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This volume explores the use of higher-order logics in metaphysics. Higher-order logics are natural extensions of the common systems of predicate logic, with a history going back to the very beginnings of formal logic. Such logics are well suited to formalize...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-05
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Crossing the Stream, Leaving the Cave brings philosophers from two of the world's great philosophical traditions--Platonic and Indian Buddhist--into joint inquiry on topics in metaphysics, epistemology, mind, language, and ethics. An international team of scholars...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-05
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Epistemic Courage is a timely and thought-provoking exploration of the ethics of belief. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from conspiracy theories to medical misinformation, Ichikawa shows why epistemology is no mere academic abstraction - the question of what to...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-05
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This volume offers collective exploration of major aspects of Christian Wolff's ethics. It focuses on what is arguably Wolff's most important and influential text on moral philosophy, namely his Rational Thoughts on the Action and Omission of Human Beings for the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-05
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This book addresses central issues in the philosophy and metaphysics of science, namely the nature of scientific theories, their partial truth, and the necessity of scientific laws within a moderate realist and empiricist perspective. Accordingly, good arguments in...
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Springer
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2024-04-04
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Samantha Matherne defends a systematic interpretation of the philosopher Immanuel Kants theory of imagination. In contrast with more traditional theories of imagination, as a kind of fantasy that we exercise only in relation to objects that are not real or not present,...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-04
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This open access volume provides an in-depth analysis of philosophical discussions concerning the common good and its relation to self-interest in the history of Western philosophy. The thirteen chapters explore both renowned and lesser-known thinkers...
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Springer
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2024-04-03
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This is the tenth volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Since its revival in the 1970s, political philosophy has been a vibrant field in philosophy, one that intersects with jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-03
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Die meisten Ethik-Fächer in Deutschland sind als Alternativ- oder Ersatzfächer für den Religionsunterricht konzipiert. Eine Herausforderung betrifft die Verortung eines Teils dieser Fächer zwischen Philosophie, Religionswissenschaft und weiteren Disziplinen. Am Beispiel...
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J.B. Metzler
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2024-04-03
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The book is arguably the first comprehensive collection of essays on Michael Polanyi’s social, political philosophy.The essays combine philosophical and historical approaches to show Polanyi’s social thought in the context of his epistemology and philosophy of science...
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Springer
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2024-04-03
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This book provides philosophers and logicians with a broad spectrum of views on contemporary research on the problem of deduction, its justification and explanation. The variety of distinct approaches exemplified by the single chapters allows for a dialogue between...
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Springer
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2024-04-01
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Epistemic Aphorisms is a wide-ranging consideration of issues in epistemology, from the classical and familiar (knowledge and justified true belief, and the problem of induction) to the unusual and often neglected (what alien science might look like, the ethics of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2024-04-01
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Epistemic Aphorisms is a wide-ranging consideration of issues in epistemology, from the classical and familiar (knowledge and justified true belief, and the problem of induction) to the unusual and often neglected (what alien science might look like, the ethics of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2024-04-01
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Intentionality Deconstructed argues for the view that no concrete entity - mental, linguistic, or any other - can possess intentional content. Nothing can be about anything. The concept of intentionality is flawed, and so content ascriptions cannot be "absolutely" true...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-01
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This book adapts the Arabic term nafsiyya to trace the phenomenological contours of Edward Said’s analysis of the affective dimensions of colonial and imperial racism. Reflecting on what he called his “colonial education,” Said rendered his Palestinian/Arab background...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-30
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In this profound metaphysical treatise, René Guénon explores the universal symbolism of the cross—not merely as a Christian emblem, but as a timeless, archetypal figure expressing the deepest principles of traditional cosmology and spiritual realization.The Symbolism of...
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V Bros.
Parution :
2024-03-29
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The classics
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Was Dante Alighieri merely a poet—or was he an initiate transmitting profound esoteric truths beneath the veil of verse?In The Esoterism of Dante, René Guénon unveils the hidden symbolic and initiatic dimensions of Dante’s Divine Comedy, arguing that the celebrated...
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V Bros.
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2024-03-29
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The classics
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‘I was four and three-quarters when I asked my mother if, from now on, I could please go to school as a girl instead of as a boy …’ In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Sophie Grace Chappell combines personal memoir, philosophical reflection, open...
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Polity
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2024-03-28
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“Everything is sad,” wrote the Ancient poets. But is this sadness merely a human experience, projected onto the world, or is there a gloom attributable to the world itself? Could the universe be forever weeping the “tears of things”? In this series of meditations,...
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Polity
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2024-03-28
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Tim Mulgan introduces a new thought experiment: the world will end in two hundred years, and humanity faces imminent and unavoidable (but not immediate) extinction. This book presents imaginary philosophical debates and lectures within this slowly ending world. The...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-03-28
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