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Minerva’s Night Out presents series of essays by noted philosopher and motion picture and media theorist Noël Carroll that explore issues at the intersection of philosophy, motion pictures, and popular culture. Presents a wide-ranging series of essays that reflect on...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-07-29
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Savor moments of Zen like never before, with our Senior Philosophical Correspondents The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy is revised, expanded, and updated to probe deeper than ever before the philosophical significance of the quintessential “fake” news show of the...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2013-07-26
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The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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A threat to humanity portending the end of our species lurks in the cold recesses of space. Our only hope is an eleven-year-old boy. Celebrating the long-awaited release of the movie adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s novel about highly trained child geniuses fighting a...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2013-07-26
Collection :
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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The Dignitas clinic in Switzerland may be a long way away. But the issues around euthanasia can suddenly become very close to home. To many, it seems remarkable that in a society where freedom of choice is eulogised, thousands of people find that there is one last...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-07-26
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This book brings together fifty of today’s finest thinkers. They were asked to let their imaginations run free to advance new ideas on a wide range of social and political issues. They did so as friends, on the occasion of Philippe Van Parijs’s sixtieth birthday. Rather...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Louvain
Parution :
2013-07-24
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Hors Collections
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This classic book by Theodor W. Adorno anticipates many of the themes that have since become common in contemporary philosophy: the critique of foundationalism, the illusions of idealism and the end of epistemology. It also foreshadows many of the key ideas that were...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-07-22
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Bei den Anschlägen auf das World Trade Center in New York kamen über dreitausend unschuldige Menschen ums Leben. Entsprechend schockiert wurden die Taten in der westlichen Welt als barbarische Akte des Terrorismus gebrandmarkt. Wir können jedoch mit guter...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-07-19
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Education Policy sees 12 philosophers of education critique current and recent UK educational policies relating to higher education and faith-based education, assessment, the teaching of reading, vocational and civic education, teacher education, the influence of Europe...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-07-12
Collection :
Journal of Philosophy of Education
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This new introduction to ethics is written for students who are approaching philosophy for the first time.
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-07-12
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Recent years have seen an enormous amount of philosophical research into the emotions and the imagination, but as yet little work has been done to connect the two. In his engaging and highly original new book, Adam Morton shows that all emotions require some form of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-07-11
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This book is about the use of legal scholarship by judges. It discusses the possibility that legal scholarship may function as a genuine source of law in modern municipal legal systems. The book advances a number of claims, some conceptual, some empirical, some...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-07-09
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Law
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has described Morphology as a science dedicated to the observation and description of everything «that is handled by chance and occasionally in other [sciences]». This meant that morphological research could be undertaken by any science or...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-07-09
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The second edition of Environmental Ethics combines a strong theoretical foundation with applications to some of the most pressing environmental problems. Through a mix of classic and new essays, it discusses applied issues such as pollution, climate change, animal...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-07-09
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Der neu entwickelte Begriff der Hedosynthese bezeichnet die Methode der vom individuellen Menschen ausgehenden «Neuordnung» der psychischen Kräfte (Triebe, Gefühle, Wille) unter dem Aspekt der Kumulierung der positiven psychischen Kräfte in Richtung des möglichen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-07-08
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Batman ist einer der komplexesten und ambivalentesten Charaktere der Comic-Welt. Um ihn und sein Tun drehen sich eine Menge Fragen: Welchen philosophischen Belastungen und Herausforderungen muss er sich beim Schutz von Gotham City stellen? Was treibt seine Gegenspieler...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2013-07-03
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In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the work of Emmanuel Levinas, widely recognized as one of the most important yet difficult philosophers of the 20th century.In this much-needed introduction, Davis unpacks the concepts at the centre of Levinas's...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-07-03
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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This new introduction to ethics is written for students who are approaching philosophy for the first time.
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-07-03
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The publication presents Maritain’s concept of intellectual intuition in a wide philosophical and historical context and examines its role in the construction of metaphysics.The question to be answered is largely that of whether – and in what measure – intellectual...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-07-02
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Written by experts in the field, this volume presents a comprehensive investigation into the relationship between argumentation theory and the philosophy of mathematical practice. Argumentation theory studies reasoning and argument, and especially those aspects not...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-07-01
Collection :
Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
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Every century has witnessed the birth of a few world-transcending intellectuals as well as talented emerging scholars. Noam Chomsky and Pierre W. Orelus are no exception. Using dialogues exchanged over the course of nine years, combined with heartfelt critical essays,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-07-01
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