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1. The Rise of Modern Philosophy: A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 3 (v. 3) by Anthony Kenny | |
Paperback: 376
Pages
(2008-08-30)
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Good Addition to Good Series
a fair work, but not for beginners
Early Modern Philosophy |
2. Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey by Roger Scruton | |
Paperback: 624
Pages
(1996-10-01)
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A master articulation of the state of philosophy
500 Repetitive Pages
An Excellent Overview of Philosophical Thought
Among the Very Best Overviews
Very Useful for Intermediate Students Scruton's subject matter here is broad, to say the least.He discusses just about every subject about which philosophers have had anything to say in the last four hundred years.This book has sections about God, about free will, about morality, about politics, about science, about knowledge and belief, about minds and their relations to bodies, about language and its meaning, about space and time, about mathematics, and about quite a few more things.Indeed, there's simply too much covered here for Scruton to connect all the material and provide much structure to this book.So it's perfectly fine to treat this book as something like a reference work, and to dip into whatever section one finds interesting while ignoring much of the rest of the book.But, for people with little background in philosophy, it would help to begin by reading the fifteen or so chapters straight through.These chapters, which comprise roughly the first third of the book, outline the basic historical and contemporary philosophical ideas that the reader needs to understand most of the rest of the book, and they constitute a pretty good introduction to the material in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind that you need to know to understand the rest of the material here. Despite Scruton's professed intentions here, however, this text is probably too complex and too compressed for the absolute beginner.Even working with five hundred pages of space, he's forced to cram quite a bit into a short space.Scruton acquits himself well, of course, but it's simply not possible to explain these things as thoroughly as beginners are probably going to need them explained.He tends to cover in twenty pages what most introductory books cover in two hundred.And while this makes his book an invaluable resource of information about philosophy, it also precludes the sort of patient exposition that might be necessary in presenting this material to beginning students of the subject. I'd recommend this book to people with some background in philosophy who'd like a single-book overview of the subject, and to intermediate students looking for a comprehensive reference work that you can actually read.And if you're unusually ambitious, you might try this as an introduction to philosophy.If you can master everything in this book, you'll almost have the equivalent of an excellent undergraduate education in philosophy.(You'll just need to learn some formal logic, and it wouldn't hurt to learn some additional material in ethics and political philosophy since Scruton's coverage of these areas is somewhat more superficial than his coverage of metaphysics and epistemology.) ... Read more |
3. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg | |
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(2009-10-04)
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4. Modern Movements in European Philosophy: Phenomenology, Critical Theory, Structuralism | |
Paperback: 384
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(1995-01-15)
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5. Late Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary (Blackwell Readings in the History of Philosophy) | |
Paperback: 392
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(2007-01-29)
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Where is the "Commentary"? |
6. Modern Philosophy: An Anthology of Primary Sources by Roger Ariew | |
Paperback: 848
Pages
(2009-11-25)
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good collection
Great Guy Books was great
Great Resource:
Comprehensive and inexpensive anthology
Great excerpts, good format, good reading. |
7. A Short History of Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Wittgenstein (Routledge Classics) by Roger Scruton | |
Paperback: 328
Pages
(2001-11-09)
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The Perfect Introduction To Philosophy
Rigorous and exciting
An excellent introduction to modern philosophy |
8. The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Philosophy (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) | |
Hardcover: 438
Pages
(2006-10-30)
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Excellent companion |
9. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy (Cambridge Companions to Religion) | |
Paperback: 406
Pages
(2007-06-11)
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10. Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy by Susan Neiman | |
Paperback: 376
Pages
(2004-03-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Whether expressed in theological or secular terms, evil poses a problem about the world's intelligibility. It confronts philosophy with fundamental questions: Can there be meaning in a world where innocents suffer? Can belief in divine power or human progress survive a cataloging of evil? Is evil profound or banal? Neiman argues that these questions impelled modern philosophy. Traditional philosophers from Leibniz to Hegel sought to defend the Creator of a world containing evil. Inevitably, their efforts--combined with those of more literary figures like Pope, Voltaire, and the Marquis de Sade--eroded belief in God's benevolence, power, and relevance, until Nietzsche claimed He had been murdered. They also yielded the distinction between natural and moral evil that we now take for granted. Neiman turns to consider philosophy's response to the Holocaust as a final moral evil, concluding that two basic stances run through modern thought. One, from Rousseau to Arendt, insists that morality demands we make evil intelligible. The other, from Voltaire to Adorno, insists that morality demands that we don't. Beautifully written and thoroughly engaging, this book tells the history of modern philosophy as an attempt to come to terms with evil. It reintroduces philosophy to anyone interested in questions of life and death, good and evil, suffering and sense. Customer Reviews (17)
Insights into psychopathology
Relativize the Relativizers, Debunk the Debunkers
Modern thought?:More like recently irrelevant.
