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Volume 8, the third of the historical volumes of A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence, offers a history of legal philosophy in common-law countries from the 17th to the 19th century. Its main focus (like that ofVolume 9) is on the ways in which...
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Springer
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2022-04-26
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Jeder Mensch lügt. Würden wir dies leugnen, würden wir uns selbst belügen. Gefährlich wird dies, wenn die Lüge sich als Normalität in unser Leben einschleicht und zum Automatismus wird. Wenn sie sich so überzeugend darstellt, dass wir nicht mehr in der Lage sind, zu...
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Springer VS
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2022-04-26
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This open access volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations
of scientific knowledge in the early modern period.
It investigates the rich edition history of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera,
by far the most widely...
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Springer
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2022-04-25
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This book provides the foundations of trust amidst radical uncertainty. Specifically, it addresses the question of under what condition it is possible to trust relative strangers. As the first logical investigation of its kind, the book breaks with many preconceived...
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Springer
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2022-04-22
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Henry Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics has been a central part of the utilitarian canon since its publication in 1874. This book, part of the Oxford Guides to Philosophy series, is a concise companion to Sidgwick's masterpiece, written primarily to aid advanced...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-22
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The virtue of obedience is seen as outdated today, if not downright toxic – and yet, are we any freer than our forebears? In this provocative work, Jacob Phillips argues not. Many feel unable to speak freely, their opinions policed by the implicit or explicit threat of...
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Polity
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2022-04-21
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Bayesian ideas have recently been applied across such diverse fields as philosophy, statistics, economics, psychology, artificial intelligence, and legal theory. Fundamentals ofBayesian Epistemology examines epistemologists' use ofBayesian probability mathematics to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-21
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How might political emotions contribute to the creation of a decent public sphere? Our societies are characterized by difference and contestation. Cultivating political emotions can appear counterproductive to stability and peace. But there is an increasing recognition...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-19
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Our human lives involve remarkable forms of practical organization-- diachronic organization of individual activity; small-scale organization of shared action; and the organization of institutions. In this book, Michael Bratman argues that the key to these multiple,...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-04-19
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In 1885, Henri Bergson addressed a class of French high school students on the subject of politeness. Bergson would go on to become one of the most influential philosophers of his time, yet although this essay set forth a striking theory of politeness and foreshadowed...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-04-15
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The idea that time does not exist is, for many, unthinkable: time must exist. Almost every experience we have tells us so.
There has been plenty of debate around what time is like, but not whether it exists.The goal of this book is to make the absence of time...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-04-14
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Tracing emotions across work, leisure, social media, and politics, Practical Feelings counters old myths and shows how emotions are practical resources for tackling individual and collective challenges.
We do not usually think of our emotions as practical — often...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-14
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The problem of mourning is the last and hardest part of the problem of evil.
To show that suffering is defeated for a sufferer, a theodicy argues that there is an outweighing benefit which could not have been gotten without the suffering. Typically, this condition has...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-14
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Bayesian ideas have recently been applied across such diverse fields as philosophy, statistics, economics, psychology, artificial intelligence, and legal theory. Fundamentals ofBayesian Epistemology examines epistemologists' use ofBayesian probability mathematics to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-14
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Bayesian ideas have recently been applied across such diverse fields as philosophy, statistics, economics, psychology, artificial intelligence, and legal theory. Fundamentals ofBayesian Epistemology examines epistemologists' use ofBayesian probability mathematics to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-14
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Das Argument der Supererogation „Das tue ich nicht, weil es nicht Pflicht ist“ hat wohl jeder schon einmal vorgebracht. Es dient der Abgrenzung von allzu anspruchsvollen moralischen Anforderungen. Es ist allerdings nicht immer überzeugend. Eine Nierenspende kann man mit...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-04-14
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Moral psychology is the study of how human minds make and are made by human morality. This state-of-the-art volume covers contemporary philosophical and psychological work on moral psychology, as well as notable historical theories and figures in the field of moral...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-14
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This book offers a new look at emergence in terms of a hierarchical emergent ontology. Emergence is recognised as a universal principle, as universal as the principle of evolution.This is achieved by setting out the ontological criteria of emergence and such criteria’s...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-04-12
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In this book, Martin Lenz provides the first reconstruction of intersubjective accounts of the mind in early modern philosophy. Some phenomena are easily recognised as social or interactive: certain dances, forms of work and rituals require interaction to come into...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-04-12
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One of the most difficult problems challenging the human mind is knowledge of the world in its human, natural, and supra-natural dimensions: what is the nature of this multidimensional reality? How do we know and verify the truth of our knowledge claims of this reality?...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-04-12
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