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The ABC of Relativity by Bertrand Russell
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-03-03 | Author:Bertrand Russell

Each of these postulates requires some explanation. Our first postulate requires that, if two events are close together (but not necessarily otherwise), there is an interval between them which can ...
( Category: Relativity March 3,2020 )
Adorno on Nature by Deborah Cook
epub |eng | | Author:Deborah Cook

THERE’S NO MORE NATURE Society’s increasing disregard for the lives of individuals marks the direction of history. Mere pawns in a world “whose law is universal individual profit”, we submit ...
( Category: Modern March 2,2020 )
Ernst Jünger’s Philosophy of Technology by Vincent Blok
epub |eng | | Author:Vincent Blok

( Category: Modern March 1,2020 )
Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty by Zygmunt Bauman
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Zygmunt Bauman [Bauman, Zygmunt]

4 * * * Out of Touch Together Inhabited areas are described as ‘urban’ and called ‘cities’ if they are marked by a relatively high density of population, interaction and ...
( Category: History & Theory March 1,2020 )
Wittgenstein and Scientism by Jonathan Beale Ian James Kidd & Ian James Kidd
epub |eng | 2017-02-28 | Author:Jonathan Beale,Ian James Kidd & Ian James Kidd

7 ‘Too ridiculous for words’ Wittgenstein on scientific aesthetics Severin Schroeder 1. In one of his lectures in 1938, Wittgenstein comments on the idea of a science of aesthetics: You ...
( Category: Modern March 1,2020 )
James Beattie by James Harris
epub |eng | 2012-10-03 | Author:James Harris

2 [Pope, Essay on Man, IV, l. 310.] 3 [Lawrence Sterne had published A Sentimental Journey in 1768.] 4 [Beattie is perhaps alluding to Hume’s claim that justice and other ...
( Category: Modern February 28,2020 )
Process and Reality (Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh During the Session 1927-28) by Alfred North Whitehead
epub |eng | 2010-05-11 | Author:Alfred North Whitehead [Whitehead, Alfred North]

A metaphysical proposition—in the proper, general sense of the term† ‘metaphysical’—signifies a proposition which (i) has meaning for any actual occasion, as a subject entertaining it, and (ii) is ‘general,’ ...
( Category: Modern February 27,2020 )
On the True Philosopher and the True Philosophy: Essays on Swedenborg by Stephen McNeilly
epub |eng | 2002-12-14 | Author:Stephen McNeilly [McNeilly, Stephen]

Swedenborg and the Comparative Philosophy of the Soul Michael Costello Though physicalism is the current dominant doctrine, many philosophers and scientists still hold that in personal experience, (i.e. in the ...
( Category: Essays February 27,2020 )
Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1 by Soames Scott;
epub |eng | 2009-02-18 | Author:Soames, Scott;

Section 2.02 tells us that there are metaphysically simple objects (which Wittgenstein takes to be referents of logically proper names). Section 2.0201 is a compressed statement of his commitment to ...
( Category: Modern February 19,2020 )
Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 2 by Soames Scott;
epub |eng | 2008-02-18 | Author:Soames, Scott;

Evaluating Quine’s Case for Indeterminacy What should we say about this argument? The first point to make is that the contents of the premises and conclusion are unclear. In particular, ...
( Category: Modern February 19,2020 )
Principles of Philosophy by Rene Descartes
epub |eng | 2018-11-17 | Author:Rene Descartes

Part II. Of the Principles of Material Things I. The grounds on which the existence of material things may be known with certainty. Although we are all sufficiently persuaded of ...
( Category: Modern February 18,2020 )
Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche by Henri Lefebvre
epub |eng | | Author:Henri Lefebvre

4 The Nietzsche File 1) Less bulky than the file for Hegel or Marx? Seemingly not. More surprising? Certainly, since ‘Nietzscheanism’ has been associated with literary and poetic madness, full ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism February 18,2020 )
Inconsistencies by Steinweg Marcus; DeMarco Amanda;
epub |eng | 2017-10-20 | Author:Steinweg, Marcus; DeMarco, Amanda;

DECISION The current version of capitalism is the capitalism of choice. We want to choose in order not to decide. The subject finds itself faced with countless options; choosing among ...
( Category: Modern January 19,2020 )
Hegel's Realm of Shadows: Logic as Metaphysics in the Science of Logic by Robert B. Pippin
epub |eng | 2018-10-22 | Author:Robert B. Pippin

Schein The basic, initial idea in this Logic, the idea of an “essence,” the knowability of which requires an act of “reflection,” is a familiar and a wide-ranging one. An ...
( Category: Modern January 19,2020 )
Another White Man's Burden by Tommy J. Curry
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Tommy J. Curry [Curry, Tommy J.]

Conclusion Given the imperial legacy of Royce’s work and his dispositions toward Blacks, it should be apparent even to the most casual observers that Royce’s philosophy is fraught with racist ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 19,2020 )

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