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Book The Logic of the Living Present

Download or read book The Logic of the Living Present written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some might ask "Why Locke's theory of knowledge now?" Though appreciated for his social philosophy, Locke has been criticized for his work in the field of epistemology ever since the publication of the Essay. It is even as if Locke serves only as an example of how not to think. When people criticize Locke, they usually cite the hostile commen taries of Berkeley, Kant, Husserl, or Sellars. But, one might ask, are they not all so eager to show the excellence of their own epistemo logical views that they distort and underestimate Locke's thought? Russell aptly noted in his History of Western Philosophy that: No one has yet succeeded in inventing a philosophy at once credible and self-consis tent. Locke aimed at credibility, and achieved it at the expense of consistency. Most of the great philosophers have done the opposite. A philosophy which is not self-consis tent cannot be wholly true, but a philosophy which is self-consistent can very well be wholly false. The most fruitful philosophies have contained glaring inconsistencies, but for that very reason have been partially true. There is no reason to suppose that a self consistent system contains more truth than one which, like Locke's, is obviously more or less wrong. (B. Russell, A History of Western Philosophy [New York: Simon and Schuster, 1945], p. 613. ) Here Russell is uncommonly charitable with Locke.

Book The Logic of Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : François Jacob
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2022-08-02
  • ISBN : 0691238995
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book The Logic of Life written by François Jacob and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most remarkable history of biology that has ever been written.”—Michel Foucault Nobel Prize–winning scientist François Jacob’s The Logic of Life is a landmark book in the history of biology and science. Focusing on heredity, which Jacob considers the fundamental feature of living things, he shows how, since the sixteenth century, the scientific understanding of inherited traits has moved not in a linear, progressive way, from error to truth, but instead through a series of frameworks. He reveals how these successive interpretive approaches—focusing on visible structures, internal structures (especially cells), evolution, genes, and DNA and other molecules—each have their own power but also limitations. Fundamentally challenging how the history of biology is told, much as Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions did for the history of science as a whole, The Logic of Life has greatly influenced the way scientists and historians view the past, present, and future of biology.

Book The Logic of Information

Download or read book The Logic of Information written by Luciano Floridi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luciano Floridi presents an innovative approach to philosophy, conceived as conceptual design. He explores how we make, transform, refine, and improve the objects of our knowledge. His starting point is that reality provides the data, to be understood as constraining affordances, and we transform them into information, like semantic engines. Such transformation or repurposing is not equivalent to portraying, or picturing, or photographing, or photocopying anything. It is more like cooking: the dish does not represent the ingredients, it uses them to make something else out of them, yet the reality of the dish and its properties hugely depend on the reality and the properties of the ingredients. Models are not representations understood as pictures, but interpretations understood as data elaborations, of systems. Thus, he articulates and defends the thesis that knowledge is design and philosophy is the ultimate form of conceptual design. Although entirely independent of Floridi's previous books, The Philosophy of Information (OUP 2011) and The Ethics of Information (OUP 2013), The Logic of Information both complements the existing volumes and presents new work on the foundations of the philosophy of information.

Book Edmund Husserl  The cutting edge   phenomenological method  philosophical logic  ontology  and philosophy of science

Download or read book Edmund Husserl The cutting edge phenomenological method philosophical logic ontology and philosophy of science written by Rudolf Bernet and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection makes available, in one place, the very best essays on the founding father of phenomenology, reprinting key writings on Husserl's thought from the past seventy years. It draws together a range of writings, many otherwise inaccessible, that have been recognized as seminal contributions not only to an understanding of this great philosopher but also to the development of his phenomenology. The four volumes are arranged as follows: Volume I Classic essays from Husserl's assistants, students and earlier interlocutors. Including a selection of papers from such figures as Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Ricoeur and Levinas. Volume II Classic commentaries on Husserl's published works. "Covering the Logical Investigations," " Ideas I," " Phenomenology of Internal Time Consciousness," "" ""and" Formal and Transcendental Logic." Volumes III and IV Papers concentrating on particular aspects of Husserl's theory including: Husserl's account of mathematics and logic, his theory of science, the nature of phenomenological reduction, his account of perception and language, the theory of space and time, his phenomenology of imagination and empathy, the concept of the life-world and his epistemology.

