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The philosophy of science : a contemporary introduction / by Rosenberg, Alexander, 1946-, McIntyre, Lee C.

Table of Contents: “…-- Causation, inexact laws, and statistical probabilities -- Laws and explanations in biology and the "special sciences" -- The structure of scientific theories -- Epistemic and metaphysical issues about scientific theories -- Theory construction vs. model building -- Induction and probability -- Confirmation, falsification, underdetermination -- Challenges from the history of science -- Naturalism in the philosophy of science -- The contested character of science -- Science, relativism, and objectivity.…”

The philosophy of science : a contemporary introduction / by Rosenberg, Alexander, 1946-, McIntyre, Lee C.

Table of Contents: “…-- Causation, inexact laws, and statistical probabilities -- Laws and explanations in biology and the "special sciences" -- The structure of scientific theories -- Epistemic and metaphysical issues about scientific theories -- Theory construction vs. model building -- Induction and probability -- Confirmation, falsification, underdetermination -- Challenges from the history of science -- Naturalism in the philosophy of science -- The contested character of science -- Science, relativism, and objectivity.…”

Rational theology in interfaith communication Abu l-Husayn al-Basri's Mu'tazili theology among the Karaites in the Fatimid Age / by Madelung, Wilferd

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Yūsuf al-Baṣīr's Refutation of Abu l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī's Proof for the existence of God -- Excerpt from part two of Sahl b. al-Faḍl al-Tustarī's Maqdisiyāt -- Excerpt from Sahl b. al-Faḍl al-Tustarī's Book of intimation (Kitāb al-talwīḥ ilā l-tawḥīd wa l-ʻadl) -- Excerpt from the Book of revision of the Book of Aristotle on metaphysics by Sahl b. al-Faḍl al-Tustarī -- Facsimiles.…”
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Pataphilology: An Irreader

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Morality in a natural world selected essays in metaethics / by Copp, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Naturalism : epistemology, and metaphysics -- Why naturalism? -- Four epistemological challenges to ethical naturalism : naturalized epistemology and the first-person perspective -- Moral naturalism and self-evident moral truths -- Moral necessities in a contingent world -- Referring to moral properties -- Realist-expressivism : a neglected option for moral realism -- Milk, honey, and the good life on moral twin Earth -- Referring to moral properties : moral twin Earth, again -- Naturalism and normativity -- Moral naturalism and three grades of normativity -- The Ring of Gyges : overridingness and the unity of reason -- The normativity of self-grounded reason.…”
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Second philosophy a naturalistic method / by Maddy, Penelope

Table of Contents: “…-- An illustration : truth and reference -- Reconfiguring the debate -- Disquotation -- Minimalism -- Correlation -- A second philosophy of logic -- Naturalistic options -- Kant on logic -- Undoing the Copernican revolution -- The logical structure of the world -- The logical structure of cognition -- The status of rudimentary logic -- From rudimentary to classical logic -- Caveats -- Second philosophy and mathematics -- Second philosophy of science -- Mathematics in application -- Second methodology of mathematics -- Second philosophy of mathematics -- Second metaphysics.…”
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God and evolution fundamental questions of Christian evolutionism / by Życiński, Józef

Table of Contents: “…Biology and metaphysics in Charles Darwin's conception of evolution -- Fundamentalisms and evolution -- Elements of fundamentalism in atheistic evolutionism -- Evolution and Christian thought in dialogue according to the teaching of John Paul II -- Ontological naturalism and the role of supervenience in evolution -- Varieties of teleology in the philosophical interpretation of nature -- Physical necessity and the teleological structure of the universe -- Discontinuity and non-linearity in evolution -- The God of an evolving nature -- The ontological interpretation of the immanence of God in nature -- The cosmic kenosis of God -- The prehistory of rational man -- Sociobiological explanations of the essence of human culture -- The anthropological meaning of the truth about original sin.…”
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Morality in a natural world selected essays in metaethics / by Copp, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Naturalism : epistemology, and metaphysics -- Why naturalism? -- Four epistemological challenges to ethical naturalism : naturalized epistemology and the first-person perspective -- Moral naturalism and self-evident moral truths -- Moral necessities in a contingent world -- Referring to moral properties -- Realist-expressivism : a neglected option for moral realism -- Milk, honey, and the good life on moral twin Earth -- Referring to moral properties : moral twin Earth, again -- Naturalism and normativity -- Moral naturalism and three grades of normativity -- The Ring of Gyges : overridingness and the unity of reason -- The normativity of self-grounded reason.…”
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Second philosophy a naturalistic method / by Maddy, Penelope

Table of Contents: “…-- An illustration : truth and reference -- Reconfiguring the debate -- Disquotation -- Minimalism -- Correlation -- A second philosophy of logic -- Naturalistic options -- Kant on logic -- Undoing the Copernican revolution -- The logical structure of the world -- The logical structure of cognition -- The status of rudimentary logic -- From rudimentary to classical logic -- Caveats -- Second philosophy and mathematics -- Second philosophy of science -- Mathematics in application -- Second methodology of mathematics -- Second philosophy of mathematics -- Second metaphysics.…”
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God and evolution fundamental questions of Christian evolutionism / by Życiński, Józef

