Author: T.A.H Peacocke
Publisher: Hesperides Press
Keywords: mountaineering
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-07-01
List price: $27.45
ISBN-10: 1406796611
ISBN-13: 9781406796612

A comprehensive guide to mountaineering which many will find useful, from beginners to the sport, to those who are more accomplished. Although some of the equipment may be out of date, as this was published in the early 1900s, the advice concerning climbing techniques and safety precautions will still be relevant today. This guide is accompanied by detailed diagrams and photographs. Contents Include: Equipment - Rock-Climbing: Preliminaries - The Details of Rock Work - Rock Climbing: The Descent - Snow and Ice - Snow Technique - Ice Technique - Glaciers - Mountaineering in Winter - Conditi

Author: Christopher Peacocke
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords:
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1999-05-27
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0198238592
ISBN-13: 9780198238591

Being Known is a response to a philosophical challenge which arises for every area of thought: to reconcile a plausible account of what is involved in the truth of statements in a given area with a credible account of how we can know those statements. Christopher Peacocke presents a framework for addressing the challenge, a framework which links both the theory of knowledge and the theory of truth with the theory of concept-possession.

Author: Christopher Peacocke
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: understood, truly
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2008-06-23
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0199239444
ISBN-13: 9780199239443

In Truly Understood, Christopher Peacocke argues that truth and reference have a much deeper role in the explanation of meaning and understanding than has hitherto been appreciated. Examination of specific concepts shows that a grasp of these concepts has to be characterized in terms of reference, identity, and relations to the world. Peacocke develops a positive general theory of understanding based on the idea that concepts are individuated by their fundamental reference rules, which contrasts sharply with conceptual-role, inferentialist, and pragmatist approaches to meaning. He treats thoug

Author: Christopher Peacocke
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: reason, realm
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2004-01-29
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0199270724
ISBN-13: 9780199270729

The Realm of Reason develops a new, general theory of what it is for a thinker to be entitled to form a given belief. The theory locates entitlement in the nexus of relations between truth, content, and understanding. Peacocke formulates three principles of rationalism that articulate this conception. The principles imply that all entitlement has a component that is justificationally independent of experience. The resulting position is thus a form of rationalism, generalized to all kinds of content.To show how these principles are realized in specific domains, Peacocke applies the theory in de

Author: Christopher Peacocke
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: reason, realm
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 2006-01-19
List price: $44.99
ISBN-10: 0199270732
ISBN-13: 9780199270736

The Realm of Reason is a manifesto for a new rationalism in philosophy. Christopher Peacocke develops an original theory of what makes a thinker entitled to form a given belief. The theory is articulated in three principles of rationalism, which together imply that all entitlement has an element that is independent of experience. Peacocke elaborates this rationalism in detail for the classical issues of perceptual knowledge, induction, and the status of moral thought. His new generalized approach to epistemology has applications throughout philosophy, and it will interest all concerned with kn

Authors:Paul Boghossian, Christopher Peacocke,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: priori, essays, new
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2001-01-25
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0199241260
ISBN-13: 9780199241262

A stellar line-up of leading philosophers from around the world offer new treatments of a topic which has long been central to philosophical debate, and in which there has recently been a surge of interest. The a priori is the category of knowledge that is supposed to be independent of experience. The contributors offer a variety of approaches to the a priori and examine its role in different areas of philosophical inquiry. The editors’ introduction offers an ideal way into the discussions.

Author: Arthur R. Peacocke
Publisher: Templeton Foundation Press
Keywords: faith, friend, disguised, evolution
Number of Pages: 287
Published: 2004-11-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1932031723
ISBN-13: 9781932031720

Arthur Peacocke, eminent priest-scientist, has collected thirteen of his essays for this volume. Previously published in various academic journals and edited books, the provocative essays expand upon the theme of the evolution of nature, humanity, and belief.