Product Description: This volume distinguishes between two main traditions in the philosophy of science - the aristotelian, with its stress on explanation in terms of purpose and intentionality, and the galilean, which takes causal explanation as primary...read more

Product Description: Descartes made a sharp distinction between matter and mind. But he also thought that the two interact with one another. Is such interaction possible, however, without either a materialist reduction of mind to matter or an idealist (phenomenalist) reduction of matter to mind? These questions overshadow the Western tradition in metaphysics from the time of Descartes to present times...read more

Product Description: Zettel is a collection of fragments which Wittgenstein cut from various of his typescripts and preserved for future use. More than half of the fragments were written in the years 1946-1948, after the completion of Part I and before the composition of Part II of the Philosophical Investigations...read more

Product Description: In this volume, Professor Von Wright explores a philosophical area that he has made peculiarly his own: deontic logic, the name he coined in 1951 for the logical study of action, normative concepts, and discourse. The present collection is in large part devoted to an important new essay entitled "Norms, Truth, and Logic," in which the author presents what he hopes will be his final thoughts on the controversies surrounding the subject...read more