Truth, Knowledge and Causation, By C.J. Ducasse
Author | : Curt John Ducasse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Causation |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Curt John Ducasse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Causation |
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Author | : C. J. Ducasse |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2015-05-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1317440404 |
Originally published in 1969. This book examines the fundamental concepts of metaphysics and of theory of knowledge. Topics treated include the nature of substance and of causation; their relation to natural laws, dispositions, and attributes; the nature of consciousness and purposiveness; of symbols, signs, and signals, and their relation to interpretation and objective reference; and the nature and criteria of truth. The author holds that philosophy is by intent a science and that its becoming so requires precise and non-arbitrary semantical analysis of basic philosophical terms. He argues that philosophy then, like the other sciences, has practical importance: in its case this consists in its capacity to give to difficult practical decisions not only the efficacy insured by its application of the findings of the other sciences, but in addition some of the wisdom which is philosophy’s distinctive ultimate aim.
Author | : Peter H. Hare |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9401017867 |
Although a succession of fashions swept the American philosophical scene, C. J. Ducasse was throughout his long career an effective practitioner of analytic philosophy in the classic tradition. As he explained in 1924 "[i]t is only with truths about such questions as the meaning of the term 'true', or 'real', or 'good', and the like . . . that philosophy is concerned. " Such truths are to be discovered inductively by comparing and analyzing concrete cases of the admittedly proper u/le . . . The pressing problems of philosophy are thus in my view primarily problems of def'mition, and moreover, problems of framing def'mitions which must be in formal terms, under penalty of not being otherwise understandable by or acceptable to one or another philosophical school, since the formal elements of thought and tp. ey only are common to all schools. These def'mitions, of course are not to be arbitrary; their relation to the facts of admittedly meaningful linguistic usage is the same as exists between any scientific hypothesis and the facts which it attempts to 1 construe.
Author | : D.H. Mellor |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 113486034X |
Everything we do relies on causation. We eat and drink because this causes us to stay alive. Courts tell us who causes crimes, criminology tell us what causes people to commit them. D.H. Mellor shows us that to understand the world and our lives we must understand causation. The Facts of Causation, now available in paperback, is essential reading for students and for anyone interested in reading one of the ground-breaking theories in metaphysics. We cannot understand the world and our place in it without understanding causation. Yet a complete account of the nature and implications of causation does not exist. D.H Mellor's new book is that account.
Author | : Stathis Psillos |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Causalité |
ISBN | : 0773524673 |
Stathis Psillos divides his account into three sections: causation, laws of nature, and explanation. He begins the causation section with Hume's classic "reductive" account and then focuses on the subsequent division between Humean and non-Humean accounts, examining topics such as regularities and singular causation, causation and counterfactuals, and causation and mechanism.
Author | : James M. Humber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1970 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : John Canfield |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2012-10-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134935730 |
Volume 10 of the Routledge History of Philosophy presents a historical survey of the central topics in twentieth century Anglo-American philosophy. It chronicles what has been termed the 'linguistic turn' in analytic philosophy and traces the influence the study of language has had on the main problems of philosophy. Each chapter contains an extensive bibliography of the major writings in the field. All the essays present their large and complex topics in a clear and well organised way. At the end, the reader finds a helpful Chronology of the major political, scientific and philosophical events in the Twentieth Century and an extensive Glossary of technical terms.
Author | : Peter Hare |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2015-05-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0823264335 |
Pragmatism with Purpose collects essays by the late Peter Hare, a leading proponent of the American philosophical tradition. The volume includes essays on “holistic pragmatism” that Hare developed in conversation with Morton White, as well as historical articles on William James and C. S. Peirce and commentaries on the profession.
Author | : J. L. Mackie |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1980-09-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191519863 |
Studies causation both as a concept and as it is 'in the objects.' Offers new accounts of the logic of singular causal statements, the form of causal regularities, the detection of causal relationships, the asymmetry of cause and effect, and necessary connection, and it relates causation to functional and statistical laws and to teleology.
Author | : Curt John Ducasse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 131 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |