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• List of Contributors vii Foreword ix Alvin I. Goldman Preface x Part I Reliabilism, Internalism, and Externalism 1
• 1 Internalism, Reliabilism, and Deontology 3 Michael Williams Reply to Michael Williams
• 2 Goldman against Internalism 22 Laurence BonJour Reply to BonJour
• 3 Historical versus Current Time Slice Theories in Epistemology 43 Thomas Kelly Reply to Kelly
• 4 The Justification of Memory Beliefs: Evidentialism, Reliabilism, Conservatism 69 Matthew McGrath Reply to McGrath
• 5 Unreliable Testimony 88 Elizabeth Fricker Reply to Fricker Part II Epistemological Trouble-Shooting and Social Epistemology 125
• 6 Process Reliabilism and Virtue Epistemology 127 Ernest Sosa Reply to Sosa
• 7 Goldman on Evidence and Reliability 149 Jack C. Lyons Reply to Lyons
• 8 A Naturalistic Approach to the Generality Problem 178 Erik J. Olsson Reply to Olsson
• 9 Veritism and Epistemic Value 200 Duncan Pritchard Reply to Pritchard
• 10 The Condorcet Jury Theorem and Voter -Specific Truth 219 Christian List and Kai Spiekermann Reply to List and Spiekermann Part III Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind, and Metaphysics 235
• 11 Knowledge and Reliability 237 Jennifer Nagel Reply to Nagel
• 12 Goldman on Knowledge of Mind 259 Christopher S. Hill Reply to Hill
• 13 Under Influence: Is Altercentric Bias Compatible with Simulation Theory? 280 Frederique de Vignemont and Hugo Mercier Reply to Vignemont and Mercier
• 14 Finding the Body in the Brain: From Simulation Theory to Embodied Simulation 297 Vittorio Gallese Reply to Gallese
• 15 Embodiment in Perception: Will We Know It When We See It? 318 Chaz Firestone Reply to Firestone
• 16 Cognitive Science and Metaphysics: Partners in Debunking 337 Jonathan Schaffer Reply to Schaffer Appendix: Alvin Goldman s Publications 369 Index 379.
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Goldman and His Critics presents a series of original essays contributed by influential philosophers who critically examine Alvin Goldman s work, followed by Goldman s responses to each essay. * Critiques Alvin Goldman s groundbreaking theories, writings, and ideas on a range of philosophical topics * Features contributions from some of the most important and influential contemporary philosophers * Covers Goldman s views on epistemology both individual and social in addition to cognitive science and metaphysics * Pays special attention to Goldman s writings on philosophy of mind, including the evolution of his thoughts on Simulation-Theory (ST).
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• Notes on Contributors ix Introduction: Life and Work 1 Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig Part I Action Theory 13
• 1 Action Explanation 15 Ralf Stoecker
• 2 Practical Reason 32 Agnes Callard
• 3 Action Individuation 48 Hugh J. McCann
• 4 Freedom to Act 62 Olav Gjelsvik
• 5 Intention 75 Luca Ferrero Part II Metaphysics 91
• 6 Event Variables and Their Values 93 Paul M. Pietroski
• 7 Causation 126 John Heil
• 8 Davidson's "Method of Truth" in Metaphysics 141 William G. Lycan
• 9 The Concept of Truth 156 Michael Glanzberg Part III Philosophy of Language 173
• 10 Truth in the Theory of Meaning 175 Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig
• 11 Parataxis 191 Adam Sennet
• 12 Logical Form 208 Miguel Hoeltje
• 13 Radical Interpretation and the Principle of Charity 225 Peter Pagin
• 14 Davidson's Measurement-Theoretic Analogy 247 Piers Rawling
• 15 Reference 264 J. Robert G. Williams
• 16 Language and Thought 287 A.P. Martinich
• 17 Conceptual Schemes 300 David Henderson
• 18 Interpretation and Value 314 Robert H. Myers
• 19 Predication 328 Jeff Speaks
• 20 Convention and Meaning 339 Kathrin Gluer
• 21 Metaphor and Varieties of Meaning 361 Elisabeth Camp
• 22 Davidson and Literary Theory 379 Samuel C. Wheeler III Part IV Philosophy of Mind 393
• 23 The Larger Philosophical Signifi cance of Holism 395 Carol Rovane
• 24 Anomalous Monism 410 Brian P. McLaughlin
• 25 Triangular Externalism 443 Sven Bernecker
• 26 Triangulation 456 Claudine Verheggen
• 27 Rationality as a Constitutive Ideal 472 Michael Rescorla
• 28 Irrationality 489 Sarah Stroud
• 29 The Rationality of the Emotions 506 Mitchell Green Part V Epistemology 519
• 30 Davidson and Radical Skepticism 521 Duncan Pritchard
• 31 First-Person Authority 533 William Child
• 32 Knowledge of Other Minds in Davidson's Philosophy 550 Anita Avramides Part VI Influences and Influence 565
• 33 Quine and Davidson 567 Hans-Johann Glock
• 34 Davidson and Contemporary Philosophy 588 Pascal Engel Name Index 605 General Index 609.
