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This book is the first ethnography on Vietnam’s contemporary dissident movement. As a country that became known and is still remembered as one of the last remnants of Communist revolutions, Vietnam has managed to lift itself from one of the poorest war-torn...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-23
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John Dewey’s Metaphysical Theory provides an overview and technical exposition of Dewey’s mature ontological theory. In particular, “nature,” “experience,” and their relationship, are given extended treatment through a close reading of primary texts. Following Dewey’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-22
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The present book verses on the current discussion, between authors writing within the Thomistic tradition, on the issue of human rights, and pretends to adjudicate that discussion.The positions of authors who are critical of the notion of human rights, like Michel...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-09-22
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The 100th anniversary of the first publication of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus is celebrated by a collection of original papers by well-known experts on various aspects of one of the greatest works of philosophy in the twentieth century.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-22
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This book considers whether we can be epistemically responsible for undesirable beliefs, such as racist and sexist ones. The problem with holding people responsible for their undesirable beliefs is: first, what constitutes an “undesirable belief” will differ among...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-21
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This book about philosophy of medicine bestows a bottom-up and not a top-down approach. It starts from clinical medicine and epidemiology, analyzing their interrelations with philosophical instruments. The book criticizes the constant search for generalities and the...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-20
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This collection of chapters, written by prominent scholars in their respective fields, re-examines the nature of self-awareness in both Western and Eastern philosophy, inquires into its diverse and variable modes, and significantly broadens the framework of its...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-19
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This book investigates the compatibility between the doctrine of divine simplicity (DDS, hereafter) and divine free action primarily in the works of Avicenna and Anselm with an analytical approach.
The book has three main objectives: (1) to thoroughly analyse...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-19
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Vor dem Hintergrund der Tatsache, dass innovatives Handeln in der Gegenwart eine große Wertschätzung erfährt, unternimmt das Buch eine Untersuchung des Begriffs, des Ursprungs, des Werts und der Spielarten der Kreativität. Kreativität ist immer ein bewusstes...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2023-09-15
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This book asks a deceptively simple question: what are states actually doing when they do penance for past injustices? Why are these penitential gestures - especially the gesture of apology - becoming so ubiquitous and what implications do they carry for the way power...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-15
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Isn't debt ultimately more of a philosophical concept than a financial one? Indeed, it is seen as a moral fault whose unbridled demands cannot be met. It is repaid by a submission that has become infinite and a vision of work that has been totally deregulated.
We are...
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Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2023-09-15
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Der vorliegende Band enthält den Text der zweistündigen Vorlesung, die Husserl im Sommersemester 1912 unter dem Titel „Einleitung in die Phänomenologie“ in Göttingen gehalten hat. Das Thema der ursprünglich als „Urteilstheorie“ angekündigten Vorlesung wurde kurzfristig...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-14
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On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, giving rise to the deadliest conflict on European soil since the Second World War. How could this happen in twenty-first-century Europe? Why did Putin decide to escalate Russia’s war against Ukraine,...
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Polity
Parution :
2023-09-14
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„Wer sich dem Impfangebot verweigert, verletzt das moralische Gebot des kategorischen Imperativs im Sinne von Immanuel Kant.“ (Karl Lauterbach)„Der militärische Einsatz von KI ist […] nicht nur ethisch gerechtfertigt, sondern sogar geboten.“ „Ein moralischer Skandal.“...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-09-14
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A barrier to entailment exists if you can't get conclusions of a certain kind from premises of another. One of the most famous barriers in philosophy is Hume's Law, which says that you can't get normative conclusions from descriptive premises, or in slogan form: you...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-14
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This text develops a novel methodology for social investigation into the Flint (Michigan, USA) water crisis by using classical Husserlian phenomenology as its point of departure. To develop a proper method in a case like this, the author uses as primary data the...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-13
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Neopragmatism is a very general language-first approach to questions about the existence or nature of various traditionally philosophically troubling entities or properties. It rejects metaphysical questions about these things by instead focusing our attention on our...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-13
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Democracy refers to both ideal and real forms of government. The concept of democracy means that those governed — the demos — have a say in government. But different conceptions of democracy have left many out....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-13
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Trust and trustworthiness are core social phenomena, at the heart of most everyday interactions. Yet they are also puzzling: while it matters to us that we place trust well, trusting people who will not let us down, both also seem to involve morally driven attitudes and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-13
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A barrier to entailment exists if you can't get conclusions of a certain kind from premises of another. One of the most famous barriers in philosophy is Hume's Law, which says that you can't get normative conclusions from descriptive premises, or in slogan form: you...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-13
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