Product Description: Rationality and Cultural Interpretivism: A Critical Assessment of Failed Solutions critically assesses cultural interpretivism by scrutinizing five different proponents of it and their solutions to the problem of rationality. The book examines the works of Peter Winch, Charles Taylor, Clifford Geertz, Marshall Sahlins, and Gananath Obeyesekere and their contributions to the so-called rationality debate in the philosophy of the social sciences...read more

Product Description: English summary: Philosophers have sought to apply laws of order, symmetry, and harmony to the observable universe. However, the mathematical work of Gregory Chaitin has shown that complexity, defined as the total absence of symmetry and order, appears everywhere, even in numbers...read more

Product Description: Der dritte Band des philosophischen Briefwechsels umfasst die Jahre von 1695 bis einschließlich 1700. Er dokumentiert damit aus der Perspektive der wissenschaftlichen Korrespondenz jene bedeutende Phase, in der Leibniz, in Vertiefung der Auseinandersetzung mit der cartesianischen Philosophie, bei der Fundierung und Ausformulierung seiner physikalischen und metaphysischen Theorien einen Punkt erreicht, der es ihm ermöglicht, mit seinem nun auch explizit als ein solches bezeichnetem System an die Öffentlichkeit zu treten...read more

Product Description: Why does reason matter, if (as many people seem to think) in the end everything comes down to blind faith or gut instinct? Why not just go with what you believe even if it contradicts the evidence? Why bother with rational explanation when name-calling, manipulation, and force are so much more effective in our current cultural and political landscape? Michael Lynch's In Praise of Reason offers a spirited defense of reason and rationality in an era of widespread skepticism -- when, for example, people reject scientific evidence about such matters as evolution, climate change, and vaccines when it doesn't jibe with their beliefs and opinions...read more

Product Description: Eduard von Hartmann: Philosophie des Unbewußten Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2014, 3. Auflage Vollständiger, durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger Erstdruck: Berlin 1869...read more

Product Description: Friedrich Albert Lange: Geschichte des Materialismus und Kritik seiner Bedeutung in der Gegenwart Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2013 Vollständiger, durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger Erstdruck: Iserlohn 1866...read more

Product Description: The advent of modern science brought deep challenges to traditional religion. Miracles, prophecy, immortal souls, absolute morality - all of these fundamental notions were challenged by the increasingly analytical and skeptical approach of modern scientists...read more

Product Description: The advent of modern science brought deep challenges to traditional religion. Miracles, prophecy, immortal souls, absolute morality - all of these fundamental notions were challenged by the increasingly analytical and skeptical approach of modern scientists...read more

Product Description: SEASONS OF FREETHOUGHT brings the Freethought publications of G.W. Foote together in one collected volume. For the first time in print, you can enjoy Arrows of Freethought and Flowers of Freethought in two volumes. As founder of the world's first Freethought magazine called the "Freethinker," Foote used the power of the pen to slay the imaginary beasts of human superstition...read more

Product Description: The constraint is the possibility—this was the idea behind a conference that took place in Gent (Belgium) in 2010, under the title "Yes we Kant! Critical reflections on objectivity," and where many of the papers included in this volume were first presented...read more

Product Description: Focusing on the first four images of the Other mobilized in Descartes' Meditations--namely, the blind, the mad, the dreamy, and the bad--Reading Descartes Otherwise casts light on what have heretofore been the phenomenological shadows of "Cartesian rationality...read more

Product Description: Faith, Rationality and the Passions presents a fresh andoriginal examination of the relation of religious faith,philosophical rationality and the passions. Contributions seeleading scholars refute the widely-held belief that religiousEnlightenment forced passion and reason apart...read more

Product Description: In this unique study, Michael Y. Bennett re-reads four influential modern plays alongside their contemporary debates between rationalism and empiricism to show how these monumental achievements were thoroughly a product of their time, but also universal in their epistemological quest to understand the world through a rational and/or empirical model...read more

Product Description: The Poetic Character of Human Activity is a collection of essays by two Oakeshott scholars, most of which explores the meaning of Oakeshott’s pregnant phrase, “the poetic character of human activity” by comparing and contrasting this idea with similar and opposing ones, in particular those of the Taoist thinker, Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu), and his Western interpreter, A...read more

Product Description: In his magnum opus, David Hume asserts that a person is nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. (Treatise 252) Hume is clearly proud of his bold thesis, as is borne out by his categorical arguments and analyses on the self...read more

Product Description: Re-Thinking the Cogito seeks to combine a strongly naturalistic with a distinctively rationalist perspective on some nowadays much-discussed issues in philosophy of mind. Against the common view that they involve downright incompatible conceptions of mind, knowledge and ethics it seeks to unite a naturalism that draws on recent advances in neurophysiology and cognitive science with an outlook that gives full weight to those normative values at the heart of rationalist thought...read more