Book PSYCHOLOGY   SOCIAL PRACTICE     Premium Collection  The Logic of Human Mind  Self Awareness   Way We Think  New Psychology  Human Nature and Conduct  Creative Intelligence  Theory of Emotion

Download or read book PSYCHOLOGY SOCIAL PRACTICE Premium Collection The Logic of Human Mind Self Awareness Way We Think New Psychology Human Nature and Conduct Creative Intelligence Theory of Emotion written by John Dewey and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: “PSYCHOLOGY & SOCIAL PRACTICE – Premium Collection: The Logic of Human Mind, Self-Awareness & Way We Think (New Psychology, Human Nature and Conduct, Creative Intelligence, Theory of Emotion...)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "Everything that comes to mind, that 'goes through our heads,’ is called a thought. To think of a thing is just to be conscious of it in any way whatsoever. Second, the term is restricted by excluding whatever is directly presented; we think (or think of) only such things as we do not directly see, hear, smell, or taste." (How We Think) Table of Contents: Psychology and Social Practice Psychological Doctrine and Philosophical Teaching Psychology as Philosophic Method The New Psychology How We Think The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology The Psychology of Effort Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude et al. The Ego as Cause The Terms 'Conscious' and 'Consciousness' On Some Current Conceptions of the term 'Self' The Psychological Standpoint The Theory of Emotion: Emotional Attitudes & the Significance of Emotions The Psychology of Infant Language Knowledge and Speech Reaction Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology John Dewey (1859-1952) is one of the primary figures associated with the philosophy of pragmatism and is considered one of the founders of functional psychology. His ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Known for his advocacy of democracy, Dewey considered two fundamental elements—schools and civil society—to be major topics needing attention and reconstruction to encourage experimental intelligence and plurality.

Book The Philosophy of Rhythm

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Cheyne
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 0199347778
  • Pages : 441 pages

Download or read book The Philosophy of Rhythm written by Peter Cheyne and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhythm is the fundamental pulse that animates poetry, music, and dance across all cultures. And yet the recent explosion of scholarly interest across disciplines in the aural dimensions of aesthetic experience--particularly in sociology, cultural and media theory, and literary studies--has yet to explore this fundamental category. This book furthers the discussion of rhythm beyond the discrete conceptual domains and technical vocabularies of musicology and prosody. With original essays by philosophers, psychologists, musicians, literary theorists, and ethno-musicologists, The Philosophy of Rhythm opens up wider-and plural-perspectives, examining formal affinities between the historically interconnected fields of music, dance, and poetry, while addressing key concepts such as embodiment, movement, pulse, and performance. Volume editors Peter Cheyne, Andy Hamilton, and Max Paddison bring together a range of key questions: What is the distinction between rhythm and pulse? What is the relationship between everyday embodied experience, and the specific experience of music, dance, and poetry? Can aesthetics offer an understanding of rhythm that helps inform our responses to visual and other arts, as well as music, dance, and poetry? And, what is the relation between psychological conceptions of entrainment, and the humane concept of rhythm and meter? Overall, The Philosophy of Rhythm appeals across disciplinary boundaries, providing a unique overview of a neglected aspect of aesthetic experience.

Book Ecological Ethics and Living Subjectivity in Hegel s Logic

Download or read book Ecological Ethics and Living Subjectivity in Hegel s Logic written by W. Kisner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By interweaving Hegelian dialectic and the middle voice, this book develops a holistic account of life, nature, and the ethical orientation of human beings with respect to them without falling into the trap of either subjecting human rights to totality or relegating non-human beings and their habitats to instrumentalism.

Book The Philosophy of the Spirit

Download or read book The Philosophy of the Spirit written by Horatio Willis Dresser and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Logic of Interdisciplinarity   The Monist  Series

Download or read book The Logic of Interdisciplinarity The Monist Series written by Charles S Peirce and published by Oldenbourg Verlag. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), bekannt als Logiker, Philosoph, Mathematiker und Physiker, zählt zu den wichtigsten Denkern der modernen Wissenschaftsgeschichte. In der späten und wichtigsten Phase seines Schaffens (1891-1909) hat er programmatische Aufsätze sowie ausgewählte Vorlesungen explizit als eine Reihe für die Zeitschrift "The Monist" konzipiert, Beiträge, von denen bislang nur Ausschnitte und stark revidierte Fassungen veröffentlicht worden sind. Die erstmalige und vollständige Veröffentlichung der "Monist"-Texte in diesem Band beabsichtigt eine zeitgemäße Annäherung an das höchst heterogene Werk von Peirce. Sie ist der Versuch, Peirces Gedanken der internationalen wissenschaftlichen Öffentlichkeit originalgetreu zu präsentieren. Zentrales Ziel der "Monist"-Reihe bildet die Begründung einer Methode der Semiotik. Die Abhandlungen präsentieren Erklärungen zu Universalgesetzmäßigkeiten wie Gefühle, Wille und Kognition, zu Differenzen zwischen auf Erfahrung basiertem und imaginiertem Wissen, aber auch zur Definition der Aufmerksamkeit als einer symbolischen Tätigkeit. Neben ihrer wissenschaftlichen Relevanz in der philosophischen, bildwissenschaftlichen und kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschung, in der Kognitionswissenschaft und Logik besitzen die von Peirce diskutierten Themen auch eine hohe Aktualität für die zeitgenössischen Naturwissenschaften.