Table of Contents: “…Biology and metaphysics in Charles Darwin's conception of evolution -- Fundamentalisms and evolution -- Elements of fundamentalism in atheistic evolutionism -- Evolution and Christian thought in dialogue according to the teaching of John Paul II -- Ontological naturalism and the role of supervenience in evolution -- Varieties of teleology in the philosophical interpretation of nature -- Physical necessity and the teleological structure of the universe -- Discontinuity and non-linearity in evolution -- The God of an evolving nature -- The ontological interpretation of the immanence of God in nature -- The cosmic kenosis of God -- The prehistory of rational man -- Sociobiological explanations of the essence of human culture -- The anthropological meaning of the truth about original sin.…”
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Duns Scotus by Cross, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Sacraments -- App. 1. Metaphysics and the transcendental attributes -- App. 2. …”
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Duns Scotus by Cross, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Sacraments -- App. 1. Metaphysics and the transcendental attributes -- App. 2. …”
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Thinking between Deleuze and Kant a strange encounter /

Table of Contents: “…Bryant -- Levelling the levels / Matt Lee -- The genesis of cognition : Deleuze as a reader of Kant / Edward Willatt -- The nature of productive force : Kant, Spinoza and Deleuze / Mick Bowles -- Deleuze's 'reconstruction of reason' : from Leibniz and Kant to difference and repetition / Christian Kerslake -- Transcendental illusion and antinomy in Kant and Deleuze / Henry Somers-Hall -- Transcendental idealism, Deleuze and Guattari, and the metaphysics of objects -- Michael J. Olson.…”
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Reclaiming moral agency the moral philosophy of Albert the Great / by Cunningham, Stanley B., 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Albert and the career of virtue theory -- Modern virtue theory as foreground to Albert's moral philosophy -- Albert's ethical treatises -- The significance of Albert's moral treatises in early-thirteenth-century moral philosophy -- Approaching the moral order -- Meta-ethical reflections on "moral science" and its procedures -- The metaphysics of the good -- The architecture of moral goodness -- The genesis of virtue : intrinsic causes -- The genesis of virtue : extrinsic causes -- The concept of virtue -- The organization of the virtues -- The passions -- Morality, obligation, and law -- Natural law -- Virtue's rewards -- Friendship -- Last ends and happiness -- Conclusion: Albertus redux.…”
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Richard Rorty his philosophy under discussion /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Strong and weak metaphysical quietism / Stefan Hessbrüggen ... [et al.] -- The world regained? …”
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Thinking between Deleuze and Kant a strange encounter /

Table of Contents: “…Bryant -- Levelling the levels / Matt Lee -- The genesis of cognition : Deleuze as a reader of Kant / Edward Willatt -- The nature of productive force : Kant, Spinoza and Deleuze / Mick Bowles -- Deleuze's 'reconstruction of reason' : from Leibniz and Kant to difference and repetition / Christian Kerslake -- Transcendental illusion and antinomy in Kant and Deleuze / Henry Somers-Hall -- Transcendental idealism, Deleuze and Guattari, and the metaphysics of objects -- Michael J. Olson.…”
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Reclaiming moral agency the moral philosophy of Albert the Great / by Cunningham, Stanley B., 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Albert and the career of virtue theory -- Modern virtue theory as foreground to Albert's moral philosophy -- Albert's ethical treatises -- The significance of Albert's moral treatises in early-thirteenth-century moral philosophy -- Approaching the moral order -- Meta-ethical reflections on "moral science" and its procedures -- The metaphysics of the good -- The architecture of moral goodness -- The genesis of virtue : intrinsic causes -- The genesis of virtue : extrinsic causes -- The concept of virtue -- The organization of the virtues -- The passions -- Morality, obligation, and law -- Natural law -- Virtue's rewards -- Friendship -- Last ends and happiness -- Conclusion: Albertus redux.…”
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Richard Rorty his philosophy under discussion /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Strong and weak metaphysical quietism / Stefan Hessbrüggen ... [et al.] -- The world regained? …”
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Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life by Francis, Mark, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…I: An individual and his personal culture -- A portrait of a private man -- The longing for passion -- The problem with women -- Spencer's feminist politics -- Culture and beauty -- Eccentricities : health and the perils of recreation -- II: The lost world of Spencer's metaphysics -- The new reformation -- Intellectuals in the strand -- The genesis of a system -- Common sense in the mid-nineteenth century -- From philosophy to psychology -- III: Spencer's biological writings and his philosophy of science -- On goodness, perfection and the shape of living things -- The meaning of life -- Science and the classification of knowledge -- IV: Politics and ethical sociology -- Spencer's politics and the foundations of liberalism -- The 1840s : Spencer's early radicalism -- Sociology as an ethical discipline -- Sociology as political theory -- Progress versus democracy.…”
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