Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: grammar, philosophical
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0520245024
ISBN-13: 9780520245020

In 1933 Ludwig Wittgenstein revised a manuscript he had compiled from his 1930-1932 notebooks, but the work as a whole was not published until 1969, as Philosophische Grammatik. This first English translation clearly reveals the central place Philosophical Grammar occupies in Wittgenstein’s thought and provides a link from his earlier philosophy to his later views.

Author: Tim Lewens
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: perspectives, philosophical, risk
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2007-06-19
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0415422833
ISBN-13: 9780415422833

How can we determine an acceptable level of risk? Should these decisions be made by experts, or by the people they affect? How should safety and security be balanced against other goods, such as liberty? This is the first collection to examine the philosophical dimensions of these pressing practical problems. Leading scholars exploring the full range of philosophical implications of risk, including: risk and ethics risk and rationality risk and scientific expertise risk and lay knowledge the objectivity of risk assessment risk and the precautionary principle risk and terror. With

Author: Robert J. Fogelin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: interpretations, philosophical
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1992-01-30
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 019507162X
ISBN-13: 9780195071627

Robert Fogelin here collects fifteen of his essays, organized around the theme of interpreting philosophical texts. The essays place particular emphasis on understanding the argumentative or dialectical role that passages play in the specific context in which they occur. The somewhat surprising result of taking this principle seriously is that certain traditional, well-worked texts are given a radical re-interpretation. Throughout the essays reprinted here, Fogelin argues that, when carefully read, the philosophical position under consideration has more merit than commonly believed. Includ

Author: Keith Seddo
Publisher: Croom Helm Ltd
Keywords: treatment, philosophical, time
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1987-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0709954247
ISBN-13: 9780709954248

Dr Seddon argues that the ordinary language attribution of tensed and transient properties to time is seriously misleading insofar as time is really tenseless.

Author: Peter Unger
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: one, volume, papers, philosophical
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-03-02
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0195155521
ISBN-13: 9780195155525

While well-known for his book-length work, philosopher Peter Unger’s articles have been less widely accessible. These two volumes of Unger’s Philosophical Papers include articles spanning more than 35 years of Unger’s long and fruitful career. Dividing the articles thematically, this first volume collects work in epistemology and ethics, among other topics, while the second volume focuses on metaphysics. Unger’s work has advanced the full spectrum of topics at the heart of philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, an

Author: David K. Lewi
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: volume, papers, philosophical
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1987-03-26
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0195036468
ISBN-13: 9780195036466

This is the second volume of philosophical essays by one of the most innovative and influential philosophers now writing in English. Containing thirteen papers in all, the book includes both new essays and previously published papers, some of them with extensive new postscripts reflecting Lewis’s current thinking. The papers in Volume II focus on causation and several other closely related topics, including counterfactual and indicative conditionals, the direction of time, subjective and objective probability, causation, explanation, perception, free will, and rational decision. Througho

Author: Peter B. Raabe
Publisher: Praeger Publisher
Keywords: counseling, philosophical, issues
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-06-30
List price: $98.95
ISBN-10: 027597667X
ISBN-13: 9780275976675

Raabe provides a detailed philosophical discussion as well as illustrative case studies of some of the most important issues encountered in any counseling practice. Particular attention is paid to the differences between how men and women communicate and how this is relevant to a counseling discussion, the role of medication in therapy, the concept of normalcy, the meaning of life, the motivation behind suicide, dream interpretation, and religious beliefs.