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How should we decide a single employee's accountability in a corporation that commits egregious wrongs? What about a single solider fighting in an unjust war? Or a single participant in a lynching? We need a way to make sense of individual moral accountability in cases...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-28
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HOW NATURE MATTERS presents an original theory of nature's value based on part—whole relations. James argues that when natural things have cultural value, they do not always have it as means to valuable ends. In many cases, they have value as parts of valuable wholes —...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-28
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HOW NATURE MATTERS presents an original theory of nature's value based on part—whole relations. James argues that when natural things have cultural value, they do not always have it as means to valuable ends. In many cases, they have value as parts of valuable wholes —...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-28
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This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the idea that some facts call for explanation.This idea serves as a premise in influential arguments for the inexistence of moral facts, for the inexistence of mathematical facts, for the existence of a god, for the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-07-26
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Philosopher Ned Block argues in this book that there is a "joint in nature" between perception and cognition and that by exploring the nature of that joint, one can solve mysteries of the mind. The first half of the book introduces a methodology for discovering what the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-07-26
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This book seeks to provide new perspectives, to broaden the field of philosophy of science, or to renew themes that have had a great impact on the profession. Thus, after an initial chapter to situate the current trends in philosophy of science and the prospective of...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-07-25
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This book comments on growing authoritarianism in democracy and suggests how it ought to be instead. It asks if some degree of authoritarianism is the need of the hour to address potentially existential issues facing the human race. Readers are encouraged to analyse the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-07-22
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) befasste sich zeitlebens mit Fragen der Religion. Der frühe Fichte sah einen engen Zusammenhang zwischen göttlicher Weltregierung und sittlicher Ordnung – so zeigt sich das Absolute für ihn im Endlichen. Später entwickelte Fichte eine...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-07-22
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This pioneering book presents thirteen articles on the fascinating topic of emotions (jeong ?) in Korean philosophy and religion. Its introductory chapter comprehensively provides a textual, philosophical, ethical, and religious background on this topic in terms of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-07-21
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In each of Plato’s “dialogues of definition” (Euthyphro, Laches, Meno, Charmides, Lysis, Republic I, Hippias Major), Socrates motivates philosophical discussion by posing a question of the form “What is F-ness?” Yet these dialogues are notorious for coming up empty....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-07-21
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Dugald Stewart's Empire of the Mind recasts the cultivation of a democratic intellect in the late Scottish Enlightenment. It comprises an intellectual history of what was at stake in moral education during a transitional period of revolutionary change between 1772 and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-21
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What happens when human beings fail to do as reason bids? This book is an attempt to address this age-old question within Kant's mature practical philosophy, i.e. the practical philosophy that emerged with the watershed discovery of autonomy in the mid-1780s. As always,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-21
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Dugald Stewart's Empire of the Mind recasts the cultivation of a democratic intellect in the late Scottish Enlightenment. It comprises an intellectual history of what was at stake in moral education during a transitional period of revolutionary change between 1772 and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-21
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What happens when human beings fail to do as reason bids? This book is an attempt to address this age-old question within Kant's mature practical philosophy, i.e. the practical philosophy that emerged with the watershed discovery of autonomy in the mid-1780s. As always,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-21
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This book is concerned with why (or whether) paintings have value: why they might be worth creating and attending to. The author starts from the challenge expressed in Plato's critique of the arts generally, according to which they do not lead us to what is true and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-21
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This book is concerned with why (or whether) paintings have value: why they might be worth creating and attending to. The author starts from the challenge expressed in Plato's critique of the arts generally, according to which they do not lead us to what is true and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-21
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In this book, Professor Jeanine Grenberg defends the idea that Kant's virtue theory is best understood as a system of eudaemonism, indeed, as a distinctive form of eudaemonism that makes it preferable to other forms of it: a system of what she calls Deontological...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-21
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Dieses Buch stellt eine Untersuchung des Wahrheitsbegriffs in Ludwig Wittgensteins allerletzter Schrift Über Gewißheit dar. Es zeichnet sich besonders durch die folgenden beiden neuen Aspekte aus: Erstens widerspricht es der bisher gängigen Interpretation, dass...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-07-20
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The tsunami of information unleashed by digitization is threatening to overwhelm us, drowning us in a sea of frenzied communication and disrupting many spheres of social life, including politics. Election campaigns are now being waged as information wars with bots and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-07-19
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In recent decades, green chemistry dominated the imagination of sustainability scholars all over the world and was embraced by leading global universities and companies. This new concept is supposed to address the environmental crisis by making chemistry safer and less...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-07-18
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