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Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies - P. M. S Hacker - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies - P. M. S Hacker - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies consists of thirteen thematically linked essays on different aspects of the philosophy of Wittgenstein, by one of the leading commentators on his work. After an opening overview of Wittgenstein''s philosophy the following essays fall into two classes: those that investigate connections between the philosophy of Wittgenstein and other philosophers and philosophical trends, and those which enter into some of the controversies that, over the last two decades, have raged over the interpretation of one aspect or another of Wittgenstein''s writings. The connections that are explored include the relationship between Wittgenstein''s philosophy and the humanistic and hermeneutic traditions in European philosophy, Wittgenstein''s response to Frazer''s Golden Bough and the interpretation of ritual actions, his attitude towards and criticisms of Frege (both in the Tractatus and in the later philosophy), the relationship between his ideas and those of members of the Vienna Circle on the matter of ostensive definition, and a comparison of Carnap''s conception of the elimination of metaphysics and of Strawson''s rehabilitation of metaphysics with Wittgenstein''s later criticisms of metaphysics. The controversies into which Hacker enters include the Diamond-Conant interpretation of the Tractatus (which is shown to be inconsistent with the text of the Tractatus and with Wittgenstein''s explanations of and comments on his book), Winch''s interpretation of the Tractatus conception of names, Kripke''s interpretation of Wittgenstein''s discussion of following a rule (which is demonstrated to be remote from Wittgenstein''s intentions), and Malcolm''s defence of the idea that Wittgenstein claimed that mastery of a language logically requires that the language be shared with other speakers. These far-ranging essays, several of them previously unpublished or difficult to find, shed much light upon different aspects of Wittgenstein''s thought, and upon the controversies which it has stimulated.

DKK 516.00
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Wittgenstein: Comparisons and Context - P. M. S. Hacker - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Wittgenstein: Comparisons and Context - P. M. S. Hacker - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Wittgenstein: Comparisons and Context is a collection of P. M. S. Hacker''s papers on Wittgenstein and Wittgensteinian themes written over the last decade. It presents Hacker''s own (Wittgensteinian) conception of philosophy, and defends it against criticisms. Two essays compare Wittgenstein with Kant on transcendental arguments, and offer a Wittgensteinian critique of Kant''s transcendental deduction. Two further essays trace the development of Wittgenstein''s philosophy of psychology, and examine his anthropological and ethnological approach to philosophical problems. This leads naturally to a synoptic comparison of Wittgenstein''s later philosophy of language with formal, truth-conditional conceptions of language. A further two clarificatory essays follow these comparative ones: the first concerns Wittgenstein''s conception of grammar, and his exclusion of theses, doctrines, dogmas, and opinions in philosophy; the second concerns his treatment of intentionality. The penultimate essay examines Quine''s epistemological naturalism, which is often presented as a more scientific approach to philosophical problems than Wittgenstein''s. The final essay offers a synoptic view of analytic philosophy and its history, in which Wittgenstein played so notable a part. The volume complements Hacker''s previous collection, Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies (OUP, 2001), but stands as an independent contribution to work in the field.

DKK 863.00
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W. S. Graham - David Nowell Smith - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

W. S. Graham - David Nowell Smith - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

On the peripheries of UK poetry culture during his lifetime, W. S. Graham is now recognized one of the great poets of the twentieth century. In the first concerted study of Graham''s poetics in a generation, David Nowell Smith argues that Graham is exemplary for the poetics of the mid-century: his extension of modernist explorations of rhythm and diction; his interweaving of linguistic and geographic places; his dialogue with the plastic arts; and the tensions that run through his work, between philosophical seriousness and play, solitude and sociality, regionalism and cosmopolitanism, the heft and evanescence of poetry''s medium. Drawing on newly unearthed archival materials, Nowell Smith orients Graham''s poetics around the question of the ''art object''. Graham sought to craft his poems into honed, finished ''objects''; yet he was also aware that the poem''s ''finished object'' is never wholly finished. Graham''s work thus facilitates a broader reflection on language as a medium for art-making.

