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Uncertain Values - An Axiomatic Approach to Axiological Uncertainty (Hardcover): Stefan Riedener Uncertain Values - An Axiomatic Approach to Axiological Uncertainty (Hardcover)
Stefan Riedener
R3,403 Discovery Miles 34 030 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.

The Descartes Dictionary (Hardcover): Kurt Smith The Descartes Dictionary (Hardcover)
Kurt Smith
R3,606 Discovery Miles 36 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"The Descartes Dictionary" is an accessible guide to the world of the seventeenth-century philosopher Rene Descartes. Meticulously researched and extensively cross-referenced, this unique book covers all his major works, ideas and influences, and provides a firm grounding in the central themes of Descartes' thought.The introduction provides a biographical sketch, a brief account of Descartes' philosophical works, and a summary of the current state of Cartesian studies, discussing trends in research over the past four decades. The A-Z entries include clear definitions of the key terms used in Descartes' writings and detailed synopses of his works. Also included are entries noting philosophical influences, of both figures that influenced Descartes and those that he in turn influenced. For anyone reading or studying Descartes, rationalism, or modern philosophy more generally, this original resource provides a wealth of useful information, analysis, and criticism. Including clear explanations of often complex terminology, "The Descartes Dictionary" covers everything that is essential to a sound understanding of Descartes' philosophy.

Edward Said and the Question of Subjectivity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Pannian Prasad Edward Said and the Question of Subjectivity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Pannian Prasad
R1,469 Discovery Miles 14 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Edward Said and the Question of Subjectivity explores the notion of subjectivity implicated in and articulated by Said in his writings. Analyzing several of his major works, Pannian argues that there is a shift in Said's intellectual trajectory that takes place after the composition of Orientalism. In so doing, Said forthrightly attempts to retrieve a theoretical and political humanism, as Pannian identifies, despite the difficult and sanguinary aspects of its past. He elaborates upon Said's understanding that only after recognising the structures of violence and coming to discern strategies of interpellation, may the individual subject effectively resist them. Pannian also explores Said's ideas on exilic subjectivity, the role of intellectuals, acts of memory, critical secularism, affiliation and solidarity before dwelling on his interface with Marxist thinkers such as Antonio Gramsci, Theodor Adorno, and Raymond Williams. This engagement marks Said's own subject formation, and shapes his self-reflexive mode of knowledge production.

Revisiting Aristotle's Fragments - New Essays on the Fragments of Aristotle's Lost Works (Hardcover): Antonio Pedro... Revisiting Aristotle's Fragments - New Essays on the Fragments of Aristotle's Lost Works (Hardcover)
Antonio Pedro Mesquita, Simon Noriega-Olmos, Christopher John Ignatius Shields
R3,498 Discovery Miles 34 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The philosophical and philological study of Aristotle fragments and lost works has fallen somewhat into the background since the 1960's. This is regrettable considering the different and innovative directions the study of Aristotle has taken in the last decades. This collection of new peer-reviewed essays applies the latest developments and trends of analysis, criticism, and methodology to the study of Aristotle's fragments. The individual essays use the fragments as tools of interpretation, shed new light on different areas of Aristotle philosophy, and lay bridges between Aristotle's lost and extant works. The first part shows how Aristotle frames parts of his own understanding of Philosophy in his published, 'popular' work. The second part deals with issues of philosophical interpretation in Aristotle's extant works which can be illuminated by fragments of his lost works. The philosophical issues treated in this section range from Theology to Natural Science, Psychology, Politics, and Poetics. As a whole, the book articulates a new approach to Aristotle's lost works, by providing a reassessment and new methodological explorations of the fragments.

Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature - South Africa's Wounded Feelings (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Mark Libin Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature - South Africa's Wounded Feelings (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Mark Libin
R1,476 Discovery Miles 14 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines South Africa's post-apartheid culture through the lens of affect theory in order to argue that the socio-political project of the "new" South Africa, best exemplified in their Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearings, was fundamentally an affective, emotional project. Through the TRC hearings, which publicly broadcast the testimonies of both victims and perpetrators of gross human rights violations, the African National Congress government of South Africa, represented by Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, endeavoured to generate powerful emotions of contrition and sympathy in order to build an empathetic bond between white and black citizens, a bond referred to frequently by Tutu in terms of the African philosophy of interconnection: ubuntu. This book explores the representations of affect, and the challenges of generating ubuntu, through close readings of a variety of cultural products: novels, poetry, memoir, drama, documentary film and audio anthology.

