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This open access book presents novel theoretical, empirical and experimental work exploring the nature of mental representations that support natural language production and understanding, and other manifestations of cognition. One fundamental question raised in the...
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Springer
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2021-05-28
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Leo Strauss’s lifelong intellectual mission was to recover ‘classical rationalism’, a pursuit that has made him a controversial figure to this day. While his critics see him as responsible for a troubling anti-democratic strain in modern politics, others argue that his...
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Polity
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2021-05-28
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Key Contemporary Thinkers
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A classic in its field, this comprehensive book introduces the core history of phenomenology and assesses its relevance to contemporary psychology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science. It provides a jargon-free explanation of central themes in the works of...
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Polity
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2021-05-28
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It is time for philosophy to return to the city. In today’s crisis-ridden world of globalised capitalism, increasingly closed in on itself, it may seem harder than ever to think of ways out. Philosophy runs the risk of becoming the handmaiden of science and of a...
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Polity
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2021-05-27
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In questo libro sono raccolte le lezioni che Francesco Moiso tenne nell’anno accademico 1998-1999 all’Università Statale di Milano, dove Friedrich Nietzsche viene fatto dialogare con i più importanti esponenti delle scienze del suo tempo, chimici, biologi, fisici,...
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Rosenberg & Sellier
Parution :
2021-05-25
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Phy´sis. Collana di filosofia
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This book provides detailed transcriptions of two notebooks written by Kurt Gödel in Vienna in 1937/38 in the nearly forgotten Gabelsberger shorthand system. The first of these notebooks, simply entitled as the Protokoll-book, contains notes on conversations Gödel had...
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Springer
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2021-05-25
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Freedom of speech is never very far away from political controversy. In recent years, the rise of populism, the ‘cancel culture’ phenomenon, and online hate attacks are among the developments that have kept it at the forefront of both public and academic discussion. In...
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Polity
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2021-05-24
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Key Concepts in Political Theory
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This text presents and addresses the philosophical movement of antiphilosophy working thru the texts of Christian thinkers such as Pascal and Kierkegaard. The author as influenced by Alain Badiou, portrays these Christian thinkers as of a subjective dimension...
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Springer
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2021-05-22
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This volume, the first of its kind written in English, interprets the realistic-phenomenological philosophy of Hedwig Conrad-Martius (1888-1966). She was a prominent figure in the Munich-Göttingen Circle, the first generation of phenomenology after Edmund Husserl...
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Springer
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2021-05-21
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Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences
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It was not until 1961 that Foucault published his first major book, History of Madness. He had already been working as an academic for a decade, teaching in Lille and Paris, writing, organizing cultural programmes and lecturing in Uppsala, Warsaw and Hamburg. Although...
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Polity
Parution :
2021-05-20
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What we call growth today is in fact a tumorous growth, a cancerous proliferation which is disrupting the social organism. These tumours endlessly metastasize and grow with an inexplicable, deadly vitality. At a certain point this growth is no longer productive, but...
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Polity
Parution :
2021-05-18
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In everyday life, we generally assume that we can make our own decisions on matters which concern our own lives. We assume that a life followed only according to decisions taken by other people, against our will, cannot be a well-lived life – we assume, in other words,...
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Polity
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2021-05-18
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This book deals with the philosophy of Daya Krishna, an Indian philosopher of the twentieth century. It discusses the central issues in Daya Krishna’s early philosophy as a synthesis of the Indian and Western philosophical methods. It presents problems of the past and...
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Springer
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2021-05-11
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This book proposes a novel position in the debate on scientific realism: Modal Empiricism. Modal empiricism is the view that the aim of science is to provide theories that correctly delimit, in a unified way, the range of experiences that are naturally possible given...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-05-07
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At first glance, Theodor W. Adorno’s critical social theory and Gershom Scholem’s scholarship of Jewish mysticism could not seem farther removed from one another. To begin with, they also harbored a mutual hostility. But their first conversations in 1938 New York were...
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Polity
Parution :
2021-05-06
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A milestone in the study of value in human life and thought, written by one of the world’s preeminent living philosophers The Moral Powers:A Study of Human Nature is a philosophical investigation of the moral potentialities and sensibilities of human beings, of the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-04-30
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Are we rational creatures? Do we have free will? Can we ever know ourselves? These and other fundamental questions have been discussed by philosophers over millennia. But recent empirical findings in psychology and neuroscience suggest we should reconsider them. This...
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Polity
Parution :
2021-04-28
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A celebrated metaphysician, epistemologist, political philosopher, and a seminal figure of the Enlightenment, Benedict de Spinoza remains one of the most radical thinkers of the early modern period. Controversial in his time for his critiques of scripture, Spinoza is...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-04-26
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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This book starts with the classification of the main views of different thinkers after the study of the original materials, which covers all the thinkers’ thoughts and conceptions. A major objective of this book is to reveal the ideas of...
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Springer
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2021-04-26
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A year after the end of the Second World War, the first International Summer Course for New Music took place in the Kranichstein Hunting Lodge, near the city of Darmstadt in Germany. The course, commonly referred to later as the Darmstadt course, was intended to...
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Polity
Parution :
2021-04-26
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