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The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does is the first edited volume to critically engage with Effective Altruism (EA). It brings together writers from diverse activist and scholarly backgrounds to explore a variety of unique grassroots movements and community organizing...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-02-03
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The questions and dilemmas of bioethics touch everyone. Should people who refuse to be vaccinated be treated for COVID-19, even if that displaces vaccinated patients with other serious conditions? What restrictions on abortion should there be, if any? Should women be...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-02-03
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This book is about avant-garde art in Shanghai in the 1980s which challenges the narrative in the current discourse on the appearance of contemporary art in China. Offering fresh perspectives and new insights into the art and the artists of this period, the book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-02
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This edited volume presents papers on this alternative philosophy of biology that could be called “continental philosophy of biology,” and the variety of positions and solutions that it has spawned. In doing so, it contributes to debates in the history and...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-02-01
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A unique compendium of foundational and contemporary writings in global justice, newly revised and expanded The Global Justice Reader is the first resource of its kind to focus exclusively on this important topic in moral and political philosophy, providing an expertly...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-02-01
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Life in Groups: How We Think, Feel, and Act Together is a collection of standalone essays that explores the nature and consequences of our thinking, feeling, and acting together. Topics include collective intentions and their relation to agreements, culture as a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-01
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The doctrine of the incarnation - that God became human in Christ - is one of the most astonishing propositions ever advanced, and it is at the heart of the Christian faith. It is also a paradoxical one, in that it immediately faces the objection that, since the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-01
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Die sich seit den 1960ern entwickelnde Disziplin der Metaphilosophie ist mit dem Problem der philosophischen Vorbelastetheit metaphilosophischer Theorien behaftet. Diesem Problem wird mit dem erkenntnistheoretischen Programm des Perspektivismus begegnet. Es wird...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-01-31
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Biological Essentialism addresses three main issues. The first concerns the essences (natures, identities) of biological taxa, particularly species. Kripke and other metaphysicians hold that these essences are (at least partly) intrinsic, underlying, probably largely...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-01-31
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Torin Alter presents a compelling defence of the 'knowledge argument' against physicalism, pioneered by Frank Jackson. According to physicalism, consciousness is a physical phenomenon. The knowledge argument stars Mary, who learns all objective, physical information...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-01-31
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A timely collection of debates concerning the major themes and topics in philosophy of mind, fully updated with new topics covering the latest developments in the field Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind provides a lively and engaging introduction to the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-01-31
Collection :
Contemporary Debates in Philosophy
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The publication aims to make suggestions for a 'decolonisation of aesthetics' within an Afro-European framework.The texts (whose authors come from different cultural contexts between Germany, France, Senegal, Benin, Nigeria and Tunesia) do not only refer to...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-01-30
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Selfless Minds offers a new interpretation of no-self metaphysics in Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosa-Bhasya. Monima Chadha reads Vasubandhu as defending not only eliminativism about self but also about persons, and illusionism about the sense of self and all kinds of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-01-28
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Nietzsche’s doctrine of the "eternal recurrence of the same"—the conception that the universe of events repeats itself in the same sequence, to infinity—is often taken to be logically incoherent: if an event recurs, it is not identically the same as the event itself,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-01-27
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This book presents a history of the volitional theory of causation--the philosophical proposal that volition, or will, of the same or broadly the same stamp as that which we experience in our own deliberate and voluntary doings, should be taken as the basis for all...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-01-25
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Human dignity: social movements invoke it, several national constitutions enshrine it, and it features prominently in international human rights documents. But what is it, why is it important, and what is its relationship to human rights and social justice? Pablo...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-01-25
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Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is a forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. OSM offers a broad view of the subject, featuring not only the traditionally central topics such...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-01-24
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Organizations do moral wrong. States pursue unjust wars, businesses avoid tax, charities misdirect funds. Our social, political, and legal responses require guidance. We need to know what we're responding to and how we should respond to it. We need a metaphysical and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-01-24
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Do human beings have a special and distinguished place in reality? In Idealism and the Harmony of Thought and Reality Thomas Hofweber contends that they do. We are special since there is an intimate connection between our human minds and reality itself. This book...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-01-24
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Can people alive now have duties to future generations, the unborn millions? If so, what do we owe them? What does “justice” mean in an intergenerational context, both between people who will coexist at some point, and between generations that will never overlap? In...
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Polity
Parution :
2023-01-24
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