Sumari

“…(including the nonphilosopher in every philosopher). The second section (On Argument) interrogates the status and value of evidence, and self-evidence. …”

“…Giovanni Battista Benedetti is counted as one of the most brilliant mathematical and philosophical minds of the late Italian Renaissance. …”

“…Marx famously declared that philosophers had only interpreted the world, but the point was to change it. …”

“…The red thread that guides the analysis is the recognition that at the basis of Sieyès' main political-constitutional proposals there is a profoundly rationalist philosophical approach. In the volume, after having presented the core of this philosophical approach, the coherence that binds together the main constitutional institutions on which the abbot worked during the first years of the Revolution is highlighted. …”

“…The highly original approach of the analysis combines philological and philosophical knowledge of ancient, medieval, renaissance and modern culture. …”

Sumari

“…In this book, Stephen R. L. Clark, a philosopher with a lifelong "addiction" to science fiction, explores G. …”

“…Folding theoretical musings, text experiments, and personal confessions into a single textual flow, it examines the somatic foundations of philosophical theory and theorizing, discussing their relationships to the writer and body, and to the phenomenology of failure and fragility of philosophy’s production. …”

“…It relies heavily on psychoanalytic and philosophical accounts of help and care and finds that help requires the establishment of a real relationship between persons, where help is given and received in a transitional space that is collapsed by care, unity, or love, which are mental constellations that, while profound, remain within the individuals involved. …”

“…In this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. …”

“…A student of Immanuel Kant, Herder challenged the idea that anyone--even the philosophers of the Enlightenment--could have a monopoly on truth. …”

“…Examining Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Horkheimer, Adorno, Foucault, and Pope Benedict XVI, Ferrone shows how transhistorical, philosophical interpretations of the Enlightenment have diverged from ones based on careful historical reconstructions of the ideas, practices, and institutions of eighteenth-century Europe. …”

“…For example, we say that we ought to think consistently, we ought to keep our promises, or that Mozart is a better composer than Salieri. Yet what philosophical moral can we draw from the apparent absence of normativity in the scientific image of the world? …”

“…Bringing pragmatist philosophers together with cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists, this volume explores topics of urgent interest across neuroscience and philosophy from the perspective of pragmatism. …”

“…This judiciously balanced, systematic, and comprehensive account of the whole of Western philosophy in the period will be an invaluable resource for philosophers, intellectual historians, theologians, political theorists, historians of science and literary scholars…”

“…With degrees in philosophy and literature, Tillman elaborates the broad reach of Newman’s philosophical, educational, historical and classical acumen. …”

“…In A Dialogue on Free Will and Science, renowned philosopher Alfred Mele explores the experiments in neuroscience and psychology that have been said to pose the greatest challenges to free will. …”