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In this book, Lou Agosta explains, using literary examples, that readers require radical empathy to relate to, process, and overcome bad things happening to good people (for example: moral and physical trauma, double binds, soul murder, and behavior in extreme...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-25
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This book presents a comprehensive picture of when the premises of an argument are adequately connected to its conclusion. The author draws upon the familiar Toulmin model, Rescher’s discussion of presumption and burden of proof, and L. Jonathan Cohen’s presentation of...
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Springer
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2025-03-25
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Dieses Buch widmet sich einer Kompetenz der philosophischen und ethischen Begriffsbildung. Anliegen ist es, theoretische Grundlagen und praktisches Handwerkszeug zur Verfügung zu stellen, die dazu dienen, die Kompetenz einer kritischen Begriffsbildung zu...
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Springer VS
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2025-03-24
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It is a currently popular view that essences, laws, and logic are among the grounds of necessity and possibility. Another such idea relates essences, laws, and logic closely to causal explanations and to non-causal grounding explanations. The Sources of Necessity...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-03-23
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This volume’s aim is to stimulate philosophical interest in the experience of noise. There are at least three important open questions about noise. First, how should the relationship between noise as a scientific phenomenon and as a type of experience be...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-22
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Now that cinema is offline and online, the capacity of cinema to relate to philosophy and science has increased. In this regard, this book seeks to deepen the relationship between philosophy, science, and cinema in terms of bilaterality. This analysis leads to several...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-20
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Praise for ETHICS in PRACTICE “This new edition of Ethics in Practice offers a cornucopia of 72 expertly-edited texts – both canonical and contemporary – on a wonderfully wide selection of topics in moral theory and applied ethics. Students, teachers, and researchers...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-03-20
Collection :
Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies
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This is the eleventh volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Since its revival in the 1970s, political philosophy has been a vibrant field in philosophy, one that intersects with jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-19
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The most influential theory of distributive equality to have emerged since John Rawls' justice as fairness is luck egalitarianism, which aims to neutralize the distributive effects of luck.The standard form, brute-luck egalitarianism, advanced by Richard Arneson, G. A....
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OUP Oxford
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2025-03-19
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In the final volume of his history of philosophy, Jürgen Habermas offers a series of brilliant interpretations of the thinkers who set the agenda for contemporary philosophy. Beginning with masterful readings of Hume and Kant, he traces the genealogy of their...
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Polity
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2025-03-18
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This is an open access book that addresses how we treat others and, in particular, infants and children, with first-person authority.
We respond to people’s first-person authority when we give our interlocutor’s communication of their mental states more significance in...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-17
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"Letter from Birmingham Jail" is perhaps the most beloved and widely read work by Martin Luther King, Jr. Despite the countless publications on its conception and meaning, its broader philosophical significance is often missed. The Emotions of Nonviolence offers a novel...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-03-14
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This book looks closely at three first-order reflexive emotions—shame, humor and humility—that are shown to be not only exclusively human, but definitive of major aspects of human selfhood, agency and normativity. A separate chapter that covers second-order...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-13
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The Forgotten Genius of Physics, a work on Marian Smoluchowski is a popular science book aimed at introducing the outstanding physicist and philosopher to a wider audience. It contains many biographical elements, using memoir materials that describe Smoluchowski as a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-03-13
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Plato's Hippias Minor has long been considered puzzling in its philosophical purpose, its characterization of Socrates, and its overall design. Departing from a tradition of scholarship that largely relegates the dialogue to the fringes of the Platonic corpus, this...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-03-13
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The chapters in this volume address the question to what extent the doctrine of linguistic idealism is coherent and plausible. Linguistic idealism, as defined here, holds that both the existence and the (very general) structure of the world are in some sense dependent...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-12
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Saying what one thinks can be difficult; sometimes one knows that a thought is there, but it takes time and effort to find its proper articulation. This book is about articulatory self-knowledge, or the sort of knowledge about one's own mind that results from successful...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-12
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Gaslighting, flattery, misdirection, nagging, emotional blackmail, charm offensives, playing on emotions. These are all examples of ordinary manipulation. Such manipulation is common in everyday life, which is unfortunate, since manipulation seems like a bad thing....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-12
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According to a common narrative, identity politics derives from leftist postmodernism, and is antithetical to both liberalism and Enlightenment universalism. This narrative, however, is false. Identity politics is propagated not only by the left but also by the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-12
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This book collects works by the late Professor Martin Wight (1913-1972), an historian and scholar of international relations.
Wight conducted research on many topics, including British colonial history, European studies, international institutions, and the history of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-12
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