Author: Riccardo Pozzo
Publisher: Catholic University of America Pre
Keywords: philosophy, studies, history, modern, aristotelianism, impact
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2003-11-01
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0813213479
ISBN-13: 9780813213477

This volume provides the first extensive assessment of the impact of Aristotelianism on the history of philosophy from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century. The contributors have considered Aristotelian issues in late scholastic, Renaissance, and early modern philosophers such as Vernia, Nifo, Barbaro, Cajetan, Piccolomini, Zabarella, Campanella, Galileo, S�mery, Leibniz, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Gadamer. Specific attention is given to the role of the five intellectual virtues set forth by Aristotle in book VI of the Nicomachean Eth

Author: Brian J. Shanley
Publisher: Catholic Univ of Amer Pr
Keywords: philosophy, studies, history, years, hundred, one
Number of Pages: 311
Published: 2001-08
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0813209978
ISBN-13: 9780813209975

This collection originated in the centenary celebration of the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America. Written by acknowledged experts in their fields, the essays provide a unique overview of philosophical developments in the twentieth century. The broad range of topics considered makes the book an invaluable reference work. The first set of essays deals with philosophy in the English-speaking world. Thomas R. Russman argues that British philosophy is best understood as reflecting a long-standing preoccupation with the refutation of idealism. William Wallace narrates the d

Author: Timothy Williamson
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: philosophy, lectures, blackwell, brown
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-02-05
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 1405133961
ISBN-13: 9781405133968

The second volume in the Blackwell Brown Lectures in Philosophy, this volume offers an original and provocative take on the nature and methodology of philosophy. Based on public lectures at Brown University, given by the pre-eminent philosopher, Timothy Williamson Rejects the ideology of the ’linguistic turn’, the most distinctive trend of 20th century philosophy Explains the method of philosophy as a development from non-philosophical ways of thinking Suggests new ways of understanding what contemporary and past philosophers are doing

Authors:Georg Meggle, Andreas Mundt, Gesellschaft Fur Anal
Publisher: Llh
Keywords: philosophy, perspectives, analytical, epistemology, science, logic, proceedings, analyomen, conference
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 1997-09-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3110152533
ISBN-13: 9783110152531

Authors:Georg Meggle, Andreas Mundt,
Publisher: Llh
Keywords: philosophy, analytical, perspectives, metaphysics, language, proceedings, conference, analyomen
Number of Pages: 498
Published: 1997-09-01
List price: $76.00
ISBN-10: 3110152541
ISBN-13: 9783110152548

Authors:Francesco, Roberto POLI CONIGLIONE, Jan Wolenski,
Publisher: Editions Rodopi
Keywords: philosophy, studies, sciences, humanities, poznan, amp, school, scientific, lvov, warsaw, polish
Number of Pages: 358
Published: 1993-01
List price: $133.50
ISBN-10: 9051835086
ISBN-13: 9789051835083

One can often encounter an opinion that Polish scientific (or analytic) philosophy (or the Lvov-Warsaw School) deserves to be much better known than actually is. This book is thought as a response to such a claim. The papers collected in this volume are divided into two parts: Background and Influence and History and Systematics. However, there is no sharp borderline between themes which are touched in both parts. Generally speaking, all papers of the first part relate the Lvov-Warsaw School to some philosophical movements (Brentanism, phenomenology and Marxism) external to it whereas the pa

Author: Patrick Hayde
Publisher: Paragon House Publisher
Keywords: philosophy, issues, paragon, rights, human
Number of Pages: 722
Published: 2001-02-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1557787905
ISBN-13: 9781557787903

This book brings together an extensive collection of classical and contemporary writings on the topic of human rights, including genocide, ethnic cleansing, minority cultures, gay and lesbian rights, and the environment, providing an exceptionally comprehensive introduction. It places special emphasis on the historical development of theories of human rights, and includes western and nonwestern views. Sources include authors such as Aristotle, Cicero, Thomas Aquinas, Confucius, Hobbes, Locke, Kant, Marx, Gandhi, Hart, Feinberg, Nussbaum, the Dalai Lama, Derrida, Lyotard, and Rorty. Ideal for c