Bounds of Sense

Bounds of Sense

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  • Author: Peter Strawson
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1134954271
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 416

The Bounds of Sense is one of the most influential books ever written about Kant’s philosophy, and is one of the key philosophical works of the late Twentieth century. Although it is probably best known for its criticism of Kant’s transcendental idealism, it is also famous for the highly original manner in which Strawson defended and developed some of Kant’s fundamental insights into the nature of subjectivity, experience and knowledge. The book had a profound effect on the interpretation of Kant’s philosophy when it was first published in 1966 and continues to influence discussion of Kant, the soundness of transcendental arguments, and debates in epistemology and metaphysics generally.


Kant's Transcendental Idealism

Kant's Transcendental Idealism

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  • Author: Henry E. Allison
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • ISBN: 9780300102666
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 564

This landmark book is now reissued in a rewritten & updated edition that takes account of recent Kantian literature. It includes a new discussion of the 'Third Analogy', an expanded discussion of Kant's 'Paralogisms' & new chapters on Kant's theory of reason, theology & the 'Appendix to the Dialectic'.


Kant's ‘Critique of Pure Reason'

Kant's ‘Critique of Pure Reason'

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  • Author: James R. O'Shea
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107074819
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 312

This Critical Guide provides succinct and in-depth explorations of cutting-edge debates concerning the philosophical significance of Kant's revolutionary Critique of Pure Reason.


Individuals

Individuals

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  • Author: P.F. Strawson
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1134941536
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 311

Since its publication in 1959, Individuals has become a modern philosophical classic. Bold in scope and ambition, it continues to influence debates in metaphysics, philosophy of logic and language, and epistemology. Peter Strawson's most famous work, it sets out to describe nothing less than the basic subject matter of our thought. It contains Strawson's now famous argument for descriptive metaphysics and his repudiation of revisionary metaphysics, in which reality is something beyond the world of appearances. Throughout, Individuals advances some highly influential and controversial ideas, such as 'non-solipsistic consciousness' and the concept of a person a 'primitive concept'


The Outer Limits of Reason

The Outer Limits of Reason

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  • Author: Noson S. Yanofsky
  • Publisher: MIT Press
  • ISBN: 026252984X
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 419

This exploration of the scientific limits of knowledge challenges our deep-seated beliefs about our universe, our rationality, and ourselves. “A must-read for anyone studying information science.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and reason have revealed to us, this work studies what science, mathematics, and reason tell us cannot be revealed. In The Outer Limits of Reason, Noson Yanofsky considers what cannot be predicted, described, or known, and what will never be understood. He discusses the limitations of computers, physics, logic, and our own intuitions about the world—including our ideas about space, time, and motion, and the complex relationship between the knower and the known. Yanofsky describes simple tasks that would take computers trillions of centuries to complete and other problems that computers can never solve: • perfectly formed English sentences that make no sense • different levels of infinity • the bizarre world of the quantum • the relevance of relativity theory • the causes of chaos theory • math problems that cannot be solved by normal means • statements that are true but cannot be proven Moving from the concrete to the abstract, from problems of everyday language to straightforward philosophical questions to the formalities of physics and mathematics, Yanofsky demonstrates a myriad of unsolvable problems and paradoxes. Exploring the various limitations of our knowledge, he shows that many of these limitations have a similar pattern and that by investigating these patterns, we can better understand the structure and limitations of reason itself. Yanofsky even attempts to look beyond the borders of reason to see what, if anything, is out there.


Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language

Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language

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  • Author: Hanne Appelqvist
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1351202650
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 281

The limit of language is one of the most pervasive notions found in Wittgenstein’s work, both in his early Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and his later writings. Moreover, the idea of a limit of language is intimately related to important scholarly debates on Wittgenstein’s philosophy, such as the debate between the so-called traditional and resolute interpretations, Wittgenstein’s stance on transcendental idealism, and the philosophical import of Wittgenstein’s latest work On Certainty. This collection includes thirteen original essays that provide a comprehensive overview of the various ways in which Wittgenstein appeals to the limit of language at different stages of his philosophical development. The essays connect the idea of a limit of language to the most important themes discussed by Wittgenstein—his conception of logic and grammar, the method of philosophy, the nature of the subject, and the foundations of knowledge—as well as his views on ethics, aesthetics, and religion. The essays also relate Wittgenstein’s thought to his contemporaries, including Carnap, Frege, Heidegger, Levinas, and Moore.


The Bounds of Reason

The Bounds of Reason

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  • Author: Herbert Gintis
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • ISBN: 0691160848
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 283

Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the behavioral sciences—from biology and economics, to anthropology and political science. However, as The Bounds of Reason demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully explain human behavior and should instead complement other key concepts championed by the behavioral disciplines. Herbert Gintis shows that just as game theory without broader social theory is merely technical bravado, so social theory without game theory is a handicapped enterprise. This edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. Reinvigorating game theory, The Bounds of Reason offers innovative thinking for the behavioral sciences.


Freedom and Resentment and Other Essays

Freedom and Resentment and Other Essays

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  • Author: P.F. Strawson
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1134060866
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 278

By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished philosophers. First published thirty years ago but long since unavailable, Freedom and Resentment collects some of Strawson's most important work and is an ideal introduction to his thinking on such topics as the philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology and aesthetics. Beginning with the title essay Freedom and Resentment, this invaluable collection is testament to the astonishing range of Strawson's thought as he discusses free will, ethics and morality, logic, the mind-body problem and aesthetics. The book is perhaps best-known for its three interrelated chapters on perception and the imagination, subjects now at the very forefront of philosophical research. This reissue includes a substantial new foreword by Paul Snowdon and a fascinating intellectual autobiography by Strawson.


A Commentary to Kant's C̀ritique of Pure Reason'

A Commentary to Kant's C̀ritique of Pure Reason'

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  • Author: Norman Kemp Smith
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Causation
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 716


Kant's Conception of Freedom

Kant's Conception of Freedom

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  • Author: Henry E. Allison
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107145112
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 557

Traces the development of Kant's views on free will from earlier writings through the three Critiques and beyond.