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This book brings research on taxonomy and natural kinds from the philosophy of science to bear on the science of perception. It defends a novel version of the property cluster view of natural kinds and uses it to explore many puzzling features of perception and...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-04-16
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“Know thyself.” Once carved into the stone at Delphi and popularized by Socrates as the guiding maxim of philosophy, this command captures the enduring human struggle to examine and justify our own beliefs. This book asks how such a capacity for...
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Springer
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2026-04-15
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Die Studie untersucht, wie Ärzt:innen im Praxisfeld der Pränataldiagnostik Verantwortung unter Bedingungen hoher Unsicherheit übernehmen. Sie zeigt auf der Grundlage eines empirischen Ansatzes, der problemzentrierte Interviews, theoretisches Sampling und...
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Springer VS
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2026-04-05
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This book introduces and assesses the main contributions of Hermann Lotze (1817-1881) to philosophy of psychology and philosophy of mind. Lotze was the most influential thinker of his time; he revitalised German philosophy after Hegel's death, inspiring American...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-16
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This book introduces and assesses the main contributions of Hermann Lotze (1817-1881) to philosophy of psychology and philosophy of mind. Lotze was the most influential thinker of his time; he revitalised German philosophy after Hegel's death, inspiring American...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-09
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Where justice, with its emphasis on individual claim-rights, falls short of justifying our ethical responsibility to care for those suffering from illnesses that do not neatly qualify as unjust, love (agape) provides the missing moral foundation. This book contributes...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-02-27
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This volume brings together new papers advancing contemporary debates in foundational, conceptual, and methodological issues in cognitive neuroscience. The different perspectives presented in each chapter have previously been discussed between the authors, as the volume...
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Springer
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2020-12-02
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How to be Idle is Tom Hodgkinson's entertaining guide to reclaiming your right to be idle.As Oscar Wilde said, doing nothing is hard work. The Protestant work ethic has most of us in its thrall, and the idlers of this world have the odds stacked against them. But here,...
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Penguin
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2007-06-07
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What is salient to us and what we attend to play a fundamental role in shaping how we perceive, think about, and act in the world. Salience and attention shape our mental lives in ways that have profound epistemic significance, determining how we gather evidence, what...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-07
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What is salient to us and what we attend to play a fundamental role in shaping how we perceive, think about, and act in the world. Salience and attention shape our mental lives in ways that have profound epistemic significance, determining how we gather evidence, what...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-02
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This book proposes a comprehensive theory of cognitive feelings, also referred to as 'noetic', 'epistemic', or 'metacognitive' feelings. There are pivotal moments in our mental lives when, even before we have explicitly thought or reflected on the matter, we become...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-25
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Dieses Buch befasst sich mit Fragen, die das Erleben unserer Lebenszeit berühren. Warum vergeht die Zeit manchmal schnell und manchmal langsam? Warum erscheint ein Rückweg kürzer als ein Hinweg? Warum scheint die Zeit immer schneller zu vergehen, je...
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Springer
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2025-10-13
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This book is a philosophical investigation of the concepts of honor and authenticity, informed by the paradoxes of the individual-community continuum. To achieve this difficult balancing act, the author refines our concepts of both honor and authenticity. Raymond Angelo...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-29
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Philosophical work on the nature of thought has, until recently, focused primarily on what it is for an individual to think, leaving aside important questions about the intersubjective dimension of thought. For example: In what sense, if any, can thoughts really be...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-16
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Philosophical work on the nature of thought has, until recently, focused primarily on what it is for an individual to think, leaving aside important questions about the intersubjective dimension of thought. For example: In what sense, if any, can thoughts really be...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-08
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Nearly all of us aspire to live a prudentially good life. To achieve this, we must understand which things are good for us and which things are bad for us - in other words, we must understand what well-being and ill-being consist in. While well-being has been the...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-03
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Nearly all of us aspire to live a prudentially good life. To achieve this, we must understand which things are good for us and which things are bad for us - in other words, we must understand what well-being and ill-being consist in. While well-being has been the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-03
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The Rational Inquirer offers an original account of the rational response to peer disagreement in terms of a duty to double-check one's initial conclusions and a permission to retain an inquiry-directing attitude of hypothesis toward those conclusions. This allows for a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-13
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The Rational Inquirer offers an original account of the rational response to peer disagreement in terms of a duty to double-check one's initial conclusions and a permission to retain an inquiry-directing attitude of hypothesis toward those conclusions. This allows for a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-11
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What is sensory imagining and what role does it play in our lives? How does visualizing a castle, running through a tune in one's head, or imagining the taste of fish ice cream relate to perceiving such things, or to remembering them?What are the connections between...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-19
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