International Library of Philosophy
Bentham's Theory of Fictions
1st Edition
By C.K. Ogden
February 09, 2007
This is Volume VI of eight in a series on the Philosophy of Mind and Language. Originally published in 1932. Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume - to his five great predecessors Bentham acknowledges his debt. It is the purpose of the present volume to give some indication of the debt which future...
Art and Morality
1st Edition
Edited
By José Luis Bermúdez, Sebastian Gardner
April 11, 2006
Featuring contributions from Matthew Kieran, Aaron Ridley, Roger Scruton and Mary Mothersill to name but a few, this collection of groundbreaking new papers on aesthetics and ethics, highlights the link between the two subjects. These leading figures tackle the important questions that arise when ...
Stream of Consciousness: Unity and Continuity in Conscious Experience
1st Edition
By Barry Dainton
December 19, 2005
Barry Dainton’s controversial and highly original Stream of Consciousness aroused considerable interest when it was first published. This new paperback edition includes a postscript in which Dainton responds to some of his critics. Despite the recent upsurge of interest in consciousness, most of ...
Noble in Reason, Infinite in Faculty: Themes and Variations in Kants Moral and Religious Philosophy
1st Edition
By A.W. Moore
August 05, 2005
Is it possible for ethical thinking to be grounded in pure reason? In this bold and innovative new work, Adrian Moore provides a refreshing and challenging look at Kant's moral and religious philosophy and uses it to arrive at a distinctive way of understanding and answering this question. ...
Inference to the Best Explanation
2nd Edition
By Peter Lipton
March 11, 2004
How do we go about weighing evidence, testing hypotheses, and making inferences? According to the model of Inference to the Best Explanation, we work out what to infer from the evidence by thinking about what would actually explain that evidence, and we take the ability of a hypothesis to explain ...
Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science
1st Edition
By Jody Azzouni
December 11, 2003
Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science is a fascinating study of the bounds between science and language: in what sense, and of what, does science provide knowledge? Is science an instrument only distantly related to what's real? Can the language of science be used to adequately describe the ...
Cause and Chance: Causation in an Indeterministic World
1st Edition
By Phil Dowe, Paul Noordhof
January 01, 2006
Philosophers have long been fascinated by the connection between cause and effect: are 'causes' things we can experience, or are they concepts provided by our minds? The study of causation goes back to Aristotle, but resurged with David Hume and Immanuel Kant, and is now one of the most important ...
Art and Morality
1st Edition
Edited
By José Luis Bermúdez, Sebastian Gardner
December 12, 2002
Art and Morality is a collection of groundbreaking new papers on the theme of aesthetics and ethics, and the link between the two subjects. A group of distinguished contributors tackle the important questions that arise when one thinks about the moral dimensions of art and the aesthetic dimension ...
The Importance of Being Understood: Folk Psychology as Ethics
1st Edition
By Adam Morton
September 26, 2002
The Importance of Being Understood is an innovative and thought-provoking exploration of the links between the way we think about each other's mental states and the fundamentally cooperative nature of everyday life.Adam Morton begins with a consideration of 'folk psychology', the tendency to ...
Truth Without Objectivity
1st Edition
By Max Kölbel
May 30, 2002
Truth without Objectivity provides a critique of the mainstream view of 'meaning'. Kölbel examines the standard solutions to the conflict implicit in this view, demonstrating their inadequacy and developing instead his own relativist theory of truth.The mainstream view of meaning assumes that ...
The Shorter Logical Investigations
1st Edition
Edited
By Dermot Moran, Edmund Husserl
September 06, 2001
Edmund Husserl is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. One of the founders of phenomenology, the Logical Investigations is his most famous work. Published in two volumes in 1 900 and 1901, it had a decisive impact on the direction of ...
Logical Investigations Volume 1
1st Edition
Edited
By Dermot Moran, Edmund Husserl
July 26, 2001
Edmund Husserl is the founder of phenomenology and the Logical Investigations is his most famous work. It had a decisive impact on twentieth century philosophy and is one of few works to have influenced both continental and analytic philosophy.This is the first time both volumes have been available...