1# Library to Find Best eBook for Read
Author : John Maguire
Release : 1978
Genre : Psychology
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hold Hands and Die! by : John Maguire
Download or read book Hold Hands and Die! written by John Maguire. This book was released on 1978. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Faulkner
Release : 2017
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 546/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Philosophy of Trust by : Paul Faulkner
Download or read book The Philosophy of Trust written by Paul Faulkner. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trust is central to our social lives. We know by trusting what others tell us. We act on that basis, and on the basis of trust in their promises and implicit commitments. So trust underpins both epistemic and practical cooperation and is key to philosophical debates on the conditions of its possibility. It is difficult to overstate the significance of these issues. On the practical side, discussions of cooperation address what makes society possible-of how it is that life is not a Hobbesian war of all against all. On the epistemic side, discussions of cooperation address what makes the pooling of knowledge possible-and so the edifice that is science. But trust is not merely central to our lives instrumentally; trusting relations are themselves of great value, and in trusting others, we realise distinctive forms of value. What are these forms of value, and how is trust central to our lives? These questions are explored and developed in this volume, which collects fifteen new essays on the philosophy of trust. They develop and extend existing philosophical discussion of trust and will provide a reference point for future work on trust.
Author : Ross Harrison
Release : 2010-06-24
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 738/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rational Action by : Ross Harrison
Download or read book Rational Action written by Ross Harrison. This book was released on 2010-06-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is concerned with the concepts of rationality, belief and desire in the explanation and evaluation of human action.
Author : James Russell
Release : 2013-05-24
Genre : Psychology
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 095/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Agency by : James Russell
Download or read book Agency written by James Russell. This book was released on 2013-05-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea behind this book is that developing a conception of the physical world and a conception of mind is impossible without the exercise of agency, meaning "the power to alter at will one's perceptual inputs". The thesis is derived from a philosphical account of the role of agency in knowledge.; The book is divided into three parts. In Part One, the author argues that "purely representational" theories of mind and of mental development have been overvalued, thereby clearing the ground for the book's central thesis. In Part Two, he proposes that, because objective experience depends upon the experience of agency, the development of the "object concept" in human infants is grounded in the development of executive-attentional capacities. In Part Three, an analysis of the links between agency and self-awareness generates an original theory of the nature of certain stage-like transitions in mental functioning and of the relationship between executive and mentalizing defects in autism.; The book should be of interest to students and researchers in cognitive- developmental psychology, to philosophers of mind, and to anybody with an interest in cognitive science.
Author : Maria Baghramian
Release : 2013-09-13
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 634/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Donald Davidson: Life and Words by : Maria Baghramian
Download or read book Donald Davidson: Life and Words written by Maria Baghramian. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Davidson (1917-2003) was one of the most prominent philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. His thinking about language, mind, and epistemology has shaped the views of several generations of philosophers. This book brings together articles by a host of prominent philosophers to provide new interpretations of Davidson’s key ideas about meaning, language and thought. The book opens with short commemorative pieces by a wide range of people who knew Davidson well, giving us glimpses into the life of a great philosopher, a beloved husband and father, a colleague, teacher and friend. The chapter by Lepore and Ludwig and the ensuing heated debate with Frederick Stoutland on how to interpret Davidson demonstrate why Davidson’s legacy has become a disputed intellectual territory. The chapters by Kathrin Glüer, Peter Pagin, Barry Smith, James Higginbotham and William Child, all eminent philosophers of language, are prime examples of just one strand of this legacy, while the piece by Sophie Gibb gives us an opening to Davidson’s enormous contribution to philosophy of mind. Donald Davidson: Life and Words closes with a piece by Davidson himself, first published in 1995 in the International Journal of Philosophical Studies, where he brings together the various strands of his work in a Unified Theory of speech and action. This book comprises key articles first published in the International Journal of Philosophical Studies and previously unpublished commemorative pieces, and serves as a fitting dedication to the work and memory of a great philosopher.
