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This volume brings together fourteen major essays by one of contemporary philosophy's most challenging thinkers. Huw Price links themes from Quine, Carnap, Wittgenstein and Rorty, to craft a powerful critique of contemporary naturalistic metaphysics. He offers a new positive program for philosophy, cast from a pragmatist mold.

Philosophy, Australian. --- Philosophy, Modern --- Australian philosophy

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David (D. M.) Armstrong is one of Australia’s greatest philosophers. His chief philosophical achievement has been the development of a core metaphysical programme, embracing the topics of universals, laws, modality and facts: a naturalistic metaphysics, consistent with a scientific view of the natural world. In this book Stephen Mumford offers an introduction to the full range of Armstrong’s thought. Beginning with a discussion of Armstong’s naturalism, his most general commitment, and his realism about universals, Mumford then examines Armstrong's theories of laws, modality and dispositions, which make up the basics of his core theory. With this in place, Mumford explores his ideas on perception, mind and belief before returning to metaphysics in the final chapters, looking at truth and the new view of instantiation. The book is a dispassionate, fair and unbiased account of Armstrong’s thought. Although Armstong’s is a body of work that Mumford regards highly and of real significance, he nevertheless highlights areas of weakness and issues about which there is room for further debate.

Philosophy --- Armstrong, D. M. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Armstrong, David Malet --- Armstrong, David M. --- Philosophy, Australian --- Philosophie australienne --- Philosophy, Australian. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Australian philosophy --- Philosophy - Criticism and interpretation --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy of mind --- Armstrong, David Malet, - 1926 --- -Philosophy, Australian

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Ce volume présente une approche de la métaphysique analytique dans sa variante naturaliste. Après des siècles d'éclipse, une filiation aristotélicienne retrouve ses droits légitimes en partie grâce à l'École Australienne de philosophie. Plusieurs de ses représentants éminents ont été ici réunis, dont le plus connu est David M. Armstrong. La discussion entamée à Grenoble dresse un état provisoire de l'enquête centrée sur quelques topiques : celle des vérifacteurs, des états de choses, des lois de la nature, de la causalité, des dispositions, du statut des relations, des énoncés contrefactuels, des identités primitives et de la ressemblance. Le débat engagé dispute d'une position prise à l'égard du monde qui ne suppose, ni une " idée " de la nature, ni un horizon egocentré par l'être-au-monde, ni une " construction " logique de ce dernier. Les objets, les propriétés et les états de choses sont trois manières d'envisager que ce monde, s'il a une unité spéculative, doit être structuré " dans " les éléments qui le constituent. La " bifurcation " de Whitehead entre une nature pour l'esprit et une nature qui ne dépend pas de nous, est ramenée à une sorte de convergence, puisque l'on peut admettre que l'esprit fasse lui aussi partie de la nature. Le naturalisme, à la différence du physicalisme, pense devoir cette prétention avouable au choix des outils ontologiques traditionnels que sont les universaux et les particuliers, entre lesquels se glissent désormais les tropes, nouveaux venus de cette constellation. La majeure partie de ces textes, présentés ici en version française, est encore inédite en anglais.

Philosophie analytique --- Métaphysique --- Monde (philosophie) --- Philosophy, Australian --- Philosophie australienne --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy, Modern --- Philosophie --- Métaphysique --- Analysis (Philosophy) --- Métaphysique.

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Many of the elements ascribed to traditional Aboriginal beliefs and practices are the result of contact with external peoples - Melanesians and Indonesians, as well as Europeans. This controversial and provocative 1993 book is a detailed and continent-wide study of the impact of outsiders on Australian Aboriginal world-views. The author separates out a common core of religious beliefs which reflect the precontact spirituality of Australian Aborigines. This book investigates Aboriginal myth, ritual, cosmology and philosophy, and also examines social organisation, subsistence patterns and cultural change. It will be of great interest to readers in anthropology, religious studies, comparative philosophy and Aboriginal studies.

Aboriginal Australians. --- Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian. --- Aboriginal Australians --- Aboriginals, Australian --- Aborigines, Australian --- Australian aboriginal people --- Australian aboriginals --- Australian aborigines --- Australians, Aboriginal --- Australians, Native (Aboriginal Australians) --- Native Australians (Aboriginal Australians) --- Ethnology --- Indigenous peoples --- Aboriginal Australian philosophy --- Philosophy, Australian aboriginal --- Foreign influences. --- Religion. --- Social Sciences --- Sociology

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Art, Aboriginal Australian. --- Indigenous art --- Aboriginal Australians --- Indigenous peoples --- Postcolonialism and the arts --- Art australien (aborigène) --- Art autochtone --- Australiens (Aborigènes) --- Autochtones --- Postcolonialisme et arts --- Colonization --- Colonisation --- Art --- Colonisation. Decolonisation --- anno 1800-1899 --- Australia --- Aboriginal Australian artists --- Art, Aboriginal Australian --- Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian --- Arts and postcolonialism --- Arts --- Aboriginal Australian philosophy --- Philosophy, Australian aboriginal --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Adivasis --- Indigenous populations --- Native peoples --- Native races --- Ethnology --- Ethnic art --- Art, Australian aboriginal --- Aboriginal Australian art --- Aboriginals, Australian --- Aborigines, Australian --- Australian aboriginal people --- Australian aboriginals --- Australian aborigines --- Australians, Aboriginal --- Australians, Native (Aboriginal Australians) --- Native Australians (Aboriginal Australians) --- Artists, Australian aboriginal --- Attitudes --- Colonization.