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The last decade has seen renewed interest in political theories of the public sphere, reacting to new challenges posed by globalization, communication technology, and intra- and international conflicts. However, the role of culture and aesthetics in the formation of the...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-08-31
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Doctor Who is one of television’s most enduring and ubiquitously popular series. This study contends that the success of the show lies in its ability, over more than half a century, to develop its core concepts and perspectives: alienation, scientific rationalism and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-08-31
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Contemporary China, in an era of globalization and in the midst of transition, now faces both great opportunities and unprecedented challenges. People are more and more becoming “economic man,” “technological man” and “one-dimensional man,” and are increasingly losing...
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Springer
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2015-08-25
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This book reassesses Gadamer’s hermeneutics by bringing it into a dialogue with John McDowell’s minimal empiricism. It employs the resources of McDowell’s minimal empiricism to address the transcendental and ontological presuppositions for objective experience and...
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Springer
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2015-08-21
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The concept of well-being plays a central role in moral and political theory. Policies and actions are justified or criticized on the grounds that they make people better or worse off. But is there really such a thing as well-being, and if so, what is it? Is it...
Editeur :
Polity
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2015-08-20
Collection :
Key Concepts in Philosophy
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Dieses Buch entfaltet, wie das „originäre Wie“ des Lebens als sein Sich-Selbst-Sagen durch sein Sich-Selbst-Erscheinen zu verstehen ist. Eine solche radikal phänomenologische Problematik wird dabei unter dem umfassenden Begriff der Narrativität subsumiert. Entsprechend...
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Springer
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2015-08-18
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Featuring significant revisions and updates, Classic Questions and Contemporary Film: An Introduction to Philosophy, 2nd Edition uses popular movies as a highly accessible framework for introducing key philosophical concepts Explores 28 films with 18 new to this...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-08-17
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This book discusses how China’s transformations in the last century have shaped its arts and its philosophical aesthetics. For instance, how have political, economic and cultural changes shaped its aesthetic developments? Further, how have its long-standing beliefs and...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-08-17
Collection :
Chinese Contemporary Art Series
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Incisive and engaging, The Free Market Existentialist proposes a new philosophy that is a synthesis of existentialism, amoralism, and libertarianism. Argues that Sartre’s existentialism fits better with capitalism than with Marxism Serves as a rallying cry for a new...
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Wiley
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2015-08-17
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Der Marburger Rechtsphilosoph Ernst Wolf (1914–2008), dessen rechtsontologischem Denken dieser Band gewidmet ist, ist in den 1950er Jahren von einer idealen Rechtsphilosophie zu seiner in eine reale Wissenschaftslehre eingebetteten Lehre von der Realität rechtlicher...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-14
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Does it take faith to be a Jedi? Are droids capable of thought? Should Jar Jar Binks be held responsible for the rise of the Empire? Presenting entirely new essays, no aspect of the myth and magic of George Lucas’s creation is left philosophically unexamined in The...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-08-14
Collection :
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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This book deals with foundational issues in Phenomenology as they arise in the smoldering but tense dispute between Husserl and Heidegger, which culminates in the late 1920s. The work focuses on three key issues around which a constellation of other important problems...
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Springer
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2015-08-13
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Presented as a Vorlesung in the German philosophical tradition, this book presents the most detailed account of Nelson’s method of argument analysis, celebrated by many luminaries such as Karl Popper. It was written in 1921 in opposition to the relativistic,...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-08-07
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This book analyzes the reasons for organ shortage and ventures innovative ideas for approaching this problem. It presents 29 contributions from a highly interdisciplinary group of world experts and upcoming professionals in the field. Every year thousands of patients...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-08-06
Collection :
International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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?This monograph poses a series of key problems of evidential reasoning and argumentation. It then offers solutions achieved by applying recently developed computational models of argumentation made available in artificial intelligence. Each problem is posed in such a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-08-04
Collection :
Law, Governance and Technology Series
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This volume is part of the series ‘Pragmatics, Philosophy and Psychology’, edited for Springer by Alessandro Capone. It is intended for an audience of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postgraduate and advanced researchers.This volume focuses on societal...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-31
Collection :
Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology
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Presupposing no familiarity with the technical concepts of either philosophy or computing, this clear introduction reviews the progress made in AI since the inception of the field in 1956. Copeland goes on to analyze what those working in AI must achieve before they can...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-07-29
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The book is not only dedicated to linguists, but also to readers who are not familiar with notations developed in linguistics.The first part of the study presents philosophical justifications for linguistic settlements. These are based on the phenomenological reduction...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-24
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This volume considers the computational complexity of determining whether a system of equations over a fixed algebra A has a solution. It examines in detail the two problems this leads to: SysTermSat(A) and SysPolSat(A), in which equations are built out of terms or...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-24
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