What are human beings like? How is knowledge possible? What istruth? Where do moral values come from? Questions like these havestood at the center of Western philosophy for centuries. Inaddressing them, philosophers have made certain fundamentalassumptionsthat we can know our own minds by introspection, thatmost of our thinking about the world is literal, and that reason isdisembodied and universalthat are now called into question bywell-established results of cognitive science. It has been shownempirically that:Most thought is unconscious. We have no directconscious access to the mechanisms of thought and language. Ourideas go by too quickly and at too deep a level for us to observethem in any simple way. Abstract concepts are mostly metaphorical.Much of the subject matter of philosopy, such as the nature oftime, morality, causation, the mind, and the self, relies heavilyon basic metaphors derived from bodily experience. What is literalin our reasoning about such concepts is minimal and conceptuallyim
Conceived originally as a serious presentation of thedevelopment of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, FrederickCopleston's nine-volume A History Of Philosophy has journeyed farbeyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as thebest history of philosophy in English.
The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy 雅克 德里达：胡塞尔哲学中的起源问题 Jacques Derrida (作者), Marian Hobson (译者) 基本信息 出版社: University of Chicago Press (2003年7月15日) 精装: 232页 语种： 英语 ISBN: 0226143155 条形码: 9780226143156 商品尺寸: 15.2 x 2.3 x 22.9 cm 商品重量: 490 g ASIN: 0226143155 内容简介 Derrida's first book-length work, "The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy", was originally written for his "diplome d'etudes superieurs" in 1953 and 1954. Surveying Husserl's major works on phenomenology, Derrida reveals what he sees as an internal tension in Husserl's central notion of "genesis" and gives us our first glimpse into the concerns and frustrations that would later lead him to abandon phenomenology and develop his now famous method of deconstruction. For Derrida, the problem of genesis in Husserl's philosophy is that both tempor
