Product Description: The book is the first English translation of Nicolai Hartmann's seminal book which addresses all philosophical questions of the arts. It will be of value to graduate students in philosophy, scholars concerned with 20th century Continental philosophy, students of aesthetics and art history and criticism, and persons in and out of academic philosophy who wish to develop their aesthetic understanding and responsiveness to art and music...read more

Product Description: This outstanding introductory work offers students and the general reader a concise, accessible overview of the nature, problems, and history of Western philosophy. The book is divided into two parts. Part I examines the process of philosophical discourse, including discussions of some of its greatest practitioners, elementary techniques of logical analysis, and a sketch of the history of philosophy from its earliest beginnings among the ancient Greeks to the current day...read more

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Product Description: FOUNDATIONALISM IN PHILOSOPHY n his autobiographical work, The Education of Henry Adams, this I brooding and disillusioned offspring of American presidents confronted, at age sixty, his own perplexity concerning the new scientific world-view that was emerging at the end of the century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume contains the papers presented at the Conference on Professional Ethics in Health Care Services sponsored by the Long Island Philosophical Society. The conference brought together philosophers specializing in ethical analysis and members of the non-allopathic health care professions to examine the ethical issues that arise in these professions, at least some of which are relatively new to the American scene...read more