Descartes' Philosophy of Science
| Author | : Desmond M. Clarke |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780719008689 |
Criteria Of Certainty
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Legisprudence
| Author | : Luc J. Wintgens |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2016-04-22 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1317105915 |
This book establishes legisprudence, in contrast to jurisprudence, as a legal theory of rational law-making. It suggests that by rejecting the common wisdom about the nature of political law-making, legislation could be improved and streamlined. Using the methods, theoretical insights and tools of current legal theory and philosophy of law in a new way, the book suggests the creation of law by legislators rather than government. Raising new questions and problems of the validity of norms, the book opens a new perspective on legitimacy of norms, their meaning and the structure of the legal system. In distinguishing legitimacy and legitimation of law, the book ventures into the philosophical roots of legal theory and suggests the articulation of a new conception of sovereignty. In shifting the emphasis to the position of the legislator and legislation, this book opens a number of new insights into the relationship between legislative problems and legal theory. Its main claim is that legislation should be justified by the legislator.
Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts
| Author | : Richard Allen |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 2011-02-25 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1135199515 |
This is the first full exploration of the implications of Wittgenstein's philosophy for understanding the arts and cultural criticism. These original essays by philosophers and critics address key philosophical topics in the study of the arts and culture, such as humanism, criticism, psychology, painting, film and ethics. All exemplify Wittgenstein's method of conceptual investigation and highlight his notion of philosophy as a cure.
Dead Certainty
| Author | : Jennifer Louise Culbert |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : |
Dead Certainty is about the challenge of judging matters of public concern without a common sense of the good or other shared criteria that validate final decisions. Examining both the philosophical and the practical aspects of this challenge, this book focuses on United States Supreme Court opinions that authorize and regulate the practice of sentencing people to death. Unlike other books that discuss capital punishment, it does not argue for or against the death penalty. Instead, Dead Certainty contributes to a larger project in contemporary political and legal philosophy: re-imagining how people in today's world give coherence and meaning to their shared experience. Culbert's work will be of interest to scholars of political theory, jurisprudence, law and society, rhetoric, continental philosophy, and ethics.
Contract Formation
| Author | : Michael Furmston |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 477 |
| Release | : 2010-03-25 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0199284245 |
Providing a practical analysis of the legal principles which govern the formation of contracts in English law (with additional authorities from the Commonwealth), this work on contract formation offers those involved in litigation and in drafting contracts a guide to the application of those principles in practice.
Irony and Religious Belief
| Author | : Gregory L. Reece |
| Publisher | : Mohr Siebeck |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9783161477799 |
The concept of irony is difficult to pin down, difficult to capture. This book is a critical examination of how Soren Kierkegaard and the pragmatist Richard Rorty approach the complex subject of irony. Gregory L. Reece traces the development of the philosophical concept of irony from Socrates to Hegel, Schlegel, Kierkegaard and Rorty, while addressing the very question that is central for both Kierkegaard and Rorty, the question of the relationship of ironic philosophy to an ironic life. Must ironic philosophy result in what Kierkegaard calls infinite, absolute negativity or in what Rorty describes as doubt and meta-stability? Gregory L. Reece argues that the answer is no, and that the belief that it must is based on an important philosophical mistake which in different forms is committed by both the early Kierkegaard and by Rorty. The insights of these philosophers, as well as those developed by Wittgenstein, are used to develop the beginning of an ironic philosophy of religion. Specifically, this work follows Kierkegaard and pursues these questions with special concern for the relation of ironic philosophy to religious belief.
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mind (Routledge Revivals)
| Author | : Ashok Vohra |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 112 |
| Release | : 2014-04-08 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1317688260 |
Philosophers since Descartes have felt themselves compelled to make a choice between mind and body. Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mind, first published in 1986, argues that there is no genuine epistemological problem of mind, and that the widespread philosophical scepticism with regard to our knowledge of other minds is without foundation. Ashok Vohra applies Wittgenstein’s method to show that the problem has arisen through a tendency to over-philosophise our simple experiences. Vohra presents a positive account of Wittgenstein’s philosophy of mind, arguing that to consider his philosophy entirely destructive is misleading. He shows that knowledge of mind is gained through a large complex of intersubjectively identifiable factors such as the linguistic and non-linguistic past, present and future behaviour of the person concerned. He thus justifies the belief, on which psychology and psychoanalysis are based, that mind is not a mystery to which only the owner has privileged access.
The Principles of Knowledge, with Remarks on the Nature of Reality
| Author | : Johnston Estep Walter |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 1904 |
| Genre | : Knowledge, Theory of |
| ISBN | : |
Wittgenstein and Scepticism
| Author | : Denis McManus |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2003-09-02 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1134570740 |
Wittgenstein is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last hundred years and scepticism is one of the central problems that modern philosophy faces. This collection is the first to be devoted to an examination of how that great philosopher's work bears on this fundamental philosophical problem. Wittgenstein's reaction to scepticism is complex, articulating both a sense that sceptical problems are ultimately unreal and a sense that scepticism teaches us something about the fundamental character of the human predicament. The essays, specially written for this collection by distinguished philosophers and commentators on Wittgenstein, explore that reaction, addressing, in particular, scepticism about the existence of the external world and of other minds. In doing so, it explores issues not only in theory of knowledge but also in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, language, perception and literature, as well as raising questions about the nature of philosophy itself. Several of the papers address the work of Stanley Cavell, perhaps the most influential commentator on the work of Wittgenstein, and Cavell replies in the final pieces to four of those papers. This collection is essential reading for students and scholars of Wittgenstein and anyone interested in the debate surrounding scepticism.
