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There is one fundamental thing that has changed in our societies since 1950: life has got longer. Over the last few generations, 20 or 30 years have been added to the duration of our lives. But after the age of 50, human beings experience a kind of suspension: no longer...
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Polity
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2021-02-03
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Am 8.2.2021 feiert Hans Albert seinen 100. Geburtstag. Hans Albert ist der wichtigste Vertreter des Kritischen Rationalismus im deutschen Sprachraum und weit darüber hinaus. Aus diesem Anlass verfassten 19 Freunde, Schüler, Kolleginnen und Kollegen Forschungsbeiträge...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-02-02
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This book is above all an example of philosophical reflection in Africa, refuting traditional commonplaces concerning the continent. The texts comprising this volume disprove the misconceptions that Africa has never understood itself and has never contributed to the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-02-01
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Kant's arguments for the reality of human freedom and the normativity of the moral law continue to inspire work in contemporary moral philosophy. Many prominent ethicists invoke Kant, directly or indirectly, in their efforts to derive the authority of moral requirements...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-02-01
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We often rely on others for guidance about what to do. But wouldn't it be better to rely instead on only your own solo judgment? Deferring to others about moral matters, after all, can seem to conflict what Enlightenment demands.
In Guided by Voices, however, Eric...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-01
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We often rely on others for guidance about what to do. But wouldn't it be better to rely instead on only your own solo judgment? Deferring to others about moral matters, after all, can seem to conflict what Enlightenment demands.
In Guided by Voices, however, Eric...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-01
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Kant's arguments for the reality of human freedom and the normativity of the moral law continue to inspire work in contemporary moral philosophy. Many prominent ethicists invoke Kant, directly or indirectly, in their efforts to derive the authority of moral requirements...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-01
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This book offers a philosophical exploration of lines in art and culture, and traces their history from Antiquity onwards. Lines can be physical phenomena, cognitive responses to observed processes, or both at the same time. Based on this assumption, the book describes...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-31
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Migration dominates contemporary politics across the world, and there has been a corresponding surge in political theorizing about the complex issues that it raises. In a world in which borders seem to be solidifying while the number of displaced people soars, how...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-01-28
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And Political Theory
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Is it possible to abolish coercion and hierarchy and build a stateless, egalitarian social order based on non-domination? There is one political tradition that answers these questions with a resounding yes: anarchism. In this book, Carissa Honeywell offers an...
Editeur :
Polity
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2021-01-28
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Key Concepts in Political Theory
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This volume offers novel and provocative insights into vulnerability and exclusion, two concepts crucial for the understanding of contemporary political agency. In twelve critical essays, the contributors explore the dense theoretical content, complex histories and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-28
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism, and by the fear that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-28
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism, and by the fear that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-28
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The Wissenschaftslehre or "doctrine of science" was the great achievement of the German idealist philosopher J. G. Fichte. Daniel Breazeale presents accessible new translation of three works in which Fichte developed this philosophical system.The centerpiece of this...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-28
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The Wissenschaftslehre or "doctrine of science" was the great achievement of the German idealist philosopher J. G. Fichte. Daniel Breazeale presents accessible new translation of three works in which Fichte developed this philosophical system.The centerpiece of this...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-28
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Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion does two things. First, it introduces a novel kind of non-factualist view, and argues that we should endorse views of this kind in connection with a wide class of metaphysical questions, most notably, the abstract-object question and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-26
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Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion does two things. First, it introduces a novel kind of non-factualist view, and argues that we should endorse views of this kind in connection with a wide class of metaphysical questions, most notably, the abstract-object question and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-26
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This book seeks to show how Karl Marx’s vision of communism was a continuation of Aristotle’s classical humanist philosophy. Challenging the Engelsian distortion of Marx, it presents a negation of previous interpretations of Marx which present him in materialist terms....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-24
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The book discusses how we can cross-fertilize relationship between roots and routes with and beyond the logic of closure, monological assertions and violence.The book draws upon multiple philosophical, historical, religious and spiritual traditions of the world to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-23
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What do sex doll sales, locust swarms and a wired-brain pig have to do with the coronavirus pandemic? Everything—according to that “Giant of Lubliana,” the inimitable Slovenian philosopher Slavoj ?i?ek. In this exhilarating sequel to his acclaimed Pandemic!: COVID-19...
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Polity
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2021-01-22
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