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This book offers a compelling examination of our moral and epistemic obligations to be reasonable people who seek to understand the social reality of those who are different from us. Considering the oppressive aspects of socially constructed ignorance, Heikes argues...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-06
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Es wird heute – in Zeiten von ‚Fake News‘ und alternativen Fakten – wieder gerungen um die Wahrheit. Das ist eigentlich eine gute Nachricht für unsere Gesellschaft. Denn wenn es um wahr oder falsch geht, dann bildet sich daraus eine Diskussionskultur, in der...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-05-04
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This volume covers the philosophical, historical, religious, and interpretative aspects of the ancient Guodian bamboo manuscripts (????) which were disentombed in the Guodian Village in Hubei Province, China, in 1993. Considered to be the Chinese equivalent of the Dead...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-05-03
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In Nietzsche's first book The Birth of Tragedy (1872), cultural renewal is paramount among his concerns.In the person of Richard Wagner, Nietzsche saw someone who might bring together a fragmented and directionless modern society through the creation of tragic festival...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-02
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In Nietzsche's first book The Birth of Tragedy (1872), cultural renewal is paramount among his concerns.In the person of Richard Wagner, Nietzsche saw someone who might bring together a fragmented and directionless modern society through the creation of tragic festival...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-02
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The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism comprises fifty specially written chapters on René Descartes (1596-1650) and Cartesianism, the dominant paradigm for philosophy and science in the seventeenth century, written by an international group of leading...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-02
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The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism comprises fifty specially written chapters on René Descartes (1596-1650) and Cartesianism, the dominant paradigm for philosophy and science in the seventeenth century, written by an international group of leading...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-02
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This book investigates the phenomenological ways that dance choreographing and dance performance exemplify both Truth and meaning-making within Native American epistemology, from an analytic philosophical perspective. Given that within Native American communities dance...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-30
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This book builds on the works of Artaud and Deleuze, setting forth a different way of thinking on the body through the use of a whole new set of conceptual tools. Paic argues that the human body has become obsolete in relation to the development of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-25
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The present book intends to approach the problem of mind, meaning and consciousness from a non-naturalist or transcendental point of view.The naturalization of consciousness has reached a dead-end. There can be no proper solution to the problem of mind within the...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-04-25
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Bernard Bolzano (1781-1850) is increasingly recognized as one of the greatest nineteenth-century philosophers. A philosopher and mathematician of rare talent, he made ground-breaking contributions to logic, the foundations and philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-25
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Bernard Bolzano (1781-1850) is increasingly recognized as one of the greatest nineteenth-century philosophers. A philosopher and mathematician of rare talent, he made ground-breaking contributions to logic, the foundations and philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-25
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The rise of the phenomenon of virtue ethics in recent years has increased at a rapid pace. Such an explosion carries with it a number of great possibilities, as well as risks. This volume has been written to contribute a multi-faceted perspective to the current...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-04-24
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Intersections of Value investigates the universal human need for aesthetic experience. It examines three appreciative contexts where aesthetic value plays a central role: art, nature, and the everyday. However, no important appreciative context or practice is completely...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-24
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What is knowledge? What, if anything, can we know? In Knowing and Seeing, Michael Ayers recovers the insight in the traditional distinction between knowledge and belief, according to which 'knowledge' stems from direct and perspicuous cognitive contact with ('seeing')...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-24
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This innovative new volume analyses the role of emotions in knowledge acquisition. It focuses on the field of philosophy of emotions at the exciting intersection between epistemology and philosophy of mind and cognitive science to bring us an in-depth analysis of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-23
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Can animals be persons? To this question, scientific and philosophical consensus has taken the form of a resounding, 'No!' In this book, Mark Rowlands disagrees. Not only can animals be persons, many of them probably are. Taking, as his starting point, John Locke's...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-04-23
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Originally published in 1972, The Development of Kant's Ethics is Keith Ward's exceptional analysis of the history of Kant's ideas on ethics and the emergence of Kantian ethics as a mature theory. Through a thorough overview of all of Kant's texts written between 1755...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-04-18
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This new dictionary provides over 350 accessible definitions of the terms that the growing number of students of Sikhism will encounter. It covers beliefs, practices, festivals, sacred sites, and principal languages, as well as the social and religious processes through...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-18
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Njoh Mouelle deploys an analysis intended to clarify his position on various aspects of this movement. He analyses ethical notions and highlights unsuspected issues, on the difficult question of regulating the exploitation of the results of convergent NBIC research,...
Editeur :
Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2019-04-17
Collection :
Harmattan Cameroun
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