Ansgar Beckermann & Hans Flohr 
Emergence or Reduction? [PDF ebook] 
Essays on the Prospects of Nonreductive Physicalism

Феликс, успешен в бизнеса, осъден за незаконни наркотици, е бил взет под стража и се поставя в анкетна изолатор, затворници психически тормоз довели го до лудост, и той отдава своя бизнес в замяна на …

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Philosophy – General Essays, Eras, grade: 1, 7, Charles University in Prague (Fakulta Humanitních Studií/ Faultät für Humanistisches Wissen), languag …

The central issue explored in this book is the problem of difference in democratic theory, focusing on the debates between liberalism and realism. Realist theories critique liberal models for ignorin …

Wittgenstein used the concept of language games to refer to all forms of linguistic expression in practical contexts and to the myriad ways in which signs are used in language. He used the term to sp …

Hilary Whitehall Putnam was one of the leading philosophers of the second half of the 20th century. As student of Rudolph Carnap’s and Hans Reichenbach’s, he went on to become not only a major figure …

Much attention has been paid to Wittgenstein’s treatment of solipsism and to Cavell’s treatment of skepticism. But comparatively little has been made of the striking connections between the early Wit …

One important task of metaphysics is to answer the question of what it is for an object to exist. The first part of this book offers a systematic reconstruction and critique of contemporary views on …

Central to Elements is an assay of the attributional union properties and relations have with their subjects, a topic historically left metaphorical. The work critiques eight Aristotelian assumptions …

Hermeneutic philosophies of social science offer an approach to the philosophy of social science foregrounding the human subject and including attention to history as well as a methodological reflect …

A proof is a successful demonstration that a conclusion necessarily follows by logical reasoning from axioms which are considered evident for the given context and agreed upon by the community. It is …