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Convinced that both epistemology and philosophy have gone astray
in the twentieth century, George Chatalian seeks to restore the
classical tradition in both, in part by marshaling a mass of data
about philosophical skepticism throughout the history of
philosophy, data which taken as a whole are not to be found in any
other work. Despite the extensive historical and linguistic
investigations, however, the work is essentially a philosophical
one. After outlining the theses he sees as central to the
epistemology of Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, W. V. Quine
and those more or less deeply influenced by them, and after tracing
these claims to their deeper source in the analytic conception of
philosophy, Chatalian assesses the claims such theses make about
the Greek skeptics, sophists, and Plato. Such an assessment,
Chatalian argues, exposes the false foundations of analytic
epistemology. "Epistemology and Skepticism "outlines a complete
epistemology in what, according to its author, is the classical
sense.
This book contains the definitive statement of Franz Brentano's
views on meta physics. It is made up of essays which were dictated
by Brentano during the last ten years of his life, between 1907 and
1917. These dictations were assembled and edited by Alfred Kastil
and first published by the Felix Meiner Verlag in 1933 under the
title Kategorienlehre. Kastil added copious notes to Brentano's
text. These notes have been included, with some slight omissions,
in the present edition; the bibliographical references have been
brought up to date. Brentano's approach to philosophy is unfamiliar
to many contemporay readers. I shall discuss below certain
fundamental points which such readers are likely to find the most
difficult. I believe that once these points are properly
understood, then what Brentano has to say will be seen to be of
first importance to philosophy. THE PRIMACY OF THE INTENTIONAL To
understand Brentano's theory of being, one must realize that he
appeals to what he calls inner perception for his paradigmatic uses
of the word "is." For inner perception, according to Brentano, is
the source of our knowledge of the nature of being, just as it is
the source of our knowledge of the nature of truth and of the
nature of good and evil. And what can be said about the being of
things that are not apprehended in inner perception can be
understood only by analogy with what we are able to say about
ourselves as thinking subjects."
Roderick Chisholm has been for many years one of the most important
and influential philosophers contributing to metaphysics,
philosophy of mind, and epistemology. This book can be viewed as a
summation of his views on an enormous range of topics in
metaphysics and epistemology. Yet it is written in the terse,
lucid, unpretentious style that has become a hallmark of Chisholm's
work. The book is an original treatise designed to defend an
original, non-Aristotelian theory of categories. Chisholm argues
that there are necessary things and contingent things; necessary
things being things that are not capable of coming into being or
passing away. He defends the argument from design, and thus
includes the category of necessary substance (God). Further
contentions of the essay are that attributes are also necessary
beings, but not necessary substances, and that human beings are
contingent substances but may not be material substances.
Franz Brentano developed an original theory of intrinsic value
which he attempted to base on his philosophical psychology.
Roderick Chisholm presents here a critical exposition of this
theory and its place in Brentano's general philosophical system. He
gives a detailed account of Brentano's ontology, showing how
Brentano tried to secure objectivity for ethics not through a
theory of practical reason, but through his theory of the
intentional objects of emotions and desires. Professor Chisholm
goes on to develop certain suggestions about intrinsic value made
by Brentano and his students, and discusses their relevance to
theodicy and the problem of evil. Brentano, as the teacher of
Husserl, Meinong, Twardowski, and others, stands at the origin of
the phenomenological tradition and of the Polish school of
philosophy that developed after World War I. He has also had
considerable influence on Anglo-American philosophy. This book will
interest those concerned with the origins of phenomenological value
theory and more generally with the connections between ethics and
philosophical psychology.
This book contains the definitive statement of Franz Brentano's
views on meta physics. It is made up of essays which were dictated
by Brentano during the last ten years of his life, between 1907 and
1917. These dictations were assembled and edited by Alfred Kastil
and first published by the Felix Meiner Verlag in 1933 under the
title Kategorienlehre. Kastil added copious notes to Brentano's
text. These notes have been included, with some slight omissions,
in the present edition; the bibliographical references have been
brought up to date. Brentano's approach to philosophy is unfamiliar
to many contemporay readers. I shall discuss below certain
fundamental points which such readers are likely to find the most
difficult. I believe that once these points are properly
understood, then what Brentano has to say will be seen to be of
first importance to philosophy. THE PRIMACY OF THE INTENTIONAL To
understand Brentano's theory of being, one must realize that he
appeals to what he calls inner perception for his paradigmatic uses
of the word "is." For inner perception, according to Brentano, is
the source of our knowledge of the nature of being, just as it is
the source of our knowledge of the nature of truth and of the
nature of good and evil. And what can be said about the being of
things that are not apprehended in inner perception can be
understood only by analogy with what we are able to say about
ourselves as thinking subjects."
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Material Constitution - A Reader (Paperback)
Michael Rea; Contributions by Michael B Burke, Hugh S Chandler Roderick M Chisholm, Frederick C. Doepke, Peter T. Geach, …
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The only anthology available on material constitution, this book
collects important recent work on well known puzzles in metaphysics
and philosophy of mind. The extensive, clearly written introduction
helps to make the essays accessible to a wide audience.
La philosophie de la connaissance - l'enquete classique qui
consiste a chercher a definir la notion de connaissance et a
etablir ses sources et ses limites - connait, depuis une trentaine
d'annees, un essor important, principalement dans la tradition
anglophone de philosophie analytique. En reprenant l'entreprise du
Theetete, et en reponse au defi du sceptique cartesien, les
philosophes contemporains ont formule des theories rivales de la
connaissance, tantot internalistes, tantot externalistes, alors que
les tentatives de reponse au trilemme d'Agrippa ont donne naissance
au debat entre les theories fondationnalistes et coherentistes de
la justification des croyances. Des formes renouvelees de
scepticisme ont vu le jour, en meme temps que des reponses fondees
sur le sens commun, dans la tradition de Reid et de Moore. A
travers la subtilite des arguments, l'inventivite des exemples et
la complexite des definitions qui les distinguent, ces theories
renouvellent radicalement les interrogations classiques et en
eclairent les presupposes. Ce recueil a ete concu pour permettre
l'acces du lecteur francais a un ensemble de textes contemporains
representatifs de ce domaine.
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