The book provides a series of innovative studies of the treatment of major issues by philosophers ranging from classical antiquity to the present day.
Setting out from the principle that luck can be measured by the gap between reasonable expectation and eventual realization, the book... Læs mere
Our world is enormously sophisticated and nature's complexity is literally inexhaustible
Pragmatism's founder, C
Pragmatism is rooted in the linking of practice and theory
Thought experimentation has been a staple of philosophical methodology since classical antiquity, when Xenophanes of Colophon speculated that if horses had gods, they would be equine in form
Pragmatism's founder, C
Pragmatism is rooted in the linking of practice and theory
Infinite Regress examines the theory of regression and includes information on the topics of vicious regress, innocuous regress,... Læs mere
In theory and practice, the notion of fairness is far from simple
Epistemology is more than the theory of knowledge
Paradoxes are sets of propositions that are individually plausible, but collectively inconsitent. This book introduces the subject of paradoxes, it surveys the... Læs mere