What is analytic philosophy

What is Analytic Philosophy?

In this wide-ranging textbook, Hans Johann Glock considers the pros and cons of various definitions of analytic philosophy, and tackles the methodolog

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What is philosophy?

What is philosophy? Well, philosopy asks questions, such as what does it mean to be human? What is truth? What is good? These are all very big questio

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What is Philosophy?

This work examines what it means to be a philosopher and attacks the sterility of modern philosophy. Part One explores the nature and scope of philoso

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What Is Ancient Philosophy?

Hadot shows how the schools, trends, and ideas of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy strove to transform the individualÂ’s mode of perceiving and bein

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What Is Philosophy for?

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What Is Philosophy?

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Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy

Philosophy written in English is overwhelmingly analytic philosophy, and the techniques and predilections of analytic philosophy are not only unhistor

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What is Philosophy of Religion?

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What is Philosophy of Mind?

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Cognitive Analytic Therapy

Cognitive Analytic Therapy: Distinctive Features offers an introduction to what is distinctive about this increasingly popular method. Written by thre

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What is Financialization?

This book introduces a new and original analytic approach to defining, understanding, and explaining financialization.

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What is this thing called Philosophy of Language?

Thoroughly revised throughout and includes a new chapter on Chomsky's theory of grammar. The concluding chapter on modern directions in philosophy of

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What Even Is Gender?

A bold and thought-provoking approach to thinking about gender, What Even Is Gender? will be of great interest to those in philosophy, gender studies,

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What is 'Islamic' Art?

Investigating what is Islamic about Islamic art through analysis of the Qur'an, Hadith, Sufi texts, ancient philosophy, and a rich corpus of transcult

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What is 'Islamic' Art?

Investigating what is Islamic about Islamic art through analysis of the Qur'an, Hadith, Sufi texts, ancient philosophy, and a rich corpus of transcult

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What Love Is

A rising star in philosophy examines the cultural, social, and scientific interpretations of love to answer one of our most enduring questions

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Moral Philosophy

What is moral philosophy? That is the question with which this important volume grapples. Its starting point is the famous critique made by Elizabeth

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Doing Philosophy

First published in 2012, this title presents the basics of how â€to do’ philosophy - what it is, how we can think, the nature of logic, some sp

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What Even Is Gender? Taylor & Francis Ltd

Debates about gender are everywhere. Is it an inner identity, a biological fact, or an oppressive system? Should we respect it or resist it? What Even Is Gender? shifts the conversation in a fresh direction, arguing that these debates rest on a shared mistake: the idea that there is one thing called gender that both sides are arguing about. A bold and thought-provoking a...

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What Even Is Gender? Taylor & Francis Ltd

Debates about gender are everywhere. Is it an inner identity, a biological fact, or an oppressive system? Should we respect it or resist it? What Even Is Gender? shifts the conversation in a fresh direction, arguing that these debates rest on a shared mistake: the idea that there is one thing called gender that both sides are arguing about. A bold and thought-provoking a...

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Philosophy for Teens

What is love? Is lying always wrong? Is beauty a matter of fact, or a matter of taste? What is discrimination?The answers to these questions, and more

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Philosophy of Luxury

What is luxury? Is someone who finds luxury normal experiencing luxury? Luxury has received remarkably little sustained philosophical examination. Thi

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Philosophy and Conceptual Art

Leading philosophers and art theorists engage with the philosophical puzzles raised by conceptual art: What kind of art is conceptual art? What follow

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Philosophy of Love

What is love? Is it something that can be measured and explained? If you asked Alice and Luke you'd get vastly different answers...

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Pocket Philosophy: Epictetus' Raven

The Pocket Philosophy series introduces readers of all ages to the biggest names in philosophy. Epictetus is reminding us to focus only on what we can

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Philosophy for Beginners

Philosophy is a way of thinking about just about anything. It asks big questions, such as “how can I be good?” or “what makes something beautiful?Â

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Philosophy of Science

The world didn't end on 10 September 2008, but the possibility may have got you thinking: was it worth the risk? What is the point of science actually

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How Philosophy Works - neuveden

Anotace: What is the meaning of life? Are weI truly free? How can we make ethical choices? Discover the answers to life`s greatest questions. Demystifying the key ideas of the world`s greatest philosophers, and exploring all of the most important branches of philosophical thought in a uniquely visual way, this book is the perfect introduction to the history of philosoph...

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Contemporary Philosophy of Social Science

This introductory text offers a new approach to the philosophy of social science by focusing on what is involved in knowing others from different cult

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Philosophy of Causality in Economics

What do economists mean when they conclude that A ‘causes’ B? Does ‘cause’ say that we can influence B by intervening on A, or is it only a label

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Disability in Medieval Christian Philosophy and Theology

This book uses the tools of analytic philosophy and close readings of medieval Christian philosophical and theological texts in order to survey what t

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On What Matters

This is the first volume of a major work in moral philosophy, the long-awaited follow-up to Parfit's classic Reasons and Persons, a landmark of 20th-c

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On What Matters

This is a major work in moral philosophy, the long-awaited follow-up to Parfit's 1984 classic Reasons and Persons, a landmark of twentieth-century phi

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Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way - Kieran Setiya

<p>Pain, Loneliness, Grief, Injustice ... Hope?Life is hard - as the past few years have made painfully clear. From personal trauma to the injustice and absurdity of the world, sometimes simply going on can feel too much.But could there be solace - and even hope - in acknowledging the hardships of the human condition? Might doing so free us from the tyranny of striv...

