This book explores the theory of anticipation, presenting it as a valid research topic. It investigates anticipatory behavior, its implications for decision-making, and its relationship with time and causation. Covering various disciplines, it connects anticipation to futures studies and outlines its scientific foundations, culminating in the "Discipline of Anticipation."
Presents original discoveries that have generated ground-breaking insights based on years of research and performance: long-standing interpretations of commonly encountered musical signs and symbols, from as early as the 1770s, that may fail to reveal the composers' intended meanings.
This book reconstructs Brentano's and his pupils' main achievements, revitalizing knowledge of their analyses, debates and style. The relevance of those discussions for contemporary philosophical debate are also considered.
Nicolai Hartmann was one of the most prolific and original, yet sober, clear and rigorous, 20th century German philosophers. Hartmann was brought up as a Neo-Kantian, but soon turned his back on Kantianism to become one of the most important proponents of ontological realism. He developed what he calls the “new ontology”, on which relies a systematic opus dealing with all the main areas of philosophy. His work had major influences both in philosophy and in various scientific disciplines. The contributions collected in this volume from an international group of Hartmann scholars and philosophers explore subjects such as Hartmann's philosophical development from Neo-Kantianism to ontological realism, the difference between the way he and Heidegger overcame Neo-Kantianism, his Platonism concerning eternal objects and his interpretation of Plato, his Aristotelianism, his theoretical relation to Wolff's ontology and Meinong's theory of objects, his treatment and use of the aporematic method, his metaphysics, his ethics and theory of values, his philosophy of mind, his philosophy of mathematics, as well as the influence he had on 20th century philosophical anthropology and biology.