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Averroes on Intellect provides a detailed analysis of the Muslim philosopherAverroes (Ibn Rushd)'s notorious unicity thesis -- the view that there is only one separate and eternal intellect for all human beings. It focuses directly on Averroes' arguments, both from the...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-03-07
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This book explores the presence of Galen of Pergamon (129 – c. 216 AD) in early modern philosophy, science, and medicine. After a short revival due to the humanistic rediscovery of his works, the influence of the great ancient physician on Western thought seemed to...
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Springer
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2022-03-07
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Since the time of Hippocrates, madness has typically been viewed through the lens of disease, dysfunction, and defect. Madness, like all other disease, happens when something in the mind, or in the brain, does not operate the way that it should or as nature intended. In...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-03-04
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This book offers a detailed analysis of John Locke’s case for toleration and proposes an interpretation that shows the links between his political reasoning and his reflection on the ethics of belief. Locke is concerned with toleration not only when he discusses the...
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Springer
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2022-03-03
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This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of Sextus Empiricus based on his own view of what he calls the distinctive character of skepticism. It focuses on basic topics highlighted by this ancient philosopher concerning Pyrrhonism, a kind of skepticism named for...
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Springer
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2022-03-01
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Synthese Library
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This volume focuses on the emergent field of neuroethics comparing and contrasting how two democracies, Canada and the United States, have begun adapting public policy design to better fit human minds. The book focuses on issues relevant to all members of the general...
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Springer
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2022-03-01
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This book is dedicated to Edith Stein (1891–1942), who is known widely for her contributions to metaphysics. Though she never produced a dedicated work on questions of ethics, her corpus is replete with pertinent reflections.
This book is the first major...
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Springer
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2022-02-28
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Der vorliegende Band ist der letzte einer Reihe, in der die Beiträge veröffentlicht werden, die während des gleichnamigen VII. Kongresses der Internationalen Fichte-Gesellschaft 2009 in Brüssel gehalten wurden. Dieser Band enthält die Plenarvorträge dieser Konferenz....
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EuroPhilosophie Éditions
Parution :
2022-02-25
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idéalismes allemands
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This book offers a defense against non-classical approaches to the paradoxes. The author argues that, despite appearances, the paradoxes give no reason at all to reject classical logic. In fact, he believes classical solutions fare better than non-classical ones with...
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Springer
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2022-02-25
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Wir wissen, wie es ist, Schmerzen zu haben, jemanden zu lieben oder Angst zu haben. Diese subjektiven Erlebnisqualitäten werden "Qualia" (Singular: Quale) genannt und die Frage nach deren Platz in einer objektiven, naturwissenschaftlich geprägten Welt stellt das...
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J.B. Metzler
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2022-02-25
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This book offers an unprecedented study of the influence of the skepticism of the New Platonic Academy on David Hume’s and Immanuel Kant’s critiques of metaphysics. By demonstrating how the skeptical teachings of the Academy affected these authors’ Enlightened attacks...
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Springer
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2022-02-25
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A keen athlete in his late forties, philosophy professor Kevin Aho hadn’t given much thought to his own mortality, until he suffered a sudden heart attack that left him fighting for his life. Confronted with death for the first time, he realized that the things he...
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Polity
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2022-02-25
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A startling and thought-provoking work from one of the most powerful philosophers in the Western canon Thus Spoke Zarathustra:A Philosophy Classic, is Friedrich Nietzsche’s classic masterpiece of philosophy and literature. Nietzsche writes from the perspective of...
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Capstone
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2022-02-24
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Capstone Classics
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Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion offers a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board, it...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-02-24
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Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion offers a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board, it...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-24
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Kantian Commitments comprises ten essays that represent a series of efforts to rethink many of the fundamentals of Kant's ethics and to draw out some implications for moral theory and practice. In Part One, Herman revisits and revises central pieces of Kant's moral...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-02-24
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Kantian Commitments comprises ten essays that represent a series of efforts to rethink many of the fundamentals of Kant's ethics and to draw out some implications for moral theory and practice. In Part One, Herman revisits and revises central pieces of Kant's moral...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-24
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
John Stuart Mill (1806-73) is widely regarded as the leading liberal philosopher, economist, and political theorist of nineteenth century Britain. In his lifetime he was best known for his System of Logic (1843)...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-02-24
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
John Stuart Mill (1806-73) is widely regarded as the leading liberal philosopher, economist, and political theorist of nineteenth century Britain. In his lifetime he was best known for his System of Logic (1843)...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-24
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This book takes an idea first explored by medieval logicians 800 years ago and revisits it armed with the tools of contemporary linguistics, logic, and computer science. The idea - the Holy Grail of the medieval logicians - was the thought that all of logic could be...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-24
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