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This book offers a detailed defense of a metaphysics of Platonic universals and a conception of particular objects that is coherent with said metaphysics. The work discusses all the main alternatives in metaphysics of properties and tries to show why...
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Springer
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2020-10-27
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Cosmotheism retrieves the importance of a cosmic approach to reality through its revival of the heliocentric creed championed by Copernicus, Bruno and Kepler, through its critiques of historical patterns of politics and technology, and through its sponsorship of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-10-20
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This book advances systems thinking by introducing a new philosophy of systemic knowing. It argues that there are inescapable limits to rational understanding. Humankind has always depended on extended ways of knowing to complement the rational-analytic approach. The...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-10-16
Collection :
Contemporary Systems Thinking
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This interdisciplinary book ties the historical work of Descartes to his successors through current research and critical overviews on the neuroscience of consciousness, the brain, and cognition. This text is the first historical survey to focus on the cohesions...
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Springer
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2020-10-15
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In the ancient world, philosophy was understood to be a practical guide for living, or even itself a way of life. This volume of essays brings historical views about philosophy as a way of life, coupled with their modern equivalents, more prevalently into the domain of...
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Wiley
Parution :
2020-10-14
Collection :
Metaphilosophy
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Benedict de Spinoza is one of the most controversial and enigmatic thinkers in the history of philosophy. His greatest work, Ethics (1677), developed a comprehensive philosophical system and argued that God and Nature are identical. His scandalous Theological-Political...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-10-14
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Classic Thinkers
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The first focused study of Nietzsche's Dawn, offering a close reading of the text by two of the leading scholars on the philosophy of Nietzsche Published in 1881, Dawn: Thoughts on the Presumptions of Morality represents a significant moment in the development of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-10-09
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Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer were two of the most influential philosophers and cultural critics of the 20th century. While Adorno became the leading intellectual figure of the Frankfurt School, Kracauer’s writings on film, photography, literature and the...
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Polity
Parution :
2020-10-06
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The book consolidates systems thinking as a new world-hypothesis that is already suggesting itself behind the advancement of quantum mechanics and Ashby’s cybernetics. In particular, it shows how Einstein’s misgivings about quantum mechanics boil down to his persistence...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-10-06
Collection :
Contemporary Systems Thinking
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What is to be done? This was the question asked by Lenin in 1901 when he was having doubts about the revolutionary capabilities of the Russian working class. 77 years later, Louis Althusser asked the same question. Faced with the tidal wave of May ‘68 and the recurrent...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-10-06
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Our politics is intimately linked to the environmental conditions - and crises - of our time. The challenges of sustainability and the discovery of ecological limits to growth are transforming how we understand the core concepts at the heart of political theory. In this...
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Polity
Parution :
2020-10-02
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This comprehensive volume surveys an important but neglected period of Chinese intellectual history: Xuanxue (Neo-Daoism). It provides a holistic approach to the philosophical and religious traits of this movement via the concepts of non-being, being, and oneness....
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-29
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Marranos were Spanish or Portuguese Jews who converted to Christianity at the time of the Spanish Inquisition to avoid being massacred or forced to flee but who continued to practise Judaism in secret. They were persecuted by the first racist blood laws but the water of...
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Polity
Parution :
2020-09-29
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This book brings together a wide range of innovative reflections on the pivotal role that Davidson’s concept of agency plays in his later philosophy and its impact on his epistemology, his philosophy of language and mind, and his philosophy of values. The authors...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-28
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The book offers a reflection on the nature, scope, and limits of knowledge that have been at the focus of the author's work over decades.The essays collected in this volume expound and extend these efforts in exploring the outer fringes of understanding: the outer...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-09-25
Collection :
Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
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Michael Walzer is one of the pre-eminent political theorists in the world today and also a prominent public intellectual. His conception of social justice and his work on just and unjust wars have been hugely influential in political theory and, at the same time, he has...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-09-25
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Benedetto Croce (1866-1952) unterhielt eine viele Jahrzehnte währende, intensive Beziehung zu Deutschland, besonders zur deutschen Philosophie, aber auch Geschichtswissenschaft und Literatur. Seine Stellungnahmen reichen von tiefem Interesse und Bewunderung, sogar mit...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-09-23
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Die ersten drei Bände der vorliegenden,vier Teilbände umfassenden Edition bieten eine umfangreiche Präsentation von Husserls deskriptiver Erforschung der intentionalen Strukturen des Bewusstseins in den drei Hauptklassen von intentionalen Akten, den Verstandes-,...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-17
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Die ersten drei Bände der vorliegenden,vier Teilbände umfassenden Edition bieten eine umfangreiche Präsentation von Husserls deskriptiver Erforschung der intentionalen Strukturen des Bewusstseins in den drei Hauptklassen von intentionalen Akten, den Verstandes-,...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-17
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Die ersten drei Bände der vorliegenden, vier Teilbände umfassenden Edition bieten eine umfangreiche Präsentation von Husserls deskriptiver Erforschung der intentionalen Strukturen des Bewusstseins in den drei Hauptklassen von intentionalen Akten, den Verstandes-,...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-17
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