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Karl Popper, Science and Enightenment (Hardcover): Nicholas Maxwell Karl Popper, Science and Enightenment (Hardcover)
Nicholas Maxwell
R1,460 Discovery Miles 14 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed (Hardcover): Peter Mahon Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed (Hardcover)
Peter Mahon
R4,325 Discovery Miles 43 250 Ships in 12 - 17 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.

Giordano Bruno - Philosopher and Martyr. Two Addresses (Hardcover): Daniel Garrison 1837-1899 Brinton, Thomas 1840-1900 Davidson Giordano Bruno - Philosopher and Martyr. Two Addresses (Hardcover)
Daniel Garrison 1837-1899 Brinton, Thomas 1840-1900 Davidson
R829 Discovery Miles 8 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Metaphysic In Three Books Vol I (Hardcover): Hermann Lotze Metaphysic In Three Books Vol I (Hardcover)
Hermann Lotze
R1,059 Discovery Miles 10 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Overcoming Uncertainty in Ancient Greek Political Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): J. Noel Hubler Overcoming Uncertainty in Ancient Greek Political Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
J. Noel Hubler
R3,272 Discovery Miles 32 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Overcoming Uncertainty in Ancient Greek Political Philosophy makes an historical and theoretical contribution by explaining the role of opinion in ancient Greek political philosophy, showing its importance for Aristotle's theory of deliberation, and indicating a new model for a deliberative republic. Currently, there are no studies of opinion in ancient Greek political theory and so the book breaks new historical ground. The book establishes that opinion is key for the political theories of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics because each sees uncertainty as a problem that needs to be overcome if one is to establish a virtuous polity. Since they have different notions of the nature of the uncertainty of opinion, they develop very different political strategies to overcome it. The book explains that Plato's and the Stoics' analyses of uncertainty support oligarchy and monarchy, respectively, and that theoretical support for deliberate politics requires a more nuanced understanding of uncertainty that only Aristotle provides.

Evolution And Mans Place In Nature (Hardcover): Henry Calderwood Evolution And Mans Place In Nature (Hardcover)
Henry Calderwood
R959 Discovery Miles 9 590 Ships in 12 - 17 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
R1,060 Discovery Miles 10 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Catalogue of Engravings. (Hardcover): J C Buttre (Firm) Catalogue of Engravings. (Hardcover)
J C Buttre (Firm)
R841 Discovery Miles 8 410 Ships in 12 - 17 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
R3,188 Discovery Miles 31 880 Ships in 12 - 17 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.

Four Views on the Axiology of Theism - What Difference Does God Make? (Hardcover): Kirk Lougheed Four Views on the Axiology of Theism - What Difference Does God Make? (Hardcover)
Kirk Lougheed
R3,616 Discovery Miles 36 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For centuries, philosophers have addressed the ontological question of whether God exists. Most recently, philosophers have begun to explore the axiological question of what value impact, if any, God's existence has (or would have) on our world. This book brings together four prestigious philosophers, Michael Almeida, Travis Dumsday, Perry Hendricks and Graham Oppy, to present different views on the axiological question about God. Each contributor expresses a position on axiology, which is then met with responses from the remaining contributors. This structure makes for genuine discussion and developed exploration of the key issues at stake, and shows that the axiological question is more complicated than it first appears. Chapters explore a range of relevant issues, including the relationship between Judeo-Christian theism and non-naturalist alternatives such as pantheism, polytheism, and animism/panpsychism. Further chapters consider the attitudes and emotions of atheists within the theism conversation, and develop and evaluate the best arguments for doxastic pro-theism and doxastic anti-theism. Of interest to those working on philosophy of religion, theism and ethics, this book presents lively accounts of an important topic in an exciting and collaborative way, offered by renowned experts in this area.

The Philosophy of Anne Conway - God, Creation and the Nature of Time (Hardcover): Jonathan Head The Philosophy of Anne Conway - God, Creation and the Nature of Time (Hardcover)
Jonathan Head
R3,619 Discovery Miles 36 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The early modern philosopher Anne Conway offers a remarkable synthesis of ideas from differing philosophical traditions that deserve our attention today. Exploring all of the major aspects of Conway’s thought, this book presents a valuable guide to her contribution to the history of philosophy. Through a close reading of her central text, Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (1690), it considers her intellectual context and addresses some of the outstanding interpretive issues concerning her philosophy. Contrasting her position with that of contemporaries such as Henry More, Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont and George Keith, it examines her critique of the prominent philosophical schools of the time, including Cartesian dualism and Hobbesian materialism. From her accounts of dualism, time and God to the often overlooked elements of her work such as her theory of freedom and salvation, The Philosophy of Anne Conway illuminates the ideas and legacy of an important early-modern woman philosopher.

