Author: Francesco BertoPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198812795
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
The latter half of the 20 ...
Impossible Worlds
Author: Francesco BertoPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198812795
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
The latter half of the 20 ...
Logic
Author: Hermann LotzeInformal Logic
Author: John NoltPublisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN:
Category : Logic
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination
Author: Eugene GarverPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022657556X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Spinoza’s Ethics, and its project of proving ethical truths through the geometric method, have attracted and challenged readers for more than three hundred years. In Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination, Eugene Garver uses the imagination as a guiding thread to this work. Other readers have looked at the imagination to account for Spinoza’s understanding of politics and religion, but this is the first inquiry to see it as central to the Ethics as a whole—imagination as a quality to be cultivated, and not simply overcome. Spinoza initially presents imagination as an inadequate and confused way of thinking, always inferior to ideas that adequately represent things as they are. It would seem to follow that one ought to purge the mind of imaginative ideas and replace them with rational ideas as soon as possible, but as Garver shows, the Ethics don’t allow for this ultimate ethical act until one has cultivated a powerful imagination. This is, for Garver, “the cunning of imagination.” The simple plot of progress becomes, because of the imagination, a complex journey full of reversals and discoveries. For Garver, the “cunning” of the imagination resides in our ability to use imagination to rise above it.
The Pedagogical Seminary
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Vols. 5-15 include "Bibliography of child study," by Louis N. Wilson.
Science and Moral Imagination
Author: Matthew J. BrownPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822987678
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
The idea that science is or should be value-free, and that values are or should be formed independently of science, has been under fire by philosophers of science for decades. Science and Moral Imagination directly challenges the idea that science and values cannot and should not influence each other. Matthew J. Brown argues that science and values mutually influence and implicate one another, that the influence of values on science is pervasive and must be responsibly managed, and that science can and should have an influence on our values. This interplay, he explains, must be guided by accounts of scientific inquiry and value judgment that are sensitive to the complexities of their interactions. Brown presents scientific inquiry and value judgment as types of problem-solving practices and provides a new framework for thinking about how we might ethically evaluate episodes and decisions in science, while offering guidance for scientific practitioners and institutions about how they can incorporate value judgments into their work. His framework, dubbed “the ideal of moral imagination,” emphasizes the role of imagination in value judgment and the positive role that value judgment plays in science.
Semiotics of the Christian Imagination
Author: Domenico PietropaoloPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350064149
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The semiotics of the Christian imagination describes the repository of signs and the logic of signification through which a community of faith envisions spiritual truths. This book analyses various examples in text, images, music, art and scientific treatise of the imaginative semiotisation of the fall of Man and the Church's semiotic perception of the Divine plan for Redemption. The book includes a chapter detailing the theory of signs, based on a close reading of primary sources, and has nine further chapters on the meaning-making inherent in ideas of the Fall and Redemption of mankind. These are filtered through and given material representation by the semiotic paradigms of various cultural fields, including philology, verbal arts and science. Central to this practice - and to the book's message - are two themes of theological semiotics fundamental to man's understanding of himself in the larger scheme of things. Two of these include the theology of the Fall and a sacramental theory of signs. The theory is grounded in the doctrine of analogy, and this is the only reliable cognitive link between the immanence of the thinking subject and the transcendence that is the object of thought.
Logic, in Three Books, of Thought, of Investigation and of Knowledge
Author: Hermann LotzeLotze's System of Philosophy: Logic in three books of thought, of investigation, and of Knowledge
Author: Hermann LotzeThe New Quotable Einstein
Author: Albert EinsteinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780691120751
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
A new, updated edition of the ultimate Einstein reference book continues to provide readers with the best window into the life and wisdom of this twentieth-century icon in celebration of the centennial of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, with more than three hundred new quotations, an account of Einstein's final days, a new section "On Aging," and more. Simultaneous.