History of Western philosophy (500)

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book provides a study of the forces underlying the development of economic thought at Cambridge University during the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. The primary lens it uses to do so is an examination of how...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:Since the pioneering work of Donald Davidson on action, many philosophers have taken critical stances on his causal account. This book criticizes Davidson's event-causal view of action, and offers instead an agent causal view both to describe what an...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:Das Handbuch präsentiert den Diskussionsstand zu Werk und Wirkung Theodor W. Adornos und bietet inhaltliche wie methodische Werkzeuge für die Auseinandersetzung mit dieser für die deutschsprachigen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften des 20. Jahrhunder...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:African-American Female Mysticism: Nineteenth Century Religious Activism is an important book-length treatment of African-American female mysticism. The primary subjects of this book are three icons of black female spirituality and religious activism...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:The illumination of African philosophy offered in this volume leads to the illumination of philosophy in general. Illuminating arises as an essential task of philosophy, whether African or not. What is illuminated is not already there, but is constit...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:The philosophy of the humanistic sciences has been a blind-spot in analytic philosophy. This book argues that by adopting an appropriate pragmatic analysis of explanation and interpretation it is possible to show that scientific practice of humanisti...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:The book contains groundbreaking and immersive essays on crucial 20th Century scholars on social theory, discussed and analyzed from a radical, critical theory perspective. Aronowitz provides his unique and lauded critical eye toward the leading thin...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book provides a detailed commentary on the classic monograph by Alfred Tarski, and offers a reinterpretation and retranslation of the work using the original Polish text and the English and German translations. In the original work, Tarski prese...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:This study looks to the work of Tarski's mentors Stanislaw Lesniewski and Tadeusz Kotarbinski, and reconsiders all of the major issues in Tarski scholarship in light of the conception of Intuitionistic Formalism developed: semantics, truth, paradox, ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book offers an analysis of humor, comedy, and laughter as philosophical topics in the 19th Century. It traces the introduction of humor as a new aesthetic category inspired by Laurence Sterne’s 'Tristram Shandy' and shows Sterne’s deep influence...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book is at once a deeply learned and original reading of Heidegger and a primary text in its own right. It demonstrates the relevance of Heidegger’s thought in responding to the moral and religious challenges of 21st century existence. It shows ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2006
description:Does the self - a unified, separate, persisting thinker/owner/agent - exist? Drawing on Western philosophy, neurology and Theravadin Buddhism, this book argues that the self is an illusion created by a tier of non-illusory consciousness and a tier of...