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“dorothea e olkowski”

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  • Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn

    by Dorothea E. Olkowski ...
    A groundbreaking, interdisciplinary approach to the study of consciousness: "Beautifully written, engaging throughout, and captivating" (Claire Colebrook, The Pennsylvania State University).What can come of a scientific engagement with postmodern philosophy? Some scientists have claimed that the social sciences and humanities have nothing to contribute, except perhaps peripherally, to their ... Read more

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  • Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty

    The Logic and Pragmatics of Creation, Affective Life, and Perception

    by Dorothea E. Olkowski ...
    Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty: The Logic and Pragmatics of Creation, Affective Life, and Perception offers the only full-length examination of the relationships between Deleuze, Bergson and Merleau-Ponty.Henri Bergson (1859–1941), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), and Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) succeeded one another as leading voices in French philosophy over a span of 136 years. Their ... Read more

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  • Feminist Phenomenology Futures

    Edited by Helen A. Fielding, Dorothea E. Olkowski ...
    Distinguished feminist philosophers consider the future of their field and chart its political and ethical course in this forward-looking volume. Engaging with themes such as the historical trajectory of feminist phenomenology, ways of perceiving and making sense of the contemporary world, and the feminist body in health and ethics, these essays affirm the base of the discipline as well as open ... Read more

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  • Deleuze at the End of the World

    Latin American Perspectives

    Edited by Dorothea E. Olkowski, Julián Ferreyra ...
    The philosophy of Deleuze is as relevant to contemporary thought as it is obscure and complex. Deleuze at the End of the World guides readers through this maze by exploring the raw material that Deleuze took from thinkers in various fields of knowledge to construct his own concepts, some of them well known (such as Hegel, Kant, Husserl, Balibar and Blanchot) and some widely unexplored (Selme, ... Read more

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  • Representing Reason

    Feminist Theory and Formal Logic

    by Val Plumwood, Carroll Guen Hart, Marie-Genevieve Iselin, Lynn Hankinson Nelson, Jack Nelson, Andrea Nye, Pam Oliver, Dorothea E. Olkowski ...
    Philosophy's traditional "man of reason"-independent, neutral, unemotional-is an illusion. That's because the "man of reason" ignores one very important thing-the woman.As feminist philosophy grew in the 1980s and '90s, it became clear that the attributes philosophical tradition wrote off as "womanly" are in fact part of human nature. No longer can philosophy maintain the dichotomy between the ... Read more

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  • Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty

    The Logic and Pragmatics of Creation, Affective Life, and Perception

    by Dorothea E. Olkowski ...
    Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty: The Logic and Pragmatics of Creation, Affective Life, and Perception offers the only full-length examination of the relationships between Deleuze, Bergson and Merleau-Ponty.Henri Bergson (1859–1941), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), and Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) succeeded one another as leading voices in French philosophy over a span of 136 years. Their ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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  • Philosophy of Mathematics

    by Øystein Linnebo ...
    Series series Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy
    A sophisticated, original introduction to the philosophy of mathematics from one of its leading contemporary scholarsMathematics is one of humanity's most successful yet puzzling endeavors. It is a model of precision and objectivity, but appears distinct from the empirical sciences because it seems to deliver nonexperiential knowledge of a nonphysical reality of numbers, sets, and functions. How ... Read more

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  • Causation and Laws of Nature

    by Max Kistler ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
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  • The Nature of Mathematics Given Physicalism

    by Magnus Vinding ...
    What is mathematics?This book aims to explore the nature of mathematics given a physicalist ontology. It begins by outlining a physicalist account of the nature of mathematics presented by László Szabó, and proceeds to discuss the main objections faced by this account so as to assess the plausibility of physicalist views of mathematics.It is concluded that it seems possible to accommodate ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics

    by Mark Colyvan ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
    This introduction to the philosophy of mathematics focuses on contemporary debates in an important and central area of philosophy. The reader is taken on a fascinating and entertaining journey through some intriguing mathematical and philosophical territory, including such topics as the realism/anti-realism debate in mathematics, mathematical explanation, the limits of mathematics, the ... Read more

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    An Introduction to a World of Proofs and Pictures

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