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A Companion to Donald Davidson presents newly commissioned essays by leading figures within contemporary philosophy. Taken together, they provide a comprehensive overview of Davidson's work across its full range, and an assessment of his many contributions to philosophy. Highlights the breadth of Davidson's work across philosophy Demonstrates the continuing influence his work has on the philosophical community Includes newly commissioned contributions from leading figures in contemporary philosophy Provides an in-depth exposition and analysis of Davidson's work across the range of areas to which he contributed, including philosophy of action, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.
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A widespread misapprehension of Søren Kierkegaard is that his concern for the individual and the individual's relation to the divine excluded any significant attention to social and political problems. In this volume Gregor Malantschuk, before his death one of the world's foremost Kierkegaard scholars, demonstrates the social dimension of Kierkegaard's thought – the relation between the individual and the state, the distinctive and complementary character of man and woman, his possible acquaintance with Marxist thought. The book shows Kierkegaard as an astute observer of the social and political situation of his time and underscores the differences between his presuppositions and those of the present day. The book is a translation of Den kontroversielle Kierkegaard together with two additional essays by Malantschuk.

• Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgements xvii Introduction 1Laura Hengehold Part I Re reading The Second Sex 13 A. Reception and scholarship 13
• 1 Beauvoir s Transdisciplinarity: From Philosophy to Gender Theory 15Stella Sandford
• 2 The Intellectual and Social Context of The Second Sex 28Sandra Reineke
• 3 The Limits of the Abject. The Reception of Le Deuxieme Sexe in 1949 37Ingrid Galster
• 4 Simone de Beauvoir and the Race/Gender Analogy in The Second Sex Revisited 47Kathryn T. Gines
• 5 Two English Translations of Simone de Beauvoir s The Second Sex 59Emily R. Grosholz B. Central Themes 71
• 6 Beauvoir and the Biological Body 73Ruth Groenhout
• 7 Becoming Bodies 87Emily Anne Parker
• 8 The Drama of Independence: Narcissism, Childhood, and the Family Complexes 99Emily Zakin
• 9 The Second Sexuality: Training in the Work of Simone de Beauvoir and Michel Foucault 111Mary Beth Mader
• 10 Beauvoir and the Ambiguities of Motherhood 122Alison Stone
• 11 Laboring with Beauvoir: In Search of the Embodied Subject in Childbirth 134Sara Cohen Shabot
• 12 Simone de Beauvoir on Motherhood and Destiny 146Nancy Bauer
• 13 Love According to Simone de Beauvoir 160Tove Pettersen
• 14 Why is Woman the Other? 174Tanella Boni Part II Beauvoir s Intellectual Engagements 185
• 15 Beauvoir and Hegel 187Kimberly Hutchings
• 16 Simone de Beauvoir s Relation to Hegel s Absolute 198Zeynep Direk
• 17 Beauvoir and Merleau ]Ponty 211Jennifer McWeeny
• 18 Beauvoir and Merleau ]Ponty on Freedom and Authenticity 224William Wilkerson
• 19 Beauvoir and the Marxism Question 236Sonia Kruks
• 20 Beauvoir Between Structuralism and Aleatory Materialism 249Eva D. Bahovec
• 21 Unweaving the Threads of Influence: Beauvoir and Sartre 260Christine Daigle Part III Beyond The Second Sex 271 A. Beauvoir s Ethics and Political Philosophy 271
• 22 Pyrrhus and Cineas : The Conditions of a Meaningful Life 273Kristana Arp
• 23 Separation and Queer Connection in The Ethics of Ambiguity 286Laura Hengehold
• 24 Simone de Beauvoir on Violence and Politics 299Lori J. Marso
• 25 Why Rape? Lessons from The Second Sex 311Debra Bergoffen
• 26 Simone de Beauvoir, Women s Oppression and Existential Freedom 325Patricia Hill Collins B. Beauvoir and the Art of Philosophical Fiction 339
• 27 Beauvoir as Literary Writer 341Meryl Altman
• 28 Simone de Beauvoir and the Dialectic of Desire in L invitee 356Anne van Leeuwen
• 29 The Failure of Female Identity in Simone de Beauvoir s Fiction 367Shannon M. Mussett
• 30 The Power of Literature: Simone de Beauvoir s Les Mandarins and the Metaphysical Novel 379Sally J. Scholz C. Beauvoir s Scope: Memory, History, and Age 391
