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This book provides detailed transcriptions of two notebooks written by Kurt Gödel in Vienna in 1937/38 in the nearly forgotten Gabelsberger shorthand system. The first of these notebooks, simply entitled as the Protokoll-book, contains notes on conversations Gödel had...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-05-25
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Determinism, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility brings together nine essays on determinism, freedom and moral responsibility in antiquity by Susanne Bobzien. The essays present the main ancient theories of determinism, freedom, and moral responsibility ranging from...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-05-20
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Elionor of Sicily, 1325–1375: A Mediterranean Queen’s Life of Family, Administration, Diplomacy, and War followsElionor of Sicily, the third wife of the important Aragonese king, Pere III. Despite the limited amount of personal information about Elionor, the large...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-19
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Focusing primarily on Plato, Aristotle, and the Pyrrhonian skeptics, Fine discusses the following questions, among others: does Socrates, in the Apology, claim to know that he knows nothing? How do Plato and Aristotle conceive of doxa and epistêmê? Are doxa and epistêmê...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-05-13
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At first glance, Theodor W. Adorno’s critical social theory and Gershom Scholem’s scholarship of Jewish mysticism could not seem farther removed from one another. To begin with, they also harbored a mutual hostility. But their first conversations in 1938 New York were...
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Polity
Parution :
2021-05-06
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Why does a wine glass break when you drop it, whereas a steel goblet does not? The answer may seem obvious: glass, unlike steel, is fragile. This is an explanation in terms of a power or disposition: the glass breaks because it possesses a particular power, namely...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-05-05
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Are we rational creatures? Do we have free will? Can we ever know ourselves? These and other fundamental questions have been discussed by philosophers over millennia. But recent empirical findings in psychology and neuroscience suggest we should reconsider them. This...
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Polity
Parution :
2021-04-28
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A year after the end of the Second World War, the first International Summer Course for New Music took place in the Kranichstein Hunting Lodge, near the city of Darmstadt in Germany. The course, commonly referred to later as the Darmstadt course, was intended to...
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Polity
Parution :
2021-04-26
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Women and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany showcases the vibrant and diverse contributions on the part of women in eighteenth-century Germany and explores their under-appreciated influence upon philosophical debate in Germany in this period. Among the women...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-22
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Women and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany showcases the vibrant and diverse contributions on the part of women in eighteenth-century Germany and explores their under-appreciated influence upon philosophical debate in Germany in this period. Among the women...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-22
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Immanuel Kants three critiques the Critique of Pure Reason, the Critique of Practical Reason and the Critique of Judgment are among the pinnacles of Western Philosophy. This accessible study grounds Kants philosophical position in the context of his intellectual...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-04-14
Collection :
Classic Thinkers
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We all have minds, but what exactly is a mind? Is your mind the same thing as your brain? How does what’s happening in your mind cause your behaviour? Can you know what’s going on in other people’s minds? Can you even be sure what’s going on in your own? Are babies...
Editeur :
Polity
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2021-04-13
Collection :
What is Philosophy?
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Stephen Daniel presents a study of the philosophy of George Berkeley in the intellectual context of his times, with a particular focus on how, for Berkeley, mind is related to its ideas. Daniel does not assume that thinkers like Descartes, Malebranche, or Locke define...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-01
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Stephen Daniel presents a study of the philosophy of George Berkeley in the intellectual context of his times, with a particular focus on how, for Berkeley, mind is related to its ideas. Daniel does not assume that thinkers like Descartes, Malebranche, or Locke define...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-01
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This book is the first comprehensive study of Plato’s conception of justice. The universality of human rights and human dignity—recognized as the source of the former—are among the crucial philosophical problems in modern-day legal orders and in contemporary culture in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-03-26
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Although it is common to see Kant's philosophy as at its core a reaction to (and partial rejection of) the dogmatism and rationalism of Leibniz, Wolff, and their followers, it is surprising how little detailed and critical study there has been of the relation between...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-25
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Although it is common to see Kant's philosophy as at its core a reaction to (and partial rejection of) the dogmatism and rationalism of Leibniz, Wolff, and their followers, it is surprising how little detailed and critical study there has been of the relation between...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-25
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Aristotle initiated the systematic investigation of perception, the emotions, memory, desire and action, developing his own account of these phenomena and their interconnection. The Undivided Self aims to gain a philosophical understanding of his views and to examine...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-16
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Die zunehmende Ausdifferenzierung der Humanwissenschaften stellt zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts das bisherige Bild des Menschen in Frage, ohne dabei ein konsistentes Folgekonzept liefern zu können. Als Reaktion auf diese unbestimmte Positionierung des Menschen entwerfen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-03-09
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Aristoteles, Schüler Platons und Lehrer Alexanders des Großen, gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Denker überhaupt. Er hat ein umfangreiches, aber auch anspruchsvolles und schwer zugängliches Werk hinterlassen. Seine Schriften sind nicht nur grundlegend für die weitere...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-03-09
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