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This Handbook provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of Fichte’s philosophy. In addition to offering new researchers an authoritative introduction and orientation to Fichtean thought, the volume also surveys the main scholarly and philosophical controversies...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-22
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“What characterizes the act of justice is not resort to a court and to judges; it is not the intervention of magistrates (even if they had to be simple mediators or arbitrators). What characterizes the juridical act, the process or the procedure in the broad...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-22
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Bertrand Russell famously distinguished between 'knowledge by acquaintance' and 'knowledge by description'. For much of the latter half of the twentieth century, many philosophers viewed the notion of acquaintance with suspicion, associating it with Russellian ideas...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-11-21
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This book provides a presentation of the concept of “atmosphere” in the realm of aesthetics. An “atmosphere” is meant to be an emotional space. Such idea of “atmosphere” has been more and more subsumed by human and social sciences in the last twenty years, thereby...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-21
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This book presents an original discussion and analysis of epistemic peer disagreement. It reviews a wide range of cases from the literature, and extends the definition of epistemic peerhood with respect to the current one, to account for the actual variability...
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Springer
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2019-11-20
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Dieser Band stellt die eigentümlichen Mischungsverhältnisse natur- und geisteswissenschaftlicher Perspektiven im Feld der philosophischen Psychologien um 1900 ins Zentrum. Diese Konzeptionen, die den engen Rahmen des Psychologismus-Streites überschreiten und ihn...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-11-20
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The imagination, our capacity to entertain thoughts and ideas "in the mind's eye," is indispensable in science as elsewhere in human life. Indeed, common scientific practices such as modeling and idealization rely on the imagination to construct simplified, stylized...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-11-20
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Die Art, wie die Geschichtsphilosophie Giambattista Vicos Reflexionen über Rechtsformen, Naturrecht und Sprache verknüpft, bietet Anstöße für die heutigen Debatten um Rechtsstaatlichkeit und kulturelle Verschiedenheit.Die hier vorliegenden Beiträge kreisen um Vicos...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-11-19
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Take a magic carpet ride through Disney’s wonderful world of films and entertainment experiences, and discover the wisdom within its most popular and enduring stories Philosophy begins in wonder, and there’s no question that Disney’s immersive worlds and iconic...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-11-18
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The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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This book addresses the human civilizational ethos and explores the concept of the nonkilling paradigm concerning human dignity, human rights, affirmative nonkilling, positive peace and the advancement of human existence. It focuses on the complex question of how to...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-11-18
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This book turns to virtue language as an important resource for understanding moral injury, a form of subjectivity where one feels they can no longer strive to be good as a result of wartime experience. Drawing specifically on Iris Murdoch’s moral philosophy, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-16
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Socrates is one the most important thinkers in western philosophy, yet he remains enigmatic, having left behind no works of his own. Instead, his thought is understood primarily through the work of his followers, particularly Plato. Yet Plato's dialogues can offer...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-11-15
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Classic Thinkers
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This exciting new edited collection bridges the gap between narrative and self-understanding. The problem of self-knowledge is of universal interest; the nature or character of its achievement has been one continuing thread in our philosophical tradition for millennia....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-15
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Political controversy about migration is becoming more frequent, more heated, and for certain groups, decidedly more urgent. This raises pressing questions not only in the realms of policy-making and public discourse, but also for philosophical accounts of migration. Do...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-11-15
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Das Lexikon erläutert die zentralen Leitideen, Methoden und Hilfsmittel der Kunstgeschichte bis hin zu jüngsten Forschungsansätzen. In etwa 150 Stichwörtern, z.B. Original, Fälschung, Repräsentation, Kunsthändler, Kunstmarkt, Manierismus, Ende der Kunst, wird dabei auch...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-11-15
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This book deals with an old conundrum: if God knows what we will choose tomorrow, how can we be free to choose otherwise? If all our choices are already written, is our freedom simply an illusion?This book provides a precise analysis of this dilemma using the tools of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-14
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'A rich compendium of incidents, anecdotes and studies illustrating the linguistic abilities of animals . . . a rewarding book' Sunday TimesDolphins and parrots call each other by their names. Fork tailed drongos mimic the calls of other animals to scare them away and...
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John Murray
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2019-11-14
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'A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that "in the beginning" sexual activity was guilt-free and delicious, being repressed and blighted only by the gloom of Victorianism' Spectator We talk about sex more and more, but are...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2019-11-14
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'Who since Weber, or perhaps even Hobbes, has done as much to show why power is such a profound, elusive and treacherous presence throughout our experience?' The Times Higher EducationThe third and final volume of the Essential Works of Foucault series, Power brings...
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Penguin
Parution :
2019-11-14
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'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book ReviewThe grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed?In his revolutionary work on...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2019-11-14
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