• 31 Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Autobiography 393Margaret A. Simons
• 32 Witnessing Self, Witnessing Other in Beauvoir s Life Writings 406Ursula Tidd
• 33 Simone de Beauvoir: Women and Philosophy of History 418Michel Kail
• 34 The Postwar World According to Beauvoir 429William McBride
• 35 Afterlives: Beauvoir s Old Age and the Intersections of The Second Sex 438Penelope Deutscher Part IV Beauvoir and Contemporary Feminism 449
• 36 Race after Beauvoir 451Shannon Sullivan
• 37 Who Is the Subject of The Second Sex? Life, Science, and Transmasculine Embodiment in Beauvoir s Chapter on Biology 463A. Alexander Antonopoulos
• 38 Misunderstanding in Paris 478Karen Vintges
• 39 Beauvoir s Legacy to the Quartiers: The Changing Face of French Feminism 489Diane Perpich
• 40 Second Languaging The Second Sex, Its Conceptual Genius: A Translingual Contemporization of On ne nait pas femme: on le devient. 500Kyoo Lee Index 514.
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The work of Simone de Beauvoir has endured and flowered in the last two decades, thanks primarily to the lasting influence of The Second Sex on the rise of academic discussions of gender, sexuality, and old age. Now, in this new Companion dedicated to her life and writings, an international assembly of prominent scholars, essayists, and leading interpreters reflect upon the range of Beauvoir s contribution to philosophy as one of the great authors, thinkers, and public intellectuals of the twentieth century. The Companion examines Beauvoir s rich intellectual life from a variety of angles including literary, historical, and anthropological perspectives and situates her in relation to her forbears and contemporaries in the philosophical canon. Essays in each of four thematic sections reveal the breadth and acuity of her insight, from the significance of The Second Sex and her work on the metaphysics of gender to her plentiful contributions in ethics and political philosophy. Later chapters trace the relationship between Beauvoir s philosophical and literary work and open up her scholarship to global issues, questions of race, and the legacy of colonialism and sexism. The volume concludes by considering her impact on contemporary feminist thought writ large, and features pioneering work from a new generation of Beauvoir scholars. Ambitious and unprecedented in scope, A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir is an accessible and interdisciplinary resource for students, teachers, and researchers across the humanities and social sciences.
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• Table of Contents : Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Contributors

Heidegger's philosophy has an extraordinarily complex relationship to Plato. Heidegger sees Plato as the founder of that Western metaphysics which he claims should be overcome. However, his interpretation of Plato, upon which his reconstruction of the history of philosophy rests, is anything but incontestable from a philological point of view, and has generated much criticism. This criticism, however, has been hampered by the fact that the only example in Heidegger's work of a detailed analysis of a Platonic dialogue, namely the Lectures on Plato's Sophist held in Marburg in 1924-25, remained unpublished until 1992. Thus, only in the last twenty years have scholars been able to develop a more nuanced understanding of Heidegger's interpretation of Plato. Even then, however, the focus has been primarily on the importance of the lectures for Heidegger's own thought. The possible impact of Heidegger's interpretation on the study of Platonic philosophy itself has been neglected. This volume, therefore, offers a critical re-evaluation of Heidegger as an interpreter of Plato.
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• Burns, J.H. The light of reason: philosophical history in the two Mills.
• Britton, K.W. John Stuart Mill on Christianity.
• Schneewind, J.B. Concerning some criticisms of Mill's Utilitarianism, 1861-76.
• Stigler, G.J. The scientific uses of scientific biography, with special reference to J.S. Mill.
