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This volume explores the work of Mary B. Hesse (1924–2016), a pivotal figure in twentieth-century philosophy of science. At a time when the foundations of an integrated approach to the history and philosophy of science were being established, Hesse, as a female...
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Springer
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2025-08-20
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What We Are in Literature and Art begins from a simple observation: literature and art hand us complex material evidence of the experience of people. This is not a mystical, naive, or hopelessly old-fashioned claim about aesthetic works. The experience that literature...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-08-20
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“You’re not a painter if you haven’t painted gray”, declared Paul Cézanne. The same could be said of philosophers: you’re not a philosopher if you have never thought gray. This simple four-letter word signifies much more than a quasi-neutral color lying between black...
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Polity
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2025-08-20
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Immanuel Kant claimed that when we act on the moral law, we engage in a collective project to bring about a world that we can only grasp in reason. The resulting image of an ideal world, Kant called, the “highest good.” Since Kant's time, this ideal has challenged...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-19
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During a time of widespread intraspecific aggression and barbaric captivity throughout the planet, this study of the ethics of survival asks the burning question: At the extremes of experience, when captives are struggling to survive, is there a line at which the moral...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-19
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"Deflationary" theories are views about truth that are often, but not always, characterized as accounts that accept the utility of the truth predicate without granting the metaphysical or epistemological assumptions that usually go along with it. The Deflationary...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-19
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Since the 1960s, the emerging discipline of metaphilosophy has been burdened by the problem of the philosophical preconditioning of metaphilosophical theories. This issue is addressed through the epistemological framework of perspectivism. It is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-13
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From Kant and Hegel to Habermas and Marx, radical philosophical transformations have consistently intersected with technological advancements throughout human history. This volume on the Dialectic of Digital Enlightenment, engages with AI-driven digitalisation to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-13
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This book defends the idea of autonomy as the balancing of normative arguments, which captures the essential feature of autonomous judgement as being simultaneously free and normatively bound. However, this approach runs counter to the dominant view of arguments as...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-12
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Fusing critical social theory to critical and political phenomenology, Political Poverty presents a substantial contribution to current discussions on democratic inequality, political agency, political exclusion, and the role of experience in critical theorizing....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-12
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Hannah Arendt hat kein spezifisch kunstphilosophisches Buch geschrieben. Jedoch spielen ihre Überlegungen zu den Künsten und mehr noch die kulturgeschichtliche Verortung von produktions- und rezeptionsästhetischen Fragen eine wichtige Rolle in ihrem Werk. Der Band legt...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-08-12
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Why do doctors take the Hippocratic Oath? Is this like reciting a religious creed? Is the White Coat Ceremony a kind of medical ordination? These medical rituals do seem to offer grounding for moral life in the profession. People from all over the globe make pilgrimages...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-12
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This book explores the processes of disfiguration in the 'classical' and 'ritual-healing' performances of India, with a particular focus on the rich and diverse performance traditions of Kerala. It examines three modes of disfiguration—'blood,' 'madness,' and...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-09
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The fundamental question asked in this book is: what is the basic structure of the postcolonial African state? Taking the postcolonial African state as it is and as it ought to be, Frank Abumere defines the basic structure of the postcolonial African state as how the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-07
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This book offers a new perspective on the emergence of concepts that shaped the world, set against the dramatic background of political upheaval and crisis of scientific knowledge that characterized interwar Germany and Austria. On the one hand, the...
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Springer
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2025-08-07
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A compilation of cutting-edge, comprehensive insights into digital ethics from leading scholars As digital technologies shape every aspect of today's society, ethical considerations have never been more pressing. InA Companion to Digital Ethics, editors Luciano Floridi...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-08-07
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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This volume examines the important but, until recently, forgotten work of the British analytic philosopher Margaret Macdonald. Macdonald's career spanned one of the most significant and fascinating periods in the history of analytic philosophy: the pre-war London of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-08-06
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Was ist eigentlich Kunst? Es scheint heutzutage oft so, als ob Kunst wie Nicht-Kunst aussehe und Nicht-Kunst wie Kunst. Dabei geht es um vielfältige Interpretationen einschließlich der Bestimmten und der Unbestimmten. Das Kunstverstehen macht so auf den...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-08-04
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We often think of justice as a virtue that belong to states, societies, and institutions. It has not always been that way. Justice began as something between individual people, and only recently has its application to larger groups become predominant. In Just People,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-01
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Many of the new trends in the philosophy of mind are little over a generation old. They could hardly have come about without the crucial scientific and philosophical innovations forged between 1890 and 1935. During that revolutionary period, important thinkers aspired...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-01
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