Danish Yearbook of Philosophy Vol. 45

Danish Yearbook of Philosophy Vol. 45
Author: Finn Collin
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 8763537532

Danish Yearbook of Philosophy publishes contributions in English, German and French. Danish Yearbook of Philosophy mainly publishes articles relating to Danish philosophy, or by authors with ties to Danish philosophy.

Danish Yearbook of Philosophy vol. 38

Danish Yearbook of Philosophy vol. 38
Author: Finn Collin
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2003-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9788772899893

The Danish Yearbook of Philosophy series publishes contributions in English, German and French. This series mainly publishes articles relating to Danish philosophy, or by authors with ties to Danish philosophy. Volume 38 includes articles such as: Privileged Access and Two Kinds of Semantic Externalism; Quasirealism or Minimalism?; The Ethics of Understanding; The Metaethical Foundations of Human Rights; and Egalitarianism and Repugnant Conclusions.

Danish Yearbook of Philosophy vol. 28

Danish Yearbook of Philosophy vol. 28
Author: Finn Collin
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1993
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9788772892771

This volume of Danish Yearbook of Philosophy contains articles read as papers at the Symposium on Social Constructivism held in Copenhagen in 1992.

A History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century

A History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Jon Stewart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2023-03-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1009266748

Nihilism – the belief that life is meaningless – is frequently associated with twentieth-century movements such as existentialism, postmodernism and Dadaism, and thought to result from the shocking experiences of the two World Wars and the Holocaust. In his rich and expansive new book, Jon Stewart shows that nihilism's beginnings in fact go back much further to the first half of the nineteenth century. He argues that the true origin of modern nihilism was the rapid development of Enlightenment science, which established a secular worldview. This radically diminished the importance of human beings so that, in the vastness of space and time, individuals now seemed completely insignificant within the universe. The author's panoramic exploration of how nihilism developed – not only in philosophy, but also in religion, poetry and literature – shows what an urgent topic it was for thinkers of all kinds, and how it has continued powerfully to shape intellectual debates ever since.

Entailment, Vol. II

Entailment, Vol. II
Author: Alan Ross Anderson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 778
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1400887070

In spite of a powerful tradition, more than two thousand years old, that in a valid argument the premises must be relevant to the conclusion, twentieth-century logicians neglected the concept of relevance until the publication of Volume I of this monumental work. Since that time relevance logic has achieved an important place in the field of philosophy: Volume II of Entailment brings to a conclusion a powerful and authoritative presentation of the subject by most of the top people working in the area. Originally the aim of Volume II was simply to cover certain topics not treated in the first volume--quantification, for example--or to extend the coverage of certain topics, such as semantics. However, because of the technical progress that has occurred since the publication of the first volume, Volume II now includes other material. The book contains the work of Alasdair Urquhart, who has shown that the principal sentential systems of relevance logic are undecidable, and of Kit Fine, who has demonstrated that, although the first-order systems are incomplete with respect to the conjectured constant domain semantics, they are still complete with respect to a semantics based on "arbitrary objects." Also presented is important work by the other contributing authors, who are Daniel Cohen, Steven Giambrone, Dorothy L. Grover, Anil Gupta, Glen Helman, Errol P. Martin, Michael A. McRobbie, and Stuart Shapiro. Robert G. Wolf's bibliography of 3000 items is a valuable addition to the volume. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.