• Hollander, S. Ricardianism, J.S. Mill, and the neo-classical challenge.
• Feuer, L.S. John Stuart Mill as a sociologist: the unwritten ethology.
• Hamburger, J. Mill and Tocqueville on liberty.
• Alexander, E. The principles of permanence and progression in the thought of J.S. Mill.
• Robson, J.M. Rational animals and others.

• Translator's introduction : the ecstasy of freedom
• The ages of the world (1811) : introduction
• The ages of the world (1811) : Book one : the past
• Notes and fragments : to the first book of The ages of the world : the past
• Notes and fragments : to the second book of The ages of the world : the present.

"In 1810, after establishing a reputation as Europe's most prolific philosopher, F. W. J. Schelling embarked on his most ambitious project, The Ages of the World. For over a decade he produced multiple drafts of the work before finally conceding its failure, a "failure" in which Heidegger, Jaspers, Voegelin, and many others have discerned a pivotal moment in the history of philosophy. Slavoj Zizek calls this text the "vanishing mediator, " the project that, even while withheld and concealed from view, connects the epoch of classical metaphysics that stretches from Plato to Hegel with the post-metaphysical thinking that began with Marx and Kierkegaard. Although drafts of the second and third versions from 1813 and 1815 have long been available in English, this translation by Joseph P. Lawrence is the first of the initial 1811 text. In his introductory essay, Lawrence argues for the importance of this first version of the work as the one that reveals the full sweep of Schelling's intended project, and he explains its significance for concerns in modern science, history, and religion"-- Provided by publisher.

Patocka's celebrated Introduction, here made available in English for the first time, is not an introduction in the ordinary sense of the term. Patocka ranges over the whole of Husserl's output, from The Philosophy of Arithmetic to The Crisis of the European Sciences, and traces the evolution of all the central issues of Husserlian phenomenology--intentionality, categorial intuition, temporality, the subject-body; the concrete a priori, and transcendental subjectivity. But rather than attempting to give a tour of Husserl's workshop, Patocka is himself hard at work on Husserl's problems.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Escaping the Framework of Modernity Prefatory Notes on Terminology Subject and Object, ens naturae and ens rationis Ideoscopic and Cenoscopic Concept, verbum mentis, species expressa Ens ut primum cognitum and ens primum cognitum Influential Approaches to Ens Primum Cognitum Objectively and Socially-Constituted Reality Thomas Aquinas: Intellectus Agens, Verbum Mentis, Relatio
• 1 The Latin Thomists and Ens Primum Cognitum 1.1 The Early Dispute: Setting the Stage 1.1.1 The Scotistic Foil 1.2 Thomas Cajetan and the Doctrine of Being 1.2.1 Cajetan's Four Cognitions and Three Abstractions 1.2.2 The Doctrine of Analogy 1.2.3 Conclusion 1.3 John Poinsot, the Nature of Concepts and Ens ut Primum Cognitum 1.3.1 Objectivity and Conceptualization 1.3.2 De Primo Cognito 1.3.3 Objectivity and the Concept of Ens Primum Cognitum
• 2 Recent Thomistic Interpretations of Ens Primum Cognitum 2.1 Etienne Gilson's "Metaphysical Realism" 2.1.1 Overcoming Critique 2.1.2 Abstraction and the Nature of the Concept 2.1.3 Realism vs. Idealism and the Question of Ens ut Primum Cognitum 2.2 Jacques Maritain 2.2.1 Maritain on Abstraction 2.2.2 Concept Formation 2.2.3 Maritain on Ens Primum Cognitum 2.3 Conclusion
• 3 The Intellectus Agens and Concept Formation 3.1 St. Thomas and the Obiectum Intellectus 3.1.1 Ens, ens ut verum, and ens intelligibile 3.1.2 Quod quid est, quid est, and quod quid erat esse 3.1.3 Quidditas rei and quidditas rei materialis 3.2 Intellectus Agens 3.2.1 Illuminare 3.2.2 Digression on Nature: Matter, Form, and Understanding 3.2.3 Abstrahere
• 4 The Discursion of Concept Formation 4.1 The Discursion of Intellectual Discovery 4.1.1 From Pre-Philosophical Cognition to Philosophical Science 4.1.2 Intellectual Discovery and the Philosophical Sciences 4.2 Formation of the Verbum Mentis 4.2.1 The Derivation of Primary Concepts 4.2.2 Terminus of Intellectual Operation and Intentional Fundamentum 4.2.3 Necessity of Composition 4.2.4 Definition and Quiddity 4.3 A Recursive Analysis of the Species Expressa 4.3.1 True and False Concepts 4.3.2 Species Expressae and Cognition-Dependent Objects 4.3.3 What is Inessential to Things is Essential to Our Concepts
• 5 Relation and Ens Primum Cognitum 5.1 What is Relation? 5.1.1 Relativa Secundum Esse 5.1.2 Relativa Secundum Dici 5.1.3 The Constitution of Cognition-Dependent Relative Being 5.2 Relations and Objectivity 5.2.1 Intellectual Apprehension of Relations 5.2.2 Interpretation and the Constitution of Objective Realities 5.2.3 "Reality", "The Real", and Objective Constitution
• 6 The Nature of Ens Primum Cognitum 6.1 Summary of Argument 6.2 The Nature of Ens Primum Cognitum 6.2.1 St. Thomas and the Resolutio ad Ens Primum Cognitum 6.3 Conclusion References Historically Layered.
