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Being in America : Sixty Years of the Metaphysical Society.
Since its founding in 1950, the Metaphysical Society of America has remained a pluralistic community dedicated to rigorous philosophical inquiry into the most basic metaphysical questions. At each year's conference, the presidential address offers original insights into metaphysical questions....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Editions Rodopi,
2014.
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| Colección: | Value inquiry book series ;
Volume 272. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Editorial Foreword; GUEST FOREWORD: Being in America: On Metaphysics and the MetaphysicalSociety of America; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One:THE QUESTION OF METAPHYSICS; ONE The Four-fold Art of Avoiding Questions; TWO The Problem of the Analogy of Being; THREE The Self as Source of Meaning in Metaphysics; FOUR Reality and Metaphysics; FIVE Merleau-Ponty and the Renewal of Ontology; SIX Metaphysics, Critique, and Utopia; SEVEN The Question of Being; EIGHT Is Metaphysics Possible?; NINE The Science We Are Seeking.
- TEN The Practicality of MetaphysicsELEVEN Two Faces of Science; Part Two:THE QUESTION OF KNOWLEDGE; TWELVE Are Categories Invented or Discovered? A Response toFoucault; THIRTEEN Textuality, Reality and the Limits of Knowledge; Part Three:THE QUESTION OF LANGUAGE; FOURTEEN Metaphysics and Language; FIFTEEN Being, Immediacy and Articulation; SIXTEEN Striving to Speak in a Human Voice: A PeirceanContribution to Metaphysical Discourse.; Part Four:THE QUESTION OF THE GOOD; SEVENTEEN The Metaphysics of the Good; EIGHTEEN Perishable Goods; NINETEEN The Generosity of the Good.
- EPILOGUE The Legacy and FutureAPPENDIX A Bibliography of Presidential Addresses of the Metaphysical Society of America 1952-2010; Index.