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Anne Le Fèvre Dacier (1645-1720) was the most important woman of letters of her time and Of the Causes of the Corruption of Taste is her most significant work. This book is one of the wellsprings of modern aesthetics. While Dacier was a classical...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-04-24
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In Standing up for Philosophy, Jonathan Weinberg and Joshua Alexander seek to radically reformulate the debate over armchair philosophy. Have results in experimental philosophy shown thought-experiments to be so problematic that they should be abandoned? While...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-04-24
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Trust is a cooperating enabling attitude. We cooperate both practically and epistemically: we coordinate our actions and share what we know, and in both cases, trust enables this cooperation. By virtue of trusting, it is rational to rely on others. When this is taken to...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-04-23
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Der Sammelband analysiert das Verhältnis von digitalen Medien und Dis/Ability aus einer interdisziplinären Perspektive. Dis/Ability wird dabei als subjektives wie soziales und geschichtliches Phänomen verstanden, das aus den wechselseitigen Relationen behinderter...
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Springer VS
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2025-04-23
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Ted Chiang is one of the most insightful science fiction writers of our time. His writing has garnered high praise, including four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His short story, “Story of Your Life,” was the basis of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-04-22
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Starting-point epistemology (SPE) is a new position in epistemology that, coupled with agent-centered rationality-the idea that a rational agent is one who cleaves to their own picture of rationality-is the key to resolving philosophical scepticism. SPE acknowledges...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-04-18
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The Forgiveness of Others claims that forgiveness is a complex and dynamic moral practice that raises metaphysical questions about the meaning of change and of personal identity. When we forgive, we are transformed from one state (resentment, say) and one identity...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-04-18
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This book examines Richard Whately's classic book Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte. After considering its textual development, the analysis focusses on Whately's idea of the ‘Preliminary Question’; the idea that in the debate about...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-04-18
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This volume showcases some of the up-and-coming voices of an emerging field - the philosophy of set theory - which in recent years has gained prominence in the philosophy of mathematics. The chapters in this volume both present new topics and propose solutions to old...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-04-17
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‘One of the most important writers of the French Caribbean’ GuardianÉdouard Glissant’s most celebrated, scintillating philosophical work – which sets out a new poetic vision for the world‘We cry our cry of poetry. Our boats are open, and we sail them for everyone’In...
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Penguin
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2025-04-17
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This festschrift volume celebrates Tim Murray’s significant and wide-ranging contribution to archaeological thought and practice. It includes 27 papers by Tim Murray’s colleagues, research collaborators and students—former and current. Together these...
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Springer
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2025-04-15
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In the decades following the conquests of Alexander the Great, two major new schools of philosophy--the Epicureans and the Stoics--came to prominence in Athens, promoting starkly different worldviews and ways of life. Meanwhile Plato's Academy, an Athenian institution...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-04-15
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Dieses Buch arbeitet Émilie Du Châtelets Beitrag zur Philosophie- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte im Übergang von der frühen Neuzeit in die Moderne in Hinblick auf ihr Verständnis des Prinzips vom zureichenden Grunde auf. Du Châtelets Bestimmung, Erweisung und Anwendung des...
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Springer VS
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2025-04-12
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Social philosophy of language considers the role language plays in reflecting and enforcing social relations. This fast-growing field combines philosophy of language with ethics, epistemology, and feminist, social, and political philosophy to ask crucial questions about...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-04-11
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The Rich and the Poor is part chronicle, part analysis of a disturbing sea-change: the abandonment of ethics in public policy. Seventy years ago, it was possible for serious thinkers, including some in the governments of affluent nations, to consider policies for...
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Polity
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2025-04-11
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Time organizes things in a dynamic fashion, whereas space organizes things in a static fashion-so things in time undergo passage, whereas things in space do not. What makes the temporal organization of things dynamic? What is the nature of the passage of time?...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-04-10
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Maria Montessori's Philosophy shows how Montessori's commitment to "follow the child" can be understood as a philosophical method for answering the great philosophical questions that confront human beings. Patrick Frierson discusses historical influences on Montessori's...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-04-09
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What kind of philosophy do we need for the 21st century? To answer to this question, Alain Badiou imagines a dialogue between Tocéras, an earnest and engaging professor, and various interlocutors from different countries and philosophical cultures – John After from...
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Polity
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2025-04-08
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It is a currently popular view that essences, laws, and logic are among the grounds of necessity and possibility. Another such idea relates essences, laws, and logic closely to causal explanations and to non-causal grounding explanations. The Sources of Necessity...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-04-07
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In autumn 1962 Theodor W. Adorno gave a lecture on fighting antisemitism to the German Coordinating Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation, a lecture that remains as topical and urgent today as it was in the 1960s. After the Second World War, Germany...
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Polity
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2025-04-07
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