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How much does ethics demand of us? On what authority does it demand it?How does what ethics demand relate to other requirements, such as those of prudence, law, and social convention? Does ethics really demand anything at all? Questions of this sort lie at the heart of...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-01-03
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Debates over pornography tend to be heated and deeply polarized--as with other topics that have to do with sex, pornography cuts to the core of our values and convictions. Philosophical debates concerning pornography are fraught with difficult questions: What is...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-02
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This monograph is both an intellectual summation as well as a philosophical advancement of key themes of the work of Keith Lehrer on several key topics--including knowledge, self-trust, autonomy, and consciousness. He here attempts to integrate these themes and develop...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-02
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This book introduces a panorama of the philosophical theory of explanation. Written as a philosophical dialogue between two interlocutors, Philip and a student, it presents a defense of the position of explanatory pluralism. The fictional dialogue takes place on...
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Springer
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2019-01-01
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This comprehensive Handbook presents the major perspectives within philosophy and literary studies on the relations, overlaps and tensions between philosophy and literature. Drawing on recent work in philosophy and literature, literary theory, philosophical aesthetics,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-31
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This book examines the so-called hiddenness argument of the Canadian philosopher John L. Schellenberg. ?The hiddenness of God is a topic evincing a rich tradition in the monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Rather recently, an argument emerged...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-29
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This edited volume brings together 18 state-of-the art essays on pluralism about truth and logic. Parts I and II are dedicated to respectively truth pluralism and logical pluralism, and Part III to their interconnections. Some contributors challenge pluralism, arguing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-29
Collection :
Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy
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This book sheds new light on the history of the philosophically crucial notion of intentionality, which accounts for one of the most distinctive aspects of our mental life: the fact that our thoughts are about objects. Intentionality is often described as a certain kind...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-12-28
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Der Autor sucht in diesem Buch eine endgültige Antwort auf die bislang als offen geltende metaethische Frage nach der Begründbarkeit normativer Ethik zu geben. Im Zentrum steht die Absicht, die These der Begründbarkeit der Ethik als selbstkontradiktorisch und damit...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-12-28
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In diesem Buch befasst sich Arturo Romero Contreras mit der Frage, wie Philosophie nach ihrem proklamierten Ende möglich ist. Dabei geht der Autor im ersten Teil von der Phänomenologie Husserls und ihrer Rezeption bei Fink, Heidegger und Derrida aus und stellt sich die...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-12-28
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Power is a pervasive phenomenon yet there is little consensus on what it is and how it should be understood. In this book the cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han develops a fresh and original perspective on the nature of power, shedding new light on this key feature of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-12-28
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Adorno’s lectures on ontology and dialectics from 1960–61 comprise his most sustained and systematic analysis of Heidegger’s philosophy. They also represent a continuation of a project that he shared with Walter Benjamin – ‘to demolish Heidegger’. Following the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-12-21
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How much does ethics demand of us? On what authority does it demand it?How does what ethics demand relate to other requirements, such as those of prudence, law, and social convention? Does ethics really demand anything at all? Questions of this sort lie at the heart of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-12-20
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God is dead, but his presence lives on in politics. This is the problem of political theology: the way that theological ideas find their way into secular political institutions, particularly the sovereign state. In this intellectual tour-de-force, leading political...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-12-18
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Americans today are far less likely to trust their institutions, and each other, than in decades past. This collapse in social and political trust arguably fuels our increasingly ferocious ideological conflicts and hardened partisanship. Many believe that our previously...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-14
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee and Certain Scenes of Teaching attempts to track the ‘literary’ in the production of ethics and politics. Ethics here is not an inventory of moral principles to be followed in action. Instead, the...
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OUP India
Parution :
2018-12-13
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In Wittgenstein on Logic as the Method of Philosophy, Oskari Kuusela examines Wittgenstein's early and late philosophies of logic, situating their philosophical significance in early and middle analytic philosophy with particular reference to Frege, Russell, Carnap, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-12-13
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Epistemic vices are character traits, attitudes or thinking styles that prevent us from gaining, keeping or sharing knowledge. In this book, Quassim Cassam gives an account of the nature and importance of these vices, which include closed-mindedness, intellectual...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-12-13
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This book offers a comprehensive critical survey of issues of historical interpretation and evaluation in Bertrand Russell's 1918 logical atomism lectures and logical atomism itself. These lectures record the culmination of Russell's thought in response to discussions...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-11
Collection :
History of Analytic Philosophy
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This book is about knowledge and its value. At its heart is a straightforward idea: we can answer many interesting and difficult questions in epistemology by reflecting on the role of epistemic evaluation in human life. Michael Hannon calls this approach function-first...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-11
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