Wittgenstein, Education and the Problem of Rationality (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Michael A. Peters Wittgenstein, Education and the Problem of Rationality (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Michael A. Peters
R3,290 Discovery Miles 32 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book develops an argument for a historicist and non-foundationalist notion of rationality based on an interpretation of Wittgenstein of the Philosophical Investigations and On Certainty. The book examines two notions of rationality-a universal versus a constitutive conception - and their significance for educational theory. The former advanced by analytic philosophy of education as a form of conceptual analysis is based on a mistaken reading of Wittgenstein. Analytic philosophy of education used a reading of Wittgenstein's philosophy of language to set up and justify an absolute, universal and ahistorical notion of rationality. By contrast, the book examines the underlying influence of the later Wittgenstein on the historicist turn in philosophy of science as a basis for a non-foundationalist and constitutive notion of rationality which is both historical and cultural, and remains consistent with wider developments in philosophy, hermeneutics and social theory. This book aims to understand the philosophical motivation behind this view, to examine its intellectual underpinnings and to substitute this universal conception of rationality by reference to a Hegelian interpretation of the later Wittgenstein that emphasizes his status as an anti-foundational thinker.

Reinhold and Fichte in Confrontation - A Tale of Mutual Appreciation and Criticism (Hardcover): Martin Bondeli, Silvan Imhof Reinhold and Fichte in Confrontation - A Tale of Mutual Appreciation and Criticism (Hardcover)
Martin Bondeli, Silvan Imhof
R4,468 Discovery Miles 44 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From the early 1790s until after the turn of the century, a very productive but also controversial exchange took place between Reinhold and Fichte. Though many key aspects of post-Kantian philosophy were discussed, the philosophical confrontation between Reinhold and Fichte is most instructive for the understanding of post-Kantian philosophy. The exchange started when Fichte published his verdict on Reinhold's Elementarphilosophie and disapproved of its fundamental principle. In 1794 Fichte challenged Reinhold by presenting his Wissenschaftslehre. Reinhold was not convinced of Fichte's foundation of philosophy at first, but announced that he accepted the Wissenschaftslehre in 1797. While Reinhold and Fichte officially collaborated in the following three years, tensions concerning fundamental questions were still present. When Reinhold adopted Rational Realism, his relation to Fichte deteriorated and the exchange between the two finally ended. The contributions in the present collection focus on the central systematic issues at the different stages of the confrontation between Fichte and Reinhold, thereby illuminating questions that are essential to the understanding of the evolution of post-Kantian German philosophy.

Nietzsche My Sister and I (Hardcover): Walter Stewart Nietzsche My Sister and I (Hardcover)
Walter Stewart
R745 Discovery Miles 7 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Fifty-one years after the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche died, My Sister and I appeared on the American market as a book that was reputedly written by him when he was an inmate in the Jena insane asylum. Since the day it appeared, the book's authenticity has been generally dismissed as a fraud.Walter Stewart takes a fresh look at this book in what is the first detailed account of the myth, legend, and scholarly criticism that has shrouded this work in mystery for over half a century and for the first time unveils the real truth about My Sister and I.

Wisdom - Apprenticing to the Unknown and Befriending Fate (Hardcover): Paul Dunion Wisdom - Apprenticing to the Unknown and Befriending Fate (Hardcover)
Paul Dunion
R801 R674 Discovery Miles 6 740 Save R127 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Analytic Philosophy and the Later Wittgensteinian Tradition (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Paolo Tripodi Analytic Philosophy and the Later Wittgensteinian Tradition (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Paolo Tripodi
R3,619 Discovery Miles 36 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book aims to explain the decline of the later Wittgensteinian tradition in analytic philosophy during the second half of the twentieth century. Throughout the 1950s, Oxford was the center of analytic philosophy and Wittgenstein - the later Wittgenstein - the most influential contemporary thinker within that philosophical tradition. Wittgenstein's methods and ideas were widely accepted, with everything seeming to point to the Wittgensteinian paradigm having a similar impact on the philosophical scenes of all English speaking countries. However, this was not to be the case. By the 1980s, albeit still important, Wittgenstein was considered as a somewhat marginal thinker. What occurred within the history of analytic philosophy to produce such a decline? This book expertly traces the early reception of Wittgenstein in the United States, the shift in the humanities to a tradition rooted in the natural sciences, and the economic crisis of the mid-1970s, to reveal the factors that contributed to the eventual hostility towards the later Wittgensteinian tradition.

