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As we all know, the real writer of The Matrix is René Descartes. Less well known is that Descartes has a lot in common with Tom Cruise. And yes, Kant and Nietzsche do play leading roles in Star Trek and John Locke inspired the makers of Avatar. The thing is, films and...
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Presses Universitaires de Rennes éditions
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2023-05-25
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Forming beliefs is one of the most basic and important features of the mind. While philosophers generally use the term "belief" to refer to human attitude when one takes something to be the case or regards it as true, both within and beyond the field alike, there is...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-04-17
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Vincent F. Hendricks’s Sucker Nation asks the questions ‘Why do intelligent, informed people continue to participate in systems they privately distrust?’ and ‘Why does exploitation persist even when manipulation is widely recognized?’ This...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-04-16
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The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Humor gathers the best scholars in this now well-established field in order to fill a significant lacuna: to provide an accurate explanation of philosophers’ attitudes toward humor as an umbrella term, both historically...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-04-15
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Time and Temporality in Perspective explores central topics in the contemporary analytic metaphysics of time such as the passage of time, the reality of tense, temporal ontology and persistence.
The first part of the book is a sustained critique of traditional...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-04-15
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“Know thyself.” Once carved into the stone at Delphi and popularized by Socrates as the guiding maxim of philosophy, this command captures the enduring human struggle to examine and justify our own beliefs. This book asks how such a capacity for...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-04-15
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Stories shape not only how we understand the world-but also how we live in it. The way a narrative sketches the contours of a person's character or presents the unfolding of events can have monumental consequences for those it represents. Yet across historical periods...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-04-14
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Roberto Esposito's poetic and historically layered new book draws on a famous, and famously opaque, passage from the Old Testament to shed light on the vision of self and domination that has profoundly shaped western identity and left its mark on western culture.These...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-04-14
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This text inquires as to the possibility of developing a theory that is both contractarian and feminist in light of the philosophy of Jean Hampton. It reveals how Hampton's thought begins with this focus and leads to the formulation of a highly original normative...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-04-12
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This book investigates the foundations of probability theory and logic, intertwining historical insights with modern interpretations. It explores the evolution of probability theory from Boole’s seminal question on the very object of probability, through de...
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Springer
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2026-04-12
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This book examines the relationship between philosophy and literature. It encompasses political philosophy, the philosophy of language, ethics, and the philosophy of mind. It also includes a section on philosophical interpretations of literature.
This volume offers...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-04-12
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What is luck?What is the significance of luck for our ethical and political lives? Could it be the case that luck is an intoxicating illusion, which threatens to obscure the true explanations of human action, excuse wrongdoing or cowardice, provoke powerful emotions,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-04-10
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clichés We Live By shows howclichés - those everyday phrases we love to hate - shape our world. It traces their trajectory from modernity to the contemporary digital and artificial intelligence eras, revealing their pervasive presence and their paradoxical nature as...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-04-10
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clichés We Live By shows howclichés - those everyday phrases we love to hate - shape our world. It traces their trajectory from modernity to the contemporary digital and artificial intelligence eras, revealing their pervasive presence and their paradoxical nature as...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-04-10
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Platonism and Kabbalah share a prominent characteristic: the formulation of epistemological and ontological concepts in erotic terms. Plato envisions eros as creating and sustaining the permeability of the boundaries between the earthly and the divine. This motif...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-04-10
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This is the first attempt in Poland to describe the problem of the place and role of truth in politics. The author expounds her own typology of philosophical contexts in which she clarifies the so far entangled understanding of the relationship between truth and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2026-04-08
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This monograph synthesizes Deleuze and Confucianism for a novel account of the good life at the dawn of a new epoch of power: control. It engages in both a broad survey of work on the current techno-political situation, while providing a response through an in depth...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-04-08
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This book explores the concept of Objective Mental Reality (OMR)—a fundamental, intersubjectively formed symbolic layer of consciousness. In Part I, it delves into foundational psychological constructions such as the soul, mind, consciousness, and...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-04-08
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This book presents established and new research on the close connections between graph games and systems of logic, particularly existing and newly designed modal logics. The volume utilizes two graph games – the sabotage game and the hide-and-seek game – to...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-04-08
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The starting point of this book is the question of to what extent knowledge can be objectively justified and to what extent our statements, in their claim to be true, must necessarily presuppose a reference to a world given independently of our subjective experience....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-04-08
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