Reason And Necessity
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Author | : M. R. Wright |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781914535253 |
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Plato's Timaeus contains a powerful and influential myth, of the construction of the universe by a divine craftsman. A god imposes reason on necessity, to bring order from a primeval 'receptacle' of disordered matter. There results the 'child' that is the cosmos - a copy of an eternally-existing perfect model. Here eight new essays from a distinguished international cast, explore aspects of this challenging work: the principles of the mythical narrative, how the world soul and human body are formed, implications for illness - mental and physical, the importance of music and harmonious proportion. Later developments are also treated: Aristotle's theory of generation, the commentary of Proclus and elements of modern evolutionary theory.
Author | : Michael V. Griffin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0521117089 |
Download Leibniz, God and Necessity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book presents a necessitarian interpretation of Leibniz which grounds modal concepts in theology.
Author | : M. R. Wright |
Publisher | : Classical Press of Wales |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2000-12-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1914535154 |
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Plato's Timaeus contains a powerful and influential myth, of the construction of the universe by a divine craftsman. A god imposes reason on necessity, to bring order from a primeval 'receptacle' of disordered matter. There results the 'child' that is the cosmos - a copy of an eternally-existing perfect model. Here eight new essays from a distinguished international cast, explore aspects of this challenging work: the principles of the mythical narrative, how the world soul and human body are formed, implications for illness - mental and physical, the importance of music and harmonious proportion. Later developments are also treated: Aristotle's theory of generation, the commentary of Proclus and elements of modern evolutionary theory.
Author | : Kurt Mosser |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0813215323 |
Download Necessity and Possibility Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Kurt Mosser argues that reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason as an argument for such a logic of experience makes more defensible many of Kant's most controversial claims, and makes more accessible Kant's notoriously difficult text.
Author | : Andrew Staveley Mason |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Reason and Necessity in Plato's Timaeus Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Quentin Meillassoux |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2008-06-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0826496741 |
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After Finitude provides readings of the history of philosophy and sets out a critique of the unavowed fideism at the heart of post-Kantian philosophy. Author Quentin Meillassoux introduces a philosophical alternative to the forced choice between dogmatism and critique. After Finitude proposes a new alliance between philosophy and science and calls for an unequivocal halt to the creeping return of religiosity in contemporary philosophical discourse.
Author | : Max Cresswell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2016-09-15 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1316760456 |
Download Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Interest in the metaphysics and logic of possible worlds goes back at least as far as Aristotle, but few books address the history of these important concepts. This volume offers new essays on the theories about the logical modalities (necessity and possibility) held by leading philosophers from Aristotle in ancient Greece to Rudolf Carnap in the twentieth century. The story begins with an illuminating discussion of Aristotle's views on the connection between logic and metaphysics, continues through the Stoic and mediaeval (including Arabic) traditions, and then moves to the early modern period with particular attention to Locke and Leibniz. The views of Kant, Peirce, C. I. Lewis and Carnap complete the volume. Many of the essays illuminate the connection between the historical figures studied, and recent or current work in the philosophy of modality. The result is a rich and wide-ranging picture of the history of the logical modalities.
Author | : Brian Leftow |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 2012-09-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199263353 |
Download God and Necessity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Brian Leftow offers a theist theory of necessity and possibility, and a new sort of argument for God's existence. He argues that necessities of logic and mathematics are determined by God's nature, but that it is events in God's mind - His imagination and choice - that account for necessary truths about concrete creatures.
Author | : Willis F. Overton |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2013-05-13 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1134735146 |
Download Reasoning, Necessity, and Logic Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A presentation of current work that systematically explores and articulates the nature, origin and development of reasoning, this volume's primary aim is to describe and examine contemporary theory and research findings on the topic of deductive reasoning. Many contributors believe concepts such as "structure," "competence," and "mental logic" are necessary features for a complete understanding of reasoning. As the book emanates from a Jean Piaget Symposium, his theory of intellectual development as the standard contemporary treatment of deductive reasoning is used as the context in which the contributors elaborate on their own perceptions.
Author | : Jacques Monod |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Biology |
ISBN | : 9780140256468 |
Download Chance and Necessity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Change and necessity is a statement of Darwinian natural selection as a process driven by chance necessity, devoid of purpose or intent.