Broadly characterized, the philosophy of action encompasses a host of problems about the nature and scope of human action and agency, including, but not limited to, intention and intentional action, the ontology of action, reason-explanations of action, motivation and practical reason, free will and moral responsibility, mental agency, social action, controlling attitudes, akrasia and enkrasia, and many other issues. Philosophy of Action: 5 Questions is a collection of short interviews based on 5 questions presented to some of the most influential and prominent scholars in this philosophical field. We hear their views on philosophy of action, its aim, scope, use, the future, and how their work fits in these respects.

Philosophy of Action: 5 Questions

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Philosophy

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Computing and information, and their philosophy in the broad sense, play a most important scientific, technological and conceptual role in our world. This book collects together, for the first time, the views and experiences of some of the visionary pioneers and most influential thinkers in such a fundamental area of our intellectual development. This is yet another gem in the 5 Questions Series by Automatic Press / VIP

Philosophy of Computing and Information: 5 Questions

Computers & Technology

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Debates concerning the nature of mind and consciousness are active and ongoing, with implications for philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence and the neurosciences. This book collects interviews with some of the foremost philosophers of mind, focusing on open questions, promising projects, and their own intellectual histories. The result is a rich glimpse of the contemporary debate through some of the people who make it what it is. Interviews with Lynne Rudder Baker, David Chalmers, Daniel Dennett, Fred Dretske, Owen Flanagan, Samuel Guttenplan, Valerie Gray Hardcastle, John Heil, Terence Horgan, Douglas Hofstadter, Frank Jackson, Jaegwon Kim, William Lycan, Alva Noë, Hilary Putnam, David Rosenthal, John Searle, Steven Stich, Galen Strawson, Michael Tye.

Mind and Consciousness: 5 Questions

Jaegwon Kim

Hilary Putnam

David Chalmers

Daniel Dennett

Douglas Hofstadter

John Searle

Galen Strawson

Frank Jackson

This volume consists of short, interview-style contributions by leading figures in the field of complexity, based on five questions. The answers trace their personal experience and expose their views on the definition, aspects, problems and future of complexity. The aim of the book is to bring together the opinions of researchers with different backgrounds on the emerging study of complex systems. In this way, we will see similarities and differences, agreements and debates among the approaches of different schools.

Complexity: 5 Questions

Even before we humans became modern as homo sapiens we were busy inventing technologies. But our technologies also invent us as humans. And as we reflect upon this process, too often our interpretations have taken utopian or dystopian directions: our technologies will make life infinitely better and lead us into utopian realms, or our technologies will condemn us to alienation or even destroy our humanity itself. This set of essays, however, looks at the ironic dimensions of human-technology relations, at unpredicted, unexpected, surprizing outcomes. Are we today in a ‘knowledge society’? And, if so, are we wiser? Can we design’ intended uses into our technologies? Or, do they always surprise us with the unexpected? Can we ‘technologize’ our very bodies? Become ever more Cyborgean? And have we or could we become ‘posthuman’? Here, drawing from a rich history of technologies, Ironic Technics takes a critical look at these contemporary, but also ancient questions.

Ironic Technics

Don Ihde

Epistemic Logic: 5 Questions is a collection of short interviews based on 5 questions presented to some of the most influential and prominent scholars in the field. We hear their views on the field, the aim, the scopes, the future direction of research and how their work fits in these respects.

Epistemic Logic: 5 Questions

What is linguistic meaning? What do people precisely do in uttering sentences? What are the principles involved in linguistic interpretation? How is it possible that linguistic signs, such as oral sounds or squiggles on a piece of paper, refer to things in the world? This book presents the attempts by philosophers in the 20th century to understand the workings of language, and address questions such as these. Presenting an accessible, balanced introduction to the philosophy of language as it has evolved in analytical philosophy during the 20th century, this textbooks offers equal attention to both of the main divisions within the field of philosophical semantics -truth-conditional theory and speech act theory - and shows how these theoretical approaches may be construed as complementary abstractions from a prior, undifferentiated understanding of meaning as defined by use. Meaning, Use and Truth offers students of philosophy of language, and those in related fields such as logic and linguistics, a comprehensive introduction to the field, and explores why philosophy of language in the 20th century could be viewed as providing the key to the solution if the classical problems of philosophy. Finn Collin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Finn Guldmann is External Lecturer at the University of Copenhagen and at Roskilde University, Denmark.

Meaning, Use and Truth

Collin, Finn

Guldmann, Finn

Alle mennesker er i stand til at udføre korrekte logiske slutninger, men vi gør os sjældent klart, hvordan vi bærer os ad. Det kan logikken fortælle os, og derfor spiller den en så vigtig rolle i mange moderne videnskaber. Moderne elementær logik læseren gennem den moderne logik og dens systemer - fra klassisk udsagnslogik for første ordens prædikatslogik til modallogik, herunder aletisk, temporal og epistemisk logik. Bogen inde- holder ligeledes kapitler af mere avanceret karakter om formelle strukturer, modelteori og metateoretisk analyse af udsagnslogik samt førsteordenslogik. Bogen er tilrettelagt med henblik på universiteternes grunduddannelser i bl.a. filosofi, matematik, datalogi, lingvistik og retorik, men henvender sig også til studerende på overbygningsuddannelsernes specialkurser - og i det hele taget enhver, der interesser sig for "tænkningens love". 2. reviderede udgave, 2011

Moderne Elementær Logik (Danish Edition)

Pedersen, Stig Andur

Hendricks, Vincent F.

Philosophy of Medicine: 5 Questions is a collection of short interviews based on five provoking questions presented to some of the most influential and prominent scholars in field. They present us with their views on philosophy of medicine, its aim, scope, use, the future direction of philosophy of medicine and how their work fits in these respects. Interviews with Vilhjálmur Árnason, Daniel Callahan, Arthur L. Caplan, Ruth Chadwick, Bill (KVM) Fulford, Henk ten Have, Bjørn Hofmann, Søren Holm, Ingvar Johansson, Niels Lynøe, Ruth Macklin, Lennart Nordenfelt, Onora O'Neill, Peter Rossel, Udo Schuklenk

Philosophy of Medicine: 5 Questions

This volume of the 5 Questions series is devoted to philosophical practice. Philosophical practice is rooted in the Greek understanding of philosophy as linked to the actual experience of man. It places the philosopher in real life armed with a Socratic state of mind that facilitates critical, comprehensive and creative thinking. Interviews with Lydia Amir, José Barrientos-Rastrojo, Dries Boele, Vaughana Macy Feary, Fred Gebler, Horst Gronke, Finn Thorbjørn Hansen, Leon de Haas, Henning Herrestad, Jos Kessels, Dieter Krohn, Ran Lahav, Anders Lindseth, Lou Marinoff, Peter Raabe, Shlomit Schuster, Helge Svare

Philosophical Practice: 5 Questions

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