Author: Stefano Di Bella
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-06-29
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0190672722
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The ancient topic of universals was central to scholastic philosophy, which raised the question of whether universals exist as Platonic forms, as instantiated Aristotelian forms, as concepts abstracted from singular things, or as words that have universal signification. It might be thought that this question lost its importance after the decline of scholasticism in the modern period. However, the fourteen contributions contained in The Problem of Univerals in Early Modern Philosophy indicate that the issue of universals retained its vitality in modern philosophy. Modern philosophers in fact were interested in 3 sets of issues concerning universals: (i) issues concerning the ontological status of universals, (ii) issues concerning the psychology of the formation of universal concepts or terms, and (iii) issues concerning the value and use of universal concepts or terms in the acquisition of knowledge. Chapters in this volume consider the various forms of "Platonism," "conceptualism" and "nominalism" (and distinctive combinations thereof) that emerged from the consideration of such issues in the work of modern philosophers. Furthermore, this volume covers not only the canonical modern figures, namely, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant, but also more neglected figures such as Pierre Gassendi, Pierre-Sylvain Regis, Nicolas Malebranche, Henry More, Ralph Cudworth and John Norris.
Author: R. Crocker
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-03-09
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9401702179
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first modern biography to place Henry More’s (1614-1687) religious and philosophical preoccupations centre-stage, and to provide a coherent interpretation of his work from a consideration of his own writings, their contexts and aims. It is also the first study of More to exploit the full range of his prolific writings and a number of unknown manuscripts relating to his life. It contains an annotated handlist of his extant correspondence.
Author: Mark Blacklock
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-04-05
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0192551884
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension describes the development and proliferation of the idea of higher dimensional space in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries. An idea from mathematics that was appropriated by occultist thought, it emerged in the fin de siècle as a staple of genre fiction and influenced a number of important Modernist writers and artists. Providing a context for thinking of space in dimensional terms, the volume describes an active interplay between self-fashioning disciplines and a key moment in the popularisation of science. It offers new research into spiritualism and the Theosophical Society and studies a series of curious hybrid texts. Examining works by Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, H.G. Wells, Henry James, H. P. Lovecraft, and others, the volume explores how new theories of the possibilities of time and space influenced fiction writers of the period, and how literature shaped, and was in turn shaped by, the reconfiguration of imaginative space occasioned by the n-dimensional turn. A timely study of the interplay between philosophy, literature, culture, and mathematics, it offers a rich resource for readers interested in nineteenth century literature, Modernist studies, science fiction, and gothic scholarship.
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Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-08-31
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9789400739895
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 540
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Annali di storia della scienza.
Author: Henry More
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780404044091
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1949
Total Pages: 1206
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes Part 1A: Books and Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals