A Metaphysics For The Future

Author : Robert Allinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351742030

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This title was first published in 2001. This work is intended to serve not only as an expression of a new idea of a philosophy, but as an "apologia" for philosophy as a legitimate and independent discipline in its own right. It argues that in the 20th century, truth has not been abandoned, but merely modified. The text proposes a return to truth and suggests that it is only after apprehending the truths of consciousness that the philosopher's mirror may become a kaleidoscope through which reality may be contemplated. First order truth lies in the realm of discovery, and discovery takes place only within the moment of subjective re-enactment.

Author : Armen Avanessian
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509537983

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Future Metaphysics by Armen Avanessian Pdf

The triumph of technological rationality and of the sciences as a whole has by no means provided answers to humanity’s great questions. Instead, it has raised new and old questions and problems. To orient ourselves in the twenty-first century, we must take a new look at the central categories of philosophy that, often unbeknownst to us, continue to shape our everyday thinking. Future Metaphysics is an attempt at restating the importance of the great metaphysical categories for the present: how our contemporary predicament forces us both to reclaim them and to give them a radically new twist. Armen Avanessian re-examines and displaces categories like substance and accident, form and matter, life and death, giving them an unexpected twist. What if the idea of accident, for instance, had to take into account the many new kinds of glitches, crashes and crises – from finance to ecology, from technological catastrophes to social collapses – that permeate our culture and make everyday news? Can we keep on using this concept as it was traditionally meant to be used when risk and chance have become part of the very substance of our world, so rendering the distinction between substance and accident meaningless? The other concepts and distinctions require a similar interrogation, giving birth to a new metaphysical landscape, where the most urgent realities of the twenty-first century impinge on the most fundamental categories of thought.

Author : Adrian Bardon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136596889

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The Future of the Philosophy of Time by Adrian Bardon Pdf

The last century has seen enormous progress in our understanding of time. This volume features original essays by the foremost philosophers of time discussing the goals and methodology of the philosophy of time, and examining the best way to move forward with regard to the field's core issues. The collection is unique in combining cutting edge work on time with a focus on the big picture of time studies as a discipline. The major questions asked include: What are the implications of relativity and quantum physics on our understanding of time? Is the passage of time real, or just a subjective phenomenon? Are the past and future real, or is the present all that exists? If the future is real and unchanging (as contemporary physics seems to suggest), how is free will possible? Since only the present moment is perceived, how does the experience as we know it come about? How does experience take on its character of a continuous flow of moments or events? What explains the apparent one-way direction of time? Is time travel a logical/metaphysical possibility?

Author : William J. Meyer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630878054

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Metaphysics and the Future of Theology by William J. Meyer Pdf

William J. Meyer engages in critical and illuminating conversation with major figures in contemporary philosophy and theology in order to explain why theology has been marginalized in modern culture and why modernity has had such difficulty integrating religion and public life. Wrestling with notable philosophers like MacIntyre and Stout, and theologians such as Gustafson, Hauerwas, Porter, Milbank, and Reinhold Niebuhr, Meyer argues that theology must embrace modernity's formal commitments to public and democratic discourse while simultaneously challenging its substantive postmetaphysical outlook. Drawing on the philosophical perspectives of Whitehead and Hartshorne and the theologies of Ogden and Gamwell, he concludes that a process metaphysical theology offers the most promising path for theology to regain a vital public voice in the world of the twenty-first century.

Author : Beryl Logan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135176525

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Immanuel Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics in Focus by Beryl Logan Pdf

This collection of seminal essays on the Prolegomena provides the student of philosophy with an invaluable overview of the issues and problems raised by Kant. Starting with the Carus translation of Kant's work, the edition offers a substantive new introduction, six papers never before published together and a comprehensive bibliography. Special attention is paid to the relationship between Kant and David Hume, whose philosophical investigations, according to Kant's famous quote, first interrupted Kant's 'dogmatic slumber'.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105046747023

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Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant Pdf

Author : Armen Avanessian
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509539468

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Future Metaphysics by Armen Avanessian Pdf

The triumph of technological rationality and of the sciences as a whole has by no means provided answers to humanity’s great questions. Instead, it has raised new and old questions and problems. To orient ourselves in the twenty-first century, we must take a new look at the central categories of philosophy that, often unbeknownst to us, continue to shape our everyday thinking. Future Metaphysics is an attempt at restating the importance of the great metaphysical categories for the present: how our contemporary predicament forces us both to reclaim them and to give them a radically new twist. Armen Avanessian re-examines and displaces categories like substance and accident, form and matter, life and death, giving them an unexpected twist. What if the idea of accident, for instance, had to take into account the many new kinds of glitches, crashes and crises – from finance to ecology, from technological catastrophes to social collapses – that permeate our culture and make everyday news? Can we keep on using this concept as it was traditionally meant to be used when risk and chance have become part of the very substance of our world, so rendering the distinction between substance and accident meaningless? The other concepts and distinctions require a similar interrogation, giving birth to a new metaphysical landscape, where the most urgent realities of the twenty-first century impinge on the most fundamental categories of thought.

