Corbi, Josep E.; Prades, Josep L.:Minds, Causes, and Mechanisms: A Case Against Physicalism
- copia autografata 2001, ISBN: 9780631218012
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Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.: Yale Univ Pr. New. 2001. Hardcover. 0300084889 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMM… Altro …
Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.: Yale Univ Pr. New. 2001. Hardcover. 0300084889 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - BRAND NEW, FLAWLESS COPY, NEVER OPENED - 192 pages -- DESCRIPTION: This volume presents six lively conversations with Hans-Georg Gadamer (born 1900), one of the twentieth century's master philosophers. Looking back over his life and thought, Gadamer takes up key issues in his philosophy, addresses points of controversy, and replies to his critics, including those who accuse him of having been in complicity with the Nazis. A genial and direct conversationalist, Gadamer is here captured at his best and most accessible. The interviews took place between 1989 and 1996, and all but one appear in English for the first time in this volume. The first three conversations, conducted by Heidelberg philosopher Carsten Dutt, deal with hermeneutics, aesthetics, and practical philosophy and the question of ethics. In a fourth conversation, with University of Heidelberg classics professor Glenn W. Most, Gadamer argues for the vital importance of the Greeks for our contemporary thinking. In the next, the philosopher reaffirms his connection with phenomenology and clarifies his relation to Husserl and Heidegger in a conversation with London philosopher Alfons Grieder. In the final interview, with German Nazi expert Dörte von Westernhagen, Gadamer describes his life as a struggling young professor in Germany in the 1930s and refutes accusations of his complicity with the Nazis. These conversations are a lucid introduction for readers new to the philosopher's thought, and for experts they present an invaluable commentary on Gadamer's most important themes. -- with a bonus offer-- May be either: out of print (OOP) and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition ., Yale Univ Pr, 2001, 6, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.: Yale Univ Pr. New. 2000. Paperback. 0300083289 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - BRAND NEW, FLAWLESS COPY, NEVER OPENED - 294 pages -- DESCRIPTION: Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics is one of the most important works written by this towering figure in twentieth-century philosophy. It includes a powerful reinterpretation of Greek thought, a sweeping vision of Western history, and a glimpse of the reasons behind Heidegger's support of the Nazi Party in the 1930s. Heidegger tries to reawaken the "question of Being" by challenging some of the most enduring prejudices embedded in Western philosophy and in our everyday practices and language. Furthermore, he relates this question to the insights of Greek tragedy into the human condition and to the political and cultural crises of modernity. This new translation makes this work more accessible to students than ever before. It combines smoothness with accuracy and provides conventional translations of Greek passages that Heidegger translated unconventionally. There are also extensive notes, a German-English glossary, and an introduction that discusses the history of the text, its basic themes, and its place in Heidegger's oeuvre. -- with a bonus offer-- May be either: out of print (OOP) and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition ., Yale Univ Pr, 2000, 6, Williston, Vermont, U.S.A.: Blackwell Publishing. New. 1999. Hardcover. 0631218017 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- 265 pages -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction. * 1. Physicalism and the Mental: The Dominant View. * 2. An Initial Tension: Narrowness and Multiple Realization. * 3. Dispositions, Minimality, and Intrinsic Causal Powers. * 4. 'Ceteris Paribus' Laws and the Autonomy of Nonbasic Properties. * 5. Strict Laws, Causes, and Background Conditions. * 6. Mental Causation. * References. * Index. -- -- DESCRIPTION: -- Minds, Causes, and Mechanisms questions the internal consistency of causal physicalism, and vindicates a novel approach to mental causation. -- AUTHORS: Josep E. Corbí was born in Monover, Spain in 1957. He has been a lecturer at the University of Valencia since 1980, and has published several papers on the philosophy of mind and epistemology. - Josep L. Prades was born in Valencia, Spain in 1954. He taught philosophy at the University of Murcia and is presently a lecturer at the University of Girona. He has published several studies of Wittgenstein's philosophy and papers on the philosophy of mind and epistemology. -- * * REVIEW: This study is written by authors completely oblivious to the fundamental arguments concerning causality, agency and the historical foundations of their subject. Is it possible to ignore the investigations of Plato, Berkeley, Hume and Kant and have a meaningful discussion of the problem of minds, causes and mechanisms, not to mention its "solution"? If you think so, then this is just the right ticket for you. In that event, you'll find it meaningful to conclude that "mental contents, as opposed to functional properties, may be causally efficacious without having an implementing mechanism." Schopenhauer--where are you when we need you? -- with a bonus offer-- May be either: out of print (OOP) and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition ., Blackwell Publishing, 1999, 6<
