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The resurgence of interest in rhetoric among political theorists is one of the most remarkable developments in the field over the past few decades. Assembling a multidisciplinary group of prominent scholars,The Oxford Handbook of Rhetoric and Political Theory is the...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-12-23
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Essays in Later Ancient Philosophy is a collection of Michael Frede's papers on topics in later ancient philosophy. They centre on pagan and Christian philosophers including Celsus, Numenius, Longinus, Syrianus, Origen, Eusebius, Gregory of Nyssa, and John of Damascus....
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OUP Oxford
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2025-12-21
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As a prominent figure of the 18th century Enlightenment, Kant advocated faith in reason and in the possibility of human progress through the development of human beings' rational capacities. In contrast, as the founder of 20th century psychoanalysis, Freud revealed that...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-12-19
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Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy 1500-1765 contains thirty-four philosophical texts about slavery composed in Europe and America between 1500 and 1765. These readings demonstrate that debates about slavery deserve a central place in the history of philosophy, and are...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-12-19
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Starting from the hypothesis that all human forms of life have a political dimension – be it clearly expressed or hidden, conscious or unconscious – this volume examines the ways in which political life can be fruitfully analyzed with the help of...
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Springer
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2025-12-19
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A cutting-edge selection of current issues and explorations of the ethics of artificial intelligence As artificial intelligence continues to influence virtually every facet of modern life, Contemporary Debates in the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence offers a timely and...
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Wiley
Parution :
2025-12-17
Collection :
Contemporary Debates in Philosophy
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An innovative introduction to ethics through philosophy and fiction Ethics:An Introduction with Primary Texts and Short Fictive Narratives offers a distinctive and pedagogically effective approach to ethical inquiry. Fostering a deep understanding of theory and its...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2025-12-17
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Ludwig Wittgenstein was one of the greatest philosophers of the modern era, while his pupil and friend Elizabeth Anscombe is increasingly recognized as being an important philosopher in her own right. Over a number of years, Anscombe kept a series of notebooks labeled...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-12-16
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Newton's Metaphysics of Substance offers a systematic interpretation of IsaacNewton's views on the ontology of substance and related issues of modality, causation, and dependence. Alongside and sometimes in dialogue with his work in mathematics and physics, Newton...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-12-15
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Essays in Later Ancient Philosophy is a collection of Michael Frede's papers on topics in later ancient philosophy. They centre on pagan and Christian philosophers including Celsus, Numenius, Longinus, Syrianus, Origen, Eusebius, Gregory of Nyssa, and John of Damascus....
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OUP Oxford
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2025-12-14
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One way of understanding the history of moral philosophy is as the collected offerings of thinkers who have studied the terrain around moral problems. Such philosophers have dedicated themselves to the study of central questions of moral life, questions like: How should...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-12-09
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Contemporary scientific medicine is a new modern medicine-one shaped by new disease epidemics, new norms of evidence, and the new sciences of epidemiology. Jonathan Fuller provides a philosophical treatment of this new modern medicine, an epidemiological medicine that...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-12-08
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Modern science has given us the superpowers that have brought about the 'Anthropocene', but unfortunately not the wisdom to face its existential challenges. We cannot afford to dismiss potentially useful knowledge on mere ideological grounds without due assessment....
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Springer
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2025-12-08
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An interdisciplinary exploration of Pascal's philosophy across theology, science, and political thought Blaise Pascal has emerged as a central figure in early modern thought whose legacy transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. A Companion to Pascal addresses the...
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Wiley
Parution :
2025-12-08
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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Kant and the Origins of the Good Will is an in-depth study of the development of Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy from its beginnings in the 1750s up to the mid-1780s. The book also examines how Kant's moral views intersect with aspects of his metaphysics, epistemology,...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-12-08
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What is salient to us and what we attend to play a fundamental role in shaping how we perceive, think about, and act in the world. Salience and attention shape our mental lives in ways that have profound epistemic significance, determining how we gather evidence, what...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-12-07
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Seeking Wisdom in Death's Shadows: Collected Writings on How We Grieve is a rich compilation of nine original and fourteen previously published essays that makes accessible the origins and development of Thomas Attig's most significant and sometimes revolutionary...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-05
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In the era of evidence-based medicine (EBM), discussions of medical knowledge have largely focused on the role of clinical research, though even the primary architects of EBM have acknowledged that the results of such research should not alone dictate decisions about...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-12-05
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We live in a world in which the boundaries of gender and sexual orientation are increasingly being contested. Gender categories like man and woman cannot do justice to non-binary, genderqueer, and trans people. Common categories of sexual orientation, like heterosexual...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-12-05
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William B. Irvine, author of the popular book "A Guide to the Good Life," offers much needed philosophical advice on how to become a more rational and critical thinker in today's emotionally-driven and complex world.
Even the most reasonable of us can be selective...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-12-04
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