William - Philosophy 5

The first critical work to attempt the mammoth undertaking of reading Badiou's Being and Event as part of a sequence has often surprising, occasionally controversial results. Looking back on its pub……続きを見る

Investigating the trail of philosophical leads in HBO’s chilling True Detective series, an elite team of philosophers examine far-reaching riddles including human pessimism, Rust’s anti-natalism, th……続きを見る

This work is an examination of teleological attributions i.e. ascriptions of proper functions and natural ends) to the features and behavior of living things with a view to understanding their appli……続きを見る

This book is a forthright and novel examination of efforts to improve national and global governance over the last forty years. Much has changed since Michel Foucault considered, and rejected, econo……続きを見る

Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume II builds on Volume I, which established that no generic concept of action will suffice for understanding the character of divine actions explicit in the Chri……続きを見る

When we start to discuss religion we run into controversial questions about history and anthropology, about the scope of scientific explanation, and about free will, good and evil. This book explain……続きを見る

For the last 2,500 years literature has been attacked, booed, and condemned, often for the wrong reasons and occasionally for very good ones. The Hatred of Literature examines the evolving idea of l……続きを見る

The Quest for Meaning explores the deep-seated human need to create a life that is meaningful. In an effort to understand this need, author William Cooney examines the works of philosophers from Pla……続きを見る

It is beyond debate that the world is troubled with numerous problems. We live in a time of political, economic and social uncertainty. While all of us earnestly hope that these problems will be wor……続きを見る

This book is an appeal to think clearly for yourself in order to regain a sense of responsibility for taking care of humanity and the world; and it offers a set of suggestions for doing so. The book……続きを見る

How this little book came about. Upon discharge from hospital on the second occasion after a battle with a brain tumour, my wife Ruth and I set about the first appropriate step in cleaning out the c……続きを見る

Solitary Thoughts is a collection of passages meant to impart a narrative of the authors struggles to cope in a society that is too preoccupied with commercial self-interest. Values such as efficien……続きを見る

He had a dream.He dreamt that he lived in a land where the people were free.They were free to live their lives and raise their families, in the light of their own god, without the interference or di……続きを見る

Two Wrongs Never Make It Right! Is the second novel of William N. Rappa, Jr. The story continues the saga of the Russell family of Lynn, Massachusetts, which was the focus of this authors first nove……続きを見る

China Watcher The Dragon has awakened! Read this scholarly insiders look at China . . . its customs, history, politics, cuisine, love life, literature and art, philosophy, and much more. Witty and i……続きを見る

Have You Ever Wondered? What happens to our thoughts, experiences and consciousness when we die? Does God/Creation/The Great Mystery exist? If so, does It oversee our actions or have an agenda for t……続きを見る

Craving an intellectually stimulating read? Dive into A Pluralistic Universe by William James, an influential thinker and psychologist who also happened to be the brother of acclaimed novelist Henry……続きを見る

Where are the voices of vision and reason as we gaze timidly, even somewhat fearfully, into this new millennium? Where, the impossible dreamers we knew? The likes of Bertrand Russell, Alfred North W……続きを見る

Zeitschrift für kritische Theorie ist ein Diskussionsforum für die materiale Anwendung kritischer Theorie auf aktuelle Gegenstände und bietet einen Rahmen für Gespräche zwischen den verschiedenen me……続きを見る

A profoundly influential figure in American psychology, William James (1842–1910) was also a philosopher of note, who used Charles S. Peirce's theories of pragmatism as a basis for his own conceptio……続きを見る

“We can’t define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there’s something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed ……続きを見る

La condizione dell’uomo sul globo che abita e sul quale esercita il suo dominio, è per molti riguardi sommamente degna di osservazione. Paragonato con gli altri abitatori di quello, se riguardiamo s……続きを見る

At most of our American Colleges there are Clubs formed by the students devoted to particular branches of learning; and these clubs have the laudable custom of inviting once or twice a year some mat……続きを見る

By the employment of the reasoning faculties of the mind we compare objects presented to the mind as percepts or concepts, taking up the "raw materials" of thought and weaving them into more complex……続きを見る

A pioneer of American Psychology and Philosophy, renowned William James, offers for a critical psychological thinking/viewpoint on pragmatism and that of other such critical points of thoughts or th……続きを見る

Negli anni che precedono la pubblicazione del saggio sul Pragmatismo (1907), William James iniziò uno scambio epistolare con il filosofo polacco Wincenty Lutoslawski, che gli raccontò la sua esperie……続きを見る

As these lectures are meant to be public, and so few, I have assumed all very special problems to be excluded, and some topic of general interest required. Fortunately, our age seems to be growing p……続きを見る

"The view of the Immortality of Man which I have the privilege of stating is, broadly speaking, that of the Buddhist religion. But Buddhism, like many other great religions, is divided into main chu……続きを見る

The question, What are the religious propensities? and the question, What is their philosophic significance? are two entirely different orders of question from the logical point of view; and, as a f……続きを見る

The present volume is an attempt to carry out a plan which William James is known to have formed several years before his death. In 1907 he collected reprints in an envelope which he inscribed with ……続きを見る