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  • 1
    ISBN: 9789400964990
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (420p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 178
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Philosophy, modern ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: Analytical Philosophy in Comparative Perspective: An Introduction -- We Are All Children of God -- The Syncategorematic Treatment of Predicates -- The Paradox of Naming -- Substance and Kind: Reflections on the New Theory of Reference -- The Easy Examination Paradox -- Models for Actions -- Some Problems Concerning Meaning -- Abstraction, Analysis and Universals: The Navya-Ny?ya Theory -- Psychologism in Indian Logical Theory -- A Speech-Act Model for Understanding Navya-Ny?ya Epistemology -- Some Epistemologically Misleading Expressions: “Inference”, and “Anum?na”, “Perception” and “Pratyaksa” -- The Pr?bh?kara Mim?ms? Theory of Related Designation -- Plato’s Indian Barbers -- Proper Names: Contemporary Philosophy and the Ny?ya -- Awareness and Meaning in Navya-Ny?ya.
    Abstract: We are grateful to the authors who wrote papers specially for this volume and kindly gave their permission for printing them together. None of these papers appeared anywhere before. Our special thanks are due to the first six authors who kindly responded to our request and agreed to join this new venture which we are calling 'comparative perspective' in ana­ lytical philosophy. In the introductory essay certain salient points from each paper have been noted only to show how 'com­ parative perspective' may add to, and be integrated with, mod­ ern philosophical discussion in the analytic tradition. Need­ less to say, any mistake, possible mis-attribution or misrepresentation of the views of the original authors of the papers (appearing in the said introductory essay) is entirely the responsibility of the author of that essay. The author apologizes if there has been such unintentional misrepresenta­ tion and insists that the readers should depend upon the orig­ inal papers themselves for their own understanding. For typo­ graphical problems it has not always been possible to use the symbols originally used by the authors, but care has been taken to use the proper substitute for each of them. Bimal K. Matilal ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE: AN INTRODUCTION 1. The aim of this volume is to extend the horizon of philosophi­ cal analysis as it is practiced today.
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9789400962620
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (384p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 17
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy, modern ; Phenomenology ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: I Spontaneity Of Life, Individualization, Beingness -- Harmony in Becoming: The Spontaneity of Life and Self-Individualization -- Toward a More Comprehensive Concept of life -- Confucian Methodology and Understanding the Human Person -- Heidegger’s Quest for the Essence of Man -- A Comparative Study of Lao-tzu and Husserl: A Methodological Approach -- II Human Faculties of Life -- Mind and Consciousness in Chinese Philosophy: A Historical Survey -- Transcendental Consciousness in Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenology -- Life-world and Reason in Husserl’s Philosophy of Life -- Consciousness and Body in the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty: Some Remarks Concerning Flesh, Vision, and World in the Late Philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Language, Consciousness, and Mind in Neo-Confucian Philosophy: The Crossbow Pellet -- Conscience and Life: The Role of Freedom in Heidegger’s Conception of Conscience -- III Life, Morality and Inwardness -- A Reevaluation of Confucius -- Conscience, Morality and Creativity -- Confucian Moral Metaphysics and Heidegger’s Fundamental Ontology -- The Concept of Tao: A Hermeneutical Perspective -- Phenomenology in T’ien-t’ai and Hua-yen Buddhism -- Chinese Buddhism as an Existential Phenomenology -- A Critical Reflection on the Methods of Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and the Idea of Contextualization in Religious and Theological Studies -- IV The Locus of Art In Life -- The Tenets of Roman Ingarden’s Aesthetics in a Philosophical Perspective -- The Literary Work and Its Concretization in Roman Ingarden’s Aesthetics -- The Writer as Shaman -- A Glimpse of the Fundamental Nature of Japanese Art -- A Phenomenological Perspective of Theodore Roethke’s Poetry -- Virginia Woolf’s Theory of Reception -- The Aesthetic Interpretation of life in The Tale of Genji -- Index Of Names.
    Abstract: To introduce this collection of research studies, which stem from the pro­ grams conducted by The World Phenomenology Institute, we need say a few words about our aims and work. This will bring to light the significance of the present volume. The phenomenological philosophy is an unprejudiced study of experience in its entire range: experience being understood as yielding objects. Experi­ ence, moreover, is approached in a specific way, such a way that it legitima­ tizes itself naturally in immediate evidence. As such it offers a unique ground for philosophical inquiry. Its basic condition, however, is to legitimize its validity. In this way it allows a dialogue to unfold among various philosophies of different methodologies and persuasions, so that their basic assumptions and conceptions may be investigated in an objective fashion. That is, instead of comparing concepts, we may go below their differences to seek together what they are meant to grasp. We may in this way come to the things them­ selves, which are the common objective of all philosophy, or what the great Chinese philosopher Wang Yang Ming called "the investigation of things". It is in this spirit that the Institute's programs include a "cross-cultural" dialogue meant to bring about a profound communication among philosophers in their deepest concerns. Rising above artificial cultural confinements, such dialogues bring scholars, thinkers and human beings together toward a truly human community of minds. Our Institute unfolds one consistent academic program.
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  • 3
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    ISBN: 9789400960657
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXII, 884 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Franz Rosenzweig Der Mensch und Sein Werk, Gesammelte Schriften III 3
    Series Statement: Franz Rosenzweig Gesammelte Schriften, Der Mensch und Sein Werk 3
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy ; Philosophy, modern ; Religion—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Zur Philosophie -- Das älteste Systemprogramm des deutschen Idealismus -- Vorwort zu „Hegel und der Staat“ -- Bücher über Hegel -- Paralipomena -- „Urzelle“ des Stern der Erlösung -- Das neue Denken -- Zum Werk Hermann Cohens -- Über den Vortrag Hermann Cohens „Das Verhältnis Spinozas zum Judentum“ -- „Deutschtum und Judentum“ -- in die Akademieausgabe der Jüdischen Schriften Hermann Cohens -- Über Hermann Cohens „Religion der Vernunft“ -- Hermann Cohens Nachlaßwerk -- Vertauschte Fronten -- Ein Gedenkblatt -- Zur Politik -- Die Sachverständigen -- Monarchie, Republik und Entwicklung -- Die Reichsverfassung in Krieg und Frieden -- Neuorientierung -- „Realpolitik“ -- Vox Dei? -- Cannä und Gorlice -- Das Kriegsziel -- Nordwest und Südost -- Die neue Levante -- Globus -- Zur Kultur -- Volksschule und Reichsschule -- Hic et ubique -- „Kämpfer“ -- Der Konzertsaal auf der Schallplatte -- Lessings Nathan -- Zu Lessings Denkstil -- Vorspruch zu einer Mendelssohnfeier -- Zum jüdischen Lernen -- Zeit ists -- Die Wissenschaft und das Leben -- Bildung und kein Ende -- Neues Lernen -- Eine Lücke im Bildungswesen der Gemeinde -- Das Freie Jüdische Lehrhaus -- Zur jüdischen Geschichte -- Das Wesen des Judentums -- Geist und Epochen der jüdischen Geschichte -- Jüdische Geschichte im Rahmen der Weltgeschichte -- Der Jude im Staat -- Liberalismus und Zionismus -- Der jüdische Mensch -- Zu Glauben und Denken -- Grundriß des jüdischen Wissens -- Glauben und Wissen -- Anleitung zum jüdischen Denken -- Die Wissenschaft von Gott -- Die Wissenschaft vom Menschen -- Die Wissenschaft von der Welt -- Aus dem Dialog mit Partnern -- Der Denker -- Ein Rabbinerbuch -- Apologetisches Denken -- Atheistische Theologie -- Die Bauleute -- Zu einer Stelle aus Martin Bubers Dissertation -- Martin Buber -- Zur hebräischen Sprache und Bibel -- Vom Geist der hebräischen Sprache -- Neuhebräisch? -- Zur Encyclopaedia Judaica -- Die Bibelkritik -- Die Schrift und Luther -- Unmittelbare Einwirkung der hebräischen Bibel auf Goethes Sprache -- Die Schrift und das Wort -- Zu einer Übersetzung und einer Rezension -- Die Bibel auf Deutsch -- „Der Ewige“ -- Das Formgeheimnis der biblischen Erzählungen -- Die Einheit der Bibel -- Weltgeschichtliche Bedeutung der Bibel -- Bemerkungen -- Hinweise auf Bibel- und Talmudstellen -- Personenregister.
