The Nonexistent
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The Nonexistent
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Author : Anthony Everett
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2013-08-29
The Nonexistent written by Anthony Everett and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book defends the common sense view that there are no such things as fictional people, places, and things. It then creates an argument against fictional realism by finding the faults and problems with the fictional realism argument.
Light The Wings Remove The Nonexistent S
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Author : Mark Williams
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2006-11
Light The Wings Remove The Nonexistent S written by Mark Williams and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11 with Poetry categories.
When Tess Kelly's grandfather passed away, his will stipulated the bizarre request that she was to live for one year away from her jet set lifestyle to write her first novel. Even though it was an eccentric request, it was not unlike her grandfather. Agreeing to go, her life becomes a twisting tale of courage, romance, loss and deceit as she learns to adapt to a rustic life in the wilderness.
On The Non Existent
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Author : Gorgias
language : en
Publisher: Omo Press
Release Date : 2025-07-15
On The Non Existent written by Gorgias and has been published by Omo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-15 with Philosophy categories.
Gorgias was one of the earliest Sophists, famous for his flowery rhetorical style, which we see in two of his three surviving works. But On the Non-Existent, his third surviving work, is very different, written in a dense, philosophical style. The introduction to this book explains that we can understand the work as a parody of the Eleatics. Among the earliest of the pre-Socratic philosophers, the Eleatics believed that the world we perceived was an illusion, and all that really existed was an unchanging, eternal world that they called “the One.” The Sophists believed the opposite, that there is no transcendent, eternal truth, that we cannot know anything beyond what we perceive, and that everyone’s subjective perceptions are equally valid. To parody the Eleatics’ arguments that the world we perceive does not exist, Gorgias comes up with similar proofs that nothing exists. Little survives from pre-Socratic philosophy, so this book adds significantly to our understanding of the Eleatics. Toward the end, Gorgias also talks about subjective perception, adding significantly to our understanding of the Sophists. On the Non-Existent survives in two summaries, one by Sextus Empiricus and one by Pseudo-Aristotle. For the first time, this text creates a text that combines these two summaries, the most complete text available of the work. In addition, it includes the two source texts on facing pages, laid out so the equivalent points in the two texts are across from each other, making it easy for readers to compare the source texts for themselves. It also adds subheadings, making it easier to follow the argument of the texts.
Routledge Library Editions Philosophy Of Language
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Author : Various Authors
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-07-14
Routledge Library Editions Philosophy Of Language written by Various Authors and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-14 with Philosophy categories.
Philosophical themes as diverse as language, value, mind and God are among the topics discussed in this set of 11 books, originally published between 1963 and 1991. Specific volumes cover the following: The relation between persuasion and truth criticism of linguistic philosophy, questions about the nature of thought and ontological questions in general.
The Older Sophists
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Author : Hermann Diels
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 2001-01-01
The Older Sophists written by Hermann Diels and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
This sourcebook, a corrected reprint of the University of South Carolina Press edition of 1972, contains a complete English translation of the sophist material collected in the critical edition of Diels-Krantz, as well as Euthydemus and a completely re-edited Antiphon.
Understanding Italo Calvino
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Author : Beno Weiss
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 1993
Understanding Italo Calvino written by Beno Weiss and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Literary Criticism categories.
Highlights Calvino's fascination with folk tales, knights, social & political allegories, & science fiction.
Blockheads
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Author : Adam Pautz
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2019-02-12
Blockheads written by Adam Pautz and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-12 with Philosophy categories.
