The Possibility Of Philosophical Understanding
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Seeing Knowing Understanding
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Author : Barry Stroud
language : en
Publisher:
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Seeing Knowing Understanding written by Barry Stroud and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with PHILOSOPHY categories.
Barry Stroud presents 19 of his philosophical essays, on the nature of philosophy, sense experience, the possibility of perceptual knowledge, intentional action and self-knowledge, the reality of the colours of things, alien thought and the limits of understanding, moral knowledge, meaning, use and understanding of language.
The Possibility Of Philosophical Understanding
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Author : Jason Bridges
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011
The Possibility Of Philosophical Understanding written by Jason Bridges 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 2011 with Philosophy categories.
Barry Stroud's work has had a profound impact on a very wide array of philosophical topics, but there has heretofore been no book-length treatment of his work. The current collection aims to redress this gap, with 13 essays on Stroud's work, all but one new to this volume.
Meaning Understanding And Practice
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Author : Barry Stroud
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2000-05-18
Meaning Understanding And Practice written by Barry Stroud 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 2000-05-18 with Philosophy categories.
Meaning, Understanding, and Practice is a selection of the most notable essays of a leading contemporary philosopher on a set of central topics in analytic philosophy. Barry Stroud offers penetrating studies of meaning, understanding, necessity, and the intentionality of thought. A question which runs through much of this work is what can be expected from a philosophical account of one's understanding of the meaning of something. Five of the essays are focused specifically on the philosophy of Wittgenstein, and most of the rest work with ideas derived from Wittgenstein. Stroud's introduction puts the papers in context by explaining how his ideas and aims developed over the years, and drawing out the recurring themes of the book.
A Philosophy Of The Possible
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Author : Mikhail Epstein
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-06-07
A Philosophy Of The Possible written by Mikhail Epstein and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-07 with Philosophy categories.
In this book, Mikhail Epstein offers a systematic theory of modalities (possible, actual, necessary) and their impact on the philosophy and culture of modernity and postmodernity, focusing on the creative potentials of possibilistic thinking for the humanities.
Phenomenology And Philosophical Understanding
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Author : Edo Pivcevic
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1975-11-01
Phenomenology And Philosophical Understanding written by Edo Pivcevic 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 1975-11-01 with Philosophy categories.
In Search Of Philosophic Understanding
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Author : Edwin Arthur Burtt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
In Search Of Philosophic Understanding written by Edwin Arthur Burtt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Philosophy categories.
Understanding Philosophy Of Science
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Author : James Ladyman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-08-06
Understanding Philosophy Of Science written by James Ladyman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-06 with Philosophy categories.
Few can imagine a world without telephones or televisions; many depend on computers and the Internet as part of daily life. Without scientific theory, these developments would not have been possible. In this exceptionally clear and engaging introduction to philosophy of science, James Ladyman explores the philosophical questions that arise when we reflect on the nature of the scientific method and the knowledge it produces. He discusses whether fundamental philosophical questions about knowledge and reality might be answered by science, and considers in detail the debate between realists and antirealists about the extent of scientific knowledge. Along the way, central topics in philosophy of science, such as the demarcation of science from non-science, induction, confirmation and falsification, the relationship between theory and observation and relativism are all addressed. Important and complex current debates over underdetermination, inference to the best explaination and the implications of radical theory change are clarified and clearly explained for those new to the subject.
Understanding Understanding
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Author : Richard Mason
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2003-09-25
Understanding Understanding written by Richard Mason and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-25 with Philosophy categories.
A study of the scope and limits of understanding. How is understanding to be understood? Are there limits to understanding? What of importance, if anything, could lie beyond understanding? And do we need to understand knowledge before we can know about understanding? Richard Mason's argument is that a critical theory of understanding, modeled on past theories of knowledge, cannot be workable. Understanding may bring wisdom: an uncomfortable thought for many philosophers in the twentieth century. Yet philosophy aims at expanding understanding at least as much as knowledge. How we understand understanding affects how we understand philosophy. If we put aside a narrow view of understanding based upon a cartesian model of knowledge, we may gain a more liberal, open understanding of philosophy. Mason's treatment of these fascinating problems offers a clear and lucid dialogue with a number of contemporary philosophical schools and with philosophy's past. His discussions include the thought of Hume, Henry James, Heidegger, Frege, Charles Taylor, Michael Oakeshott, Wittgenstein, Gadamer, James Joyce, and the Guyaki Indians. This fascinating book contributes to the work of many of these traditions as well as to the nature of understanding in areas as diverse as physics, music, and linguistics.
Process Action And Experience
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Author : Rowland Stout
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
Process Action And Experience written by Rowland Stout 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 with Philosophy categories.
There has been a philosophical upheaval recently in our understanding of the metaphysics of the mind. The philosophy of mind and action has traditionally treated its subject matter as consisting of states and events, and completely ignored the category of ongoing process. So the mental things that happen - experiences and actions - have been taken to be completed events and not ongoing processes. But events by their very nature as completed wholes are never present to the agent or subject; only ongoing processes can be present to a subject in the way required for conscious experience and practical self-knowledge. This suggests that a proper understanding of processes is required to understand subjective experience and agency. This volume explores the possibility and advantages of taking processes to be the subject matter of the philosophy of mind and action. The central defining feature of the process argument is its use of the progressive (as opposed to perfective) aspect. But beyond this, philosophers working on the metaphysics of processes do not agree. The contributors to this volume take up this argument in the metaphysics of processes. Are processes continuants? Are they particulars at all, or should we rather be thinking of process activity as a kind of stuff? Process, Action, and Experience considers whether practical reasoning and practical self-knowledge require thinking of action in process terms, and it considers arguments for the processive nature of conscious experience.
Seeing Knowing Understanding
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Author : Barry Stroud
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
Seeing Knowing Understanding written by Barry Stroud 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 with Philosophy categories.
Barry Stroud presents nineteen of his philosophical essays written since 2001, on topics to do with knowing, seeing, and understanding. He discusses the nature of philosophy, sense experience, the possibility of perceptual knowledge, intentional action and self-knowledge, the reality of the colours of things, alien thought and the limits of understanding, moral knowledge, meaning, use, and understanding of language.