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  • 4
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    ISBN: 9789400962804
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (320p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Profiles, An International Series on Contemporary Philosophers and Logicians 4
    Series Statement: Profiles 4
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: One -- Self-Profile -- Two -- Armstrong’s Theory of Perception -- Armstrong’s Causal Theory of Mind -- Armstrong on Belief -- Armstrong’s Theory of Knowing -- Armstrong on Universals and Particulars -- Armstrong on Determinable and Substantival Universals -- Laws of Nature: The Empiricist Challenge -- Replies -- Three -- Bibliography of D. M. Armstrong -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: The aim of this series is to inform both professional philosophers and a larger readership (of social and natural scientists, methodologists, mathe­ maticians, students, teachers, publishers, etc.) about what is going on, who's who, and who does what in contemporary philosophy and logic. PROFILES is designed to present the research activity and the results of already out­ standing personalities and schools and of newly emerging ones in the various fields of pillJosophy and logic. There are many Festschrift volumes dedicated to various philosophers. There is the celebrated Library of Living Philosophers edited by P. A. Schilpp whose format influenced the present enterprise. Still they can only cover very little of the contemporary philosophical scene. Faced with a tremendous expansion of philosophical information and with an almost frightening division of labor and increasing specialization we need systematic and regular ways of keeping track of what happens in the profes­ sion. PROFILES is intended to perform such a function. Each volume is devoted to one or several philosophers whose views and results are presented and discussed. The profiled philosopher(s) will sum­ marize and review his (their) own work in the main fields of Significant con­ tribution. This work will be discussed and evaluated by invited contributors. Relevant historical and/or biographical data, an up-to-date bibliography with short abstracts of the most important works and, whenever possible, re­ ferences to significant reviews and discussions will also be included.
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9789400960831
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (396p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Franz Rosenzweig Der Mensch und Sein Werk, Gesammelte Schriften IV 4-2
    Series Statement: Franz Rosenzweig Gesammelte Schriften, Der Mensch und Sein Werk 4-2
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy ; Philosophy, modern ; Germanic languages ; Religion—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Aus Franz Rosenzweigs Arbeitspapieren zur Verdeutschung der Schrift -- Im Anfang -- Namen -- Er Rief -- In der Wüste -- Reden -- Jehoschua -- Richter -- Schmuel -- Könige -- Jeschajahu -- Register der Bibelstellen -- Register der hebräischen Worte -- Namenverzeichnis -- Verweise auf die für die Bibelübersetzung relevanten Briefe -- und Tagebuchstellen von Franz Rosenzweig -- Bibliographie der Werke Franz Rosenzweigs -- General Register.
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  • 6
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    ISBN: 9789400968394
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (284p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idees / International Archives of the History of Ideas 102
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 102
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    Keywords: Science Philosophy ; Philosophy, modern ; History ; Science—History. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 1. Scottish Beginnings -- 2. London Beginnings -- 3. The First Trip Abroad -- 1. Paris and its Scientific Society, 1817 -- 2. Switzerland -- 3. Italy -- 4. The Return -- 4. In the Mainstream of London Science -- 1. Scientific Training in the 1820s -- 2. Mary Somerville’s Apprenticeship -- 3. The First Experimental Paper -- 4. Brougham’s Commission -- 5. The Mechanism of the Heavens -- 1. The Atmosphere of 1830 -- 2. Creation and Publication -- 3. Reception -- 6. The Second Stay Abroad -- 1. Paris, 1832 -- 2. Mary Somerville and French Science, 1832–33 -- 3. Foreign Visitors, English Correspondence -- 7. On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences -- 1. The Physical Sciences, 1830–33 -- 2. The Final Revision -- 3. Publication and Review -- 4. New Honours and a New Edition -- 5. Mary Somerville and a Few Scientific Women -- 8. The Civil List and Mary Somerville -- 9. ‘The Comet’, an Experiment and a Third Edition -- 10. The Last London Years -- 1. A New Pattern of Existence, 1836 -- 2. The Fourth Edition of the Connexion of the Sciences -- 3. A Scientific Intermediary -- 11. Outside the Mainstream of Science -- 1. Italy, 1838–40 -- 2. And After . . . -- A Guide to Notes and Citations -- Notes.
    Abstract: Among the myriad of changes that took place in Great Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century, many of particular significance to the historian of science and to the social historian are discernible in that small segment of British society drawn together by a shared interest in natural phenomena and with sufficient leisure or opportunity to investigate and ponder them. This group, which never numbered more than a mere handful in comparison to the whole population, may rightly be characterized as 'scientific'. They and their successors came to occupy an increasingly important place in the intellectual, educational, and developing economic life of the nation. Well before the arrival of mid-century, natural philosophers and inventors were generally hailed as a source of national pride and of national prestige. Scientific society is a feature of nineteenth-century British life, the best being found in London, in the universities, in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and in a few scattered provincial centres.
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9789400968691
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (190p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library 11
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Philosophy, modern ; Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: I: Transcendental Idealism, Free Will and Major Strategy of the First Critique -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- II: The Status of Space and Time -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- Section 3 -- Section 4 -- III: Some Remarks on the Nature of Transcendental Proofs and Related Problems -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- Section 3 -- IV: The Analogies: Problems of Detailed Application -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- Section 3 -- V: General -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 9.
    Abstract: The book is divided into chapters, but several themes run across them. This is, in fact, the reason for writing a book rather than a number of independent articles; for it appears that several moments of Kant's work are characterized by similar problems, and consequently we might be unable to see the impact of these on a more 1 i mi ted canvas. But further, and perhaps no less importantly, the shared problems are likely to be indicative of the nature of the whole area under discussion. Given this, to concentrate our attention on them should provide clarification not accessible in any other way. It is one of the objects of the present book to obtai n thi s clarification, and to apply it to the area itself, rather than merely to utilize the results in Kantian exegesis and elucidation. Thus the aim is not predominantly historical. Of the various themes, the theme of Space and Time turns out to be of prime importance to the whole picture presented, and within it, the theme of space. This is not perhaps surprising, for Kant's central task is to provide for objectivity; i. e. , to explain how a "subjective" stream of perceptions can amount to a perception of the world in which there are both subjective and objective moments.
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  • 8
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    ISBN: 9789401576642
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 159 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library 8
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: I. Philosophy as a Systematic Ideal -- II. The Transcendental Imagination -- III. The I as Intersubjective -- IV. The Intellectual Intuition -- Intersubjectivity and Reflection -- Notes.
    Abstract: This work resulted from my interests in several flDldam ental issues of contemporary phenomenology. Originally, their focal point was 1) the role and importance of the subject in philosophical activity and 2) the subject's finitude. To gain a perspective on these issues, a possible approach seemed to lie in the direction of the transcendental imagination and its relation to tim e. This focus on the imagination, of course, led to Fichte's egological philosophy that explicitly centers on the imagination. Here both issues are raised together. The reader of the Fichtean texts cannot for long hesitate to pose the question of intersubjectivity. These three issues-imagination, reflection, and inter­ subjectivity-formed the basis of the present work. Since such a work could never be completed if it were not for those num erot5 discussions and friendly conversation with friends and colleagues with whom philosophy is always alive, I wish to acknowledge my gratitude specifically to the following people: Professor Andre Schuwer, of Duquesne University, for his encouragement, critical reading of the work, and his comments that have greatly aided me in the writing of the present work; Professor John Sallis, Chairman of the Philosophy Department of Duquesne University, whose interest in Fichte provided invaluable insights and approaches to the issues; Professor Paul Ricoeur, University of Paris and University of Chicago, whose reading and encouragement greatly helped in the work's publication; Professor Samuel Ijsseling, University of Leuven, who introduced me to Martinus Nijhoff Publishers; Professor G. A.
