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Causal powers are returning to the forefront of realist philosophy of science. Once central features of philosophical thinking about the natures of substances and causes, they were banished during the early modern era and the Scientific Revolution. In this volume,...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-02-18
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The world, according to Kant, is made up of two levels of reality: the transcendental and the empirical.The transcendental level is a mind-independent level at which things in themselves exist.The empirical level is a fully mind-dependent level at which appearances...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-02-18
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The world, according to Kant, is made up of two levels of reality: the transcendental and the empirical.The transcendental level is a mind-independent level at which things in themselves exist.The empirical level is a fully mind-dependent level at which appearances...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-18
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Political science emerged as a response to the challenges of imperial administration and the demands of colonial rule. While not all political scientists were colonial cheerleaders, their thinking was nevertheless framed by colonial assumptions that influence the study...
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Polity
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2021-02-18
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The book poses the fundamental question of what objectivity means in practical legal discourse and what is its role. By applying critical discourse analysis to the applications of the term “objectivity” in judicial discourse – based on cases from Poland – the book...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-02-17
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This book focuses on the domains of moral philosophy, political philosophy, and political theory within African philosophy. At the heart of the volume is a call to imagine African political philosophy as embodying a needs-based political vision. While discourses in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-16
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This book reconsiders the supposed impossibility of deriving "Ought" from "Is". John R. Searle’s 1964 article How to Derive "Ought " from "Is’’ sent shockwaves through the philosophical community by offering a straightforward counterexample to this claim of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-16
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Typically, in the Western philosophical tradition, the presence of paradox and contradictions is taken to signal the failure or refutation of a theory or line of thinking. This aversion to paradox rests on the commitment-whether implicit or explicit-to the view that...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-12
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In our modern, urbanized societies, our engagement with the natural world often seems distant and superficial. Human life is now far removed from its prehistoric origins, when humans dwelt deep within the forests and depended on them for their survival.In this important...
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Polity
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2021-02-12
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New Russian Thought
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Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability brings together fifteen original essays by experts in philosophy and linguistics. These specially written chapters draw on themes from the work of Dorothy Edgington, the first woman to hold a chair in philosophy at the University...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-11
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Concepts related to probability permeate physics. This is most obvious in statistical mechanics, in which probabilities appear explicitly, but even in cases when predictions are made with near-certainty, there are implicit probabilistic assumptions in play. How are we...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-02-11
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Moral systems, like normative systems more broadly, involve complex mental representations. Rational Rules proposes that moral learning can be understood in terms of general-purpose rational learning procedures. Nichols argues that statistical learning can help answer a...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-02-11
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Moral systems, like normative systems more broadly, involve complex mental representations. Rational Rules proposes that moral learning can be understood in terms of general-purpose rational learning procedures. Nichols argues that statistical learning can help answer a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-11
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In this post-apocalyptic rollercoaster ride, philosopher Srecko Horvat invites us to explore the Apocalypse in terms of ‘revelation’ (rather than as the ‘end’ itself). He argues that the only way to prevent the end – i.e., extinction – is to engage in a close reading of...
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Polity
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2021-02-11
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What we can learn from a Renaissance nowhere In 1516, a book was published in Latin with the enigmatic Greek-derived word as its title. Utopia—which could mean either "good-place" or "no-place"—gives a traveler's account of a newly discovered island somewhere in the New...
Editeur :
Capstone
Parution :
2021-02-10
Collection :
Capstone Classics
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This volume is a collection of essays in honour of Professor Mohammad Ardeshir. It examines topics which, in one way or another, are connected to the various aspects of his multidisciplinary research interests. Based on this criterion, the book is divided into three...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-02-09
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This interdisciplinary volume brings together specialists from different backgrounds to deliver expert views on the relationship between morality and emotion, putting a special emphasis on issues related to emotional shocks. One of the distinctive aspects of social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-08
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In diesem Buch bringt Jiuxing Mao die kantische Philosophie und Husserls Phänomenologie hinsichtlich der Thematik der sinnlichen Subjektivität innerhalb der Erkenntnis- und Selbstbewusstseinstheorie miteinander in Dialog. Dieser Dialog ergibt sich als ein...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-02-08
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Heidegger presented reflections on animality most extensively in his 1929-30 lecture course The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics. In these lectures,Heidegger poses two provocative metaphysical theses: The human, he claims, is 'world-forming'; in contrast, the animal...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-04
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Heidegger presented reflections on animality most extensively in his 1929-30 lecture course The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics. In these lectures,Heidegger poses two provocative metaphysical theses: The human, he claims, is 'world-forming'; in contrast, the animal...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-04
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