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This book is concerned with why (or whether) paintings have value: why they might be worth creating and attending to. The author starts from the challenge expressed in Plato's critique of the arts generally, according to which they do not lead us to what is true and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-21
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This book is concerned with why (or whether) paintings have value: why they might be worth creating and attending to. The author starts from the challenge expressed in Plato's critique of the arts generally, according to which they do not lead us to what is true and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-21
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In this book, Professor Jeanine Grenberg defends the idea that Kant's virtue theory is best understood as a system of eudaemonism, indeed, as a distinctive form of eudaemonism that makes it preferable to other forms of it: a system of what she calls Deontological...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-21
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Dieses Buch stellt eine Untersuchung des Wahrheitsbegriffs in Ludwig Wittgensteins allerletzter Schrift Über Gewißheit dar. Es zeichnet sich besonders durch die folgenden beiden neuen Aspekte aus: Erstens widerspricht es der bisher gängigen Interpretation, dass...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-07-20
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The tsunami of information unleashed by digitization is threatening to overwhelm us, drowning us in a sea of frenzied communication and disrupting many spheres of social life, including politics. Election campaigns are now being waged as information wars with bots and...
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Polity
Parution :
2022-07-19
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In recent decades, green chemistry dominated the imagination of sustainability scholars all over the world and was embraced by leading global universities and companies. This new concept is supposed to address the environmental crisis by making chemistry safer and less...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-07-18
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Provides students and scholars with a comprehensive introduction to the growing field of environmental philosophy and ethics Mitigating the effects of climate change will require global cooperation and lasting commitment. Of the many disciplines addressing the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-07-18
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This is Philosophy
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Michael J. Zimmerman investigates the relation between ignorance and moral responsibility. He begins with the presentation of a case in which a tragedy occurs, one to which many people have unwittingly contributed, and addresses the question of whether their ignorance...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-18
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How much does rationality constrain what we should believe on the basis of our evidence? According to this book, not very much. For most people and most bodies of evidence, there is a wide range of beliefs that rationality permits them to have in response to that...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-14
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How much does rationality constrain what we should believe on the basis of our evidence? According to this book, not very much. For most people and most bodies of evidence, there is a wide range of beliefs that rationality permits them to have in response to that...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-14
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Roman U. Sexl schreibt in seinem Artikel „Der unerschöpfliche Albert Einstein“, dass „gerade rund um die Ursprünge der speziellen Relativitätstheorie einige wesentliche wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Fragen“ noch offen stehen und betont: „Eine der interessantesten Fragen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-07-14
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Christine M. Korsgaard has had a profound influence on moral philosophy over the past forty years. Through her writing and teaching she has developed a distinctive, rigorous, and historically informed way of thinking about ethics, agency, and the normative dimension of...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-07-14
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Christine M. Korsgaard has had a profound influence on moral philosophy over the past forty years. Through her writing and teaching she has developed a distinctive, rigorous, and historically informed way of thinking about ethics, agency, and the normative dimension of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-14
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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-14
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Free Will: An Opinionated Guide offers a clear and straightforward introduction to a vexing topic, from an internationally recognized authority on free will.
What did you do a moment ago? What will you do after you read this? Are you deciding as we speak, or is...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-07-13
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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-11
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Elizabeth Anscombe is now recognised as one of the most important philosophers of the second half of the 20th century. She left a large corpus of work, wide-ranging in content, always original and bold. Her monograph Intention, published in 1957, is a modern classic,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-07-08
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This open access book presents a new generation multi-criteria, multi-stake holder, decision aide, called an "institutional compass". Based on hard data, the compass tells us what quality-direction we are heading in as an institution, region, system or...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-07-08
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This book undertakes to show how the exercise of reading Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” involves articulating for ourselves, as readers, what it means to liberate life through death. What Tolstoy’s short story shows us, the author argues, is that life can be truly...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-07-07
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This book offers a selection of the papers of the Women in Pragmatism International Conference held at the University of Barcelona in January 2020. The conference gathered women and non-binary scholars from twelve different countries.This was the first pragmatist...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-07-07
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