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    ISBN: 9789400978164
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (382p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Logic and Philosophy 23
    Series Statement: Synthese Historical Library 23
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern
    Abstract: 1 / The Classification of Names in a System of Logic -- 1.1 Names -- 1.2 The distinction between individual and general names -- 1.3 Abstract and concrete names -- 1.4 Connotative versus non-connotative names -- 1.5 The remaining distinctions of names -- 2 / Themes from the History of Logic -- 2.1 Mill’s familiarity with the older logic -- 2.2 Some classifications of terms -- 2.3 The Manuductio ad Logicam of Philippus du Trieu -- 2.4 The ontological square -- 2.5 Paronymy -- 2.6 Connotative and absolute terms in scholastic logic -- 2.7 The identity of thing and essence -- 3 / Thinking in Intension and Extension -- 3.1 Abstraction and generalization in English empiricism -- 3.2 The Port-Royal logic -- 3.3 Extension—intension (comprehension), and denotation—connotation -- 3.4 Extension -- 3.5 Intension -- 3.6 Formal characterization of the diverse notions of extension and intension -- 3.7 The inverse relation between intension and extension -- 3.8 A problematical presupposition in the analysis of intensions -- 4 / From Predicables to Real Kinds -- 4.1 The incipience of the theory of denotation and connotation in ‘Whately’s Elements of Logic’ -- 4.2 Predicating and signifying in Whately -- 4.3 The theory of the predicables in ‘Whately’s Elements of Logic’ -- 4.4 The revised version of the predicables in ‘The Early Draft of the Logic’ -- 4.5 Real kinds -- 4.6 Abstract terms -- 4.7 James Mill’s Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind -- 4.8 Connotation revisited -- 5 / Theories of the Copula -- 5.1 Views of the copula -- 5.2 The semantic scheme for terms -- 5.3 Some illustrations -- 5.4 Limitations of the diverse theories -- 5.5 The copula as identity -- 5.6 Syntactic and semantic analysis of Hobbes’s theory of predication -- 6 / The Semantics of Propositions -- 6.1 Ambiguity of the copula -- 6.2 The analysis of S-P propositions as meaning analysis -- 6.3 Dictum de omni and nota notae est nota rei ipsius -- 6.4 The connotation of a term as constitutive for its denotation -- 6.5 The syllogism a petitio principii? -- 6.6 The status of deduction -- 6.7 Abstract propositions -- 6.8 Existential import -- 6.9 Real and verbal propositions -- 6.10 Definitions -- 6.11 Resistance to the logic of identity -- 7 / Meaning -- 7.1 Some interpretations of Mill’s theory of meaning -- 7.2 Meaning and the distinction between connotative and non-connotative terms -- 7.3 Meaning and ideas -- 7.4 Proper names -- 7.5 Philosophical language -- 8 / Semantics and Metaphysics -- 8.1 “Common sense” ontology -- 8.2 Relativity of knowledge -- 8.3 Ontology -- 8.4 Resemblance: epistemological aspects of the problem of universals -- 8.5 Logic and metaphysics -- 9 / Appraisal -- 9.1 Connotative terms and the deformation of the ontological square -- 9.2 The legacy of the past: terms -- 9.3 Signs of a new logical paradigm: propositions -- 9.4 Names, propositions, and facts -- 9.5 Meaning, fixing the reference, and rigid designators -- Appendix 1 / Some biographical notes -- Appendix 2 / Du Trieu’s doctrine of supposition -- Appendix 3 / Predication and supposition -- List of symbols and abbreviations of technical terms -- Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: The original, Dutch version of this book served in 1979 as a doctoral disserta­ tion in philosophy at the Free University in Amsterdam. In this preface to the - slightly revised - English translation, I wish once again to express my gratitude to my supervisors, Prof. J. van der Hoeven of the Free University and Prof. G. Nuchelmans of the University of Leiden, for their excellent and stimulating support. Professor van der Hoeven was associated with this project from the outset. It was a privilege to benefit from his incisive commentaries, especially in those instances where the objective was to break through to more fundamental insights. I shall not lightly forget his friendly and heartening encouragement. I am equally grateful for my discussions with Professor Nuchelmans. I almost always tried to follow his advice, since it was based upon awesome expertness and erudition. I am happy to have found in the person of Herbert Donald Morton, Th.M., M.A., an able and enthusiastic translator. Drs. Gerben Groenewoud made the translations of a number of the Latin citations. I acknowledge permission from Routledge and Kegan Paul and the University of Toronto Press to quote from The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill. And I thank the Netherlands Organization for the Advancement of Pure Research (Z.W.O.) for fmancing this translation.
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    ISBN: 9789400977099
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    Series Statement: Studies of Classical India 4
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    Abstract: I: The Structure of the World -- I. Introduction: Basic Concepts -- II. Background History and Methodology -- III. Udayana and his Works -- IV. The Structure Of The World — Introduction to a Translation of the Lak?a??va? -- V. Differentiation Of Categories — Introduction to a Translation of the Kira??val? -- VI. Conclusion -- II: A Translation and the Sanskrit Text of the Lak?a??va? -- Notes -- III: A Translation of the Kira??val? -- A. The Section on Earth -- B. The Section on Water -- C. The Section on Fire -- Notes to Sections on Earth, Water, and Fire -- Abbreviations and References.
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    ISBN: 9789400978881
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (353p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Collection des Travaux de L’Académie Internationale D’Histoire des Sciences No 30 24
    Series Statement: Synthese Historical Library 24
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    Abstract: I/Of the Principles of Human Knowledge -- II/Of the Principles of Material Objects -- III/Of the Visible Universe -- IV/Of the Earth -- Plates -- Index of Persons and Works -- Index of Subjects and Terms.
    Abstract: Descartes's Principles 0. / Philosophy is his longest and most ambitious work; it is the only work in which he attempted to actually deduce scientific knowledge from Cartesian metaphysics, as he repeatedly claimed was possible. Whatever the success of this attempt, there can be no doubt that it was enormously influential. Cartesian celestial mechanics held sway for well over a century, and some of the best minds of that period, including Leibniz, Malebranche, Euler, and the Bernoullis, attempted to modify and quantify the Cartesian theory of vortices into an acceptable alternative to Newton's theory of universal gravitation. Thus, the Principles is not only of inherent and historical interest philosophically but is also a seminal document in the history of science and of 17th Century thought. Principles of Philosophy was first published in Latin, in 1644. In 1647, a French translation, done by the Abbe Claude Picot and containing a great deal of additional material and a number of alterations in the original text, was published with Descartes's enthusiastic approval. Unlike some English translations of portions of the Principles, this translation uses the Latin text as its primary source; however, a good deal of additional material from Picot's translation has been included. There are several reasons for this. First, there is good evidence that Descartes himself was responsible for some of the additional material, including, of course, the Preface to the French translation.
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    ISBN: 9789400977754
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    Series Statement: Studies of Classical India 5
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    Abstract: 1. Nagarjuna and the Spread of His Teachings -- 1. Nagarjuna and the Spread of His Teachings -- 2. San-lun Approaches to Emptiness -- 2. San-lun Approaches to Emptiness -- 3. The Nature and Value of the Text -- 3. The Nature and Value of the Text -- Notes -- N?g?rjuna’s Twelve Gate Treatise -- Table of Contents [Seng-jui] -- Preface [Seng-jui] -- I. Causal Conditions -- II. With or Without Effect -- III. Conditions -- IV. Characteristics -- V. With or Without Characteristics -- VI. Identity or Difference -- VII. Being or Non-being -- VIII. Nature -- IX. Cause and Effect -- X. The Creator -- XI. The Three Times -- XII. Production -- Notes -- List of Chinese Terms -- Selected Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: MADHYAMIKA The hallmark of Miidhyamika philosophy is 'Emptiness', sunyata. This is not a view of reality. In fact it is emphatically denied that sunyata is a view of reality. If anybody falls into such an error as to construe emptiness as reality (or as a view, even the right view, of reality), he is only grasping the snake at the wrong end (Mk, 24.1 I)! Nftgfujuna in Mk, 24.18, has referred to at least four ways by which the same truth is conveyed: Whatever is dependent origination, we call it emptiness. That is (also) dependent conceptualization; that is, to be sure, the Middle Way. The two terms, pratitya samutpiida and upiidiiya prajnapti, which I have translated here- as 'dependent origination' and 'dependent conceptualization' need to be explained. The interdependence of everything (and under 'everything' we may include, following the Mftdhyamika, all items, ontological concepts, entities, theories, views, theses and even relative truths), i.e., the essential lack of independence of the origin (cf. utpiida) of everything proves or shows that everything is essentially devoid of its assumed essence or its independent 'own nature' or its 'self-existence' (cf. svabhiiva). Besides, our cognition of anything lacks independence in the same way. Our conception (cf. prajnapti) of something a essentially depends upon something b, and so on for everything ad infinitum.
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    Series Statement: Boston College Studies in Philosophy 9
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: Dualism in Chinese Thought and Society -- The historical Shaping of Mao Zedong’s Political Thought -- Mao’s Vision for China -- Probing China’s Soul -- Some Reflections on Mao Zedong’s Thought -- Secularism and Religion in China: The Problem of Transcendence -- Whither Contemporary Chinese Philosophy: Confucianism, Communism, or Christianity? -- On the Possibility of a Future Philosophical Dialogue between China and the West.
