On Philosophy and Philosophers
Title | On Philosophy and Philosophers PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Rorty |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 263 |
Release | 2020-10-15 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1108488455 |
"Philosophers suffer from a peculiar occupational hazard; people are always coming up and asking them just what it is that they do and how they do it. This is not the sort of question that biologists or economists or musicians get asked; people know, pretty well, what they do, and they may or may not be interested in the details. But a philosopher is different - it is very hard to imagine just what he does with his time"--
Philosophy and Philosophers
Title | Philosophy and Philosophers PDF eBook |
Author | John Shand |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2014-12-18 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1317488156 |
This revised and updated edition of a standard work provides a clear and authoritative survey of the Western tradition in metaphysics and epistemology from the Presocratics to the present day. Aimed at the beginning student, it presents the ideas of the major philosophers and their schools of thought in a readable and engaging way, highlighting the central points in each contributor's doctrines and offering a lucid discussion of the next-level details that both fills out the general themes and encourages the reader to pursue the arguments still further through a detailed guide to further reading. Whether John Shand is discussing the slow separation of philosophy and theology in Augustine, Aquinas and Ockham, the rise of rationalism, British empiricism, German idealism or the new approaches opened up by Russell, Sartre and Wittgenstein, he combines succinct but insightful exposition with crisp critical comment. This new edition will continue to provide students with a valuable work of initial reference.
Charts of Philosophy and Philosophers
Title | Charts of Philosophy and Philosophers PDF eBook |
Author | Craig Vincent Mitchell |
Publisher | HarperCollins Christian Publishing |
Total Pages | 242 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0310270928 |
"Following the helpful visual format of the popilar Zondervan Charts series, Chars of Philosophy and Philosophers provides an in-depth survey of philosophy--its ideas, movements, history, and thinkers." -- Back Cover
Philosophers in Conversation
Title | Philosophers in Conversation PDF eBook |
Author | S Upham Phineas |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 201 |
Release | 2002-05-03 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1136767495 |
This volume brings together 13 interviews with some of the brightest names in contemporary philosophy, including W.V.O. Quine, Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Hilary Putnam, as well as John Rawls. Covering a wide range of topics from the philosophy of law and logic to metaphysics to literature, the interviews in this text provide an introduction to some of the most influential thinkers of the day.
The Philosophers
Title | The Philosophers PDF eBook |
Author | Ben-Ami Scharfstein |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 497 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0195059271 |
This highly readable volume offers a broad introduction to modern philosophy and philosophers. Scharfstein contends that personal experience, especially that of childhood, affects philosophers' sense of reality and hence the content of their philosophies. Basing his argument on biographical studies of twenty great philosophers, from Descartes to Sartre, he provides the beginnings of a psychological history of philosophy.
Being and Some Philosophers
Title | Being and Some Philosophers PDF eBook |
Author | Étienne Gilson |
Publisher | PIMS |
Total Pages | 252 |
Release | 1952 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780888444158 |
The study of being was one of the main preoccupations of Etienne Gilson's scholarly and intellectual life. Being and Some Philosophers is at once a testament to the persistence of those concerns and an important landmark in the history of the question of being. The book charts the ways in which being is translated across history, from unity in Plato and substance in Aristotle to essence in Avicenna and the act of existence in Aquinas. It examines the vicissitudes of essence and existence in Suarez and Christian Wolff, in Hegel and Kierkegaard, in order to uncover the metaphysical and existential foundations of modern thought. And yet Being and Some Philosophers remains not so much an historical investigation (although it could only have been written by a scholar steeped in the history of philosophy) but, in the words of its author, "a philosophical book, and a dogmatically philosophical one at that." Its passionate vigour has proven, over many years, at once fresh and provocative. Indeed, the appendix to this revised edition contains critiques of the book by two Thomists as well as Gilson's replies to their objections.
An Unconventional History of Western Philosophy
Title | An Unconventional History of Western Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Warren |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 572 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0742559246 |
The historical exclusion of women's voices has diminished academic disciplines, including philosophy. In this groundbreaking new account of Western philosophy throughout the past 2,600 years, Karen J. Warren has paired sixteen women philosophers along-side their historical male contemporaries in conversations on philosophy. An overview essay, together with chapter introductions, primary readings, and expert commentaries, offer a rich description and evaluation of each philosopher's vital contributions to Western philosophy. Book jacket.