The Problems Of Contemporary Philosophy

Author : Paul Livingston,Andrew Cutrofello
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509501441

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The Problems of Contemporary Philosophy by Paul Livingston,Andrew Cutrofello Pdf

This accessible new book provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the defining problems of contemporary philosophy. Its unique feature is to focus on problems that cut across the established divide between analytic and continental philosophical traditions. Instead of segregating the two traditions, as is usually done, the authors offer a critical orientation and guide for readers who are not exclusively affiliated with either approach and who want to understand the increasingly shared questions philosophers are asking and addressing today. Each chapter starts with a fundamental overarching question: (1) What and how can we know? (2) What is the structure of the world? (3) What goes beyond the physical world? (4) What is to be done? (5) What does it mean to orient oneself philosophically? Under these headings, the authors critically examine the discipline's most fundamental problems. Their approach reveals deep and unexpected connections across the analytic/continental divide, and opens up new ways of thinking about critique itself. No other book about contemporary philosophy is as comprehensive and cosmopolitan. The Problems of Contemporary Philosophy provides newcomers and seasoned philosophers alike with an entertaining, engaging, and far-reaching portrait of today's philosophical landscape. It is an exemplary instance of thinking across and beyond the analytic/continental divide.

Author : W. Stegmüller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401033756

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Main Currents in Contemporary German, British, and American Philosophy by W. Stegmüller Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0889463255

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Problems in Contemporary Philosophy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dilek Arli Çil,Nihal Boyaci
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3631781296

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Philosophical Problems in the Contemporary World by Dilek Arli Çil,Nihal Boyaci Pdf

The social and technological developments, social movements, scientific discoveries, economic growth or diseconomies give rise to many problems for human beings. Many disciplines such as economics, political science, architecture, sociology and psychology discuss these problems and offer solutions from different perspectives. Philosophy has its own way of dealing with these problems. As opposed to the common belief, philosophy does not only deal with ideals independently of what is going on in real life. The problems of the contemporary philosophy are also the problems of the contemporary world. For this reason, this book aims to present and discuss certain philosophical problems in the contemporary world and to suggest solutions to them.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0889463255

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Problems in Contemporary Philosophy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kwame Anthony Appiah
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198036357

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Thinking It Through by Kwame Anthony Appiah Pdf

Thinking it Through is a thorough, vividly written introduction to contemporary philosophy and some of the most crucial questions of human existence, including the nature of mind and knowledge, the status of moral claims, the existence of God, the role of science, and the mysteries of language. Noted philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah shows us what it means to "do" philosophy in our time and why it should matter to anyone who wishes to live a more thoughtful life. Opposing the common misconceptions that being a philosopher means espousing a set of philosophical beliefs--or being a follower of a particular thinker--Appiah argues that "the result of philosophical exploration is not the end of inquiry in a settled opinion, but a mind resting more comfortably among many possibilities, or else the reframing of the question, and a new inquiry." Ideal for introductory philosophy courses, Thinking It Through is organized around eight central topics--mind, knowledge, language, science, morality, politics, law, and metaphysics. It traces how philosophers in the past have considered each subject (how Hobbes, Wittgenstein, and Frege, for example, approached the problem of language) and then explores some of the major questions that still engage philosophers today. More importantly, Appiah not only explains what philosophers have thought but how they think, giving students examples that they can use in their own attempts to navigate the complex issues confronting any reflective person in the twenty-first century. Filled with concrete examples of how philosophers work, Thinking it Through guides students through the process of philosophical reflection and enlarges their understanding of the central questions of human life.

Author : Eugene Thomas Long
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1402001673

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Issues in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion by Eugene Thomas Long Pdf

This collection of original articles, written by leading contemporary European and American philosophers of religion, is presented in celebration of the publication of the fiftieth volume of the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. Following the Editor's Introduction, John Macquarrie, Adriaan Peperzak, and Hent de Vries take up central themes in continental philosophy of religion. Macquarrie analyzes postmodernism and its influence in philosophy and theology. Peperzak argues for a form of universality different from that of modern philosophy, and de Vries analyzes an intrinsic and structural relationship between religion and the media. The next three essays discuss issues in analytic philosophy of religion. Philip Quinn argues that religious diversity reduces the epistemic status of exclusivism and makes it possible for a religious person to be justified while living within a pluralistic environment. William Wainwright plumbs the work of Jonathan Edwards in order to better understand debates concerning freedom, determinism, and the problem of evil, and William Hasker asks whether theological incompatibilism is less inimical to traditional theism than some have supposed. Representing the Thomist tradition, Fergus Kerr challenges standard readings of Aquinas on the arguments for the existence of God. David Griffin analyzes the contributions of process philosophy to the problem of evil and the relation between science and religion. Illustrating comparative approaches, Keith Ward argues that the Semitic and Indian traditions have developed a similar concept of God that should be revised in view of post-Enlightenment theories of the individual and the historical. Keith Yandell explores themes in the Indian metaphysical tradition and considers what account of persons is most in accord with reincarnation and karma doctrines. Feminist philosophy of religion is represented in Pamela Anderson's article, in which she argues for a gender-sensitive and more inclusive approach to the craving for infinitude.

Author : Gabriele Galluzzo,Michael J. Loux
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781107100893

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The Problem of Universals in Contemporary Philosophy by Gabriele Galluzzo,Michael J. Loux Pdf

The problem of universals is one of the most fascinating and enduring topics in the history of metaphysics, with roots in ancient and medieval philosophy. The contributors to this book provide a critical, up-to-date and original overview of the contemporary debate on the problem of universals.

