An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy and of the Principal Philosophical Questions Discussed in His Writings: 1

An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy and of the Principal Philosophical Questions Discussed in His Writings: 1
Author: John Stuart Mill
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781022242555

Consider the most pressing philosophical questions of the 19th century through the penetrating analysis of John Stuart Mill. 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.

The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill

The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill
Author: John Stuart Mill
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 2489
Release: 2022-11-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was an English philosopher, political economist and civil servant. John Stuart Mill is considered to be one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism and feminism, who contributed greatly to social theory, political theory and political economy. Contents: The Autobiography Utilitarianism The Subjection of Women On Liberty Principles of Political Economy A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive Auguste Comte and Positivism Three Essays on Religion Considerations on Representative Government England and Ireland Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St. Andrews Memorandum of the Improvements in the Administration of India During the Last Thirty Years Remarks on Bentham's Philosophy Socialism Speech In Favor of Capital Punishment The Contest in America The Slave Power Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform A Few Words on Non-Intervention

The Origins of Agnosticism

The Origins of Agnosticism
Author: Bernard Lightman
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2019-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1421431416

Originally published in 1987. The Origins of Agnosticism provides a reinterpretation of agnosticism and its relationship to science. Professor Lightman examines the epistemological basis of agnostics' learned ignorance, studying their core claim that "God is unknowable." To address this question, he reconstructs the theory of knowledge posited by Thomas Henry Huxley and his network of agnostics. In doing so, Lightman argues that agnosticism was constructed on an epistemological foundation laid by Christian thought. In addition to undermining the continuity in the intellectual history of religious thought, Lightman exposes the religious origins of agnosticism.

Aristotle's Syllogism and the Creation of Modern Logic

Aristotle's Syllogism and the Creation of Modern Logic
Author: Lukas M. Verburgt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2023-01-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1350228869

Offering a bold new vision on the history of modern logic, Lukas M. Verburgt and Matteo Cosci focus on the lasting impact of Aristotle's syllogism between the 1820s and 1930s. For over two millennia, deductive logic was the syllogism and syllogism was the yardstick of sound human reasoning. During the 19th century, this hegemony fell apart and logicians, including Boole, Frege and Peirce, took deductive logic far beyond its Aristotelian borders. However, contrary to common wisdom, reflections on syllogism were also instrumental to the creation of new logical developments, such as first-order logic and early set theory. This volume presents the period under discussion as one of both tradition and innovation, both continuity and discontinuity. Modern logic broke away from the syllogistic tradition, but without Aristotle's syllogism, modern logic would not have been born. A vital follow up to The Aftermath of Syllogism, this book traces the longue durée history of syllogism from Richard Whately's revival of formal logic in the 1820s through the work of David Hilbert and the Göttingen school up to the 1930s. Bringing together a group of major international experts, it sheds crucial new light on the emergence of modern logic and the roots of analytic philosophy in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Routledge Library Editions: Hegel

Routledge Library Editions: Hegel
Author: Various
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 604
Release: 2021-08-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000518841

Originally published between 1982 and 1991 the 3 volumes in this set Reflect the diversity in Hegelianism and every branch of philosophy which he contributed to. Examine Hegel’s work in relation to Marx and Wittgenstein Discuss Hegel’s social theory Examine British Hegelian thinking and the lines of its development Offer an interpretation of Hegelian theory that is relevant for the understanding of modern republican constitutions.

Phenomenalism

Phenomenalism
Author: Michael Pelczar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2022-11-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0192695193

J.S. Mill famously equated physical things with "permanent possibilities of sensation." This view, known as phenomenalism, holds that a rock is a tendency for experiences to occur as they do when people perceive a rock, and similarly for all other physical things. In Phenomenalism, Michael Pelczar develops Mill's theory in detail, defends it against the objections responsible for its current unpopularity, and uses it to shed light on important questions in metaphysics, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of mind. Identifying physical things with possibilities of sensation establishes a transparent connection between the world of physics and the world of sense, provides an attractive alternative to currently fashionable structuralist and panpsychist metaphysics, offers a fresh perspective on the problem of consciousness, and yields a satisfying theory of perception, all by taking two things notoriously resistant to reduction, chance and experience, and constructing everything else out of them.