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'A must-read for psychotherapists, doctors and everyone else who enjoys connecting ideas' Philippa Perry'Compassionate and challenging, warmly human and coolly rigorous. . . I am now thinking afresh about how I live in my own body, in a world where, as Clare Chambers...
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Penguin
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2022-02-24
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Das Buch enthält die wichtigsten Beiträge von Helmut Schelskys wissenschaftlichem Spätwerk, darunter dessen jüngst wieder verstärkt diskutierte Rechtssoziologie. Die neu verfasste Einleitung des Herausgebers erläutert den zeitgeschichtlichen und biographischen...
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Springer VS
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2022-02-23
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This book reconstructs the philosophical issues informing the debate between the makers of modern India: Ambedkar and Gandhi. At one level, this debate was about a set of different but interconnected issues: caste and social hierarchies, untouchability, Hinduism,...
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Springer
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2022-02-22
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This volume contains twenty-four essays by the British/Australian analytic metaphysician, Brian Garrett. These essays are followed by four short dialogues that emphasize and summarize some of the main points of the essays and discuss new perspectives that have emerged...
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Springer
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2022-02-21
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This volume presents a double argumentative analysis of the debate between Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston on the existence of God. It includes an introduction justifying the choice of text and describing the historical and philosophical background of the...
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Springer
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2022-02-21
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For several decades, David Gauthier has been one of the leading philosophers working on practical rationality and deliberation. This book presents a selection of Gauthier's writings on these topics, all but two of which were written after Morals by Agreement (OUP,...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-02-18
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For several decades, David Gauthier has been one of the leading philosophers working on practical rationality and deliberation. This book presents a selection of Gauthier's writings on these topics, all but two of which were written after Morals by Agreement (OUP,...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-02-18
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Irvin argues that rules are the key to understanding what's going on in contemporary art.
Contemporary art can seem chaotic: it may be made of toilet paper, candies you can eat, or meat that is thrown out after each exhibition. Some works fill a room with...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-02-17
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In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linked. Human use of nonhuman animals contributes to pandemics, climate change, and other global threats which, in turn,...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-02-15
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This book examines how philosophy was taught in the early modern period in Europe. It breaks new ground in a number of ways. Firstly, it seeks to bring text-based scholars in the history of philosophy together with social and cultural historians to examine the...
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Springer
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2022-02-15
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This monograph offers a comprehensive study of contingent a priori truths. Building onto a theoretical framework developed by the philosopher and logician Saul Kripke, the author also presents a new approach to these truths.
The first part of the book details the many...
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Springer
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2022-02-14
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This book engages a multidisciplinary approach to understand Gandhi in addressing specific contemporary societal issues. The issues highlighted in the book through thirteen distinct, yet interrelated, themes offer solutions to the societal challenges through the prism...
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Springer
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2022-02-11
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This text explores how self-consciousness and self-understanding differ phenomenologically from the experience and comprehension of others, and the extent to which such relations are constitutively interdependent.Jardine argues that Husserl’s analyses of selfhood and...
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Springer
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2022-02-11
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This volume provides an interdisciplinary collection of essays from leaders in various fields addressing the current and future challenges arising from the implementation of AI in brain and mental health. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform...
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Springer
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2022-02-11
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The ethics of human/animal relationships is a growing field of academic research and a topic for public discussion and regulatory interventions from law-makers, governments and private institutions. Human/animal relationships are in transformation and understanding the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-11
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This book examines the relationship between freedom and true knowledge, which is a central part of the hotly debated issue of human freedom.
Is truth necessary for the attainment of freedom? Does a free life require a clear understanding of reality? And if so, to what...
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Springer
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2022-02-11
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Are contemporary soldiers exploited by the state and society that they defend? More specifically, have America's professional service members disproportionately carried the moral weight of America's war-fighting decisions since the inception of an all-volunteer force?...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-02-11
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What does it mean to be human? Is there something that makes us distinct from computers, other great apes, Martians, gods? Is there philosophical, ethical, or political value in continuing to think in terms of a common human nature? Or should we rather throw this...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-02-11
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Romantic love is a defining phenomenon in human existence, and an object of heightened interest for literature, art, popular culture, and psychology. But what is romantic love and why is it typically experienced as so central?
Sharon Krishek's primary aim in this work...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-02-11
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This book comprehensively discusses the topics in Buddhism that are crucial for promoting lay people’s welfare—from mundane bliss in this life, i.e., wealth and good interpersonal relationships, to prosperity in the future, i.e., a good rebirth and less time spent in...
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Springer
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2022-02-10
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