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Aristotle
NuVision Publications, LLC 2003; US$ 5.99Aristotle's works have influenced science, religion, and philosophy for nearly two thousand years. He could be thought of as the father of logical thought. Aristotle wrote: 'There is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the senses.' He wrote that everything that is learned in life is learned through sensory perception. Aristotle was the... more...
Scientific Explanation
University of Minnesota Press 1962; US$ 40.00Issues concerning scientific explanation have been a focus of philosophical attention from Pre-Socratic times through the modern period. However, recent discussion really begins with the development of the Deductive-Nomological (DN) model. This model has had many advocates (including Popper 1935, 1959, Braithwaite 1953, Gardiner, 1959, Nagel 1961)... more...
Rereading Russell
University of Minnesota Press 1989; US$ 40.00Rereading Russell was first published in 1989. Though Betrand Russell is best known for his formative role in the creation of symbolic logic (the Principia Mathematica) and analytic philosophy, he was also among the founders of twentieth-century philosophy of science; he used his method of logical analysis to devise a metaphysics and epistemology that... more...
Works of Immanuel Kant
MobileReference.com 2008; US$ 5.99This is an electronic edition of the complete essays complemented by author biography. This booktable of contents linked to every chapter and footnote. Table of Contents. The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics (1780). Critique of Pure Reason (Kritik der reinen Vernunft) (1781, 1787). Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen... more...
Reading Bernard Williams
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 33.95When Bernard Williams died in 2003, the Times newspaper hailed him ?as the greatest moral philosopher of his generation?. This outstanding collection of specially commissioned new essays on Williams's work is essential reading for anyone interested in Williams, ethics and moral philosophy and philosophy in general. Reading Bernard Williams examines... more...
Relativity and the Nature of Spacetime
Springer 2009; US$ 64.99What is the nature of spacetime? This book develops the answer to this question via a thorough analysis of relativistic effects and explicitly asking whether the objects involved in those effects are three-dimensional or four-dimensional. more...
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 77.00Kant?s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals from 1785 is one of the most important and influential texts in the whole history of philosophy.Its central purpose is to develop the categorical imperative. The present collected volume contains papers on central theoretical aspects. Key Features: Contributions from leading international authorities... more...
New Essays on the Explanation of Action
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 135.00These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues relating to agency, deliberation, motivation, mental causation, teleology, interpretive explanation and the ontology of actions and their reasons. more...
Das Transzendentale bei Ibn Sina
BRILL 2009; US$ 204.00Following al-Frbs approach, Ibn Sn (d 428/1037) undertakes a foundation of the First Philosophy based on his own critical systematisation of the Aristotelian theory of science, yielding the result that metaphysics is only possible as a transcendental science. This book provides a systematic reconstruction of Ibn Sn's concept of metaphysics. more...
Husserl and the Promise of Time
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 37.00Examines Husserl's treatment of time-consciousness and its significance for his conception of subjectivity. more...









