge, his metaphysics of facts and his account of the relations between knowledge, agents and facts. Attention moves to Hossack's philosophy of mind and the nature of consciousness, before turning to the notion of necessity and its interaction with a priori knowledge. Hossack's views on the nature of proof, logical truth, conditionals and generality are discussed in depth. In the final chapters, questions about the identity of mathematical objects and our knowledge of them take centre stage, together with questions about the necessity and generality of mathematical and logical truths. Knowledge, Number and Reality represents some of the most vibrant discussions taking place in analytic philosophy today.

Four Lectures on Relativity and Space (Hardcover): Charles Proteus Steinmetz Four Lectures on Relativity and Space (Hardcover)
Charles Proteus Steinmetz; Created by Inc McGraw-Hill Book Company
R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Materialist Phenomenology - A Philosophy of Perception (Hardcover): Manuel Delanda Materialist Phenomenology - A Philosophy of Perception (Hardcover)
Manuel Delanda
R2,178 Discovery Miles 21 780 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Bringing together phenomenology and materialism, two perspectives seemingly at odds with each other, leading international theorist, Manuel DeLanda, has created an entirely new theory of visual perception. Engaging the scientific (biology, ecological psychology, neuroscience and robotics), the philosophical (idea of 'the embodied mind') and the mathematical (dynamic systems theory) to form a synthesis of how to see in the 21st century. A transdisciplinary and rigorous analysis of how vision shapes what matters.

The Ethical Imagination in Shakespeare and Heidegger (Hardcover): Andy Amato The Ethical Imagination in Shakespeare and Heidegger (Hardcover)
Andy Amato
R3,898 Discovery Miles 38 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While large bodies of scholarship exist on the plays of Shakespeare and the philosophy of Heidegger, this book is the first to read these two influential figures alongside one another, and to reveal how they can help us develop a creative and contemplative sense of ethics, or an 'ethical imagination'. Following the increased interest in reading Shakespeare philosophically, it seems only fitting that an encounter take place between the English language's most prominent poet and the philosopher widely considered to be central to continental philosophy. Interpreting the plays of Shakespeare through the writings of Heidegger and vice versa, each chapter pairs a select play with a select work of philosophy. In these pairings the themes, events, and arguments of each work are first carefully unpacked, and then key passages and concepts are taken up and read against and through one another. As these hermeneutic engagements and cross-readings unfold we find that the words and deeds of Shakespeare's characters uniquely illuminate, and are uniquely illuminated by, Heidegger's phenomenological analyses of being, language, and art.

The 5th Phenomenon - Awareness Field Theory and the Structured Orders Of Consciousness (Hardcover): Robert a Revel The 5th Phenomenon - Awareness Field Theory and the Structured Orders Of Consciousness (Hardcover)
Robert a Revel
R757 Discovery Miles 7 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
After Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Aesthetic Revolutions (Hardcover): Oana Serban After Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Aesthetic Revolutions (Hardcover)
Oana Serban
R4,012 Discovery Miles 40 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book reflects the most recent research devoted to a systematized perspective and a critical (re)construction of previous theoretical attempts of explaining, justifying and continuing Kuhn's ingenious hypothesis in arts. Hofstadter, Clignet and Habermas revealed to be the most engaged scholars in solving this aesthetic "puzzled-problem". In this context, the structural similarities between science and arts are attentively evaluated, thus satisfying an older concern attributed to the historical Kuhn-Kubler dispute, extensively commented along the pages of this book. How can we track the matter of rationality and truth in art and aesthetics, inspired by scientific perspectives? Are artistic styles similar to scientific paradigms? Are we entitled to pursue paradigms and masterpieces as rational models in science, respectively in arts? On what possible grounds can we borrow from science notions such as progress and predictability, in the study of the evolution of art and its aesthetic backgrounds? Are the historical dynamics of science and art affected by political factors in the same manner? This book will be of interest to philosophers, but also to historians of science and historians of art alike in the reassessment it provides of recent debates on reshaping the art world using Kuhn's "paradigm shift".