Book Logic

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martin Heidegger
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2010-03-22
  • ISBN : 0253004454
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Logic written by Martin Heidegger and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heidegger’s radical thinking on the meaning of truth in a “clear and comprehensive critical edition” (Philosophy in Review). Martin Heidegger’s 1925–26 lectures on truth and time provided much of the basis for his momentous work, Being and Time. Not published until 1976—three months before Heidegger’s death—as volume 21 of his Complete Works, it is nonetheless central to Heidegger’s overall project of reinterpreting Western thought in terms of time and truth. The text shows the degree to which Aristotle underlies Heidegger’s hermeneutical theory of meaning. It also contains Heidegger’s first published critique of Husserl and takes major steps toward establishing the temporal bases of logic and truth. Thomas Sheehan’s elegant and insightful translation offers English-speaking readers access to this fundamental text for the first time.

Book The Logic of Hegel

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  • Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1874
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 540 pages

Download or read book The Logic of Hegel written by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kotarbi  ski  Logic  Semantics and Ontology

Download or read book Kotarbi ski Logic Semantics and Ontology written by Jan Wolenski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tadeusz Kotarbinski is one of towering figures in contemporary Polish philosophy. He was a great thinker, a great teacher, a great organizer of philosophical and scientific life (he was, among others, the rector of the Uni versi ty of t6dz, the president of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the president of the International Institute of Philosophy), and, last but not least, a great moral authority. He died at the age of 96 on October 3, 1981. Kotarbinski was active in almost all branches of philosophy. He made many significant contributions to logic, semantics, ontology, epistemology, history of philosophy, and ethics. He created a new field, namely praxiology. Thus, using an ancient distinction, he contributed to theoretical as well as practical philoso~hy. Kotarbinski regarded praxiology as his major philosophical "child". Doubtless, praxiology belongs to practical philosophy. This collection, howewer, is mainly devoted to Kotarbinski' s theoretical philosophy. Reism - Kotarbinski' s fundamental idea of ontology and semantics - is the central topic of most papers included here; even Pszczolowski' s essay on praxiology considers its ontological basis. ,Only two papers, namely that of Zarnecka-Bialy and that of Wolenski, are not linked with reism. However, both fall under the general label "Kotarbinski: logic, semantics and ontology". The collection partly consists of earlier published papers.

Book Phenomenology on Kant  German Idealism  Hermeneutics and Logic

Download or read book Phenomenology on Kant German Idealism Hermeneutics and Logic written by O.K. Wiegand and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph 1. Kockelmans Pennsylvania State University In July of 1999, Prof. Dr. Thomas M. Seebohm turned 65 years old, and thus en tered mandatory retirement. His friends, colleagues, and former students thought that it would be fitting to celebrate the event of his retirement with a volume of essays in his honor, in order to render homage to a great human being, an outstanding and dedicated teacher, a highly regarded philosopher and scholar, but above all a dear friend and colleague. When the editors thought about a unifying theme for the anthology, they finally settled on the research interests of Professor Seebohm; in their view the vast do main of his competence and interests would leave all participants the freedom to select a topic of their own choice that would nonetheless lie within this large realm as well as within the area of their own research interests. Professor Seebohm's research interests encompass work in Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, German Idealism (Kant in particular), History of Philosophy, Phi losophy of the formal sciences (of Logic in particular), Philosophy of History, Methodology and Philosophy of the Human Sciences, (including Psychology and Sociology), History of 19th Century British Empiricism (Mill), American Pragma tism, Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Law and Practical Philosophy, the devel opment of the history of philosophy in Eastern Europe, especially in the Middle Ages, but also in the nineteenth century.

Book The Logic of Hegel  Translated from the Encyclop  dia of the Philosophical Sciences

Download or read book The Logic of Hegel Translated from the Encyclop dia of the Philosophical Sciences written by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Living Philosophy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ray Billington
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780415284462
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Living Philosophy written by Ray Billington and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book The Logic of History

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  • Author : Charles Morazé
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2019-07-22
  • ISBN : 3110819341
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book The Logic of History written by Charles Morazé and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "The Logic of History".

Book The Logic of Personal Knowledge

Download or read book The Logic of Personal Knowledge written by Polanyi Festschrift Committee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1961. Michael Polanyi was a polymath who influenced economics and the sciences as well as philosophy. His wide-ranging research in physical science is as well-known as his work on freedom and knowledge and his arguments against positivism and reductionism. This collection of essays written for him touches on all aspects of his influence but rotates around his published lectures Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy. The contributors address four areas – The Scientist as Knower, Historical Perspectives, The Knowledge of Society and the Knowledge of Living Things.