| |
A COMPANION TO KIERKEGAARD “‘Companions’ to important thinkers help readers focus on the main drift of their texts with the help of a dig into their origin and some account of their reception. This one digs deeper, and over a wider terrain, than most. But it does more....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-07-21
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
PDF, ePub
|
This book presents a solution to the problem known in philosophical aesthetics as the paradox of ugliness, namely, how an object that is displeasing can retain our attention and be greatly appreciated. It does this by exploring and refining the most sophisticated and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-15
Collection :
Studies in German Idealism
PDF, ePub
|
This book explores the thought of Alexius Meinong, a philosopher known for his unconventional theory of reference and predication. The chapters cover a natural progression of topics, beginning with the origins of Gegenstandstheorie, Meinong’s theory of objects, and his...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-13
PDF, ePub
|
PresentationHow to establish a lasting peace.In the history of mankind, it is very difficult to find periods in which there has been no war and despite the fact that it cannot be denied that they desire peace. Yet there is no other way than to begin to establish peace...
Editeur :
Editions Prosveta
Parution :
2015-07-11
Collection :
Izvor (EN)
ePub
|
The author defends nonconceptualism, the claim that perceptual experience is nonconceptual and has nonconceptual content. Continuing the heated and complex debate surrounding this topic over the past two decades, she offers a sustained defense of a novel version of the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-06
PDF, ePub
|
Where do we come from? Are we merely a cluster of elementary particles in a gigantic world receptacle? And what does it all mean? In this highly original new book, the philosopher Markus Gabriel challenges our notion of what exists and what it means to exist. He...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-07-06
PDF, ePub
Offre spéciale
-21%
15,25€
|
This anthology is about the signal change in Leibniz’s metaphysics with his explicit adoption of substantial forms in 1678-79.This change can either be seen as a moment of discontinuity with his metaphysics of maturity or as a moment of continuity, such as a passage to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-01
Collection :
The New Synthese Historical Library
PDF, ePub
|
The emerging development of genetic enhancement technologies has recently become the focus of a public and philosophical debate between proponents and opponents of a liberal eugenics – that is, the use of these technologies without any overall direction or governmental...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2015-06-30
PDF, ePub
|
Das Buch stellt eine umfassende Philosophie der Askese dar und befasst sich mit dem Problem der Autoevolution des Menschen. Zugleich enthält es eine Philosophie der Stimmungen und Gefühle. Askese galt einst als Ausstiegsstrategie der Protestanten aus dem Katholizismus....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-26
PDF, ePub
|
Descartes gave the human intellect the central role in rationalism, his system therefore is a variant of intellectual rationalism. Other forms of rationalism had emerged in scholastic philosophy and the ancient philosophies of Plato and Aristotle. WhileDescartes had...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-26
PDF, ePub
|
Martin Heidegger is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth-century, and his seminal text Being and Time is considered one of the most significant texts in contemporary philosophy. Yet his name has also been mired in controversy...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-06-24
PDF, ePub
Offre spéciale
-60%
39,60€
|
?This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience and aesthetic objects. Written by leading philosophers, psychologists, literary scholars and semioticians, the book addresses two intertwined issues. The first is related to the phenomenology of aesthetic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-06-22
PDF, ePub
|
Emotion is at the centre of our personal and social lives. To love or to hate, to be frightened or grateful is not just a matter of how we feel on the inside: our emotional responses direct our thoughts and actions, unleash our imaginations, and structure our...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-06-18
Collection :
Key Concepts in Philosophy
ePub
|
The first-ever multivolume treatment of the issues in legal philosophy and general jurisprudence, from both a theoretical and a historical perspective.The work is aimed at jurists as well as legal and practical philosophers. Edited by the renowned theorist Enrico...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-06-18
PDF, ePub
|
This anthology of the very latest research on truth features the work of recognized luminaries in the field, put together following a rigorous refereeing process. Along with an introduction outlining the central issues in the field, it provides a unique and unrivaled...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-06-16
Collection :
Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
PDF, ePub
|
This book lies at the intersection of philosophy of mind and philosophy of religion and operates on the assumption that dialogue between the two disciplines can be fruitful. In particular it focuses on how debates in the philosophy of mind regarding the nature of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-06-15
PDF, ePub
|
Action theory is the object of growing attention in a variety of scientific disciplines and this is the first volume to offer a synthetic view of the range of approaches possible in the topic. The volume focuses on the nexus of formal action theory with a startlingly...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-06-10
PDF, ePub
|
Sander Wilkens widmet sich in umfassender Weise dem Sozialbewusstsein, welches die Neuzeit charakterisiert. Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts stehen sich zwei Richtungen diametral gegenüber: der Behaviorismus, der es in seiner Eigenständigkeit leugnet, und das...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-09
PDF, ePub
|
Over the past 25 years, Jürgen Habermas has presented what is arguably the most coherent and wide-ranging defence of the project of European unification and of parallel developments towards a politically integrated world society. In developing his key concepts of the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-06-04
PDF, ePub
Offre spéciale
-7%
21,60€
|
This work sets the stage regarding debates about paternalism and health care for years to come. The anthology is organized around four parts: i) The concept of paternalism and theoretical issues regarding the idea of anti-paternalism, ii) strategies for justifying...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-06-04
PDF, ePub
|