Philosophy

Coveney, John Food, Morals and Meaning eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

Duffill, Maurice The Link: From Before the Big-Bang to Brain and Beyond (Adobe Reader) eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

The Link introduces a concept that appears to explain the basis of everything in the universe.

Belohlavek, Peter The Ethic of Foundations eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

Based on behavioral researches it was proven that freedom to argue foundations is a necessary condition to support synergistic leadership in decision-making. Based on behavioral researches it was proven that synergistic leadership in decision-making is possible only when the freedom to present grounded arguments is structured in the organization. As a concept, an argument is grounded whenever it is reasonable, understandable and provable. The management of foundation enables: - Supporting of synergistic leadership - Matching of small and big, week and strong - Promotion of working value as source of richness and personal fulfillment - Promotion of science and technology - Promotion of justice as equality of opportunities - Group synergy - Upwards leveling Sustainable globalization and development represents in a society the predominance of synergistic leaders. The predominance of autocrats and manipulating leaders leads to a gradual destruction of the environmental-adapting capacity, and ends up in dependency or marginality.

Belohlavek, Peter Unicist Mechanics: Business Application (Adobe Reader) eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

This book provides a framework for unicist technology users to implement changes in business processes. Unicist mechanics is necessary to influence complex, ambiguous or uncertain realities and therefore becomes essential for strategic management. It describes the natural consequences of human action on a particular environment. It is based on the unicist mechanics implicit in the unicist ontology of evolution. Unicist mechanics includes two different approaches to the mechanics of evolution: a) On the one hand, the mechanic resulting from the natural evolution of a given reality. It is the mechanics driven by evolution laws. b) On the other hand, the mechanic resulting from human influence on reality. It is the mechanics driven by influence principles. Understanding unicist mechanics makes the use of unicist technologies simple. It includes the taxonomy and rules of the unicist ontology that have been researched to be applied to business processes.

Belohlavek, Peter Unicist Logic and its mathematics (Adobe Reader) eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

The unicist logic provided the necessary logical structure to approach complex and chaotic realities. It provided a logical integration for the preexisting logical models. Logical formalizations are born to sustain ideas, consolidate knowledge or solve problems. Unicist Logic's main added value is the provision of a logical structure to analyze reality and complex problems as a unified field. Unicist logic makes the integration of possibilities and probabilities "possible". It provided the logical groundings for the Unicist Ontology of Evolution. Its mathematics provides the tools to define the probabilities of the evolution when the "true" facts of reality are known. The logical relations between the purpose, the active principle and the energy conservation principle that underlie reality are defined as formal logical structures that can be found, measured, and solved mathematically to provide operational solutions to approach complex realities. This work includes the groundings of the unicist ontology to research the nature of evolution.

Belohlavek, Peter The origin of human fallacies (Adobe Reader) eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

Understanding human fallacies is a corner stone for strategy building. Fallacies are not errors. They are unconscious lies individuals build to confirm beliefs and satisfy needs. They are business killers. And the most dramatic aspect is that when one is "within" a fallacy, one is more convinced than anyone else to be right. Approaching reality knowing that perception can be fallacious and knowing how fallacies work will help you to build the necessary antidotes to find the true reality. This work turned out to be one of the master pieces to approach the nature of human behavior. Until the development of integral logic, fallacies were considered reasoning or foundation errors. This research has demonstrated that fallacies are not errors; instead they are functional conducts or behaviors that ascertain beliefs or needs. This research started in 1985. It included the follow up of eight people per country during four years, encompassing the following cultures: Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, England, Japan and the U.S. It concluded with implantation processes carried out in 2002 and ended with the summary developed in early 2003.

Cathcart, Thomas Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they'd had in school Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors-and born vaudevillians-Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR's Weekend Edition. Lively, original, and powerfully informative, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar . . . is a not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical thinkers and traditions, from Existentialism (What do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common?) to Logic (Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything). Philosophy 101 for those who like to take the heavy stuff lightly, this is a joy to read-and finally, it all makes sense!

Vussere, Olive Just Is (Adobe Reader) eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

Are we evolving past a dependency on the knowledge of proof? Is proof a tool rather than the rule? Are we moving on to direct knowing as the primary guiding principle?