    Abstract: The idea of the present sixth volume in the Boston Col­ lege Studies in Philosophy entitled "Contemporary Chinese Philosophy" was conceived by the editor several years ago, before the current resumption of Chinese­ American political and economic amity occurred offi­ cially. Several preceding volumes in this series had studied various aspects of Marxism especially Soviet Marxism. Possibilities for dialogue between Christians and Marxists were discussed not only in the series but elsewhere too in various philosophical journals and books through the sixties and seventies. It was only a natural outcome then to wonder about the same possi­ bilities in regard to Chinese Marxism. Hence I sent off to many potential contributors - scholars in the field - the following proposal seeking papers for a volume on Contemporary Chinese Philosophy. The themes that should constitute the content of the articles were as follows: 1. How rigidly do contemporary Chinese adhere to Marxism-Leninism? Naturally this means principally the educated persons, but it might include the non-academic segment of the peop. le. By Marxism-Leninism here, J mean the contemporary Soviet brand. Hence, I do not. mean Marx's early writings or the developments of people like Kolakowski. 2 . Are they constrained to think in a kind of hori­ zontal materialism or are they open to a species of transcendence that might include the God problem or a belief in another life after this one on earth? 3.
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    Keywords: Philosophy, modern ; History
    Abstract: I. The Intellectual Backcloth -- 1. The Enlightenment: a Situation -- 2. Human Nature in Context: Herder’s Contribution -- 3. The Kantian Revolution -- II. Human Nature and Society in Hume -- 4. The Constitution of Human Nature -- 5. Social Cohesiveness -- 6. Social Diversity -- 7. Habit Human Nature and Society -- III. Human Nature and Society in Hegel -- 8. The Characterisation of Human Nature -- 9. Man in Völker and States -- 10. Social Diversity and the Meaning of History -- 11. Self and Society.
    Abstract: This is both a modest and a presumptuous work. It is presumptuous because, given the vast literature on just one of its themes, it attempts to discuss not only the philosophies of both Hume and Hegel but also something of their intellectual milieu. Moreover, though the study has a delimiting perspective in the relation­ ship between a theory of human nature and an account of the various aspects that make up social experience, this itself is so central and protean that it has necessitated a discussion of, amongst others, theories of history, language, aesthetics, law and politics. Yet it is a modest work in that, although I do think I have some fresh things to say, the study does not propose any revolutionary new reading of the material. I am not here interested in the relative validity of the theories put forward - I do not 'take sides'. Nevertheless it is part of the modest intent that recourse to Hume and Hegel in arguments pertaining to human nature will be better inform­ ed and more discriminating as a consequence of this study. Additionally, some distinctions herein made also shed light on some assumptions made in contem­ porary debates in the philosophy of social science, especially those concerning the understanding of alien belief-systems.
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    Abstract: I -- One -- Self-Profile -- Two -- Kyburg’s System of Probability -- Kyburg on Direct Inference -- Reply -- Three -- Bibliography of Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. -- II -- One -- Self-Profile -- Two -- Levi’s Theory of Acceptance -- Levi on the Dogma of Randomization in Experiments -- Replies -- Three -- Bibliography of Isaac Levi -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: The aim of this series is to inform both professional philosophers and a larger readership (of social and natural scientists, methodologists, mathematicians, students, teachers, publishers, etc.) about what is going on, who's who, and who does what in contemporary philosophy and logic. PROFILES is designed to present the research activity and the results of already outstanding personalities and schools and of newly emerging ones in the various fields of philosophy and logic. There are many Festschrift volumes dedicated to various philosophers. There is the celebrated Library of Living Philosophers edited by P. A. Schilpp whose format influenced the present enterprise. Still they can only cover very little of the contemporary philosophical scene. Faced with a tremendous expansion of philosophical information and with an almost frightening division oflabor and increas­ ing specialization we need systematic and regular ways of keeping track of what happens in the profession. PROFILES is intended to perform such a function. Each volume is devoted to one or several philosophers whose views and results 'are presented and discussed. The profiled philosopher(s} will summarize and review his (their) own work in the main fields of signifi­ cant contribution. This work will be discussed and evaluated by invited contributors. Relevant historical and/or biographical data, an up-to-date bibliography with short abstracts of the most important works and, whenever possible, references to significant reviews and discussions will also be included.
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    Series Statement: Sovietica, Publications and Monographs of the Institute of East-European Studies at the University of Fribourg / Switzerland and the Center for East Europe, Russia and Asia at Boston College and the Seminar for Political Theory and Philosophy at the University of Munich 44
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    Abstract: The Purpose of the Study -- Methodology of the Study -- A Note on Sources -- Organization of the Study -- 1 / Mao Tse-Tung: The Man and His Time -- 1.1. Historical Perspective -- 1.2. Mao Tse-tung: The Man -- 2 / Mao’s Methodology and Point of Departure -- 2.1. Textual Basis -- 2.2. Mao’s Methodology -- 2.3. Mao’s Point of Departure -- 3 / Mao’s Theory of Dialectic -- 3.1. The Concept of Contradiction -- 3.2. The Universality of Contradiction -- 3.3. The Particularity of Contradiction -- 3.4. The Dialectic of Contradiction -- 4 / On Mao’s Methodology -- 4.1. The Method of Chinese Philosophy -- 4.2. On Mao’s Synthetic Praxis -- 5 / A Philosophical Critique of Contradiction -- 5.1. ‘Dialectical Ideas’ in Chinese Thought -- 5.2. A Critique of Contradiction as a Philosophical Term -- 6 / A Philosophical Analysis of Mao’s Theory of Dialectic -- 6.1. Universality -- 6.2. Particularity -- 6.3. Dialectic -- 6.4. A Related Question -- Conclusion -- Notes.
    Abstract: The year 1979 ushered in a new phase in China's long and continuous revolu­ tion. Currently, this new phase is being symbolically referred to, by the Chinese leaders themselves, as the 'New Long March' (a continuation of the legendary and historical Long March) in terms of modernization, which comprises the Four Modernizations: Agriculture, Industry, Science and Technology, and Military Defense. Such an all-encompassing attempt at modernization may appear, to some at least, to be something new, or may indicate a radical shift in her policy. But upon closer examination, this decision seems only to reflect an historical continuity in terms of the two major long-term goals of the Chinese Revolution: 'national independence' and 'modernization' (or 'industrialization'). The former would make China strong; the latter, wealthy. For, ever since the Opium War in 1840 and throughout the Revolutions of 1911 and 1949, China has always pursued these two revolutionary goals, though with different emphases at different times. This has been especially true during the past three decades as this twofold goal has dictated all of China's important policies, both domestic and foreign. In other words, while the concrete policies may have appeared to be lacking in unity at times, they have been formulated with the specific intent of achieving national independence and modernization. From this perspective, the New Long March marks the passage of post-Mao China beyond the transition of succession toward the continued pursuit of the same revolutionary goals.
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    Abstract: One: A Philosophical Theory of Rational Consensus -- 1. Consensus and Philosophical Issues -- 2. The Elementary Method and Consensual Probability -- 3. The Elementary Method and Social Choice -- 4. The Extended Model -- 5. Applications of the Consensus Model -- Two: The Formal Foundations of Rational Consensus -- 6. Allocation and Ordering by Weighted Arithmetic Averaging — An Axiomatic Approach -- 7. Convergence to Consensus — The Elementary Model -- 8. Convergence to Consensus — The Extended Model -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: TItis book is the joint project of a philosopher, Lehrer, and a mathematician, Wagner. The book is, therefore, divided into a first part written by Lehrer, which is primarily philosophical, and a second part written by Wagner that is primarily formal. The authors were, however, influenced by each other throughout. Our book articulates a theory of rational consensus in science and society. The theory is applied to politics, ethics, science, and language. We begin our exposition with an elementary mathematical model of consensus developed by Lehrer in a series of articles [1976a, 1976b, 1977, 1978]. Chapter 3 contains material from [1978]. Lehrer formulated the elementary model when he was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Be­ havioral Sciences, Stanford, in 1973 with the invaluable mathematical assist­ of Kit Fine, Gerald Kramer and Lionel McKenzie. In the summer of ance 1977, Lehrer and Wagner met at the Center in a Summer Seminar on Freedom and Causality supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Wagner read the manuscript of Lehrer [1978] and subsequently solved some mathematical problems of the elementary model. After discussions of philosophical prob­ lems associated with that model, Wagner developed the foundations for the extended model. These results were reported in Wagner [1978, 1981a].
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    Series Statement: Melbourne International Philosophy Series 8
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Metaphysics.
