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Discover the rich diversity of non-religious thought today in this inspiring collection of interviews with over thirty different humanists in the public eye, including Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig and Alice Roberts. Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson speaks to...
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Piatkus
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2024-11-07
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In Early German Positivism, Frederick C. Beiser explores a much neglected or forgotten period of the history of philosophy: the history of German positivism from 1860 to 1907. Almost all studies of positivism revolve around the Vienna Circle. Instead, this study covers...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-06
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This work offers a “symposium” on the nature of human sexual difference drawing on Plato’s masterpiece: having explored the observed phenomena of sexual difference, four stories are told of the origins, essence, and ends of the human male and female. First, the...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-11-05
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This highly engaging analysis of the contemporary global social and political landscape of trans antagonisms draws specific attention to gender-critical mobilizations of Simone de Beauvoir's account of becoming a woman in The Second Sex to advance and justify...
Editeur :
Polity
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2024-11-05
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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
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2024-11-05
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When Socrates was standing before the Athenian tribunal in 399 BC, he said in his defence that the opponents he feared most were the invisible ones, those who had been spreading rumors against him for years but none of whom were being brought to court – it was like...
Editeur :
Polity
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2024-11-05
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Theory Redux
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In this book the author develops a novel, philosophically-psychopathologically founded theory of schizophrenia and its basic disorder. After the introduction with the presentation of the basic concept, the further study is divided into five chapters, each of which first...
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Springer
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2024-11-04
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Belief as Emotion argues that belief is a type of emotion, where emotions are understood as irreducibly blended states that transcend the cognitive/non-cognitive divide, containing representational, motivational and phenomenological elements. On this view to believe is...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-31
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Gedankenexperimente weisen in der Philosophie einen widersprüchlichen Status auf: Sie werden einerseits regelmäßig entworfen und breit diskutiert, andererseits werden sie ebenso häufig kritisiert oder sogar als Methode abgelehnt. Dies liegt vor allem an der narrativen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-10-30
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This book promotes a philosophical revival of Buber’s dialogical thought by repositioning it as a philosophy of action, departing from a long-established consensus that narrowly viewed it as a post-Kantian epistemology. Based on careful analysis of his writings, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-30
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Over the past 70 years, the United States has undergone major moral shifts surrounding gender, sexual orientation, and race. Although these changes have been incomplete and imperfect, they nonetheless represent stunning improvements in the human condition which have...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-29
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Based on the revelation and analysis of the social self-consciousness contained in the individual self-consciousness of the meaning of life, the book discusses the human life-world, spiritual world, cultural world and meaning-world. Then, it states the...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-28
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This book is a historical review of literature and ideas that make the connections between friendship and politics. Using pertinent quotations from a wide variety of sources, the book is divided into three main parts. Firstly, it explores interpretations of the concept...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-27
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Fatalism -- the thesis that something in the past necessitates the entire future -- is often argued for in three ways. One argument is that the truth of propositions about future events makes those events necessary. Another is that infallible divine foreknowledge...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-25
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This volume shows how Nancy was able ‘to deconstruct’ the founding sign of all metaphysics and all transcendence by redefining the concepts of existence, corporeality, and community, opening them up to the ‘disclosure’ of the outside, to the ‘exception’ of the...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-25
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This work delves into the fundamental issue of Otherness, from both sacred texts and communal experiences. While the title adopts the dyad of “inclusion” or “exclusion”, these analyses broadly reflect nuanced critical considerations. Filled with profound psychological,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-25
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This book studies the philosophical work of George Santayana and the nature of his work's relationship with that of American philosopher William James. James is consistently dismissive of “the ‘all is vanity’ state of mind,” which arguably represents the opposite of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-25
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Numerous thinkers have considered the Principle of Non-Contradiction, but none has clearly identified its inherent limitation: that it is itself only a formal principle.
This book shows that negation plays a fundamental role both in the constitution of the principle...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-25
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Belief as Emotion argues that belief is a type of emotion, where emotions are understood as irreducibly blended states that transcend the cognitive/non-cognitive divide, containing representational, motivational and phenomenological elements. On this view to believe is...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-24
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As heard on Radio 4's Free ThinkingThe first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth century thought. At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson became the most famous philosopher...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2024-10-24
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