Stoicism - Gain Wisdom, Resilience and Calmness creating your Modern Stoic Routine (Hardcover): John Alison Stoicism - Gain Wisdom, Resilience and Calmness creating your Modern Stoic Routine (Hardcover)
John Alison
R1,073 Discovery Miles 10 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Dancing with Sophia - Integral Philosophy on the Verge (Paperback): Michael Schwartz, Sean Esbjoern-Hargens Dancing with Sophia - Integral Philosophy on the Verge (Paperback)
Michael Schwartz, Sean Esbjoern-Hargens; Foreword by Brian Schroeder; Afterword by Ken Wilber
R1,006 Discovery Miles 10 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Derrida's 'Writing and Difference' - A Reader's Guide (Hardcover): Sarah Wood Derrida's 'Writing and Difference' - A Reader's Guide (Hardcover)
Sarah Wood
R3,290 Discovery Miles 32 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Writing and Difference" is widely perceived to be an excellent starting place for those new to Derrida and this "Reader's Guide" is the perfect accompaniment to the study of one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th Century."Writing and Difference" is one of Jacques Derrida's most widely read and studied books. In a collection of essays that engage with literature, history, poetry, dramaturgy, psychoanalysis, ethnology and structuralism, Derrida demonstrates how philosophy and literature might be read, and revolutionises our understanding of writing, difference and life itself.This introduction is the ideal companion to an unprecedented and influential group of texts. Sarah Wood reengages with the original French text and offers guidance on: philosophical and historical context; key themes; reading the text; reception and influence; and, further reading."Continuum Reader's Guides" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to key texts in literature and philosophy. Each book explores the themes, context, criticism and influence of key works, providing a practical introduction to close reading, guiding students towards a thorough understanding of the text. They provide an essential, up-to-date resource, ideal for undergraduate students.

Lone Star Defenders; a Chronicle of the Third Texas Cavalry, Ross' Brigade (Hardcover): S B (Samuel Benton) 1834- Barron Lone Star Defenders; a Chronicle of the Third Texas Cavalry, Ross' Brigade (Hardcover)
S B (Samuel Benton) 1834- Barron
R864 Discovery Miles 8 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Gadamer's Path to Plato (Hardcover): Andrew Fuyarchuk Gadamer's Path to Plato (Hardcover)
Andrew Fuyarchuk; Foreword by David Allen Ross
R1,119 R904 Discovery Miles 9 040 Save R215 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Things Seen and Unseen (Hardcover): Orion Edgar Things Seen and Unseen (Hardcover)
Orion Edgar
R1,203 R970 Discovery Miles 9 700 Save R233 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Starting with Merleau-Ponty (Hardcover, New): Katherine J. Morris Starting with Merleau-Ponty (Hardcover, New)
Katherine J. Morris
R2,653 Discovery Miles 26 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Merleau-Ponty was one of the most important European philosophers of the 20th century, whose work made enormous contributions to the development of phenomenology and the concept of the lived-body. Clearly and thematically structured, covering all Merleau-Ponty's key works and focussing particularly on the hugely important The Phenomenology of Perception, Starting with Merleau-Ponty leads the reader through a thorough overview of the development of his thought, resulting in a more thorough understanding of the roots of his philosophical concerns. Offering coverage of the full range of Merleau-Ponty's ideas, the book firmly sets his work in the context of the 20th century intellectual landscape and explores his contributions to phenomenology, existentialism, empiricism, objective thought and his vision of human reality. Crucially the book introduces the major thinkers and events that proved influential in the development of Merleau-Ponty's work, including Husserl, Sartre, Heidegger and those philosophers and psychologists whom he labelled 'intellectualists' and 'empiricists'. This is the ideal introduction for anyone coming to the work of this hugely important thinker for the first time.

