What is the meaning of life? Does anything really matter? In the past few decades these questions, perennially associated with philosophy in the popular consciousness, have rightly retaken their place as central topics in the academy. In this major contribution, Nicholas Waghorn provides a sustained and rigorous elucidation of what it would take for lives to have significance. Bracketing issues about ways our lives could have more or less meaning, the focus is rather on the idea of ultimate meaning, the issue of whether a life can attain meaning that cannot be called into question.
Waghorn sheds light on this most fundamental of existential problems through a detailed yet comprehensive examination of the notion of nothing, embracing classic and cutting-edge literature from both the analytic and Continental traditions. Central figures such as Heidegger, Carnap, Wittgenstein, Nozick and Nagel are drawn upon to anchor the discussion in some of the most influential discussion of recent philosophical history. In the process of relating our ideas concerning nothing to the problem of life's meaning, Waghorn's book touches upon a number of fundamental themes, including reflexivity and its relation to our conceptual limits, whether religion has any role to play in the question of life's meaning, and the nature and constraints of philosophical methodology.
A number of major philosophical traditions are addressed, including phenomenology, poststructuralism, and classical and paraconsistent logics. In addition to providing the most thorough current discussion of ultimate meaning, it will serve to introduce readers to philosophical debates concerning the notion of nothing, and the appendix engaging religion will be of value to both philosophers and theologians.
Автор: Dale Jacquette Название: Frege: A Philosophical Biography ISBN: 0521863279 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521863278 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7443.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Dale Jacquette`s lively and incisive biography charts Frege`s life from its beginnings in small-town north Germany, through his student days in Jena, to his development as an enduringly influential thinker. His rich and informative biography will appeal to all who are interested in Frege`s philosophy.
Автор: John Murungi Название: African Philosophical Illuminations ISBN: 331952559X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319525594 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: It addresses such issues as the African grounding of philosophy, the difference between African and Black philosophy, the African body, African art as expressed in and by Chiwara, the plight of African trees as the plight of Africans, and the symbolic meaning of Robben Island.
Название: Philosophical issues in psychiatry ISBN: 1421418363 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781421418360 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 8081.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This multidisciplinary collection explores three key concepts underpinning psychiatry--explanation, phenomenology, and nosology--and their continuing relevance in an age of neuroimaging and genetic analysis.
An introduction by Kenneth S. Kendler lays out the philosophical grounding of psychiatric practice. The first section addresses the concept of explanation, from the difficulties in describing complex behavior to the categorization of psychological and biological causality. In the second section, contributors discuss experience, including the complex and vexing issue of how self-agency and free will affect mental health. The third and final section examines the organizational difficulties in psychiatric nosology and the instability of the existing diagnostic system. Each chapter has both an introduction by the editors and a concluding comment by another of the book's contributors. Contributors: John Campbell, Ph.D.; Thomas Fuchs, M.D., Ph.D.; Shaun Gallagher, Ph.D.; Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D.; Sandra D. Mitchell, Ph.D.; Dominic P. Murphy, Ph.D.; Josef Parnas, M.D., Dr.Med.Sci.; Louis A. Sass, Ph.D.; Kenneth F. Schaffner, M.D., Ph.D.; James F. Woodward, Ph.D.; Peter Zachar, Ph.D.
Автор: J.H. Fetzer; D. Shatz; G. Schlesinger Название: Definitions and Definability: Philosophical Perspectives ISBN: 0792310462 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792310464 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 27944.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Название: Philosophical and linguistic analyses of reference ISBN: 3631662645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631662649 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 10378.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Papers in this collection provide philosophical and linguistic analyses of reference. The topics discussed include different types of reference, problems of identity, indexicality, reference fixing and descriptions. Other issues covered in individual chapters concern events and the event-argument hypothesis, predicate reference, definite descriptions, contextualism, types of quantifications, faultless disagreement, vagueness, reference in minimalism, and the reference system for coding spatial information in Hausa. The contributions discuss the approaches proposed by Gottlob Frege, Donald Davidson, and Saul Kripke, and contribute to the debate on reference in contemporary philosophy of language and linguistics.
Автор: Dov M. Gabbay; Franz Guenthner Название: Handbook of Philosophical Logic ISBN: 940178096X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401780964 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 15372.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In its second edition, this book surveys the changing landscape of philosophical logic, and shows how the computer science, artificial intelligence and computational linguistics fields have driven the demand for development in philosophical logic.
Автор: O`sullivan, Michael Название: Philosophical investigations ISBN: 1912127687 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781912127689 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 995.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein presents a radical approach to the philosophy of language and the mind, setting out a startlingly fresh conception of philosophy itself. Wittgenstein begins from the insight that most philosophical problems trace back to incorrect assumptions about the nature of language.
Автор: E. Levinas; A. Lingis Название: Collected Philosophical Papers ISBN: 9024733952 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789024733958 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16769.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In 1973 a workshop was held at The University of Western Ontario on topics of common interest to philosophers and linguists. The editors thank the officers of The University of Western Ontario for making the workshop possible and Pauline Campbell for making the workshop work.
Автор: E. Levinas; A. Lingis Название: Collected Philosophical Papers ISBN: 9024732727 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789024732722 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 22354.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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