| |
Thinking Education Through Alain Badiou represents the first collection to explore the educational implications of French philosopher Alain Badiou's challenge to contemporary philosophical orthodoxy put forth in his 1993 work, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-13
Collection :
Educational Philosophy and Theory Special Issues
PDF, ePub
|
The essays in this book explore the consequences of globalization for democracy, covering issues which include whether democracy implies exclusion or borders, and whether it is possible to create a democracy on a global level. Explores the consequences of globalization...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-12
Collection :
Metaphilosophy
PDF, ePub
|
Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic presents a series of essays by leading ethicists and epistemologists who offer the latest thinking on the moral and intellectual virtues and vices, the structure of virtue theory, and the connections between virtue and emotion. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-12
Collection :
Metaphilosophy
PDF, ePub
|
|
|
Philosophical genealogy is a distinct method of historical and philosophical inquiry that was developed by the nineteenth-century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, and subsequently adopted and extended by the twentieth-century philosopher, Michel Foucault. In brief,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-07-08
PDF
|
« Raison mystérieuse inventée par les politiques pour autoriser tout ce qu’ils font sans raison » (Saint Evremond) ? Ou mise en œuvre de mesures de« salut public » dictées par une impérieuse nécessité ? La raison d’Etat est associée dans l’imaginaire politique européen...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2011-07-08
PDF
|
Franz Rosenzweig’s The Star of Redemption is best understood as a rational subjective system, and as such, as the redemptive turning point in philosophy and theology in general. In asserting Rosenzweig’s essential commitment to a «new» systematic conception of thinking...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-07-08
PDF
|
Confessions of Love: The Ambiguities of Greek ‘Eros’ and Latin ‘Caritas’ includes a collection of essays by internationally renowned scholars such as Phillip Cary, Roland Teske, and Leonid Rudnytzky, tackling some historic, controversial «confessions» of love. Inspired...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-07-08
PDF
|
This book intends to show that radical naturalism (or physicalism), nominalism and strict finitism account for the applications of classical mathematics in current scientific theories. The applied mathematical theories developed in the book include the basics of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-07-06
Collection :
Synthese Library
ePub
|
wittgenstein “Sluga draws a fascinating picture of Wittgenstein as a situated thinker: brilliant insights into the cultural background mesh with an often original and always profound understanding of Wittgenstein’s work, yielding an accessible and illuminating account...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-06-28
Collection :
Blackwell Great Minds
PDF, ePub
|
A COMPANION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY The philosophy of historiography examines our representations and knowledge of the past, the relation between evidence, inference, explanation and narrative. Do we possess knowledge of the past? Do we just have...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-06-28
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
PDF, ePub
|
20th century technologies like cars, the Internet, and the contraceptive pill have altered our actions, changed our perceptions and influenced our moral ideas, for better and worse. Upcoming technologies are bound to fulfill their own unique social roles. How can we...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-06-27
ePub
|
Fra Francesc Moner (1462/3-1491/2) is a Catalan author, who flourished in Barcelona during the second decade subsequent to the marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile in 1469. Moner’s extant production amounts to seventy-four pieces, a collection of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-06-27
PDF
|
Twentieth-century Catholic theology was strongly affected by Henri de Lubac’s claim that the western theological tradition went awry by allowing that one could have an adequate idea of human nature without reference to humanity’s supernatural end. According to de Lubac,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-06-27
PDF
|
Gott könne nicht leiden, war die selbstverständliche Implikation der Gottesvorstellung der frühen Kirche, die im Grunde bis heute nicht völlig überwunden scheint. Wurzel dieser Sicht ist jedoch nicht die Heilige Schrift, vielmehr resultiert sie aus dem Bemühen, das...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-06-27
PDF
|
Explore the philosophical depths of Batman, Superman, Captain America, and your other favorite superheroes Behind the cool costumes, special powers, and unflagging determination to fight evil you’ll find fascinating philosophical questions and concerns deep in the...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2011-06-24
Collection :
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
ePub
|
Language, Names, and Information is an important contribution to philosophy of language by one of its foremost scholars, challenging the pervasive view that the description theory of proper names is dead in the water, and defending a version of the description theory...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-06-24
Collection :
The Blackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy
PDF, ePub
|
This book explores the theoretical basis of our ethical obligations to others as self-knowing beings - this task being envisaged as an essential supplement to a traditional ethic of respect for persons. Authoritative knowledge of others brings with it certain...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-06-21
ePub
|
“Bioethicists have achieved consensus on two ideas pertaining to beginning of life issues: (1) persons are those beings capable of higher-order cognition, or self-consciousness, and (2) it is impermissible to kill only persons. As a consequence, a consensus is reached...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-06-21
ePub
|
This book presents a constitutive approach to controversy based on a discourse analysis of news texts, focusing on the role of journalists as participants who shape public controversy for readers. Drawing data from the Reuters Corpus, the project identifies formulas...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-06-17
Collection :
Argumentation Library
ePub
|