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THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON THAT HAS TOUCHEDTHE HEARTS OF OVER 9 MILLION READERS'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecelia Ahern__________Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague? Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were...
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Sphere
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2009-06-11
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How to be Idle is Tom Hodgkinson's entertaining guide to reclaiming your right to be idle.As Oscar Wilde said, doing nothing is hard work. The Protestant work ethic has most of us in its thrall, and the idlers of this world have the odds stacked against them. But here,...
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Penguin
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2007-06-07
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In this novel approach to metaphysics, the philosophy of science, and philosophical logic, Franz Huber explores means-end derivations of the logics of default conditionals and counterfactuals, modal idealism about possible worlds, and the royal rule, a normative...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-01-21
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Like its predecessor, Contemporary Controversies in Catholic Bioethics, this volume gathers together an array of Catholic scholars with expertise in theology, philosophy, medicine, ethics, health administration, and pastoral care. Expanding the range of bioethical...
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Springer
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2026-01-21
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Pragmatism Works presents what became a unified pragmatist view of quantum theory, science, and metaphysics developed over the past fifteen years. The essays show what work pragmatism can do in philosophy, but also in science. Indeed, the distinction between science and...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-01-21
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This book reconsiders Iamblichus’ Response to Porphyry, Late Antiquity’s seminal work on theurgy, which is often referred to as De Mysteriis. Was this text intended to be more than just a defence of ritualism or a philosophical crossing of metaphysical wits...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-21
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States of Solidarity: How to Build a Society makes the urgent case that solidarity is not a relic of the past but a foundational pillar for building just, democratic, and sustainable futures. While contemporary societies have invested heavily in debates about justice...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-01-21
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Mit dem Subjektbegriff wird auf eine logisch nicht hintergehbare Entität verwiesen, die sich aus den Überlegungen einer konstruktivistischen Erkenntnistheorie ableiten lässt. Gewonnen wird damit aber zunächst nur die Idee einer reinen Subjektivität, die nicht...
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Springer VS
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2026-01-20
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of different logics from a metainferential standpoint. It starts with a metainferential presentation of Classical Logic, and then moves onto other systems where one or more structural metainferences fail. These logics maybe...
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Springer
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2026-01-19
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The book offers a philosophical and cognitive justification for the author's concept of Objective Mental Reality (OMR), which links individual consciousness with society's intersubjective understanding of the world.
The first part of the book explains why the concept of...
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Springer
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2026-01-19
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This book offers a phenomenology of inquiry by tracing the history of Edmund Husserl’s work. Through following Husserl’s development from the beginnings of his phenomenology to his final writings, it shows that inquiry is a significant theme in his work and...
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Springer
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2026-01-16
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'Lucid, entertaining and precise... a brilliant warning about the gamification of everyday life' Tim Clare, GuardianIs this the game you want to be playing?Scoring systems are everywhere. Underpinning our daily lives – whether it’s the fit bits on our wrists, likes on...
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Penguin
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2026-01-13
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This book explores Gottlob Frege’s mature views on truth, as expressed primarily in a late series of essays entitled “Logical Investigations”, and related unpublished works.
A common approach in Fregean exegesis is to interpret the claims he makes and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-13
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This volume contains the complete correspondence of two of the leading analytic philosophers of the late twentieth century, David Armstrong and David Lewis. Comprising some 345 letters, including letters to and from third parties, this correspondence is at once a deep...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-13
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Oxford Studies in Epistemology is a periodical publication which offers a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this important field. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board composed of leading philosophers in North America, Europe, and Australasia,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-13
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Suppose you could change people's way of thinking about the world at its very roots, by changing the very concepts by means of which they think. Suppose, further, that this would make the world a better place; that would be quite something. Knowledge and Conceptual...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-01-12
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The Wilderness of the Infinite explores the emergence in the Latinate thirteenth century of original approaches to mathematical infinity and to unequal infinities. Within the span of twenty years (1220-1240), Robert Grosseteste and William of Auvergne countenanced the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-12
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This volume contains the complete correspondence of two of the leading analytic philosophers of the late twentieth century, David Armstrong and David Lewis. Comprising some 345 letters, including letters to and from third parties, this correspondence is at once a deep...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-10
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Suppose you could change people's way of thinking about the world at its very roots, by changing the very concepts by means of which they think. Suppose, further, that this would make the world a better place; that would be quite something. Knowledge and Conceptual...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-09
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The Ethics of War is an indispensable collection of essays addressing issues both timely and age-old about the nature and ethics of war. Features essays by great thinkers from ancient times through to the present day, among them Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2026-01-09
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