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What is the role of consciousness in our mental lives? Declan Smithies argues here that consciousness is essential to explaining how we can acquire knowledge and justified belief about ourselves and the world around us. On this view, unconscious beings cannot form...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-08-02
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What are humans?What makes us who we are?
Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by being conscious. In Are We Bodies or Souls? Richard Swinburne comes to the defence of the soul and presents new...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-07-25
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What are humans?What makes us who we are?
Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by being conscious. In Are We Bodies or Souls? Richard Swinburne comes to the defence of the soul and presents new...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-07-25
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Philosophers have always recognized the value of reason, but the process of reasoning itself has only recently begun to emerge as a philosophical topic in its own right. Is reasoning a distinctive kind of mental process? If so, what is its nature? How does reasoning...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-05-23
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Philosophers have always recognized the value of reason, but the process of reasoning itself has only recently begun to emerge as a philosophical topic in its own right. Is reasoning a distinctive kind of mental process? If so, what is its nature? How does reasoning...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-05-23
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Die hier erstmals veröffentlichte Philosophische Anthropologie des weltweit anerkannten Religionsphilosophen Richard Schaeffler (1926 bis 2019) ist eine Reflexion auf die seit jeher das Nachdenken der Menschen bewegende Frage ‚Wer bin ich?‘. Immanuel Kant behauptet,...
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Springer VS
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2019-05-16
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This book introduces concepts in philosophy of mind and neurophilosophy. Inside, three scholars offer approaches to the problems of identity, consciousness, and the mind. In the process, they open new vistas for thought and raise fresh controversies to some of the...
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Springer
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2019-02-23
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Larry M. Jorgensen provides a systematic reappraisal of Leibniz's philosophy of mind, revealing the full metaphysical background that allowed Leibniz to see farther than most of his contemporaries. In recent philosophy much effort has been put into discovering a...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-02-21
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This book is about the interweaving between cognitive penetrability and the epistemic role of the two stages of perception, namely early and late vision, in justifying perceptual beliefs. It examines the impact of the epistemic role of perception in defining cognitive...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-07
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Die Frage nach dem ‚Eigenen‘ in Kontrast zu einem wie auch immer gearteten ‚Fremden‘ ist auf vielen Ebenen, sowohl in der Gesellschaft als auch in den Wissenschaften, eine theoretische wie praktische Herausforderung. Damit einhergehende Grenzziehungen, die eine Trennung...
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Springer VS
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2019-02-06
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Paul Thagard uses new accounts of brain mechanisms and social interactions to forge theories of mind, knowledge, reality, morality, justice, meaning, and the arts. Natural Philosophy brings new methods for analyzing concepts, understanding values, and achieving...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-31
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Heidegger with Derrida: Being Written attempts, for the first time, to think Heidegger's philosophy through the lens of Derrida's logocentric thesis, according to which speech has, throughout the history of metaphysics, been given primacy over writing. The book offers a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-01-09
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Der vorliegende Band versammelt Studien sowie grundlegende Beiträge unterschiedlicher Disziplinen, um den Spuren von Körper und Raum-Relationen nachzugehen. Die Annahme, dass Körper und Räume in einer permanenten wie ursprünglichen Beziehung zueinander stehen, wird in...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2019-01-04
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Studien zur Interdisziplinären Anthropologie
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In this book, the author takes a stand for a variant of panpsychism as being the best solution available to the mind-body problem. More exactly, he defends a view that can be labelled 'dual-aspect-pan-proto-psychism'. Panpsychism claims that mentality is ubiquitous to...
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Springer
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2018-12-08
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In Life's Values Alan H. Goldman seeks to explain what is of ultimate value in individual lives. The proposed candidates include pleasure, happiness, meaning, and well-being. Only the latter is the all-inclusive category of personal value, and it consists in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-12-06
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In Life's Values Alan H. Goldman seeks to explain what is of ultimate value in individual lives. The proposed candidates include pleasure, happiness, meaning, and well-being. Only the latter is the all-inclusive category of personal value, and it consists in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-12-06
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The relationship between our living body and our soul, our mental expressions of life and our physical environment, are both classical topics for discussion and ones which currently present themselves as part of a truly exciting philosophical debate: are we today still...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-11-21
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Philosophie
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Much of what we say is never said aloud. It occurs only silently, as inner speech. We chastise, congratulate, joke, and generate endless commentary, all without making a sound. This distinctively human ability to create public language in the privacy of our own...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-10
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Much of what we say is never said aloud. It occurs only silently, as inner speech. We chastise, congratulate, joke, and generate endless commentary, all without making a sound. This distinctively human ability to create public language in the privacy of our own...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-09
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The experience of illness is a universal and substantial part of human existence. Like death, illness raises important philosophical issues. But unlike death, illness, and in particular the experience of being ill, has received little philosophical attention. This may...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-01
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