Author: Georg Gasser
Publisher: Ontos Verlag
Keywords: society, new, series, wittgenstein, ludwig, naturalism, publications, austrian, successful
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2007-12-28
List price: $98.95
ISBN-10: 3938793678
ISBN-13: 9783938793671

Naturalism is the reigning creed in analytic philosophy. Naturalists claim that natural science provides a complete account of all forms of existence. According to the naturalistic credo there are no aspects of human existence which transcend methods and explanations of science. Our concepts of the self, the mind, subjectivity, human freedom, or responsibility is to be defined in terms of established sciences. The aim of the present volume is to draw the balance of naturalism’s success so far. Unlike other volumes it does not contain a collection of papers which unanimously reject nat

Author: Paul Weingartner
Publisher: Ontos Verlag
Keywords: philosophical, analysis, volume, analyse, philosophische, logical, point, view, omniscience
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2008-08-31
List price: $122.00
ISBN-10: 3938793813
ISBN-13: 9783938793817

The aim of the book is to clarify the concept of omniscience. This is done first by discussing basic questions on omniscience (chs.1-12) and secondly by offering a theory of omniscience as an axiomatic system in which also a definition of omniscience is given (ch.13). The twelve chapters deal with questions like whether everything is true what God knows, whether God’s knowledge is bound to time, whether it concerns singular truths or only laws, whether it extends also to contingent future events ...etc. The book is neither a book about the existence of God nor about proofs for his existe

Author: Andrew Schuma
Publisher: ontos verlag
Keywords: discourse, religious, logic
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2010-02-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3868380612
ISBN-13: 9783868380613

"Knocking on Heaven’s Door" is the oldest human dream that seems unrealised still. Religious discourse does show the road, but it requires a blind faith in return. In this book logicians try to hear Heaven’s Call and to analyse religious discourse. As a result, the notion of religious logic as a part of philosophical logic is introduced. Its tasks are to construct consistent logical systems formalising religious reasoning that at first sight seems inconsistent (this research is fulfilled within the limits of modal logic, paraconsistent logic and many-valued logic), to carry out an

Author: Peter Schaber
Publisher: Ontos Verlag
Keywords: philosophy, practical, naturalism, normativity
Number of Pages: 179
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 3937202412
ISBN-13: 9783937202419

At the centre of the metaethical debate that took off from G E Moore’s ’Principia Ethica’ (1903) was his critique of ethical naturalism. While Moore’s own arguments against ethical naturalism find little acceptance these days, an alternative ground for thinking that ethical properties and facts could not be natural has gained prominence: No natural account can be given of normativity. This collection contains original essays from both sides of the debate. Representing a wide range of metaethical views, the authors develop diverse accounts of normativity and discuss what

Author: Alfred Schramm
Publisher: ontos verlag
Keywords: german, studies, meinong
Number of Pages: 267
Published: 2009-06-02
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3868380434
ISBN-13: 9783868380439

This work contains text in English and German.

Author: Manuel Bremer
Publisher: ontos verlag
Keywords: ontology, formal, study, theories, universality
Number of Pages: 125
Published: 2010-08-31
List price: $93.00
ISBN-10: 386838071X
ISBN-13: 9783868380712

This book discusses the fate of universality and a universal set in several set theories. The book aims at a philosophical study of ontological and conceptual questions around set theory. Set theories are ontologies. They posit sets and claim that these exhibit the essential properties laid down in the set theoretical axioms. Collecting these postulated entities quantified over poses the problem of universality. Is the collection of the set theoretical entities itself a set theoretical entity? What does it mean if it is, and what does it mean if it is not? To answer these questions involves de

Author: Georg Meggle
Publisher: Ontos Verlag
Keywords: terrorism, research, philosophical, counter, ethics
Number of Pages: 345
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $98.95
ISBN-10: 3937202684
ISBN-13: 9783937202686

We are supposed to wage war against Terrorism - but exactly what we are fighting against in this war, there is nearly no consensus about. And, much worse, nearly nobody cares about this conceptual disaster - the main thing being, whether or not you are taking sides with the good guys. This volume is an analytical attempt to end this disaster. What is Terrorism? Are terrorist acts to be defined exclusively on the basis of the characteristics of the respective actions? Or should we restrict such actions to acts performed by non-state organisations? And, most important, is terrorism already by it