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After decades of long and thorny negotiations at the United Nations, the High Seas Treaty was finalised in 2023, to protect marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction. This treaty is just one of many instruments that have been introduced as part of global...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-02-23
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Starting from the dominant perspective of historical sociology, this book looks into the future instead and asks vital questions about the futures we face at the societal and global levels. The authors project what we can expect relating to the future of human...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-23
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the theory of property in Hegel's thought.
The book contends that Hegel provides an alternative foundation for property rights that can goes beyond the traditional Lockean paradigm. For Hegel, not only must property be...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-20
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In Selves in Doubt, Eli Hirsch focuses on the importance of the first-person perspective to a normal human level of rational thought and behavior. Hirsch argues that an "I-blind" being—one who lacks the capacity to employ the first-person pronoun—could not be fully...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-02-20
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This book offers a general and accessible account of British philosophy during the nineteenth century. Looking at debates in ethics, political theory, metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of science, it takes readers from...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-20
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This text presents a critical synthesis of the thought of Hans Jonas (1903-1993), a philosopher of Jewish origin and former pupil of M. Heidegger and R. Bultmann in Marburg, who in 1933 fled from Nazi Germany to Palestine, Canada and finally settled in the USA. Jonas...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-18
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What does it mean to know that something is beautiful, just, or wrong, not as an article of theory, but as something that presses upon us and demands a response? Knowing the Normative World offers a sophisticated account of how we come to apprehend the normative world,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-18
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A witty, thoughtful tour through love, duty, and desire in the world of Bridgerton Bridgerton and Philosophy dives into the irresistible world of Bridgerton to explore the big questions hiding beneath the corsets, courtships, and candlelight. What does it really mean to...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2026-02-17
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The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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This book offers a new account of free will and a new solution to the free-will problem. The problem is this: We are morally responsible agents, and free will is required for responsibility; and yet free will seems impossible. Determinism is too restrictive, while...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-17
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There is a widespread idea that we experience our world as if it is other than a block world; as if, instead, our world is dynamical and time passes in a robustly A-theoretic manner. In light of this, some argue that there is good reason to think that our world is...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-17
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There has been a surge of recent interest in a family of phenomena that may broadly be described as emergent. This includes much lively and ongoing debate concerning whether any kind of emergence can be accommodated within a functionalist framework, whether emergence...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-17
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Die Schrift bietet eine flott geschriebene und dennoch tiefgründige sozial-und kulturphilosophische Erörterung des psychologischen Phänomens der Dankbarkeit.
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-17
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This work is an innovative, daring introduction to the philosophy and psychology of equanimity. Michael Uebel challenges the view that equanimity is the effect of a method aiming at states of impartial quiescence and solidity. Reanimating equanimity, Seeds allows new...
Editeur :
Mimesis International
Parution :
2026-02-16
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This book develops a materialist conception of knowledge by uncovering its entanglement with the history of colonial capitalism. Against accounts that frame cognitive capitalism and the knowledge economy as recent developments, it argues that these formations are rooted...
Editeur :
Mimesis International
Parution :
2026-02-16
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This book introduces the concept, history and phenomenon of the genius loci (spirit of a place). It spans an arc from the Roman concept of “genius loci” to today’s (mainly) neophenomenological debate on the concept of place-based “atmospheres” (H. Schmitz et al.). In...
Editeur :
Mimesis International
Parution :
2026-02-16
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This book explores perspectives from new comparativism and new dialogism to expand research horizons and develop a comprehensive, multidimensional, and multilevel research method and model. By compiling recent research examples and case studies, the author reconstructs...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-16
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This volume presents a collection of newly commissioned essays on the work of Susan Stebbing (1885–1943). Stebbing was an important figure in the development of analytic philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century, and a pioneer of the social utility of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-16
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In Phases of Objects, Justin Mooney argues that all objects should be treated like children: just as a child can cease to be a child without ceasing to exist when it grows into an adult, so can a clay statue cease to be a statue without ceasing to exist when it is...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-16
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In this collection of eighteen essays, two-thirds of them appearing here for the first time, Aaron Ridley addresses the full range of Nietzsche's aesthetics, from his discussions of tragedy, music, and language to his conceptions of taste, beauty, and the sublime. Some...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-16
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Evolutionary psychology claims that human cognition results from adaptations to ancestral environments. We have computational limits that make us myopic because farsighted traits made no sense when humans had limited technologies and chances of interaction. We are...
Editeur :
Mimesis International
Parution :
2026-02-16
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