DKK 858.00
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Wittgenstein: Comparisons and Context - P. M. S. (st John's College Hacker - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Wittgenstein: Comparisons and Context - P. M. S. (st John's College Hacker - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Wittgenstein: Comparisons and Context is a collection of P. M. S. Hacker''s papers on Wittgenstein and Wittgensteinian themes written over the last decade. It presents Hacker''s own (Wittgensteinian) conception of philosophy, and defends it against criticisms. Two essays compare Wittgenstein with Kant on transcendental arguments, and offer a Wittgensteinian critique of Kant''s transcendental deduction. Two further essays trace the development of Wittgenstein''s philosophy of psychology, and examine his anthropological and ethnological approach to philosophical problems. This leads naturally to a synoptic comparison of Wittgenstein''s later philosophy of language with formal, truth-conditional conceptions of language. A further two clarificatory essays follow these comparative ones: the first concerns Wittgenstein''s conception of grammar, and his exclusion of theses, doctrines, dogmas, and opinions in philosophy; the second concerns his treatment of intentionality. The penultimate essay examines Quine''s epistemological naturalism, which is often presented as a more scientific approach to philosophical problems than Wittgenstein''s. The final essay offers a synoptic view of analytic philosophy and its history, in which Wittgenstein played so notable a part. The volume complements Hacker''s previous collection, Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies (OUP, 2001), but stands as an independent contribution to work in the field.

DKK 327.00
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The Fame of C. S. Lewis - Stephanie L. (independent Scholar) Derrick - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Fame of C. S. Lewis - Stephanie L. (independent Scholar) Derrick - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

C. S. Lewis, long renowned for his children''s books as well as his Christian apologetics, has been the subject of wide interest since he first stepped-up to the BBC''s microphone during the Second World War. Until now, however, the reasons why this medievalist began writing books for a popular audience, and why these books have continued to be so popular, had not been fully explored. In fact Lewis, who once described himself as by nature an ''extreme anarchist'', was a critical controversialist in his time-and not to everyone''s liking. Yet, somehow, Lewis''s books directed at children and middlebrow Christians have continued to resonate in the decades since his death in 1963. Stephanie L. Derrick considers why this is the case, and why it is more true in America than in Lewis''s home-country of Britain.The story of C. S. Lewis''s fame is one that takes us from his childhood in Edwardian Belfast, to the height of international conflict during the 1940s, to the rapid expansion of the paperback market, and on to readers'' experiences in the 1980s and 1990s, and, finally, to London in November 2013, where Lewis was honoured with a stone in Poet''s Corner in Westminster Abbey. Derrick shows that, in fact, the author himself was only one actor among many shaping a multi-faceted image. The Fame of C. S. Lewis is the most comprehensive account of Lewis''s popularity to date, drawing on a wealth of fresh material and with much to interest scholars and C. S. Lewis admirers alike.

DKK 368.00
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Livy on the Hannibalic War - D. S. Levene - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Livy on the Hannibalic War - D. S. Levene - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Livy''s account of the Hannibalic War in his Third Decade (Books 21-30) is our fullest source for one of the most crucial wars of all time; it is also a narrative history of unparalleled richness, drama, and depth. D. S. Levene''s book, the first large-scale general study of Livy''s Third Decade, explores the things that make it distinctive not only within Livy''s writing, but also within all ancient historiography. Levene examines such topics as Livy''s construction of his narrative, his source-material and use of literary allusion, his battle scenes, his sophisticated but ambivalent attitudes towards non-Romans, and above all his challenging and revolutionary treatment of such things as chronology, causation, and indeed human character. Livy portrays a world in which military calculation and human reason constantly fail, a world in which events occur beyond normal human comprehension, but where everything is governed by a hidden moral structure. Livy''s unique and original approach to history has often been misunderstood; Levene demonstrates the powerful and independent vision underlying the work, and compels readers to rethink many of our standard presuppositions about the nature of history-writing in the ancient world.

