Naturalism


Pris: 1 208,-	Giroux, Élodie Naturalism in the Philosophy of Health (3319290894) In a series of papers published in the 1970s, Christopher Boorse proposed a naturalist theory of health, mainly based on a value-free concept of ?biological function?, a concept of ?reference class? and the notion of…	Pris: 500,-	Gerson, Lloyd P. Platonism and Naturalism (1501747258) In his third and concluding volume, Lloyd P. Gerson presents an innovative account of Platonism, the central tradition in the history of philosophy, in conjunction with Naturalism, the 'anti-Platonism' in antiquity…
Pris: 580,-	Putnam, Hilary Naturalism, Realism, and Normativity (0674659694) Hilary Putnam?s ever-evolving philosophical oeuvre has been called ?the history of recent philosophy in outline??an intellectual achievement, nearly seventy years in the making, that has shaped disciplinary fields…	Pris: 255,-	Carner Mosco Giacomo Puccini: Tosca (0521296617) This book is intended primarily as a guide for the opera goer. It includes a synopsis of the plot, with indications of the themes and motifs used in it, and discusses the style of the opera, Tosca being a typical…
Pris: 462,-	Losee, John The Golden Age of Philosophy of Science 1945 to 2000 This book offers the reader a guide to the major philosophical approaches to science since World War Two. Considering the bases, arguments and conclusions of the four main movements ? Logical Reconstructionism,…	Pris: 552,-	Thomson Richard Art of the Actual (030017988X) The French Republic?with its rallying cry for liberty, equality, and fraternity?emerged in 1870, and by 1880 had developed a coherent republican ideology. The regime pursued secular policies and emphasized its…
Pris: 310,-	Sjåstad, Øystein Christian Krohg's Naturalism (0295749199) The Norwegian painter, novelist, and social critic Christian Krohg (1852?1925) is best known for creating highly political paintings of workers, prostitutes, and Skagen fishermen of the 1880s and for serving as a…	Pris: 301,-	Hume, David A Treatise of Human Nature (1774410745) A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40) is a book by Scottish philosopher David Hume, considered by many to be Hume's most important work and one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. The Treatise…
Pris: 526,-	Bhaskar, Roy Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation (0415454956) Following on from Roy Bhaskar?s first two books, A Realist Theory of Science and The Possibility of Naturalism, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation, establishes the conception of social science as…	Pris: 256,-	Morris, Brian Anthropology and Dialectical Naturalism - A Philosophical Is the world just a cultural construct where people create their own realities? In this illuminating and wide-ranging philosophical treatise, Brian Morris critiques broad swathes of recent theory as he seeks to reclaim…
Pris: 500,-	Osborne, John Gerhard Hauptmann and the Naturalist Drama (9057550067) What was German Naturalism? What were its achievements? How does it compare with its counterparts in other European countries? These are some of the difficult questions addressed by John Osborne in Gerhart…	Pris: 437,-	Oppy, Graham Naturalism and Religion (0815354665) This book guides readers through an investigation of religion from a naturalistic perspective and explores the very meaning of the term ?religious naturalism?. Oppy considers several widely disputed claims: that there…
Pris: 266,-	Reed, Isaac Ariail Interpretation and Social Knowledge ? On the Use of Theory in For the past fifty years anxiety over the problem of naturalism has driven debates in social theory. One side pursues the idea of social science as another kind of natural science, while the other radically rejects the…	Pris: 440,-	Bhaskar, Roy The Possibility of Naturalism (1138798886) Since its original publication in 1979, The Possibility of Naturalism has been one of the most influential works in contemporary philosophy of science and social science. It is one of the cornerstones of the…
Pris: 381,-	De Caro, Mario Naturalism in Question (0674030419) Today the majority of philosophers in the English-speaking world adhere to the 'naturalist' credos that philosophy is continuous with science, and that the natural sciences provide a complete account of all that…	Pris: 349,-	Pinkard, Terry Hegel's Naturalism (0199330077) Terry Pinkard draws on Hegel's central works as well as his lectures on aesthetics, the history of philosophy, and the philosophy of history in this deeply informed and original exploration of Hegel's naturalism. As…
Pris: 584,-	Ebert?schiffere, . Caravaggio ? The Artist and His Work (1606060953) This is a fascinating re-evaluation of the life and works of a hugely talented yet controversial artist. The young Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) created a major stir in late-sixteenth-century Rome with…	Pris: 957,-	Corrington, Robert S. Deep Pantheism (1498529690) This book is a study in a new form of religious naturalism called ?Deep Pantheism, ? which has roots in American Transcendentalism, but also in phenomenology and Asian thought. It argues that the great divide within…
Pris: 310,-	Blakely, Jason Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and the Demise of Naturalism Today the ethical and normative concerns of everyday citizens are all too often sidelined from the study of political and social issues, driven out by an effort to create a more ?scientific? study. This book offers a…	Pris: 346,-	Woodard Ben Schelling's Naturalism (1474438180) Using Schelling's philosophy, Ben Woodard examines how an expanded form of naturalism changes how we conceive of the division between thought and world, mathematics and motion, sense and dynamics, experiment and…
Pris: 461,-	Rosenberg, Alexander Darwinism in Philosophy, Social Science and Policy A collection of essays by Alexander Rosenberg, the distinguished philosopher of science. The essays cover three broad areas related to Darwinian thought and naturalism: the first deals with the solution of…	Pris: 340,-	Henry, Michel The Michel Henry Reader (0810140675) From beginning to end, the philosophy of Michel Henry offers an original and profound reflection on life. Henry challenges the conventional understanding of life as a set of natural processes and a general classification…
