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In a series of thought-provoking and original essays, eighteen leading philosophers engage in head-to-head debates of nine of the most cutting edge topics in contemporary metaphysics. Explores the fundamental questions in contemporary metaphysics in a series of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-05-20
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Contemporary Debates in Philosophy
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Bringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave highlights the new challenges facing the animal rights movement. Exciting new collection edited by controversial philosopher Peter Singer, who made animal rights into an...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-05-20
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Das Problem der Subjektivität und Objektivität ist eine der zentralen Fragen der Rechtstheorie und Rechtsphilosophie. Diese Arbeit hat zum Ziel, die der Rechtsanwendung inhärente Subjektivität aufzuzeigen, und die Transformation von der Subjektivität zur Objektivität...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-17
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This is Philosophy of Mind presents students of philosophy with an accessible introduction to the core issues related to the philosophy of mind. Includes issues related to the mind-body problem, artificial intelligence, free will, the nature of consciousness, and more...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-05-17
Collection :
This is Philosophy
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Inwiefern ist das Werk des Genfer Regisseurs Alain Tanner (geboren 1929) für eine Philosophie der Reise relevant? Sein fiktionales Langfilmschaffen handelt von der reisenden oder sesshaften, stets aber unruhigen Suche nach einem besseren, im wörtlichen Sinne utopischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-16
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This book discusses that imagination is as important to thinking and reasoning as it is to making and acting. By reexamining our philosophical and psychological heritage, it traces a framework, a conceptual topology, that underlies the most disparate theories: a...
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Springer
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2013-05-13
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In an age of economic downturns and austerity, when the “Occupy” movement has gone global, this addition to the Bold-Faced Wisdom series couldnt be timelier. Pathways to Nonviolent Resistance re-examines and fully annotates Mahatma Gandhis early writings,...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
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2013-05-07
Collection :
Bold-Faced Wisdom
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Michael Dummett stands out among his generation as the only British philosopher of language to rival in stature the Americans, Davidson and Quine. In conjunction with them he has been responsible for much of the framework within which questions concerning meaning and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-05-07
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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Jerry Fodor is one of the most important philosophers of mind in recent decades. He has done much to set the agenda in this field and has had a significant influence on the development of cognitive science. Fodor's project is that of constructing a physicalist...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-05-06
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Key Contemporary Thinkers
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Plato's Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2500 years after it was originally composed? Alain Badiou invents a new genre in order to breathe fresh life...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-05-03
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Plato's Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2500 years after it was originally composed? Alain Badiou invents a new genre in order to breathe fresh life...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-05-03
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Julia Kristeva is one of the most creative and prolific writers to address the personal, social, and political trials of our times. Linguist, psychoanalyst, social and cultural theorist, and novelist, Kristeva's broad interdisciplinary appeal has impacted areas across...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-05-03
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Julia Kristeva is one of the most creative and prolific writers to address the personal, social, and political trials of our times. Linguist, psychoanalyst, social and cultural theorist, and novelist, Kristeva's broad interdisciplinary appeal has impacted areas across...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-05-03
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Werk von Carlos Castaneda und vor allem einer Besprechung der philosophischen Bedeutung der Lehren des Don Juan. Geografische und historische Berichte von Auslandsreisen zu Bibliotheken und Museen des Autors und interaktive...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-02
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Emotions as ‘the early form of knowledge about the surrounding world’ constitute a necessary component of the human psyche. Nevertheless, through the ages of the development of mankind, the emotional aspect was often regarded as a dispensable part of human nature, which...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-02
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Die seit den 1970ern in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika aktive Chicana-Bewegung bedient sich der Sprache, des Sprechakts und lebhafter mythischer Bilder und Erzählungen, um auf ihre Lebenswirklichkeit hinzuweisen. Ziel ist es, diese Lebensbedingungen zu verbessern,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-01
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Der Deutsche Idealismus war und ist eine der wirkungsmächtigsten Ideenkonstellationen in der Geschichte der Philosophie – nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil er Idealismus in praktischer Absicht war und auf geschichtlichen Fortschritt zielte. Er hat seine wesentlichen Quellen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-01
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Die Arbeit befasst sich mit der Kritik, die Wittgenstein am logizistischen Begründungsprojekt der Mathematik übt, sowie der von ihm daran angeschlossenen kritischen Hinterfragung des eigenen Standpunktes. Dazu sollen seine Einwände gegen die Tauglichkeit des von Russell...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-01
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The book tackles significant problems that each historian of law faces in the light of present decline of philosophical, ethical and ideological canons in the overall context of western civilization.The issues discussed in the book manifest themselves in the question...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-01
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A fearless, poetic, day-by-day account of human history, narrated by one of Latin America's most beloved and influential writers "The amazing Galeano has done it again. History becomes poetry, and mythology becomes...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2013-04-30
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