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A Companion to the Philosophy of Time presents the broadest treatment of this subject yet; 32 specially commissioned articles - written by an international line-up of experts – provide an unparalleled reference work for students and specialists alike in this exciting...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-01-14
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Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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A Companion to the Philosophy of Time presents the broadest treatment of this subject yet; 32 specially commissioned articles - written by an international line-up of experts – provide an unparalleled reference work for students and specialists alike in this exciting...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-01-14
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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This book addresses the debate usually tagged as being about ’markets in human body parts’ which is antagonistically divided into pro-market and anti-market positions. The author provides a set of propositions about how to approach this and shows a way out of the...
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Springer
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2013-01-05
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For centuries, natural law was the main philosophical legal paradigm. Now, it is a wonder when a court of law invokes it. Arthur Kaufmann already underlined a modern general "horror iuris naturalis". We also know, with Winfried Hassemer, that the succession of legal...
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Springer
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2012-12-14
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SpringerBriefs in Law
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This book criticizes the suggestive implication of newer bioethics that we need a new ethical paradigm in order to handle with the innovations of medicine and biotechnology. It holds that these innovations have a suggestive character at all which is not relevant however...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-14
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The notion of “natural law” has repeatedly furnished human beings with a shared grammar in times of moral and cultural crisis. Stoic natural law, for example, emerged precisely when the Ancient World lost the Greek polis, which had been the point of reference for...
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Springer
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2012-12-13
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Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
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This book offers a systematic and comprehensive account of the key cases that have come to shape the jurisprudence on emergency law in the United States from the Civil War to the War on Terror. The legal questions raised in these cases concern fundamental constitutional...
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Springer
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2012-12-13
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PresentationA symbol that dominates all creation.The symbol of the Libra is universal and used, among other things, to represent justice. But above all, it is a powerful subject for meditation and reflection, for it is by balancing this Libra within us that we will...
Editeur :
Editions Prosveta
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2012-12-12
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Izvor (EN)
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Over the past few years, the tree model of time has been widely employed to deal with issues concerning the semantics of tensed discourse. The thought that has motivated its adoption is that the most plausible way to make sense of indeterminism is to conceive of future...
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Springer
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2012-11-30
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Synthese Library
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This book is a distinctive fusion of philosophy and technology, delineating the normative landscape that informs today’s technologies and tomorrow’s inventions. The authors examine what we deem to be the internal norms that govern our ever-expanding technical universe....
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Springer
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2012-11-30
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This new volume on logic follows a recognizable format that deals in turn with the topics of mathematical logic, moving from concepts, via definitions and inferences, to theories and axioms. However, this fresh work offers a key innovation in its ‘pyramidal’ graph...
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Springer
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2012-11-30
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This compelling reevaluation of the relationship between logic and knowledge affirms the key role that the notion of judgement must play in such a review. The commentary repatriates the concept of judgement in the discussion, banished in recent times by the logical...
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Springer
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2012-11-28
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Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
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The book applies the principle of proportionality to a number of conventional wisdoms in the social sciences, such as in dubio pro reo and the assumption that a crime is always a crime; that you must go to war if instructed to do so. Individuals and states are not...
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Springer
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2012-11-28
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SpringerBriefs in Law
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This volume addresses the complex interplay between the conditions of an agent’s personal autonomy and the constitution of her self in light of two influential background assumptions: a libertarian thesis according to which it is essential for personal autonomy to be...
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Springer
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2012-11-28
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Während in der letzten Zeit viel von der «Wiederkehr der Religion(en)» die Rede war, sieht sich die Öffentlichkeit in westlichen Ländern zugleich mit einem unvermuteten Wiedererstarken eines eigentlichen Atheismus konfrontiert. Unter der seit 2006 verbreiteten...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-23
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Die Arbeit setzt sich das Ziel, zu zeigen, wie es in der europäischen Geistesgeschichte zur Ausbildung eines personalen Ich gekommen ist. Dadurch kann sich der Mensch als eigenständige Person erkennen und Eigenverantwortung für seine Handlungen übernehmen, deren...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-22
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This collection of more than two dozen essays by philosophy scholars of international repute traces the profound impact exerted by Husserl’s Meisterwerk, known in its shortened title as Ideen, whose first book was released in 1913. Published to coincide with the...
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Springer
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2012-11-05
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What does it mean for someone to be an a**hole? The answer is not obvious, despite the fact that we are often personally stuck dealing with people for whom there is no better name. Try as we might to avoid them, a**holes are found everywhere at work, at home, on the...
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John Murray Business
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2012-11-01
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Mit der zunehmenden Ausdifferenzierung der Wissenschaften wird die Suche nach einem gemeinsamen Kern des Denkens stets schwieriger. In Bezug auf die Philosophie wird in Folge der Ausdifferenzierung spezifischer Fragestellungen der Zusammenhang mit anderen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-01
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