Pris: 1 228,-	Amati, Marco The City and the Super-Organism (9811639760) This book traces how naturalism?the idea of a common theory uniting natural social systems?has contributed to major shifts in urban planning. Beginning in the 17th century, when the human body began to emerge as an…	Pris: 336,-	Ellis, Fiona God, Value, and Nature (0198779259) Many philosophers believe that God has been put to rest. Naturalism is the default position, and the naturalist can explain what needs to be explained without recourse to God. This book agrees that we should be…
Pris: 699,-	Gustave Caillebotte - Painting the Paris of Naturalism, 1872-1887 Gustave Caillebotte: Painting the Paris of Naturalism, 1872-1887 is the first book to study the life and artistic development of this painter in depth and in the context of the urban life and upper-class Paris that…	Pris: 266,-	Price Huw Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism (0521279062) Pragmatists have traditionally been enemies of representationalism but friends of naturalism, when naturalism is understood to pertain to human subjects, in the sense of Hume and Nietzsche. In this volume Huw Price…
Pris: 313,-	New Naturalism	Pris: 702,-	Price, Huw Naturalism Without Mirrors (0195084330) This volume brings together fourteen major essays on truth, naturalism, expressivism and representationalism, by one of contemporary philosophy's most challenging thinkers. Huw Price weaves together Quinean minimalism…
Pris: 375,-	Naturalism and Normativity Normativity concerns what we ought to think or do and the evaluations we make. For example, we say that we ought to think consistently, we ought to keep our promises, or that Mozart is a better composer than Salieri. Yet…	Pris: 1 355,-	ART as Worldmaking - Critical Essays on Realism and Naturalism This collection is a response to Alex Potts's provocative 2013 book Experiments in modern realism. Twenty essays by leading art historians explore Pott's recasting of realism, providing a new understanding of artworks…
Pris: 311,-	Renaissance 1420-1600 (3741921408) During the origin of Renaissance painting in Italy, a world view was revived that enabled man to determine his own existence. In painting, new themes developed along with an orientation toward representing reality. This…	Pris: 480,-	Naturalism, Realism, and Normativity Hilary Putnam's writings have shaped epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of physics and mathematics, and philosophy of mind. This volume illustrates his willingness to revisit past arguments, above all how to…
Pris: 307,-	De Caro, Mario Naturalism and Normativity (0231134673) Normativity concerns what we ought to think or do and the evaluations we make. For example, we say that we ought to think consistently, we ought to keep our promises, or that Mozart is a better composer than Salieri. Yet…	Pris: 1 024,-	Wagner, P. Carnap's Ideal of Explication and Naturalism (0230282598) The book consists of a series of chapters on Carnap's ideal of explication as an alternative to the naturalistic conceptions of science, setting it in its historical context, discussing specific cases of explications,…
Pris: 330,-	Carel Havi Phenomenology and Naturalism (1107699053) What is the relationship between phenomenology and naturalism? Are they mutually exclusive or is a rapprochement possible between their approaches to consciousness and the natural world? Can phenomenology be naturalised…	Pris: 473,-	Mounce, Howard Hume's Naturalism (0415191254) Hume's Naturalism provides a clear and concise guide to the debates over whether Hume's empiricism or his 'naturalism' in the tradition of the Scottish 'Common Sense' school of philosophy gained his upper hand.…
Pris: 676,-	Garrett Don Nature and Necessity in Spinoza's Philosophy (0195307771) Spinoza's guiding commitment to the thesis that nothing exists or occurs outside of the scope of nature and its necessary laws makes him one of the great seventeenth-century exemplars of both philosophical naturalism and…	Pris: 633,-	Oppy, G. The Best Argument against God (1137354135) .... compares two theories?Naturalism and Theism?on a wide range of relevant data. It concludes that Naturalism should be preferred to Theism on that data. The central idea behind the argument is that, while Naturalism…
Pris: 371,-	Rea, Michael C. World Without Design (0199247617) Philosophical naturalism, according to which philosophy is continuous with the natural sciences, has dominated the Western academy for well over a century; but Michael Rea claims that it is without rational foundation,…	Pris: 261,-	Hauptmann, Gerhard Gerhart Hauptmann's ?Before Daybreak? (1469629941) Before Daybreak, the first important drama of German naturalism, was also the first play of Gerhart Hauptmann, the most significant naturalist of the theater. The translation, preceded by a critical…
Pris: 455,-	Irwin, Terence The Development of Ethics: Volume 1 (0199693854) The Development of Ethics is a selective historical and critical study of moral philosophy in the Socratic tradition, with special attention to Aristotelian naturalism, its formation, elaboration, criticism, and defence.…	Pris: 1 157,-	Boto Varela, Gerardo Emerging Naturalism (2503574483) For many decades, specialists in Romanesque and Early Gothic art and architecture have questioned the usefulness of traditional stylistic terminology. It is regarded as having limited relevance insofar as it fails to…
Pris: 349,-	Sørby, Hild Jærmalerne (8293351519) Norges mest kjente landskapsmalere oppdaget Jæren i 1880 årene. Kitty Kielland var først, og deretter kom mange etter. Gjennom tekst og bilder beskriver Hild Sørby den kunsthistoriske utviklingen av Jærmaleriet, fra…	Pris: 359,-	Aadnanes, Per M. Livssyn (8215020402) Forfattaren presenterer dei viktigaste livssynstradisjonane som gjer seg gjeldande i dag, først kristendommen, så dei sekulære livssynsperspektiva humanisme og naturalisme, og til sist nokre nyreligiøse perspektiv.…