Télécharger le livre :  The Emergence of a Scientific Culture

Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values come to be regarded as the yardstick for all other forms of knowledge? Stephen Gaukroger shows just how bitterly the cognitive and cultural standing of science was contested in its early development....
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2008-10-23

Format(s) : PDF
39,85

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Edmund Burke, Volume I

Edmund Burke (1730-1797) was one of the most profound, versatile, and accomplished thinkers of the eighteenth century. Born and educated in Dublin, he moved to London to study law, but remained to make a career in English politics, completing A Philosophical Enquiry...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2008-08-28

Format(s) : PDF
53,14

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Chronicon Anonymi Cantuariensis

This is the first complete edition of the Chronicon Anonymi Cantuariensis, a contemporary narrative that provides valuable insights into medieval war and diplomacy, written at Canterbury shortly after the mid-fourteenth century. The previous edition, published in 1914,...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2008-06-19

Format(s) : PDF
159,43

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  The Ethics of Philodemus

Voula Tsouna presents a comprehensive study of the ethics of the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus, who taught Virgil, influenced Horace, and was praised by Cicero. His works have only recently become available to modern readers, through the decipherment of a papyrus...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2007-12-27

Format(s) : ePub
18,59

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  The Ethics of Philodemus

Voula Tsouna presents a comprehensive study of the ethics of the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus, who taught Virgil, influenced Horace, and was praised by Cicero. His works have only recently become available to modern readers, through the decipherment of a papyrus...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2007-12-27

Format(s) : PDF
18,59

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Coleridge and Scepticism

Coleridge tended to view objects in the natural world as if they were capable of articulating truths about his own poetic psyche. He also regarded such objects as if they were capable of illustrating and concretely embodying truths about a transcendent spiritual realm....
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2007-10-18

Format(s) : PDF
35,50

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Henry Fielding - Plays, Volume II, 1731 - 1734

This is the second of three volumes representing the only modern edition of Fielding's dramatic works. Most of these plays have not appeared in print for a century, and never previously in fully-edited form. Fielding is best known as a classic novelist and the author of...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2007-10-11

Format(s) : PDF
308,01

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Perspectival Thought

Our thought and talk are situated. They do not take place in a vacuum but always in a context, and they always concern an external situation relative to which they are to be evaluated. Since that is so, François Recanati argues, our linguistic and mental representations...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2007-09-27

Format(s) : PDF
37,43

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  The Normative Web

Antirealist views about morality claim that moral facts or truths do not exist. Do these views imply that other types of normative facts, such as epistemic ones, do not exist? The Normative Web develops a positive answer to this question. Terence Cuneo argues that the...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2007-09-06

Format(s) : PDF
29,58

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Self-Knowing Agents

Lucy OBrien argues that a satisfactory account of first-person reference and self-knowledge needs to concentrate on our nature as agents. She considers two main questions. First, what account of first-person reference can we give that respects the guaranteed nature of...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2007-08-30

Format(s) : PDF
21,13

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Projection and Realism in Hume's Philosophy

In his writings, Hume talks of our 'gilding and staining' natural objects, and of the mind's propensity to 'spread itself' on the world. This has led commentators to use the metaphor of 'projection' in connection with his philosophy: Hume is held to have taught that...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2007-07-26

Format(s) : PDF
23,66

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Revelation

The great religions often claim that their books or creeds contain truths revealed by God. How could we know that they do? In the second edition of Revelation, renowned philosopher of religion Richard Swinburne addresses this central question. But since the books of...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2007-07-26

Format(s) : PDF
38,64

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Physical Realization

In Physical Realization, Sydney Shoemaker considers the question of how physicalism can be true: how can all facts about the world, including mental ones, be constituted by facts about the distribution in the world of physical properties? Physicalism requires that the...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2007-07-19

Format(s) : PDF
16,06

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Beyond Selflessness

Christopher Janaway presents a full commentary on Nietzsche's most studied work, On the Genealogy of Morality, and combines close reading of key passages with an overview of Nietzsche's wider aims. Arguing that Nietzsche's goal is to pursue psychological and historical...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2007-07-12

Format(s) : PDF
25,35

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  The Concealed Art of the Soul

In The Concealed Art of the Soul, Jonardon Ganeri presents a variety of perspectives on the nature of the self as seen by major schools of classical Indian philosophy. For Indian thinkers, a philosophical treatise about the self should not only reveal the truth about...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2007-07-06

Format(s) : PDF
27,77

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  The Concealed Art of the Soul

In The Concealed Art of the Soul, Jonardon Ganeri presents a variety of perspectives on the nature of the self as seen by major schools of classical Indian philosophy. For Indian thinkers, a philosophical treatise about the self should not only reveal the truth about...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2007-07-05

Format(s) : ePub
27,77

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Epistemic Injustice

In this exploration of new territory between ethics and epistemology, Miranda Fricker argues that there is a distinctively epistemic type of injustice, in which someone is wronged specifically in their capacity as a knower. Justice is one of the oldest and most central...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2007-07-05

Format(s) : PDF
19,43

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Philosophical Perspectives on Art

Philosophical Perspectives on Art presents a series of essays devoted to two of the most fundamental topics in the philosophy of art: the distinctive character of artworks and what is involved in understanding them as art. In Part I, Stephen Davies considers a wide...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2007-07-05

Format(s) : PDF
23,66

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Visual Thinking in Mathematics

Visual thinking - visual imagination or perception of diagrams and symbol arrays, and mental operations on them - is omnipresent in mathematics. Is this visual thinking merely a psychological aid, facilitating grasp of what is gathered by other means? Or does it also...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2007-07-05

Format(s) : PDF
38,64

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  The Measure of Mind

The Measure of Mind provides a sustained critique of a widely held representationalist view of propositional attitudes and their role in the production of thought and behaviour. On this view, having a propositional attitude is a matter of having an explicit...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2007-06-29

Format(s) : PDF
21,98

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
<< < 1234 >