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  • A Critical Introduction to Testimony

    by Axel Gelfert ...
    The epistemology of testimony is a rapidly developing area in contemporary analytic philosophy. In this first thorough survey of the recent debate on the subject, Axel Gelfert provides an in-depth introduction to what has become one of the liveliest debates in contemporary epistemology.Covering existing literature and major debates, A Critical Introduction to Testimony discusses the epistemic ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • How to Do Science with Models

    A Philosophical Primer

    by Axel Gelfert ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Taking scientific practice as its starting point, this book charts the complex territory of models used in science. It examines what scientific models are and what their function is. Reliance on models is pervasive in science, and scientists often need to construct models in order to explain or predict anything of interest at all. The diversity of kinds of models one finds in science – ranging ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Excerpt from the Doctrine of Reason

    by Georg Friedrich Meier ...
    Translated by Aaron Bunch, Axel Gelfert, Riccardo Pozzo ...
    Series series Kant’s Sources in Translation
    First published in 1752, Excerpt from the Doctrine of Reason [Auszug aus der Vernunftlehre] was written as a textbook and widely adopted by many 18th-century German instructors, but most notably by Immanuel Kant. For forty years Kant used the Excerpts as the basis of his lectures on logic making extensive notes on his copy of the text.More than a text on formal logic, Excerpt from the Doctrine of ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

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    by Gaurav Suri, Hartosh Singh Bal ...
    While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had faced many decades earlier--and that had landed him in jail. Charged under an obscure blasphemy law in a small New Jersey town in 1919, Vijay Sahni is challenged by a skeptical judge to defend his belief ... Read more

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  • The Analysis of Mind

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    Series series Ideas for Life
    "The Analysis of Mind" by Bertrand Russell is a philosophical book that explores the nature of the mind and consciousness. In this work, Russell argues that mental phenomena can be analyzed and understood through the principles of logic and mathematics. He posits that the mind can be divided into two categories: the "conscious mind" and the "unconscious mind". The conscious mind is the part of the ... Read more

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  • Kant’s Theory of Mental Activity

    A Commentary on the Transcendental Analytic of the Critique of Pure Reason

    by Robert Paul Wolff ...
    This book analyses and explains the central passage of Kant’s philosophy, the “Transcendental Analytic” of the Critique of Pure Reason. It proceeds in the manner of a textual commentary, discussing and explaining each section of the Analytic in turn. The purpose, however, is not merely to comment chapter by chapter on what Kant has written, but rather to reorganise and interpret his argument so ... Read more

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  • Living Yogacara

    An Introduction to Consciousness-Only Buddhism

    by Tagawa Shun'ei ...
    Translated by Charles Muller ...
    Yogacara is an influential school of Buddhist philosophy and psychology that stems from the early Indian Mahayana Buddhist tradition. The Yogacara view is based on the fundamental truth that there is nothing in the realm of human experience that is not interpreted by and dependent upon the mind.Yogacara Buddhism was unable to sustain the same level of popularity as other Buddhist schools in India, ... Read more

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  • The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

    by Ralph Waldo Emerson ...
    Introduction by Mary OliverCommentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David ThoreauThe definitive collection of Emerson’s major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life’s work of a true “American Scholar.” As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy ... Read more

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  • A Bible for the Liberal

    by Dagobert D. Runes ...
    The ethical teachings of Judaism and Christianity are presented in distilled form in this concise volume of Biblical writings.A Bible for the Liberal is not a new book. It is, rather, a selection of the principles of ethics, taken from all biblical literature, including the Hebrew Books of Wisdom and The Apocrypha, without the usual mythological and ritualistic framework.In these selections, ... Read more

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  • To Mock a Mocking Bird

    by Raymond M. Smullyan ...
    In this entertaining and challenging new collection of logic puzzles, Raymond Smullyan—author of What Is the Name of This Book? And The Lady or the Tiger?—continues to delight and astonish us with his gift for making available, in the thoroughly pleasurable form of puzzles, some of the most important mathematical thinking of our time.In the first part of the book, he transports us once again to ... Read more

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  • A Treasury of Kahlil Gibran

    by Kahlil Gibran ...
    Translated by Anthony R. Ferris ...
    Passionate and spiritual writings uncovering the philosophical foundations of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkersKahlil Gibran's works are known throughout the world for their lyrical grandeur, wisdom, and insights drawn from the everyday sufferings of man. This nine-book collection captures one of modern history's titanic literary figures at his best. Texts such as "The Secret of the ... Read more

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  • Introducing Walter Benjamin

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    by Alex Coles, Andrzej Klimowski, Howard Caygill ...
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    Walter Benjamin is often considered the key modern philosopher and critic of modern art.Tracing his influence on modern aesthetics and cultural history, Introducing Walter Benjamin highlights his commitment to political transformation of the arts as a means to bring about social change.Benjamin witnessed first-hand many of the cataclysmic events of modern European history. He took a critical ... Read more

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