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This book present Sade’s core metaphysical commitments as a coherent and logical system. It analyses his central ontological principle of entropy and shows that Sade endorsed neither egoism nor materialism but was a forerunner to 19th Century thermodynamics. It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-10-19
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Language and Being in al-Farabi is the first monograph devoted to the philosophy of language and metaphysics of Abu Nasr al-Farabi (d. 950), a medieval Aristotelian and Islamic philosopher. It looks at the Arabic theory of the amphibolous (ambiguous, having two opposing...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-10-17
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The social practices and skills for giving, assessing, and responding to reasons play a key role in the constitution of uniquely human conceptual, epistemic, and deliberative powers. It is thus of great interest to explore why and how humans give and ask for reasons. In...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-10-17
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An urgent meditation on the nature of truth, by the legendary filmmaker and global cultural icon Werner Herzog‘Herzog is in a category of one … A complete original’ MARINA HYDE‘Herzog really is a kind of genius’ SPECTATOR**A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025**What...
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Vintage Digital
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2025-10-16
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This book offers a complete overview of the complex topic of reasonableness. Ranging through ethics, political theory and legal theory, the author shows how ‘reasonable’ is an unescapable evaluative term. One uses this concept to evaluate positively or negatively – ‘it...
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Springer
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2025-10-14
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In der Debatte über Digitalisierung sind Techniken und Praktiken des digitalen Lesens zu einem viel diskutierten Gegenstand geworden. Kulturkritischen Befürchtungen, dass mit dem Ende der ‚Gutenberg-Galaxis‘ die Fähigkeit zu vertieftem Lesen...
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J.B. Metzler
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2025-10-14
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In diesem Buch untersucht Botao Wang die konfuzianische Tauschgerechtigkeit, die autoritäre Herrschaftsform des „äußeren Konfuzianismus, inneren Legalismus“ im traditionellen China sowie intersubjektive Gerechtigkeitsansätze bei...
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Springer VS
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2025-10-14
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Human knowledge, as we understand it in the everyday, appears to make up a complex category, admitting of numerous forms, species, modes, or variations. Reflection on this complexity reveals a whole ecosystem of questions and issues worthy of careful philosophical...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-14
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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 is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Philosophers have had a lot to say...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-13
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For Bernard Williams, philosophy and history are importantly connected. His work exploits this connection in a number of directions: he believes that philosophy cannot ignore its own history the way science can; that even when engaging with philosophy's history...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-12
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Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya (1875-1947) was one of the most prominent philosophers in India in the first half of the 20th century. He was King George Professor of Philosophy at Presidency College in Calcutta. KC Bhattacharyya was a noted Kant scholar, as well as an...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-10-10
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Conceptual engineering is the method of critically assessing, improving, and replacing the concepts we use in thought and talk. Based on lectures by leading philosophers at theConceptual Engineering Online Seminar 2020–2022, this third of three volumes focuses on...
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Springer
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2025-10-09
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This book presents an innovative and thought-provoking argument regarding the foundations of politics and its ethical implications, exploring the difference between what politics is (and/or can be) and what it is not (and/or cannot be). It distinguishes between two...
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Springer
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2025-10-09
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Jürgen Habermas is the voice of a generation. One of the world’s most influential philosophers and Germany’s greatest living intellectual, he has shaped debates, both academic and public, for more than half a century. For as long as the cultural historian Philipp Felsch...
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Polity
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2025-10-09
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It's difficult to explain the point of normative judgments--judgments like 'You ought to donate to charity,' or 'You ought to believe that smoking is bad for you, given the evidence'--without assuming that such judgments express objective truths. And yet philosophers...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-08
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Relationships are of utmost importance to our lives in that they give rise to various kinds of goods. Yet, they also make us vulnerable to distinct kinds of wrongs and harms. So far, philosophers have given some attention to the topics of friendship, parent-child...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-08
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Promising, consenting, and even attacking someone are ways to 'rewrite' our rights, permitting others to treat us in ways that would otherwise have violated the duties they owe us. When unsure whether such a change has been made, we face 'normative opacity'. Incorrect...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-08
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) is famous in mathematics predominantly for his invention of the differential calculus, and in philosophy for his metaphysics of monads and system of pre-established harmony. But at the heart of his thinking in both fields lay his...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-07
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) is famous in mathematics predominantly for his invention of the differential calculus, and in philosophy for his metaphysics of monads and system of pre-established harmony. But at the heart of his thinking in both fields lay his...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-07
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