Will, freedom, and power [hardcover] Kenny, Anthony John Patrick [Jan 01, 1976]

Will, freedom, and power

Kenny, Anthony

Barnes_and_Noble

Each year more and more scholars are becoming aware of the importance of the statistical study of literary texts. The present book is the first elementary introduction in English for those wishing to use statistical techniques in the study of literature. Unlike other introductions to statistics, it specifically emphasizes those techniques most useful in literary contexts and gives examples of their application from literary and linguistic material. The text is aimed at those with the minimum of mathematical background and gives exercises for the student and relevant statistical tables.

The Computation of Style: An Introduction to Statistics for Students of Literature and Humanities

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Pergamon

Although almost unknown in his lifetime, it was Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) who set the agenda for much of twentieth-century philosophy. His 'concept script' overthrew Aristotle's long-established system of logic and underlies all subsequent developments in the subject. His radically new approach to the foundations of arithmetic, based on fresh definitions of the terms 'zero', 'one' and 'successor', revolutionized our understanding of mathematics. And his important insights into the nature of language and meaning provided the framework for Russell, Wittgenstein and twentieth-century linguistic analysis. In this superb survey of his evolving ideas, Anthony Kenny explains and assesses the full range of Frege's work and reveals why it still forms an ideal introduction to modern analytic philosophy. Even after seventy years, he concludes, Frege remains an absolutely central figure, one of those rare thinkers who wrote 'prose which is accessible and attractive on first acquaintance and yet which repays rereading over a lifetime'.

Frege (Penguin Philosophy)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Penguin??Books

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Wittgenstein

Penguin Uk

This frank and lively autobiography of a man who ultimately left the Catholic church to become a philosophy professor at Oxford, sheds light on the rigors of seminary life, the rigid Latin teaching at the Gregorian University, and the Spartan pleasures of the English College in Rome. An in-depth account of a personal love affair with Catholicism, the book tackles some of the most important moral questions of our day.

A Path from Rome: An Autobiography (Oxford Paperbacks)

Oxford University Press

In this book, renowned philosopher Anthony Kenny focuses on one of the central questions in the philosophy of religion: is the belief in God and faith in the divine word rational? Surveying what has been said on the topic by such major recent thinkers as Wittgenstein and Platinga, Kenny contructs his own account of what he calls "the intellectual virtue of reasonable belief which stands between skepticism and credulity," which he then applies to the Christian doctrine of faith. Kenny also addresses related questions such as the existence and nature of God and the problem of evil in a world created by an omnipotent being. A fascinating exploration of a subject presented in clear, accessible language, What is Faith? is essential reading for anyone who hopes to understand a debate that has now raged for two thousand years.

What is Faith?: Essays in the Philosophy of Religion

What is mind? This book addresses a timeless question in an especially lively fashion, using language accessible to the layperson, but offering a rigor that will please the specialist. Drawing on the groundbreaking work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and using a structural approach similar to that of Gilbert Ryle's classic The Concept of Mind, Metaphysics of Mind forges the ideas of those influential thinkers with Kenny's own lifelong investigations into mind to create a classic work on philosophical psychology. Ranging from discussions of Cartesian dualism, through theories of emotion, to profound examinations of the imagination and intellect, Metaphysics of Mind is a book for anyone who has ever tried to understand the meaning and place of human consciousness in a vast physical universe.

The Metaphysics of Mind

Oxford University Press, USA

Renaissance Thinkers offers concise and readable introductions to four of the most important philosophical writers of the European Renaissance. All were well-schooled in the literary classics of ancient Greece and Rome, and all assumed that the insights of pagan antiquity were still relevant to the Christian era in which they lived. Erasmus and More believed that the highest human good lay in a union of classical wisdom and Christian teaching; Montaigne displayed a more skeptical temper, while Bacon sketched out a scientific program which was intended to supersede the authority of classical antiquity and literary humanism altogether. This is an authoritative collection of introductions to the achievements and thought of leading intellectual figures of the past whose ideas still influence the way we think today.

Renaissance Thinkers: Erasmus, Bacon, More, and Montaigne (Past Masters)

BURKE, PETER

Quinton, Anthony

McConica, James

Arts & Photography

More (Past Masters)

Biographies & Memoirs

Wyclif (Past Masters)

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