Selected Philosophical Writings

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110726832X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings written by René Descartes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-02-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the new and much acclaimed two-volume Cambridge edition of The Philosophical Writings of Descartes by Cottingham, Stoothoff and Murdoch, this anthology of essential texts contains the most important and widely studied of those writings, including the Discourse and Meditations and substantial extracts from the Regulae, Optics, Principles, Objectives and Replies, Comments on a Broadsheet, and Passions of the Soul. In clear, readable, modern English, with a full text and running references to the standard Franco-Latin edition of Descartes, this book is planned as the definitive one-volume reader for all English-speaking students of Descartes.

Author : Francis Bacon
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872204706
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Philosophical Works written by Francis Bacon and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive collection available of Bacon's philosophical and scientific writings, this volume offers Bacon's major works in their entirety, or in generous selections, revised from the classic 19th century editions of Spedding, Ellis and Heath. Selections from Bacon's natural histories round out this edition by showing the types of compilations that he believed would most contribute to the third part of his Great Instauration. In her General Introduction, Rose-Mary Sargent sketches Bacon's early life, education, and legal career, and discusses the major components of his philosophical works, and traces his influence on subsequent natural philosophy.

Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Imports
ISBN 13 : 9780389202448
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Political Writings written by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) and published by Barnes & Noble Imports. This book was released on 1981 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : René Descartes
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Philosophical Writings written by René Descartes and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emilie Du Châtelet
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226168085
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings written by Emilie Du Châtelet and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though most historians remember her as the mistress of Voltaire, Emilie Du Châtelet (1706–49) was an accomplished writer in her own right, who published multiple editions of her scientific writings during her lifetime, as well as a translation of Newton’s Principia Mathematica that is still the standard edition of that work in French. Had she been a man, her reputation as a member of the eighteenth-century French intellectual elite would have been assured. In the 1970s, feminist historians of science began the slow work of recovering Du Châtelet’s writings and her contributions to history and philosophy. For this edition, Judith P. Zinsser has selected key sections from Du Châtelet’s published and unpublished works, as well as related correspondence, part of her little-known critique of the Old and New Testaments, and a treatise on happiness that is a refreshingly uncensored piece of autobiography—making all of them available for the first time in English. The resulting volume will recover Châtelet’s place in the pantheon of French letters and culture.

Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780062163059
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Major Works written by Ludwig Wittgenstein and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nathan Houser
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253007828
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Peirce, Volume 1 written by Nathan Houser and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1992-11-22 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . a first-rate edition, which supersedes all other portable Peirces. . . . all the Peirce most people will ever need." —Louis Menand, The New York Review of Books "The Monist essays are included in the first volume of the compact and welcome Essential Peirce; they are by Peirce's standards quite accessible and splendid in their cosmic scope and assertiveness." —London Review of Books A convenient two-volume reader's edition makes accessible to students and scholars the most important philosophical papers of the brilliant American thinker Charles Sanders Peirce. This first volume presents twenty-five key texts from the first quarter century of his writing, with a clear introduction and informative headnotes. Volume 2 will highlight the development of Peirce's system of signs and his mature pragmatism.

Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199540276
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Philosophical Writings written by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-12 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) saw religion as part of the natural human propensity to worship. His ability to recognize the naturalness of this phenomenon and simultaneously to go beyond it, to explore spiritual revelation, makes his work fresh and highly readable today. While drawing on a strong distinction between theology and philosophy, Aquinas interleaved them intricately in his writings, which range from an examination of the structures of thought to the concept of God as the end of all things. This accessible new translation chooses substantial passages not only from the indispensable Summa Theologicae, but from many other works, fully illustrating the breadth and progression of Aquinas's philosophy. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Peirce Edition Project
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025300781X
Total Pages : 626 pages
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Download or read book The Essential Peirce, Volume 2 written by Peirce Edition Project and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-22 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Volume 1: " . . . a first-rate edition, which supersedes all other portable Peirces. . . . all the Peirce most people will ever need." —Louis Menand, The New York Review of Books Volume 2 of this convenient two-volume chronological reader's edition provides the first comprehensive anthology of the brilliant American thinker Charles Sanders Peirce's mature philosophy. A central focus of Volume 2 is Peirce's evolving theory of signs and its appplication to his pragmatism.

Author : Giovanni B. Grandi
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 184540453X
Total Pages : 341 pages
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Download or read book Thomas Reid written by Giovanni B. Grandi and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Reid (1710-1796) is the foremost exponent of the Scottish 'common sense' school of philosophy. Educated at Marischal College in Aberdeen, Reid subsequently taught at King's College, and was a founder of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society. His Inquiry Into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense was published in 1764, the same year he succeeded Adam Smith as Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He resigned from active teaching duties in 1785 to devote himself to writing, and published two more books - Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785) and Essays on the Active Powers of Man (1788). Within a short time of publication, Reid's works were translated into French and German, and greatly influenced debates in philosophy and psychology in Europe. His influence in the emerging colleges and universities of post-revolutionary America was even greater. Reid was widely regarded as David Hume's most sophisticated contemporary critic. His critique of the 'theory of ideas' that lay behind both Hume's scepticism and Berkeley's immaterialism, his critique of Locke's theory of personal identity, and his defence of 'moral liberty' against determinism are all of enduring interest and significance. The aim of this comprehensive selection of his writings is to make the key elements of Reid's philosophical work available to a new generation of readers. Two other philosophers of the 'common sense' school are featured in the Library of Scottish Philosophy - James Beattie and Dugald Stewart.