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Many have been attracted to the idea that for something to be good there just have to be reasons to favour it. This view has come to be known as the buck-passing account of value. According to this account, for pleasure to be good there need to be reasons for us to...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-01-31
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This edited collection of eight original essays pursues the aim of bringing the spotlight back on Anton Marty. It does so by having leading figures in the contemporary debate confront themselves with Marty’s most significative contributions, which span from philosophy...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-01-30
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?Gibt es eine Wahrheit, die es verdient, als objektive Wahrheit bezeichnet zu werden? Heute wird das oft bestritten. Müssen wir uns also mit einem grenzenlosen Zweifel abfinden – ohne Hoffnung, unser Leben an der Wahrheit ausrichten zu können? Andererseits erscheint es...
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Springer VS
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2019-01-30
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Das Bild vom Menschen und die Ordnung der Gesellschaft
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Combining Minds is about the idea of minds built up out of other minds, whether this is possible, and what it would mean if it were. Roelofs surveys many areas of philosophy and psychology, analysing and evaluating denials and affirmations of mental combination that...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-01-28
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Experts from wine tasters to radiologists to bird watchers have all undergone perceptual learning-long-term changes in perception that result from practice or experience. Philosophers have been discussing such cases for centuries, from the 14th-century Indian...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-01-25
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This volume presents a new view of the relationship between metaphysics and the theory of meaning.
What is the relation between the nature of the things you think about, on the one hand, and the ways you think about them on the other? Is the nature of the world prior...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-01-24
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This volume presents a new view of the relationship between metaphysics and the theory of meaning.
What is the relation between the nature of the things you think about, on the one hand, and the ways you think about them on the other? Is the nature of the world prior...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-24
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Epistemological discussions of perception usually focus on something other than knowledge. They consider how beliefs arising from perception can be justified. With the retreat from knowledge to justified belief there is also a retreat from perception to the sensory...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-01-24
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In this book William G. Lycan offers an epistemology of philosophy itself, a partial method for philosophical inquiry. The epistemology features three ultimate sources of justified philosophical belief. First, common sense, in a carefully restricted sense of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-01-24
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This book presents a detailed analysis of what it means to be absorbed in playing music. Based on interviews with one of the world’s leading classical ensembles, “The Danish String Quartet” (DSQ), it debunks the myth that experts cannot reflect while performing, but...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-21
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Epistemological discussions of perception usually focus on something other than knowledge. They consider how beliefs arising from perception can be justified. With the retreat from knowledge to justified belief there is also a retreat from perception to the sensory...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-21
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In this book William G. Lycan offers an epistemology of philosophy itself, a partial method for philosophical inquiry. The epistemology features three ultimate sources of justified philosophical belief. First, common sense, in a carefully restricted sense of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-21
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In the light of growing political and religious fundamentalism, this open access book defends the idea of freedom as paramount for the attempt to find common ethical ground in the age of globality. The book sets out to examine as yet unexhausted ways to boost...
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Springer
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2019-01-18
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Immanuel Kant entwickelte im Rahmen der Kritik der Urteilskraft seinen Begriff des Zwecks (telos). Die daraus entstehenden Implikationen für seine theoretische und praktische Philosophie, aber auch für sein System insgesamt sind weitreichend. Deshalb bleibt die...
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Springer VS
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2019-01-18
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The dominant model of democratic politics emphasizes reason at the expense of the passions. Passions have been treated as dangerous, the opposite of reason and the enemy of virtue. Paul Ginsborg and Sergio Labate challenge this model and put forward a very different...
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Polity
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2019-01-18
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Recent years have seen a number of whistleblowers risk their liberty to expose illegal and corrupt behaviour. Some have heralded their bravery; others see them as traitors. Can there be a moral duty to emulate their example and blow the whistle? In this book, leading...
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Polity
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2019-01-18
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This book discusses Collingwood's conception of the role and character of philosophical analysis. It explores questions, such as, is there anything distinctive about the activity of philosophizing? If so, what distinguishes philosophy from other forms of inquiry? What...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-17
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This book is the first monograph fully devoted to analyzing the philosophical aspects of affordances. The concept of affordance, coined and developed in the field of ecological psychology, describes the possibilities for action available in the environment.This work...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-01-17
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Martin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of 'philosopher', by some as an apologist for Nazism, and by others as an acknowledged leader in continental philosophy, is probably the most divisive thinker of the twentieth...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-17
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Martin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of 'philosopher', by some as an apologist for Nazism, and by others as an acknowledged leader in continental philosophy, is probably the most divisive thinker of the twentieth...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-17
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