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This volume offers a fresh view of the work of Thomas Reid, a leading figure in the history of eighteenth-century philosophy. A team of leading experts in the field explore the significance of Reid's thought in his time and ours, focusing in particular on three broad...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-08-06
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This volume offers a fresh view of the work of Thomas Reid, a leading figure in the history of eighteenth-century philosophy. A team of leading experts in the field explore the significance of Reid's thought in his time and ours, focusing in particular on three broad...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-08-06
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This is a book about evolution from a post-Darwinian perspective. It recounts the core ideas of French philosopher Henri Bergson and his rediscovery and legacy in the poststructuralist critical philosophies of the 1960s, and explores the confluences of these ideas with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-08-04
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James Van Cleve here shows why Thomas Reid (1710-96) deserves a place alongside the other canonical figures of modern philosophy. He expounds Reid's positions and arguments on a wide range of topics, taking interpretive stands on points where his meaning is disputed and...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-08-03
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Presupposing no familiarity with the technical concepts of either philosophy or computing, this clear introduction reviews the progress made in AI since the inception of the field in 1956. Copeland goes on to analyze what those working in AI must achieve before they can...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-07-29
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Tun und Können erläutert und diskutiert den Gründungstext der Modalontologie: das neunte Buch der Metaphysik des Aristoteles. Aristoteles’ Thesen und Argumente werden zum ersten Mal in Gänze mit formalen analytischen Mitteln rekonstruiert und auf ihre Kohärenz und...
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Springer VS
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2015-07-16
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This anthology is about the signal change in Leibniz’s metaphysics with his explicit adoption of substantial forms in 1678-79.This change can either be seen as a moment of discontinuity with his metaphysics of maturity or as a moment of continuity, such as a passage to...
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Springer
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2015-07-01
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Das zentrale Thema des vorliegenden Buches ist die Subjektphilosophie. Angelegt ist das Buch dabei sowohl historisch als auch systematisch. Es behandelt einerseits die Subjektphilosophie seit der klassischen Aufklärung. Andererseits werden die zu diesem Zweck zugrunde...
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Springer VS
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2015-07-01
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Martin Heidegger is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth-century, and his seminal text Being and Time is considered one of the most significant texts in contemporary philosophy. Yet his name has also been mired in controversy...
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Polity
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2015-06-24
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Henry E. Allison presents an analytical and historical commentary on Kant`s transcendental deduction of the pure concepts of the understanding in the Critique of Pure Reason. He argues that, rather than providing a new solution to an old problem (refuting a global...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-06-18
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Henry E. Allison presents an analytical and historical commentary on Kant`s transcendental deduction of the pure concepts of the understanding in the Critique of Pure Reason. He argues that, rather than providing a new solution to an old problem (refuting a global...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-06-18
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The Seventh Platonic Letter describes Plato's attempts to turn the ruler of Sicily, Dionysius II, into a philosopher ruler along the lines of the Republic. It explains why Plato turned from politics to philosophy in his youth and how he then tried to apply his ideas to...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-06-11
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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.
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OUP Oxford
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2015-06-04
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Climate change, habitat loss, rising extinction rates - such problems call for more than just new policies and practices. They raise fundamental questions about the world and our place in it. What, for instance, is the natural world? Do we humans belong to it? Which...
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Polity
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2015-06-03
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Ben-Yami shows how the technology of Descartes' time shapes his conception of life, soul and mind–body dualism; how Descartes' analytic geometry helps him develop his revolutionary conception of representation without resemblance; and how these ideas combine to shape...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-28
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In a well-known text called ‘The Communist Hypothesis’, first published in 2007, the renowned philosopher Alain Badiou breathed fresh life into the idea of communism as an intellectual representation that provides a critical perspective on existing politics and offers a...
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Polity
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2015-05-19
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The notion of the highest good used to occupy a primary role in ethical theorising, but has largely disappeared from the contemporary landscape.The notion was central to both Aristotle's and Kant's ethical theories, however--a surprising observation given that their...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-05-14
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The notion of the highest good used to occupy a primary role in ethical theorising, but has largely disappeared from the contemporary landscape.The notion was central to both Aristotle's and Kant's ethical theories, however--a surprising observation given that their...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-05-14
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Plato's Parmenides Reconsidered offers a very accessible, detailed, and historically-sensitive account ofPlato's Parmenides. Against the prevailing scholarly wisdom, he illustrates conclusively that Parmenides is a satirical dialogue in which Plato attempts to expose...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-13
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Die zweite Auflage dieses inzwischen vergriffenen Buches (1. Auflagen Suhrkamp 1997/2001) stellt die einzige Gesamtdarstellung und Dokumentation des Wiener Kreises im historischen Kontext dar. Es liefert eine wissenschaftsgeschichtliche und systematische Untersuchung...
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Springer
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2015-05-11
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