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In Knowing Science, Alexander Bird presents an epistemology of science that rejects empiricism and gives a central place to the concept of knowledge. Science aims at knowledge and progresses when it adds to the stock of knowledge. That knowledge is social knowing--it is...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-09-08
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Explorations in Analytic Ecclesiology proposes an account of the nature and practice of the Church that draws from work in contemporary analytic social metaphysics, social epistemology, and social ethics. In the first book-length study of ecclesiology in analytic...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-09-08
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This book’s overarching premise is that discussion and critique in the discourses of architecture and urbanism have their primary focus on engagements with form, particularly in the sense of the question as to what planning and architecture signify with respect to the...
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Springer
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2022-09-04
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Ist Verbundenheit, wie Studien nahelegen, die Essenz von Spiritualität? Und wie könnte ein Religionsmodell aussehen, das auf Verbundenheit als religiöse Bewusstseinsqualität aufbaut? Auf Basis qualitativer Daten aus Interviews mit Langzeitpraktizierenden aus...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-09-01
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While demagoguery is traditionally regarded as destabilizing and dangerous, this book shows how it can also be used to advance the common good.
Most of us think that demagoguery is, by definition, bad. Relatedly, scholars almost invariably treat demagoguery as a...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-09-01
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Through its revised and applied Aristotelianism, this book illuminates our understanding of friendship in moral philosophy, moral psychology, and moral education. Friendship for Virtue has four main aims. The first is to give the virtue of friendship the pride of place...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-09-01
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Studies on the Derveni Papyrus, volume II brings together two new editions of the first fragmentarily extant columns of the Derveni Papyrus and seven scholarly articles devoted to their interpretation. The Derveni Papyrus is by far the most important textual discovery...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-01
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Kant held the moral law to be an objective imperative, an entity in its own right. It carries with it prescriptive force, in parallel to other principles of pure reason, like those of logic and mathematics. Objective imperatives therefore do not derive their authority...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-09-01
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Translation comes an illustrated manifesto and an interactive guide to reclaiming the wonder of the everyday through mindful activities, creative exercises and heart-warming stories.In a world that sometimes moves...
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Vintage Digital
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2022-09-01
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Wherever there is life, there are lies. Slick-suited politicians lie on the podium, ready to tell voters what they want to hear. Cheating lovers, swindling businessmen, double-crossing villains – all liars. But nature lies too – the cheetah crouching in the tall grass...
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Polity
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2022-08-31
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In this original book, Robert Elliott Allinson asserts that philosophers have been lulled into a dogmatic sleep by Immanuel Kant, the slayer of metaphysics, who has convinced them (and the rest of humanity) that we can never know Reality. Allinson awakens global...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-30
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This book brings together a team of international scholars to attempt to understand David Hume’s conception of the self. The standard interpretation is that he holds a no-self view: we are just bundles of conscious experiences, thoughts and emotions. There is nothing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-30
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This book presents contemporary perspectives of scholars working on different aspects of the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo- the idea of evolution, integral yoga, the transformation of the individual, society and earth, theories of nation and human unity, philosophy of...
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Springer
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2022-08-30
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Zen Buddhism is a form of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China and is strongly focused on meditation. It is characteristically sceptical towards language and distrustful of conceptual thought, which explains whyZen Buddhist sayings are so enigmatic and succinct....
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Polity
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2022-08-29
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This book presents an experiential, aesthetic-affective approach to the study of institutions. Drawing on institutional sociology, hermeneutics, phenomenology and process philosophy, it conceptualises institutions as collective experiences with their own self-promoting...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-08-27
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The theory of the square of opposition has been studied for over 2,000 years and has seen a resurgence in new theories and research since the second half of the twentieth century. This volume collects papers presented at the Sixth World Congress on the Square of...
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Birkhäuser
Parution :
2022-08-23
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In der Mitte des vorigen Jahrhunderts galt das Mythische als etwas Überwundenes, Gegenstand geschichtlicher Beratung, abgetan als Element des Erkennens vor dem Walten des rationalen Geistes. Aber seine Kraft, das Leben durch Gestalten und Bilder zu deuten, scheint...
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Alicia Éditions
Parution :
2022-08-22
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This open access book argues, from a detailed consideration of the Christian Scriptures, that God intends that sin occur. It swims against the tide of current thinking in philosophy of religion, arguing for an unfashionable conclusion. The book begins by considering the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-20
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This book uses a philosophy of technology to demonstrate that guns are predisposed for an intentional use, making them inherently non-neutral artifacts.This argument rejects the often-cited value neutral thesis and instrumentalist view that “guns don’t kill people;...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-20
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This book focuses on the complex relationships between inheritance, work, and desert in literature. It shows how, from its manifestation in the trope of material inheritance and legacy in Victorian fiction, “inheritance” gradually took on additional, more modern...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-19
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