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Consent can make actions morally permissible. But consent can be deprived of its moral force when it is given under duress. Understanding how this happens requires answering the question of which types of duress undermine consent. It is uncontroversial that severe...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-28
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Acting for Reasons is about why we do what we do. It's also about how we arrive at an understanding of other people's actions. A traditional view in philosophy - 'Common-sense Psychology' - holds that mental states like beliefs and desires (states which provide a...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-27
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Although Albert Camus is recognised as an important novelist and political commentator, he is often still underrated as a philosopher. Camus' Philosophy, focussing on Camus' explicitly philosophical writings, provides a detailed examination of his intellectual...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-27
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This book looks at three different kinds of writing practice - theory-fiction, autofiction/autotheory and art writing - that are increasingly prevalent as genres (or ‘hybrid genres’) in the arts and critical humanities. The chapters in the book operate as a critical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-27
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When it comes to sex, no means no, but yes doesn't always mean yes. Cases where a person's yes to sex should be treated as a no are uncontroversial when they involve forms of coercion, deception, or incompetence that clearly render their consent to sex invalid. But...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-27
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Consent can make actions morally permissible. But consent can be deprived of its moral force when it is given under duress. Understanding how this happens requires answering the question of which types of duress undermine consent. It is uncontroversial that severe...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-27
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Aristotle's ethical writings are among the most influential in the history of Western thought. Key to these writings is the idea that some people better understand how they should act in order to lead successful lives as part of their communities. Their knowledge is...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-11-26
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which the concept of collective responsibility is relevant to ongoing normative debates in social and political philosophy. Individual chapters address issues such as the relationship between collective...
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Springer
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2024-11-26
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In this latest instalment of the series A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers delve into the fascinating world of Africana Philosophy.
Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century is the first of two volumes in...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-26
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As the world faces increasingly complex problems – from pandemics to global poverty and climate change – how do we decide where to concentrate our efforts and resources to do the most good possible? Effective altruism offers a way to do just that, focusing on evidence...
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Polity
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2024-11-25
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When Theodor W. Adorno returned to Germany from his exile in the United States, he was appointed as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Frankfurt and he immediately made a name for himself as a leading public intellectual. Adorno’s widespread influence on the...
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Polity
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2024-11-25
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In this book, James Filler traces the history of Being, understood as substance, from Parmenides through the Scholastics and ending with Descartes, in whom this understanding reaches a crisis. He further shows how this understanding inherently leads to serious...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-11-25
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This book approaches the subject of African metaphysics historically as it connects Ancient Egypt to Yorùbá. It provides a history of African metaphysics from ancient Egypt or Kemet down to John Boakye Danquah and Placide Tempels in the 20th century and then Innocent...
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Springer
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2024-11-22
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When Theodor W. Adorno returned to Germany from his exile in the United States, he was appointed as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Frankfurt and he immediately made a name for himself as a leading public intellectual. Adorno’s widespread influence on the...
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Polity
Parution :
2024-11-22
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Welchen Status haben mentale Zustände, wie bewusste Empfindungen, Wünsche, Überzeugungen oder Emotionen, in einer physikalischen Welt? Lassen sich alle derartigen Zustände auf Hirnzustände reduzieren? Was genau zeichnet mentale Zustände aus, und was können wir über die...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-11-21
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Wolff and the First Fifty Years of German Metaphysics offers a fresh account of philosophical developments in German philosophy in the first half of the 18th century. At the centre of this book is Wolff's seminal text on metaphysics, the Deutsche Metaphysik of 1719, a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-20
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Current approaches to contemporary political philosophy are disproportionately western, and the need for more diverse and global perspectives is urgent. To address this imbalance Colin J. Lewis and Jennifer Kling take up a series of contemporary topics in political...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-11-20
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The book combines Chinese philosophy and historical knowledge and delivers the core ideas of Chinese philosophy from 72 elaborately selected pieces of cultural relics in 18 topics. Based on the structure of “Cosmology-Ontology-Theory of Mind-Nature” for ancient Chinese...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-11-20
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F.W.J. Schelling (1775–1854) gehört zu den wichtigsten Repräsentanten des sogenannten Deutschen Idealismus. Sein Werk ist grundlegend für die Entstehung der modernen Religionsphilosophie, die sich in den 1790er Jahren in Folge der Vernunftkritik Immanuel Kants als...
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J.B. Metzler
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2024-11-19
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GERMAN INFOTEXT:
Der vorliegende Band enthält Forschungsmanuskripte Husserls zur Konstitution von Raumdingen aus den Jahren 1909-1934, die aus der Manuskriptgruppe D unter thematischen und qualitativen Gesichtspunkten ausgewählt wurden. Die meisten Analysen sollen die...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-11-19
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