History Of Contemporary Philosophy

Translated from the Spanish, originally published: Madrid: Palabra, 2004.

Presents the history of modern philosophy and includes profiles of notable philosophers, discussing the writings of the Renaissance, Rationalism, Enlightenment, and Empiricism.

A guide to today's most exciting research in academic philosophy with more than 30 distinguished scholars to contribute incisive and up-to-date critical surveys of the principal areas of research.

Excerpt from 'Time' and 'History' in Contemporary Philosophy: With Special Reference to Bergson and Croce This may sound fanciful. Yet in England we have always been conscious of a strong bias in our philosophy towards realism, and there is no less evident in the French development a distinct bias towards idealism, and this notwithstanding the fact that each line can produce representative philosophers of either form of philosophical theory. To a cursory reader Condillac may seem to have no originality, and merely to expand and expound the ideas to be found in his great English predecessor; to a more attentive reader he is turning inquiry into a new channel and giving it new direction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This book introduces students to the principal issues in the philosophy of mind by tracing the history of the subject from Plato and Aristotle through to the present day. Over forty primary-source readings are included. Extensive commentaries from the editors are provided to guide student readers through the arguments and jargon and to offer necessary historical context for the readings. The new third edition examines some of the most exciting recent developments in the field, including advances in theories about the mind’s relation to action and agency. Previous editions of this book, published under the title A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, have been praised and widely taught for more than two decades.

This volume collects contributions from leading scholars of early modern philosophy from a wide variety of philosophical and geographic backgrounds. The distinguished contributors offer very different, competing approaches to the history of philosophy.

A consideration of the unity of a class or kind as including its member or instances.