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This book is about the interweaving between cognitive penetrability and the epistemic role of the two stages of perception, namely early and late vision, in justifying perceptual beliefs. It examines the impact of the epistemic role of perception in defining cognitive...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-07
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'To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, religion, all in one'John Ruskin - born 200 years ago, in February 1819 - was the greatest critic of his age: a critic not only of art and architecture but of society and life. But his writings - on beauty and truth, on work and...
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Quercus
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2019-02-07
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Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES- Why do humans form societies and what is needed for them to thrive?- How can women's potential be actualized?- How can we protect ourselves from demagogues and tyrants?IMMERSE yourself in the strikingly relevant questions of...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2019-02-07
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The Ladybird Expert Series
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Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes, investigating such questions as:
· What does it mean to be an agent?
· What is the nature of moral responsibility? Of criminal...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-07
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Many have been attracted to the idea that for something to be good there just have to be reasons to favour it. This view has come to be known as the buck-passing account of value. According to this account, for pleasure to be good there need to be reasons for us to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-07
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Die Frage nach dem ‚Eigenen‘ in Kontrast zu einem wie auch immer gearteten ‚Fremden‘ ist auf vielen Ebenen, sowohl in der Gesellschaft als auch in den Wissenschaften, eine theoretische wie praktische Herausforderung. Damit einhergehende Grenzziehungen, die eine Trennung...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-02-06
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?With the rise of China in the 21st century, this book offers a trans-cultural and thematic study of key Chinese concepts which influence modern day Chinese thinking across the spheres of politics, economics and society. It reflects on the major schools of Chinese...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-06
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In this book, W. V. Quine’s Immanuel Kant Lectures entitled Science and Sensibilia are published for the first time in English. These lectures represent an important stage in the development of Quine’s later thought, where he is more explicit...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-05
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This volume provides a much needed, historically accurate narrative of the development of theories of space up to the beginning of the eighteenth century. It studies conceptions of space that were implicitly or explicitly entailed by ancient, medieval and early modern...
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Springer
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2019-02-05
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Roman Ingarden (1893–1970), one of Husserl’s closest students and friends, ranks among the most eminent of the first generation of phenomenologists. His magisterial Controversy over the Existence of the World, written during the years of World War II in occupied...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-02-01
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Why do people hate one another? Who gets to speak for whom?Why do so many people combat prejudice based on their race, sexual orientation, or disability? What does segregation look like today? Many of us ponder and discuss urgent questions such as these at home, and see...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-02-01
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Death is something we mourn or fear as the worst thing that could happen--whether the deaths of close ones, the deaths of strangers in reported accidents or tragedies, or our own. And yet, being dead is something that no one can experience and live to describe. This...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-02-01
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Philosophy explores the deepest, most fundamental questions of reality—and this accessible and entertaining chronology presents 250 milestones of the most important theories, events, and seminal publications in the field over the last 3,500 years. The brief,...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2019-02-01
Collection :
Union Square & Co. Milestones
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Most arguments for or against abortion focus on one question: is the fetus a person? In this provocative and important book, David Boonin defends the claim that even if the fetus is a person with the same right to life you and I have, abortion should still be legal, and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-02-01
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This book argues that human rights cannot go global without going local.This important lesson from the winding debates on universalism and particularism raises intricate questions: what are human rights after all, given the dissent surrounding their foundations,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-31
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Too often Buddhism has been subjected to the Procrustean box of western thought, whereby it is stretched to fit fixed categories or had essential aspects lopped off to accommodate vastly different cultural norms and aims. After several generations of scholarly...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-01-31
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This volume takes as its focus an oft-neglected work of ancient philosophy: Aristotle's lost Homeric Problems. The evidence for this lost work consists mostly of 'fragments' surviving in the Homeric scholia - comments in the margins of the medieval manuscripts of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-31
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This volume takes as its focus an oft-neglected work of ancient philosophy: Aristotle's lost Homeric Problems. The evidence for this lost work consists mostly of 'fragments' surviving in the Homeric scholia - comments in the margins of the medieval manuscripts of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-31
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Countless public health agencies are trying to solve our most intractable public health problems -- among them, the obesity and opioid epidemics -- by partnering with corporations responsible for creating or exacerbating those problems. We are told industry must be part...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-31
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Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes, investigating such questions as:
· What does it mean to be an agent?
· What is the nature of moral responsibility? Of criminal...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-31
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