"Reconstruction in Philosophy" by John Dewey is a groundbreaking philosophical work that challenges traditional modes of thinking and calls for a profound reevaluation of philosophical inquiry. In this transformative book, Dewey offers a compelling vision for reconstructing philosophy to better serve the needs and complexities of the modern world. With incisive intellect and deep insight, Dewey argues for a shift away from abstract metaphysical speculations...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus logico-philosophicus Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung Für die eBook-Ausgabe neu lektoriert, voll verlinkt, mit eBook-Inhaltsverzeichnis und Fußnoten Der Tractatus logico-philosophicus ist eines der bedeutendsten Werke der Philosophiegeschichte. Ludwig Wittgenstein stellt darin den Erkenntnisgewinn traditioneller Philosophie in Frage, als Folge der Unschärfe der in philosophischen Abhandlungen verwendeten Begriffe....

"American Peasant, You Could Be One" is the story of America from the 1950's to today. In this book, Step Jones explains how America got to where it is today and how it will go forward. "American Peasant" is all about you, the American citizen, and your freedoms in America.

In today's busy world people become so preoccupied with their day-to-day existence that they rarely have time to T_H_I_N_K! I have designed this group of topics as conversation starters and short stories that cause the reader to think. They are meant to be kicked around, argued over, developed, expanded, and speculated upon in an endless game of What if! The modern world is designed so that you don't have to think. There are forces and organizations...

Consumada la Modernidad, el progresivo interés por el aspecto semántico relativo a los hechos del lenguaje ha ensanchado de modo natural el límite de la descripción oracional, por tratarse de una unidad de descripción demasiado estrecha para referir fenómenos asociados al tema o tópico del discurso, tales como los de 'coherencia', 'presuposición', 'intención', entre otros. En razón de esto, el límite oracional se ha extendido hasta el de...

Disappointed by the public reception to 'A Treatise of Human Nature', published anonymously between 1739 and 1740, David Hume decided to produce a shorter more polemic version of that work nearly ten years later. That revision, which was published in 1748, would be entitled 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'. Dispensing with much of the extraneous material from the 'Treatise', Hume focuses on his more vital propositions in the 'Enquiry'....

One of the world's leading epistemologists provides a sophisticated, revisionist introduction to the subject. In this concise book, one of the world's leading epistemologists provides a sophisticated, revisionist introduction to the problem of knowledge in Western philosophy. Modern and contemporary accounts of epistemology tend to focus on limited questions of knowledge and skepticism, such as how we can know the external world, other minds, the...

En este libro se juega, se aprende y esto merece atención. Se pone en juego una idea de la arqueología, no en el marco de un conjunto de métodos que se describen y se nombran, sino que se le sitúa en un campo de visibilidad, en una formación real de objetos de estudio; se apuesta por dar cuenta de una relación entre formación científica y formación técnica por fuera de la historia de las mentalidades; se aprende que las decisiones y las...

"Los huesos de Leibniz" —una brillante actualización del género de la epístola filosófica— constituye no sólo una magnífica introducción a la obra de un pensador muy mal conocido, el genial Leibniz, sino una muy grata lectura que enseña y deleita a la par. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz falleció en Hannover un sábado de noviembre del año 1716, y sus restos —un mes después— depositados en una tumba sin nombre. Tras décadas en el olvido,...

But we call a man well read if his mind is stored with the verse of poets and the prose of historians, even though he were ignorant of the name of Descartes or Kant. Yet there are a few philosophers whose influence on thought and language has been so extensive that no one who reads can be ignorant of their names, and that every man who speaks the language of educated Europeans is constantly using their vocabulary. Among this few Aristotle holds not...