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This book explores the relationship between tragedy and the justice that is sought in moral philosophy and the law. It shows how our moral and legal judgments can be seen as aesthetic or tragic judgments, and it considers what kind of passion or vocation moves the...
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Springer
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2025-08-31
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As the first monograph to specifically focus on the positive evaluation of belief (doxa) as a crucial concept in Plato’s epistemology, this work contributes significantly to scholarly research by offering a fresh perspective that deepens our understanding of...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-08-31
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The book examines the notion of impossible worlds. Although the notion of an impossible world is not novel, several misunderstandings and misrepresentations have resulted in philosophical confusion. To avoid such confusion, the analysis here differentiates between the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-30
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This book presents an argument for a new type of scientific realism beyond naturalism, correlationism and what the author terms 'objective realism'. To achieve this positive philosophical proposal, Jan Voosholz develops a thorough critique of current debates surrounding...
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Springer
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2025-08-30
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This volume offers a series of thought-provoking analyses that explore non-mainstream perspectives on knowledge acquisition and scientific discovery. A central theme across many of the contributions is the heuristic conception of method, a view that finds its...
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Springer
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2025-08-30
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This book is a philosophical investigation of the concepts of honor and authenticity, informed by the paradoxes of the individual-community continuum. To achieve this difficult balancing act, the author refines our concepts of both honor and authenticity. Raymond Angelo...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-29
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This book examines the use of colour terms in the poetry of Dylan Thomas, adopting a primarily linguistic and stylistic - rather than literary - approach. Although critical studies of the poetry of Dylan Thomas abound, systematic and detailed linguistic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-29
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This Brief focuses on Nietzsche’s aesthetics not merely as an artistic field but as a way of understanding life itself. Unlike his predecessors, Nietzsche rather saw aesthetics as a fundamental principle aim of human existence.This volume demonstrates how...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-28
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Thus far unpublished even in its original German, Lux intelligibilis. Investigation on the Metaphysics of Light of the Greeks, submitted by Werner Beierwaltes as a doctoral dissertation in 1957, is presented here for the first time in English...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-28
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Feminism has been defeated.Once a politics, feminism is now a philosophy, an epistemology, a method. Once for women, it is now for everyone. Once in pursuit of liberation, it now seeks only inclusion.In Feminism, Defeated, Kate Phelan traces the depoliticization and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-08-28
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Almost everyone agrees that violence can sometimes be justified, but if it is to be justified it must be proportionate. Whether we are discussing war, self-defence, punishment, human rights law, protest, or free speech, most philosophers agree that inflicted harms or...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-08-28
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With the growing use of AI and the introduction of large language models, such as ChatGPT, conversations about ethics have become commonplace. For many, this is the first time they have meaningfully considered the ethical and unethical use of technology in various...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-28
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This book considers the becoming-concept of the machine-metaphor. It explores the intersections between this becoming and the development of the concepts of life, organism, and technics. It seeks to introduce universal machinism as a metaphysical foundation with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-27
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When does liberty matter? It is often thought that personal liberty is always valuable and that it has a unique intrinsic value. In The Limits of Liberty, philosopher Sarah Conly argues that it is much less valuable than traditionally believed. Conly posits that liberty...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-26
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Debating Libertarianism offers readers a sustained debate between two leading political philosophers over which vision of society--Rawlsian left-liberalism or libertarianism--is best and most just. In this crucial and timely book, Samuel Freeman and Jason Brennan...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-26
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Unlock the Secrets of Hyrule with the Power of Philosophy A groundbreaking and critically acclaimed masterpiece, The Legend of Zelda was released in Japan in 1986. That first entry spawned one of the greatest series in gaming history, leading up to Echoes of Wisdom in...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2025-08-26
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The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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The Good, the Right, and the Real: Is Value a Fact? argues for a strongly objective understanding of ethics. This book offers a cumulative case for robust moral objectivity, the combination of both prescriptivity and objectivity. It provides positive arguments to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-26
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This book offers new insights into Hume’s problem of induction. In addition to that, it argues against the coherentist justification of induction, refuting Hume's initial problem of induction and develops counter-inductions to defend scientific realism from...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-25
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In the West today, suffering has become a new sacred cow. Once a common feature of the human condition, it is now a special trait you can use to impress your contemporaries. It provides you with a borrowed identity, transforming you into an exceptional being who can...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-08-21
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This book is an exploration of Africa’s enduring struggles and immense potential. It examines the historical roots of Africa’s socio-economic challenges, from the disruption of indigenous systems to the lasting effects of colonialism and neo-colonialism. By...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-20
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