The Philosophy of the Mazdayasnian Religion Under the Sassanids - Translated From the French With Prefatory Remarks, Notes, and... The Philosophy of the Mazdayasnian Religion Under the Sassanids - Translated From the French With Prefatory Remarks, Notes, and a Brief Biographical Sketch of the Author (Hardcover)
Louis Charles 1852-1925 Casartelli; Created by Firoz Jamaspji Dastur Jamasp Asa
R928 Discovery Miles 9 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Advances in Peircean Mathematics - The Colombian School (Hardcover): Fernando Zalamea Advances in Peircean Mathematics - The Colombian School (Hardcover)
Fernando Zalamea
R3,889 Discovery Miles 38 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book explores Peirce's non standard thoughts on a synthetic continuum, topological logics, existential graphs, and relational semiotics, offering full mathematical developments on these areas. More precisely, the following new advances are offered: (1) two extensions of Peirce's existential graphs, to intuitionistic logics (a new symbol for implication), and other non-classical logics (new actions on nonplanar surfaces); (2) a complete formalization of Peirce's continuum, capturing all Peirce's original demands (genericity, supermultitudeness, reflexivity, modality), thanks to an inverse ordinally iterated sheaf of real lines; (3) an array of subformalizations and proofs of Peirce's pragmaticist maxim, through methods in category theory, HoTT techniques, and modal logics. The book will be relevant to Peirce scholars, mathematicians, and philosophers alike, thanks to thorough assessments of Peirce's mathematical heritage, compact surveys of the literature, and new perspectives offered through formal and modern mathematizations of the topics studied.

The History and Philosophy of Science:  A Reader (Hardcover, HPOD): Daniel McKaughan, Holly Vande Wall The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader (Hardcover, HPOD)
Daniel McKaughan, Holly Vande Wall
R5,034 Discovery Miles 50 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader brings together seminal texts from antiquity to the end of the nineteenth century and makes them accessible in one volume for the first time. With readings from Aristotle, Aquinas, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Lavoisier, Linnaeus, Darwin, Faraday, and Maxwell, it analyses and discusses major classical, medieval and modern texts and figures from the natural sciences. Grouped by topic to clarify the development of methods and disciplines and the unification of theories, each section includes an introduction, suggestions for further reading and end-of-section discussion questions, allowing students to develop the skills needed to: read, interpret, and critically engage with central problems and ideas from the history and philosophy of science understand and evaluate scientific material found in a wide variety of professional and popular settings appreciate the social and cultural context in which scientific ideas emerge identify the roles that mathematics plays in scientific inquiry Featuring primary sources in all the core scientific fields - astronomy, physics, chemistry, and the life sciences - The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader is ideal for students looking to better understand the origins of natural science and the questions asked throughout its history. By taking a thematic approach to introduce influential assumptions, methods and answers, this reader illustrates the implications of an impressive range of values and ideas across the history and philosophy of Western science.

Deleuze and Guattari's 'What is Philosophy?' - A Reader's Guide (Hardcover, New): Rex Butler Deleuze and Guattari's 'What is Philosophy?' - A Reader's Guide (Hardcover, New)
Rex Butler
R2,857 Discovery Miles 28 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What is Philosophy? is the last instalment of a remarkable twenty-year collaboration between the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Felix Guattari. This hugely important text attempts to explain the terms of their collaboration and to define the activity of philosophy in which they have been engaged. A major contribution to contemporary Continental philosophy, it nevertheless remains distinctly challenging for readers faced for the first time with Deleuze and Guattari's unusual and somewhat allusive style. Deleuze and Guattari's 'What is Philosophy?': A Reader's Guide offers a concise and accessible introduction to this hugely important and yet challenging work. Written specifically to meet the needs of students coming to Deleuze and Guattari for the first time, the book offers guidance on: - Philosophical and historical context - Key themes - Reading the text - Reception and influence - Further reading

Karl Popper, Science and Enightenment (Hardcover): Nicholas Maxwell Karl Popper, Science and Enightenment (Hardcover)
Nicholas Maxwell
R1,433 Discovery Miles 14 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed (Hardcover): Peter Mahon Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed (Hardcover)
Peter Mahon
R4,241 Discovery Miles 42 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Peter Mahon goes beyond recent theoretical approaches to 'the posthuman' to argue for a concrete posthumanism, which arises as humans, animals and technology become entangled, in science, society and culture. Concrete posthumanism is rooted in cutting-edge advances in techno-science, and this book offers readers an exciting, fresh and innovative exploration of this undulating, and often unstable, terrain. With wide-ranging coverage, of cybernetics, information theory, medicine, genetics, machine learning, politics, science fiction, philosophy and futurology, Mahon examines how posthumanism played-and continues to play-a crucial role in shaping how we understand our world. This analysis of posthumanism centers on human interactions with tools and technology, the centrality of science, as well as an understanding of techno-science as a pharmakon-an ancient Greek word for a substance that is both poison and cure. Mahon argues that posthumanism must be approached with an interdisciplinary attitude: a concrete posthumanism is only graspable through knowledge derived from science and the humanities. He concludes by sketching a 'post-humanities' to help us meet the challenges of posthumanism, challenges to which we all must rise. Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed provides a concise, detailed and coherent exploration of posthumanism, introducing key approaches, concepts and themes. It is ideal for readers of all stripes who are interested in a concrete posthumanism and require more than just a simple introduction.

