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Freedom, nature, and world /

Freedom, Nature, and World is a collection of essays by Peter Loptson which examine issues posed by a broadly naturalistic view of the world, which Loptson defends while also exploring some of the challenges it confronts. Papers on freedom, Kant, Christianity, Homer, the history of analytic philosop...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Loptson, Peter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, 2007.
Colección:Collection Philosophica.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The mirror's reflections and the clockwork behind our smiles : human nature, agency, spirit, and mechanism
  • What is human nature?
  • Metaphysics and its critics
  • Metaphysics as first science
  • The concept of naturalism : some complications
  • Naturalism and the normative
  • Science and the history of analytic philosophy
  • Contingency in early modern philosophy
  • Charles W. Hendel and Hume : a review and reconsideration
  • The singularity of the scientific revolution : Fred Wilson's defence of the early modern achievement in philosophy and the sciences
  • Enlightenment, the philosophers, and race : some reconsiderations
  • Kant, Christianity, and a kingdom of ends
  • Philosophical reflections on Homer
  • Tradition, history, and oral memory in early Greek epic
  • The other Odysseus, the false Troy, and oral tradition.