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Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism

Produced on the fringes of philosophy and literary criticism, this book is a pioneering study which aims to explicitly address and thematize what may

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Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher

Ovid is celebrated for his intimate engagement with the Greco-Roman literary tradition; but what of his engagement with the philosophical tradition? T

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Science Meets Philosophy Taylor & Francis Ltd

The book is an attempt to bring together what are often seen as incommensurable scientific and philosophical positions. Taking a historical perspective, the book traces the divides in science back to three main philosophical traditions: realism, idealism, and scepticism. The book is intended for a general audience concerned with today’s debates on scientific knowledge an...

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The Philosophy of Modern Song - Dylan Bob

Anotace: The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan`s first book of new writing since 2004`s Chronicles: Volume One - and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a masterclass on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over 60 essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to E...

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The Philosophy of Modern Song - Bob Dylan

<p>The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One — and since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over 60 essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen F...

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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Frege on Sense and Reference

Gottlob Frege is considered the father of modern logic and one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy. His writings are difficult and deal wit

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Franz Rosenzweig and the Systematic Task of Philosophy

Benjamin Pollock argues that Franz Rosenzweig's The Star of Redemption is devoted to the task of grasping 'the All' - the whole of what is - in the fo

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Importance of What We Care About

This 1988 volume is a collection of thirteen seminal essays on ethics, free will, and the philosophy of mind. By focusing on the distinctive nature of

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How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy (1783782307)

Kniha - autor Julian Baggini, 432 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná In this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought. One of the great unexplained wonders of human history is that written philosophy flowered entirely separately in China, India and Ancient Greece at more or le...

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Is the Planet Full?

What are the impacts of population growth? Can our planet support the demands of the ten billion people anticipated to be the world's population by the middle of this century? While it is common to hear about the problems of overpopulation, might there be unexplored benefits of increasing numbers of people in the world? How can we both consider and harness the potential ...

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Dune and Philosophy - Minds, Monads, and Muad'Dib

Explore the universe of Frank Herbert's Dune in all its philosophical richness"He who controls the spice controls the universe." Frank Herbert's Dune saga is the epic story of Paul, son of Duke Leto Atreides, and heir to the massive fortune promised by the desert planet Arrakis and its vast reservoirs of a drug called "spice." To control the spice, Paul and his mother Jes...

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Wicca for Beginners: Wiccan Traditions and Beliefs, Witchcraft Philosophy, Practical Magic, Candle, Crystals and Herbal Rituals

Discover the life-changing ways of Wicca with this all-in-one guide.Are you looking to learn about Wicca? Have you heard about it before, but you're not sure what it's all about? Then Wicca for Beginners is your answer.Writte

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The Dream of Enlightenment : The Rise of Modern Philosophy - Gottlieb Anthony

Anotace: The author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to RousseauIn a short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark on Western thought. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of mod...

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The Dream of Enlightenment : The Rise of Modern Philosophy - Anthony Gottlieb

<p>The author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to RousseauIn a short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark on Western thought. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of mode...

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Is It Ever Just Sex? - Darian Leader

<p>A delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian Leader'It was just sex.'It's a familiar claim. But is it really possible?The old idea that sexuality is a smouldering, animalistic force within us, desperate for release yet restrained by social forces, has little to support it. Bodies aren't just sticks that make f...

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The Obstacle is the Way : The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage - Ryan Holiday

Anotace: We give up too easily. With a simple change of attitude, what seem like insurmountable obstacles become once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Ryan Holiday, who dropped out of college at nineteen to serve as an apprentice to bestselling `modern Machiavelli` Robert Greene and is now a media consultant for billion-dollar brands, draws on the philosophy of the Stoics to...

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Rich Dad´s Guide to Investing: What the Rich Invest in, That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not! - Kiyosaki Robert T.

Anotace: Investing means different things to different people...and there is a huge difference between passive investing and becoming an active, engaged investor. Rich Dad`s Guide to Investing, one of the three core titles in the Rich Dad Series, covers the basic rules of investing, how to reduce your investment risk, how to convert your earned income into passive income...

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Rich Dad´s Guide to Investing: What the Rich Invest in, That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not! - Robert Toru Kiyosaki

<p>Investing means different things to different people...and there is a huge difference between passive investing and becoming an active, engaged investor. Rich Dad's Guide to Investing, one of the three core titles in the Rich Dad Series, covers the basic rules of investing, how to reduce your investment risk, how to convert your earned income into passive income....

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein was one of the founders of modern analytic philosophy and is regarded as the greatest philosophical genius since Immanuel Kant. In

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Introduction to Metaphilosophy

What is philosophy? How should we do it and why? This book is a clear and comprehensive introduction to the branch of philosophy which asks these ques

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Elective Mind

What is the significance of “higher” education? What is the point of obtaining a degree that includes the study of philosophy? This book argues that

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On Humour

This is a fascinating and beautifully written book on what philosophy can tell us about humour and about what it is to be human. It will fascinate and

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Eudemian Ethics

The Eudemian Ethics is a major treatise on moral philosophy whose central concern is what makes life worth living. This is the first time it has been

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Soul in the Game

Part autobiography, part philosophy, part creativity manual, Soul in the Game, is a unique and vulnerable exploration of what works, and what doesn't,

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Tinkering Mind

Epistemic agency is a crucial concept in many areas of philosophy and cognitive sciences. But what is it? The Tinkering Mind argues that epistemic age

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Reality: A Very Short Introduction

'What is real?' has been one of the key questions of philosophy since its beginning in antiquity. But it is not just a question that philosophers ask.

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