The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 14

The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 14
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 723
Release: 2024-08-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1040240143

During the First World War, Bertrand Russell was political commentator for The Tribunal, the official weekly publication of the No-Conscription Fellowship, of which Russell was Action Chairman.This volume contains many short papers from that period, which reflect Russell's immediate reponses to developments in the conflict. These documents bear witness to Russell's growing commitment to pacifism, and reveal the development of the patterns of political argument, rhetoric and activism which were to characterise his work throughout his life.

Seeing Things as They Are

Seeing Things as They Are
Author: Duncan Reyburn
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2017-08-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0718846001

The jovial journalist, philosopher, and theologian G.K. Chesterton felt that the world was almost always in permanent danger of being misjudged or even overlooked, and so the pursuit of understanding, insight, and awareness was his perpetual preoccupation. Being sensitive to the boundaries and possibilities of perception, he believed that it really was possible, albeit in a limited way, to see things as they are. Duncan Reyburn, marrying Chesterton's unique perspective with the discipline of philosophical hermeneutics, aims to outline what Chesterton can teach us about reading, interpreting, and participating in the drama of meaning as it unfolds before us in words and in the world. Chesterton's unique interpretive approach seems to be theimplicit fascination of all Chesterton scholarship to date, and yet this book is the first to comprehensively focus on the issue. By taking Chesterton back to his philosophical roots - via his marginalia, his approach to literary criticism, his Platonist-Thomist metaphysics, and his Roman Catholic theology - Reyburn explicitly and compellingly tackles the philosophical assumptions and goals that underpin his unique posture towards reality.

Kurt Gödel: Collected Works: Volume V

Kurt Gödel: Collected Works: Volume V
Author: Kurt Gödel
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 691
Release: 2014-01-09
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0191003778

Kurt Gödel (1906 - 1978) was the most outstanding logician of the twentieth century, famous for his hallmark works on the completeness of logic, the incompleteness of number theory, and the consistency of the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis. He is also noted for his work on constructivity, the decision problem, and the foundations of computability theory, as well as for the strong individuality of his writings on the philosophy of mathematics. He is less well known for his discovery of unusual cosmological models for Einstein's equations, in theory permitting time travel into the past. The Collected Works is a landmark resource that draws together a lifetime of creative thought and accomplishment. The first two volumes were devoted to Gödel's publications in full (both in original and translation), and the third volume featured a wide selection of unpublished articles and lecture texts found in Gödel's Nachlass. These long-awaited final two volumes contain Gödel's correspondence of logical, philosophical, and scientific interest. Volume IV covers A to G, with H to Z in volume V; in addition, Volume V contains a full inventory of Gödel's Nachlass. All volumes include introductory notes that provide extensive explanatory and historical commentary on each body of work, English translations of material originally written in German (some transcribed from the Gabelsberger shorthand), and a complete bibliography of all works cited. Kurt Gödel: Collected Works is designed to be useful and accessible to as wide an audience as possible without sacrificing scientific or historical accuracy. The only comprehensive edition of Gödel's work available, it will be an essential part of the working library of professionals and students in logic, mathematics, philosophy, history of science, and computer science and all others who wish to be acquainted with one of the great minds of the twentieth century.

Volume 14: Kierkegaard's Influence on Social-Political Thought

Volume 14: Kierkegaard's Influence on Social-Political Thought
Author: Jon Stewart
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1351875086

While scholars have long recognized Kierkegaard's important contributions to fields such as ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of religion, philosophical psychology, and hermeneutics, it was usually thought that he had nothing meaningful to say about society or politics. Kierkegaard has been traditionally characterized as a Christian writer who placed supreme importance on the inward religious life of each individual believer. His radical view seemed to many to undermine any meaningful conception of the community, society or the state. In recent years, however, scholars have begun to correct this image of Kierkegaard as an apolitical thinker. The present volume attempts to document the use of Kierkegaard by later thinkers in the context of social-political thought. It shows how his ideas have been employed by very different kinds of writers and activists with very different political goals and agendas. Many of the articles show that, although Kierkegaard has been criticized for his reactionary views on some social and political questions, he has been appropriated as a source of insight and inspiration by a number of later thinkers with very progressive, indeed, visionary political views.

Kurt Gödel: Collected Works: Volume IV

Kurt Gödel: Collected Works: Volume IV
Author: Kurt Gödel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 685
Release: 2013-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 019968961X

Kurt Gödel (1906 - 1978) was the most outstanding logician of the twentieth century. These collected works form the only comprehensive edition of Gödel's work available and are designed to be useful and accessible to as wide an audience as possible without sacrificing scientific or historical accuracy.

Experimenting with the World

Experimenting with the World
Author: Harriet K. Cuffaro
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1995
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780807733714

Harriet K. Cuffaro offers a detailed account of how the educational philosophy of John Dewey may be translated into the everyday life of the classroom. Particular attention is given to "learning from experience" -- a fundamental concept in early education -- and the complexities involved in experiential learning.

Notes to Literature

Notes to Literature
Author: Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0231550294

Notes to Literature is a collection of the great social theorist Theodor W. Adorno’s essays on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Hölderlin, Siegfried Kracauer, Goethe, Benjamin, and Stefan George. It also includes his reflections on a variety of subjects, such as literary titles, the physical qualities of books, political commitment in literature, the light-hearted and the serious in art, and the use of foreign words in writing. This edition presents this classic work in full in a single volume, with a new introduction by Paul Kottman.