Search Results: Philosophy from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Stanford University Press, 1994 8vo (21.5 cm), IX, 99 pp. Laminated wrappers. "This is a collection of four essays on aesthetic, ethical, and political issues by Dieter Henrich, the preeminent Kant scholar in Germany today. Although his interests have ranged widely, he is perhaps best known for rekindling interest in the great classical German tradition from Kant to Hegel. The first essay summarizes Henrich's research into the development of the Kant's moral philosophy, focusing on the architecture of the third Critique. Of special interest in this essay is Henrich's intriguing and wholly new account of the relations between Kant and Rousseau. In the second essay, Henrich analyzes the interrelations between Kant's aesthetics and his cognitive theories. His third essay argues that the justification of the claim that human rights are universally valid requires reference to a moral image of the world. To employ Kant's notion of a moral image of the world without ignoring the… Read More

Yale University Press, 1989 8vo (22.5 cm), xiii, 188 pp. Publisher's laminated wrappers. From the blurb: "In this provocative, closely argued book, Ellen Handler Spitz explores three principal psychoanalytic approaches to art. The first considers the relations between an artist’s life and work; the second focuses on the work of art itself; and the third encompasses the intricate relations between a work of art and its audience or beholders. To illustrate her theoretical discussion, Spitz draws on a variety of art forms, including painting, sculpture, literature, music, and dance."

The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1964 8vo (24 cm), XV, 509 pp. Cloth and dust jacket. From the publisher's description: "This tool offers a new type of working tool for Cartesian studies. It presents the literature for 1800-1960 in alphabetical order (Part Two), combined with a systematic analytical survey (Pat Three). This organization makes it possible to turn bibliography from a repository of reference into a workshop of research. Thy systematic survey of Part One and the topical index of Part Three, together, offer aa mise au point of Descartes studies over their full historical and topical range."

Thoemmes Continuum, 2006 3 volumes 8vo (22.5 cm), VIII, 1018 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spines (ownership signature on the half-title of the vol. 1). This is the single most important collection of bibliographical data on American philosophy in the modern period. No other reference work or encyclopedia has such a complete listings of both major and minor works, of no less than 800 philosophers. This three-volume set includes exhaustive listings of all works published by the thinker in question, and also lists of secondary sources. Base on holdings of the Fisher Rare Book Library in Toronto, which acquired Slater's collection some time ago that has the most extensive holdings of modern Anglo-American philosophy in the world. This will be an essential, one-stop reference for everyone researching modern philosophy, and is therefore a must-buy for all university libraries and other reference libraries with holdings in philosophy.

Cambridge University Press, 1995 4to (25.5 cm), XXX, 882 pp. Laminated wrappers. From the blurb: "This is the most authoritative and comprehensive one-volume dictionary of philosophy available in English. It contains over 4,000 entries, which range in length from 100 to 4,000 words. The Dictionary has been written by an international team of over 350 experts, so, rather than offering the limited perspective of a single writer, it distils the collective knowledge of the professional community of philosophers in an accessible manner.The Cambridge Dictionary clearly and concisely defines both technical terms and crucial concepts, and will promote the understanding of philosophy on all levels and across all fields. It includes substantial explanatory articles on all major philosophers as well as hundreds of minor figures. There are expansive, up-to-date overviews of all the important sub-disciplines such as ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind and logic. No other reference work on… Read More

Springer, 2001 8vo (24 cm), VII, 158 pp. Laminated boards. "The author shows that God plays dice not only in quantum mechanics but also in the foundations of mathematics. According to Chaitin there exist mathematical facts that are true for no reason. This fascinating and provocative text contains a collection of his most wide-ranging and non-technical lectures and interviews. It will be of interest to anyone concerned with the philosophy of mathematics, the similarities and differences between physics and mathematics, and mathematics as art." (from the blurb)

Allen Lane, 1999 8vo (22 cm), XII, 228 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "How has the Western Christian world responded in the past to repeated claims that the end of the world is nigh? How do different religions understand what is meant by the end of the world? What have science and philosophy got to say about the end of time? Why do people suffer? What is hell? Is time cyclical or linear? These are just a few questions tackled by Umberto Eco, Stephen Jay Gould, Jean Carriere and Jean-Paul Delumeau in a series of thought-provoking conversations. Mixing the religious with the profane and the deeply profound with the humorous, the conversations explore anything and everything from the concept of time as embedded in language to the reasons why war became an industrialized phenomenon in the 20th century." (publisher's synopsis)

Princeton University Press, 1995 8vo (22 cm), XII, 261 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (top edge slightly stained). "Do numbers and the other objects of mathematics enjoy a timeless existence independent of human minds, or are they the products of cerebral invention? Do we discover them, as Plato supposed and many others have believed since, or do we construct them? Does mathematics constitute a universal language that in principle would permit human beings to communicate with extraterrestrial civilizations elsewhere in the universe, or is it merely an earthly language that owes its accidental existence to the peculiar evolution of neuronal networks in our brains? Does the physical world actually obey mathematical laws, or does it seem to conform to them simply because physicists have increasingly been able to make mathematical sense of it? Jean-Pierre Changeux, an internationally renowned neurobiologist, and Alain Connes, one of the most eminent living mathematicians, find themselves… Read More