"Banal" Evil, Moral Responsiblity, and Interent Wrong
They Way Philosophy Could Be Done But All too Often Isn't |
11. Introduction to Modern Philosophy: Examining the Human Condition (7th Edition) by Alburey Castell, Donald M. Borchert, Arthur Zucker | |
Paperback: 672
Pages
(2000-09-30)
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good service
Easy Reading |
12. Logic and Philosophy: A Modern Introduction by Alan Hausman, Howard Kahane, Paul Tidman | |
Paperback: 456
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(2009-03-12)
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Good value
Great condition- fast delivery
ExcellentBook!
Exellent Introduction to Logic
Best Book I've Read on the Subject |
13. Heidegger's Analytic: Interpretation, Discourse and Authenticity in Being and Time (Modern European Philosophy) by Taylor Carman | |
Paperback: 344
Pages
(2007-08-20)
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Being" is a revealing way of seeing; it is world disclosive
A Brilliant Book!
A good study The guiding thesis of the book is that Heidegger's "analytic" in "Being and Time" should be understood as the provision of "hermeneutic conditions," i.e. the conditions under which human beings are able to interpretively make sense of the world.Focusing particularly on Heidegger's views on language and intentionality, Carman makes a fairly good case for this reading. The main problem that I found in this book is that, by tying Heidegger's researches with contemporary Anglo-American thought so closely, Carman winds up distorting the real originality of Heidegger's thought.Heidegger's thought is so deeply unlike virtually everything else that has come along in the last 200 years that it is a mistake to assimilate his work to that of other philosophers. Commentators and readers alike need to keep Heidegger's own admonitions about his work in mind while reading him; this is a man, after all, once told his students that it was his "personal conviction" that his "hermeneutics" is not philosophy at all (Summer 1923), and who later said that "It is my belief that it is all over for philosophy" (Winter 1923-1924). That said, Carman's work is an eminently readable, well-argued study that ought to be a paradigm for other scholars.While I have my doubts about attempts to make Heidegger into an analytic philosopher, I can only praise Carman's effort at making Heidegger speak to a contemporary audience about issues of universal philosophical concern. ... Read more |
14. Philosophy of Modern Music (Continuum Impacts) by Theodor W. Adorno | |
Paperback: 208
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(2007-12)
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poor translation
Still a nourishing display of conceptual power. |
15. Modern European philosophy; the history of modern philosophy, psychologically treated by Denton Jaques Snider | |
Paperback: 842
Pages
(2010-09-08)
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16. Central Themes in Early Modern Philosophy: Essays Presented to Jonathan Bennett by J. A. Cover | |
Hardcover: 349
Pages
(1990-12)
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17. Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science by Werner Heisenberg | |
Paperback: 256
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(2007-05-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description The seminal work by one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, Physics and Philosophy is Werner Heisenberg's concise and accessible narrative of the revolution in modern physics, in which he played a towering role. The outgrowth of a celebrated lecture series, this book remains as relevant, provocative, and fascinating as when it was first published in 1958. A brilliant scientist whose ideas altered our perception of the universe, Heisenberg is considered the father of quantum physics; he is most famous for the Uncertainty Principle, which states that quantum particles do not occupy a fixed, measurable position. His contributions remain a cornerstone of contemporary physics theory and application. Customer Reviews (21)
Just historical
Classical Dynamics and Quantum Theory
Quantum theory, crossing borders in the higlight of physics
Existence and physical reality according to physicist Werner Heisenberg
His master's voice |
18. Gnostic Philosophy: From Ancient Persia to Modern Times by Tobias Churton | |
Paperback: 480
Pages
(2005-01-25)
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For some things you have to *Be It* to *Know It*
This book is just not accurate
Do what thou wilt!It is the Law!
The Real McCoy
Gnosis and Jnana are of the same Root |
19. The Contradictions of Modern Moral Philosophy: Ethics after Wittgenstein (Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory) by Dr Paul Johnston, Paul Johnston | |
Hardcover: 192
Pages
(1999-11-16)
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20. The Philosophy Of Modern Art by Herbert Read | |
Hardcover: 294
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(2009-07-23)
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