Metaphysic In Three Books Vol I (Hardcover): Hermann Lotze Metaphysic In Three Books Vol I (Hardcover)
Hermann Lotze
R1,040 Discovery Miles 10 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Evolution And Mans Place In Nature (Hardcover): Henry Calderwood Evolution And Mans Place In Nature (Hardcover)
Henry Calderwood
R942 Discovery Miles 9 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Saul and Samuel at Endor, or, The New Waies of Salvation and Service ... (Hardcover): Daniel 1616-1695 Brevint Saul and Samuel at Endor, or, The New Waies of Salvation and Service ... (Hardcover)
Daniel 1616-1695 Brevint; Created by Frank Baker Collection of Wesleyana and
R1,041 Discovery Miles 10 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Between Daily Routine and Violent Protest - Interpreting the Technicity of Action (Hardcover): Ernst Wolff Between Daily Routine and Violent Protest - Interpreting the Technicity of Action (Hardcover)
Ernst Wolff
R3,127 Discovery Miles 31 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Most human action has a technical dimension. This book examines four components of this technical dimension. First, in all actions, various individual, organizational or institutional agents combine actional capabilities with tools, institutions, infrastructure and other elements by means of which they act. Second, the deployment of capabilities and means is permeated by ethical aspirations and hesitancies. Third, all domains of action are affected by these ethical dilemmas. Fourth, the dimensions of the technicity of action are typical of human life in general, and not just a regional or culturally specific phenomenon. In this study, an interdisciplinary approach is adopted to encompass the broad anthropological scope of this study and combine this bigger picture with detailed attention to the socio-historical particularities of action as it plays out in different contexts. Hermeneutics (the philosophical inquiry into the human phenomena of meaning, understanding and interpretation) and social science (as the study of all human affairs) are the two main disciplinary orientations of this book. This study clarifies the technical dimension of the entire spectrum of human action ranging from daily routine to the extreme of violent protest.

The Essentials of Habermas (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Xunwu Chen The Essentials of Habermas (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Xunwu Chen
R3,382 Discovery Miles 33 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers a conceptual map of Habermas' philosophy and a systematic introduction to his work. It does so by systematically examining six defining themes-modernity, discourse ethics, truth and justice, public law and constitutional democracy, cosmopolitanism, and toleration-of Habermas' philosophy as well as their inner logic. The text distinguishes itself in content and perspective by offering a very clear conceptual map and by providing a new interpretation of Habermas' views in light of his overarching system. In terms of scope, the book touches upon Habermas' broad range of works. As for method, the text illustrates key concepts in his philosophy making it a useful reference aid. It appeals to students and scholars in the field looking for a current introductory text or supplementary reading on Habermas.

concepts - a travelogue (Hardcover): Bernd Herzogenrath concepts - a travelogue (Hardcover)
Bernd Herzogenrath
R3,379 Discovery Miles 33 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Concepts seem to work best when created in that interspace between theory and praxis, between philosophy, art, and science. Deleuze himself has generated many concepts in this encounter between philosophy and non-philosophy (art, literature, film, botany, etc): his ideas of affects and percepts, of becoming, the stutter, movement-image and time-image, the rhizome, to name but a few. In the case of this volume, the "other" is the "other" to English language/culture (and its philosophy): what happens, if instead of "other disciplines," we take other cultures, other languages, other philosophies? Does not the focus on English as a hegemonic language of academic discourse deny us a plethora of possibilities, of possible Denkfiguren, of possible concepts? This collection is a kind of travelogue. The journey does not follow a particular trajectory-some countries are not on the map; some are visited twice. So, there is no claim to completeness involved here-it is rather an invitation to answer to the call ... there is much to explore!

