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When is it morally permissible to engage in self-defense or the defense of others? Jonathan Quong defends a variety of novel ideas in this book about the morality of defensive force, providing an original philosophical account of the central moral principles that should...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-20
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In Contours of Dignity, Suzanne Killmister sets out an original and innovative approach to understanding dignity. She considers the relationship between dignity and respect, the ways in which shame and humiliation can constitute dignity violations, and the links between...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-20
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When is it morally permissible to engage in self-defense or the defense of others? Jonathan Quong defends a variety of novel ideas in this book about the morality of defensive force, providing an original philosophical account of the central moral principles that should...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-20
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“With great power comes great responsibility.” In today’s world, with our growing technological power and the knowledge about its impact, we are considered to be responsible for many instances that not long ago would have been deemed a matter of fate. At the same time,...
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J.B. Metzler
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2020-02-19
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Metaphysics is sensitive to the conceptual tools we choose to articulate metaphysical problems. Those tools are a lens through which we view metaphysical problems, and the same problems will look different when we change the lens. In this book, Theodore Sider identifies...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-19
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Metaphysics is sensitive to the conceptual tools we choose to articulate metaphysical problems. Those tools are a lens through which we view metaphysical problems, and the same problems will look different when we change the lens. In this book, Theodore Sider identifies...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-19
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How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture?How did cognitive values—and subsequently moral, political, and social ones—come to be modelled around scientific values? In Civilization and the Culture of Science, Stephen Gaukroger explores how...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-19
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How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture?How did cognitive values—and subsequently moral, political, and social ones—come to be modelled around scientific values? In Civilization and the Culture of Science, Stephen Gaukroger explores how...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-19
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For most of the twentieth century, philosophers have explored the nature and extent of our knowledge-especially our knowledge of the world grounded in sense-perceptual experience. Can we be sure that our experience of the world is enough to ground our knowledge of an...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-19
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Unter dem großen und anspruchsvollen Motto Die Gestirne: Symbole und Mythen hat die Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Symbolforschung vier Tagungen abgehalten, von denen die letzten drei in diesem Band aufscheinen. Bei der Tagung des Jahres 2015 in Essen ging es um...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-02-18
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Das Handbuch bietet erstmals eine Gesamtschau einer der philosophischen Grunddisziplinen seit den antiken Ursprüngen der Philosophie. Die Frage danach, was das „Seiende als Seiendes“ eigentlich sei, und was „Sein“ als erste und fundamentalste Bestimmung der Wirklichkeit...
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J.B. Metzler
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2020-02-17
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A groundbreaking reference work on the revolutionary philosophy and intellectual legacy of Richard RortyA provocative and often controversial thinker, Richard Rorty and his ideas have been the subject of renewed interest to philosophers working in epistemology,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2020-02-14
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Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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Works of fiction are works of the imagination and for the imagination. Gregory Currie energetically defends the familiar idea that fictions are guides to the imagination, a view which has come under attack in recent years. Responding to a number of challenges to this...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-14
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Works of fiction are works of the imagination and for the imagination. Gregory Currie energetically defends the familiar idea that fictions are guides to the imagination, a view which has come under attack in recent years. Responding to a number of challenges to this...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-14
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This book is a study of Blaise Pascal's defence of Christian belief in the Pensées. Michael Moriarty aims to expound--and in places to criticize--what he argues is a coherent and original apologetic strategy. Setting out the basic philosophical and theological...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-13
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This book is a study of Blaise Pascal's defence of Christian belief in the Pensées. Michael Moriarty aims to expound--and in places to criticize--what he argues is a coherent and original apologetic strategy. Setting out the basic philosophical and theological...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-13
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When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred to him; he was the only philosopher whom Wittgenstein treated as an...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-13
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When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred to him; he was the only philosopher whom Wittgenstein treated as an...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-13
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The Discourse on Metaphysics is one of Leibniz´s fundamental works. Written around January 1686, it is the most accomplished systematic expression of Leibniz's philosophy in the 1680s, the period in which Leibniz's philosophy reached maturity. Leibniz's goal in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-13
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Quantum theory is widely regarded as one of the most successful theories in the history of science. It explains a hugely diverse array of phenomena and is a natural candidate for our best representation of the world at the level of 'fundamental' physics. But how can the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-13
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