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Social Reality
Series: Problems of Philosophy
Social reality is currently a hotly debated topic not only in social science, but also in philosophy and the other humanities. Finn Collin, in this concise guide, asks if social reality is created by the way social agents conceive of it? Is there a difference between the kind of existence...
Published April 16th 1997 by Routledge
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Substance
Its Nature and Existence
Series: Problems of Philosophy
Substance has been a leading idea in the history of Western philosophy. Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz explain the nature and existence of individual substances, including both living things and inanimate objects. Specifically written for students new to this important and often complex...
Published December 4th 1996 by Routledge
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Utilitarianism
Series: Problems of Philosophy
Surveying the historical development and the present condition of utilitarian ethics, Geoffrey Scarre examines the major philosophers from Lao Tzu in the fifth century BC to Richard Hare in the twentieth. Utilitarianism traces the 'doctrine of utility' from the moralists of the ancient world,...
Published May 29th 1996 by Routledge
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Utilitarianism
Series: Problems of Philosophy
Surveying the historical development and the present condition of utilitarian ethics, Geoffrey Scarre examines the major philosophers from Lao Tzu in the fifth century BC to Richard Hare in the twentieth. Utilitarianism traces the 'doctrine of utility' from the moralists of the ancient world,...
Published May 29th 1996 by Routledge
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Vagueness
Series: Problems of Philosophy
If you keep removing single grains of sand from a heap, when is it no longer a heap? From discussions of the heap paradox in classical Greece, to modern formal approaches like fuzzy logic, Timothy Williamson traces the history of the problem of vagueness. He argues that standard logic and formal...
Published March 20th 1996 by Routledge
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Democracy
Series: Problems of Philosophy
Democracy surrounds us like the air we breath, and is normally taken very much for granted. Across the world democracy has become accepted as an unquestionably good thing. Yet upon further examination the merits of democracy are both paradoxical and problematic, and the treasured values of liberty...
Published October 25th 1995 by Routledge
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The Mind and its World
Series: Problems of Philosophy
The Mind and Its World provides a clear and accessible introduction to a cluster of contemporary controversies in the area of the philosophy of mind and language....
Published May 24th 1995 by Routledge
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The Nature of God
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
Series: Problems of Philosophy
Providing the reader with first-hand acquaintance of the religious philosophies of such classic writers as Aquinas and Hume, Hughes goes on to discuss their arguments in the light of current debates....
Published March 8th 1995 by Routledge
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Explaining Explanation
Series: Problems of Philosophy
This book introduces readers to the topic of explanation. The insights of Plato, Aristotle, J.S. Mill and Carl Hempel are examined, and are used to argue against the view that explanation is merely a problem for the philosophy of science. Having established its importance for understanding...
Published November 11th 1992 by Routledge
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Naming and Reference
The Link of Word to Object
Series: Problems of Philosophy
Nelson looks at how language relates to the world and more particularly at the referring power of names. The first half of the book details the history of the subject from Locke onwards and is followed by Nelson's own reference theory....
Published September 23rd 1992 by Routledge
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