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This book introduces a new form of argumentative analysis: rhetorical heuremes. The method applies the concepts of heuristic thinking, probability, and contingency in order to develop a better understanding of complex arguments in classical oratory. A new theory is...
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Springer
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2013-11-23
Collection :
Argumentation Library
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The purpose of the book is to advance in the understanding of brain function by defining a general framework for representation based on category theory.The idea is to bring this mathematical formalism into the domain of neural representation of physical spaces, setting...
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Springer
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2013-11-22
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This book is about philosophy, mathematics and logic, giving a philosophical account of Pluralism which is a family of positions in the philosophy of mathematics. There are four parts to this book, beginning with a look at motivations for Pluralism by way of Realism,...
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Springer
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2013-11-20
Collection :
Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
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This work investigates the early encounters of French philosophers and religious thinkers with the phenomenological philosophy of Edmund Husserl. Following an introductory chapter addressing context and methodology, Chapter 2 argues that Henri Bergson’s insights into...
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Springer
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2013-11-20
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This book examines the conception of the person at work in John Rawls’s writings from Theory of Justice to Justice as Fairness: A Restatement. The book aims to show that objections to Rawls’s political conception of the person fail and that a Rawlsian conception of...
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Springer
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2013-11-19
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This book addresses the Confucian philosophy of common good and deals with the comparative philosophy on eastern and western understandings of common good. The common good is an essentially contested concept in contemporary moral and political discussions. Although...
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Springer
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2013-11-19
Collection :
Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture
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In den letzten Jahren waren in den USA und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland deutlich unterschiedliche Sichtweisen in der Betrachtung des Politischen auszumachen. Oftmals sorgen diese unterschiedlichen Bewertungen für Irritationen im Verständnis des Handelns des jeweils...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-19
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Wenn von Europa die Rede ist, kommt die Kunst und das kulturelle Erbe ins Spiel. Beide gelten als integratives Instrument neben den treibenden Motoren Politik und Wirtschaft. Im Hofmannsthalschen Sinne ist die Kunst ein Lebensmittel, das die Menschen für ein...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-19
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Als im Jahre 1807 die Phänomenologie des Geistes von Hegel erschien, war sie allen Lesern ein schwerverständliches Werk, das sie vor oftmals unlösbare Rätsel stellte. Dem Autor ist es nun durch Übersetzung des Hegelschen Textes aus dem Abstrakten in das Konkrete...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-19
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This book explores the overlooked but vital theoretical relationships between R. M. Hare, Alan Gewirth, and Jürgen Habermas. The author claims their accounts of value, while failing to address classic virtue-theoretical critiques, bear the seeds of a resolution to the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-11-19
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Werner Heisenberg zählt zu den bedeutendsten Physikern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Internationale Anerkennung und Berühmtheit erlangte er durch die Formulierung der Unschärferelation. Allerdings ließ ihn sein reges Interesse für die Philosophie seine naturwissenschaftlichen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-18
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Essays of Montaigne (107 annotated essays in 1 eBook + The Life of Montaigne + The Letters of Montaigne)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: Preface.; The Life...
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e-artnow
Parution :
2013-11-15
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Diese Arbeit zieht einen Vergleich zwischen drei Werken: Georg Forsters «Reise um die Welt», Johann Gottfried Seumes «Spaziergang nach Syrakus» und Alexander von Humboldts «Die Reise nach Südamerika». Es geht um Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede in diesen Reiseberichten,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-15
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The basic aim of the study is to describe the ambiguity of the term legal ethics in the context of different traditions and conceptions.The three most important traditions of legal ethics are: the French, with the categories of virtue and independence, the American,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-15
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This book, in the form of a classical philosophical treatise, presents a large-scale theoretical project: It uses a metaphilosophical perspective to present the framework for postmetaphysical thinking, situating it in the domain of the metaphysics of morality. It offers...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-15
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This collection of essays is about some of the most fundamental issues connected with metaphysics, theory of values and philosophy of man. In the first part of the book, the author is trying to answer questions concerning both the methodological status of metaphysics...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-15
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Works of Plato” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Plato ( 428/427 BC – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece. He was also a mathematician, student of Socrates, writer...
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e-artnow
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2013-11-14
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The contributions gathered in this volume present the state of the art in key areas of current social ontology. They focus on the role of collective intentional states in creating social facts, and on the nature of intentional properties of groups that allow...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-11-12
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This volume analyses, from a computational point of view, how culture may arise, develop and evolve through time. The four sections in this book examine and analyse the modelling of culture, group and organisation culture, culture simulation, and culture-sensitive...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-11-11
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Politicians invoke grand ideas: social justice, democracy, liberty, equality, community. But what do these ideas really mean? How can politicians across the political spectrum appeal to the same values?This new edition of Adam Swift's highly readable introduction to...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-11-06
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