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The book provides a historical (with an outline of the history of the concept of truth from antiquity to our time) and systematic exposition of the semantic theory of truth formulated by Alfred Tarski in the 1930s. This theory became famous very soon and inspired...
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Springer
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2020-01-01
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This book presents the state of the art in the fields of formal logic pioneered by Graham Priest. It includes advanced technical work on the model and proof theories of paraconsistent logic, in contributions from top scholars in the field. Graham Priest’s research has...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-01
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Outstanding Contributions to Logic
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This edited volume collects essays on the four-valued logic known as Belnap-Dunn logic, or first-degree entailment logic (FDE). It also looks at various formal systems closely related to it. These include the strong Kleene logic and the Logic of Paradox. Inside, readers...
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Springer
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2020-01-01
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There are things we routinely say that may strike us as literally false but that we are nonetheless reluctant to give up. This might be something mundane, like the way we talk about the sun setting in the west (it is the earth that moves), or it could be something much...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-31
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This volume is the first to present a framework of general principles for animal research ethics together with an analysis of the principles' meaning and moral requirements.This new framework of six moral principles constitutes a more suitable set of moral guidelines...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-12-30
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A central concern in Hume scholarship is that of the relationship between Hume's early Treatise of Human Nature and his later Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Is the Enquiry merely a simplified restatement of the contents of Book 1 of the Treatise, or do the two...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-12-27
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Classical antiquity has become a political battleground in recent years in debates over immigration and cultural identity-whether it is ancient sculpture, symbolism, or even philosophy. Caught in the crossfire is the legacy of the famed ancient Greek philosopher Plato....
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Oxford University Press
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2019-12-26
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This book features a theoretical depiction of the Italian phenomenological tradition. It brings together the main Italian phenomenologists of the present to discuss the positions and theories of the most important Italian phenomenologists of the past. Those profiled...
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Springer
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2019-12-24
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What does it really mean to be "undocumented," particularly in the contemporary United States? Political philosophers, immigration policy makers, and others have tended to define the term "undocumented migrant" legalistically-that is, in terms of lacking legal...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-12-24
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In queste pagine viene proposta una variazione filosofica sul tema di Eros che domina incontrastato nella cultura occidentale secondo due modalità apparentemente dissonanti ma in realtà complementari, di incanto e di scepsi. Nel ben noto quadro di René Magritte Gli...
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Rosenberg & Sellier
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2019-12-20
Collection :
Phy´sis. Collana di filosofia
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Bringing together established researchers and emerging scholars alike to discuss new readings of Husserl and to reignite the much needed discussion of what phenomenology actually is and can possibly be about, this volume sets out to critically re-evaluate (and...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-12-19
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In this book Jeffrey A. Barrett provides an introduction to the history and conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics. He begins with a description of classical mechanics and a discussion of the quantum phenomena that radically undermine our common-sense classical...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-19
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This book presents an original worldview, Homo risibilis, wherein self-referential humor is proposed as the path leading from a tragic view of life to a liberating embrace of human ridicule. Humor is presented as a conceptual tool for holding together contradictions and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-19
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If I were a better human being, that person's voice wouldn't sound so shrill to me. Many of us may have had such thoughts. They give voice to the worrying intuition that if we were less affected by sexism and racism, or better at keeping our tempers, our fellow humans...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-19
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Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries—the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-19
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Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries—the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-19
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All political communities must make decisions about how to regulate the treatment of animals. Most states currently protect animals through outlawing the infliction of ‘unnecessary suffering’. But do animals’ rights end there? In this book, Alasdair Cochrane argues that...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-12-18
Collection :
Political Theory Today
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A deluxe, high-quality edition of Friedrich Nietzsche’s seminal work Beyond Good and Evil is one of the final books by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. This landmark work continues to be one of the most well-known and influential explorations of moral and...
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Capstone
Parution :
2019-12-16
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Capstone Classics
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A deluxe special edition of the ancient classic written by the Roman Emperor known as "The Philosopher" Meditations is a series of personal journals written by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome from 169 to 180 AD. The last of the "Five Good Emperors," he was the most...
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Capstone
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2019-12-16
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Capstone Classics
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