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Hardcover): Aurelius Marcus Antoninus Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Hardcover)
Aurelius Marcus Antoninus
R740 Discovery Miles 7 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Nothing Important - Allegorical Poems in the Pursuit of Meaning (a collection of poems from 2017 to 2019) (Hardcover): Alex K... Nothing Important - Allegorical Poems in the Pursuit of Meaning (a collection of poems from 2017 to 2019) (Hardcover)
Alex K Bishop
R609 R550 Discovery Miles 5 500 Save R59 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The History of the Peloponnesian War (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover):... The History of the Peloponnesian War (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover)
Richard Crawley
R1,195 Discovery Miles 11 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Essentials of Habermas (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Xunwu Chen The Essentials of Habermas (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Xunwu Chen
R3,556 Discovery Miles 35 560 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.

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
R4,324 Discovery Miles 43 240 Ships in 12 - 17 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.

Tweeting Dante (Hardcover): Donald Carlson Tweeting Dante (Hardcover)
Donald Carlson
R751 R658 Discovery Miles 6 580 Save R93 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Biosemiotic Literary Criticism - Genesis and Prospectus (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): W. John Coletta Biosemiotic Literary Criticism - Genesis and Prospectus (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
W. John Coletta
R3,827 Discovery Miles 38 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume is based to a large extent on the understanding of biosemiotic literary criticism as a semiotic-model-making enterprise. For Jurij Lotman and Thomas A. Sebeok, "nature writing is essentially a model of the relationship between humans and nature" (Timo Maran); biosemiotic literary criticism, itself a form of nature writing and thus itself an ecological-niche-making enterprise, will be considered to be a model of modeling, a model of nature naturing. Modes and models of analysis drawn from Thomas A. Sebeok and Marcel Danesi's Forms of Meaning: Modeling Systems Theory and Semiotic Analysis as well as from Timo Maran's work on "modeling the environment in literature," Edwina Taborsky's writing on Peircean semiosis, and, of course, Jesper Hoffmeyer's formative work in biosemiotics are among the most important organizing elements for this volume.

Works. Consisting of his Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion and Fragments. Translated From the Greek by Thomas... Works. Consisting of his Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion and Fragments. Translated From the Greek by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Hardcover)
Epictetus
R1,132 Discovery Miles 11 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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
R4,670 Discovery Miles 46 700 Ships in 12 - 17 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.

Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena: Volume 2 - Short Philosophical Essays (Hardcover, New title): Arthur Schopenhauer Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena: Volume 2 - Short Philosophical Essays (Hardcover, New title)
Arthur Schopenhauer; Edited by Adrian DelCaro, Christopher Janaway
R4,021 Discovery Miles 40 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

With the publication of Parerga and Paralipomena in 1851, there finally came some measure of the fame that Schopenhauer thought was his due. Described by Schopenhauer himself as 'incomparably more popular than everything up till now', Parerga is a miscellany of essays addressing themes that complement his work The World as Will and Representation, along with more divergent, speculative pieces. It includes essays on method, logic, the intellect, Kant, pantheism, natural science, religion, education, and language. The present volume offers a new translation, a substantial introduction explaining the context of the essays, and extensive editorial notes on the different published versions of the work. This readable and scholarly edition will be an essential reference for those studying Schopenhauer, the history of philosophy, and nineteenth-century German philosophy.

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
R6,080 Discovery Miles 60 800 Ships in 12 - 17 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.

A Little Book of Stoicism (Hardcover): St.George Stock A Little Book of Stoicism (Hardcover)
St.George Stock
R591 Discovery Miles 5 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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
R3,260 Discovery Miles 32 600 Ships in 12 - 17 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.

Authentic Being - Dynamic Creativity (Hardcover): James R. McCartney Authentic Being - Dynamic Creativity (Hardcover)
James R. McCartney
R792 Discovery Miles 7 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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