    Abstract: to the Theory of Categories -- One The Strict and the Extended Senses of Being -- I. The Ambiguity of “IS” and the Unity of the Concept of Being -- II. Real and Fictive Parts of Being -- III. Being and Intensity -- Two Preliminary Studies for the Theory of Categories -- I. Aristotle’s Theory of Categories: Interpretation and Critique -- II. Substance -- III. Relations -- Three The Final Three Drafts of the Theory of Categories -- I. The First Draft of the Theory of Categories -- II. The Second Draft of the Theory of Categories -- III. The Third Draft of the Theory of Categories -- IV. Appendix: The Nature of the Physical World in the Light of the Theory of Categories -- Editorial notes by Alfred Kastil -- Index to Brentano’s text.
    Abstract: This book contains the definitive statement of Franz Brentano's views on meta­ physics. It is made up of essays which were dictated by Brentano during the last ten years of his life, between 1907 and 1917. These dictations were assembled and edited by Alfred Kastil and first published by the Felix Meiner Verlag in 1933 under the title Kategorienlehre. Kastil added copious notes to Brentano's text. These notes have been included, with some slight omissions, in the present edition; the bibliographical references have been brought up to date. Brentano's approach to philosophy is unfamiliar to many contemporay readers. I shall discuss below certain fundamental points which such readers are likely to find the most difficult. I believe that once these points are properly understood, then what Brentano has to say will be seen to be of first importance to philosophy. THE PRIMACY OF THE INTENTIONAL To understand Brentano's theory of being, one must realize that he appeals to what he calls inner perception for his paradigmatic uses of the word "is". For inner perception, according to Brentano, is the source of our knowledge of the nature of being, just as it is the source of our knowledge of the nature of truth and of the nature of good and evil. And what can be said about the being of things that are not apprehended in inner perception can be understood only by analogy with what we are able to say about ourselves as thinking subjects.
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    Abstract: I. Introduction -- II. The Human Sciences (Geisteswissenschaften) -- III. History as Mankind’s Memory -- IV. Dilthey’s Hermeneutic Approach to History -- V. Dilthey’s Philosophy of World-Views (Weltanschauungslehre) -- VI. The Melody of Life: Dilthey on the Meaning of History -- VII. Personality Structure and Development: The Key to Dilthey’s Conception of History and Culture -- VIII. Structure, Development, and Progress: Dilthey’s Views on the Concrete Course of History -- IX. Dilthey’s Importance for the Future Study of History and Culture -- Notes.
    Abstract: Philosophy originates in man's amazement over the richness and complexity of reality. It attempts to articulate in words and con­ cepts what reality is. Starting from the recognition that this reality is experienced by all humans but experienced in many different ways, the philosopher tries to find reality's heart, its center, its hidden treasure - the tree in the middle connecting heaven and earth, the central point from which the stupendous intricacy of experience begins to make sense and from which order can become visible. To ask "what is reality?" is, indeed, to recognize that we have entered a maze. The hermeneutic philosophy of Wilhelm DiIthey (1833-1911) is the fruit of his own wanderings in this maze. Like many intellectuals of his age, he had lost faith in the Christian religion in which he was raised. In his college years, he turned from theology to philosophy, in particular, the history of philosophy and of human thought in general - wondering about the origin and value of the astounding variety of past belief systems. At the center of reality's maze he found the insight that reality as faced by man is comparable to a literary text: it "means" something to us. Reality is not a mute object, but an autonomous source of meaning, an act of self-disclosure; knowledge of reality is therefore not the product of actions per­ formed by an active subject upon a passive object, but a com­ municative interaction between two SUbjects.
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    Abstract: 1 An Argument for the Explanatory Foundational Theory and Against Skepticism -- I: Skepticism and the Foundations of Justification -- 2 Skepticism and a Foundation of Certainty -- 3 Skepticism and Acceptability without Certainty -- 4 Skepticism and the Probability of Nonbasic Statements (I): On Sufficient Conditions for Absolute Probabilities -- 5 Skepticism and the Probability of Nonbasic Statements (II): On Sufficient Conditions for Conditional Probabilities -- II: An Examination of Nonfoundational Theories -- 6 Foundational Versus Nonfoundational Theories of Justification -- 7 A Foundational Theory with Explanatory Coherence -- 8 Explanatory Systems: Conditions of Adequacy and Systemic Tests -- 9 The Systemic Tests of Economy and Simplicity -- 10 The Explanatory Foundational Theory and Skepticism -- 11 Summary and Concluding Remarks -- A Bibliographic Essay (Walter N. Gregory) -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: This book is a manuscript that was virtually complete when James W. Cornman died. Most of the chapters were in final form, and all but the last had been revised by the author. The last chapter was in handwritten form, and the concluding remarks were not finished. Swain took charge of the proofreading and John L. Thomas compiled the indices with the assistance of Lehrer. It is our opinion that this manuscript, like the other books Cornman published, is one of exceptional scholarly and philo­ sophical importance. As do all of his philosophical publications, this work reflects Cornman's great love for philosophy and his commitment to the search for truth. Every serious student and author of epistemology will benefit from and admire the thorough scholarship and rigorous argumentation they will find herein. It has been our privilege to partici­ pate in the preparation of the manuscript for the philosophical public. KEITH LEHRER MARSHALL SWAIN IX INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION TO EPISTEMOLOGICAL SKEPTICISM Many philosophers try to refute skepticism, but few try to give a precise characterization of the thesis they attack. My first aim, consequently, is to characterize skepticism, or, more precisely, several species of skepticism. Then I shall choose those species I wish to consider and justify my choice. To begin, let me distinguish what I shall call "epistemological skepticism" from the thesis I shall call "ontological nihilism" and from what is believed by someone whom I shall call an "ontological skeptic".
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    Abstract: One -- A Self Profile -- Two -- Lehrer on Action, Freedom and Determinism -- Lehrer on Evidence, Induction and Acceptance -- The Formal Foundations of Lehrer’s Theory of Consensus -- Lehrer, Consensus and Science: The Empiricist Watershed -- Social and Anti-Social Justification: A Study of Lehrer’s Epistemology -- Replies -- Three -- Bibliography of Keith Lehrer -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: The aim of this series is to inform both professional philosophers and a larger readership (of social and natural scientists, methodologists, mathematicians, students, teachers, publishers, etc. ) about what is going on, who's who, and who does what in contemporary philosophy and logic. PROFILES is designed to present the research activity and the resuits of already outstanding personalities and schools and of newly emerging ones in the various fields of philosophy and logic. There are many Festschrift volumes dedicated to various philosophers. There is the celebrated Library of Living Philosophers edited by P. A. Schilpp whose format influenced the present enterprise. Still they can only cover very fittle of the contemporary philosophical scene. Faced with a tremendous expansion of philosophical information and with an almost frightening division of labor and increasing specialization we need systematic and regular ways of keeping track of what happens in the profession. PROFILES is intended to perform such a function. Each volume is devoted to one or several philosophers whose views and results are presented and discussed. The profiled philosopher(s) will summarize and review his (their) own work in the main fields of signifi­ cant contribution. This work will be discussed and evaluated by invited contributors. Relevant historical and/or biographical data, an up-to-date bibliography with short abstracts of the most important works and, whenever possible, references to significant reviews and discussions will also be included.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Regional planning ; Philosophy, modern ; Ethnology. ; Culture.
    Abstract: Double Negation in Navya-Ny?ya -- Authorship Problem of the Dhvany?loka -- The Contribution of R.G. Bhandarkar to the Study of Sanskrit Grammar -- Apoha and Pratibh? -- The ?atarudriya -- Hindu Concepts of Teacher, Sanskrit Guru and ?c?rya -- Ritual Syntax -- The Khetamukt?val? of N?si?ha -- A Logical Analysis of the M?lamadhyamakak?rik? -- Was Gau?ap?da an Idealist? -- Death as a Dancer in Hindu Mythology -- The Little Devotee: C?kkil?r’s Story of Ci?utto??ar -- On Impersonality and Bengali Religious Biography -- M?nasa-Pratyak?a: A Conundrum in the Buddhist Pram??a System.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Philosophy—History.
    Abstract: One: The Foundations of Knowledge -- I. Foundations -- II. System -- Two: The Foundations of Morality -- III. The Trial and Death of Socrates in Hegel’s History of Philosophy -- Three: The Foundations of Language -- IV. Language and Empirical Realism -- Four: The Foundations of Science -- V. Idealism and Abstract Idealism -- VI. The Metamorphoses of Empiricism -- Five: The System of Nature -- VII. Observation of Organic Nature (A) -- VIII. Observation of Organic Nature (B): Inner as Inner and Outer; Outer as Inner and Outer -- Six: The System of Philosophy -- IX. Revealed Religion and Absolute Knowledge -- X. Hegel And Wittgenstein on the Medium and Method of Philosophy -- XI. The Philosophical Proposition -- Notes -- Name Index.
