335 Ergebnisse für: metaphysics
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The Logical Basis of Metaphysics - Michael Dummett, Professor of Philosophy Michael Dummett - Google Books
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Michael Dummett's new book is the greatly expanded and recently revised version of his distinguished William James Lectures, delivered in 1976. Dummett regards the construction of a satisfactory theory of meaning as the most pressing task of contemporary…
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Moses Mendelssohn's Metaphysics and Aesthetics - Google Books
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This book presents an extended dialogue in essay form between specialists in the work of Moses Mendelssohn, and experts in important trends in related late-seventeenth and eighteenth century thought. The first group of contributors explores themes in…
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The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz - Google Books
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A remarkable thinker, Gottfried Leibniz made fundamental contributions not only to philosophy, but also to the development of modern mathematics and science. At the center of Leibniz's philosophy stands his metaphysics, an ambitious attempt to discover the…
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Averroes and the Metaphysics of Causation - Barry S. Kogan, Clarence and Robert Efroymson Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Religious Thought and Philosophy Barry S Kogan - Google Books
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Averroes and the Metaphysics of Causation examines the controversial causation issue. That causes produce their effects and can be known to do so is the view that Averroes defends in his Tahafut Al-Tahafut, where he summarizes and evaluates the debates…
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Hitchcock and Philosophy: Dial M for Metaphysics - Google Books
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The shower scene in Psycho; Cary Grant running for his life through a cornfield; “innocent” birds lined up on a fence waiting, watching — these seminal cinematic moments are as real to moviegoers as their own lives. But what makes them so? What deeper…
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Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind - Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth - Google Books
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In 1838 Charles Darwin jotted in a notebook, “He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.” Baboon Metaphysics is Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth’s fascinating response to Darwin’s challenge. Cheney and Seyfarth set up…
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TOBIAS-lib - Vernunft- und Metaphysikkritik bei Adorno und Nietzsche
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Metaphysik- und Vernunftkritik sind die Hauptgedankenlinien in der Philosophie Adornos und Nietzsches. Adornos Kritik in der Dialektik der Aufklärung setzt sich mit der Vernunft als instrumenteller Rationalität auseinander und weist nach, wie Vernunft,…
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Commonsense.co.de - Ihr Commonsense Shop
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A Formal Theory of Commonsense Psychology als eBook Download von Andrew S. Gordon, Jerry R. Hobbs, Old-fashioned ethics and common-sense metaphysics, with some of their applications als Buch von William Thomas Thornton, Thompson´s Common-Sense Time…
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Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction - Paul J. Nahin - Google Books
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"Here's a gem of a book...all peppered with delightful notes from science fiction films, novels, and comics. I can't turn a page without finding a jewel." Clifford Stoll, University of California, Berkeley, author of The Cuckoo's Egg "The research that has…
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On Aristotle's "Metaphysics": An Annotated Translation of the So-called ... - Averroës, Averroes - Google Books
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This book contains the first English translation of Abūl-Walīd Ibn Rushd's (Averroes') so-called Epitome of Aristotle's Metaphysics . The original Arabic text was composed around 1160 as a sort of appendix to a series of compendia of Aristotle's works on…