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Routledge Studies in Metaphysics Neo-Davidsonian Metaphysics: From the True to the Good (Hardcover)

Much contemporary metaphysics moved by an apparent necessity to take reality to consist of given beings and properties presents us with what appear to be deep problems requiring radical changes in the common sense conception of persons and the... more

John Macmurray s Religious Philosophy: What it Means to be a Person (Hardcover)

Recent dissatisfaction with individualism and the problems of religious pluralism make this an opportune time to reassess the way in which we define ourselves and conduct our relationships with others. The philosophical writings of John Macmurray... more

Pre-Owned Abstract Concepts and the Embodied Mind: Rethinking Grounded Cognition (Hardcover 9780190061975) by Guy Dove

9780190061975. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 280. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 280 p. Our thoughts depend on knowledge about objects people properties and events. To think about where we left our keys what we... more

Proceedings of the British Academy: Objectivity Simulation and the Unity of Consciousness : Current Issues in the Philosophy of Mind (Series #83) (Paperback)

What is it to be capable of thoughts about an objective world? What is involved in the unity of consciousness? How is the ability to attribute attitudes to other persons to be understood? The three symposia in this volume develop new approaches to... more

Asa Monographs: Anthropology and Responsibility (Hardcover)

This book explores the role and implications of responsibility for anthropology asking how responsibility is recognised and invoked in the world what relations it draws upon and how it comes to define notions of the person institutional practices... more

Oxford Philosophical Concepts Persons: A History (Paperback)

What is a person? Why do we count certain beings as persons and others not? How is the concept of a person distinct from the concept of a human being or from the concept of the self? When and why did the concept of a person come into existence? What... more

What Is This Thing Called Happiness? (Paperback)

According to an ancient and still popular view -- sometimes known as eudaimonism -- a person s well-being or quality of life is ultimately determined by his or her level of happiness. According to this view the happier a person is the better off he... more

Epistemic Dimensions of Personhood (Paperback)

Simon Evnine examines various epistemic aspects of what it is to be a person. Persons are defined as finite beings that have beliefs including second-order beliefs about their own and others beliefs and engage in agency including the making of... more

What Is Philosophy?: A First-Person Perspective (Hardcover)

As philosophy departments attempt to define their unique value amid program closures in the humanities and the rise of interdisciplinary research metaphilosophy has become an increasingly important area of inquiry. Richard Fumerton here lays out a... more

Personal Identity (Paperback)

Who am I? What is a person? What does it take for a person to persist from one time to another? What is the relation between the mind and the body? These are just some of the questions that constitute the problem of personal identity one of the... more

The Psychology of Personhood (Hardcover)

What is a person? Surprisingly little attention is given to this question in psychology. For much of the past century psychology has tended to focus on the systematic study of processes rather than on the persons who enact and embody them. In... more

Midwest Studies in Philosophy: The Concept of Evil Volume XXXVI (Paperback)

The Concept of Evil is dedicated to the analysis of the concept of evil. The term evil is used widely in ordinary language and yet philosophers have disagreed on what if anything distinguishes an evil act from a wrong act or an evil person from a... more

The Primacy of Persons in Politics: Empiricism and Political Philosophy (Hardcover) by John von Heyking Thomas Heilke

9780813221236. New condition. Hard cover. Language: English. What is the nature of political activity? This question has vexed political thinkers since Plato wrote Statesman and remains challenging today. Contemporary intellectual categories... more

New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science: Rethinking Introspection: A Pluralist Approach to the First-Person Perspective (Hardcover)

Offering a pluralist framework for understanding the nature scope and limits of self-knowledge from the first-person perspective Rethinking Introspection argues that contrary to common misconceptions introspection does not operate through inner... more

Synthese Library: Truth in Fiction: Rethinking Its Logic (Hardcover)

This monograph examines truth in fiction by applying the techniques of a naturalized logic of human cognitive practices. The author structures his project around two focal questions. What would it take to write a book about truth in literary... more

Who Count as Persons? : Human Identity and the Ethics of Killing 9780878408375 Used / Pre-owned

Just what is a human being? Who counts? The answers to these questions are crucial when one is faced with the ethical issue of taking human life. This title affirms the intrinsic personal dignity and inviolability of human individuals and denies... more

Moral Traditions: Who Count as Persons?: Human Identity and the Ethics of Killing (Paperback)

Just what is a human being? Who counts? The answers to these questions are crucial when one is faced with the ethical issue of taking human life. In this affirmation of the intrinsic personal dignity and inviolability of every human individual John... more

Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought (Hardcover)

This book explores and proposes new avenues for contemporary moral thought. It defines and assesses the significance of the writings of French philosopher Paul Ricoeur for ethics. The book also explores what matters most to persons and how best to... more

Reading Women Writing: Narrative Transvestism: An Essay on Aristotle s Metaphysics Z and H (Paperback)

Many of the earliest canonical novels--including Defoe s Moll Flanders and Roxana and Richardson s Pamela and Clarissa--were written by men who assumed the first-person narrative voice of women. What does it mean for a man to write his autobiography... more

Metaphysical Research: On Human Persons (Paperback)

There is no question: We are all persons. But what exactly are persons? Are we immaterial souls or Cartesian Egos which only contingently have bodies? Or are persons nothing over and above their bodies? Are they essentially or most fundamentally... more

Pre-Owned Selfhood of the Human Person (Paperback) by John Crosby

We often hear it said that each person is unique and unrepeatable or that each person is his own end and not a mere instrumental means. But what exactly do these familiar sayings mean? What are they based on? How do we know they are true? In this... more

Nijhoff International Philosophy: Aesthetic Values (Paperback)

What is aesthetic value? A property in an object? An experience of a perceiving person? An ideal object existing in a mysterious sphere inaccessible to normal cognition? Does it appear in one form only or in many forms perhaps infinitely many? Is it... more

What They Really Said: What Freud Really Said: An Introduction to His Life and Thought (Paperback)

What Freud Really Said offers the most lucid overview available of Sigmund Freud his legacy and his place in our world. As the person responsible for the birth of psychoanalysis and one of the sharpest clinical minds of the twentieth century Freud... more

Studies in Continental Thought Rethinking Nature: Essays in Environmental Philosophy (Paperback)

Rethinking Nature brings the voices of leading Continental philosophers into discussion about what is emerging as one of our most pressing and timely concerns--the environmental crisis facing our planet. The essays featured in this volume embrace... more

The Importance of What We Care about: Philosophical Essays (Paperback)

This volume is a collection of thirteen seminal essays on ethics free will and the philosophy of mind. The essays deal with such central topics as freedom of the will moral responsibility the concept of a person the structure of the will the nature... more