    Abstract: One of the guiding thoughts throughout this work is that G. W. F. Hegel is the philosopher of the modern age, that subsequent phil­ osophers, whether or not they have read his works, must take their stand in relation to Hegel. My purpose is not only to present Hegel, but to show that his influence has been felt for some time, even though his presence has not been explicitly acknowledged. In spite of a recent revival in Heglian scholarship, the history of philosophy in the English-speaking world is generally obscured by a period of darkness between Kant and the early inquiries of Russell and Frege. A place is assigned to Mill and Bentham, but even today very few Anglo-Saxon philosophers would be prepared to recognise Marx as a philosopher, although it is widely held that Marx was in some way influenced by Hegel, which is probably a good reason for not paying too much attention to the latter. At best, an understand­ ing of Hegel is relevant to an understanding of Marx, but it is not considered that Hegel made a significant contribution to the main­ stream of Western philosophy from Descartes onwards, and it is assumed that he is of little relevance to the 'linguistic revolution' pioneered by Wittgenstein, Ryle, and Austin.
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    Series Statement: Studies of Classical India 3
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Philosophy, Asian.
    Abstract: I: Introductory Essay on the Application of Psychoanalysis to the Indian Tradition -- II: The Oceanic Feeling: Origin of the Term -- III: The Oceanic Feeling: The Surrounding Imagery in the Earliest Sanskrit Texts and its Psychological Implications -- IV: The Oceanic Feeling: The Image of the Sea -- V: Monkeys, Children’s Literature and Screen-Memories: A Psychological Approach to Enchanted Forests in the R?m?ya?a -- VI: Notes on Kubj? the Hunchback and K???a, with some Observations on Perversions -- VII: Yogic Powers and Symptom-Formation -- A Personal Epilogue.
    Abstract: By way of a personal note, I can reveal to the reader that I was led to Sanskrit by an exposure to Indian philosophy while still a child. These early mystical interests gave way in the university to scholarly pursuits and, through reading the works of Franklin Edgerton, Louis Renou and Etienne Lamotte, I was introduced to the scientific study of the· past, to philology and the academic study of an ancient literature. In this period I wrote a number of books on Sanskrit aesthetics, concentrating on the sophisticated Indian notions of suggestion. This work has culminated in a three-volume study of the Dhvanyaloka and the Dhvanyalokalocana, for the Harvard Oriental Series. Eventually I found that I wanted to broaden my concern with India, to learn what was at the universal core of my studies and what could be of interest to everyone. In reading Indian literature, I came across so many bizarre tales and ideas that seemed incomprehensible and removed from the concerns of everyday life that I became troubled. Vedantic ideas of the world as a dream, for example, to which I had been particularly partial, seemed grandiose and megalomanic. I turned away with increasing scepticism from what I felt to be the hysterical outpourings of mystical and religious fanaticism.
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    Abstract: I. The Place of the Begriffsschrift -- II. Functions -- III. Objects -- IV. Representations and Minds -- V. Sense -- VI. Frege, Leibniz and Bolzano.
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series in Philosophy 15
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    Abstract: The Method of Applied Logic: Some Philosophical Considerations -- Reply -- Rescher’s Hypothetical Reasoning: An Amendment -- Reply -- Hypothetical Reasoning and Conditionals -- Reply -- Rescher’s Theory of Plausible Reasoning -- Reply -- A Modal Logic of Place -- Reply -- Familiar Mental Phenomena -- Reply -- Toward a Theory of Attributes -- Reply -- Potentiality from Aristotle to Rescher and Back -- Reply -- Substances and Individual Notions -- Reply -- Utilitarianism and the Vicarious Affects -- Reply -- Rescher’s Epistemological System -- Reply -- How Is Knowledge of the World Possible? -- Reply -- Rescher and Kant: Some Common Themes in Philosophy of Science -- Reply -- Nicholas Rescher: A Biographical Précis -- List of Publications by Nicholas Rescher -- Nicholas Rescher’s Metabibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: When I entered the graduate program in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh in 1961, Nicholas Rescher had just joined the department of philosophy' to begin, with Adolf Grunbaum, the building of what is now a philosophy center of worldwide renown. Very soon his exceptional energy and versatility were in evidence, as he founded the American Philosophical Quarterly, generated a constantly rising stack of preprints, pursued impor­ tant scholarly research in Arabic logic, taught a staggering diversity of histori­ cal and thematic courses, and obtained, in cooperation with Kurt Baier, a major grant for work in value theory. That is all part of the record. What may come as a surprise is that none of it was accomplished at the expense of his students. Papers were returned in a matter of days, often the next class meet­ ing. And so easily accessible was he for philosophical discussion that, since (inevitably) we shared many philosophical interests, I asked him to serve as my dissertation advisor. My work in connection with this project led to a couple of journal articles while his, characteristically, led to a book. Our dis­ cussions certainly helped me, and while they may also have had some small influence on him, in the end our views were quite distinct. I was not only allowed complete independence, but was positively encouraged to think of my own ideas and to develop them independently. The length and breadth of Rescher's bibliography defy belief.
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    Abstract: What is Justified Belief? -- Justification and the Basis of Belief -- Basing Relations -- The Gettier Problem and the Analysis of Knowledge -- Epistemic Presupposition -- A Plethora of Epistemological Theories -- The Directly Evident -- On Justifying NonBasic Statements by Basic Reports 129 -- The Need for Epistemology: Problematic Realism Defended -- More on Givenness and Explanatory Coherence -- Nancy Kelsik / Bibliography -- Notes on contributors -- Name index.
    Abstract: With one exception, all of the papers in this volume were originally presented at a conference held in April, 1978, at The Ohio State University. The excep­ tion is the paper by Wilfrid Sellars, which is a revised version of a paper he originally published in the Journal of Philosophy, 1973. However, the present version of Sellars' paper is so thoroughly changed from its original, that it is now virtually a new paper. None of the other nine papers has been published previously. The bibliography, prepared by Nancy Kelsik, is very extensive and it is tempting to think that it is complete. But I believe that virtual com­ pleteness is more likely to prove correct. The conference was made possible by grants from the College of Human­ ities and the Graduate School, Ohio State University, as well as by a grant from the Philosophy Department. On behalf of the contributors, I want to thank these institutions for their support. I also want to thank Marshall Swain and Robert Turnbu~l for early help and encouragement; Bette Hellinger for assistance in setting up the confer­ ence; and Mary Raines and Virginia Foster for considerable aid in the pre­ paration of papers and many other conference matters. The friendly advice of the late James Cornman was also importantly helpful. April,1979 GEORGE S. PAPPAS ix INTRODUCTION The papers in this volume deal in different ways with the related issues of epistemic justification or warrant, and the analysis of factual knowledge.
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    Series Statement: Profiles, An International Series on Contemporary Philosophers and Logicians 1
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    Abstract: One -- Patrick Suppes A Self Profile -- Two -- Suppes’ Philosophy of Physics -- Suppes’ Contributions to the Theory of Measurement -- Suppes on Probability, Utility, and Decision Theory -- Suppes’ Contribution to Logic and Linguistic -- Suppes’ Work in the Foundations of Psychology -- Suppes’ Contribution to Education -- Patrick Suppes Replies -- Three -- Bibliography of Patrick Suppes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: The aim of this series is to inform both professional philosophers and a larger readership (of social and natural scientists, methodologists, mathematicians, students, teachers, publishers, etc. ) about what is going on, who's who, and who does what in contemporary philosophy and logic. PROFILES is designed to present the research activity and the results of already outstanding personalities and schools and of newly emerging ones in the various fields of philosophy and logic. There are many Festschrift volumes dedicated to various philosophers. There is the celebrated Library of Living Philosophers edited by P. A. Schilpp whose format influenced the present enterprise. Still they can only cover very little of the contemporary philosophical scene. Faced with a tremen­ dous expansion of philosophical information and with an almost frighten­ ing division of labor and increasing specialization we need systematic and regular ways of keeping track of what happens in the profession. PRO­ FILES is intended to perform such a function. Each volume is devoted to one or several philosophers whose views and results are presented and discussed. The profiled philosopher(s) will summarize and review his (their) own work in the main fields of signifi­ cant contribution. This work will be discussed and evaluated by invited contributors. Relevant historical and/or biographical data, an up-to-date bibliography with short abstracts of the most important works and, whenever possible, references to significant reviews and discussions will also be included.
