The principal source of the double truth controversy is the condemnation of 1277 issued by the bishop of Paris, Stephan Tempier. In the introduction to the document, Tempier condemns those philosophers who claim that there are things true according to the Catholic faith but false on the basis of natural reason. There are several problems involved here, the first being whether anyone has actually ever advocated double truth. The second follows on the heels of the first since, if so, what does the theory of duplex veritas amount to? Finally, is it rational to uphold a view that embraces double truth? This book attempts to answer these questions. The resulting picture is that of complex and interesting accounts of the relationship between faith and reason, enabling an in-depth reflection on the contemporary discussions of the issue.

The Double Truth Controversy: An Analytical Essay

Politics & Social Sciences

Brożek, Bartosz

Philosophy

Copernicus Center Press

Questions concerning the sense of man and the sense of the universe are closely related. In fact, they constitute one Big Question. Man is genetically connected to the universe and the origins of man have their roots in the history of the universe. If the universe has sense then it most probably embraces man since he is a part or, even more, an element of the structure of the universe. Would it be possible for man to have a senseful existence in a senseless universe? Written by the 2008 Templeton Prize winner, philosopher and cosmologist Michael Heller.

The Sense of Life and the Sense of the Universe: Studies in Contemporary Theology

Heller, Michael

This comprehensive study deciphers the practice of rule-following, with the use of the tools offered by both contemporary philosophy and neuroscience. The book claims - in the Wittgensteinian spirit - that rule-following cannot be thought of in terms of individual mental states only. In order to explain what rules are, one needs to consider rule-following to be a communal practice. This stance is backed by some evolutionary scenarios and neuroscientific theories. The book culminates in an explication of rule-following in language, morality, and mathematics.

Rule-Following: From Imitation to the Normative Mind

The contributions in this book deal with the issue of normativity from various academic and scientific perspectives. The reader will learn how phenomena - such as norms, morality, and rule-following - are described and explained in philosophy, biology, psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience. In addition, a discussion of the naturalistic fallacy, from philosophical and ethical perspectives, is included.

The Many Faces of Normativity

This book examines the fundamental issues in neuroscience from methodological and philosophical perspectives. The reader will learn about the methodological difficulties connected with the use of neuroscientific experiments in philosophical argumentation and about the nature of scientific explanation in neuroscience. In addition, the book includes case studies of several issues lying at the intersection of neuroscience and philosophy, such as theory of mind, self-consciousness, self-deception, depression, and morality.

Philosophy in Neuroscience

This ground-breaking collection of essays tackles the philosophical issues at play in cosmology, physics, mathematics, and neuroscience. The book considers topics such as the presence of ontology in cosmological theory and physics. It also weighs the philosophical issues connected with mathematical method, the neuroscience of emotions, and evolutionary anthropology. The contributions look at structuralism in the Platonic philosophy of science and the issue of knowledge and faith. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the philosophy of science and the increasingly blurred borders between the two.

Between Philosophy and Science

KRAGH, HELGE

This collection of essays deals with issues connected with the mathematical hypothesis, Church's Thesis, from both the philosophical and logical perspectives. Readers will learn about the problems present in the theory of computability, with a particular emphasis being placed on the role of Church's Thesis and the various attempts at proving it. The contributions also concern the intuitive notion of computable functions, the general issue of proving theses, hypercomputation, pseudorecursiveness, and the computational modeling of cognition. Moreover, some utilize formal means, such as the first order theory of hereditarily finite sets or the procedural theory of concepts. [Subject: Philosophy, Logic, Mathematics, Computer Science, Cognitive Science]

Church's Thesis: Logic, Mind and Nature

Game theory is a branch of mathematics that studies strategic interactions - i.e., interactions which involve more than one agent and in which each agent makes her/his decision while striving to predict the decisions of other agents. Game theory has been successfully applied in many areas of both the natural and social sciences, and it is the belief of this book's author that it can also be gainfully invoked in the area of legal philosophy. This second edition of Game Theory in Jurisprudence analyzes legal-philosophical concepts - such as legal interpretation, justice, legal rights, contract law, tort law, and property law - through the lens of game theory. The book appeals mainly to game theory's conceptual rather than technical side, and intertwines game-theoretical analysis with the philosophical. It will be accessible to a wider circle of readers interested in legal and moral philosophy. [Subject: Game Theory, Philosophy, Legal Philosophy]

Game Theory in Jurisprudence

Załuski, Wojciech

The Emotional Brain Revisited tackles various issues at play in the current neuroscientific, psychological, and philosophical research on emotions. The book discusses such topics as the role of amygdala in the emergence of emotions, the place of the affect within the psychological construction of the agent, insights from the research on emotions in animals, and the relation between emotions, rationality, morality, and law. Furthermore, various conceptual controversies underlying the empirical studies on emotions are considered. [Subject: Philosophy, Psychology, Cognitive Science]

The Emotional Brain Revisited

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

This book contains a collection of essays on mathematical structures that serve to model the Universe. The contributions discuss such topics as the interplay between mathematics and physics, geometrical structures in physical models, and observational and conceptual aspects of cosmology. The reader can also contemplate the scientific method on the verge of its limits. [Subject: Physics, Mathematics, Cosmology, Natural Philosophy]

Mathematical Structures of the Universe

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

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