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What do you do when you're not asleep and when you're not eating? You're most likely waiting--to finish work, to get home, or maybe even to be seen by your doctor. Hold On is less about how to manage all that "staying where one is until a particular time or event" (OED)...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-05-12
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This book provides a survey of key process-philosophical approaches that, in conversation with selected concepts across the biological and physical sciences, help us to think about living processes, or ‘lived time,’ at different scales of functioning. The first...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-05-11
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Teleology is the belief that some things happen, or exist for the sake of other things. It is the belief that, for example, salmon swim upstream in order to spawn, and that bears have claws for the sake of catching fish. This volume takes up the intuitive yet puzzling...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-05-08
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This book offers an analytically rigorous and systematic discussion of possible ways of making metaphysical sense of ineffability. Silvia Jonas defends the idea that ineffable insights as found in aesthetic, religious, and philosophical contexts are best understood in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-05-07
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Metaphysics—the philosophical study of the nature of reality—is a dynamic sub-field which encompasses many of the most fundamental and elusive questions in contemporary analytic philosophy. A concise and focused introduction to contemporary metaphysics, This is...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2020-05-07
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This is Philosophy
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From its carnival origins to its current status as a global phenomenon, pro wrestling has a unique presence in popular culture. Part sport and part theatre, the impressive antics of its larger-than-life characters have captured the imaginations of generations of fans,...
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Polity
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2020-05-07
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Among the violent acts perpetrated by radical Islamist groups in Europe, the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris has been one of those that has arguably challenged established categories of public debate the most.
Through a multifaceted and detailed analysis of the public...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-05-07
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If pacifists are correct in thinking that war is always unjust, then it follows that we ought to eliminate the possibility and temptation of ever engaging in it; we should not build war-making capacity, and if we already have, then demilitarization--or military...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-05-07
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Real Likenesses presents a radical new approach to artistic representation. At its heart is a serious reconsideration of the relationship between medium and content in representational art, which counters currently dominant theories that make attention to the former...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-05-07
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This book investigates ‘capitalism and freedom’—the guiding forces of many political systems—in African philosophy. It builds on classical and neoliberal capitalism rooted in private property and freedom, and argues for the presence of these elements in the traditional...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-05
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Hans Blumenberg gehört heute zu den meistgelesenen Autoren der deutschsprachigen Philosophie. Eine enorme Faszination geht von seinen Werken aus, längst werden diese in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt, Tagungen finden in Paris, London und Jerusalem statt. Neue Editionen,...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-05-05
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Zeit spielt in Adornos Philosophie eine tragende, allerdings vergleichsweise verdeckte Rolle. Gabriele Geml zeigt in diesem Buch, wie Adorno über dieZeit seinerZeit dachte, indem sie modellhaft unterschiedliche Stränge dieser Zeittheorie rekonstruiert. Deren...
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J.B. Metzler
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2020-05-05
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Marx duecento anni dopo: un’eredità alla prova. Testi di: Roberto Finelli Ferruccio Andolfi Luca Basso Stefano Petrucciani Tania Toffanin Rino Genovese Vittorio Morfino Federica Giardini Riccardo Bellofiore Maurizio Ricciardi Jamila M.H. Mascat Giorgio Cesarale Michele...
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Rosenberg & Sellier
Parution :
2020-05-05
Collection :
La critica sociale
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Artistic Creation and Ethical Criticism, a study in philosophical aesthetics, investigates an idea that underpins the ethical criticism of art but that is rarely acknowledged and poorly understood - namely, that the ethical criticism of art involves judgments not only...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-05-05
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We live at a time when the human lifespan has increased like never before. As average lifespans stretch to new lengths, what impact should this have on our values? Should our values change over the course of our ever-increasing lifespans?
Nancy S. Jecker coins the...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-05-01
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Claims about what is metaphysically necessary or possible have long played a central role in metaphysics and other areas of philosophy. Such claims are traditionally thought of as aiming to describe a special kind of modal fact or property, or perhaps facts about other...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-05-01
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If pacifists are correct in thinking that war is always unjust, then it follows that we ought to eliminate the possibility and temptation of ever engaging in it; we should not build war-making capacity, and if we already have, then demilitarization--or military...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-30
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One of the most important philosophical works of all time, in a new Penguin Classics translation by Adam Beresford'Right and wrong is a human thing' What does it mean to be a good person? Aristotle's famous series of lectures on ethical topics ranges over fundamental...
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Penguin
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2020-04-30
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This handbook presents the conceptions and principles central to every aspect of Hegel’s systematic philosophy. In twenty-eight thematically linked chapters by leading international experts, The Palgrave Hegel Handbook provides reliable, scholarly overviews of each...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-29
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Are space and time fundamental features of our world or might they emerge from something else? The Foundation of Reality brings together metaphysicians and philosophers of physics working on space, time, and fundamentality to address this timely question. Recent...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-29
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