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Because without cause: non-causal explanations in science and mathematics
(Oxford University Press, 2017)
Not all scientific explanations work by describing causal connections between events or the world's overall causal structure. Some mathematical proofs explain why the theorems being proved hold. In this book, Marc Lange ...
The rationality of perception
(Oxford University Press, 2017)
On a traditional conception of the human mind, reasoning can be rational or irrational, but perception cannot. Perception is simply a source of new information, and cannot be assessed for rationality. Susanna Siegel argues ...
The Turing Guide
(Oxford University Press, 2017)
Alan Turing has long proved a subject of fascination, but following the centenary of his birth in 2012, the code-breaker, computer pioneer, mathematician (and much more) has become even more celebrated with much media ...
Philosopher-kings of antiquity: lives of an ideal
(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011)
One of the most celebrated of Plato''s ideas was that if human society was ever to function successfully then philosophers would need to become kings, or kings philosophers. In a perfect state, therefore, philosophic wisdom ...
Habermas: Introduction and Analysis
(Cornell University Press, 2010)
The work of Habermas (b. 1929) has been highly influential both in philosophy and across many disciplines in the social sciences. David Ingram here provides an accessible introduction to Habermass complex thought as it ...
Presence: Philosophy, History, and Cultural Theory for the Twenty-First Century
(Cornell University Press, 2013)
The philosophy of “presence” seeks to challenge current understandings of meaning and understanding. One can trace its origins back to Vico, Dilthey, and Heidegger, though its more immediate exponents include Jean-Luc ...
A Guide to Systems Research: Philosophy, Processes and Practice
(Springer, 2017)
This guide is designed for systems researchers – emerging and seasoned – searching for holistic approaches of inquiry into complexity, which the Systems Sciences provide. The authors share insight into the foundations of ...
An Introduction to Indian Philosophy
(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011)
This book attempts an overview of some of the topics, themes and arguments with which Brahminical Hindu and Buddhist Indian philosophers were concerned between the second and twelfth centuries A.D. It seeks to describe a ...
Modern Postmodern: Society, Philosophy, Literature
(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010)
This is the reason why an attempt is made in the last chapter certainly not for the Rrst time in the history of philosophy and the social sciences to recon-cile the particular and the universal. A reconciliation of this ...
Jonathan Edwards' Philosophy of Nature: The Re-enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning
(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010)
Jonathan Edwards’s Philosophy of Nature: The Re-enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning analyses the works of Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) on natural philosophy in a series of contexts within which they ...