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Author | : Alison Wylie |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2002-11-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0520223608 |
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"No other work in this field covers the history of important conceptual issues in archaeology in such a deep and knowledgable way, bringing both philosophical and archeological sophistication to bear on all of the issues treated. Wylie’s work in Thinking from Things is original, scholarly, and creative. This book is for anyone who wants to understand contemporary archaeological theory, how it came to be as it is, its relationship with other disciplines, and its prospects for the future."—Merrilee Salmon, author of Philosophy and Archaeology "Wylie is a reasonable and astute thinker who lucidly and persuasively makes genuinely constructive criticisms of archaeological thought and practice and very useful suggestions for how to proceed. She commands both philisophy and archaeology to an unusual degree. Having her articles together in Thinking from Things, with much new material extending and integrating them, is a major contribution that will be widely welcomed among archaeologists—both professionals and students, philosophers and historians of science, and social scientists."—George L. Cowgill, Arizona State University
Author | : Robert Hahn |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-07-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781438431642 |
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Detailed study of how Anaximander’s cosmological and philosophical conceptions were affected by architectural technologies.
Author | : Merrilee H. Salmon |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2014-06-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 148329577X |
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Philosophy and Archaeology
Author | : Francis MacDonald Cornford |
Publisher | : Cosimo, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2010-07-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1616402938 |
Download From Religion to Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From Religion to Philosophy: A Study in the Origins of Western Speculation was written by one of the experts on Greek philosophers and religion, F.W. Cornford. In this classic work, Cornford traces the Western roots of religion and science, pondering common philosophical questions along the way, such as the existence of God, Greek mythology, the soul and immortality, nature and the metaphysical. Many would consider this work one of the most important on philosophy ever written, and just as viable today as when it was published in 1912. Francis Macdonald Cornford was an English philosophy student and teacher at Trinity College in Cambridge, where he was a Fellow and received awards for his excellence in teaching. He was especially interested in Greek religion and philosophy; two of his four works focus on the subject.
Author | : William Harvey Krieger |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780739112496 |
Download Can There be a Philosophy of Archaeology? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Can There Be a Philosophy of Archaeology? provides a historical and philosophical analysis of the rise and fall of the philosophical movement know as logical positivism, focusing on the effect of that movement on the budding science of archaeology. Significant problems resulted from the grafting of logical positivism onto what became known as processual, or new archaeology, and as a result of this failure, archaeologists distanced themselves from philosophers of science, believing that archaeology would be best served by a return to the dirt. By means of a thorough analysis of the real reasons for failures of logical empiricism and the new archaeology, as well as a series of archaeological case studies, Krieger shows the need for the resumption of dialogue and collaboration between the two groups. In an age where philosophers of science are just beginning to look beyond the standard examples of scientific practice, this book demonstrates that archaeological science can hold its own with other sciences and will be of interest to archaeologists and philosophers of science alike.
Author | : Edward Jayne |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2017-12-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0761869670 |
Download An Archaeology of Disbelief Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An Archaeology of Disbelief traces the origin of secular philosophy to pre-Socratic Greek philosophers who proposed a physical universe without supernatural intervention. Some mentioned the Homeric gods, but others did not. Atomists and Sophists identified themselves as agnostics if not outright atheists, and in reaction Plato featured transcendent spiritual authority. However, Aristotle offered a physical cosmology justified by evidence from a variety of scientific fields. He also revisited many pre-Socratic assumptions by proposing that existence consists of mass in motion without temporal or spatial boundaries. In many ways his analysis anticipated Newton’s concept of gravity, Darwin’s concept of evolution, and Einstein’s concept of relativity. Aristotle’s follower Strato invented scientific experimentation. He also inspired the pursuit of science and advocated the rejection of all beliefs unconfirmed by science. Carneades in turn distorted Aristotelian logic to ridicule the god concept, and Lucretius proposed a grand secular cosmology in his epic De Rerum Natura. In the two dialogues, Academica and De Natura Deorum, Cicero provided a useful retrospective assessment of this entire movement. The Roman Empire and advent of Christianity effectively terminated Greek philosophy except for Platonism reinvented as stoicism. Widespread destruction of libraries eliminated most early secular texts, and the Inquisition played a major role in preventing secular inquiry. Aquinas later justified Aristotle in light of Christian doctrine, and secularism’s revival was postponed until the seventeenth century’s paradoxical reaction against his interpretation of Aristotle. Today it nevertheless remains possible to trace western civilization’s remarkable secular achievement to its initial breakthrough in ancient Greece. The purpose of this book is accordingly to trace the origin and development of its secular thought through close examination of texts that still exist today in light of Aristotle’s writings.
