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The concept of personhood becomes increasingly controversial in modern legal debates.The advancements in the contemporary science and technology entail the need for reconsideration of who should count as a person in law and why. Animals, cyborgs, artificial agents and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-12
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This book is a philosophical introduction to the field of communication and media studies. In search of the philosophical backgrounds of that relatively young field, the book explores why this overwhelmingly popular discipline is in crisis. The book discusses classic...
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Springer
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2016-02-09
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The present book discusses all aspects of paraconsistent logic, including the latest findings, and its various systems. It includes papers by leading international researchers, which address the subject in many different ways: development of abstract paraconsistent...
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Springer
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2016-02-08
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Until recently, "continental" philosophy has been tied either to the German tradition of phenomenology or to French post-structuralist concerns with the conditions of language and textuality. Giorgio Agamben draws upon and departs from both these lines of thought by...
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Polity
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2016-02-04
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Key Contemporary Thinkers
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The essays in this book respond to Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s recent call to explore the relationship between the evolution of the universe and the process of self-individuation in the ontopoietic unfolding of life.The essays approach the sensory manifold in a number of...
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Springer
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2016-02-03
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In this book Yoram Lubling and Eric Evans offer a Deweyan reconstruction of our philosophical understanding of well-being. They begin with Dewey’s critique of the «philosophical fallacy» to examine the legitimacy and value of theories of well-being offered by...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-01-29
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The fall of the Berlin wall was seen by many as the final triumph of liberal democracy over communism. But now, in the wake of the great financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath, things look a little different. New questions are arising about capitalism and democracy,...
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Polity
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2016-01-27
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Reunites the editors of Star Trek and Philosophy with Starfleet’s finest experts for 31 new, highly logical essays Features a complete examination of the Star Trek universe, from the original series to the most recent films directed by J.J. Abrams, Star Trek (2009) and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-01-27
Collection :
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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The author offers a new look at one of the most influential books in the history of philosophy: Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. He presents the Tractatus as expressing the intellectual anxieties of its modernist epoch.The most intriguing but...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-01-22
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This volume discusses some crucial ideas of the founders of the analytic philosophy: Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein, or the ‘golden trio’. The book shows how these ‘old’ ideas are still present and influential in the current philosophical...
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Springer
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2016-01-21
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Most people would agree that a small child, or a cognitively impaired adult, is less responsible for their actions, good or bad, than an unimpaired adult. But how do we explain that difference, and how far can anyone be praised or blamed for what they have done? In...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-01-21
Collection :
Key Concepts in Philosophy
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Thinking Philosophically: An Introduction to the Great Debates presents a highly accessible introduction to five of the most fundamental debates in world philosophy. Introduces five fundamental philosophical debates in a highly engaging and accessible manner that...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-01-20
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"Die Geschichte der Philosophie für Dummies" erklärt anschaulich und humorvoll, was kluge Männer wie Platon, Kant oder Heidegger, aber auch viele weniger bekannte Philosophen erdacht haben. Das Buch geht chronologisch vor und stellt dabei philosophische Theorien der...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2016-01-20
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Für Dummies
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This book examines the various encounters between Jean-Luc
Marion and Jacques Derrida on “the gift,” considers their many differences on
“desire,” and demonstrates how these topics hold the keys to some of
phenomenology’s most pressing structural questions,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-01-13
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This book unifies a large part of the vast body of Husserlian phenomenology using a relatively simple set of dynamical laws. The underlying idea of the book is that a certain core theory of “world-constitution” in Husserl can be formalized and presented in less than 100...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-01-12
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This book explores how the weather and city-form impact the mind, and how city-form and mind interact. It builds on Merleau-Ponty’s contention that mind, the human body and the environment are intertwined in a singular composite, and on Walter Benjamin’s suggestion that...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-01-12
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It is often argued that contemporary media homogenize our thoughts and actions, without us being fully aware of the restrictions they impose. But what if the problem is not that we are all synchronized to the same motions or moments, but rather dispersed into countless...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-01-11
Collection :
Theory Redux
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In this ground-breaking new text, Patrick Baert analyses the central perspectives in the philosophy of social science, critically investigating the work of Durkheim, Weber, Popper, critical realism, critical theory, and Rorty's neo pragmatism. Places key writers in...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-01-08
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Michel Foucault's death in 1984 coincided with the fading away of the hopes for social transformation that characterized the postwar period. In the decades following his death, neoliberalism has triumphed and attacks on social rights have become increasingly bold. If...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-01-06
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This book provides an overview of key features of (philosophical) materialism, in historical perspective. It is, thus, a study in the history and philosophy of materialism, with a particular focus on the early modern and Enlightenment periods, leading into the 19th and...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-01-06
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