Authors:Balsz M. Mezei, Barry Smith,
Publisher: Rodopi Bv Editions
Keywords: sterreichischen, philosophie, zur, studien, phases, philosophy, four
Number of Pages: 129
Published: 1998-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 9042005440
ISBN-13: 9789042005440

Brentano’s Four Phases of Philosophy, first published in 1895 and here translated into English for the first time, presents a dramatic account of the history of philosophy in terms of a succession of cycles of renewal and decline. Phases of renewal are associated with the rediscovery of science, of empiricism, of rigour and clarity. Phases of decline are associated with competing schools and sects, with mysticism and obfuscation, and with relativisms and idealisms of various sorts. Each final phase of decline, with its ultimate collapse into nonsense, gives rise to the call for a new p

Authors:Bernard Bolzano, Rolf George,
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: philosophie, zur, studien, method, sterreichischen, ã–sterreichischen, correspondence, mathematical, exner
Number of Pages: 195
Published: 2004-06
List price: $67.50
ISBN-10: 9042017813
ISBN-13: 9789042017818

The Prague Philosopher Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848) has long been admired for his groundbreaking work in mathematics: his rigorous proofs of fundamental theorems in analysis, his construction of a continuous, nowhere-differentiable function, his investigations of the infinite, and his anticipations of Cantor’s set theory. He made equally outstanding contributions in philosophy, most notably in logic and methodology. One of the greatest mathematician-philosophers since Leibniz, Bolzano is now widely recognised as a major figure of nineteenth-century philosophy. Praised by Husserl as "on