This Element explores Jacques Derridas concept of hauntology and its connection to experimental music. Focusing on the 1960s, it examines how composers like John Cage and Luigi Nono used records and tape in composition. The Element delves into lo...Loe edasi...
This Element argues that Kants practical philosophy offers a systematic basis for understanding corporations. It shows their promise and dangers. Corporations bridge the central distinctions of his practical philosophy: ethics versus right, public...Loe edasi...
Logical pluralism is the view that there is more than one correct logic. This view emerged in a dialectical context in which certain laws of logic were hotly debated by philosophers. According to the pluralist, some rival logics are both correct in...Loe edasi...
This Element explores Wittgensteins critique of private language in the Philosophical Investigations, which presents a series of arguments, suggestions, questions, examples and thought-experiments whose purpose is to undermine the temptation to thi...Loe edasi...
This book attempts to situate Platos ethics within his profoundly revisionist metaphysics. It aims to show why Plato makes the keystone of his metaphysical system a normative principle, the Idea of the Good. In doing this, we can see how Platos me...Loe edasi...
What are we? Are we, for example, souls, organisms, brains, or something else? This book discusses the main competing accounts of personal ontology that we are either souls, or we are composite physical objects of some sort, and includes a detailed...Loe edasi...
This Element examines the roles and activities of women and their contributions to the Platonic tradition from Platos time, fourth century BCE, through to the sixth century CE. The existing evidence allows us to glimpse a wider pattern of female ph...Loe edasi...
This Element analyzes Kants metaphysics and epistemology of the exact science of nature. It explains his theory of true motion and ontology of matter. In addition, it reconstructs the patterns of evidential reasoning behind Kants foundational doctr...Loe edasi...
Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsigs unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme of Pirsigs thought: “Quality”...Loe edasi...