Preparation for Natural Theology - With Kant's Notes and the Danzig Rational Theology Transcript (Hardcover): Courtney D.... Preparation for Natural Theology - With Kant's Notes and the Danzig Rational Theology Transcript (Hardcover)
Courtney D. Fugate, John Hymers; Johann August Eberhard
R5,963 Discovery Miles 59 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Designed as a textbook for use in courses on natural theology and used by Immanuel Kant as the basis for his Lectures on The Philosophical Doctrine of Religion, Johan August Eberhard's Preparation for Natural Theology (1781) is now available in English for the first time. With a strong focus on the various intellectual debates and historically significant texts in late renaissance and early modern theology, Preparation for Natural Theology influenced the way Kant thought about practical cognition as well as moral and religious concepts. Access to Eberhard's complete text makes it possible to distinguish where in the lectures Kant is making changes to what Eberhard has written and where he is articulating his own ideas. Identifying new unexplored lines of research, this translation provides a deeper understanding of Kant's explicitly religious doctrines and his central moral writings, such as the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and the Critique of Practical Reason. Accompanied by Kant's previously untranslated handwritten notes on Eberhard's text as well as the Danzig transcripts of Kant's course on rational theology, Preparation for Natural Theology features a dual English-German / German-English glossary, a concordance and an introduction situating the book in relation to 18th-century theology and philosophy. This is a significant contribution to twenty-first century Kantian studies.

Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism - Mind, Matter, and the Life Sciences after Kant (Hardcover): Edgar Landgraf, Gabriel Trop,... Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism - Mind, Matter, and the Life Sciences after Kant (Hardcover)
Edgar Landgraf, Gabriel Trop, Leif Weatherby
R4,241 Discovery Miles 42 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The literary and scientific renaissance that struck Germany around 1800 is usually taken to be the cradle of contemporary humanism. Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism shows how figures like Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe as well as scientists specializing in the emerging modern life and cognitive sciences not only established but also transgressed the boundaries of the "human." This period so broadly painted as humanist by proponents and detractors alike also grappled with ways of challenging some of humanism's most cherished assumptions: the dualisms, for example, between freedom and nature, science and art, matter and spirit, mind and body, and thereby also between the human and the nonhuman. Posthumanism is older than we think, and the so-called "humanists" of the late Enlightenment have much to offer our contemporary re-thinking of the human.

How to Sleep - The Art, Biology and Culture of Unconsciousness (Hardcover): Matthew Fuller How to Sleep - The Art, Biology and Culture of Unconsciousness (Hardcover)
Matthew Fuller
R3,197 Discovery Miles 31 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sleep is quite a popular activity, indeed most humans spend around a third of their lives asleep. However, cultural, political, or aesthetic thought tends to remain concerned with the interpretation and actions of those who are awake. How to Sleep argues instead that sleep is a complex vital phenomena with a dynamic aesthetic and biological consistency. Arguing through examples drawn from contemporary, modern and renaissance art; from literature; film and computational media, and bringing these into relation with the history and findings of sleep science, this book argues for a new interplay between biology and culture. Meditations on sex, exhaustion, drugs, hormones and scientific instruments all play their part in this wide-ranging exposition of sleep as an ecology of interacting processes. How to Sleep builds on the interlocking of theory, experience and experiment so that the text itself is a lively articulation of bodies, organs and the aesthetic systems that interact with them. This book won't enhance your sleeping skills, but will give you something surprising to think about whilst being ostensibly awake.

Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy (Hardcover): Helen De Cruz, Ryan Nichols Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy (Hardcover)
Helen De Cruz, Ryan Nichols
R4,580 Discovery Miles 45 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Experimental philosophy has blossomed into a variety of philosophical fields including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of language. But there has been very little experimental philosophical research in the domain of philosophy of religion. Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy demonstrates how cognitive science of religion has the methodological and conceptual resources to become a form of experimental philosophy of religion. Addressing a wide variety of empirical claims that are of interest to philosophers and psychologists of religion, a team of psychologists and philosophers apply data from the psychology of religion to important problems in the philosophy of religion including the psychology of religious diversity; the psychology of substance dualism; the problem of evil and the relation between religious belief and empathy; and the cognitive science explaining the formation of intuitions that unwittingly guide philosophers of religion when formulating arguments. Bringing together authors and researchers who have made important contributions to interdisciplinary research on religion in the last decade, Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy provides new ways of approaching core philosophical and psychological problems.

Authentic Being - Dynamic Creativity (Hardcover): James R. McCartney Authentic Being - Dynamic Creativity (Hardcover)
James R. McCartney
R756 Discovery Miles 7 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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