Epstein, Richard L., Carnielli, Walter A. Computability: Computable Functions, Logic, and the Foundations of Mathematics (Adobe Reader) eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

Now in a new edition!--the classic presentation of the theory of computable functions in the context of the foundations of mathematics. Part I motivates the study of computability with discussions and readings about the crisis in the foundations of mathematics in the early 20th century while presenting the basic ideas of whole number, function, proof, and real number. Part II starts with readings from Turing and Post leading to the formal theory of recursive functions. Part III presents sufficient formal logic to give a full development of Gdel's incompleteness theorems. Part IV considers the significance of the technical work with a discussion of Church's Thesis and readings on the foundations of mathematics. This new edition contains the timeline "Computability and Undecidability" as well as the essay "On mathematics".

Freed, Judah GLOBAL SENSE (Adobe Reader) eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

The award-winning GLOBAL SENSE by Judah Freed reveals how our natural global connectivity empowers each of us to change the world by changing ourselves. Inspired by Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," GLOBAL SENSE unites grassroots politics and environmental awareness with personal growth and spiritual enlightenment to renew hope in these times that try our souls.

Ernest Sosa: And His Critics (Adobe Reader) eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

This is the first book devoted to the work of Ernest Sosa, one of the most influential contemporary epistemologists.

Part of the acclaimed Philosophers and Their Critics series.
The editor’s introduction serves as an introduction to Sosa’s epistemology.
Contains critical essays by more than twenty of the most prominent epistemologists in the world, commenting on Sosa's work.
Concludes with Sosa’s own reply to his critics.

Ariel, PhD, Aurora Juliana Juliana EARTH 2012 (Adobe Reader) eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

Hacker, P.M.S. Human Nature: The Categorial Framework (Adobe Reader) eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

This major new study by one of the most penetrating and persistent critics of philosophical and scientific orthodoxy, returns to Aristotle in order to examine the salient categories in terms of which we think about ourselves and our nature, and the distinctive forms of explanation we invoke to render ourselves intelligible to ourselves.

The culmination of 40 years of thought on the philosophy of mind and the nature of the mankind
Written by one of the world’s leading philosophers, the co-author of the monumental 4 volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations (Blackwell Publishing, 1980-2004)
Uses broad categories, such as substance, causation, agency and power to examine how we think about ourselves and our nature
Platonic and Aristotelian conceptions of human nature are sketched and contrasted
Individual chapters clarify and provide an historical overview of a specific concept, then link the concept to ideas contained in other chapters

Dews, Peter The Idea of Evil (Adobe Reader) eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

This timely book by philosopher Peter Dews explores the idea of evil, one of the most problematic terms in the contemporary moral vocabulary. Despite the widespread abuse and political manipulation of the term, Dews argues that we cannot do without it. Yet our intuitions about evil pull us in different directions. The centrality of the ideal of rational autonomy to our modern self-image makes it hard for us to accommodate deeply rooted and obscurely destructive motivations. Furthermore, once having recognized the reality of evil, we may find ourselves succumbing to moral paralysis, even despair.

Dews shows that these concerns are not marginal to the European philosophical tradition. They have perturbed some of the greatest thinkers of the modern age, from Kant and the German Idealists, via Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, to Levinas and Adorno. Written with lucidity and verve, The Idea of Evil traces a struggle to translate religious insights into secular, philosophical terms - and to acknowledge the perverse impulse of human freedom, without abandoning hope for a more just and compassionate world.

Young, James O. Cultural Appropriation and the Arts (Adobe Reader) eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

Now, for the first time, a philosopher undertakes a systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to which cultural appropriation gives rise.

Cultural appropriation is a pervasive feature of the contemporary world (the Parthenon Marbles remain in London; white musicians from Bix Beiderbeck to Eric Clapton have appropriated musical styles from African-American culture)
Young offers the first systematic philosophical investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to which cultural appropriation gives rise
Tackles head on the thorny issues arising from the clash and integration of cultures and their artifacts
Questions considered include: “Can cultural appropriation result in the production of aesthetically successful works of art?” and “Is cultural appropriation in the arts morally objectionable?”
Part of the highly regarded New Directions in Aesthetics series

Smart, J.J.C., Haldane, J. J. Atheism and Theism (Adobe Reader) eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

In this book two philosophers, each committed to unambiguous versions of belief and disbelief, debate the central issues of atheism and theism.

Considers one of the oldest and most widely disputed philosophical questions: is there a God?
Presents the atheism/theism issue in the form of philosophical debate between two highly regarded scholars, widely praised for the clarity and verve of their work.
This second edition contains new essays by each philosopher, responding to criticisms and building on their previous work.

