Western philosophy, from c 1900 - (398)

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:(Mis)readings of Marx In Continental Philosophy reflects on the way major European philosophers related to the work of Karl Marx. It brings together leading and emerging critical theorists to address the readings of Marx offered by Benjamin, Adorno, ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2007
description:Hegel is regarded as the pinnacle of German idealism and his work has undergone an enormous revival since 1975. In this book, David Gray Carlson presents a systematic interpretation of Hegel's 'The Science of Logic', a work largely overlooked, throug...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book introduces a panorama of the philosophical theory of explanation. Written as a philosophical dialogue between two interlocutors, Philip and a student, it presents a defense of the position of explanatory pluralism. The fictional dialogue ta...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book presents a detailed analysis of what it means to be absorbed in playing music. Based on interviews with one of the world’s leading classical ensembles, “The Danish String Quartet” (DSQ), it debunks the myth that experts cannot reflect while...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:While economic and other social science expertise is indispensable for successful public policy-making regarding global climate change, social scientists face trade-offs between the scientific credibility, policy-relevance, and legitimacy of their po...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book studies the absolute reality of the Qur’an, which is signified by the struggle of truth against falsehood in the framework of monotheistic unity of knowledge and the unified world-system induced by the consilience of knowledge. In such a fr...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book explores how far some leading philosophers, from Montaigne to Hume, used Academic Scepticism to build their own brand of scepticism or took it as its main sceptical target. The book offers a detailed view of the main modern key figures, inc...

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: 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: 2007
description:This book argues that it is not obvious what we means by saying our beliefs and assertions are 'truth-directed'. Do we weaken our notion of a belief if we deal with radical scepticism without surrendering to idealism? This book defends a radically ne...