Download or read book Truth and its Deformities written by Peter A. French and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truth and Its Deformities is the 32nd volume in the Midwest Studies in Philosophy series. It contains major new contributions on a range of topics related to the general theme of the volume by some of the most important philosophers writing on truth in recent years.

Download or read book Midwest Studies in Philosophy Volume 46 written by Gwen Bradford and published by . This book was released on 2023-02-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the puzzles and the surprising challenges of explaining ill-being in philosophical terms. It includes contributions from many of the main proponents of the various theories of well-being and new voices who explain how particular theories can best account for ill-being and its challenges. The collection spans many of the main approaches to well-being, as well as other undertheorized questions, issues, and insights arising from philosophical reflection on the nature of well-being and ill-being. This volume is available online in the journal Midwest Studies in Philosophy (Volume 46).

Download or read book Midwest Studies in Philosophy written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Studies in Epistemology written by Peter A. French and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in Epistemology was first published in 1980. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This is Volume V in the series Midwest Studies in Philosophy In 1979 the University of Minnesota Press assumed publication of the annual Midwest Studies in Philosophy, previously published by the University of Minnesota, Morris. At that time, the young series had already received acclaim from philosophers. Alan Donagan called the Studies "a significant and up-to-date forum of discussion on topics that matter to all serious philosophers," and, according to W. V. Quine, the Studies have maintained "an unusually high standard."

Download or read book Studies in Metaphysics written by Peter A. French and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Contemporary Perspectives on the History of Philosophy written by Peter A. French and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Perspectives on the History of Philosophy was first published in 1983. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The authors of the 27 appears in Volume 8, Midwest Studies in Philosophy,have established reputations as historians of philosophy, but their vantage point, here, is from "contemporary perspectives" - they use contemporary analytic skills to examine problems and issues considered by past philosophers. The papers, arranged in historical order, fall into six groups: ancient philosophy (the Pythagoreans, Plato, and Aristotle); the seventeenth-century rationalists (Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza); the empiricists (Locke, Berkeley, and Hume); Kant; the nineteenth century (Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Mill); and, in conclusion, an essay on Wittgenstein's Tractatus and two broad, retrospective papers entitled "Old Analyses of the Physical World and new Philosophies of Language" and "Moral Crisis and the History of Ethics."

Download or read book Philosophy of Science written by Peter A. French and published by University of Notre Dame Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21 essays collected in this volume of Midwest Studies in Philosophy question and debate the primary assumptions of science. These are its conception of an orderly universe; its ability to define; and its ability to explain. The contributors approach these topics from varying perspectives, including the historic development of our understanding of the scientific enterprise; the controversy of opposing paradigms; and the challenges raised by quantum mechanics.

Download or read book MIDWEST STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Philosophical Naturalism written by Peter A. French and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years naturalism has become a focal point in the discussions of many contemporary philosophers. Philosophical Naturalism in the series Midwest Studies in Philosophy offers a broad sampling of previously unpublished essays that represent the current status of discussions of naturalism.

Download or read book Ethical Theory written by Peter A. French and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Philosophy of Religion written by Peter A. French and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the Midwest Studies in Philosophy series contains 18 essays which discuss the range of of religious traditions which inform the discussion of contemporary issues.

Download or read book Studies in the Philosophy of Mind written by Peter A. French and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Directions in Philosophy written by Peter A. French and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2000-04-17 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this annual volume key thinkers explore evolving trends that philosophy as a discipline is facing.

Download or read book Social and Political Philosophy written by Peter A. French and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social and Political Philosophy was first published in 1982. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

Download or read book Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophy written by Peter A. French and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Philosophy and Poetry written by Peter A. French and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Midwest Studies in Philosophy Life and Death written by Peter A. French and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2000-10-27 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Volume XXIV, Life and Death: Metaphysics and Ethics is an important contribution to the literature on the intersection of issues of metaphysics and issues of ethics. In the Midwest Studies tradition, twenty of the more important philosophers writing in this area have contributed original papers that extend the boundaries of philosophical discussion of issues that are of both theoretical and practical concern to a wide-ranging audience. Topics considered include the concept of human life, the relationship between the concept of personal identity and the understanding of death, normative appraisals of death, capital punishment, euthanasia, the postponement of death and the impact of a theory of death and afterlife on one's ethical perspective.