RULES, ROLES AND RELATIONS'

Politics & Social Sciences

EMMET, Dorothy

Philosophy

Macmillan

Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism

MacmillanSt. Martin's P.

Sociological Theory and Philosophical Analysis

MacIntyre, Alasdair

Social Sciences

Palgrave HE UK

The Role of the Unrealisable: A Study in Regulative Ideals

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

With a wealth of anecdote Dorothy Emmet looks back on the philosophers who made a personal impact on her. She brings to life the Oxford of the 1920s, and writes particularly about H.A. Pritchard and R.G. Collingwood. She knew A.N. Whitehead and Samuel Alexander, and remembers philosophers who struggled with political dilemmas when a number of intellectuals were turning to Marxism. Describing the post-war period she recalls R.B. Braithwaite, Michael Polanyi, Alasdair MacIntyre and others. Her personal portraits will interest a wide readership, as well as making essential reading for professional philosophers.

Philosophers and Friends: Reminiscences of Seventy Years in Philosophy

Rules, roles, and relations (Beacon paperback, 506)

Macmillan; St. Martin's Press

The Effectiveness of Causes presents a strong view of causation seen as an operation between participants in events, and not as a relation holding between events themselves. In it, Emmet proposes that other philosophical views of cause and effect provide only a world of events, each of which is presented as an unchanging unit. Such a world, she contends, is a “Zeno universe,” since transitions and movement are lost.Emmet offers a more complex interpretation of the various forms of causal dependence. She sees “immanent” causation in the mere persistence of things, where effects are not temporarily separable from causes, and she considers the operation of “efficacious grace.”This is a new approach to the traditional problem and provides stimulating implications for the other metaphysical questions and for the philosophy of science.

Effectiveness of Causes (S.U.N.Y. Series in Philosophy)

State University of New York Press

The Effectiveness of Causes presents a strong view of causation seen as an operation between participants in events, and not as a relation holding between events themselves. In it, Emmet proposes that other philosophical views of cause and effect provide only a world of events, each of which is presented as an unchanging unit. Such a world, she contends, is a “Zeno universe,” since transitions and movement are lost. Emmet offers a more complex interpretation of the various forms of causal dependence. She sees “immanent” causation in the mere persistence of things, where effects are not temporarily separable from causes, and she considers the operation of “efficacious grace.” This is a new approach to the traditional problem and provides stimulating implications for the other metaphysical questions and for the philosophy of science.

The Effectiveness of Causes

State Univ of New York Pr

Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism

The Effectiveness of Causes presents a strong view of causation seen as an operation between participants in events, and not as a relation holding between events themselves. In it, Emmet proposes that other philosophical views of cause and effect provide only a world of events, each of which is presented as an unchanging unit. Such a world, she contends, is a Zeno universe, since transitions and movement are lost. Emmet offers a more complex interpretation of the various forms of causal dependence. She sees immanent causation in the mere persistence of things, where effects are not temporarily separable from causes, and she considers the operation of efficacious grace. This is a new approach to the traditional problem and provides stimulating implications for the other metaphysical questions and for the philosophy of science."

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