Handbook of Potentiality
This volume congregates articles of leading philosophers about potentials and potentiality in all areas of philosophy and the empirical sciences in which they play a relevant role. It is the first encompassing collection of articles on the metaphysics of potentials and potentiality.Potentials play an important role not only in our everyday understanding of objects, persons and systems but also in the sciences. An example is the potential to become an adult human person. Moreover, the attribution of potentials involves crucial ethical problems. Bioethics makes references to the theoretical concept potential without being able to clarify its me…
Mehr
CHF 194.50
Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)
Versandkostenfrei
Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Quante, Michael (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-94-024-1287-1
- EAN: 9789402412871
- Produktnummer: 27198362
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 433 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 5'319 KB
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2018
- Abbildungen: 6 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, Bibliographie
Über den Autor
Kristina Engelhard is a post-doc Research Fellow at the DFG-funded research group Inductive Metaphysics, located at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany. Her current research is on dispositions, laws of nature, methods in metaphysics, metametaphysics, classical German Philosophy and early modern philosophy. Her publications include Das Einfache und die Materie. Untersuchungen zu Kants Antinomie der Teilung (De Gruyter 2005), Categories and the ontology of powers. A semi-dualist account of pandispositionalism (in: A. Marmodoro (ed.), The Metaphsics of Powers. Their Grounding and their Manifestations, Routledge 2010), Können Dispositionen das Realismus-Problem des transzendentalen Idealismus lösen? (in: M. Egger (ed.), Philosophie nach Kant. Neue Wege zum Verständnis von Kants Transzendental- und Moralphilosophie, De Gruyter 2014).Michael Quante is Professor for Practical Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at Westfälische Wilhelms-University of Münster, Germany. His research areas are action theory, philosophy of person, ethics and applied ethics. His most important publications are Hegel's Concept of Action (Cambridge University Press 2004), Person (de Gruyter 2012); Personal Identity as a Principle of Biomedical Ethics (Springer 2016).
4 weitere Werke von Kristina (Hrsg.) Engelhard:
Bewertungen
Anmelden