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Ens Primum Cognitum in Thomas Aquinas and the Tradition presents a reading of Thomas Aquinas' claim that "being" is the first object of the human intellect. Blending the insights of both the early Thomistic tradition (c.1380-1637AD) and the Leonine Thomistic revival (1879-present), Brian Kemple examines how this claim of Aquinas has been traditionally understood, and what is lacking in that understanding. While the recent tradition has emphasized the primacy of the real (so-called ens reale) in human recognition of the primum cognitum, Kemple argues that this misinterprets Aquinas, thereby closing off Thomistic philosophy to the broader perspective needed to face the philosophical challenges of today, and proposes an alternative interpretation with dramatic epistemological and metaphysical consequences.
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• List of Abbreviations (Works by Derrida) ix Notes on Contributors xv Introduction 1 Zeynep Direk and Leonard Lawlor Part I Fundamental Themes and Concepts in Derrida s Thought 21
• 1 Truth in Derrida 23 Christopher Norris
• 2 A Certain Truth: Derrida s Transformation of the Kantian Heritage 42 Olivia Custer
• 3 Difference 57 Claire Colebrook
• 4 The Obscurity of Differance
• 72 Gary Gutting
• 5 Metaphor and Analogy in Derrida 89 Geoffrey Bennington
• 6 The Slow and Differentiated Machinations of Deconstructive Ethics 105 Kelly Oliver
• 7 Deconstruction 122 Leonard Lawlor
• 8 The Transcendental Claim of Deconstruction 132 Maxime Doyon
• 9 Writing the Violence of Time: Derrida Beyond the Deconstruction of Metaphysics 150 Bjorn Thorsteinsson
• 10 Derrida s Radical Atheism 166 Martin Hagglund
• 11 Play and Messianicity: The Question of Time and History in Derrida s Deconstruction 179 Francoise Dastur
• 12 I See Your Meaning and Raise the Stakes by a Signature: The Invention of Derrida s Work 194 Peggy Kamuf
• 13 An Immemorial Remainder: The Legacy of Derrida 207 Rodolphe Gasche Part II Derrida and ... 229
• 14 Derrida and Ancient Philosophy (Plato and Aristotle) 231 Michael Naas
• 15 There Is Neither Jew Nor Greek: The Strange Dialogue Between Levinas and Derrida 251 Robert Bernasconi
• 16 The Crystallization of the Impossible: Derrida and Merleau-Ponty at the Threshold of Phenomenology 269 Sabrina Aggleton
• 17 The Politics of Writing: Derrida and Althusser 287 Edward Baring
• 18 Derrida and Psychoanalysis 304 Elizabeth Rottenberg
• 19 Derrida and Barthes: Speculative Intrigues in Cinema, Photography, and Phenomenology 321 Louise Burchill
• 20 Derrida and de Man: Two Rhetorics of Deconstruction 345 J. Hillis Miller
• 21 Fraternal Politics and Maternal Auto-Immunity: Derrida, Feminism, and Ethnocentrism 362 Penelope Deutscher
• 22 Antigone as the White Fetish of Hegel and the Seductress of Derrida 378 Tina Chanter
• 23 Art s Work: Derrida and Artaud and Atlan 391 Andrew Benjamin
• 24 Heidegger and Derrida on Responsibility 412 Francois Raffoul
• 25 On Faith and the Holy in Heidegger and Derrida 430 Ben Vedder and Gert-Jan van der Heiden
• 26 Safe, Intact : Derrida, Nancy, and the Deconstruction of Christianity
• 447 Kas Saghafi
• 27 Derrida and the Trace of Religion 464 John D. Caputo
• 28 Derrida and Islamic Mysticism: An Undecidable Relationship 480 Recep Alpyadyl
• 29 Derrida and Education 490 Samir Haddad Part III Areas of Investigation 507
• 30 A Philosophy of Touching Between the Human and the Animal: The Animal Ethics of Jacques Derrida 509 Patrick Llored
• 31 Poetry, Animality, Derrida 524 Nicholas Royle
• 32 On Forgiveness and the Possibility of Reconciliation 537 Ann V. Murphy
• 33 Cosmopolitanism to Come: Derrida s Response to Globalization 550 Fred Evans
• 34 The Flipside of Violence, or Beyond the Thought of Good Enough 565 Leonard Lawlor
• 35 Derrida/Law: A Differend 581 Pierre Legrand Bibliography of Secondary Sources on Derrida 599 Index 605.
