The Unconscious in Philosophy, and French and European Literature
Title | The Unconscious in Philosophy, and French and European Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Fernand Vial |
Publisher | Rodopi |
Total Pages | 404 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9042025778 |
This book traces the idea of the unconscious as it emerges in French and European literature. It discusses the functioning of the normal unconscious mind and provides examples of the abnormal unconscious in poems and literature. Psychiatric cases as they are understood today are illustrated as mirrored in literature describing the functioning of the disturbed mind.
Self and Society
Title | Self and Society PDF eBook |
Author | Central European Pragmatist Forum |
Publisher | Rodopi |
Total Pages | 273 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9042026219 |
This book is the fourth volume of selected papers from the Central European Pragmatist Forum (CEPF). It deals with the general question of self and society, and the papers are organized into sections on Self and History, Self and Society, Self and Politics, Self and Neopragmatism, and an Interview with Richard Rorty. The authors are among the leading specialists in American philosophy from universities across the US and in Central and Eastern Europe.
New Perspectives on Pragmatism and Analytic Philosophy.
Title | New Perspectives on Pragmatism and Analytic Philosophy. PDF eBook |
Author | Rosa M. Calcaterra |
Publisher | Rodopi |
Total Pages | 173 |
Release | 2011-04 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9042033223 |
The strong influence of pragmatism in the early 20th-century international debate, its subsequent and apparently inexorable decline, and its recent revival are intertwined with the fate of other currents of thought that have marked the development of contemporary philosophy. This volume clarifies the most recent events of this development focusing on key theoretical issues common both to American classic philosophical tradition and analytical thought. Many essays in this volume belong to what we can call “new” pragmatism, namely a pragmatist perspective that is different from the postmodernist “neo” pragmatism à la Rorty. The volume shows that both pragmatists and analytic thinkers stress the importance of logic and scientific method in order to deal with philosophical problems and seek for a clarification of the relation between our ethical values and our understanding of natural facts. Moreover, the anti-skeptic attitude that characterizes pragmatism as well as most part of analytic philosophy, and their common attention to the problems of language and communication are emphasized. The more sophisticated tools for addressing both theoretical and methodological problems developed by analytic philosophy are pointed out, and the essays show the possible integration of these two forms of speculation that, for too a long time, mutually disregarded one another.
Postethnophilosophy
Title | Postethnophilosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Sanya Osha |
Publisher | Rodopi |
Total Pages | 243 |
Release | 2011-04 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9042033185 |
This book makes a bold announcement for the beginning of a postethnophilosophical phase in modern African thought. It re-considers the question: “What is African philosophy,” and introduces a strategy for setting a broad and productive agenda for contemporary African philosophical thought.
The Search for a Theory of Cognition
Title | The Search for a Theory of Cognition PDF eBook |
Author | Stefano Franchi |
Publisher | Rodopi |
Total Pages | 397 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 9401207151 |
Preliminary Material -- LIFE, DEATH, AND RESURRECTION OF THE HOMEOSTAT /Stefano Franchi -- THE ONTOLOGY OF THE ENEMY: NORBERT WIENER AND THE CYBERNETIC VISION /Peter Galison -- COMPUTERS AS MODELS OF THE MIND: ON SIMULATIONS, BRAINS, AND THE DESIGN OF COMPUTERS /Peter Asaro -- AT THE PERIPHERY OF THE RISING EMPIRE: THE CASE OF ITALY (1945-1968) /Claudio Pogliano -- PROCESSING CULTURES: “STRUCTURALISM” IN THE HISTORY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE /Patrice Maniglier -- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WITH A NATIONAL FACE: AMERICAN AND SOVIET CULTURAL METAPHORS FOR THOUGHT /Slava Gerovitch -- THE CARTESIAN-LEIBNIZIAN TURING TEST /Francesco Bianchini -- TURING COMPUTABILITY AND LEIBNIZ COMPUTABILITY /Maurizio Matteuzzi -- LOGICAL INSTRUMENTS: REGULAR EXPRESSIONS, AI, AND THINKING ABOUT THINKING /Christopher M. Kelty -- GÖDEL, NAGEL, MINDS, AND MACHINES /Solomon Feferman -- ENTANGLING EFFECTIVE PROCEDURES: FROM LOGIC MACHINES TO QUANTUM AUTOMATA /Rossella Lupacchini -- TURING 1948 VS. GÖDEL 1972 /Giorgio Sandri -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- VIBS.
Values and Powers
Title | Values and Powers PDF eBook |
Author | Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 222 |
Release | 2009-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9042027460 |
This book shows how much and in what sense values are related to powers and powers are related to values in American pragmatism. The proposed re-reading of American pragmatism will facilitate a novel understanding of it as a philosophical movement and, by showing its truly humanistic, democratic, and pro-social character, the stronger impetus for current rethinking of values is being provided.
Creative Actualization
Title | Creative Actualization PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh P. McDonald |
Publisher | Rodopi |
Total Pages | 407 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9042032545 |
Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- CREATIVE ACTUALIZATION -- MODES OF VALUE -- MORAL JUSTIFICATION -- CREATIVE ACTUALIZATION AND THE WORLD -- CRITICAL EVALUATION OF METAPHYSICAL VALUE THEORIES -- CRITICAL EVALUATION OF SUBJECTIVE VALUE THEORIES -- CRITICAL EVALUATION OF RELATIONAL VALUE THEORIES -- VALUE HIERARCHIES AND VALUE AUTONOMY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- INDEX -- VIBS.