Author: NA NAPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349816884
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 841
Book Description
Space, Time & Deity: The Gifford Lectures at Glasgow 1916-1918, 2 vols
Author: NA NAPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349816884
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 841
Book Description
Space, Time & Deity
Author: Na NaSpace, Time and Deity
Author: Samuel AlexanderSpace, Time, and Deity
Author: Samuel AlexanderPublisher:
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Category : God
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Marking the Centenary of Samuel Alexander's Space, Time and Deity
Author: A.R.J. FisherPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030651215
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
This book is an edited collection of essays in celebration of the centenary of Samuel Alexander’s Space, Time and Deity, published in 1920. Samuel Alexander (1859-1938) was a leading figure of British philosophy in the early twentieth century. He was partly responsible for the ‘new realism’ movement along with G.E. Moore and Bertrand Russell. However, his work has been overlooked in developments of twentieth century philosophy and yet his theories and style of theorising are in vogue. This book begins with three previously unpublished papers by Alexander that shed light on his metaphysical commitments about time, universals, God, knowledge of past truths, grounding, and inference in logic and science. There are also two important posthumous chapters by philosophers of the mid-twentieth century, who elaborate on his life and most significant contributions. The second half of the book contains new essays by current scholars, discussing Alexander on metaphysical realism, idealism, naturalism, space and time, process ontology, ontological categories, epistemology, perception, philosophy of history, emergentism, and empiricism.
Space, Time, and Deity
Author: Samuel AlexanderSpace, Time, and Deity
Author: Samuel AlexanderPublisher:
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Category : God
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Expository Times
Author: Brute Facts
Author: Elly VintiadisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191076252
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
Brute facts are facts that don't have explanations. Such facts appear in our explanations, inform many people's views about the structure of the world, and are part of philosophical interpretations in metaphysics and the philosophy of science. Yet, despite the considerable literature on explanation, the question of bruteness has been left largely unexamined. The chapters in Brute Facts address this gap in academic thought by exploring the central considerations which surround this topic. How can we draw a distinction between facts that can reasonably be thought of as brute and facts for which further explanation is possible? Can we explain something and gain understanding by appealing to brute facts? Is naturalism inconsistent with the existence of (non-physical) brute facts? Can modal facts be brute facts? Are emergent facts brute? This volume brings together contributions by authors who offer different answers to these questions. In presenting a range of different viewpoints on these matters, Brute Facts engages with major debates in contemporary philosophy concerning modality, naturalism, consciousness, reduction and explanation.
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