Reshaping Reason

Reshaping Reason
Author: John McCumber
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2007-10-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0253219361

Reshaping Reason explores philosophy's achievements and failures in a cold light and paves the way for the discipline to become more meaningful and relevant to society at large.

Toward a New Philosophy of Biology

Toward a New Philosophy of Biology
Author: Ernst Mayr
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 582
Release: 1988
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780674896666

A collection of twenty-eight essays, five previously unpublished, grouped into nine categories: Philosophy, Natural Selection, Adaptation, Darwin, Diversity, Species, Speciation, Macroevolution, and Historical Perspective. The book, Ernst Mayr notes in the Foreword, is an attempt "to strengthen the bridge between biology and philosophy, and point to the new direction in which a new philosophy of biology will move."

The New Philosophy Of Health

The New Philosophy Of Health
Author: Harriet Bowker Bradbury
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781022369221

This groundbreaking work offers a radical new approach to health and healing that draws on the insights of both science and spirituality. Its message of hope and empowerment will be a source of inspiration for anyone struggling with illness or seeking a deeper understanding of the human condition. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

New Philosophy for New Media

New Philosophy for New Media
Author: Mark B. N. Hansen
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780262083218

A philosophy of new media that defines the digitalimage as the process by which the body filters information tocreate images.

New Philosophy of Human Nature

New Philosophy of Human Nature
Author: Oliva Sabuco
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2010-10-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0252092317

This volume is a critical edition of the 1587 treatise by Oliva Sabuco, New Philosophy of Human Nature, written during the Spanish Inquisition. Puzzled by medicine’s abject failure to find a cure for the plague, Sabuco developed a new theory of human nature as the foundation for her remarkably modern holistic philosophy of medicine. Fifty years before Descartes, Sabuco posited a dualism that accounted for mind/body interaction. She was first among the moderns to argue that the brain--not the heart--controls the body. Her account also anticipates the role of cerebrospinal fluid, the relationship between mental and physical health, and the absorption of nutrients through digestion. This extensively annotated translation features an ample introduction demonstrating the work’s importance to the history of science, philosophy of medicine, and women’s studies.

A Little Book for New Philosophers

A Little Book for New Philosophers
Author: Paul Copan
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2016-10-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830894462

What's the point of studying philosophy when we have theology? Philosophy sometimes suffers from an inferiority complex in the church. But Paul Copan contends that it is possible to affirm theology's preeminence without diminishing the contribution of philosophy. This brief introduction surveys philosophy's basic aims and defends its function in the Christian life.

Death, Contemplation and Schopenhauer

Death, Contemplation and Schopenhauer
Author: R. Raj Singh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2016-05-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317154428

The connections between death, contemplation and the contemplative life have been a recurrent theme in the canons of both western and eastern philosophical thought. This book examines the classical sources of this philosophical literature, in particular Plato's Phaedo and the Katha Upanishad and then proceeds to a sustained analysis and critical assessment of the sources and standpoints of a single thinker, Arthur Schopenhauer, whose work comprehensively pursues this problem. Going beyond the well examined western influences on Schopenhauer, Singh offers an in-depth account of Schopenhauer's references to eastern thought and a comprehensive examination of his eastern sources, particularly Vedanta and Buddhism. The book traces the pivotal issue of death through the whole range of Schopenhauer's writings uncovering the deeper connotations of his crucial notion of the will-to-live.

The Nature of Life

The Nature of Life
Author: Mark A. Bedau
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2018-11-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1108722067

Introduces a broad range of scientific and philosophical issues about life through the original historical and contemporary sources.