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  • Critical Realism, Post-positivism and the Possibility of Knowledge

    by Ruth Groff ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
    Groff defends 'realism about causality' through close discussions of Kant, Hilary Putnam, Brian Ellis and Charles Taylor, among others. In so doing she affirms critical realism, but with several important qualifications. In particular, she rejects the theory of truth advanced by Roy Bhaskar. She also attempts to both clarify and correct earlier critical realist attempts to apply realism about ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Ontology Revisited

    Metaphysics in Social and Political Philosophy

    by Ruth Groff ...
    Series series Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
    Groff's argument runs counter to the familiar anti-metaphysical habit. Social and political philosophy, she maintains, is not as metaphysically neutral as it may seem. Even the most deontological of theories connects up with an attendant set of philosophical commitments regarding what kinds of things exist, as a fundamental ontological matter, and what they are like. These are topics of interest ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • A Critical Introduction to Causal Powers

    Rejecting Passivism, Then and Now

    by Dr. Ruth Groff ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Critical Introductions to Contemporary Metaphysics
    A Critical Introduction to Causation and Causal Powers responds to a groundswell of interest in the topic of causal powers in contemporary metaphysics, presenting a fresh systematic overview of the realist literature,debates and arguments.Introducing the topic via the lens of a contrast between passivism and anti-passivism, the contrast is established in the opening historical overview, plotting ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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  • Subject and Object

    Frankfurt School Writings on Epistemology, Ontology, and Method

    Edited by Dr. Ruth Groff ...
    Subject & Object is a thematic collection of classic works by Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse, designed to foreground the authors' philosophical concerns, especially in the areas of epistemology, ontology, and method. The volume, which includes lucid introductions to all of the selections, illustrates Frankfurt School approaches to questions such as the nature of reason; the ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Powers and Capacities in Philosophy

    The New Aristotelianism

    Edited by John Greco, Ruth Groff ...
    Powers and Capacities in Philosophy is designed to stake out an emerging, discipline-spanning neo-Aristotelian framework grounded in realism about causal powers.The volume brings together for the first time original essays by leading philosophers working on powers in relation to metaphysics, philosophy of natural and social science, philosophy of mind and action, epistemology, ethics and social ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Revitalizing Causality

    Realism about Causality in Philosophy and Social Science

    Edited by Ruth Groff ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
    This cutting edge collection of new and previously published articles by philosophers and social scientists addresses just what it means to invoke causal mechanisms, or powers, in the context of offering a causal explanation. A unique collection, it offers the reader various disciplinary and inter-disciplinary divides, helping to stake out a new, neo-Aristotelian position within contemporary ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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    by Edward Feser ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    In this lively and entertaining introduction to the philosophy of mind, Edward Feser explores the questions central to the discipline; such as 'do computers think', and 'what is consciousness'; and gives an account of all the most important and significant attempts that have been made to answer them. ... Read more

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  • From Socrates to Sartre

    The Philosophic Quest

    by T.Z. Lavine ...
    A challenging new look at the great thinkers whose ides have shaped our civilizationFrom Socrates to Sartre presents a rousing and readable introduction to the lives, and times of the great philosophers. This thought-provoking book takes us from the inception of Western society in Plato’s Athens to today when the commanding power of Marxism has captured one third of the world. T. Z. Lavine, Elton ... Read more

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  • Less Than Nothing

    Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Discover a 1,000-page resurrection of Hegel, a giant of Western philosophy—from “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals” (New York Review of Books).For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence each new thinker struggles to escape. As a consequence, Hegel’s absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Epistemology: Contemporary Readings

    Edited by Michael Huemer ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Readings in Philosophy
    This comprehensive anthology draws together classic and contemporary readings by leading philosophers on epistemology. Ideal for any philosophy student, it will prove essential reading for epistemology courses, and is designed to complement Robert Audi's textbook Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 1998).Themes covered include, perception, memory, inductive inference, reason and ... Read more

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  • Metaphysics

    A Contemporary Introduction

    by Michael J. Loux ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction is for students who have already completed an introductory philosophy course and need a fresh look at the central topics in the core subject of metaphysics. It is essential reading for any student of the subject. This Fourth Edition is revised and updated and includes two new chapters on (1) Parts and Wholes, and (2) Metaphysical Indeterminacy or vagueness. ... Read more

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  • Time and Narrative: Volume 1

    by Paul Ricoeur ...
    Translated by Kathleen McLaughlin, David Pellauer ...
    Series series Time and Narrative
    The first volume in the eminent philosopher's three-part examination of time and narrative, exploring their relationship in the context of historical writing.Time and Narrative builds on Paul Ricoeur's earlier analysis, in The Rule of Metaphor, of semantic innovation at the level of the sentence. Ricoeur here examines the creation of meaning at the textual level, with narrative rather than ... Read more

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