Author : Russell Blackford,Damien Broderick
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781119210085

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Philosophy's Future by Russell Blackford,Damien Broderick Pdf

Philosophy’s Future: The Problem of Philosophical Progress diagnoses the state of philosophy as an academic discipline and calls it to account, inviting further reflection and dialogue on its cultural value and capacity for future evolution. Offers the most up-to-date treatment of the intellectual and cultural value of contemporary philosophy from a wide range of perspectives Features contributions from distinguished philosophers such as Frank Jackson, Karen Green, Timothy Williamson, Jessica Wilson, and many others Explores the ways philosophical investigations of logic, world, mind, and moral responsibility continue to shape the empirical and theoretical sciences Considers the role of contemporary philosophy in political issues such as women’s rights, the discrimination of minorities, and public health

Author : Stephen Hetherington,Markos Valaris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474258784

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Knowledge in Contemporary Philosophy by Stephen Hetherington,Markos Valaris Pdf

The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History presents the history of one of Western philosophy's greatest challenges: understanding the nature of knowledge. Divided chronologically into four volumes, it follows conceptions of knowledge that have been proposed, defended, replaced, and proposed anew by ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary philosophers. This volume covers contemporary discussions about scientific, social and self-knowledge and attempts to understand knowledge naturalistically, contextually and normatively. With original insights into the vast sweep of ways in which philosophers have sought to understand knowledge, The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History embraces what is vital and evolving within contemporary epistemology. Overseen by an international team of leading philosophers and featuring 50 specially-commissioned chapters, this is a major collection on one of philosophy's defining topics.

Author : Jack S. Crumley
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015060395814

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Problems in Mind by Jack S. Crumley Pdf

This is an anthology of 51 readings, some of them excerpts, introducing four central issues animating modern philosophy of mind: mind/body, mental content, mental causation, and consciousness.

Author : John Roy Burr,Milton Goldinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Art and society
ISBN : UOM:39015002788738

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Philosophy and Contemporary Issues by John Roy Burr,Milton Goldinger Pdf

Author : H.A. Durfee
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400935938

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Foundational Reflections by H.A. Durfee Pdf

The American University Publications In From its inception Philosophy has continued the direction stated in the sub-title of the initial volume that of probing new directions in philosophy. As the series has developed these probings of new directions have taken the two fold direction of exploring the relationships between the disparate traditions of twentieth century philosophy and with developing new insights into the foundations of some enduring philosophic problems. This present volume continues both of these directions. The interaction between twentieth-century Anglo-Saxon and Continental philosophy which was an implicit theme of our first and third volumes and the explicit subject of our second volume is here continued in a series of studies on major figures and topics in each tradition. In the context of these interpretative studies, Professor Durfee returns again and again to the question of the relationships between the will and the reason, and explores the conflicting goals of creativity and objectivity in formulating a philosophic position. In so doing he raises the issue as his title suggests - of the foundations of philosophy itself. He seriously challenges the belief common to both pheomenology and analytic philosophy that philosophizing can be a presuppositionless activity, objectively persued independent of the personal (and, perhaps, arbitrary) commitments of the philosopher. This issue, critical as it is to all forms of philosophy, is surely a worthy one for a series such as ours.

Author : John Roy Burr,Milton Goldinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000049396171

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Philosophy and Contemporary Issues by John Roy Burr,Milton Goldinger Pdf

For courses in Introduction to Philosophy or Contemporary Philosophy. One of the most successful texts in its field over the last 20 years, Philosophy and Contemporary Issues introduces today's students to philosophy with timely, approachable readings of philosophical significance. The authors strive to demonstrate how philosophy illuminates and helps solve some of the important problems facing contemporary man, and they encourage students to engage in philosophizing themselves. This book successfully makes the subject interesting and intelligible for students encountering philosophy for the first time.

Author : Stewart Shapiro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Logic
ISBN : 9780199696529

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Varieties of Logic by Stewart Shapiro Pdf

Logical pluralism is the view that different logics are equally appropriate, or equally correct. Logical relativism is a pluralism according to which validity and logical consequence are relative to something. In Varieties of Logic, Stewart Shapiro develops several ways in which one can be a pluralist or relativist about logic. One of these is an extended argument that words and phrases like "valid" and "logical consequence" are polysemous or, perhaps better, are cluster concepts. The notions can be sharpened in various ways. This explains away the "debates" in the literature between inferentialists and advocates of a truth-conditional, model-theoretic approach, and between those who advocate higher-order logic and those who insist that logic is first-order. A significant kind of pluralism flows from an orientation toward mathematics that emerged toward the end of the nineteenth century, and continues to dominate the field today. The theme is that consistency is the only legitimate criterion for a theory. Logical pluralism arises when one considers a number of interesting and important mathematical theories that invoke a non-classical logic, and are rendered inconsistent, and trivial, if classical logic is imposed. So validity is relative to a theory or structure. The perspective raises a host of important questions about meaning. The most significant of these concern the semantic content of logical terminology, words like 'or', 'not', and 'for all', as they occur in rigorous mathematical deduction. Does the intuitionistic 'not', for example, have the same meaning as its classical counterpart? Shapiro examines the major arguments on the issue, on both sides, and finds them all wanting. He then articulates and defends a thesis that the question of meaning-shift is itself context-sensitive and, indeed, interest-relative. He relates the issue to some prominent considerations concerning open texture, vagueness, and verbal disputes. Logic is ubiquitous. Whenever there is deductive reasoning, there is logic. So there are questions about logical pluralism that are analogous to standard questions about global relativism. The most pressing of these concerns foundational studies, wherein one compares theories, sometimes with different logics, and where one figures out what follows from what in a given logic. Shapiro shows that the issues are not problematic, and that is usually easy to keep track of the logic being used and the one mentioned.