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This two-volume work examines far-reaching debates on the concept of courage from Greek antiquity to the Christian and mediaeval periods, as well as the modern era. Volume 1 explains how competing accounts of epistêmê, rational wisdom, and truth dominated classical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-17
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This volume offers a collective study of the work of P. F. Strawson (1919-2006) and an exploration of its relevance for current philosophical debates. It is the first book since Strawson's death to cover the full range of his philosophy, with chapters by world-leading...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-14
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This edited volume explores the intersection of medicine and philosophy throughout history, calling attention to the role of quantification in understanding the medical body. Retracing current trends and debates to examine the quantification of the body throughout the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-10
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long, rich and varied one. Julia Annas gives a succinct account of ancient Greco-Roman philosophy, emphasizing its freshness and variety of themes, and its approach of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-08
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This open access book explores the disciplinary, disciplined, and recent interdisciplinary sites and productions of ethnomusicology and queerness, arguing that both academic realms are founded upon a destructive masculinity—indissolubly linked to coloniality and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-02
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long, rich and varied one. Julia Annas gives a succinct account of ancient Greco-Roman philosophy, emphasizing its freshness and variety of themes, and its approach of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-24
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This volume presents a new translation of Aristotle's Topics Book VI by Annamaria Schiaparelli, accompanied by a detailed commentary and textual notes providing insight into the history of the transmission of the text with its variants. In the Topics, Aristotle aims at...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-18
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This book offers an up-to-date insight into the early philosophical debate on Einsteinian relativity. The essays explore the reception and interpretation of Einstein’s ideas by some of the most important philosophical schools of the time, such as logical positivism...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-30
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Grete (Henry-)Hermann war nicht nur eine Philosophin, die mit Physikern wie Werner Heisenberg und anderen Wissenschaftlern auf Augenhöhe über die Interpretation der Quantenphysik diskutierte. Sie war auch eine mutige und engagierte Sozialistin, Pädagogin...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2023-09-29
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Andrew Cooper presents the first systematic study of Kant's account of natural history. Cooper contends that Kant made a decisive contribution to one of the most explosive and understudied revolutions in the history of science: the addition of time to the frame in which...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-29
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This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of Albert the Great’s (c. 1193–1280) notion of virtus formativa, a shaping force responsible for crucial dynamics in the formation of living beings. Crossing the boundaries between theology and philosophy, the notion...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-27
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The 100th anniversary of the first publication of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus is celebrated by a collection of original papers by well-known experts on various aspects of one of the greatest works of philosophy in the twentieth century.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-22
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The present book verses on the current discussion, between authors writing within the Thomistic tradition, on the issue of human rights, and pretends to adjudicate that discussion.The positions of authors who are critical of the notion of human rights, like Michel...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-09-22
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This book explores an overlooked area in Hegel studies: his use of ‘individuality’ (Individualität). Hegel joined a lively conversation, from Leibniz to Romanticism and beyond, about this novel concept/phenomenon. Successive chapters track Hegel’s engagement, in such...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-31
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Although Aristotle was not the first to understand objects in terms of their matter and their form, the account he developed has exercised a major influence on Western philosophy to this day. The History of Hylomorphism: From Aristotle to Descartes collects sixteen...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-24
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This book focuses on two central topics that could help us answer how Plato conceives of the physical world and its relationship to Forms. The first one is the Platonic concept of time. What is it, how is it defined, what is it not, and how does it help us describe the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-24
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The Metaphysics of Practice brings together Wilfrid Sellars's writings on topics to do with action, community, and obligation: published essays, manuscripts, and correspondence. Sellars's practical philosophy was absolutely central to his overarching philosophical...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-23
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Although Aristotle was not the first to understand objects in terms of their matter and their form, the account he developed has exercised a major influence on Western philosophy to this day. The History of Hylomorphism: From Aristotle to Descartes collects sixteen...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-09
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The Metaphysics of Practice brings together Wilfrid Sellars's writings on topics to do with action, community, and obligation: published essays, manuscripts, and correspondence. Sellars's practical philosophy was absolutely central to his overarching philosophical...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-08
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Kant's Reason develops a novel interpretation ofKant's conception of reason and its philosophical significance. Karl Schafer argues that Kant presents a powerful model for understanding the unity of theoretical and practical reason as two manifestations of a unified...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-07
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