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This volume brings together a number of original articles by leading Leibniz scholars to address the meaning and significance of Leibniz’s notions of compossibility and possible worlds. In order to avoid the conclusion that everything that exists is necessary, or that...
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Springer
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2016-12-27
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The idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet today it seems to have lost much of its appeal. Despite growing discontent, many would hesitate to invoke socialism when it comes to...
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Polity
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2016-12-27
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This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to contemporary bioethics. It also presents provocative, philosophically informed arguments on current bioethical issues. Holland engages with debates ranging from the more familiar ? such as euthanasia, advance...
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Polity
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2016-12-27
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This book deals with philosophical aspects regarding the perception of spatial relationships in two and three-dimensional art. It provides a structural understanding of how art is perceived within the space created by the artwork, and employs a mapping sentence and...
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Springer
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2016-12-26
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What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on. This...
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Polity
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2016-12-22
Collection :
Theory Redux
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Dieses Buch begibt sich auf die spannende Suche nach dem Wesen der Information in der Natur. Es setzt sich mit der Frage auseinander, wie die Information in die Welt kam und sich in ihr entwickelte. Der Leser erfährt, welche Rolle die Bedeutung von Information als...
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Springer
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2016-12-21
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Kasimir Twardowski (geb. 1866 in Wien, gestorben 1938 in Lemberg) war einerseits eine der wichtigsten Figuren der Brentanoschule und andererseits der Begründer der Lemberg-Warschau-Schule der Philosophie. Der Band enthält sämtliche Schriften, die Twardowski auf Deutsch...
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Springer
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2016-12-20
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Veröffentlichungen des Instituts Wiener Kreis
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Drawing on the core values of western civilization, the author refines the counterparts in Chinese civilization, summarized as four core principles: duty before freedom, obedience before rights, community before individual, and harmony before conflict. Focusing on...
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Springer
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2016-12-20
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This is Political Philosophy is an accessible and well-balanced introduction to the main issues in political philosophy written by an author team from the fields of both philosophy and politics.This text connects issues at the core of political philosophy with current,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2016-12-16
Collection :
This is Philosophy
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An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, 2nd Edition guides the reader through the key issues and debates in contemporary epistemology. Lucid, comprehensive and accessible, it is an ideal textbook for students who are new to the subject and for university...
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Polity
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2016-12-16
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This monograph articulates and defends a theory-based epistemology of modality (TEM). According to TEM, someone justifiably believe an interesting modal claim if and only if (a) she justifiably believes a theory according to which that claim is true, (b) she...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-12-15
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Dieses Buch prüft die allgemeine Forschungsmeinung, dass Kant ein Vertreter des absoluten Lügenverbots sei. Dabei verteidigt der Königsberger Philosoph aber ebenso den Standpunkt, dass die Moralität einer Handlung von der Maxime des Willens abhängt. Wenn Kant nun...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-12-15
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This volume features a critical evaluation of the recent work of the philosopher, Prof. Raimo Tuomela and it also offers it offers new approaches to the collectivism-versus-individualism debate. It specifically looks at Tuomela's book Social Ontology and its...
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Springer
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2016-12-15
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This book contains twelve engaging philosophical lectures given by Alexandru Dragomir, most of them given during Romania’s Communist regime. The lectures deal with a diverse range of topics, such as the function of the question, self-deception, banalities with a...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-12-15
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The Dialectical Forge identifies dialectical disputation (jadal) as a primary formative dynamic in the evolution of pre-modern Islamic legal systems, promoting dialectic from relative obscurity to a more appropriate position at the forefront of Islamic legal...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-12-13
Collection :
Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning
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The book focuses on Heidegger’s thoughtful repetition of early Greek thinking, and his receptive attention to the fragments of the Presocratics from our contemporary age. Their thought has a special value for him as the heritage which must be repeated anew in order to...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-12
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Die Virtuelle Realität lässt Menschen in Welten eintauchen, in denen ihr Verantwortungsbereich nur noch verwaschen erkennbar ist. Zudem generiert der Cyberspace Muster mit religiöser Qualität: Menschen erschaffen sich ihr virtuelles Double. Allein indem man in den...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-08
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This book covers work written by leading scholars from different schools within the research area of paraconsistency. The authors critically investigate how contemporary paraconsistent logics can be used to better understand human reasoning in science and mathematics....
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Springer
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2016-12-02
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This volume is the second part of a project which hosts an interdisciplinary discussion about the relationship among law and language, legal practice and ordinary conversation, legal philosophy and the linguistics sciences. An international group of authors, from...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-12-01
Collection :
Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology
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This edited monograph provides a compelling analysis of the interplay between neuroscience and aesthetics. The book broaches a wide spectrum of topics including, but not limited to, mathematics and creator algorithms, neurosciences of artistic creativity, paintings and...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-11-30
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