DKK 422.00
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Shakespeare's Reading - Robert S. (gerard Manley Hopkins Professor Of English) Miola - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Shakespeare's Reading - Robert S. (gerard Manley Hopkins Professor Of English) Miola - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Oxford Shakespeare Topics (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, including some general anthologies relating to Shakespeare. Shakespeare''s Reading explores Shakespeare''s marvellous reshaping of sources into new creations. Beginning with a discussion of how and what Elizabethans read - manuscripts, popular pamphlets, and books - Robert S. Miola goes on to examine Shakespeare''s use of specific texts such as Holinshed''s Chronicles, Plutarch''s Lives, and Chaucer''s The Canterbury Tales. As well as reshaping other writers'' work, Shakespeare transformed traditions - the inherited expectations, tropes, and strategies about character, action, and genre. For example, the tradition of Italian love poetry, especially Petrach, shapes Romeo and Juliet as well as the sonnets; the Vice figure finds new life in Richard III and Falstaff. Employing a traditional understanding of sources as well as more recent developments in intertextuality, this book traces Shakespeare''s reading as well as inspiring the sonnets; the Vice figure is translated into Richard III and Falstaff. Employing a traditional understanding of sources as well as more recent developments in intertextuality, this book tracks Shakespeare''s reading throughout his career, as it inspires his poetry, histories, comedies, tragedies, and romances. Repeated references to the plays in performance enliven and enrich the account.

DKK 292.00
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Hume, Passion, and Action - Elizabeth S. Radcliffe - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Hume, Passion, and Action - Elizabeth S. Radcliffe - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

David Hume''s theory of action is well known for several provocative theses, including that passion and reason cannot be opposed over the direction of action. Elizabeth S. Radcliffe defends an original interpretation of Hume''s views on passion, reason, and motivation which is consistent with other theses in Hume''s philosophy, loyal to his texts, and historically situated. She challenges the now orthodox interpretation of Hume on motivation, presenting an alternative that situates Hume closer to "Humeans" than many recent interpreters have. Part of the strategy is to examine the thinking of the early modern intellectuals to whom Hume responds. Most of these thinkers insisted that passions lead us to pursue harmful objects unless regulated by reason; and most regarded passions as representations of good and evil, which can be false. Understanding Hume''s response to these claims requires appreciating his respective characterizations of reason and passion. The author argues that Hume''s thesis that reason is practically impotent apart from passion is about beliefs generated by reason, rather than about the capacity of reason. Furthermore, the argument makes sense of Hume''s sometimes-ridiculed description of passions as "original existences" having no reference to objects. The author also shows how Hume understood morality as intrinsically motivating, while holding that moral beliefs are not themselves motives, and why he thought of passions as self-regulating, contrary to the admonitions of the rationalists.

DKK 717.00
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Objective Imperatives - Ralph C. S. (emeritus Fellow Walker - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Objective Imperatives - Ralph C. S. (emeritus Fellow Walker - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Kant held the moral law to be an objective imperative, an entity in its own right. It carries with it prescriptive force, in parallel to other principles of pure reason, like those of logic and mathematics. Objective imperatives therefore do not derive their authority from any other source, such as common consensus or the will of God. In Objective Imperatives, Ralph C. S. Walker seeks to show that this is a highly defensible view: Kant''s Categorical Imperative, properly understood, is broadly right. The key to it is rationality, and not universality, which functions only as an approximate test. Often, Kant sets the matter out badly, and most of the common objections to him can be shown to be due to misunderstandings. A morality that gives us an objective imperative does appear incompatible with the determinism to which Kant commits himself, but Walker argues that this appearance is misleading.

DKK 858.00
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Interplanetary Liberty - Charles S. (professor Cockell - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Interplanetary Liberty - Charles S. (professor Cockell - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

On the Moon or Mars, where even the oxygen you breathe is made in a manufacturing process controlled by someone else, can you be free? In Interplanetary Liberty: Building Free Societies in the Cosmos, Charles S. Cockell argues that beyond Earth, space is especially tyranny-prone. Yet rather than consign humanity to a dim future of extraterrestrial despotisms, he suggests that the construction of free societies is possible using uniquely blended and reformulated classical liberal ideas for the space frontier. Considering politics, science, engineering, art, education, prisons, and other facets of society, this book lays out the general ethos and culture around which settlements might be constructed to secure the establishment and flourishing of freedom in the cosmos.