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series in Philosophy 12
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    Abstract: Introduction: Through the Looking Glass -- Sellars on Practical Inference -- Sellars’ Defense of Altruism -- Basic Propositions, Empiricism and Science -- Sellarsian Scientific Realism Without Sensa -- The Problem of the Two Images -- Scientific Realism -- Peirce’s Conception of Truth -- Ordinary Knowledge and Scientific Realism -- Rules, Meaning and Behavior: Reflections on Sellars’ Philosophy of Language -- Linguistic Roles and Proper Names -- Sellars on Proper Names and Belief Contexts -- Rules, Roles, and Ontological Commitment: An Examination of Sellars’ Analysis of Abstract Reference 229 -- Logic: The Fundamentals of a Sellarsian Theory.
    Abstract: In early November 1976 a workshop on the Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars was held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacks­ burg, Virginia. Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and Religion, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Research Division of the University and organized by Professor Joseph C. Pitt, its aim was to provide a forum in which views of Professor Sellars could be discussed by a group of scholars fully acquainted with this work. Aside from the twelve invited participants, the workshop was attended by interested parties from as far away as Canada. The papers contained in the volume rep­ resent the results of the discussions held that weekend. With two excep­ tions the contents are extensively rewritten and revised versions of infor­ mal talks and presentations. (Rosenberg's paper is here in its original complete version. Rottschaefer was unable to attend. ) This collection is not then the proceedings but the final product derived from work initiated that weekend. The papers reftect both the spirit of the workshop and the work of Professor Sellars in that they represent the fruits of an intense and multi-faceted dialogue. Professor Sellar~' presence and whole hearted participation left us all with more than enough food for thought and a deepened appreciation of both the man and his philosophy. Special thanks are due Thomas Gilmer, Associate Dean of Research for The College of Arts and Sciences and Randal M.
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    ISBN: 9789400998223
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    Series Statement: Studies of Classical India 1
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    Abstract: I. Preface -- Notes to the Preface -- II. The Introduction to the Kha??anakha??akh?dya Translation and Commentary -- Notes to the Translation.
    Abstract: Srihar~a is recognised as one of the greatest exponents of what is generally known as the Sarpkara school of Advaita Vedanta. The Advaita Vedanta of Sarpkara has been commented upon, explained, expounded and developed in its various ramifications by several generations of scholars, commentators and original thinkers for over a thousand years. Even today it is claimed to be one of the two traditional schools of Indian Philosophy which have survived and have modern adherents while most other schools have died of old age on Indian soil. The only other school that has survived is the Nyaya-Vaise~ika or what is now called the Navya-nyaya. Both Advaita Vedanta and Navya-nyaya have attracted the attention of modern scholars and philosophers (of both India and abroad), who are acquainted with Western philosophy and whose interest in the study of Indian philosophy has not simply been limited to the history of Indian thought or Indology. Modern exponents of Advaita Vedanta are numerous. With a few notable exceptions, however, most modern authors of Vedanta try to expound and modernise the Advaita system from either a speculative and personal point of view or from a superficial viewpoint of Kantian philosophy or Hegelian Absolutism. Such a method has seldom achieved the sophistication and respectability that is normally expected in the context of modern (chiefly western) philosophic activity.
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    ISBN: 9789401010276
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    Series Statement: Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idees / International Archives of the History of Ideas 84
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    Abstract: Table Des Matieres -- Première Section -- La Tradition Catholique -- Deuxième Section. Les Physiques Eucharistiques -- I. René Descartes -- Chapitre premier -- Chapitre second -- II. Robert Desgabets -- Chapitre troisième -- Conclusion -- 1. Biblographie de dom Robert Desgabets -- 2. Inventaire du manuscrit 366 de la Bibliothèque de Chartres -- 3. Deux textes inédits de dom Desgabets -- 4. Bibliographie de la première section -- 5. Note sur la Bibliographie de la deuxième section -- Indices -- Index des principales notions -- Index des noms propres -- Addendum.
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 8
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    Abstract: I. Introduction -- 1. Subjunctive Reasoning -- 2. The Linguistic Approach -- 3. The ‘Possible Worlds’ Approach -- 4. Conclusions -- Notes -- II. Four Kinds of Conditionals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Four Kinds -- 3. ‘Even if’ Subjunctives -- 4. ‘Might Be’ Conditionals -- 5. Necessitation Conditionals -- 6. Simple Subjunctives -- 7. The Axiomatization of Simple Subjunctives -- 8. Conclusions 44 -- Notes -- III. Subjunctive Generalizations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Rudiments of an Analysis -- 3. Strong Generalizations -- 4. Weak Generalizations -- 5. Conclusions -- Notes -- IV. The Basic Analysis of Subjunctive Conditionals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Analysis of M -- 3. Simple Propositions -- 4. Counter-Legal Conditionals -- 5. Subject Preference -- Notes -- V. Quantification, Modalities, and Conditionals -- 1. Referential Opacity -- 2. Transworld Identity -- 3. Kripke’s Observation -- 4. Quantified Modal Logic -- 5. Conditionals -- Notes -- VI. The Full Theory -- 1. Syntax -- 2. Semantics -- 3. Infinitary Operators -- 4. The Introduction of Sets -- 5. Some Consequences of the Analysis -- Note -- VII. Causes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Ontology of Causes -- 3. Some Causal Relations -- 4. Causal Sufficiency -- 5. Remarks on the Analysis -- 〉6. The Logic of Causes -- Notes -- VIII. Probabilities -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Indefinite Probabilities -- 3. The Redefinition of M -- 4. Simple Subjunctive Probability -- Notes -- IX. Dispositions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Absolute Dispositions -- 〉3. Probabilistic Dispositions -- Notes -- 〉Index.
    Abstract: I am indebted to many people for the help they gave me in the writing of this book. lowe a large debt to David Lewis and Robert Stalnaker, on both general and specific grounds. As becomes apparent from reading the notes, the book would not have been possible without their pioneering work on subjunctive conditionals. In addition, both were kind enough to provide specific comments on earlier versions of different parts of the book, and Stalnaker read and commented on the entire manuscript. Closer to home, I am indebted to my colleagues Rolf Eberle and Henry Kyburg, Jf. , my erstwhile colleague Keith Lehrer, and numerous graduate students for their helpful comments on various parts of the manuscript. Some of the material contained herein appeared first in the form of journal articles, and I wish to thank the journals in question for allowing the material to be reprinted here. Chapter One contains material taken from 'The "Possible Worlds" Analysis of Counter-factuals', published in Phil. Studies 29 (1976), 469 (Reidel); Chapter Two contains material much revised from 'Four Kinds of Conditionals', Am. Phil. Quarterly 12 (1975), and Chapter Three contains much revised material from 'Subjunctive Generaliza­ tions', Synthese 28 (1974), 199 (Reidel). CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1. SUBJUNCTIVE REASONING There exists quite a variety of statements which are in some sense 'subjunctive'.
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series in Philosophy 6
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    Abstract: I. Introduction -- II. Causality and Necessity -- III. Human Agency -- IV. Sensing and Objective Reference -- V. Substance and the Mind-Body Relation -- VI. Propositions, Truth and Signs -- VII. Ethics and Education -- VIII. Aesthetics -- IX. Ethics of Belief -- X. Philosophy of Religion -- XI. Paranormal Phenomena -- XII. Meta-philosophy -- Bibliography of the Writings of C. J. Ducasse -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: Although a succession of fashions swept the American philosophical scene, C. J. Ducasse was throughout his long career an effective practitioner of analytic philosophy in the classic tradition. As he explained in 1924 "[i]t is only with truths about such questions as the meaning of the term 'true', or 'real', or 'good', and the like . . . that philosophy is concerned. " Such truths are to be discovered inductively by comparing and analyzing concrete cases of the admittedly proper u/le . . . The pressing problems of philosophy are thus in my view primarily problems of def'mition, and moreover, problems of framing def'mitions which must be in formal terms, under penalty of not being otherwise understandable by or acceptable to one or another philosophical school, since the formal elements of thought and tp. ey only are common to all schools. These def'mitions, of course are not to be arbitrary; their relation to the facts of admittedly meaningful linguistic usage is the same as exists between any scientific hypothesis and the facts which it attempts to 1 construe.
