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Now in an updated edition with fresh perspectives on high-profile ethical issues such as torture and same-sex marriage, this collection pairs cogently argued essays by leading philosophers with opposing views on fault-line public concerns. Revised and updated new...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-01-14
Collection :
Contemporary Debates in Philosophy
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By exploring the significance of Wittgenstein’s later texts relating to the philosophy of language, Wittgenstein’s Later Theory of Meaning offers insights that will transform our understanding of the influential 20th-century philosopher. Explores the significance of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2014-01-14
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Geoffrey Wall’s narrative biography of Achille-Cléophas Flaubert, the father of the author of Madame Bovary, follows him from his birth in a French provincial town a few years before the Revolution through to his distinguished career as a physician in an industrial...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-01-10
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Leszek Kolakowski (1927-2009) spielte in der Philosophie Polens eine bedeutende Rolle. In Deutschland ist er hingegen fast ausschließlich als Marxist bekannt, der im Jahr 1965 einen Essay schrieb, der Jesus in einen außerchristlichen Kontext setzte. Kolakowskis...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-01-10
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The Philosophy of Art is a highly accessible introduction to current key issues and debates in aesthetics and philosophy of art. Chapters on standard topics are balanced by topics of interest to today's students, including creativity, authenticity, cultural...
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Polity
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2014-01-07
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Hannah Arendt is increasingly recognised as one of the most original social and political thinkers of the twentieth century. In this important book, Richard Bernstein sets out to show that many of the most significant themes in Arendt's thinking have their origins in...
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Polity
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2014-01-07
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Daniel Dennett examines the different elements that make up what we call 'minds'What kinds of minds are there, and how do we know? The first question is about what exists and the second is about our knowledge. The aim of Kinds of Minds is to answer these questions, in...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2013-12-31
Collection :
SCIENCE MASTERS
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In Plato: All That Matters, Ieuan Williams argues that no one can study philosophy or politics without an awareness of Plato, whose work has reverberated through 2500 years of philosophy and history. Dr Ieuan Williams explains both what Plato thought, and why this...
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John Murray
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2013-12-27
Collection :
All That Matters
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This volume provides discussions of both the concept of responsibility and of punishment, and of both individual and collective responsibility. It provides in-depth Socratic and Kantian bases for a new version of retributivism, and defends that version against the main...
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Springer
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2013-12-23
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This book develops a naturalistic aesthetic theory that accounts for aesthetic phenomena in mathematics in the same terms as it accounts for more traditional aesthetic phenomena. Building upon a view advanced by James McAllister, the assertion is that beauty in science...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-12-20
Collection :
Synthese Library
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Neoliberalism has now failed, so can a social democratic resurgence replace it? This book retrieves the political thought of Swedish politician Ernst Wigforss to explore the unrealised potential of social democracy. Wigforss drew on many schools of thought to produce an...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-19
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Noam Chomsky has made major contributions to three fields: political history and analysis, linguistics, and the philosophies of mind, language, and human nature. In this thoroughly revised and updated volume, James McGilvray provides a critical introduction to Chomsky's...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-12-17
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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This book contains a selection of original conference papers covering all major fields in the philosophy of science, that have been organized into themes. The first section of this volume begins with the formal philosophy of science, moves on to idealization,...
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Springer
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2013-12-16
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Philosophy and the Study of Religions: A Manifesto advocates a radical transformation of the discipline from its current, narrow focus on questions of God, to a fully global form of critical reflection on religions in all their variety and dimensions. Opens the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-12-09
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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Das Buch ist mehr als eine Sammlung teils bisher verstreut veröffentlichter, teils noch unveröffentlichter Aufsätze, Essays und Vorträge. Die Autoren und Texte ergänzen sich in einem vielfältigen Zusammenhang europäischer literarischer Geschichte der Neuzeit, in dessen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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Focusing on European cultural and intellectual history in first half of the twentieth century, The Space of Crisis investigates how notions of crisis and changing perceptions of space influenced the way Europeans imagined themselves, their past and their future. The...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2013-12-04
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Why Philosophize? is a series of lectures given by Jean-François Lyotard to students at the Sorbonne embarking on their university studies. The circumstances obliged him to be both clear and concise: at the same time, his lectures offer a profound and far-reaching...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-12-04
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This book presents adaptive logics as an intuitive and powerful framework for modeling defeasible reasoning. It examines various contexts in which defeasible reasoning is useful and offers a compact introduction into adaptive logics. The author first familiarizes...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-11-29
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Europaweit bestehen verschiedene Praktiken, aber auch Debatten über die Legalisierung möglicher Formen «aktiver» Sterbehilfe. Umso bedeutsamer ist es, dass Christen auf Grund ihres schöpfungsmäßigen Menschenbildes und eines umfassenden Lebensschutzes für eine...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-27
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This book is about the pragmatics of language and it illustrates how pragmatics transcends the boundaries of linguistics.This volume covers Gricean pragmatics as well as topics including: conversation and collective belief, the norm of assertion, speech acts, what a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-11-26
Collection :
Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology
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