Hume's Science of Human Nature

Hume's Science of Human Nature
Author: David Landy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2019-12-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9780367891718

Hume's Science of Human Nature is an investigation of the philosophical commitments underlying Hume's methodology in pursuing what he calls 'the science of human nature'. It argues that Hume understands scientific explanation as aiming at explaining the inductively-established universal regularities discovered in experience via an appeal to the nature of the substance underlying manifest phenomena. For years, scholars have taken Hume to employ a deliberately shallow and demonstrably untenable notion of scientific explanation. By contrast, Hume's Science of Human Nature sets out to update our understanding of Hume's methodology by using a more sophisticated picture of science as a model.

Aristotle's Revenge

Aristotle's Revenge
Author: Edward Feser
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9783868382006

Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology are among the fundamental concepts of Aristotelian philosophy of nature. Aristotle's Revenge argues that these concepts are not only compatible with modern science, but are implicitly presupposed by modern science. Among the many topics covered are: The metaphysical presuppositions of scientific method. The status of scientific realism The metaphysics of space and time. The metaphysics of quantum mechanics. Reductionism in chemistry and biology. The metaphysics of evolution. Neuroscientific reductionism. The book interacts heavily with the literature on these issues in contemporary analytic metaphysics and philosophy of science, so as to bring contemporary philosophy and science into dialogue with the Aristotelian tradition.

Natural Law and Thomistic Juridical Realism

Natural Law and Thomistic Juridical Realism
Author: Petar Popovic
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2022-02-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0813235502

This book proposes a rather novel legal-philosophical approach to understanding the intersection between law and morality. It does so by analyzing the conditions for the existence of a juridical domain of natural law from the perspective of the tradition of Thomistic juridical realism. In order to highlight the need to reconnect with this tradition in the context of contemporary legal philosophy, the book presents various other recent jurisprudential positions regarding the overlap between law and morality. While most authors either exclude a conceptual necessity for the inclusion of moral principles in the nature of law or refer to the purely moral status of natural law at the foundations of the legal phenomenon, the book seeks to elucidate the essential properties of the juridical status of natural law. In order to establish the juridicity of natural law, the book explores the relevant arguments of Thomas Aquinas and some of his main commentators on this issue, above all Michel Villey and Javier Hervada. It establishes that Thomistic juridical realism observes the juridical phenomenon not only from the perspective of legal norms or subjective individual rights, but also from the perspective of the primary meaning of the concept of right (ius), namely, the just thing itself as the object of justice. In this perspective, natural rights already possess a fully juridical status and can be described as natural juridical goods. In addition, from the viewpoint of Thomistic juridical realism, we can identify certain natural norms or principles of justice as the juridical title of these rights or goods. The book includes an assessment of the prospective points of dialogue with the other trends in Thomistic legal philosophy as well as with various accounts of the nature of law in contemporary legal theory.

Reconstructing Nature

Reconstructing Nature
Author: Peter Dickens
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2002-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134879032

In the light of the confusion surrounding the environmental crisis, Peter Dickens explores how the natural world relates to the social. The book aims to find ways of reorganising knowledge in the light of ecological consciousness.

Theory of International Politics

Theory of International Politics
Author: Kenneth Neal Waltz
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1979
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Forfatterens mål med denne bog er: 1) Analyse af de gældende teorier for international politik og hvad der heri er lagt størst vægt på. 2) Konstruktion af en teori for international politik som kan kan råde bod på de mangler, der er i de nu gældende. 3) Afprøvning af den rekonstruerede teori på faktiske hændelsesforløb.

UGC-NET/JRF/SET Political Science (Papers – II and III)

UGC-NET/JRF/SET Political Science (Papers – II and III)
Author: S Chand Experts
Publisher: S. Chand Publishing
Total Pages: 728
Release: 2016
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9325994194

The book is an effective resource for the preparation of Political Science papers of UGC-NET/JRF/SET exams. It contains MCQs on relevant topics such as Political Theory, Comparative Politics, Public Administration and International Relations. The book is also a unique and well-structured resource as (a) it can be used with any good textbook in undergraduate or postgraduate course, (b) it can be used with any preparation system because it meshes with any lesson plan, learning approach or teaching methodology, and (c) it would help aspirants calculate their learning quotient and make their preparation and assessment better.

A Realistic Theory of Law

A Realistic Theory of Law
Author: Brian Z. Tamanaha
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2017-04-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107188423

The book re-orients jurisprudence and develops an empirically informed theory of law that applies throughout history and across different societies.