Noël Carroll, "Arthur Danto’s Philosophy of Art: Essays"

Essays on the Moral Philosophy of Mengzi

This volume joins an impressive series of collections of essays on classical Chinese thinkers, which have been consistently put together by Philip Ivanhoe and various collaborators: the collection on Zhuangzi (1996), Laozi (1999) and Xunzi (2000). The English-language scholarship of Mengzi (390–305 BCE) has flourished in recent years, and it is indeed high time for us to have such a splendid vo...

Essays in Philosophy of Group Cognition

The ability of people to understand each other and to work together face-to-face is grounded in their sharing of our meaningful natural and cultural world. CSCL groups—such as virtual math teams—have to co-construct their shared world with extra effort. A case study of building shared understanding online illustrates these aspects: Asking each other questions is one common way of aligning perce...

Art Essays and Computer Letters

Essays on Islamic philosophy and science

health rules are reminiscent of the Regimen sanitatis Salerni. Some of the material was borrowed, such as proverbs from Dryden, Pope, La Rochefoucauld and Rabelais. Franklin continually added and revised, and some of his statements found their way into common American parlance. The last number (1758) contained a series of adages entitled 'The way to wealth' and this appeared even in Chinese, Ru...

Of Induction from Essays on the Philosophy of Analysis

[Editor’s Preface] [This chapter is from Charles Babbage’s Essays on the Philosophy of Analysis. The part of the book in which this chapter occurs was called by Babbage in his autobiography ”The Philosophy of Invention”. To understand the context of the article Of Induction, read two subsections of the appendix of this document: (1) Babbage’s notes on this essay from his autobiography and (2) t...