New essays on the philosophy of Ned Block, with substantive and wide-ranging responses by Block. Perhaps more than any other philosopher of mind, Ned Block synthesizes philosophical and scientific approaches to the mind; he is unique in moving back and forth across this divide, doing so with creativity and intensity. Over the course of his career, Block has made groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of intelligence, representation, and consciousness. Blockheads! (the title refers to Block's imaginary counterexample to the Turing test—and to the Block-enthusiast contributors) offers eighteen new essays on Block's work along with substantive and wide-ranging replies by Block. The essays and responses not only address Block's past contributions but are rich with new ideas and argument. They importantly clarify many key elements of Block's work, including his pessimism concerning such thought experiments as Commander Data and the Nation of China; his more general pessimism about intuitions and introspection in the philosophy of mind; the empirical case for an antifunctionalist, biological theory of phenomenal consciousness; the fading qualia problem for a biological theory; the link between phenomenal consciousness and representation (especially spatial representation); and the reducibility of phenomenal representation. Many of the contributors to Blockheads! are prominent philosophers themselves, including Tyler Burge, David Chalmers, Frank Jackson, and Hilary Putnam. Contributors Ned Block, Bill Brewer, Richard Brown, Tyler Burge, Marisa Carrasco, David Chalmers, Frank Jackson, Hakwan Lau, Geoffrey Lee, Janet Levin, Joseph Levine, William G. Lycan, Brian P. McLaughlin, Adam Pautz, Hilary Putnam, Sydney Shoemaker, Susanna Siegel, Nicholas Silins, Daniel Stoljar, Michael Tye, Sebastian Watzl
The Oxford Handbook Of Islamic Philosophy
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Author : Khaled El-Rouayheb
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
The Oxford Handbook Of Islamic Philosophy written by Khaled El-Rouayheb 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 2017 with Philosophy categories.
The study of Islamic philosophy has entered a new and exciting phase in the last few years. Both the received canon of Islamic philosophers and the narrative of the course of Islamic philosophy are in the process of being radically questioned and revised. Most twentieth-century Western scholarship on Arabic or Islamic philosophy has focused on the period from the ninth century to the twelfth. It is a measure of the transformation that is currently underway in the field that, unlike other reference works, the Oxford Handbook has striven to give roughly equal weight to every century, from the ninth to the twentieth. The Handbook is also unique in that its 30 chapters are work-centered rather than person- or theme-centered, in particular taking advantage of recent new editions and translations that have renewed interest and debate around the Islamic philosophical canon. The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy gives both the advanced student and active scholar in Islamic philosophy, theology, and intellectual history, a strong sense of what a work in Islamic philosophy looks like and a deep view of the issues, concepts, and arguments that are at stake. Most importantly, it provides an up-to-date portrait of contemporary scholarship on Islamic philosophy.
Thinking About Things
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Author : Mark Sainsbury
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-27
Thinking About Things written by Mark Sainsbury 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 2018-04-27 with Philosophy categories.
In the blink of an eye, I can redirect my thought from London to Austin, from apples to unicorns, from former president Obama to the mythical flying horse, Pegasus. How is this possible? How can we think about things that do not exist, like unicorns and Pegasus? They are not there to be thought about, yet we think about them just as easily as we think about things that do exist. Thinking About Things addresses these and related questions, taking as its framework a representational theory of mind. It explains how mental states are attributed, what their aboutness consists in, whether or not they are relational, and whether any of them involve nonexistent things. The explanation centers on a new theory of what is involved in attributing attitudes like thinking, hoping, and wanting. These attributions are intensional: some of them seem to involve nonexistent things, and they typically have semantic and logical peculiarities, like the fact that one cannot always substitute one expression for another that refers to the same thing without affecting truth. Mark Sainsburys new theory, display theory, explains these anomalies. For example, substituting coreferring expressions does not always preserve truth because the correctness of an attribution depends on what concepts it displays, not on what the concepts refer to. And a concept that refers to nothing may be used in an accurate display of what someone is thinking.
Distinguishing Phenomena From Their Intrinsic Nature
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Author : Jamgon Mipham
language : en
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Release Date : 2021-09-07
Distinguishing Phenomena From Their Intrinsic Nature written by Jamgon Mipham and has been published by Shambhala Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-07 with Religion categories.
Outlining the difference between appearance and reality, this work shows that the path to awakening involves leaving behind the inaccurate and limiting beliefs we have about ourselves and the world around us and opening ourselves to the limitless potential of our true nature. By divesting the mind of confusion, the treatise explains, we see things as they actually are. This insight allows for the natural unfolding of compassion and wisdom. According to tradition, Maitreya, the Buddha's regent, taught the root text of Distinguishing Phenomena from Their Intrinsic Nature to Asanga, who recorded the verses. The text is part of a larger collection of philosophical works that have become classics of the Indian Buddhist tradition. This volume includes commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham, whose discussions illuminate the subtleties of the root text and provide valuable insight into the nature of reality and the process of awakening. Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham were both among the most influential figures to come out of the Tibetan tradition in recent centuries. Their writings contributed tremendously to the flourishing of Buddhist philosophy and practice in Tibet.