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Contents: Introduction, Bibliography and Textual Note Lecture I: The Present Dilemma in Philosophy Lecture II: What Pragmatism Means Lecture III: Some Metaphysical Problems Pragmatically Considered Lecture IV: The One and the Many Lecture V: Pragmatism and Common Sense Lecture VI: Pragmatism's Conception of Truth Lecture VII: Pragmatism and Humanism Lecture VIII: Pragmatism and Religion

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The word pragmatism is used everywhere today, from business to sports to politics. Written in an engaging and accessible style, this title offers a corrective to modern uses of the word, since the voice that speaks in its pages embodies precisely the opposite values from the pejorative semes the word has acquired.

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A reprint of the New American Library edition of 1970.

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Sheds light not only on Spinoza's debt to Descartes but also on the development of Spinoza's own thought. This title appends Lodewijk Meyer's inaugural dissertation on matter (1683) - relevant for its comments on Descartes, Spinoza, and other thinkers of the time - with notes and a short commentary.

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Sheds light not only on Spinoza's debt to Descartes but also on the development of Spinoza's own thought. This title appends Lodewijk Meyer's inaugural dissertation on matter (1683) - relevant for its comments on Descartes, Spinoza, and other thinkers of the time - with notes and a short commentary.

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This collection of philosophical essays looks at various technical problems in the use of probability theory for guidance in practical decisions. This text is intended for those who already have a basic grounding in philosophy, logic and probabilty theory.

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Thomas Williams' edition offers an Introduction well suited for use in an introductory philosophy course, as well as his own preeminent translation of the text.

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Through a study of Plato's Gorgias, this title shows that contemporary conceptions of shame are far too narrow. It develops an account of a different kind of shame, which the author calls 'respectful shame' and argues that this type of shame is just as important to contemporary democracy as it was to its ancient form.

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Argues that political freedom is essential to both the preservation of constitutional government and the very substance of American democracy itself. This book examines, among other topics, the promise and limits of civil society and associational life as sources of democratic renewal; and the effects of mass media on the public arena.

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Offers reinterpretation of ancient philosophy that recovers the long Greek and Roman tradition of philosophy as a complete way of life - and not simply an intellectual discipline. This book traces how, for many ancient thinkers, philosophy was not just to be studied or even used to solve particular practical problems.

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Despite best intentions, various codes of ethics and extensive public attention, journalists are repeatedly seen to behave in ways that are less than edifying. With refreshing candour and scholarly rigour, Ian Richards, journalist and academic, examines the reasons why this particular profession is, apparently, so ethically challenged.

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Takes the concept of 'rationality', a concept that is supposed to express the essence of what it means to be human, and submits it to an analysis.

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Takes the reader step by step across the distance that the bees would have to traverse to come abreast of us.

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Exploring the work of Howard Stein, these essays treat such topics as: Plato's conception of exact science; the structure of argumentation in Newton's "Principia"; imagery in the work of Descartes and Newton; patterns of reasoning in Maxwell; and Mach's conception of space, time and motion.

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This book intersperses philosophical commentary with a new translation of the whole dialogue to present an original case for thinking that Plato's aim in the Theaetetus is to further the cause of his own anti-empiricist theory of knowledge by testing -- and destroying -- a series of empiricist theories of knowledge.

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A comprehensive English-language collection of the writings of the pivotal period in Chinese intellectual history. This volume provides translations of key works, arranged chronologically within topics, and accompanied by headnotes, a glossary, and a bibliography.

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