DKK 439.00
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Shakespeare and the Afterlife - John S. Garrison - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Shakespeare and the Afterlife - John S. Garrison - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The question of what happens after death was a vital one in Shakespeare''s time, as it is today. And, like today, the answers were by no means universally agreed upon. Early moderns held surprisingly diverse beliefs about the afterlife and about how earthly life affected one''s fate after death. Was death akin to a sleep where one did not wake until judgment day? Were sick bodies healed in heaven? Did sinners experience torment after death? Would an individual reunite with loved ones in the afterlife? Could the dead communicate with the world of the living? Could the living affect the state of souls after death? How should the dead be commemorated? Could the dead return to life? Was immortality possible? The wide array of possible answers to these questions across Shakespeare''s work can be surprising.Exploring how particular texts and characters answer these questions, Shakespeare and the Afterlife showcases the vitality and originality of the author''s language and thinking. We encounter characters with very personal visions of what awaits them after death, and these visions reveal new insights into these individuals'' motivations and concerns as they navigate the world of the living.Shakespeare and the Afterlife encourages us to engage with the author''s work with new insight and new curiosity. The volume connects some of the best-known speeches, characters, and conflicts to cultural debates and traditions circulating during Shakespeare''s time.

DKK 652.00
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Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion - Alan S. (professor Of British Civilisation Kahan - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion - Alan S. (professor Of British Civilisation Kahan - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The relationship between democracy and religion is as important today as it was in Alexis de Tocqueville''s time. Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion is a ground-breaking study of the views of the greatest theorist of democracy writing about one of today''s most crucial problems. Alan S. Kahan, one of today''s foremost Tocqueville scholars, shows how Tocqueville''s analysis of religion is simultaneously deeply rooted in his thoughts on nineteenth-century France and America and pertinent to us today.Tocqueville thought that the role of religion was to provide checks and balances for democracy in the spiritual realm, just as secular forces should provide them in the political realm. He believed that in the long run secular checks and balances were dependent on the success of spiritual ones. Kahan examines how Tocqueville thought religion had succeeded in checking and balancing democracy in America, and failed in France, as well as observing Tocqueville''s less well-known analyses of religion in Ireland and England, and his perspective on Islam and Hinduism. He shows how Tocqueville''s ''post-secular'' account of religion can help us come to terms with religion today.More than a study of Tocqueville on religion in democratic society, this volume offers us a re-interpretation of Tocqueville as a moralist and a student of human nature in democratic society; a thinker whose new political science was in the service of a new moral science aimed at encouraging democratic people to attain greatness as human beings. Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion gives us a new Tocqueville for the twenty-first century.

DKK 542.00
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Meaning, Mind, and Knowledge - Christopher S. Hill - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Meaning, Mind, and Knowledge - Christopher S. Hill - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

In this collection of essays, most of which are of recent vintage, and seven of which appear here for the first time, Christopher S. Hill addresses a large assortment of philosophical issues. Part I presents a deflationary theory of truth, argues that semantic properties like reference and correspondence with fact can also be characterized in deflationary terms, and offers an account of the value of these ''thin'' properties, tracing it to their ability to track more substantial properties that are informational or epistemic in character. Part II defends the view that conscious experiences are type-identical with brain states. It addresses a large array of objections to this identity thesis, including objections based on the alleged multiple realizability of experiences, and objections based on Cartesian intuitions about the modeal separability of mind and matter. In the end, however, it maintains that theories of experience based on type-identity should give way to representationalist accounts. Part III presents a representationalist solution to the mind-body problem. It argues that all awareness, including awareness of qualia, is governed by a Kantian appearance/reality distinction--a distinction between the ways objects and properties are represented as being, and the ways they are in themselves. It also presents theories of pain and visual qualia that kick them out of the mind and assign them to locations in body and the external world. Part IV defends reliabilist theories of epistemic justification, deploys such theories in answering Cartesian skepticism, responds critically to Hawthorne''s lottery problem and related proposals about the role of knowledge in conversation and practical reasoning, presents a new account of the sources of modeal knowledge, and proposes an account of logical and mathematical beliefs that represents them as immunune to empirical revision.

DKK 933.00
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