Excursions with Thoreau - Philosophy, Poetry, Religion (Hardcover): Edward F. Mooney Excursions with Thoreau - Philosophy, Poetry, Religion (Hardcover)
Edward F. Mooney
R4,580 Discovery Miles 45 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Excursions with Thoreau is a major new exploration of Thoreau's writing and thought that is philosophical yet sensitive to the literary and religious. Edward F. Mooney's excursions through passages from Walden, Cape Cod, and his late essay "Walking" reveal Thoreau as a miraculous writer, artist, and religious adept. Of course Thoreau remains the familiar political activist and environmental philosopher, but in these fifteen excursions we discover new terrain. Among the notable themes that emerge are Thoreau's grappling with underlying affliction; his pursuit of wonder as ameliorating affliction; his use of the enigmatic image of "a child of the mist"; his exalting "sympathy with intelligence" over plain knowledge; and his preferring "befitting reverie"-not argument-as the way to be carried to better, cleaner perceptions of reality. Mooney's aim is bring alive Thoreau's moments of reverie and insight, and to frame his philosophy as poetic and episodic rather than discursive and systematic.

Heidegger on Death and Being - An Answer to the Seinsfrage (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Johannes Achill Niederhauser Heidegger on Death and Being - An Answer to the Seinsfrage (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Johannes Achill Niederhauser
R2,988 Discovery Miles 29 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The book is the first detailed and full exegesis of the role of death in Heidegger's philosophy and provides a decisive answer to the question of being. It is well-known that Heidegger asked the "question of being". It is equally commonplace to assume that Heidegger failed to provide a proper answer to the question. In this provocative new study Niederhauser argues that Heidegger gives a distinct response to the question of being and that the phenomenon of death is key to finding and understanding it. The book offers challenging interpretations of crucial moments of Heidegger's philosophy such as aletheia, the history of being, time, technology, the fourfold, mortality, the meaning of existence, the event, and language. Niederhauser makes the case that any reading of Heidegger that ignores death cannot fully understand those concepts. The book argues that death is central to Heidegger's "thinking path" from the early 1920s until his late post-war philosophy. The book thus attempts to show that there is a unity of the early and late Heidegger often ignored by other commentators. Niederhauser argues that death is the fulcrum of Heidegger's ontology and the turning point of the history of being. Death resurfaces at the most crucial moments of the "thinking path" - from beginning to end. The book is of interest to those invested in current debates on the ethics of dying and the transhumanist project of digital human immortality. The text also shows that for Heidegger philosophy means first and foremost to learn how to die. This volume speaks to continental and analytical philosophers and students alike as it draws on a number of diverse Heidegger interpretations and appreciates intercultural differences in reading Heidegger.

Exceeding Reason - Freedom and Religion in Schelling and Nietzsche (Hardcover): Dennis Vanden Auweele Exceeding Reason - Freedom and Religion in Schelling and Nietzsche (Hardcover)
Dennis Vanden Auweele
R3,821 Discovery Miles 38 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The work of the later Schelling (in and after 1809) seems antithetical to that of Nietzsche: one a Romantic, idealist and Christian, the other Dionysian, anti-idealist and anti-Christian. Still, there is a very meaningful and educative dialogue to be found between Schelling and Nietzsche on the topics of reason, freedom and religion. Both of them start their philosophy with a similar critique of the Western tradition, which to them is overly dualist, rationalist and anti-organic (metaphysically, ethically, religiously, politically). In response, they hope to inculcate a more lively view of reality in which a new understanding of freedom takes center stage. This freedom can be revealed and strengthened through a proper approach to religion, one that neither disconnects from nor subordinates religion to reason. Religion is the dialogical other to reason, one that refreshes and animates our attempts to navigate the world autonomously. In doing so, Schelling and Nietzsche open up new avenues of thinking about (the relationship between) freedom, reason and religion.

Kant on Culture, Happiness and Civilization (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Ana Marta Gonzalez Kant on Culture, Happiness and Civilization (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Ana Marta Gonzalez
R1,829 Discovery Miles 18 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book joins the contemporary recovery of Kant's empirical works to highlight the relevance of his concept of culture for understanding the sources of various characteristic modern dilemmas, such as the tension between culture and happiness, the morally ambivalent nature of cultural progress, or the existing conflicts between a factual plurality of cultures and the historical forces pressing toward a universal civilization. The book will be of special interest for Kantian scholars, moral and political philosophers, as well as philosophers of culture.

