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This book presents a thorough study and an up to date anthology of Plato’s Protagoras. International authors' papers contribute to the task of understanding how Plato introduced and negotiated a new type of intellectual practice – called philosophy – and the...
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Springer
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2016-11-30
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Epistemic Principles: A Primer of the Theory of Knowledge presents a compact account of the basic principles of the theory of knowledge. In doing this, Nicholas Rescher aims to fill the current gap in contemporary philosophical theory of knowledge with a comprehensive...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-11-29
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This book offers a novel perspective on abduction. It starts by discussing the major theories of abduction, focusing on the hybrid nature of abduction as both inference and intuition. It reports on the Peircean theory of abduction and discusses the more recent Magnani...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-11-23
Collection :
Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
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This book tells about the "History of Zen" in China and Japan. It has altogether 16 chapters. The first eight chapters are about Zen in China and the later eight chapters about Zen in Japan. It is mainly concerned with a detailed account of inheriting lineage and...
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Springer
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2016-11-23
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This volume tackles the burden of judgment and the challenges of ethical disagreements, organizes the cohabitation of scientific and ethical argumentations in such a way they find their appropriate place in the political decision. It imagines several forms of agreements...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2016-11-23
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This book examines “Taylorean social theory,” its sources, main characteristics and impact. Charles Taylor’s meta-narrative of secularization in the West, prominently contained in his major work A Secular Age (2007), has brought new insight on the social and cultural...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-11-22
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High levels of police corruption have been a persistent historical tendency in police services throughout the world. While the general area of concern in this book is with police corruption and anti-corruption, the focus is on certain key philosophical and ethical...
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Springer
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2016-11-18
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?This book explores ‘nothingness’, the negative way found in Buddhist and Christian traditions, with a focused and comparative approach. It examines the works of Nagarjuna (c. 150 CE), a Buddhist monk, philosopher and one of the greatest thinkers of classical India, and...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-11-14
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In diesem Buch geht es um die großen Fragen an der Schnittstelle von Philosophie, Psychologie und Hirnforschung: Wer bin ich? Wie handle ich richtig? Wie entsteht Bewusstsein? Gibt es einen freien Willen? Wie hängen Sprache und Denken, Gefühle und Moral, Körper und...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-11-09
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This collection highlights the new trend away from rationalism and toward empiricism in the epistemology of modality. Accordingly, the book represents a wide range of positions on the empirical sources of modal knowledge. Readers will find an introduction that surveys...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-11-09
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Die zahlreichen literarischen Verknüpfungen zwischen den Werken Franz Kafkas und Haruki Murakamis, denen sich diese semiotische Abhandlung widmet, haben bisher in der internationalen Forschung kaum Beachtung gefunden. Dabei zeigt sich im Zwischenspiel der phantastischen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-10-31
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This volume features more than 25 papers that were presented at the 2014 Conference of the International Association for the Study of Controversies, IASC, held at the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy. It looks at conflict and conflict resolution from diverse...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-10-28
Collection :
Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning
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This book deals with the possibility of an ontological and epistemological account of the psychological category 'neurosis'. Intertwining thoughts from German idealism, Continental philosophy and psychology, the book shows how neurosis precedes and exists independently...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-19
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This book introduces the special dynamics of women and their close relationships with the gift in both past and contemporary religious settings. Written from a cross-cultural perspective, it challenges depictions of women’s roles in religion where they have been...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-19
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Who hasn't had the frightening experience of stumbling around in the pitch dark? Alain Badiou experienced that primitive terror when he, with his young friends, made up a game called "The Stroke of Midnight." The furtive discovery of the dark continent of sex in banned...
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Polity
Parution :
2016-10-18
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On 13 November 2015, Paris suffered the second wave of brutal terrorist attacks in a year, leaving 130 dead and many more seriously injured. How are we to make sense of these violent acts and what do they tell us about the forces shaping our world today?In this short...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-10-10
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Dieses Buch veröffentlicht erstmals den Nachlass des ‚radikalen Demokraten‘ der März-Revolution Karl Nauwerck (1810–1891). Es wertet die aufgefundenen persönlichen und literarischen Dokumente der Jugendzeit kritisch aus und publiziert die Archivalien seines Vaters...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-10-10
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Die hier genannte Tradition umfasst als Schlüsselfiguren Wilhelm Dilthey und Hermann Cohen. Das Empirische am liegt nicht in den „Sinnesdaten“, sondern im abstrakten Bereich von Geist und Kultur.Die wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen auf die sich stützen sind primär...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-07
Collection :
Veröffentlichungen des Instituts Wiener Kreis
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Why bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a metaphysics of happiness, or else it’s not worth an hour of trouble? What possible relationship can there be between mathematics and happiness? That is...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-09-30
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This book explores the relation between Heidegger, Levinas and Derrida by means of a dialogue with experts on the work of these mutually influential thinkers. Each essay in this collection focuses on the relation between at least two of these three philosophers focusing...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-09-30
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