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This work is a critical discussion of the principle of compositionality. It aims to clarify what is meant by this principle, show that its traditional justification is insufficient, and to discuss some of the problems to be addressed.
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- On the Intellectual Crisis of Our Time -- Some Aspects of Present Day Society and World-Outlook -- Concerning the Concept of Culture -- The Tradition of Humanism in a Technological Age -- Two Aspects of the Ethical Situation -- The Value Aspect of Science -- Universe, Power and Regime -- Consciousness and Values -- Concerning the Problem of Values in Education -- Adjustment and Education -- Learning and Knowing in the Education of Our Age -- Index
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Introduction -- I. Bradley's Logic -- II. Bertrand Russell: Foundations of Geometry -- III. Couturat's De l'Infini Mathématique: Metaphysics -- IV. De l'Infini Mathématique: Infinite Numbers -- V. A. N. Whitehead: A Treatise on Universal Algebra and Logicism -- VI. The Logic of G. E. Moore -- VII. The First Congress of Philosophy. Subjects, Predicates, and Relations -- VIII. Logicism and Logistic -- IX. Logistic and Intuition. The Second Congress of Philosophy -- X. The Logistic Refutation of Kant -- XI. Logical Intuition: Poincaré, Russell, and Brouwer -- XII. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Backmatter
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table Of Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. Butler as an Individual -- III. Butler and His Theological Age -- IV. Butler and Eighteenth Century English Ethical Thought -- V. Theism and Ethics in the Analogy -- VI. Theism and Ethics in the Sermons -- VII. Conclusion -- Bibliography
This work outlines and systematically defends a mathematically and logically sophisticated understanding of the concept of the 'many', a concept which has been the centre of many debates for over a century.
Intends to pursue the problem of whether violence could be understood to be constitutive of its own sense or meaning, as opposed to merely instrumental. This book considers the central figures that include Clausewitz, Schmitt, Arendt, Sartre, Junger, Heidegger, and Patocka in pursuit of the clarification of the problems of violence.
Demonstrates how Watsuji Tetsuro and Kuki Shuzo, two twentieth-century Japanese philosophers, criticize and interpret Heideggerian philosophy, articulating traditional Japanese ethics in a modern idiom.
Explores the theme of human rights in the work of Hannah Arendt. This work argues that Arendt's contribution to this debate has been largely ignored because she does not speak in the same terms as contemporary theoreticians of human rights.
Examines the role of the concept of mechanism in Hegel's thinking about political and social institutions. This book counters as overly simplistic the notion that Hegel has an 'organic concept of society'. It also examines the thought of Hegel's peers and predecessors who critique modern political intuitions as 'machine-like'.
This book breaks new ground by drawing attention to certain kinds of biases that permeate many parts of science and by developing a theory of how to correct for these biases.
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE DEVELOPMENT OF MANNHEIM'S THINKING -- III. EXPOSITION OF MANNHEIM'S EPISTEMOLOGY -- IV. ANALYSIS OF VALUE COMPONENTS IN MANNHEIM'S WRITINGS -- V. CRITIQUE OF MANNHEIM'S AXIOLOGICAL PRESUPPOSITIONS -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Backmatter
McGrath argues for an original truth theory that combines elements of two well-known philosophical theories--deflationism and correspondence.
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