Author: Curtis WhitePublisher: Sun & Moon
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Metaphysics in the Midwest
Author: Curtis WhitePublisher: Sun & Moon
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Studies in Metaphysics
Author: Peter A. FrenchMidwest Studies in Philosophy
Author: Metaphysics in Midwestern America
Author: Melinda Bollar WagnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Studies in Metaphysics
Author: Peter A. FrenchPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816608881
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Studies in Metaphysics was first published in 1979. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
Midwest Studies in Philosophy
Author: A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person
Author: Hud HudsonPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801438899
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Hud Hudson presents an innovative view of the metaphysics of human persons according to which human persons are material objects but not human organisms. In developing his account, he formulates and defends a unique collection of positions on parthood, persistence, vagueness, composition, identity, and various puzzles of material constitution.The author also applies his materialist metaphysics to issues in ethics and in the philosophy of religion. He examines the implications for ethics of his metaphysical views for standard arguments addressing the moral permissibility of our treatment of human persons and their parts, fetuses and infants, the irreversibly comatose, and corpses. He argues that his metaphysics provides the best foundation in the philosophy of religion for the Christian doctrine of the resurrection of the body.Hudson addresses a broad range of metaphysical issues, but among his most strikingly original contributions are his defense of the "Partist" view (according to which a material object can exactly occupy multiple, overlapping regions of spacetime) and his argument for the compatibility of Christianity with a materialistic theory of human persons.
Cannibal Metaphysics
Author: Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de CastroPublisher: Univocal Publishing
ISBN: 9781937561215
Category : Philosophical anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, well known in his discipline for helping initiate its "ontological turn," offers a vision of anthropology as "the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought." After showing that Amazonian and other Amerindian groups inhabit a radically different conceptual universe than ours--in which nature and culture, human and nonhuman, subject and object are conceived in terms that reverse our own--he presents the case for anthropology as the study of such "other" metaphysical schemes, and as the corresponding critique of the concepts imposed on them by the human sciences. Along the way, he spells out the consequences of this anthropology for thinking in general via a major reassessment of the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss, arguments for the continued relevance of Deleuze and Guattari, dialogues with the work of Philippe Descola, Bruno Latour, and Marilyn Strathern, and inventive treatments of problems of ontology, translation, and transformation. Bold, unexpected, and profound, Cannibal Metaphysics is one of the chief works marking anthropology's current return to the theoretical center stage.
The Deep End
Author: Courtney KerstenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Young women
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This thesis is half of my memoir-in-progress about my fervent interest in mystical subjects such as astrology, synchronicity, and divination and how these inclinations have often challenged my upbringing in the American Midwest. This thesis details what happens when my undercover spiritual playmate and own guide to the universe, my mother, unexpectedly dies. Through this, I must confront my grief and my role as a daughter and a woman.
Contemporary Perspectives on the History of Philosophy
Author: Peter A. FrenchPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816612129
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Contemporary Perspectives on the History of Philosophy was first published in 1983. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The authors of the 27 appears in Volume 8, Midwest Studies in Philosophy,have established reputations as historians of philosophy, but their vantage point, here, is from "contemporary perspectives" - they use contemporary analytic skills to examine problems and issues considered by past philosophers. The papers, arranged in historical order, fall into six groups: ancient philosophy (the Pythagoreans, Plato, and Aristotle); the seventeenth-century rationalists (Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza); the empiricists (Locke, Berkeley, and Hume); Kant; the nineteenth century (Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Mill); and, in conclusion, an essay on Wittgenstein's Tractatus and two broad, retrospective papers entitled "Old Analyses of the Physical World and new Philosophies of Language" and "Moral Crisis and the History of Ethics."