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Chance ordained that Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was not only a philosopher, playwright and writer, but also a salonnier. In other words, an art critic. In 1759, his friend Grimm entrusted him with a project that forced him to acquire "thoughtful notions concerning...
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Springer
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2010-12-09
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The impact of Nietzsche's engagement with the Greek skeptics has never before been systematically explored in a book-length work - an inattention that belies the interpretive weight scholars otherwise attribute to his early career as a professor of classical philology...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-12-03
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Beth Lord looks at Kant's philosophy in relation to four thinkers who attempted to fuse transcendental idealism with Spinoza's doctrine of immanence. Examining Jacobi, Herder, Maimon and Deleuze, Lord argues that Spinozism is central to the development of Kant's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-11-30
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Understanding the emergence of a scientific culture - one in which cognitive values generally are modelled on, or subordinated to, scientific ones - is one of the foremost historical and philosophical problems with which we are now confronted. The significance of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-11-25
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Particularism and the Space of Moral Reasons critically assesses the startling idea that our moral reasoning does not need to use moral principles. If we don't have principles, how do we work out what to do? This book examines 'moral particularism', a controversial idea...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-11-24
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«Fangen die Engel/wirklich nur Ihriges auf/ihnen Entströmtes,/oder ist manchmal, wie aus Versehen, ein wenig/unseres Wesens dabei? Sind wir in ihre/Züge soviel nur gemischt wie das Vage in die Gesichter/schwangerer Frauen?» Diese Verse aus der zweiten Elegie von Rainer...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-23
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Kant, in the Critique of pure reason, only dedicates a few pages to the principle of Anticipations of Perception and only a few critical studies are outspokenly dedicated to this issue in recent critical literature. But if one considers the history of post-Kantian...
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Springer
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2010-11-18
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Studies in German Idealism
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This key collection of essays sheds new light on long-debated controversies surrounding Kant’s doctrine of idealism and is the first book in the English language that is exclusively dedicated to the subject. Well-known Kantians Karl Ameriks and Manfred Baum present...
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Springer
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2010-11-17
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The "Art of Life" is John Stuart Mill's name for his account of practical reason. In this volume, eleven leading scholars elucidate this fundamental, but widely neglected, element of Mill's thought. Mill divides the Art of Life into three "departments": "Morality,...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-11-10
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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.
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OUP Oxford
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2010-11-04
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The Passion of the Western Mind is a complete guide to Western civilisation and the philosophical ideas that have shaped our world view. From Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud, Richard Tarnas described profound philosophical concepts...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-10-31
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Der erste Teil des Buches enthält zunächst einen systematischen Entwurf für die Grundlegung politischer Philosophie: Angeregt durch Hannah Arendt entwickelt der Autor mit den methodischen Mitteln der Phänomenologie Husserls und Heideggers die Idee einer hermeneutischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-10-05
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Does scepticism threaten our common sense picture of the world?Does it really undermine our deep-rooted certainties? Answers to these questions are offered through a comparative study of the epistemological work of two key figures in the history of analytic philosophy,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-09-17
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An alarming number of philosophers and cognitive scientists have argued that mind extends beyond the brain and body. This book evaluates these arguments and suggests that, typically, it does not. A timely and relevant study that exposes the need to develop a more...
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Wiley
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2010-09-09
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In this personal and practical guide to moral self-improvement and living a good life, the second-century philosopher Epictetus tackles questions of freedom and imprisonment, stubbornness and fear, family, friendship and love, and leaves an intriguing document of daily...
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Penguin
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2010-08-26
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Michael Inwood, an eminent scholar of German philosophy, presents a full and detailed new commentary on a classic work of the nineteenth century. Philosophy of Mind is the third part of Hegel's Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, in which he summarizes his...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-08-19
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Socrates' greatest philosophical contribution was to have initiated the search for definitions. In Definition in Greek Philosophy his views on definition are examined, together with those of his successors, including Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Galen, the Sceptics and...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-08-19
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Socrates' greatest philosophical contribution was to have initiated the search for definitions. In Definition in Greek Philosophy his views on definition are examined, together with those of his successors, including Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Galen, the Sceptics and...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-08-19
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