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  • Historical Explanation

    An Anti-Causalist Approach

    by Gunnar Schumann ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    This book is concerned with the appropriate form of explanations in historiography and the social sciences. It combines action theory and philosophy of historiography and develops a theory of teleological explanations of human actions based on late-Wittgensteinian and Ordinary Language Philosophy insights.In philosophy of action, many philosophers favor causal theories of human action. ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Explanation in Action Theory and Historiography

    Causal and Teleological Approaches

    Edited by Gunnar Schumann ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    Is the appropriate form of human action explanation causal or rather teleological? While this is a central question in analytic philosophy of action, it also has implications for questions about the differences between methods of explanation in the sciences on the one hand and in the humanities and the social sciences on the other. Additionally, this question bears on the problem of the ... Read more

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    by Richard Rorty, David Bromwich ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror that reflects reality. Rorty's book is a powerful critique of this imagery and the tradition of ... Read more

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  • Luhmann Explained

    From Souls to Systems

    by Hans-Georg Moeller ...
    Series series Ideas Explained
    What are systems? What is society? What happens to human beings in a hypermodern world? This book is an introduction to Niklas Luhmann's social system theory which explains specific functions like economy and mass media from a cybernetic perspective. Integrating various schools of thought including sociology, philosophy and biology Luhmann Explained results in an overall analysis of "world society ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's Being and Time

    Edited by Mark A. Wrathall ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's 'Being and Time' contains seventeen chapters by leading scholars of Heidegger. It is a useful reference work for beginning students, but also explores the central themes of Being and Time with a depth that will be of interest to scholars. The Companion begins with a section-by-section overview of Being and Time and a chapter reviewing the genesis of this ... Read more

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  • Reason, Truth and History

    by Hilary Putnam ...
    Hilary Putnam deals in this book with some of the most fundamental persistent problems in philosophy: the nature of truth, knowledge and rationality. His aim is to break down the fixed categories of thought which have always appeared to define and constrain the permissible solutions to these problems. ... Read more

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  • I am Not a Brain

    Philosophy of Mind for the 21st Century

    by Markus Gabriel ...
    Translated by Christopher Turner ...
    Many consider the nature of human consciousness to be one of the last great unsolved mysteries. Why should the light turn on, so to speak, in human beings at all? And how is the electrical storm of neurons under our skull connected with our consciousness? Is the self only our brain’s user interface, a kind of stage on which a show is performed that we cannot freely direct?In this book, philosopher ... Read more

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  • The Vicissitudes of Nature

    From Spinoza to Freud

    by Richard J. Bernstein ...
    The relation between humans and nature is at the core of the great existential threats of our time, from climate change, extreme weather, and environmental destruction to devastating pandemics. We are becoming increasingly aware of the fact that, unless we change our behavior radically and quickly, the most likely outcome will be the destruction of countless species and forms of life, including ... Read more

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  • Background Practices

    Essays on the Understanding of Being

    by Hubert L. Dreyfus ...
    This volume presents a selection of Hubert Dreyfus's pioneering work in bringing phenomenology and existentialism to bear on the philosophical and scientific study of the mind. Each of the thirteen essays interprets, develops, and extends the insights of his predecessors working in the European philosophical tradition. One of Dreyfus' central contributions to reading the historical canon of ... Read more

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  • Methodology of Social Sciences

    by Max Weber ...
    Translated by Edward Shils, Henry Finch ...
    Max Weber wrote these methodological essays in the closest intimacy with actual research and against a background of constant and intensive meditation on substantive problems in the theory and strategy of the social sciences. They were written between 1903 and 1917, the most productive of Max Weber's life, when he was working on his studies in the sociology of religion and Wirtschaft und ... Read more

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  • The distinction between falsification and refutation in the demarcation problem of Karl Popper

    by Nicolae Sfetcu ...
    Despite the criticism of Karl Popper's falsifiability theory for the demarcation between science and non-science, mainly pseudo-science, this criterion is still very useful, and perfectly valid after it was perfected by Popper and his followers. Moreover, even in his original version, considered by Lakatos as "dogmatic", Popper did not assert that this methodology is an absolute demarcation ... Read more

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  • Heidegger and the Problem of Consciousness

    by Nancy J. Holland ...
    Nancy J. Holland turns to the thought of Martin Heidegger to help understand an age-old philosophical question: Is there a split between the body and the mind? Arguing against philosophical positions that define human consciousness as an overarching phenomenon or reduce it to the brain or physicality, Holland contends that consciousness is relational and it is this relationship that allows us to ... Read more

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