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Early Analytic Philosophy - New Perspectives on the Tradition
This volume discusses some crucial ideas of the founders of the analytic philosophy: Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein, or the ‘golden trio’. The book shows how these ‘old’ ideas are still present and influential in the current philosophical debates and to what extent these debates echo the original ideas. The collection aim is twofold: to better understand these fruitful ideas by placing them in the original setting, and to systematically examine these ideas in the context of the current debates animating philosophical discussions today. Divided into five sections, the book first sets the stage and offers a general introduction to the background influences, as ...
A Life in Linguistics
Alexandra Cornilescu is an internationally renowned linguist, whose pioneering ideas have been influential in developing generative grammar in Romania, Europe and beyond. The weightiness of her contributions to the field is matched only by her talent for disseminating them. Ever since 1970, when she started teaching at the University of Bucharest, she has continuously played a tireless and inspirational role in the creation of several generations of linguists, which the academic world has come to admiringly refer to as The Bucharest School. As the initiator of the AICED conference, held annually in the English Department at the University of Bucharest, she has turned it into one of the leading platforms of generative linguistics in Europe. She has published extensively on Romanian and English linguistics and is also the founder and past editor of the journal Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics. On the occasion of her 75th birthday, her friends, students and colleagues celebrate Alexandra Cornilescu’s work with this collection of essays on various topics of current theoretical interest.
Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Nature
This volume explores the themes of vanishing matter, matter and the laws of nature, the qualities of matter, and the diversity of the debates about matter in the early modern period. Chapters are unified by a number of interlocking themes which together enable some of the broader contours of the philosophy of matter to be charted in new ways. Part I concerns Cartesian Matter; Part II covers Matter, Mechanism and Medicine; Part III covers Matter and the Laws of Motion; and Part IV covers Leibniz and Hume. Bringing together some of the world’s leading scholars of early modern philosophy, as well as some exciting new researchers, Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Motion stakes out new territory that all serious scholars of early modern philosophy and science will want to traverse.
Suicide Tourism
The phenomenon of 'suicide tourism', where people travel to other countries to receive assistance in committing suicide because their national laws do not permit such a procedure, is becoming increasingly prevalent. This book offers a theoretical investigation of the issues that arise and provides a detailed appraisal of the situation worldwide.
Functions and Generality of Logic
This book examines three connected aspects of Frege’s logicism: the differences between Dedekind’s and Frege’s interpretation of the term ‘logic’ and related terms and reflects on Frege’s notion of function, comparing its understanding and the role it played in Frege’s and Lagrange’s foundational programs. It concludes with an examination of the notion of arbitrary function, taking into account Frege’s, Ramsey’s and Russell’s view on the subject. Composed of three chapters, this book sheds light on important aspects of Dedekind’s and Frege’s logicisms. The first chapter explains how, although he shares Frege’s aim at substituting logical standards of rigor to intu...
Cartesian Empiricisms
Cartesian Empiricisms considers the role Cartesians played in the acceptance of experiment in natural philosophy during the seventeenth century. It aims to correct a partial image of Cartesian philosophers as paradigmatic system builders who failed to meet challenges posed by the new science’s innovative methods. Studies in this volume argue that far from being strangers to experiment, many Cartesians used and integrated it into their natural philosophies. Chapter 1 reviews the historiographies of early modern philosophy, science, and Cartesianism and their recent critiques. The first part of the volume explores various Cartesian contexts of experiment: the impact of French condemnations o...
Regimens of the Mind
In Regimens of the Mind, Sorana Corneanu proposes a new approach to the epistemological and methodological doctrines of the leading experimental philosophers of seventeenth-century England, an approach that considers their often overlooked moral, psychological, and theological elements. Corneanu focuses on the views about the pursuit of knowledge in the writings of Robert Boyle and John Locke, as well as in those of several of their influences, including Francis Bacon and the early Royal Society virtuosi. She argues that their experimental programs of inquiry fulfill the role of regimens for curing, ordering, and educating the mind toward an ethical purpose, an idea she tracks back to the an...
EVALUAREA INFORMAȚIILOR DIN MEDIUL ONLINE: NU CREDE ȘI CERCETEAZĂ
“Lucrarea de față încearcă să ofere un ghid de informare corectă în mediul online. Într-o vreme în care omenirea este bulversată de volumul și impactul dezinformărilor instrumentate cu ajutorul unor tehnologii aflate la îndemâna oricui, este imperios ca utilizatorii internetului să-și dezvolte capacitatea individuală de evaluare a informațiilor pe care le accesează în acest mediu și să învețe cum să folosească mijloacele de comunicare digitală într-un mod benefic atât pentru ei înșiși cât și pentru cei cu care interacționează online. Educația media și informațională trebuie să devină un obiectiv strategic al politicilor educaționale dacă ne dorim să trăim într-o societate funcțională, populată cu semeni capabili să facă distincția între adevăr și fals, între fapte și opinii, între realitate și „fapte alternative”. Cartea abordează problematica evaluării informațiilor dintr-o perspectivă atât teoretică, cât și practică, propunând instrumente și metode de evaluare care pot fi folosite de orice utilizator al mediului online”. Robert Coravu
Istoria filosofiei
Prima istorie a filosofiei într-un singur volum care acoperă atât tradițiile occidentale, cât și cele orientale — o lucrare de referință prestigioasă și accesibilă, de la unul dintre cei mai străluciți gânditori de azi.