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A Companion to Derrida is the most comprehensive single volume reference work on the thought of Jacques Derrida. Leading scholars present a summary of his most important accomplishments across a broad range of subjects, and offer new assessments of these achievements. * The most comprehensive single volume reference work on the thought of Jacques Derrida, with contributions from highly prominent Derrida scholars * Unique focus on three major philosophical themes of metaphysics and epistemology; ethics, religion, and politics; and art and literature * Introduces the reader to the positions Derrida took in various areas of philosophy, as well as clarifying how derrideans interpret them in the present * Contributions present not only a summary of Derrida s most important accomplishments in relation to a wide range of disciplines, but also a new assessment of these accomplishments * Offers a greater understanding of how Derrida s work has fared since his death.
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How was the universe created, and what is our place within it? These are the questions at the heart of Plotinus' Against the Gnostics. For the Gnostics, the universe came into being as a result of the soul's fall from intelligible reality-it is the evil outcome of a botched creation. Plotinus challenges this, and insists that the soul's creation of the world is the necessary consequence of its contemplation of the ideal forms. While the Gnostics claim to despise the visible universe, Plotinus argues that such contempt displays their ignorance of the higher realities of which the cosmos is a beautiful image. Against the Gnostics is a polemical text. It aims to show the superiority of Plotinus' philosophy over that of his Gnostic rivals, and poses unique challenges: Plotinus nowhere identifies his opponents by name, he does not set out their doctrines in any great detail, and his arguments are frequently elliptical. The detailed commentary provides a guide through these difficulties, making Plotinus' meandering train of thought in this important treatise accessible to the reader.
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• Introduction : Cavernosis anfractibus
• Under oath : secrecy, perjury and the social bond
• Open secrets : literature, politics and testimonial truth
• Between two solitudes : self-deception, consciousness and the other mind
• Being alone : death, solitude and the end of the world
• Conclusion : secretions.

Explores the sense in which secrecy is a condition for social relationsThe Snowden Affair, Wikileaks, the 'lone wolf' terrorist, Hilary Clinton's private email account - the secret is arguably the central element of our contemporary political experience. Organised as a reflection on Jacques Derrida's later writings on secrecy, Charles Barbour looks at the basic ontological question: 'what is a secret?' Four chapters engages with a separate problematic - society and the oath, literature and testimony, philosophy and deception, and time and death. Shows that secrecy is not a negation of our relations with others, but a necessary to those relations.
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Originally published between 1968 and 2009, this collection of 25 pieces includes six interviews translated into English for the first time and a new transcription of a Q&A session with Baudrillard following a lecture he gave in London in 1994. The guiding theme of the collection is Baudrillard's engagement with culture. The implications of the implosion of Western culture are dissected and documented in the rich range of material included here.
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• Book I
• 1. Birth of Venus
• 2. Love and War
• 3. Religion
• 4. Flows of Matter
• 5. Pores of Matter
• 6. Event
• 7. Folds of Matter
• 8. Emancipation of the Senses
• 9. Infinity of Matter
• Book II
• 10. Motion of Matter
• 11. Swerve
• 12. Form of Matter
• 13. Morphogenesis
• 14. Sensation of Matter
• 15. Multiverse.

