Search Results - "skepticism"

Knowledge, reason, and taste Kant's response to Hume / by Guyer, Paul, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Common sense and the varieties of skepticism -- Causation -- Cause, object, and self -- Reason, desire, and action -- Systematicity, taste, and purpose.…”
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The path of reason a philosophy of nonbelief / by Smith, Bruce A., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Faith and reason collide -- Reason applied -- Critical thinking -- Skeptical specifics -- Origins -- Christianity examined -- Atheism and beyond.…”
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Knowledge, reason, and taste Kant's response to Hume / by Guyer, Paul, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Common sense and the varieties of skepticism -- Causation -- Cause, object, and self -- Reason, desire, and action -- Systematicity, taste, and purpose.…”
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The path of reason a philosophy of nonbelief / by Smith, Bruce A., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Faith and reason collide -- Reason applied -- Critical thinking -- Skeptical specifics -- Origins -- Christianity examined -- Atheism and beyond.…”
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The uses of paradox religion, self-transformation, and the absurd / by Bagger, Matthew C.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Paradox without piety -- Credo quia absurdum : cognitive asceticism and Kierkegaard -- Mystics and ascetics -- Absolute transcendence -- Skepticism and mysticism.…”
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The uses of paradox religion, self-transformation, and the absurd / by Bagger, Matthew C.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Paradox without piety -- Credo quia absurdum : cognitive asceticism and Kierkegaard -- Mystics and ascetics -- Absolute transcendence -- Skepticism and mysticism.…”
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Kafka and Wittgenstein : The Case for an Analytic Modernism / by Schuman, Rebecca

Table of Contents: “…-- Logical modernism: Kafka and the Tractatus logico-philosophicus -- Logic, skepticism, and mysticism -- The trial and the law of logic -- The metamorphosis and the limits of metaphorical language -- "The judgment," ethics, and the ineffable -- Analytic skepticism : Kafka and the philosophical investigations -- Wittgenstein's transition and a more analytic Kafka -- The castle and the paradox of ostensive definition -- Rule-following and failed execution in "The penal colony" -- The private language argument and the undermining of "Josefine the singer" -- Concluding thoughts: the problem with (critical) progress.…”
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Kafka and Wittgenstein : The Case for an Analytic Modernism / by Schuman, Rebecca

Table of Contents: “…-- Logical modernism: Kafka and the Tractatus logico-philosophicus -- Logic, skepticism, and mysticism -- The trial and the law of logic -- The metamorphosis and the limits of metaphorical language -- "The judgment," ethics, and the ineffable -- Analytic skepticism : Kafka and the philosophical investigations -- Wittgenstein's transition and a more analytic Kafka -- The castle and the paradox of ostensive definition -- Rule-following and failed execution in "The penal colony" -- The private language argument and the undermining of "Josefine the singer" -- Concluding thoughts: the problem with (critical) progress.…”
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Walter Benjamin's grave by Taussig, Michael T.

Table of Contents: “…Walter Benjamin's grave -- Constructing America -- The sun gives without receiving -- The beach (a fantasy) -- Viscerality, faith, and skepticism : another theory of magic -- Transgression -- NYPD blues -- The language of flowers.…”
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Walter Benjamin's grave by Taussig, Michael T.

Table of Contents: “…Walter Benjamin's grave -- Constructing America -- The sun gives without receiving -- The beach (a fantasy) -- Viscerality, faith, and skepticism : another theory of magic -- Transgression -- NYPD blues -- The language of flowers.…”
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Other pasts, different presents, alternative futures / by Black, Jeremy, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…A personal note on life and times -- Types of history -- Power and the struggle for imperial mastery -- The West and the rest -- Britain and France, 1688-1815 -- Counterfactualism in military history -- Into the future -- Skepticism and the historian -- Conclusions -- Postscript.…”
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Other pasts, different presents, alternative futures / by Black, Jeremy, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…A personal note on life and times -- Types of history -- Power and the struggle for imperial mastery -- The West and the rest -- Britain and France, 1688-1815 -- Counterfactualism in military history -- Into the future -- Skepticism and the historian -- Conclusions -- Postscript.…”
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Classic questions and contemporary film : an introduction to philosophy / by Kowalski, Dean A.

Table of Contents: “…Philosophy, rhetoric, and argument -- Epistemology and skepticism -- God, creation, and evil -- Freedom, fate, and determinism -- Mind, body, and consciousness -- Ethical foundations and moral truth -- Ethics and values -- The state, social contracts, and justice -- The human condition.…”
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Classic questions and contemporary film : an introduction to philosophy / by Kowalski, Dean A.

Table of Contents: “…Philosophy, rhetoric, and argument -- Epistemology and skepticism -- God, creation, and evil -- Freedom, fate, and determinism -- Mind, body, and consciousness -- Ethical foundations and moral truth -- Ethics and values -- The state, social contracts, and justice -- The human condition.…”
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Understanding phenomenal consciousness by Robinson, William S. (William Spencer), 1940-

Table of Contents: “…I: Qualitative event realism -- Dualism -- Representationalism -- Transparency -- Higher order theories -- Monitoring -- Functionalism -- Skepticism and the causes of qualitative events -- Epiphenomenalism -- II: Unified dualism -- Patterns as causes of qualitative events -- A possible future.…”
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Matter and form : from natural science to political philosophy / by Ward, Ann, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Heavenly perfection and psychic harmony -- part III. Skepticism, mechanism, and the new politics -- part IV. …”
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Matter and form : from natural science to political philosophy / by Ward, Ann, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Heavenly perfection and psychic harmony -- part III. Skepticism, mechanism, and the new politics -- part IV. …”
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Understanding phenomenal consciousness by Robinson, William S. (William Spencer), 1940-

Table of Contents: “…I: Qualitative event realism -- Dualism -- Representationalism -- Transparency -- Higher order theories -- Monitoring -- Functionalism -- Skepticism and the causes of qualitative events -- Epiphenomenalism -- II: Unified dualism -- Patterns as causes of qualitative events -- A possible future.…”
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Michael Oakeshott on religion, aesthetics, and politics by Corey, Elizabeth Campbell, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Oakeshott and Augustine on the human condition -- Future, past, and present -- Oakeshott's religious thought -- Oakeshott's aesthetics -- The Tower of Babel and the moral life -- Rationalism and the politics of faith -- Skeptical politics and civil association -- Rationalism and gnosticism: Oakeshott and Voegelin -- Conclusion.…”
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The Buddha side : gender, power, and Buddhist practice in Vietnam / by Soucy, Alexander Duncan, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Views of the religious landscape -- Space and the ranking of Buddhisms -- Masculinities and performances of skepticism -- Offerings and blessings -- Women, offerings, and symbolic capital -- Sutra recital and Buddhist identities -- Conspicuous devotion and devotional distinctions -- Interpretive distinctions -- Language, orthodoxy, and performances of authority.…”
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