Author: Michael Jubien
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: possibility
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2009-05-15
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0199232784
ISBN-13: 9780199232789

Possibility offers a new analysis of the metaphysical concepts of possibility and necessity, one that does not rely on any sort of "possible worlds." The analysis proceeds from an account of the notion of a physical object and from the positing of properties and relations. It is motivated by considerations about how we actually speak of and think of objects. Michael Jubien discusses several closely related topics, including different purported varieties of possible worlds, the doctrine of "essentialism," natural kind terms and alleged examples of necessity a posteriori. The book also offers a

Author: Scott Buchanan
Publisher: Karig Press
Keywords: possibility
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $28.45
ISBN-10: 1406745987
ISBN-13: 9781406745986

International Library of Psychology Philosophy and Scientific Method Possibility Possibility By SCOTT BUCHANAN LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER Co., LTD. NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE COMPANY, INC. 1927 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE 9 INTRODUCTION i I. INTELLECTUAL IMAGINATION . 17 II. SCIENTIFIC POSSIBILITY . . 33 III. ABSOLUTE POSSIBILITY . . 67 IV. DEFINITION OF POSSIBILITY . 81 V. POSSIBILITY AND ACTUALITY . 97 APOLOGY FOR HISTORICAL PIRACY . . . . in VI. KANT .... 115 VII. ARISTOTLE . . . .141 VIII. DYNAMISM .... 161 IX. CONCLUSION . . . .177 INDEX 197 POSSIBILITY INTRODUCTION THE life of m

Author: Robert Dunn
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Keywords: weakness, possibility
Number of Pages: 175
Published: 1987-03
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0915145987
ISBN-13: 9780915145980

’The book reveals a rare blend of virtues: a mastery of the literature, a lucidity of mind, a rigor of argument, and a robust sense of psychological realism. It soars yet rarely loses sight of the terrain’ - Bela Szabados, "Canadian Philosophical Review".

Author: Hope Edelman
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: memoir, everything, possibility
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2010-08-31
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0345506510
ISBN-13: 9780345506511

Author: Thomas Nagel
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: altruism, possibility
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 1979-03-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0691020027
ISBN-13: 9780691020020

Author: David Levithan
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Keywords: possibility, realm
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-05-09
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0375836578
ISBN-13: 9780375836572

Here’s what I know about the realm of possibility—it is always expanding, it is never what you think it is. Everything around us was once deemed impossible. From the airplane overhead to the phones in our pockets to the choir girl putting her arm around the metalhead. As hard as it is for us to see sometimes, we all exist within the realm of possibility. Most of the limits are of our own world’s devising. And yet, every day we each do so many things that were once impossible to us.Enter The Realm of Possibility and meet a boy whose girlfriend is in love with Holden Caulfield; a girl who

Author: Austin Sarat
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: justice, possibility, violence, law
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0691048452
ISBN-13: 9780691048451

Law punishes violence, yet law depends on violence. In this book, a group of leading interdisciplinary legal scholars seeks to map the inexorable but unstable relationship of law to violence. What does it mean to talk about the violence of law? Do high incarceration rates and increased reliance on capital punishment indicate that U.S. law is growing more violent at a time when violence is being restrained in other legal systems? How is the violence of law represented in popular culture and does this affect law’s actual legitimacy? Does violence express or distort the essence of law? Does