The most original and shocking interpretation of Lucretius in the last 40 yearsThomas Nail argues convincingly and systematically that Lucretius was not an atomist, but a thinker of kinetic flux. In doing so, he completely overthrows the interpretive foundations of modern scientific materialism, whose philosophical origins lie in the atomic reading of Lucretius' immensely influential book 'De Rerum Natura'.This means that Lucretius was not the revolutionary harbinger of modern science as Greenblatt and others have argued; he was its greatest victim. Nail re-reads 'De Rerum Natura' to offer us a new Lucretius a Lucretius for today.Key FeaturesA new materialist, quantum and feminist interpretation of LucretiusArgues the original and provocative thesis that Lucretius was not an atomist but rather the first philosopher of motionThe most profound revision of how we read Lucretius since Michel Serres' 'The Birth of Physics' (1977).
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• Speculative philosophy : method and function
• The speculative approach to existence : process and individuation
• Experiences and societies : thinking nature.

Didier Debaise focuses in on Whitehead s attempt to construct a metaphysical system of everything in the universe that exists whilst simultaneously claiming that it can account for every element of our experience, giving us a radically new way of conceiving the relations between experience and speculation.
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A radically new philosophy of experience and speculation, based on a reading of Whitehead's Process and Reality Can experience be thought systematically without transforming the richness of the world as it is lived into reductive philosophical generalities? Can the method of empiricism ever be reconciled with a method of systematic cosmological speculation? Didier Debaise's reading of Whitehead shows clearly what a philosophy that makes this possible looks like, how it works and what is at stake. He focuses in on Whitehead's attempt to construct a metaphysical system of everything in the universe that exists whilst simultaneously claiming that it can account for every element of our experience: everything enjoyed and perceived, willed or thought.
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• Table of Contents; Foreword by the Editors; Section One: Society and Politics; Introduction; Process, Progress, Excess; Peace in Society and Psychotherapy; Practices of Solidarity; Political Theory of Systemism; Intersubjectivity, Species-Being, Actual Entities; Oldthinkers unbellyfeel Whiteheadian Socialism; The Deep Convergence between Constructive Postmodernism and Chinese Marxism; Biocracy and the Rights of Nature; Section Two: Education and Language; Contributions to an Aesthetics of Education; A Model of an Educational Event; Whitehead's Process Education; 'Being Gods to one another'

• Holistic Worldviews, Whitehead, and Music Education as "Education of Relationships"The Act of Reading as a Constitution of Society of Actual Occasions; Translation, Language and Cognition; Section Three: Theology and God; Introduction; Philosophy of Religion, Functional-Equivalents of Both, and Idolatry; Worldly Religion in Deleuze and Whitehead; Process and Creditions; A Pedagogical Approach to Panentheism; From Divine Solidarity to Ecological Theology; Index

Process thought is an important component of contemporary philosophy. Alfred North Whitehead's organic philosophy has a special place in the landscape of process thinking, being detailed, precise and well-thought, and at the same time extremely visionary and far-reaching. The global community of process thinkers includes physicists, biologists, doctors, political scientists, educators, activists, philosophers, theologians and other people devoted to rethinking their disciplines in the light of process philosophy.This volume presents the cutting edge in the creation of a process worldview. Leading scholars from all over the world gathered to discuss how process thinking can inspire us to rethink our lives. Precise philosophical language and a unifying vision are applied to core issues, such as politics, society, education and religion. The book represents a bold move from academic philosophy into the realm of actual human lives.
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• Intro; Medieval Essays; Foreword to the French Edition;
• Chapter 1: Critical Historical Research and the Future of Scholasticism;
• Chapter 2: The Middle Ages and Ancient Naturalism;
• Chapter 3: The Meaning and Nature of St. Anselm's Argument;
• Chapter 4: Peter Lombard and the Theologies of Essence;
• Chapter 5: The Concept of Existence in William of Auvergne;
• Chapter 6: Maimonides and the Philosophy of Exodus;
• Chapter 7: Boethius of Dacia and Double Truth;
• Chapter 8: Notes for the History of Efficient Causality;
• Chapter 9: Avicenna in the West during the Middle Ages; Bibliography