The Blackwell Guide to Descartes' Meditations (Adobe Reader) eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

Consisting of twelve newly commissioned essays and enhanced by William Molyneux’s famous early translation of the Meditations, this volume touches on all the major themes of one of the most influential texts in the history of philosophy.

Situates the Meditations in its philosophical and historical context.
Touches on all of the major themes of the Meditations, including the mind-body relation, the nature of the mind, and the existence of the material world.

Rawls's Law of Peoples: A Realistic Utopia? (Adobe Reader) eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

John Rawlsis considered the most important theorist of justice in much of western Europe and the English-speaking world more generally. This volume examines Rawls’s theory of international justice as worked out in his last and perhaps most controversial book, The Law of Peoples. It contains new and stimulating essays, some sympathetic, others critical, written by pre-eminent theorists in the field. These essays situate Rawls’s The Law of Peoples historically and methodologically, and examine all its key ingredients: its thin cosmopolitanism, its doctrine of human rights, its principles of global economic justice, and its normative theory of liberal foreign policy. The book will set the terms of the debate on The Law of Peoples for years to come, thereby shaping the broader debates about global justice.

The Blackwell Guide to Plato's Republic (Adobe Reader) eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

The Blackwell Guide to Plato’s Republic consists of thirteen new essays written by both established scholars and younger researchers with the specific aim of helping readers to understand Plato’s masterwork.

This guide to Plato’s Republic is designed to help readers understand this foundational work of the Western canon.
Sheds new light on many central features and themes of the Republic.
Covers the literary and philosophical style of the Republic; Plato’s theories of justice and knowledge; his educational theories; and his treatment of the divine.
Will be of interest to readers who are new to the Republic, and those who already have some familiarity with the book.

A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism (Adobe Reader) eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism is a complete guide to two of the dominant movements of philosophy in the twentieth century.

Written by a team of leading scholars, including Dagfinn Føllesdal, J. N. Mohanty, Robert Solomon, Jean-Luc Marion.
Highlights the area of overlap between the two movements.
Features longer essays discussing each of the main schools of thought, shorter essays introducing prominent themes, and problem-oriented chapters.
Organised topically, around concepts such as temporality, intentionality, death and nihilism.
Features essays on unusual subjects, such as medicine, the emotions, artificial intelligence, and environmental philosophy.

A Companion to Philosophical Logic (Adobe Reader) eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

This collection of newly comissioned essays by international contributors offers a representative overview of the most important developments in contemporary philosophical logic.

Presents controversies in philosophical implications and applications of formal symbolic logic.

Surveys major trends and offers original insights.

Macdonald, Cynthia Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary Metaphysics (Adobe Reader) eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary Metaphysics is about some of the most fundamental kinds of things that there are; the things that we encounter in everyday experience.

A book about the things that we encounter in everyday experience.

Contains a thorough and accessible discussion of the nature and aims of metaphysics.

Examines a wide range of ontological categories, including both particulars and universals.

Mounts a forceful and persuasive case for anti-reductionism.

Kenny, Sir Anthony Wittgenstein (Adobe Reader) eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

This revised edition of Sir Anthony Kenny’s classic work on Wittgenstein contains a new introduction which covers developments in Wittgenstein scholarship since the book was first published.

Widely praised for providing a lucid and historically informed account of Wittgenstein’s core philosophical concerns.
Demonstrates the continuity between Wittgenstein’s early and later writings.
Provides a persuasive argument for the unity of Wittgenstein’s thought.
Kenny also assesses Wittgenstein’s influence in the latter part of the twentieth century.

The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise (Adobe Reader) eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

This Guide provides students with the scholarly and interpretive tools they need to understand Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature and its influence on modern philosophy.

A student guide to Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature.
Focuses on recent developments in Hume scholarship.
Covers topics such as the formulation, reception and scope of the Treatise, imagination and memory, the passions, moral sentiments, and the role of sympathy.
All the chapters are newly written by Hume scholars.
Each chapter guides the reader through a portion of the Treatise, explaining the central arguments and key contemporary interpretations of those arguments.

The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Adobe Reader) eBook

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:07:31 GMT

The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics illuminates Aristotle’s ethics for both academics and students new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars.

The structure of the book mirrors the organization of the Nichomachean Ethics itself.
Discusses the human good, the general nature of virtue, the distinctive characteristics of particular virtues, voluntariness, self-control, and pleasure.