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Surrogates / Paul Weiss.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weiss, Paul, 1901-2002.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Phenomenology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (205 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Surrogates introduces an important new philosophic topic: the pervasive ways that things stand for one another in nature and human experience. Going beyond semiotic theory, Paul Weiss interprets surrogacy in terms of metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, and religious dimensions of life, integrating the concept into a systematic way of regarding reality. Just as philosophy brings a systematic set of questions to the issue of surrogate reality, Weiss's investigation of the topic raises new questions
- Contents:
- Unshackled pragmatism
- Personalized surrogates
- Humanized organisms and their surrogates
- Individuals and their surrogates
- Ultimate conditions, being, and their surrogates
- Aids, agents, and substitutes
- A summation
- An envisagement of adjuncts.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-07193-9
- 9786612071935
- 0-253-10963-9
- OCLC:
- 70769148
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