Yale University Press, 2001 12mo (19.5 cm), [12], 282 pp. Publisher's laminated wrappers. All over the world people look forward to a perfect future, when the forces of good will be finally victorious over the forces of evil. Once this was a radically new way of imagining the destiny of the world and of mankind. How did it originate, and what kind of world-view preceded it? In this engrossing book, the author of the classic work The Pursuit of the Millennium takes us on a journey of exploration, through the world-views of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and India, through the innovations of Iranian and Jewish prophets and sages, to the earliest Christian imaginings of heaven on earth. Until around 1500 B.C., it was generally believed that once the world had been set in order by the gods, it was in essence immutable. However, it was always a troubled world. By means of flood and drought, famine and plague, defeat in war, and death itself, demonic forces threatened and impaired it. Various combat myths… Read More

Standaard Boekhandel, 1944 8vo (22 cm), 208 pp. Publisher's cloth-backed boards (minor shelf-wear). Philosophy of mathematics from Parmenides to Bolzano by Evert Beth (1908-1964), a Dutch philosopher and logician, whose work principally concerned the foundations of mathematics.

Métailié, 2002 8vo (21.5 cm), 280 pp. Laminated wrappers.

Van Gorcum, 1969 8vo (21 cm), [8], 116 pp. Printed wrappers (wrappers slightly rubbed, paper toned, ownership entry on the title page).

Coimbra: Imprensa de Trovão, & Companhia, 1845 12mo (16 cm), 96 pp. Cont. leather (binding rubbed, two manuscript ex libris on the title, few pencil notes in the text). Rare Portuguese logic textbook for the use of the second year law student of the University of Coimbra.

Harvard University Press, 2008 8vo (21 cm), XII, 274 pp. Laminated wrappers. "In the past few decades, scientists of human nature - including experimental and cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, evolutionary theorists, and behavioral economists - have explored the way we arrive at moral judgments. They have called into question commonplaces about character and offered troubling explanations for various moral intuitions. Research like this may help explain what, in fact, we do and feel. But can it tell us what we ought to do or feel? In Experiments in Ethics, the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah explores how the new empirical moral psychology relates to the age-old project of philosophical ethics." (from the publisher's description)

Boekencentrum B.V., 2002 8vo (22 cm), 392 pp. Laminated wrappers.

Suhrkamp, 1982 8vo (20 cm), 180 pp. Laminated wrappers.

McGraw-Hill , 2002 8vo (23 cm), XXI, 235, 14 pp. Laminated wrappers. "This up-to-date text treats political philosophy and issues (including the terrorist attacks of September 11) from a global perspective, considering the virtues of both nationalism and cosmopolitanism. As part of his aim of describing a comprehensive global political philosophy, Pojman devotes considerable attention to a defense of ethical objectivism over its ubiquitous rival, ethical relativism." (from the blurb)

Lwów-Warszawa: Książnica-Atlas, 1935 8vo (24 cm), XXIV, 264, [3] pp. Publisher's wrappers (wrappers toned and slightly frayed at extremities, paper somewhat toned inside). In Polish. This is the first edition of Leon Chwistek's (1884-1944) general system of philosophy of science. Chwistek, a Polish avant-garde painter and philosopher, was reputed to be one of the few who comprehended Russell's "Principia Mathematica." In 1948, the book was translated into English and published under the title "The Limits of Science: Outline of Logic and Methodology of Science."

Avon Books, 1985 2 volumes 12mo (17.5 cm), 461; 492 pp. Laminated wrappers (canceled stamp of an institutional library on the title). From the blurb: " As an introduction to political theory and science, this collection of writings by the great philosophers will be of close interest to general readers. It also serves as a basic textbook for students of government and political theory. Such fundamental concepts as Democracy, the Rule of Law, Justice, Natural Rights, Sovereignty, Citizenship, Power, the State, Revolution, Liberty, Reason, Materialism, Toleration, and the Separation of Church and State are traced from their origins, through their development and changing patterns, to show how they guide political thinking and institutions today."

K. G. Saur, 1980 8vo (24 cm), XVI, 894 pp. Publisher's printed cloth. 12032 items followed by 250 pp of indexes. "The following bibliography is to be understood as a bibliographic study and contribution to the historical reception of Hegel and to the history of philosophy of German idealism... The main section is divided into two groups: a bibliography of Hegel's works and a bibliography of the writing on Hegel's works, including philosophy of German Idealism. Among these are classified all original works, monographs, periodicals, essays, dissertations and selected newspaper articles and reviews. The strict chronological order required that each new edition or issue of a work be classified according to the corresponding year of publication." (from the Introduction)