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What was philosophy as Descartes found it around 1620?What was philosophy like before Descartes reformed it after 1637?What features of philosophy did he want to fix, and what tools did he use? To answer such questions, how should philosophers do their work today? One...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-30
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The first English translation of some of Victor Cousin's most important philosophical writings for over 150 years, accompanied by extensive contextual and analytic resources from a team of internationally recognized Cousin scholars.
Victor Cousin was a towering...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-30
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Although Albert Camus is recognised as an important novelist and political commentator, he is often still underrated as a philosopher. Camus' Philosophy, focussing on Camus' explicitly philosophical writings, provides a detailed examination of his intellectual...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-27
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In this latest instalment of the series A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers delve into the fascinating world of Africana Philosophy.
Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century is the first of two volumes in...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-26
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The Doctrine of the State is a major work of political philosophy and philosophy of history by one of the most important authors of German Idealism, Johann Gottlieb Fichte. It represents Fichte's final sustained attempt to provide a synoptic overview of his entire...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-15
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The Doctrine of the State is a major work of political philosophy and philosophy of history by one of the most important authors of German Idealism, Johann Gottlieb Fichte. It represents Fichte's final sustained attempt to provide a synoptic overview of his entire...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-14
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Although Albert Camus is recognised as an important novelist and political commentator, he is often still underrated as a philosopher. Camus' Philosophy, focussing on Camus' explicitly philosophical writings, provides a detailed examination of his intellectual...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-11
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In Early German Positivism, Frederick C. Beiser explores a much neglected or forgotten period of the history of philosophy: the history of German positivism from 1860 to 1907. Almost all studies of positivism revolve around the Vienna Circle. Instead, this study covers...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-06
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Gedankenexperimente weisen in der Philosophie einen widersprüchlichen Status auf: Sie werden einerseits regelmäßig entworfen und breit diskutiert, andererseits werden sie ebenso häufig kritisiert oder sogar als Methode abgelehnt. Dies liegt vor allem an der narrativen...
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J.B. Metzler
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2024-10-30
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Numerous thinkers have considered the Principle of Non-Contradiction, but none has clearly identified its inherent limitation: that it is itself only a formal principle.
This book shows that negation plays a fundamental role both in the constitution of the principle...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-25
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In Early German Positivism, Frederick C. Beiser explores a much neglected or forgotten period of the history of philosophy: the history of German positivism from 1860 to 1907. Almost all studies of positivism revolve around the Vienna Circle. Instead, this study covers...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-10-23
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It is well known that philosophy has a history that spans over more than two thousand years.It is less known, however, that the discipline narrating philosophy's past emerged much later, namely in the 18th century. That new discipline was called 'history of philosophy'....
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OUP Oxford
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2024-10-19
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It is well known that philosophy has a history that spans over more than two thousand years.It is less known, however, that the discipline narrating philosophy's past emerged much later, namely in the 18th century. That new discipline was called 'history of philosophy'....
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OUP Oxford
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2024-10-19
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Hobbes's Elements of Law was written in 1640, on the eve of the English Civil War. It circulated in manuscript, and eleven manuscripts now survive. Two of them contain a substantial amount of material inHobbes's own handwriting. Soon after writing it, Hobbes fled to...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-10-16
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This book provides a comprehensive study of major issues of moral psychology throughout history, from ancient to early modern philosophy. The volume focuses primarily on the Western history of philosophy but also deals with Jewish and Islamic heritage. The Introduction...
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Springer
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2024-10-09
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This book argues that Aristotle's aporia on time in the Physics figures both as an aporia in the subjective sense of a mental state of perplexity and in the objective, textual sense of a contrast between opposing views.
First the book seeks to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-10-02
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Today’s understanding of time remains mostly Aristotelian and Newtonian/Einsteinian: time is what has been abstracted from the mundane realities of life and reduced to its measurement. Any somatic, psychological, or other experience of time is deemed either irrelevant...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-09-28
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This volume brings into focus the unique philosophical and historical importance of Wittgenstein's pre-Tractatus writings. These contributed essays show that Wittgenstein’s earliest writings are worth studying for their own sake. They also reveal how much one can still...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-09-01
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This book expands the known canon by presenting arguments and concepts from women philosophers, from all periods of the history of philosophy, from antiquity to the present day. The collaborative collection is an undertaking that emerged from intensive discussions on...
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Springer
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2024-08-30
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