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Zina Giannopoulou argues that Theaetetus--Plato's most systematic examination of knowledge--is a philosophically sophisticated elaboration of Apology that successfully differentiates Socrates from the sophists. In Apology Socrates defends his philosophical activity...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-06-27
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Jean-François Lyotard was one of the most influential European thinkers in recent decades. He was a leading participant in debates about post-modernism and the decline of Marxism, and he made important contributions to ethics, aesthetics and political philosophy. In...
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Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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In this new book, Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly engage in a series of entertaining conversations which illustrate the originality of Žižek’s thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multiculturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and politics. An...
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Polity
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2013-06-25
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Conversations
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During the course of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy developed into the dominant philosophical tradition in the English-speaking world. In the last two decades, it has become increasingly influential in the rest of the world, from continental Europe to Latin...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-06-20
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During the course of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy developed into the dominant philosophical tradition in the English-speaking world. In the last two decades, it has become increasingly influential in the rest of the world, from continental Europe to Latin...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-06-20
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This new textbook is a lively and highly accessible introduction to philosophy. From the fundamental issues of philosophical thought to the latest theories in the philosophy of mind, An Introduction to Philosophy provides clear and incisive discussion of the key areas...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-17
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This volume collects contributions from leading scholars of early modern philosophy from a wide variety of philosophical and geographic backgrounds. The distinguished contributors offer very different, competing approaches to the history of philosophy.
Many chapters...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-06-14
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A team of international experts present a collection of articles on William James's philosophy of religion and its current relevance.A new look at his philosophy of religion is crucially important for the development of this field of inquiry today....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-06-13
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In Science before Socrates, Daniel Graham argues against the prevalent belief that the Presocratic philosophers did not produce any empirical science and that the first major Greek science, astronomy, did not develop until at least the time of Plato. Instead, Graham...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-06-10
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This new book offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to Frege's remarkable philosophical work, examining the main areas of his writings and demonstrating the connections between them. Frege's main contribution to philosophy spans philosophical logic, the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-06
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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This volume presents two Leibnizian writings, the Specimen of Philosophical Questions Collected from the Law and the Dissertation on Perplexing Cases. These works, originally published in 1664 and 1666, constitute, respectively, Leibniz’s thesis for the title of Master...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-06-06
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This book offers a systematic attempt to explore the point of convergance between feminist theory and the work of Michel Foucault.
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-29
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Die vorliegende Arbeit besteht aus drei Studien. In der ersten Studie unternimmt der Autor den Versuch einer hypothetischen Auslegung, wie Aristoteles die zweiten Substanzen und die Universalien interpretiert haben könnte. Im Fokus wird dabei von Seiten des Autors der...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-29
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This book is a brilliant and timely analysis of the complex issues raised by the relation between women and philosophy. It offers a critical account of a wide range of contemporary philosophical and feminist texts and it develops this account into an original project of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-28
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Focusing on contemporary debates in moral and political theory, Situating the Self argues that a non-relative ethics, binding on us in virtue of out humanity, is still a philosophically viable project. This intersting new book should be read by all those concerned with...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-28
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In this Handbook twenty-six leading scholars survey the development of philosophy between the middle of the sixteenth century and the early eighteenth century. The five parts of the book cover metaphysics and natural philosophy; the mind, the passions, and aesthetics;...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-05-23
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This is Philosophy of Mind presents students of philosophy with an accessible introduction to the core issues related to the philosophy of mind. Includes issues related to the mind-body problem, artificial intelligence, free will, the nature of consciousness, and more...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-05-17
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This is Philosophy
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This is Philosophy of Mind presents students of philosophy with an accessible introduction to the core issues related to the philosophy of mind. Includes issues related to the mind-body problem, artificial intelligence, free will, the nature of consciousness, and more...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-05-17
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This is Philosophy
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Wittgenstein was a faithful and passionate reader of Plato's Dialogues as confirmed by writings and witnesses. Here well-known scholars ofWittgenstein and Plato illuminate the relationship between the two philosophers both philologically and philosophically, and provide...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-14
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Michael Dummett stands out among his generation as the only British philosopher of language to rival in stature the Americans, Davidson and Quine. In conjunction with them he has been responsible for much of the framework within which questions concerning meaning and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-07
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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