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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Aristotle's Physics
Author: Mariska LeunissenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110703146X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This volume provides cutting-edge research on Aristotle's Physics, taking into account recent changes in the field of Aristotle.
Choice
Author: Choice and Chance
Author: Brian SkyrmsPublisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Jung's Philosophy
Author: Lionel CorbettPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003811779
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
‘Jung’s Philosophy’ explores some of the controversial philosophical ideas that are both explicit and implicit within Jung’s psychology, comparing the philosophical assumptions between this and other psychotherapeutic traditions. Within this book, Corbett provides a useful introduction to the philosophical issues relevant to the practice of analytical psychology, and how these are viewed by different psychotherapeutic traditions. Most of the disagreement between schools of psychotherapy, and much of the comparative literature, centres around differences in theory and technique. This book takes a different, more fundamental approach by comparing schools of thought based on their underlying philosophical commitments. The author discusses the philosophical basis of various worldviews such as idealism and realism, beliefs about the nature of the psyche and the unconscious, and the mind-brain relationship, and focuses on the way in which Jung’s psychology addresses these and related issues, including the possible relevance of quantum mechanics to depth psychology. This text will be of value to practising psychotherapists and Jungian analysts, individuals undertaking the relevant training, and students in depth psychology.
The Challenge of Chance
Author: Klaas LandsmanPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319263005
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This book presents a multidisciplinary perspective on chance, with contributions from distinguished researchers in the areas of biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, genetics, general history, law, linguistics, logic, mathematical physics, statistics, theology and philosophy. The individual chapters are bound together by a general introduction followed by an opening chapter that surveys 2500 years of linguistic, philosophical, and scientific reflections on chance, coincidence, fortune, randomness, luck and related concepts. A main conclusion that can be drawn is that, even after all this time, we still cannot be sure whether chance is a truly fundamental and irreducible phenomenon, in that certain events are simply uncaused and could have been otherwise, or whether it is always simply a reflection of our ignorance. Other challenges that emerge from this book include a better understanding of the contextuality and perspectival character of chance (including its scale-dependence), and the curious fact that, throughout history (including contemporary science), chance has been used both as an explanation and as a hallmark of the absence of explanation. As such, this book challenges the reader to think about chance in a new way and to come to grips with this endlessly fascinating phenomenon.
A History of Natural Philosophy
Author: Edward GrantPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521869315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This book describes how natural philosophy and exact mathematical sciences joined together to make the Scientific Revolution possible.
Choice
Author: Richard K. GardnerPublisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Sophie's World
Author: Jostein GaarderPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Uncertain Chances
Author: Maurice S. LeePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199985812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Maurice Lee's study illustrates how writers such as Poe, Melville, Douglass, Thoreau, Dickinson, and others participated in a broad intellectual and cultural shift in which Americans increasingly learned to live with the threatening and wonderful possibilities of chance.
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