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The economic impact of the U. S. financial market meltdown of 2008 has been devastating both in the U. S. and worldwide. One consequence of this crisis is the widening gap between rich and poor. With little end in sight to global economic woes, it has never been more...
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Springer
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2012-09-25
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AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice
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This book provides an analytical interpretation of Leibniz's 'Essais de Théodicée' with wide-ranging references to all his works. It shows and upholds many thesis: Leibniz's rational conception of faith, his rational notion of mystery, the reformation of classical...
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Springer
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2012-09-22
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Studies in German Idealism
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The Story of Philosophy sees philosophy for what it is: a passionate, exhilarating quest for human understanding that cannot be reduced to dry categories or simple definitions. It's a story with plot twists, a murder, accidental discoveries, disastrous love affairs,...
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Greenfinch
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2012-09-20
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From philosophy's founding fathers - Thales, Socrates, Plato... to great minds of the post-modern era - Satre, Ayer, Feyerabend... this concise new guide presents 100 of the world's most influential thinkers. Arranged from the ancient world to the present day, each...
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Greenfinch
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2012-09-20
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A philosophical exploration of J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved classic—just in time for the December 2012 release of Peter Jackson's new film adaptation, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is one of the best-loved fantasy books of all time and the...
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Wiley
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2012-09-18
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The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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This collection of essays is the outcome of a workshop with Scott Shapiro on The Planning Theory of Law that took place in December 2009 at Bocconi University. It brings together a group of scholars who wrote their contributions to the workshop on a preliminary draft of...
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Springer
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2012-09-14
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Han Fei, who died in 233 BC, was one of the primary philosophers of China’s classical era, a reputation still intact despite recent neglect. This edited volume on the thinker, his views on politics and philosophy, and the tensions of his relations with Confucianism...
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Springer
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2012-09-14
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This is the first ever collected volume on John Austin, whose role in the founding of analytical jurisprudence is unquestionable. After 150 years, time has come to assess his legacy. The book fills a void in existing literature, by letting top scholars with diverse...
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Springer
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2012-09-14
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This book carries out an epistemological analysis of the decision, including a critical analysis through the continuous reference to an interdisciplinary approach including a synthesis of philosophical approaches, biology and neuroscience. Besides this it represents...
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Springer
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2012-09-14
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Meaning and Argument is a popular introduction to philosophy of logic and philosophy of language. Offers a distinctive philosophical, rather than mathematical, approach to logic Concentrates on symbolization and works out all the technical logic with truth tables...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-09-14
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This book provides the first comprehensive account of Hume’s conception of objects in Book I of A Treatise of Human Nature. What, according to Hume, are objects? Ideas? Impressions? Mind-independent objects? All three? None of the above? Through a close textual...
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Springer
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2012-09-14
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The New Synthese Historical Library
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Gibt es ein verlässliches Entscheidungskriterium für die Wahl des Kurventyps bei einer Kurvenanpassung? Lässt sich Ockhams Rasiermesser vermittels dieses Kriteriums rechtfertigen? Existiert für dieses Kriterium eine wissenschaftstheoretische Rechtfertigung? Diese Fragen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-05
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Il libro mira ad offrire una nuova prospettiva dalla quale leggere la dialettica fra cultura pagano-mitica e cultura cristiana che attraversa tutta la tradizione letteraria italiana. Tema comune alle due visioni del mondo, la trasformazione è figura guida dell’intera...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-04
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This book takes as its point of departure an enthusiasm for Baltic Sea region history which appeared in some European countries after the fall of the Iron Curtain. In search for the historiographical traditions and earlier concepts which the post-Cold War concept of the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-03
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This volume is devoted to the person and work of Leszek Kolakowski, who died in July 2009. At the turn of the 1940s and 1950s, Leszek Kolakowski belonged to a group of young intellectuals actively supporting on the «ideological front» and in the University of Warsaw the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-03
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What is striking in the current reception of Wittgenstein is just how wide-ranging his influence has become among those who are trying to elaborate an alternative to the rationalistic framework dominant today. Pragmatists and deconstructionists are at the forefront of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-29
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This original and timely volume details the influence of Dante's Inferno on Primo Levi's classic Holocaust narrative, Se questo è uomo, and his last book of essays, I sommersi e i salvatie. Such key concepts as memory, justice, and the realm of the neutral sinners - «la...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-08-29
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A Sceptical Theory of Morality and Law aims ultimately to cast light on some contentious issues in the philosophy of law, including the nature of rights and of judicial interpretation. The answers one gives, however, rest on the moral theory one finds most convincing....
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-08-29
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This book is a collection of translations of recent work by contemporary Chinese aestheticians. Because of the relative isolation of China until recently, little is known of this rich and ongoing aesthetics tradition in China. Although some of the articles are concerned...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-08-29
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The aim of this book is to focus on the origin of the historiography of the terms Mannerism and Maniera in paintings and drawings of the sixteenth-century in Italy.The articles herewith presented fall into two categories.The first group explains the definition of the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-08-29
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