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Noël Carroll, The Philosophy of Horror, or Paradoxes of the Heart, 1990; Kendall Walton, Mimesis as Make-Believe: On The Foundations of the Representational Arts, 1990; Richard Shusterman, Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art, 1992/2000; Arthur Danto, After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History, 1997
In Think, Blackburn introduces major philosophical fields, such as epistemology, philosophy of the mind, free will, political philosophy, and philosophy of religion, by narrating how key figures in the history of Western philosophy including René Descartes, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Ludwig Wittgenstein addressed key concepts in each ...
Introduction to philosophy. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961 (1972, 1979) Epistemology. Harper & Row, 1967 (Greenwood Press, 1979) Philosophy and the Human Spirit. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973; Philosophy and Contemporary Problems. Richard H. Popkin, Avrum Stroll, Holt Rinehart & Winston, February 1984; Surfaces. University of Minnesota ...
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. [1] [2] It is distinguished from other ways of addressing fundamental questions (such as mysticism, myth) by being critical and generally systematic and by its reliance on rational argument. [3]
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics is a 2012 textbook on the philosophy of mathematics by Mark Colyvan. It has a focus on issues in contemporary philosophy , such as the mathematical realism – anti-realism debate and the philosophical significance of mathematical practice, and largely skips over historical debates.
In contemporary philosophy, another common view is functionalism, which understands mental states in terms of the functional or causal roles they play. [141] The mind-body problem is closely related to the hard problem of consciousness , which asks how the physical brain can produce qualitatively subjective experiences.