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The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding (review)
Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:36:48 -0700 (PDT)
Mark Johnson's book is a welcome contribution to the recent
philosophical literature meant to expound the ontological,
epistemological, aesthetic, and moral implications of research coming
out of second-generation cognitive science. It belongs in the company
of theorists like George Lakoff, Antonio Damasio, Eugene ...
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Mysticism & Space: Space and Spatiality in the Works of Richard
Rolle, the Cloud of Unknowing Author (review)
Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:25:03 -0700 (PDT)
"The concept of mysticism," the author of 'Mysticism and Space',
Carmel Bendon Davis, warns us "is not straightforward." Consequently,
Davis provides the essential meaning of the word in her seminal study:
Christian mysticism is the product of pseudo-Denis whose work,
Theologia Mystica, perceives mysticism as the ...
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Badiou, Balibar, Ranciere: Rethinking Emancipation (review)
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:53:21 -0700 (PDT)
Throughout the book Hewlett emphasizes how all three thinkers see
intervention in the world as being the only way of understanding
it. . . . Thus they do not want to understand a reality given in
advance but to account for the emergence of realities. This creates a
tension in his reading of these three thinkers. O ...
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The Situated Self (review)
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:25:44 -0700 (PDT)
J. T. Ismael's "The Situated Self" provides a unique account of the
relation between self and world. The book has three major parts. The
first part explores an account of the situated mind with emphasis on
reflexive representation --the self is situated in the physical world
through mental representations defined ...
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The Overman in the Marketplace: Nietzschean Heroism in Popular
Culture
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:13:38 -0700 (PDT)
The notion of the Overman, a superhuman individual endowed with powers
and abilities, which greatly surpasses those of ordinary human beings,
is one of the most enduring and popular tropes of human culture. The
myths of ancient Greece, the Icelandic sagas, the epic poems of the
middle ages, the 20th century comic ...
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The Philosophy of Philosophy (review)
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:14:20 -0700 (PDT)
"The Philosophy of Philosophy" is a book on how to do philosophy. How
to define and how to do philosophy is a topic as old as philosophy
itself. As philosophy, especially nowadays, comes under attack of
various claims of reductionism and charges of being superfluous
philosophers devote considerable effort in defen ...
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Pluralistic Casuistry: Moral Arguments, Economic Realities, and
Political Theory
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:05:27 -0700 (PDT)
The collection of essays edited by Mark J. Cherry and Ana S. Iltis is
dedicated to the work and life of Baruch A. Brody. Brody has
contributed a great part of his work to questions about biomedical
ethics; consequently, the focus of this Festschrift is on bioethical
issues, too. What Brody is famous for is the att ...
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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Utility Happiness in Philosophical
and Economic Thought (review)
Thu, 5 Jun 2008 20:30:41 -0700 (PDT)
"Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Utility" by Anthony Kenny and
Charles Kenny, a philosopher and an economist, who are father and son,
is a book that discusses the concept of happiness and the applications
the various concepts into which this is laid out have. Link:
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_do ...
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Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen: The Defense of Reason in Descartes's
"Meditations" (review)
Thu, 5 Jun 2008 20:25:14 -0700 (PDT)
As this book is a reprinting of Harry Frankfurt's influential work,
originally published in 1970, we should first deal with what is new in
it. In her foreword to this new Princeton edition Rebecca Goldstein
echoes Frankfurt's own contention that Descartes, more so than other
philosopher's, has fallen into contempt ...
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Knowing, Knowledge and Beliefs: Epistemological Studies across
Diverse Cultures (review)
Thu, 5 Jun 2008 20:17:40 -0700 (PDT)
Despite their many internal differences, social epistemologists agree
on two points:
1. classical epistemology, philosophy of science and sociology of
knowledge have presupposed an idealized conception of scientific
inquiry that is unsupported by the social history of scientific
practices;
2. nevertheless, o ...
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