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In 1986, the emergence of a novel brain disease in British cattle presented a unique challenge to scientists. How that challenge was addressed has been the subject of a public inquiry and numerous academic studies conducted to date. However, none of these investigations...
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Springer
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2010-08-09
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Insights developed in the past two decades by philosophers of the social sciences can serve to enrich the challenging intellectual tasks of conceptualizing, investigating, and representing the human past. Likewise, intimate engagement with the writings of historians can...
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Springer
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2010-08-05
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Methodos Series
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Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757-1823) is a complex figure of the late German Enlightenment. Sometime Catholic priest and active Mason even when still a cleric in Vienna; early disciple of Kant and the first to try to reform the Critique of Reason; influential teacher and...
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Springer
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2010-07-24
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Confused by metaphysics? In a muddle with aesthetics? Intimidated by Kant? Then look no further! Philosophy For Dummies, UK Edition is a complete crash-course in philosophical thought, covering key philosophers, philosophical history and theory and the big questions...
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For Dummies
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2010-07-20
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Springer
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2010-07-17
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Following on from the internationally bestselling The Art of Happiness, the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler bring us the inspiring The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World.This inspirational book brings the successful East-meets-West pairing together again to provide a...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2010-07-08
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This book is about Transparent Intensional Logic, the brainchild of Pavel Tichý. Three books and around 100 papers on Transparent Intensional Logic have till now seen the light of day since the mid-1960s. So why a book of more than 500 pages now? For two reasons....
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Springer
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2010-07-01
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Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
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The essays in this volume consider issues at the intersection of freedom of expression and racial, cultural, and gender diversity.The claims of those whose cultures and beliefs differ from our own are no longer the exclusive province of diplomats, as the Danish...
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Springer
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2010-07-01
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AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice
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Nature in Modernity: Servant, Citizen, Queen or Comrade explores the origins and implications of the mastery of nature agenda within Western culture and argues that there is a long-standing parallel «shadow» tradition grounded instead in mutuality, respect and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2010-06-30
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"Complexity" has been part of the academic discourse for a decade or two. Texts on Complexity fall mainly in two categories: fairly technical and mathematical on the one hand, and fairly broad, vague and general on the other. Paul Cilliers’ book Complexity and...
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Springer
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2010-06-29
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A fascinating exploration of the philosophy behind NBC’s hit TV series, 30 Rock With edgy writing and a great cast, 30 Rock is one of the funniest television shows on the air—and where hilarity ensues, philosophical questions abound: Are Liz Lemon and Jack Donaghy...
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Wiley
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2010-06-24
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The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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The discussion on the phenomenology of life will continue to be crucial to the general outlook and direction of phenomenological investigations.The imp- tance of it is not only the fact that it is an innovation in the philosophical circle, but it is also an effort that...
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Springer
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2010-06-23
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Usually Husserl’s analysis of time-constitution is thought of in terms of three phases that are roughly bound up with the central publications, the Lectures, the Bernau Manuscripts and the C-Manuscripts. Today, after the publication of the central texts incorporating...
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Springer
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2010-06-21
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Die Studie untersucht das Zeitdenken von Husserl, Heidegger und Ricoeur in philosophiehistorischer, systematischer und methodologischer Hinsicht. Den besonderen Gesichtspunkt der Studie bilden die drei von Ricoeur in Zeit und Erzählung behaupteten Aporien der Zeit.
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Springer
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2010-06-17
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Building upon Husserl’s challenge to oppositions such as those between form and content and between constituting and constituted, The Concept of Passivity in Husserl’s Phenomenology construes activity and passivity not as reciprocally exclusive terms but as mutually...
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Springer
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2010-06-16
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Wim Vandekerckhove and Stan van Hooft The philosopher, Diogenes the Cynic, in the fourth century BCE, was asked where he came from and where he felt he belonged. He answered that he was a “citi- 1 zen of the world” (kosmopolitês) . This made him the rst person known to...
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Springer
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2010-06-16
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by the Academies of the two countries – to the Italian-Swiss University of Lugano for the two-day-Symposium. The question of the meaning of “truth” is central to many areas of contemporary debate, whether between those subscribing to a post-Enlightenment view of the...
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Springer
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2010-06-14
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John Makeham Early in 2007, HUANG Yong approached me to see if I might be interested in editing a volume on Neo-Confucian philosophy as part of the new Springer book series, ‘‘Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy. ’’ Unhampered by any realistic sense of what such a task...
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Springer
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2010-06-08
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Science aims at the discovery of general principles of special kinds that are applicable for the explanation and prediction of the phenomena of the world in the form of theories and laws. When the phenomena themselves happen to be general, the principlesinvolved assume...
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Springer
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2010-06-08
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A timely volume that uses science fiction as a springboard to meaningful philosophical discussions, especially at points of contact between science fiction and new scientific developments. Raises questions and examines timely themes concerning the nature of the mind,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2010-06-03
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