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Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, recurring political violence at both state and non-state levels has eroded confidence in the progressively peaceful character of international relations, and has unsettled the parameters of political thought. Frames of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-04-03
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This book examines the concept of post-truth and the impact it is having on contemporary life, bringing out both its philosophical and political dimensions. Post-truth is contextualised within the philosophical discourse of truth, with particular reference to theories...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-02
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Arguing that we ought to look to psychedelic aesthetics of the 1960s in relation to current crises in liberal democracy, this book emphasizes the intersection of European thought and the psychedelic. The first half of the book focuses on philosophical influences of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-02
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This timely anthology brings into sharp relief the extent of violence against women. Its range is global and far reaching in terms of the number of victims. There are deeply entrenched values that need to be rooted out and laid bare.This text offers a...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-04-01
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Jay L. Garfield defends two exegetical theses regarding Hume's Treatise on Human Nature. The first is that Book II is the theoretical foundation of the Treatise. Second, Garfield argues that we cannot understand Hume's project without an appreciation of his own...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-04-01
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This book offers a much needed overview of the neglected notion of responsibility. Instead of offering vague talk about “individual responsibility” or “corporate responsibility,” Daryl Koehn examines in detail four accounts of responsibility,...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-03-29
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In Living Mirrors, Ohad Nachtomy examines Leibniz's attempt to "re-enchant" the natural world-that is, to infuse life, purpose, and value into the very foundations of nature, a nature that Leibniz saw as disenchanted by Descartes' and Spinoza's more naturalistic and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-03-29
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Presenting the first comprehensive, in-depth study of hyperintensionality, this book equips readers with the basic tools needed to appreciate some of current and future debates in the philosophy of language, semantics, and metaphysics. After introducing and explaining...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-03-28
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This book is an integrated series of philosophical investigations that offers significant new insights into key philosophical concerns ranging from methodological issues to substantive doctrines. Consisting of three sections, it first deals with the nature of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-28
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Five Modes of Scepticism examines the argument forms that lie at the heart of Pyrrhonian scepticism as expressed in the writings of Sextus Empiricus. These are the Agrippan modes of disagreement, hypothesis, infinite regression, reciprocity and relativity; modes which...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-03-28
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Kant's Revolutionary Theory of Modality is a comprehensive study of ImmanuelKant's views on modal notions of possibility, actuality or existence, and necessity. Abaci locatesKant's views on these notions in their broader historical context, establishes their continuity...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-03-28
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This volume illustrates how the methodology of metaphysics can be enriched with the help of cognitive science. Few philosophers nowadays would dispute the relevance of cognitive science to the metaphysics of mind, but this volume mainly concerns the relevance of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-03-27
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This book analyzes the exile ontology of Spanish philosopher María Zambrano (1904-1991). Karolina Enquist Källgren connects Zambrano’s lived exile and political engagement with the Spanish Civil War to her poetic reason, and argues that Zambrano developed a theory of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-26
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This book is based on the assumption that the world is governed by a widespread field of interconnected laws. In this field man-made laws – legal laws - have to coexist with the laws of nature, the laws of science and the laws of logic. They have to find their place in...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-03-25
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In diesem Band sind die nachgelassenen Schriften Moritz Schlicks zur Logik und Philosophie der Mathematik gesammelt, ediert und kommentiert. Keine der zu Lebzeiten veröffentlichten Schriften Schlicks war ausschließlich diesen Themen gewidmet. Man sollte daraus jedoch...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-03-25
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This volume introduces readers to a selected number of core issues in metaphysics that have been central in the history of philosophy and remain foundational to contemporary debates, that is: substances; properties; modality and essence; causality; determinism and free...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-03-25
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This volume features more than fifteen essays written in honor of Peter D. Klein. It explores the work and legacy of this prominent philosopher, who has had and continues to have a tremendous influence in the development of epistemology. The essays reflect the breadth...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-03-22
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PROSE 2020 Single Volume Reference Finalist!Philosophers throughout history have debated the existence of gods, but it is only in recent years that the absence of such a belief has become a significant topic of philosophical analysis, in particular for philosophers of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-03-22
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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A long tradition, going back to Aristotle, conceives of logic in terms of necessity and possibility: a deductive argument is correct if it is not possible for the conclusion to be false when the premises are true.A relatively unknown feature of the analytic tradition in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-03-21
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A long tradition, going back to Aristotle, conceives of logic in terms of necessity and possibility: a deductive argument is correct if it is not possible for the conclusion to be false when the premises are true.A relatively unknown feature of the analytic tradition in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-03-21
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