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This book is an integrated series of philosophical investigations that offers significant new insights into key philosophical concerns ranging from methodological issues to substantive doctrines. Consisting of three sections, it first deals with the nature of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-03-28
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Five Modes of Scepticism examines the argument forms that lie at the heart of Pyrrhonian scepticism as expressed in the writings of Sextus Empiricus. These are the Agrippan modes of disagreement, hypothesis, infinite regression, reciprocity and relativity; modes which...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-03-28
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Kant's Revolutionary Theory of Modality is a comprehensive study of ImmanuelKant's views on modal notions of possibility, actuality or existence, and necessity. Abaci locatesKant's views on these notions in their broader historical context, establishes their continuity...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-03-28
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This volume illustrates how the methodology of metaphysics can be enriched with the help of cognitive science. Few philosophers nowadays would dispute the relevance of cognitive science to the metaphysics of mind, but this volume mainly concerns the relevance of...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-03-27
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This book analyzes the exile ontology of Spanish philosopher María Zambrano (1904-1991). Karolina Enquist Källgren connects Zambrano’s lived exile and political engagement with the Spanish Civil War to her poetic reason, and argues that Zambrano developed a theory of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-03-26
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This book is based on the assumption that the world is governed by a widespread field of interconnected laws. In this field man-made laws – legal laws - have to coexist with the laws of nature, the laws of science and the laws of logic. They have to find their place in...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-03-25
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In diesem Band sind die nachgelassenen Schriften Moritz Schlicks zur Logik und Philosophie der Mathematik gesammelt, ediert und kommentiert. Keine der zu Lebzeiten veröffentlichten Schriften Schlicks war ausschließlich diesen Themen gewidmet. Man sollte daraus jedoch...
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Springer
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2019-03-25
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This volume introduces readers to a selected number of core issues in metaphysics that have been central in the history of philosophy and remain foundational to contemporary debates, that is: substances; properties; modality and essence; causality; determinism and free...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-03-25
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This volume features more than fifteen essays written in honor of Peter D. Klein. It explores the work and legacy of this prominent philosopher, who has had and continues to have a tremendous influence in the development of epistemology. The essays reflect the breadth...
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Springer
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2019-03-22
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PROSE 2020 Single Volume Reference Finalist!Philosophers throughout history have debated the existence of gods, but it is only in recent years that the absence of such a belief has become a significant topic of philosophical analysis, in particular for philosophers of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-03-22
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Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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A long tradition, going back to Aristotle, conceives of logic in terms of necessity and possibility: a deductive argument is correct if it is not possible for the conclusion to be false when the premises are true.A relatively unknown feature of the analytic tradition in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-03-21
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A long tradition, going back to Aristotle, conceives of logic in terms of necessity and possibility: a deductive argument is correct if it is not possible for the conclusion to be false when the premises are true.A relatively unknown feature of the analytic tradition in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-03-21
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Kant's Revolutionary Theory of Modality is a comprehensive study of ImmanuelKant's views on modal notions of possibility, actuality or existence, and necessity. Abaci locatesKant's views on these notions in their broader historical context, establishes their continuity...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-03-21
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Superficially, Wittgenstein and Heidegger seem worlds apart: they worked in different philosophical traditions, seemed mostly ignorant of one another's work, and Wittgenstein's terse aphorisms in plain language could not be farther stylistically from Heidegger's...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-03-20
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Superficially, Wittgenstein and Heidegger seem worlds apart: they worked in different philosophical traditions, seemed mostly ignorant of one another's work, and Wittgenstein's terse aphorisms in plain language could not be farther stylistically from Heidegger's...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-03-20
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Normative Externalism argues that it is not important that people live up to their own principles. What matters, in both ethics and epistemology, is that they live up to the correct principles: that they do the right thing, and that they believe rationally. This stance,...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-03-20
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Normative Externalism argues that it is not important that people live up to their own principles. What matters, in both ethics and epistemology, is that they live up to the correct principles: that they do the right thing, and that they believe rationally. This stance,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-03-20
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This open access book seeks to identify the ethical spirit of European Union (EU) law, a context in which we can observe a trend towards increasing references to the terms ‘ethics’ and ‘morality’.This aspect is all the more important because EU law is now affecting more...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-03-15
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Descartes's Fictions traces common movements in early modern philosophy and literary method. Emma Gilby reassesses the significance ofDescartes's writing by bringing his philosophical output into contact with the literary treatises, exempla, and debates of his age. She...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-03-15
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According to the dominant account of rights, there are two ways to permissibly kill people: they have done something to forfeit their right to life, or their rights are outweighed by the significantly greater cost of respecting them. Contemporary just war theorists tend...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-03-15
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