Key readings on knowledge management for graduate students and MBAs, this volume focuses on what is happening in practice. It includes seminal contributison from leading authorities and practitioners, providing a compelling picture of how knowledge and... Zobraziť viac
Thomas Aquinas shows how the foundations of law and ethics are rooted in God's creational design, reflected in man's nature and implemented by wise legislators. J. Budziszewski's commentary on the Treatise is written in luminously clear prose and... Zobraziť viac
This is an expanded edition of Sydney Shoemaker's seminal collection of his work on interrelated issues in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. Reproducing all of the original papers, many of which are now regarded as classics, and including four... Zobraziť viac
Recanati argues against the traditional understanding of the semantics/pragmatics divide. Through half a dozen case studies, he shows that 'pragmatic modulation' interacts with the grammar-driven process of semantic composition. As a result, what an... Zobraziť viac
Once thought to be the task of metaphysics, the synthesis of knowledge has been discounted by many philosophers today. Benedict Ashley, a leading Thomistic scholar, argues that it remains a valid and intellectually fruitful pursuit by situating... Zobraziť viac
Michael Novak's intention in this new work is to examine those experiences of ?? intellectual life in which belief - and, by negation, unbelief - in God is ??. His?? approach is one of "intelligent subjectivity" applied to an analysis of ?? belief,??... Zobraziť viac
A revised and updated edition of a classic textbook in the Oxford Bible Series about prophecy and prophets, this book is a clear and succinct study of prophecy both as a phenomenon in the wide context and as represented in the Bible. Surveying all the... Zobraziť viac
Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the "linguistic turn? in modern philosophy and anatomizes the "antiphilosophy? of Ludwig Wittgenstein. In the course of his interrogation of Wittgenstein's thinking, Badiou refines his own definitions of the... Zobraziť viac
David Charles presents a major new study of Aristotle's views on meaning, essence, necessity, and related topics. These interconnected views are central to Aristotle's metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science, and are also highly... Zobraziť viac
Leading scholars in the philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics present brand-new papers on a major topic at the intersection of the two fields, the distinction between semantics and pragmatics. Anyone engaged with this issue in either... Zobraziť viac
This book develops and defends a version of direct realism: the thesis that perception gives us direct awareness, and non-inferential knowledge, of the external world. Huemer rebuts the main arguments used by philosophical skeptics to try to show that... Zobraziť viac
In over 78 newly-commissioned essays, this outstanding volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the philosophy of religion. Written by many of today's leading figures, the volume surveys philosophical issues in the religions of the... Zobraziť viac
Descartes is possibly the most famous of all writers on the mind, but his theory of mind has been almost universally misunderstood, because his philosophy has not been seen in the context of his scientific work. Desmond Clarke offers a radical and... Zobraziť viac
Christine M. Korsgaard is one of today's leading moral philosophers: this volume collects ten influential papers by her on practical reason and moral psychology. She draws on the work of such great philosophers as Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hume,... Zobraziť viac
Looking at the historical context as well as the political trajectory of the Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, a key figure in the Iranian revolution of 1978–9, Sussan Siavoshi explains how he went from the nominated successor of Khomeini to an opponent of... Zobraziť viac
This volume provides a comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary readings in the philosophy of logic. Zobraziť viac
Late modernity has produced a marked turn away from institutionalized religions towards more autonomous, individual forms of the search for spiritual meaning. Film, television, the music industry, and the internet are central to this process, cutting... Zobraziť viac
Arguably the most influential of all contemporary English-speaking philosophers, Richard Rorty has transformed the way many philosophers think about the discipline and the traditional ways of practicing it. The essays in this volume offer a balanced... Zobraziť viac
Containing 9 articles by prominent scholars about a variety of topics, including Zen rituals kinhin and zazen, this volume covers rituals from the early Chan period to modern Japan. Each chapter covers key developments that occurred in the Linji/Rinzai... Zobraziť viac
First published in 1903, G. E. Moore's Principia Ethica is recognized as the definitive starting point for twentieth-century ethical theory. Zobraziť viac