Nicolas Malebranche - Freedom in an Occasionalist World (Hardcover, New): Susan Peppers-Bates Nicolas Malebranche - Freedom in an Occasionalist World (Hardcover, New)
Susan Peppers-Bates
R4,572 Discovery Miles 45 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is an important new study of a central figure in Modern Philosophy focusing on the vital issues of human freedom and moral responsibility. Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) was one of the most notorious and pious of Rene Descartes' philosophical followers. A member of The Oratory, a Roman Catholic order founded in 1611 to increase devotion to the Church and St. Augustine, Malebranche brought together his Cartesianism and his Augustinianism in a rigorous theological-philosophical system. Malebranche's occasionalist metaphysics asserts that God alone possesses true causal power. He asserts that human understanding is totally passive and relies on God for both sensory and intellectual perceptions. Critics have wondered what exactly his system leaves for humans to do. Yet leaving a space for true human intellectual and moral freedom is something Malebranche clearly intended. This book offers a detailed evaluation of Malebranche's efforts to provide a plausible account of human intellectual and moral agency in the context of his commitment to an infinitely perfect being possessing all causal power. Peppers-Bates suggests that Malebranche might offer a model of agent-willing useful for contemporary theorists. "Continuum Studies in Philosophy" presents cutting-edge scholarship in all the major areas of research and study. The wholly original arguments, perspectives and research findings in titles in this series make it an important and stimulating resource for students and academics from a range of disciplines across the humanities and social sciences.

The Passion of Possibility - Studies on Kierkegaard's Post-metaphysical Theology (Hardcover): Ingolf U Dalferth The Passion of Possibility - Studies on Kierkegaard's Post-metaphysical Theology (Hardcover)
Ingolf U Dalferth
R3,312 Discovery Miles 33 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For Kierkegaard the most important thing in life is to become a single individual or a true self. We are all born as human beings, but this makes us only members of a crowd, not true selves. To become a true self, we must transcend what we are at any given time and orient ourselves to the possible and to the actuality of the possible, to which all that is possible owes itself. True selves exist only in becoming, they are fragile, and that is their strength. They are not grounded by their own activities, but in a reality extra se, the flip side of which is a deep passivity that underlies all their activity and allows them to continually leave themselves and move beyond their respective actualities toward the new and the possible. Therefore, without the passion of possibility, there is no truly single individual. This study of Kierkegaard's post-metaphysical theology outlines his existential phenomenology of the self by exploring in three parts what Kierkegaard has to say about the sense of self (finitude, uniqueness, self-interpretation, and alienation), about selfless passion (anxiety, trust, hope, and true love), and about how to become a true self (a Christian in Christendom and a neighbor of God's neighbors).

The Jugurthine War (Hardcover): 86-34 B. C. Sallust The Jugurthine War (Hardcover)
86-34 B. C. Sallust; Harold Edgeworth 1878-1951 Butler
R791 Discovery Miles 7 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Idealism-Realism Debate Among Edmund Husserl's Early Followers and Critics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Rodney K.B.... The Idealism-Realism Debate Among Edmund Husserl's Early Followers and Critics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Rodney K.B. Parker
R3,307 Discovery Miles 33 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume aims to contextualize the development and reception of Husserl's transcendental-phenomenological idealism by placing him in dialogue with his most important interlocutors - his mentors, peers, and students. Husserl's "turn" to idealism and the ensuing reaction to Ideas I resulted in a schism between the early members of the phenomenological movement. The division between the realist and the transcendental phenomenologists is often portrayed as a sharp one, with the realists naively and dogmatically rejecting all of Husserl's written work after the Logical Investigations. However, this understanding of the trajectory of the phenomenological movement ignores the extensive and intricate contours of the idealism-realism debate. In addition to helping us better interpret Husserl's attempts to defend his idealism, reconsidering the idealism-realism debate elucidates the relationship and differences between Husserl's phenomenology and the broader landscape of early 20th century German philosophy, particularly the Munich phenomenologists and the Neo-Kantians. The contributions to this volume reconsider many of the early interpretations and critiques of Husserl, inviting readers to assess the merits of the arguments put forward by his critics while also shedding new light on their so-called "misunderstandings" of his idealism. This text should be of interest to researchers working in the history of phenomenology and Husserlian studies.

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