The ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Gilbert Ryle have had a major influence on the work of Anthony Kenny, who has explored many aspects of the philosophy of mind in a series of books over the past twenty-five years. Modelled on the structure of Ryle's The Concept of Mind, this book forges Kenny's ideas on philosophical psychology into a systematic whole. Written in a style that avoids jargon and academic controversy, it is both accessible to the general reader and challenging for the specialist...
John Papunhank, a Christian Indian of North America
by John Papunhank
Studies in Ontology in Twentieth Century Literature
by Doris Enright-Clark Shoukry
This book is a study of literary concern with ontology throughout the twentieth century. It consists of ten essays, each of which focuses on one or various writers' absorption with the nature of man and his 'being in this world.' The volume discusses Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Milan Kundera, Eugene Ionesco, Albert Camus, Marguerite Duras, Toni Morrison and Nathalie Sarraute as reflecting ontological concerns These writers, although not subscribing to the S...
Sistema Filosofico Delle Belle Arti (Classic Reprint)
by Salvatore Brovelli
This book is a collection of scholarly papers, which focus on the role of spirituality and ethics in renewing contemporary management praxis. The basic argument is that a more inclusive, holistic and peaceful approach to management is needed if business and political leaders are to uplift the environmentally degrading and socially disintegrating world of our age. The book uses diverse value-perspectives (Hinduism, Catholicism, Buddhism and Humanism) and a variety of disciplines to extend traditi...
Whitehead's Pancreativism: The Basics has provided tools to understand Whitehead secundum Whitehead. We now seek to bring him in dialogue with James. It will be a pragmatic dialogue looking for two types of synergy: to establish the relevance of a Jamesian background to read Whitehead, and to adumbrate how Whitehead can help us understand the stakes of James's works. After one hundred years of scholarship, it appears that James's legacy has mainly been studied from the perspective of his own ble...
What are the Universal Laws? How can you apply them in your life? How will change benefit you? These and other questions are answered in this enthralling book. It is a book about life, its struggles, its heartaches, but mostly about the indomitable spirit that human beings possess to see the goal to its fruition. You will meet many endearing characters from the author's life: people who have helped shape his destiny and aid in his spiritual growth. And in very simple language you will enter the...
Replanting Ourselves in Beauty (Toward Ecological Civilization, #6)
by Patricia Adams Farmer and Jay McDaniel
A Study of Qualities (Harvard Dissertations in Philosophy S.)
by Nelson Goodman
Im Reich Der Freiheit (Quellen Und Studien Zur Philosophie, #114)
by Franz Knappik