Author | : Anton Killin |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2021-04-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3030610527 |
Download Explorations in Archaeology and Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume explores various themes at the intersection of archaeology and philosophy: inference and theory; interdisciplinary connections; cognition, language and normativity; and ethical issues. Showcasing this heterogeneity, its scope ranges from the method of analogical inference to the evolution of the human mind; from conceptual issues in assessing the health of past populations to the ethics of cultural heritage tourism. It probes the archaeological record for evidence of numeracy, curiosity and creativity, and social complexity. Its contributors comprise an interdisciplinary cluster of philosophers, archaeologists, anthropologists, and psychologists, from a variety of career stages, of whom many are leading experts in their fields. Chapter 3 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Author | : Peter Kosso |
Publisher | : Humanities Press International |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Kosso (philosophy, Northern Arizona U.) looks at the gradual justification of results in history and archaeology and describes ways of telling whether what people claim to know about the distant human past is true or false. His general model of justification states, among other things, that all justification is in relation to other beliefs and that the network of beliefs must continue to confront new evidence. The volume contains three detailed case studies drawn from the work of historians and archaeologists which further illustrate this model. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Ido Govrin |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2023-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 143849159X |
Download Philosophical Archaeology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Offering, for the first time, a full historicized accounting of philosophical archaeology, Ido Govrin delineates how this overarching method of historical inquiry has today become associated, to a large extent, with the work of Giorgio Agamben—and how it constitutes Agamben’s philosophy of history in particular. As befits a book situated at an intellectual crossroads that brings together a range of discourses—philosophy, history, aesthetics, theology, and philology—Govrin conceives of philosophical archaeology as a multifaceted concept, on a broad scale. The discussion slides along the length of the multilateral fault line and into the related fields of contemporary art and art history/theory. In doing so, it illuminates the potential for philosophical archaeology, as an artistic modus operandi in the broader context of contemporary art, to expand our conception of history and historiographic research, and for this sense of history to expand our conception of art, in turn. At stake in this consideration is the possibility of a new, materially based philosophy of history.
Author | : Aleksander Dzbyński |
Publisher | : Vernon Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2020-02-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1622738217 |
Download Cinematosophical Introduction to the Theory of Archaeology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What is archaeology? A research field dealing with monuments? A science? A branch of philosophy? Dzbyński suggests the simple but thoughtful equation: Archaeology = History = Knowledge. This book consists of 8 chapters presenting a collection of characteristic philosophical attitudes important for archaeology. It discusses the historicity of archaeological sources, the source of the algorithmic approach in archaeological reasoning, and the accuracy of logical and irrational thinking. In general, this book is concerned with the history of archaeologists’ search for a suitable methodology. All these issues are discussed in relation to two main intellectual trends of archaeology to the present day: processual and post-processual archaeology. Processualism introduced and developed the idea of algorithmic and universal reasoning in archaeology, while post-processualism focused attention on the individual value of a monument and the archaeologist himself. These are still two foundations on which the present knowledge of the past is based, and thus their defining role cannot be overestimated. An additional layer of narrative, visible right from the beginning of the book, is the gradual discovery of the relationship between archaeology and popular culture, especially film and literature. Its aim is both illustration and explanation. It is intended that the reader receives not only information and knowledge, but also a deeper emotional reference which is connected with the reception of works of art.