Magic Causality And Intentionality
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Magic Causality And Intentionality
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Author : Pinella Travaglia
language : en
Publisher: Office of National Drug Control Policy
Release Date : 1999
Magic Causality And Intentionality written by Pinella Travaglia and has been published by Office of National Drug Control Policy this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Philosophy categories.
Causal Powers And The Intentionality Continuum
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Author : William A. Bauer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-10-20
Causal Powers And The Intentionality Continuum written by William A. Bauer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-20 with Philosophy categories.
Why does anything happen? What is the best account of natural necessity? In this book, William A. Bauer presents and defends a comprehensive account of the internal structure of causal powers that incorporates physical intentionality and information. Bauer explores new lines of thought concerning the theory of pure powers (powerful properties devoid of any qualitative nature), the place of mind in the physical world, and the role of information in explaining fundamental processes. He raises probing questions about physical modality and fundamental properties, and explores the possibility that physical reality and the mind are unified through intentionality. His book will be valuable for researchers and students working in metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind.
The Perception Of Causality And Intentionality
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Author : Clyde D. Elliott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
The Perception Of Causality And Intentionality written by Clyde D. Elliott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with categories.
Magic And The Mind
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Author : Eugene Subbotsky
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-03-31
Magic And The Mind written by Eugene Subbotsky and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-31 with Psychology categories.
Magical thinking and behavior have traditionally been viewed as immature, misleading alternatives to scientific thought that in children inevitably diminish with age. In adults, these inclinations have been labeled by psychologists largely as superstitions that feed on frustration, uncertainty, and the unpredictable nature of certain human activities. In Magic and the Mind, Eugene Subbotsky provides an overview of the mechanisms and development of magical thinking and beliefs throughout the life span while arguing that the role of this type of thought in human development should be reconsidered. Rather than an impediment to scientific reasoning or a byproduct of cognitive development, in children magical thinking is an important and necessary complement to these processes, enhancing creativity at problem-solving and reinforcing coping strategies, among other benefits. In adults, magical thinking and beliefs perform important functions both for individuals (coping with unsolvable problems and stressful situations) and for society (enabling mass influence and promoting social harmony). Operating in realms not bound by physical causality, such as emotion, relationships, and suggestion, magical thinking is an ongoing, developing psychological mechanism that, Subbotsky argues, is integral in the contexts of politics, commercial advertising, and psychotherapy, and undergirds our construction and understanding of meaning in both mental and physical worlds. Magic and the Mind represents a unique contribution to our understanding of the importance of magical thinking, offering experimental evidence and conclusions never before collected in one source. It will be of interest to students and scholars of developmental psychology, as well as sociologists, anthropologists, and educators.
Realist Magic
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Author : Timothy Morton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-10-09
Realist Magic written by Timothy Morton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-09 with Philosophy categories.
Object-oriented ontology offers a startlingly fresh way to think about causality that takes into account developments in physics since 1900. Causality, argues, Object Oriented Ontology (OOO), is aesthetic. In this book, Timothy Morton explores what it means to say that a thing has come into being, that it is persisting, and that it has ended. Drawing from examples in physics, biology, ecology, art, literature and music, Morton demonstrates the counterintuitive yet elegant explanatory power of OOO for thinking causality. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
The Transformations Of Magic
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Author : Frank Klaassen
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2015-06-26
The Transformations Of Magic written by Frank Klaassen and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-26 with Religion categories.
In this original, provocative, well-reasoned, and thoroughly documented book, Frank Klaassen proposes that two principal genres of illicit learned magic occur in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic (in its extreme form, overt necromancy), which could not. Image magic tended to be recopied faithfully; ritual magic tended to be adapted and reworked. These two forms of magic did not usually become intermingled in the manuscripts, but were presented separately. While image magic was often copied in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, The Transformations of Magic demonstrates that interest in it as an independent genre declined precipitously around 1500. Instead, what persisted was the other, more problematic form of magic: ritual magic. Klaassen shows that texts of medieval ritual magic were cherished in the sixteenth century, and writers of new magical treatises, such as Agrippa von Nettesheim and John Dee, were far more deeply indebted to medieval tradition—and specifically to the medieval tradition of ritual magic—than previous scholars have thought them to be.
Esotericism And The Academy
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Author : Wouter J. Hanegraaff
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-19
Esotericism And The Academy written by Wouter J. Hanegraaff and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-19 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
The neglected history of how intellectuals since the Renaissance have approached ideas of the occult which challenged biblical religion.
Aristotelianism And Magic In Early Modern Europe
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Author : Donato Verardi
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-06-15
Aristotelianism And Magic In Early Modern Europe written by Donato Verardi and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-15 with Philosophy categories.
Reframing Aristotle's natural philosophy, this wide-ranging collection of essays reveals the centrality of magic to his thinking. From late medieval and Renaissance discussions on the attribution of magical works to Aristotle to the philosophical and social justifications of magic, international contributors chart magic as the mother science of natural philosophy. Tracing the nascent presence of Aristotelianism in early modern Europe, this volume shows the adaptability and openness of Aristotelianism to magic. Weaving the paranormal and the scientific together, it pairs the supposed superstition of the pre-modern era with modern scientific sensibilities. Essays focus on the work of early modern scholars and magicians such as Giambattista Della Porta, Wolferd Senguerd, and Johann Nikolaus Martius. The attribution of the Secretum secretorum to Aristotle, the role of illusionism, and the relationship between the technical and magical all provide further insight into the complex picture of magic, Aristotle and early modern Europe. Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe proposes an innovative way of approaching the development of pre-modern science whilst also acknowledging the crucial role that concepts like magic and illusion played in Aristotle's time.
Jewish Philosophy In The Middle Ages
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Author : T. M. Rudavsky
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-28
Jewish Philosophy In The Middle Ages written by T. M. Rudavsky and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-28 with Philosophy categories.
T. M. Rudavsky presents a new account of the development of Jewish philosophy from the tenth century to Spinoza in the seventeenth, viewed as part of an ongoing dialogue with medieval Christian and Islamic thought. Her aim is to provide a broad historical survey of major figures and schools within the medieval Jewish tradition, focusing on the tensions between Judaism and rational thought. This is reflected in particular philosophical controversies across a wide range of issues in metaphysics, language, cosmology, and philosophical theology. The book illuminates our understanding of medieval thought by offering a much richer view of the Jewish philosophical tradition, informed by the considerable recent research that has been done in this area.
The Secrets Of Alchemy
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Author : Lawrence Principe
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013
The Secrets Of Alchemy written by Lawrence Principe and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Alchemy, the Noble Art, conjures up scenes of mysterious, dimly lit laboratories populated with bearded old men stirring cauldrons. Though the history of alchemy is intricately linked to the history of chemistry, alchemy has nonetheless often been dismissed as the realm of myth and magic, or fraud and pseudoscience. And while its themes and ideas persist in some expected and unexpected places, from the Philosopher's (or Sorcerer's) Stone of Harry Potter to the self-help mantra of transformation, there has not been a serious, accessible, and up-to-date look at the complete history and influence of alchemy until now.
