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WOULD YOU KILL ONE PERSON TO SAVE FIVE OTHERS?If you could upload all of your memories into a machine, would that machine be you? Is it possible we're all already artificial intelligences, living inside a simulation?These sound like questions from a philosophy class,...
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Robinson
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2017-08-17
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This book offers insight into the nature of meaningful discourse. It presents an argument of great intellectual scope written by an author with more than four decades of experience. Readers will gain a deeper understanding into three theories of the logos: analytic,...
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Springer
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2017-08-10
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This edited volume offers a new approach to understanding social conventions by way of Martin Heidegger. It connects the philosopher's conceptions of the anyone, everydayness, and authenticity with an analysis and critique of social normativity. Heidegger’s account of...
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Springer
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2017-08-10
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Winner of the 2018 Choice award for Outstanding Academic Title!The work of Simone de Beauvoir has endured and flowered in the last two decades, thanks primarily to the lasting influence of The Second Sex on the rise of academic discussions of gender, sexuality, and old...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-07-27
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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This book presents a new way to understand human–animal interactions. Offering a profound discussion of topics such as human identity, our relationship with animals and the environment, and our culture, the author channels the vibrant Italian traditions of humanism,...
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Springer
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2017-07-26
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?This book illustrates how non-pragmatic finite provinces of meaning emancipate one from pragmatic everyday pressures. Barber portrays everyday life originally, as including the interplay between intrinsic and imposed relevances, the unavoidable pursuit of pragmatic...
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Springer
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2017-07-26
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This book includes both the original German version and, for the first time, an English translation of Carl Wilhelm Frölich’s important essay of 1792, which Georg Foster praised as «one of the rarest creations of our time, the work of a young, right-thinking and...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2017-07-26
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This volume is a result of the international symposium “The Tradition of the Lvov-Warsaw School in European Culture,” which took place in Warsaw, Poland, September 2015. It collects almost all the papers presented at the symposium as well as some additional ones. The...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-07-24
Collection :
Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook
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Das Buch präsentiert einen programmatischen Ansatz einer aktuellen Zeithistorie und versteht sich als kritischer Beitrag der Orientierungswissenschaft im Anschluss an das Spätwerk Michel Foucaults. Die derzeitige Diskussion setzt sich nur ungenügend mit der Epoche seit...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-07-20
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This book is an updated and revised edition of Fundamentals of Legal Argumentation published in 1999. It discusses new developments that have taken place in the past 15 years in research of legal argumentation, legal justification and legal interpretation, as well as...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-07-10
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This book discusses Gadamer's theory of context-dependence. Analytical and partly critical, the book also shows exegetical accuracy in the rendering of Gadamer's position. It explores the following questions that Gadamer's theory of context-dependence tries to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-07-07
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This study uses techniques from economics to illuminate fundamental questions in ethics, particularly in the foundations of utilitarianism. Topics considered include the nature of teleological ethics, the foundations of decision theory, the value of equality and the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-07-05
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Wer sich ernsthaft mit der Philosophie beschäftigt, wird sich immer auch für ihre Geschichte und all die Schätze interessieren, die sie seit ihren Anfängen im antiken Griechenland für uns bereithält. Diese kleine Einführung bietet deshalb einen knappen und dennoch...
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Springer
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2017-07-01
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This book presents a systematic reconstruction of Leibniz’s dynamics project (c. 1676-1700) that contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the concepts of physical causality in Leibniz’s work and 17th century physics. It argues that Leibniz’s theory of forces...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-06-29
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With a focus on end-of-life discussion in aging and chronically ill populations, this book offers insight into the skill of communicating in complex and emotionally charged discussions. This text is written for all clinicians and professionals in the fields of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-06-27
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In der Studie geht Matthias Neuber der Frage nach, in welchem Verhältnis das Konzept des Realismus und der logische Empirismus des Wiener Kreises, eine der dominanten Strömungen der deutschsprachigen theoretischen Philosophie des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts, zueinander...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-06-26
Collection :
Veröffentlichungen des Instituts Wiener Kreis
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This volume features forty-two essays written in honor of Joseph Agassi. It explores the work and legacy of this influential philosopher, an exciting and challenging advocate of critical rationalism. Throughout six decades of stupendous intellectual activity, Agassi...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-06-22
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‘There is no alternative to postmetaphysical thinking’: this statement, made by Jürgen Habermas in 1988, has lost none of its relevance. Postmetaphysical thinking is, in the first place, the historical answer to the crisis of metaphysics following Hegel, when the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-06-16
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How profound is a little plastic building block? It turns out the answer is “very”! 22 chapters explore philosophy through the world of LEGO which encompasses the iconic brick itself as well as the animated televisions shows, feature films, a vibrant adult fan base with...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-06-15
Collection :
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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This first volume has as its main focus the philosophical foundations of Michalos’ work and describes it in the broad context of the study of logic, the philosophy of social sciences, and a general theory of value. After distinguishing things that have value from the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-06-14
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