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"Reconstruction in Philosophy" by John Dewey is a groundbreaking philosophical work that challenges traditional modes of thinking and calls for a profound reevaluation of philosophical inquiry. In this transformative book, Dewey offers a compelling vision for reconstructing philosophy to better serve the needs and complexities of the modern world. With incisive intellect and deep insight, Dewey argues for a shift away from abstract metaphysical speculations...
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Disappointed by the public reception to 'A Treatise of Human Nature', published anonymously between 1739 and 1740, David Hume decided to produce a shorter more polemic version of that work nearly ten years later. That revision, which was published in 1748, would be entitled 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'. Dispensing with much of the extraneous material from the 'Treatise', Hume focuses on his more vital propositions in the 'Enquiry'....
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First published in 1689, "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" is British philosopher John Locke's important and influential exposition on the foundation of human knowledge and understanding. Arranged into four books, the first book begins by rejecting the notion of innate ideas proposed by Descartes and proposes instead that humans are born as blank slates. Book two argues that all knowledge is derived from experience and reflection. Locke also...
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In today's busy world people become so preoccupied with their day-to-day existence that they rarely have time to T_H_I_N_K!
I have designed this group of topics as conversation starters and short stories that cause the reader to think. They are meant to be kicked around, argued over, developed, expanded, and speculated upon in an endless game of What if! The modern world is designed so that you don't have to think. There are forces and organizations...
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One of the world's leading epistemologists provides a sophisticated, revisionist introduction to the subject.
In this concise book, one of the world's leading epistemologists provides a sophisticated, revisionist introduction to the problem of knowledge in Western philosophy. Modern and contemporary accounts of epistemology tend to focus on limited questions of knowledge and skepticism, such as how we can know the external world, other minds, the...
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Delineates the knowable from the unknowable in philosophy, science, and theology.
Offering readers much to ponder, Richard H. Jones approaches the "big questions" of philosophy such as the nature of reality, consciousness, free will, the existence of God, and the meaning of life not by weighing the merits of leading arguments in these debates, but instead by questioning the extent to which we are even in a position to answer such questions in the...
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What is knowledge? What is belief? What is the distinguishing characteristic that differentiates the one from the other? What are their respective roles and what are the effects that arise when their roles are misunderstood, confused, or misapplied? Answers to these questions appeared in a statement published in the Book of Mormon in 1830. Although the relevant passage is often cited, its meaning has remained deciphered, leaving it to languish in...
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La aparición de anomalías como resultado de un abrumador aumento de los datos debido a la irrupción de innovaciones en los instrumentos tecnológicos de detección produce un aumento drástico de la complejidad necesaria para dar cuenta de los fenómenos de cierta parte de la naturaleza conocidos hasta el momento, incluyendo las novedades inesperadas, y coloca a la teoría vigente en una situación de fragilidad en la que deben realizarse...
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"Los huesos de Leibniz" —una brillante actualización del género de la epístola filosófica— constituye no sólo una magnífica introducción a la obra de un pensador muy mal conocido, el genial Leibniz, sino una muy grata lectura que enseña y deleita a la par.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz falleció en Hannover un sábado de noviembre del año 1716, y sus restos —un mes después— depositados en una tumba sin nombre. Tras décadas en el olvido,...
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El libro "Puntos de vista entre Filosofía y escritura" es el resultado del proyecto de investigación sobre la formación de nuevos investigadores integrantes del Grupo Filosofía, educación y pedagogía. Expone a los investigadores en formación del grupo a un ejercicio problemático de producción, demostración, sustentación y escritura, bien sea como punto de partida o de llegada de investigaciones iniciales y avanzadas o de resultados, en...
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Why do so many people - sometimes even intelligent people - swallow the preposterous claims of religion? G. A. Wells, the leading freethinker of our time, tries to shed light on this puzzle in his entertaining and enormously learned book, Belief and Make-Believe. Professor Wells begins by analyzing the nature of belief. To dispel popular confusions on the relation between words and thoughts, he compares the thinking process of scientists, laymen,...
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Leída las más de las veces desde la estética y, en concreto, desde los aspectos que tanto entusiasmo despertaron en el romanticismo temprano (las categorías de lo bello y lo sublime, la teoría del genio, el papel de la imaginación en la estética, etc.), el problema central de la Crítica del discernimiento desborda, no obstante, el terreno de la filosofía del arte para constituirse en cuestión capital que afecta a la propia unidad de la filosofía...
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François Laruelle proposes a theory of identity rooted in scientific notions of symmetry and chaos, emancipating thought from the philosophical paradigm of Being and reconnecting it with the real world. Unlike most contemporary philosophers, Laruelle does not believe language, history, and the world shape identity but that identity determines our relation to these phenomena. Both critical and constructivist, Theory of Identities finds fault with...
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Detailed presentation of American philosopher's pragmatic concept of epistemology, isolation of realms of existents and subsistents. Chapters include "There is No First Principle of Criticism," Dogma and Doubt," "Wayward Scepticism," "Doubts About Self-Consciousness," "Doubts About Change," "Ultimate Scepticism," "Nothing Given Exists," "Some Authorities for This Conclusion," and "The Discovery of Essence."
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El autor propone una reflexión sobre el conocimiento desde la perspectiva de las humanidades. Concebir el conocimiento, general y científico, como relato y símbolo clave de la cultura occidental permite que, por ejemplo, el amor y la rebeldía se conviertan en pautas interpretativas, y se fortalezca la idea de que a todo proyecto epistemológico subyace un deseo de grandeza que no se puede instrumentalizar del todo. El libro invita a explorar la...
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'Oh, no, not another philosophy book!' After twenty-six centuries of reflecting and writing, what can be said about philosophy that hasn't already been said? This book is different because it is written for students who are not interested in philosophy or who are struggling to understand it. Professor Malikow makes it easy to understand the sophisticated ideas and profound truths of philosophy by his use of everyday language, analogies, examples,...
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Qu'est-ce que percevoir l'espace? Qu'est-ce que percevoir le temps? Comment se rend-on compte de l'espace qui nous entoure et qui change avec le temps qui s'écoule?La conquête de l'espace, et donc la réalité d'un espace plus vaste que celui accessible directement à nos sens, commence avec Pilâtre de Rozier et sa Montgolfière, se poursuit avec l'avion, le spoutnik, Gagarine en orbite et Amstrong dans la lune. Mars est aujourd'hui en ligne de...
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"American Peasant, You Could Be One" is the story of America from the 1950's to today. In this book, Step Jones explains how America got to where it is today and how it will go forward. "American Peasant" is all about you, the American citizen, and your freedoms in America.
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