Author : Jean Grondin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231527231

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Introduction to Metaphysics by Jean Grondin Pdf

Jean Grondin completes the first history of metaphysics and respects both the analytical and the Continental schools while transcending the theoretical limitations of each. He reviews seminal texts by Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and Augustine. He follows the theological turn in the metaphysical thought of Avicenna, Anselm, Aquinas, and Duns Scotus, and he revisits Descartes and the cogito; Spinoza and Leibniz's rationalist approaches; Kant's reclaiming of the metaphysical tradition; and post-Kantian practice up to Hegel. He engages with twentieth century innovations that upended the discipline, particularly Heidegger's revival of the question of Being and the rediscovery of the metaphysics of existence by Sartre and the Existentialists, language by Gadamer and Derrida, and transcendence by Levinas. Metaphysics is often dismissed as a form or epoch of philosophy that must be overcome, yet by promoting a full understanding of its platform and processes, Grondin reveals its cogent approach to reality and foundational influence on modern philosophy and science. By restoring the value of metaphysics for contemporary audiences, Grondin showcases the rich currents and countercurrents of metaphysical thought and its future possibilities.

Author : Robert E. Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:463449252

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Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139433099

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Theoretical Philosophy after 1781 by Immanuel Kant Pdf

This volume, originally published in 2002, assembles the historical sequence of writings that Kant published between 1783 and 1796 to popularize, summarize, amplify and defend the doctrines of his masterpiece, the Critique of Pure Reason of 1781. The best known of them, the Prolegomena, is often recommended to beginning students, but the other texts are also vintage Kant and are important sources for a fully rounded picture of Kant's intellectual development. As with other volumes in the series there are copious linguistic notes and a glossary of key terms. The editorial introductions and explanatory notes shed light on the critical reception accorded Kant by the metaphysicians of his day and on Kant's own efforts to derail his opponents.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603844536

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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant Pdf

This edition of Prolegomena includes Kant’s letter of February, 1772 to Marcus Herz, a momentous document in which Kant relates the progress of his thinking and announces that he is now ready to present a critique of pure reason.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547028390

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Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant Pdf

This is a book by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, published in 1783, two years after the first edition of his Critique of Pure Reason. One of Kant's shorter works, it contains a summary of the Critique's main conclusions, sometimes by arguments Kant had not used in the Critique. Kant characterizes his more accessible approach here as an "analytic" one, as opposed to the Critique's "synthetic" examination of successive faculties of the mind and their principles.

Author : Patrick Todd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780192897916

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The Open Future by Patrick Todd Pdf

In The Open Future: Why Future Contingents are all False, Patrick Todd launches a sustained defense of a radical interpretation of the doctrine of the open future. He argues that all claims about undetermined aspects of the future are simply false. Todd argues that this theory is metaphysically more parsimonius than its rivals, and that objections to its logical and practical coherence are much overblown. Todd shows how proponents of this view can maintain classical logic, and argues that the view has substantial advantages over Ockhamist, supervaluationist, and relativist alternatives. Todd draws inspiration from theories of ''neg-raising'' in linguistics, from debates about omniscience within the philosophy of religion, and defends a crucial comparison between his account of future contingents and certain more familiar theories of counterfactuals. Further, Todd defends his theory of the open future from the charges that it cannot make sense of our practices of betting, makes our credences regarding future contingents unintelligible, and is at odds with proper norms of assertion. In the end, in Todd's classical open future, we have a compelling new solution to the longstanding problem of future contingents.

Author : Beryl Logan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135176594

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Immanuel Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics in Focus by Beryl Logan Pdf

This collection of seminal essays on the Prolegomena provides the student of philosophy with an invaluable overview of the issues and problems raised by Kant. Starting with the Carus translation of Kant's work, the edition offers a substantive new introduction, six papers never before published together and a comprehensive bibliography. Special attention is paid to the relationship between Kant and David Hume, whose philosophical investigations, according to Kant's famous quote, first interrupted Kant's 'dogmatic slumber'.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : UCAL:$B44271

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Kant's Critical Philosophy for English Readers: Kant's prolegomena to any future metaphysics by Immanuel Kant Pdf