AN ANTHOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES VOLUME 6

Edited by Patricia Hanna

ISBN: 978-960-9549-78-3, 226 pages

First published in 2011 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

1.

Introduction

1

 

Patricia Hanna

 

Part A: History of Philosophy: Ancient and Early Modern

2.

Daemonic Beings: Politics and Human Life in Plutarch

Ivan Faiferri

5

3.

Is Aristotelian Moral Deliberation 'architectonic' As Well?

Dohyoung Kim

15

4.

Aristotle's Greatest Contribution to Science

Chris Kurchuris and Mella McCormick

27

5.

Truth is Subjectivity: Kierkegaard, Socrates, and Immortality

William M. O'Meara

39

6.

The Supreme Way of Al-Ghazali in Attaining Intellectual Knowledge

Zahra (Mitra) Poursina

49

7.

Hannah in Plato's Cave”: Does Politics Need a Philosophical Method?

Elisa Ravasio

61

8.

Hume versus Kant on Causality and External Objects

Andrew Ward

71

Part B: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science and Meta-Philosophy

9.

Mental Pictures, Imagination and Emotions

Maria Magoula Adamos

83

10.

Supervenience, Emergence, and the Ontological Novelty of Consciousness

Reinaldo Bernal Velásquez

93

11.

What if Plato Took Surveys?: Thoughts about Philosophy Experiments

William Goodman

107

12.

Conceptualising the Structure of the Biophysical Organising Principle: Triple-Aspect-Theory of Being

Joseph Naimo

121

13.

Quantum Paradox and Quantum Mind

Donald Poochigian

133

14.

Confirmation and the Theory-Ladenness of Perception

Matthew Rellihan

143

Part C: Ethics, Value Theory, Phenomenology and Existentialism

15.

Ethics without God: Spinoza, Nietzsche and Existentialism

Shai Frogel

157

16.

What Makes an Act Free?

Chrysoula Gitsoulis

169

17.

Integrity and Human Finitude as a Way of Life

Kenny Siu Sing Huen

181

18.

The Philosophy of Arthur Conan Doyle: An Illustration of Nietzsche's Views on the Bicameral Brain

Carol Nicholson

191

19.

On Getting Real: Stoicism and Psychoanalysis

Mathew Sharpe

201

20.

Rationality and Intentional Amoralism

Amna Whiston

215