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What shape can radical politics take today in a time abandoned by the great revolutionary projects of the past? In light of recent uprisings around the world against the neoliberal capitalist order, Saul Newman argues that anarchism - or as he calls it postanarchism -...
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Polity
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2015-12-01
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Die Wissenschaftsphilosophie des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts ist reichhaltiger und differenzierter in ihren Standpunkten als lange vermutet.Die Autoren zeigen das anhand der nur teilweise erforschten Interaktion zwischen den Wissenschaftsphilosophen des deutschen und...
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Springer
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2015-11-24
Collection :
Veröffentlichungen des Instituts Wiener Kreis
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Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit den Fragen, was die Diskursethik von anderen ethischen Theorien unterscheidet und was sie so faszinierend und umstritten macht. Die Antwort darauf ist ein besonderer Widerspruchsbegriff – der performative Widerspruch –, welcher auf einer...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-11-20
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The authors trace the essential aspects of the evolution of critical theory from its classics Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno to its leading second- and third generation propagators Jürgen Habermas and Axel Honneth. They defend the thesis about the «meandering»,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-11-20
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This book examines how epistemology was reinvented by Ibn Sina, an influential philosopher-scientist of the classical Islamic world who was known to the West by the Latinised name Avicenna. It explains his theory of knowledge in which intentionality acts as an...
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Springer
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2015-11-18
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The Philosophy of Design is an introduction to the fundamental philosophical issues raised by the contemporary practice of design.The first book to systematically examine design from the perspective of contemporary philosophy, it offers a broad perspective, ranging...
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Polity
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2015-11-18
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This book paints a flowing picture of the relationship beween life and nature, through the evolution of a word – physiology. Today, it denotes a scientific discipline at the intersection of biology and medicine, signifying the «study of life». Yet, physiology manifests...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-13
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This volume explores the work and thought of Edith Stein (1891–1942). It discusses in detail, and from new perspectives, the traditional areas of her thinking, including her ideas about women/feminism, theology, and metaphysics. In addition, it introduces readers to new...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-11-11
Collection :
Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life
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Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) is widely recognized as one of the greatest scientific thinkers in history. Intriguingly, when offered a place in the Medici court in 1610, he requested the title of «Philosopher and Chief Mathematician.» Reading Nature’s Book:Galileo and the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-11-03
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Was können Rechtsvergleich und Rechtsgeschichte leisten? Der Autor beantwortet diese Frage mit Blick auf die Gesetzgebungslehre des deutschen Juristen und Philosophen Christian Thomasius (1655–1728). Er weist nach, dass dessen Gesetzgebungslehre sich im Bereich des...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-11-03
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In this work, leading contemporary philosophers discuss key facets of the human person from a variety of perspectives in Christian thought. This closely woven volume includes chapters by Nicholas Wolterstorff on the distinction between humans and other animals; Robert...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-11-03
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When a doctor tells you there?s a one percent chance that an operation will result in your death, or a scientist claims that his theory is probably true, what exactly does that mean? Understanding probability is clearly very important, if we are to make good theoretical...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-10-30
Collection :
Key Concepts in Philosophy
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This volume is the first ever collection devoted to the field of proof-theoretic semantics. Contributions address topics including the systematics of introduction and elimination rules and proofs of normalization, the categorial characterization of deductions, the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-10-24
Collection :
Trends in Logic
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The author extensively details, analyses and compares key concepts and strategies of fictional worlds theory: a theory which has, over recent years, developed rather rapidly and is connected with leading scholars in the area of literary studies, such as Lubomír Doležel,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-10-23
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The first time that Nietzsche crossed the path of Dostoevsky was in the winter of 1886–87. While in Nice, Nietzsche discovered in a bookshop the volume L’esprit souterrain. Two years later, he defined Dostoevsky as the only psychologist from whom he had anything to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-10-23
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This book is about the epistemological views and arguments of the early Stoics. It discusses such questions as: How is knowledge possible, and what is it? How do we perceive things and acquire notions of them? Should we rely on arguments? How do we come to make so many...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-10-22
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This book challenges common debates in philosophy of mind by questioning the framework of placement problems in contemporary metaphysics. The author argues that placement problems arise when exactly one fundamental ontology serves as the base for all entities, and will...
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Springer
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2015-10-22
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In this volume, the author investigates and argues for, a particular answer to the question: What is the right way to logically analyze modalities from natural language within formal languages? The answer is: by formalizing modal expressions in terms of predicates. But,...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-10-20
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This volume brings together a set of critical essays on the thought of Professor Doctor H. Tristram Engelhardt Junior, Co-Founding Editor of the Philosophy and Medicine book series. Amongst the founders of bioethics, Professor Engelhardt, Jr. looms large. Many of his...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-10-20
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The book illustrates that the traditional philosophical concept of the "Universe”, the "World” has led to anomalies and paradoxes in the realm of knowledge.The author replaces this notion by the EDWs perspective, i.e. a new axiomatic hyperontological framework of...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-10-19
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