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The notions of necessity and possibility, as well as the notion of a possible world, are ubiquitous in philosophy. Nevertheless, these notions remain controversial. It also remains controversial whether metaphysics requires notions drawing distinctions which are finer...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-10-18
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In this book, Richard Dien Winfield builds upon Hegel’s Aesthetics to provide a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the individual fine arts, which remedies Hegel's inconsistencies and major omissions. In addition to conceiving the general...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-10-18
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This volume presents a new translation of Aristotle's Topics Book VI by Annamaria Schiaparelli, accompanied by a detailed commentary and textual notes providing insight into the history of the transmission of the text with its variants. In the Topics, Aristotle aims at...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-10-18
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Modern Monetary Theory and Distributive Justice shows how the macroeconomic framework called modern money theory (MMT) is relevant to the field of political philosophy called distributive justice. Many of the macroeconomic assumptions of distributive justice are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-10-13
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Drawing on Hegel’s model of aesthetics and beauty to analyze the Star Trek franchise, this book puts justice at the center of the "beauty"—and entertainment value—of popular culture. The author, George A. Gonzalez, shows that plot—revolving around justice and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2023-10-11
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Psychedelic Experience presents a philosophical account of psychedelic experience.
A central premise of the book is that such experiences are mind-revealing experiences and that they can be induced by means other than psychedelics. In particular, the book argues that...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-10-11
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The project offers a collection of new interdisciplinary critical autoethnographic engagements with Hélène Cixous écriture feminine and work Three steps on the ladder of writing. Critical autoethnography shares a reciprocal, and inter-animating relationship with Hélène...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-10-11
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Jürgen Habermas’s book The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, first published in 1962, has long been recognized as one of the most important works of twentieth-century social thought. Blending philosophy and social history, it offered an account of the...
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Polity
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2023-10-10
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Western thought has been dominated by the dichotomy of traditional religion and secular atheism. But do we have to choose between these options?
In this pioneering work, Philip Goff argues that it is time to move on from both God and atheism. Through an exploration of...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-10-10
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This book aims to encourage the reading of "On the Origin of Species" and to include it in the teaching of evolution. With a comprehensive overview of the development of Darwin's theory, the volume provides relevant aspects of Darwin's life and work in connection with...
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Springer
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2023-10-10
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Thinking of Necessity: A Kantian Account of Modal Thought and Modal Metaphysics sets out a Kant-inspired theory of modality, i.e., possibility and necessity. The theory is driven by a methodology which takes seriously questions about the function of modal judgment,...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-10-10
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It is often claimed that Einstein's magnum opus---his 1915 theory of General Relativity---is distinguished from other theories of space and time in virtue of its background independence. It's also often claimed that background independence is an essential feature of any...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-10-10
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This book presents a new, powerful, and practical way of making final decisions on the hard, complex, uncertain problems of life and work. What if you have looked at the data, talked with trusted colleagues, and applied all the relevant managerial and ethical...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-10-09
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The Ethics of Surveillance in Times of Emergency...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-10-09
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Richtig oder falsch? Moralisch oder unmoralisch? Das ist hier die Frage Wo ziehen wir die Linie zwischen richtig und falsch? Wo die zwischen gutem und schlechtem Handeln? Und wie positionierten sich Denker wie Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill und Thomas Hobbes zu diesem...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2023-10-06
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Für Dummies
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Is democracy worth saving? Responding to the erosion of democracy, philosophical debates have pivoted from analyzing the best forms of democracy to questioning what is so valuable about democracy to begin with, how we can save it, and whether it is indeed worth...
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Polity
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2023-10-06
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In answering the question of life’s meaning, the African perspective is only just beginning to emerge. While this is true, a critical examination of African theories of meaningfulness, the possibility of life’s meaninglessness, as well as ideas about the proper...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-05
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Der Band enthält zwei Schriften des Philosophen Felix Noeggerath (1885-1960):
Die Abhandlung Synthesis und Systembegriff in der Philosophie. Ein Beitrag zur Kritik des Antirationalismus, textkritisch ediert. – Kants Erkenntniskritik wird auf Basis mathematisch-logischer...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2023-10-05
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This book shows that screens don’t just distribute the visible and the invisible, but have always mediated our body's relationships with the physical and anthropological-cultural environment. By combining a series of historical-genealogical reconstructions going back to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-04
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Sex used to rule. Now gender identity is on the throne.Sex survives as a cheap imitation of its former self: assigned at birth, on a spectrum, socially constructed, and definitely not binary. Apparently quite a few of us fall outside the categories ‘male’ and ‘female’....
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Polity
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2023-10-04
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