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This book illustrates the program of Logical-Informational Dynamics. Rational agents exploit the information available in the world in delicate ways, adopt a wide range of epistemic attitudes, and in that process, constantly change the world itself....
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Springer
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2014-08-27
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Outstanding Contributions to Logic
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Ist es nicht verwunderlich, mit welcher Präzision der Kalte Krieg an der Ukrainekrise wieder aufbricht? Die alten, eingeübten, systemischen, konfrontativen Denk- und Handlungsmuster sind nicht überwunden, sondern scheinbar nur zurückgedrängt worden. Wenn Verstehen und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-08-27
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In most academic and non-academic circles throughout history, the world and its operation have been viewed in terms of cause and effect. The principles of causation have been applied, fruitfully, across the sciences, law, medicine, and in everyday life, despite the lack...
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Polity
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2014-08-26
Collection :
Key Concepts in Philosophy
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This highly regarded volume features a modern translation of all ten books of The Republic along with a synoptic table of contents, a prefatory essay, and an appendix on The Spindle of Necessity by the translator and editor, Raymond Larson. Also included are an...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2014-08-26
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Crofts Classics
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Regardless of who you are or how you live your life, you disagree with millions of people on an enormous number of topics from politics, religion and morality to sport, culture and art. Unless you are delusional, you are aware that a great many of the people who...
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Polity
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2014-08-25
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Key Concepts in Philosophy
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The deep economic crisis that Europe has been facing for several years can be seen as both a cause and a consequence of the political indecision with which the European Community or European Union has been living for so long now.The end-goal of this unique political...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2014-08-20
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Dialogic Materialism: Bakhtin, Embodiment and Moving Image Art argues for the relevance of Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of dialogism as a means of examining the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary moving image art forms. The volume comprises six chapters divided into...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-08-20
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?This book takes a theoretical enterprise in Christian philosophy of religion and applies it to Buddhism, thus defending Buddhism and presenting it favorably in comparison. Chapters explore how the claims of both Christianity and Theravada Buddhism rest on people’s...
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Springer
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2014-08-18
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SpringerBriefs in Religious Studies
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This book addresses five main topics of metaphysics in its first section: formal objects and truth-makers; tropes; properties and predicates; varieties of relations; and the notion of explanation in metaphysics. The second part of this volume focuses on the history of...
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Springer
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2014-08-13
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What do we know about Hegel?What do we know about Marx?What do we know about democracy and totalitarianism? Communism and psychoanalysis?What do we know that isn't a platitude that we've heard a thousand times - or a self-satisfied certainty? Through his brilliant...
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Polity
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2014-08-12
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Mit diesem letzten Band des Systems der Philosophie erreichen wir den Abschluss des systematischen Gedankengangs, der uns zum vertieften Verständnis des Wesens der Philosophie führt. Dieser Abschluss ist jedoch kein Schlusspunkt; er soll uns zurück zum Ansatzpunkt der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-07
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This book contains a selection of the papers presented at the Logic, Reasoning and Rationality 2010 conference (LRR10) in Ghent. The conference aimed at stimulating the use of formal frameworks to explicate concrete cases of human reasoning, and conversely, to challenge...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-08-06
Collection :
Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning
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There are three themed parts to this book: values, ethics and emotions in the first part, epistemology, perception and consciousness in the second part and philosophy of mind and philosophy of language in the third part. Papers in this volume provide links between...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-08-06
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The contributions, composed in this volume, are inspired not only by the necessity but also by the potentialities of a process which continues and deepens cross-cultural understanding, especially between Islamic and Western philosophy. Following the tradition of an...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-08-06
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Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue
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This volume is a collection of essays that presents both theory- and practice-based approaches to questions concerning the embodiment of sense. Exploring the opening of meaning in sensible configurations, the texts also address the medial structures – at once aesthetic,...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-06
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Do demons and devils have free will? Does justice exist in Menzoberranzan? What’s the morality involved with player characters casting necromancy and summoning spells? Dungeons & Dragons and Philosophy probes the rich terrain of philosophically compelling concepts and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-08-05
Collection :
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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Im Hinblick auf seine Rezeption ist Oswald Spengler nicht nur ein deutsches oder gar ein europäisches, sondern auch geradezu ein Weltphänomen. Spenglers Werk dient vielen als Bezugsgröße für die Analyse der heutigen geistigen und politischen Situation in Europa und in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-25
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Written by Robert Wicks, a recognised Kant specialist who teaches at the University of Auckland, Kant: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident...
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Teach Yourself
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2014-07-25
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This book provides new insights into the negotiation and management of diversity in complex democratic settings. Much debate has been generated recently over questions of human rights and dignity with the aim of empowering and improving the recognition of smaller...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2014-07-25
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This volume explores Husserl’s theory of sensibility and his conceptualization of spatial and temporal constitution. The author maps the linkages between Husserl’s ‘transcendental aesthetic’, the theory of pure experience in empirio-criticism, as well as Immanuel Kant’s...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-07-22
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