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Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press | ISBN: 0826513964 | edition 2002 | PDF | 240 pages | 1,3 mb Peirce’s Scientific Metaphysics is the first book devoted to understanding Charles Sanders Peirce’s (1839–1914) metaphysics from the perspective of the scientific questions that motivated his thinking. Deftly situating Peirce’s often original and pathbreaking ideas within their appropriate historical and scientific contexts, Reynolds traces his reliance upon the law of large numbers, which illustrated for Peirce the emergence of a stable order and regularity from a multitude of chance events, throughout his writings on late nineteenth-century physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, and cosmology. ... Ebook description

Publisher: State University of New York Press | 2008-03-06 | ISBN: 0791473635 | PDF | 260 pages | 1.30 MB An in-depth look at the theory of solidarity of German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, serving also as a comprehensive introduction to his work. Jürgen Habermas's discourse theory demands that human beings see themselves in relations of solidarity that cross national, racial, and religious divides. ... Ebook description

Continuum | 2005 | ISBN 0826469957 | 165 Pages | PDF OCR or DJVU OCR | 7.8 MB or 2.3 MB Slavoj Zizek is undoubtedly one of the world's leading cultural critics. His witty, psychoanalytically-inspired analyses of contemporary society have almost single-handedly revived the notion of ideology. His brilliant commentaries on the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and the 19th century German Idealists have brought alive their often difficult ideas for a new generation of readers. ... Ebook description

Springer | 2009-03-13 | ISBN: 9048124867 | 626 pages | PDF | 3,4 MB The aim of the series Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, of which this is the first volume, is to take up anew the challenge of considering the scientific enterprise in its entirety in light of recent developments in logic and philosophy. Developments in logic are especially relevant to the current situation in philosophy of science. ... Ebook description

Fordham University Press | 2008 | ISBN 082322791X | 176 Pages | PDF OCR | 5.93 MB The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida’s ten-hour address to the 1997 Cérisy conference entitled “The Autobiographical Animal,” the third of four such colloquia on his work. The book was assembled posthumously on the basis of two published sections, one written and recorded session, and one informal recorded session. ... Ebook description

Publisher: Harvard University Press 2009 | 304 Pages | ISBN 0674032373 | PDF | 1.95 MB What is good? How can we know, and how important is it? In this book Richard Kraut, one of our most respected analytical philosophers, reorients these questions around the notion of what causes human beings to flourish–that is, what is good for us. Observing that we can sensibly talk about what is good for plants and animals no less than what is good for people, Kraut advocates a general principle that applies to the entire world of living things: what is good for complex organisms consists in the maturation and exercise of their natural powers. ... Ebook description

Springer | 2009-04-01 | ISBN: 1402097972 | 236 pages | PDF | 1,6 MB Economic analysis of law is an interesting and challenging attempt to employ the concepts and reasoning methods of modern economic theory so as to gain a deeper understanding of legal problems. According to Richard A. Posner it is the role of the law to encourage market competition and, where the market fails because transaction costs are too high, to simulate the result of competitive markets. ... Ebook description