Tag: Philosophical

Free Download Alix Cohen, "Thinking about the Emotions: A Philosophical History "
English | ISBN: 0198766858 | 2017 | 320 pages | EPUB | 636 KB
Philosophical reflection on the emotions has a long history stretching back to classical Greek thought, even though at times philosophers have marginalized or denigrated them in favour of reason. Fourteen leading philosophers here offer a broad survey of the development of our understanding of the emotions. The thinkers they discuss include Aristotle, Aquinas, Ockham, Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Hobbes, Hume, Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, James, Brentano, Stumpf, Scheler, Heidegger, and Sartre. Central issues include the taxonomy of the emotions; the distinction between emotions, passions, feelings and moods; the relation between the emotions and reason; the relationship between the self and the emotions. At a metaphilosophical level, the collection also raises issues about the value of historical study of the discipline, and what light it can shed on contemporary concerns. Thinking about the Emotions is a fascinating and illuminating collective study of how philosophers have grappled with this most intriguing part of our nature as beings who feel as well as think and act.

Free Download Kyle Lucas, "The Structure of Philosophical Discourse "
English | ISBN: 1032539917 | 2024 | 290 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book builds on existing work in genre analysis and move analysis in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and applies this new framework to academic philosophical discourse, offering new insights into how ESP traditions can elucidate shifts in language conventions across disciplinary contexts.

Free Download Samuel Scheffler, "The Rejection of Consequentialism: A Philosophical Investigation of the Considerations Underlying Rival Moral Conceptions"
English | 1994 | pages: 207 | ISBN: 0198235119, 0198235100 | PDF | 1,0 mb
In contemporary philosophy, substantive moral theories are typically classified as either consequentialist or deontological. Standard consequentialist theories insist, roughly, that agents must always act so as to produce the best available outcomes overall. Standard deontological theories, by contrast, maintain that there are some circumstances where one is permitted but not required to produce the best overall results, and still other circumstances in which one is positively forbidden to do so. Classical utilitarianism is the most familiar consequentialist view, but it is widely regarded as an inadequate account of morality. Although Samuel Scheffler agrees with this assessment, he also believes that consequentialism seems initially plausible, and that there is a persistent air of paradox surrounding typical deontological views. In this book, therefore, he undertakes to reconsider the rejection of consequentialism. He argues that it is possible to provide a rationale for the view that agents need not always produce the best possible overall outcomes, and this motivates one departure from consequentialism; but he shows that it is surprisingly difficult to provide a satisfactory rationale for the view that there are times when agents must not produce the best possible overall outcomes. He goes on to argue for a hitherto neglected type of moral conception, according to which agents are always permitted, but not always required, to produce the best outcomes.

Free Download Jean-Etienne Joullié, "The Philosophical Foundations of Management Thought"
English | ISBN: 1793630151 | 2020 | 368 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1048 KB + 5 MB

Free Download Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin
English | 2024 | ISBN: 103277780X | 323 Pages | PDF (True) | 4 MB
Bitcoin isn’t just for criminals, speculators, or wealthy Silicon Valley entrepreneurs – despite what the headlines say. In an imperfect world of rampant inflation, creeping authoritarianism, surveillance, censorship, and financial exclusion, bitcoin empowers individuals to elude the expanding reach and tightening grip of institutions both public and private. So although bitcoin is money, it isn’t just money. Bitcoin is resistance money.

Free Download Ora Gruengard, "Philosophy in Philosophical Counseling: Unasked Questions, Open Answers "
English | ISBN: 179364909X | 2023 | 250 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1030 KB + 4 MB
Philosophy in Philosophical Counseling: Unasked Questions, Open Answers offers a base for criticizing approaches to philosophical counseling that fail to be philosophical or relevant to the counselees’ concerns. It analyses the impact of tacit, unexamined, philosophical assumptions and examines their influence on the search for solutions, while explaining how such assumptions may obstruct that search. Ora Gruengard argues that conversations in which the participants disagree with each other are the adequate context for calling tacit assumptions into question and exploring alternatives. Her research shows how philosophical assumptions change in informal conversations and illuminates their important role in education, religious guidance, and psychological treatments. Nevertheless, philosophical issues are best dealt with in explicit philosophical dialogues in which counselees are respected as philosophical partners who are encouraged to think critically and make their own judgments. This book addresses counselors’ dilemmas by presenting examples of hypothetical counseling conversations and true sessions with real people. Gruengard also discusses what kind of philosophical knowledge and expertise is necessary for doing the job adequately.

Free Download Timothy Williamson, "Philosophical Method: A Very Short Introduction"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0198810008 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 1.4 mb
What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or neither?

Free Download Yafeng Shan, "Philosophical Foundations of Mixed Methods Research"
English | ISBN: 1032226110 | 2023 | 270 pages | EPUB, PDF | 945 KB + 1138 KB
Philosophical Foundations of Mixed Methods Research provides a comprehensive examination of the philosophical foundations of mixed methods research.

Free Download Karen Francois, Jean Paul Van Bendegem, "Philosophical Dimensions in Mathematics Education"
English | 2007 | pages: 235 | ISBN: 0387715711, 1441943978 | PDF | 8,0 mb
This book brings together diverse recent developments exploring philosophy of mathematics in education. The unique combination of ethnomathematics, philosophy, history, education, statistics and mathematics offers a variety of different perspectives from which existing boundaries in mathematics education can be extended. The ten chapters in this book offer a balance between philosophy of and philosophy in mathematics education. Attention is paid to the implementation of a philosophy of mathematics within the mathematics curriculum to become a philosophy in mathematics education. In doing so, many chapters provide ideas for actual practice and some practical examples directly usable in teacher training and in mathematics classrooms.

Free Download Vesa Hirvonen, "Passions in William Ockham’s Philosophical Psychology"
English | 2004 | pages: 218 | ISBN: 904816592X, 1402021186 | PDF | 6,5 mb
This study is not only the first extensive analysis of passions or emotions in William Ockham’s (c. 1285-1347) psychology, it also contains a detailed analysis of Ockham’s little-known two-souls anthropology. The study shows how Ockham diverged from the traditional opinion of emotions in arguing that there were emotions in the will, not only in the lower part of the soul. Because of his new theory of the intellect and the will, Ockham believed that certain phenomena of the will were subjective reactions to occurrent phenomena and could therefore be treated as emotions. The book also discusses Ockham’s approach to the traditional distinctions between amicable love and wanting love, and enjoyment and use, and to some other classical themes.