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This volume collects 22 essays on the history of logic written by outstanding specialists in the field. The book was originally prompted by the 2018-2019 celebrations in honor of Massimo Mugnai, a world-renowned historian of logic, whose contributions on Medieval and...
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Springer
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2022-07-04
Collection :
Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
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Three years after the political novice Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to Ukraine’s highest office, he found himself catapulted into the role of war-time leader. The former comedian has become the public face of his country’s courageous and bloody struggle against a...
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Polity
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2022-07-04
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This open access book provides the first explicit case study for an application of the method of reflective equilibrium (RE), using it to develop and defend a precautionary principle. It thereby makes an important and original contribution to questions of philosophical...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-07-01
Collection :
Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning
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The present book contextualizes Du Châtelet’s contribution to the philosophy of her time.The editor offers this tribute to an Époque Émiliennee as a collection of innovative papers on Emilie Du Châtelet’s powerful philosophy and legacy.Du Châtelet was an outstanding...
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Springer
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2022-07-01
Collection :
Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences
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This book explores a large variety of topics involved in Arabic philosophy. It examines concepts and issues relating to logic and mathematics, as well as metaphysics, ethics and aesthetics. These topics are all studied by different Arabic philosophers and scientists...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-06-27
Collection :
Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning
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The clitoris was absent in anatomy books, in paintings and sculptures, absent in spirit and even body; it has long been the organ of erased pleasure. We assume that this oversight has been repaired in our times: today, the clitoris is not forgotten but honoured....
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Polity
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2022-06-24
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Die jüngste Vergangenheit führte vor Augen, in welchem Ausmaß Gesetze, Verordnungen und Erlässe die persönliche Freiheit jedes Bürgers eines Staates einschränken können. Der vorliegende Band geht der Frage nach, ob das positive, gesetzte Recht unhinterfragt zu...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-06-21
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This book is devoted to the last part of Aristotle’s collection of short treatises known today as the Parva Naturalia, i.e. the treatise On Youth and Old Age, on Life and Death, on Respiration. In the three main sections of the book, the author offers a...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-06-21
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This book presents Latin American Perspectives on women philosophers, comprising selected articles from the First International Conference of Women in Modern Philosophy that took place in Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil, Latin America, in June of 2019. The conference...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-06-21
Collection :
Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences
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From the first awakening of his philosophical consciousness to his last philosophicalwork, Max Scheler pondered questions about the human being. He thought that theanthropological question provides unity to all philosophical inquiry. Scheler’s thoughthas not received...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-06-17
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The idea that diverse cultural and ethnic groups should co-exist within a country and that assimilation should not be forced upon immigrant groups – “multiculturalism” – was orthodoxy 20 years ago. Today it’s coming under pressure. In this introduction to the political...
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Polity
Parution :
2022-06-16
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As the environmental crisis accelerates, we can easily feel overwhelmed, but our feeling of powerlessness is partly due to a misunderstanding of the natural world. We tend to think of nature as a cathedral on fire, like Notre Dame engulfed in flames. But the living...
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Polity
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2022-06-15
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This monograph shows that, through a recourse to the concepts and methods of abstract algebraic logic, the algebraic theory of regular varieties and the concept of analyticity in formal logic can profitably interact. By extending the technique of Plonka sums from...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-06-09
Collection :
Trends in Logic
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This book offers a unique perspective on one of the deepest questions about the world we live in: is reality multi-leveled, or can everything be reduced to some fundamental ‘flat’ level?
This deep philosophical issue has widespread implications in...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-06-08
Collection :
Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science
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When we imagine the polar regions, we see a largely lifeless world covered in snow and ice where icebergs drift listlessly through frozen waters, like solitary wanderers of the oceans floating aimlessly in total silence. But nothing could be further from the truth. This...
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Polity
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2022-06-08
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This edited collection marks a new wave of international and philosophical scholarship on “the heart”- that rich dimension of our emotional being in the world. This text addresses the relation between feeling and knowing and investigates whether or not the heart...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-06-06
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This book discusses the philosophy of place and the implications for understanding ourselves authentically. It sets out to investigate this by providing a review of the phenomenological and humanistic views of place as background reading for the chapters that follow....
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-05-31
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In this highly-interdisciplinary volume, we systematically study the role of metaphors and analogies in (mis)shaping our understanding of the world. Metaphors and Analogies occupy a prominent place in scientific discourses, as they do in literature, humanities and at...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-05-30
Collection :
Synthese Library
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This book investigates how we are involved in politically informed structures and how they appear to us. Following different approaches in contemporary aesthetics and cultural philosophy, such as everyday aesthetics, atmosphere and aestheticization, the contributions...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-05-28
Collection :
UNIPA Springer Series
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