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This book approaches the topic of intercultural understanding in philosophy from a phenomenological perspective. It provides a bridge between Western and Eastern philosophy through in-depth discussion of concepts and doctrines of phenomenology and ancient and...
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Springer
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2016-09-29
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This work addresses the topic of philosophical complexity, which shares certain assumptions with scientific complexity, cybernetics, and General Systems Theory, but which is also developing as a subject field in its own right.Specifically, the post-structural reading of...
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Springer
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2016-09-27
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When does Renaissance philosophy end, and Early Modern philosophy begin? Do Renaissance philosophers have something in common, which distinguishes them from Early Modern philosophers? And ultimately, what defines the modernity of the Early Modern period, and what role...
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Springer
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2016-09-27
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This book discusses the legal thought of Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), undoubtedly one of the titans of social sciences who greatly influenced not only the shape of modern cultural anthropology but also the social sciences as a whole.This is the first comprehensive...
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Springer
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2016-09-26
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This book clarifies the meaning of the most important and pervasive concepts and tools in bioethical argumentation (principles, values, dignity, rights, duties, deliberation, prudence) and assesses the methodological suitability of the main methods for clinical...
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Springer
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2016-09-26
Collection :
International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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This book explores the philosophical, and in particular ethical, issues concerning the conceptualization, design and implementation of poverty alleviation measures from the local to the global level. It connects these topics with the ongoing debates on social and global...
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Springer
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2016-09-23
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‘Jürgen Habermas’, wrote the American philosopher Ronald Dworkin on the occasion of the great European thinker’s eightieth birthday, ‘is not only the world’s most famous living philosopher. Even his fame is famous.’ Now, after many years of intensive research and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2016-09-22
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Applied philosophy has been a growing area of research for the last 40 years. Until now, however, almost all of this research has been centered around the field of ethics. A Companion toApplied Philosophy breaks new ground, demonstrating that all areasof philosophy,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-09-19
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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This book offers a comprehensive primer for the study of intensionality. It explores and assesses those key theories of intensionality which have been developed in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Each of the examined theories is tested as to...
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Springer
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2016-09-16
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Lars Jaeger begibt sich in diesem Buch auf eine spannende Spurensuche nach der Verbindung zweier scheinbar konträrer Weltzugänge – und die Ergebnisse sind eindrucksvoll: Naturwissenschaft und spirituelle Denktraditionen kennen weit mehr Gemeinsamkeiten, als ihre...
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Springer
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2016-09-13
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This book consolidates and extends the authors’ work on the connection between iconicity and abductive inference. It emphasizes a pragmatic, experimental and fallibilist view of knowledge without sacrificing formal rigor. Within this context, the book focuses...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-09-13
Collection :
Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
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Is contemporary continental philosophy making a break with Kant? The structures of knowledge, taken for granted since Kant?s Critique of Pure Reason, are now being called into question: the finitude of the subject, the phenomenal given, a priori synthesis. Relinquish...
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Polity
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2016-09-13
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What do you find more trustworthy, experts or numbers, personal ?know-how? or ?objective facts?? Can science claim special authority based on the objectivity of its methods? Are our ethical decisions always better when we strive to be impartial and unbiased? Why should...
Editeur :
Polity
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2016-09-12
Collection :
Key Concepts in Philosophy
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For the first time in English, this anthology offers a comprehensive selection of primary sources in the history of philosophy of language. Beginning with a detailed introduction contextualizing the subject, the editors draw out recurring themes, including the origin of...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-09-08
Collection :
Springer Graduate Texts in Philosophy
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Science and Christianity is an accessible, engaging introduction to topics at the intersection of science and Christian theology. A philosophically orientated treatment that introduces the relationship of science to Christianity and explores to what extent the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-09-08
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"Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony" so wrote Kierkegaard. While we commonly think of irony as a figure of speech where someone says one thing and means the opposite, the concept of irony has long played a...
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Polity
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2016-09-07
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Catastrophic events like the bombing of Hiroshima, Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans, and drone strikes periodically achieve renewed political significance as subsequent developments summon them back to public awareness. But why and how do different...
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Polity
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2016-09-06
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This book provides a detailed commentary on the classic monograph by Alfred Tarski, and offers a reinterpretation and retranslation of the work using the original Polish text and the English and German translations. In the original work, Tarski presents a method for...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-09-02
Collection :
Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
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While economic and other social science expertise is indispensable for successful public policy-making regarding global climate change, social scientists face trade-offs between the scientific credibility, policy-relevance, and legitimacy of their policy advice. From a...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-09-01
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Why was (and is) Aristotle «right» and why are we «wrong»? In other words, why are Aristotle’s philosophical reflections on man and the world full, real, and convincing and why is so much of our modern philosophy partial and false? This work offers a detailed assessment...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-08-31
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