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50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists presents a collection of original essays drawn from an international group of prominent voices in the fields of academia, science, literature, media and politics who offer carefully considered statements of why they are...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-09-26
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The view that persons are entitled to respect because of their moral agency is commonplace in contemporary moral theory. What exactly this respect entails, however, is far less uncontroversial. In this book, Van der Rijt argues powerfully that this respect for persons’...
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Springer
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2011-09-24
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Is God a Delusion? addresses the philosophical underpinnings of the recent proliferation of popular books attacking religious beliefs. Winner of CHOICE 2009 Outstanding Academic Title Award Focuses primarily on charges leveled by recent critics that belief in God is...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-09-23
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TROUBLE WITH STRANGERS ‘Written in Eagleton’s very readable, clear and witty style, this book may achieve the unthinkable: bridging the gap between academic High Thought and popular philosophy manuals.’Slavoj Ži?ek ‘This is a fine book. It is hugely ambitious in its...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-09-23
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Evolution and the Big Questions “David N. Stamos’sEvolution and the Big Questions delivers what its title promises—you get to look at all of the issues, such as race and ethics and religion, that make the study of evolution so interesting, and more than just a science....
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-09-23
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The relation between logic and knowledge has been at the heart of a lively debate since the 1960s. On the one hand, the epistemic approaches based their formal arguments in the mathematics of Brouwer and intuitionistic logic. Following Michael Dummett, they started to...
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Springer
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2011-09-22
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Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
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The essential companion to Stieg Larsson's bestselling trilogy and director David Fincher's 2011 film adaptation Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium Trilogy—The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,The Girl Who Played with Fire, andThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest—is an...
Editeur :
Wiley
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2011-09-20
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The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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This highly personal account of a lifetime’s spiritual and philosophical enquiry charts the author’s journey of faith through contemporary culture. Distinguishing between what she posits as the ‘universal’ and the ‘rhapsodic’ logos, Tymieniecka interrogates concepts as...
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Springer
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2011-09-20
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The book presents a thoroughly elaborated logical theory of generalized truth-values understood as subsets of some established set of (basic) truth values. After elucidating the importance of the very notion of a truth value in logic and philosophy, we examine some...
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Springer
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2011-09-15
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'God is dead', announced Nietzsche - before going on to abolish himself.Envious contemporaries of Nietzsche ridiculed him as a mad man - and yet they came closer than they knew in characterising a philosopher in whose thought ambivalence approximated to disintegration...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-09-14
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'The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.' Descartes'It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.'Descartes is often called the father of modern philosophy. He was certainly one of the most...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-09-14
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This highly accessible account offers an illuminating introduction to Wittgenstein's philosophy of mind and to his conception of philosophy. Combining passages from Wittgenstein's writings with detailed interpretation and commentary, Hacker leads us into a world of...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-09-14
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Great Philosophers
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'Judge a man by his questions, rather than by his answers.' VoltaireVoltaire was one of the first philosophers to be commercially successful internationally. Famous for his strong views on the importance of civil liberties, he was equally renowned for his wit. A...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-09-14
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Great Philosophers
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'What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it''What and how much I possess is a matter of indifference so far as rights are concerned''Education is the art of...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-09-14
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Great Philosophers
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Born to be misunderstood, Spinoza was a man whose theology was banned for Godlessness. The very virtuosity of his reasoning left logicians unsettled, while even to professional thinkers in our own time, Spinoza has seemed too clever by half. And yet, as...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-09-14
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Great Philosophers
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'Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.' KantIn today's increasingly fractured world of oppression and uncertainty, Kant's moral philosophy is more important than ever before. And never has the need for moral absolutes been more pressing than in this...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-09-14
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Great Philosophers
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Schopenhauer 1788 - 1860Western philosophy's most profound and unrelenting pessimist,Schopenhauer hymned the miseries of human existence with a joylessness that was little short of lyrical. Yet he thrilled to the beauties of music and art.How did such deep bleakness and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-09-14
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Great Philosophers
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'Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all' Aristotle'Knowing yourself is the mark of all wisdom''You will never do anything in this world without courage'Aristotle was one of the greatest philosophers that has ever lived. Taught by Plato, he...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-09-14
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Great Philosophers
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Part of the GREAT PHILOSOPHERS series.A.J. Ayer 1910-1989Ayer is best remembered for Language, Truth and Logic (1936), which introduced British and American readers to the logical positivism of the Vienna circle. Hanfling shows in this introduction to Ayer's work how he...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-09-14
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Great Philosophers
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R. G. Collingwood 1889-1943Many philosophers have been interested in aesthetics, but Collingwood was passionate about art. His theories were never merely theoretical: aesthetics for him was a vivid, vibrant thing, to be experienced immediately in worked paint and in...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-09-14
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Great Philosophers
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