Recent Textbooks Philosophy
Sehen und Begreifen
[Seeing and Understanding]
It seems to be self-evident that through perception we gain access to the material world. That visual perception takes an important role seems self-evident as well. But what exactly do we see? The objects themselves or just their perceptible properties? How do we manage to see something at all? Are we capable of seeing solely through optical and physiological processes or does viewing something asks for presupposed terms in order to help us to see something as something? [more ...]
Philosophie der Orientierung
[Philosophy of Orientation]
Everyone talks about orientation, but there have been hardly any attempts since Kant to say exactly what orientation is. It is the most everyday thing, the point from which all things depart and to which all return. As such, it is a philosophical question. [more ...]
Erklären
[Explaining]
What defines a good explanation? This book presents the most prominent views on the subject and develops a theory of its own. In so doing, the author lays bare the ontological assumptions bound up with theories of explanation and provides criteria for judging the quality of an explanation. [more ...]
Perfektionierung des Menschen
[Perfecting Human Beings]
This book wants to evaluate 'enhancement', i.e. the attempt to improve normal properties of healthy people through intervention in their bodies. [more ...]
Willensfreiheit
[Freedom of Will]
This book provides an overview of the recent free will debate and considers the consequences of neuroscientific research for the problem of freedom. [more ...]
Normativität
[Normativity]
This book investigates normative reality and its ontology. There is no normativity in reality independent from us. How does it then come to be in the world? What are the conditions of its existence? [more ...]
Das gute Leben
[The Good Life]
By means of a general analysis and critique of the human mode of existence, the following study attempts to guide readers to decisions which are answerable and justifiable to themselves and others. [more ...]
Person
[Individual]
This book shows how in our everyday life the two ‘identities’ of human individuals – persistence and personality – intertwine. [more ...]
Analytische Einführung in die Ethik
[Analytical Introduction to Ethics]
The second volume in the series of “analytical introductions” gives an overview of the problems in moral philosophy and of the ethical answers to questions of essence, functions, and content of morality. [more ...]