Modality: A History (Oxford Philosophical Concepts)

Modality: A History (Oxford Philosophica

📁 Modality: A History (Oxford Philosophical Concepts)

✍ Yitzhak Y. Melamed (editor), Samuel Newlands (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2024 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

Modality: A History provides readers a sweeping study of the history of philosophical work on modal concepts. Everyday discourse is saturated with appeals to what might be the case or to what must be true or to what

Powers: A History (Oxford Philosophical

📁 Powers: A History (Oxford Philosophical Concepts)

✍ Julia Jorati (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2021 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

Why does a wine glass break when you drop it, whereas a steel goblet does not? The answer may seem obvious: glass, unlike steel, is fragile. This is an explanation in terms of a power or disposition: the glass breaks because it possesses a particular power, namely fragility. Seemingly simple,

Powers: A History (Oxford Philosophical

📁 Powers: A History (Oxford Philosophical Concepts)

✍ Julia Jorati) 📂 Library 📅 2021 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

Why does a wine glass break when you drop it, whereas a steel goblet does not? The answer may seem obvious: glass, unlike steel, is fragile. This is an explanation in terms of a power or disposition: the glass breaks because it possesses a particular power, namely fragility. Seemingly simple,

Memory: A History (Oxford Philosophical

📁 Memory: A History (Oxford Philosophical Concepts)

✍ Dmitri Nikulin (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

In recent decades, memory has become one of the major concepts and a dominant topic in philosophy, sociology, politics, history, science, cultural studies, literary theory, and the discussions of trauma and the Holocaust. In contemporary debates, the concept of memory is often used rather broa

Space: A History (Oxford Philosophical C

📁 Space: A History (Oxford Philosophical Concepts)

✍ Andrew Janiak (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

Recurrent questions about space have dogged philosophers since ancient times. Can an ordinary person draw from his or her perceptions to say what space is? Or is it rather a technical concept that is only within the grasp of experts? Can geometry characterize the world in which we live? What i

Memory A History (Oxford Philosophical

📁 Memory A History (Oxford Philosophical Concepts)

✍ Dmitri Nikulin; 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 OUP Premium 🌐 English