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Philosophical thinking about truth has revolved around two key questions. First, what is the nature of truth? Second, why should we value it? It has proven difficult to answer both questions at once.
Some theories analyse truth in terms of goodness. Truth is a specific...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-11-29
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This book presents a philosophical analysis of the different forms of political resistance and protest. It explores the normative space of resistance that is beyond self-defense and civil disobedience, and proposes the concept of “resistance violence” as a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-28
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Thinking of Necessity: A Kantian Account of Modal Thought and Modal Metaphysics sets out a Kant-inspired theory of modality, i.e., possibility and necessity. The theory is driven by a methodology which takes seriously questions about the function of modal judgment,...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-11-28
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This volume explores Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics within a musical context. It features contributions from philosophers, musicians, educators, and musicologists from a variety of backgrounds, and sheds light on both the hermeneutic nature of music and...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-11-28
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The presented volume contains a critical edition of questions 8–10 from Book II of the commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences by Marsilius of Inghen († 1396). Marsilius was a famous scholar and the first rector of the University of Heidelberg, educated in Paris. He...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-11-28
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The book examines the meaning of justice in African political philosophy, building on the use-theoretical approach. Currently, most of the philosophical works in this context advocate for a communal interpretation of the meaning of justice, such as the 'relational...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-11-27
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This book demonstrates how Heidegger's departure from ontotheology occurs initially as a preparation for the concept of Dasein's transcendence and subsequently as its explicit development and overcoming. Dasein's transcendence is revealed as the foundation for the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-27
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The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics offers a lively, authoritative, up-to-date exploration of pressing ethical issues in our digital world. An international team of philosophers, some pioneers of digital ethics, others experts in related areas of philosophy, give...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-27
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This book presents an original exploration of philosophical questions pertaining to the ways we grasp the Absolute by bringing together the Buddhist notion of interpermeation of all phenomena into contemporary strains of thought in continental philosophy.This text...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-11-26
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This book explores some of Kit Fine's outstanding contributions to logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and metaphysics, among others.Contributing authors address in-depth issues about truthmaker semantics, counterfactual conditionals, grounding,...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-11-25
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This exploration of the crucially important role played by remorse in Iris Murdoch’s philosophical, theological, and political thinking identifies it as a critical concept in her moral psychology and a recurrent theme in her art. Through engagement with Simone...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-24
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This book studies various perspectives in the history of European philosophy on the relationship between time and movement. Ever since the pre-Socratic thinker Zeno of Elea linked time and space to understand bodily movement, his so-called paradoxes of motion have...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-22
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The translation of legal documents in today’s globally interconnected world calls for novel approaches to overcoming traditional language barriers.The verbal language used in legal documents can be accompanied or even replaced by various types of semiotic resource, such...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-11-21
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The work reimagines emancipatory possibilities in the face of reified capitalist modernity.The enlightenment resulted in a ‘disenchanted’ world, stripped of ‘anthropomorphised’ meaning and purpose. This world, in its capitalistic figuration, alienates us from others,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-20
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This two-volume work examines far-reaching debates on the concept of courage from Greek antiquity to the Christian and mediaeval periods, as well as the modern era. Volume 1 begins with Homeric poetry and the politics of fearless demi-gods thriving on war. The tales of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-20
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This book is the first to present a comprehensive investigation of the technical features of the metainferential logics developed in the last years, with their most relevant results and applications. It provides some new paths to define and investigate metainferential...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-11-17
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This two-volume work examines far-reaching debates on the concept of courage from Greek antiquity to the Christian and mediaeval periods, as well as the modern era. Volume 1 explains how competing accounts of epistêmê, rational wisdom, and truth dominated classical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-17
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The COVID-19 pandemic has powerfully highlighted the tight knot of bodiliness and politics. This relationship lies at the heart of this book.The author explores how events in everyday life take on a deeply political dimension, and how the body becomes a site of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-17
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The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics offers a lively, authoritative, up-to-date exploration of pressing ethical issues in our digital world. An international team of philosophers, some pioneers of digital ethics, others experts in related areas of philosophy, give...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-17
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Atheism is a familiar kind of skepticism about religion. Moral error theory is an analogous kind of skepticism about morality, though less well known outside academic circles. Both kinds of skeptic face a “what next?” question: If we have decided that the subject matter...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-16
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