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series in Philosophy 4
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    Abstract: A Tribute -- I. Epistemology -- Chisholm on Sensing and Perceiving -- Testimonial Evidence -- Reason and Consistency -- Epistemic Values and Epistemic Viewpoints -- Confirmation, Explanation and Acceptance -- ‘I Know that I Am in Pain’ is Senseless -- Knowledge and the Self-Presenting -- II. Metaphysics -- Scattered Objects -- Hume on Causation -- Brentanist Relations -- Events as Recurrables -- III. Ethics -- On Doxastic Responsibility -- World Utilitarianism -- Some Definitions for the Theory of Rules -- Suicide: Some Epistemological Considerations -- Bibliography of R. M. Chisholm -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH This collection of essays in honor of Roderick M. Chisholm is the work of his former students. The book was conceived and the original con­ tributors invited by Richard Taylor. We restricted the contributors to former students of Chisholm as a special tribute to his acknowledged as a teacher of philosophy. The profundity of his contributions to genius epistemology and metaphysics are acknowledged throughout the phil­ osophical world. Those who have been present at his lectures and semi­ nars, who have been incited to philosophical cerebration by the clarity and precision of his exposition, know that his impact on contemporary philosophy far exceeds the influence of the written word. It is, we think, appropriate that his students should reserve for themselves the privilege of honoring Chisholm in this way as his 60th birthday draws near. The tribute paid to Chisholm in Taylor's essay conveys a personal impression. I shall, consequently, refrain from personal reminiscence here, and instead, mention some of the highlights of an illustrious life. Chisholm was born on November 27, 1916 in North Attleboro, Massachu­ setts. He married Eleanor F. Parker in 1943 and raised three children with her. He received an A. B. from Brown in 1938, a Ph. D. from Harvard in 1942, and served in the U. S. Army from 1942 to 1946.
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    Abstract: Dickinson S. Miller On Analysis, Pragmatism, and Welfare - An Introduction -- Teachers and Teaching -- Fullerton and Philosophy -- A Student’s Impressions of William James -- James and Analysis -- George Santayana -- Is Philosophy a Good Training for the Mind? -- Analysis: The Method of Philosophy at Work -- The Relations of ‘Ought’ and ‘Is’ -- Free Will as Involving Determination and Inconceivable Without It [Revised] -- Is There Not a Clear Solution of the Knowledge-Problem? -- A Debt to James -- Universals -- An Event In Modern Philosophy with Hume -- Hume’s Deathblow to Deductivism -- Moral Truth -- Religion and Human Welfare -- What Religion Has To Do With It -- The Defense of the Faith Today -- Heart and Head -- Democracy and Our Intellectual Plight -- Matthew Arnold, On the Occasion of His Centenary -- Conscience and the Bishops -- James’s Doctrine of ‘The Right to Believe’[Revised] -- Morals, Intelligence, and Welfare -- Published Writings of Dickinson S. Miller -- Publications about Dickinson S. Miller.
    Abstract: When I was Dickinson Miller's assistant from 1940 to 1942, I soon realized that I had encountered an unusually powerful, acute, and original mind and a writer whose clear but vivid style matched the high quality of his intelligence. These traits were apparent in his comments about eminent philosophers with whom he had associated - particularly William James but also Santayana, Dewey, Husserl, and Wittgenstein - and in the mutual criticism he demanded of his writing and my first efforts. I was pleased and felt immensely privileged to share in his planning of a book devoted to "analysis, the method of philosophy at work" as in his articles on the knowledge-problem, induction, and free will. In view of the penetration of his articles, such a book seemed long overdue as James had insisted even in 1905. When Miller's projected book on "analysis at work" did not appear by 1956, I consulted him about putting together a collection of his published essays. Such a collection seemed but slight homage to one who had made such a striking contribution to American philosophy in rela­ tion to James and one from whom I had learned so much. He felt, however, that such a collection would be inappropriate and preferred to concentrate on a book, never finished, on "the principles of practical intelligence", the application of intelligence in a "morality of results" for human welfare.
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    Abstract: I. Pascal’s Three Orders as the Basis of a Scale of Values -- II. Pascal’s Ambivalent Attitude toward Natural Morality -- 1. The Pensées and Minor Works -- 2. The Provinciales -- III. Pascal’s Authoritarian Approach to Ethics in the Provinciales -- IV. Pascal’s Rejection of Contemporary Aristocratic Morality -- V. Problems Inherent in the Three Orders as Applied to Moral Questions -- VI. Pascal’s Teleological Approach to Ethics in the Pensées -- VII. Conclusion: Moral Value as a Perspective of the Three Orders.
    Abstract: The aim of these studies is to show how Pascal's moral outlook reflects the influence on his thought of the basic doctrine of the three orders. This does not mean that an attempt is made to classify all Pascal's moral judgements in order to relate them to that doctrine. The intention is rather to dIstinguish the different moral stances Pascal takes, and to ascertain how far the apparent inconsistencies between them can be explained, if not reconciled, in the light of the orders. It is made clear at the outset how the three orders form the framework of Pascal's scale of values, with the different orders representing at once categories of moral value and orders of being. The peculiar nature of this scale, in which moral and ontological values coalesce, calls for a double criterion, or variable, to allow for differences both of degree and of kind. Since the criterion of rank in the scale is reality, the assigning of value becomes largely a question of perspective: a quality from a given order taken by itself is real, and has moral value, but when compared with a quality from a higher order it loses both its reality and its worth.
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series in Philosophy 5
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    Abstract: I. Introduction -- II. The General Conditions of Knowledge: Truth and Confience -- III. The General Conditions of Knowledge: Justification -- IV. The General Conditions of Knowledge: External Conclusiveness -- V. Perceptual Facts -- VI. Perceptual Knowledge -- VII. Memory Knowledge -- VIII. When and Why to Trust One’s Senses and Memory -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: In this book I present what seem to me (at the moment) to be right an­ swers to some of the main philosophical questions about the topics men­ tioned in the title, and I argue for them where I can. I hope that what I say may be of interest both to those who have already studied these ques­ tions a lot and to those who haven't. There are several important topics in epistemology to which I give little or no attention here - such as the nature of a proposition, the major classifications of propositions (neces­ sary and contingent, a priori and a posteriori, analytic and synthetic, general and particular), the nature of understanding a proposition, the nature of truth, the nature and justification of the various kinds of in­ ference (deductive, inductive, and probably others) -but enough is cover­ ed, to one degree or another, that the book might be of use in a course in epistemology. Earlier versions of some of the material in Chapters II, III, and IV were some of the material in Ginet (1970). An earlier version of the part of Chapter VII on memory-connection was a paper that I profited from reading and discussing in philosophy discussion groups at Cornell Uni­ versity, SUNY at Albany, and Syracuse University in 1972-73. I do not like to admit how long I have been working on this book.
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    Keywords: Philosophy, modern ; History
    Abstract: I. Spanish Logicians of Montaigu College -- A. The University of Paris and Terminist Logic -- B. Montaigu College and the Spanish Logicians -- C. Vives’ Criticism of Terminist Logic -- II. Vitoria, Salamanca and the American Indians -- A. Vitoria in Paris (1509–1522) -- B. Vitoria and Salamanca (1524–1546) -- C. Vitoria and Spanish Renaissance Scholasticism -- D. Vitoria’s Thought -- III. Fray Luis de Léon and the Concern with Language -- A. Fray Luis de Léon: The Man and His Work -- B. The Concern with Language During the Renaissance -- C. Fray Luis’ Philosophy of Language -- IV. Juan Huarte’s Naturalistic Philosophy of Man -- A. Medicine and Renaissance Naturalism -- B. Juan Huarte’s Examen de Ingenios -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: In spite of its carefully planned - and fully justified - modesty, the title of this book might very well surprise more than one potential reader. It is not normal to see such controversial concepts as "Renaissance," "Renaissance Thought," "Spanish Renaissance," or even "Spanish Thought" freely linked together in the crowded intimacy of one single printed line. The author of these essays is painfully aware of the com­ plexity of the ground he has dared to cover. He is also aware that all the assumptions and connotations associated with the title of this book have been the subject of great controversy among scholars of high repute who claimed (and probably had) revealing insight into human affairs and ideas. That these pages have been written at all therefore needs some justification. I am convinced that certain of the disputes among historians of ideas do not touch upon matters of substance, but rather reveal the taste and intellectual idiosyncracies of their authors. Much of the disagreement is, I think, a matter of aesthetics. Those who find special gratification in well-defined labels, clear-cut schemes, and compre­ hensive generalizations, can hardly bear the company of those who insist upon detail, complexity, and organic growth. The nightmarish dilemma, still unresolved, between Unity and Diversity, between the Universal and the Individual, haunts the History of Ideas.
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