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Toward a philosophical theory of everything : contributions to the structural-systematic philosophy /

Moral values are real-we don't just make them up. Beauty is in the world-it's not just in the eye of the beholder. You are free-what you do is not always determined by electrochemical processes in your brain. And the universe we live in is God's creation. These are radical claims. But...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: White, Alan, 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Edición:1st [edition].
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • FC; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword by Lorenz B. Puntel; 1 Preliminaries; 1.1 An initial clarification of this book's subtitle; 1.2 An initial clarification of this book's title; 1.3 Preliminary remarks on methodology; 1.4 A philosophically consequent stylistic peculiarity; 1.5 The structure of this book; 2 Theoretical frameworks; 2.1 "Theoretical framework"; 2.2 The SSP as a network; 2.3 Seven central theses concerning theoretical frameworks; 2.4 A family of theoretical frameworks rejected by the SSRPP.
  • 2.5 The SSP's abstract theoretical framework2.6 Concretizing the SSP's theoretical framework; 3 Truth; 3.1 The task; 3.2 Substantialism and deflationism; 3.3 The basic error behind all deflationary theories of truth; 3.4 The truth term; 3.5 It is true that ... if and only if; 4 Knowledge; 4.1 The inadequacy of the definition of knowledge as justified true belief; 4.2 The SSP's definition of knowledge; 4.3 False knowledge; 5 Theoreticity, practicity, affectivity; 5.1 Modes of engagement; 5.2 Theoretical, practical, and aesthetic values; 5.3 Sentences and operators.
  • 6 Human freedom6.1 Terminological clarifications; 6.2 Adding a theory of freedom to the SSP; 6.3 A theory of freedom for the SSP; 6.4 Human freedom and systematic philosophy; 7 Beauty; 7.1 Callological delight; 7.2 Complex callological delight; 7.3 Callological delight and beauty; 7.4 Callological delight and callological evaluation; 7.5 All factings are beautiful; 7.6 Degrees of beauty; 7.7 Ugliness; 7.8 Callological disagreement; 8 Being; 8.1 Articulating being; 8.2 Theories of being and theories of be-ers; 8.3 Central aspects of the SSP's theory of being.