Arnold Burgen & Peter McLaughlin 
The Idea of Progress [PDF ebook] 

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), …

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 …

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 …

what makes a property intrinsic? What exactly does the intrinsic/extrinsic distinction rest upon, and how can we reasonably justify this distinction? These questions bear great importance on central …

Current research on social capital tends to focus on an economic reading of social relations. Whereas economists pride themselves on reaching out to social theory at-large, sociologists criticize the …

Ontological commitment implies that each theory is supposed to specify the type of entities that form its components. Representatives of a theory share an ontological commitment in relation to the ob …

The articles in this volume are dedicated to Professor Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani for the breadth and depth of his interests and his influence on those interests. They attest to the fact that his fervor …

The ancient Tamil poetic corpus of the Caṅam (‘The Academy’) is a national treasure for Tamilians and a battle-ground for linguists and historians of politics, culture and literature. Going back to o …

This volume brings out the varieties of forms of philosophical skepticism that have continued to preoccupy philosophers for the past of couple of centuries, as well as the specific varieties of philo …