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Many people spend considerable time seeking a sense of purpose in life and, concomitant with that, a sense of personal identity. This book demystifies this search, revealing why this search is a fallacy. The purpose is to inform readers about results in neuroscience and...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-08-25
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The main themes and aims of this book are understanding aesthetics, contemporary art and the end of the avant-garde not from the traditional viewpoint of the metaphysics of the beautiful and the sublime but rather thru close connection to the techno-genesis of...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-08-25
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Reality exists independently of human observers, but does the same apply to its structure? Realist ontologies usually assume so: according to them, the world consists of objects, these have properties and enter into relations with each other, more or less as we are...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-08-20
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This new book by the Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito addresses the profound crisis of contemporary politics and examines some of the philosophical approaches that have been used to try to understand and go beyond this crisis. Two approaches have been particularly...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-08-20
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If we didn't possess certain beliefs about such things as time, appearance and reality, and how effect follows cause, we wouldn't be able to get out of bed in the morning, let alone read a book about metaphysics, which is the study of our experience and those ideas, or...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-08-20
Collection :
What is Philosophy?
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Cognition is a paradoxical process, from the moment of the formation of human subjectivity, through its relationship with the Other (or more precisely: l'autre) and with the world, to the ontological status of the world as such. This is what this book has at stake.
The...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-08-17
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A fascinating exploration into the 125 most important milestones in philosophy, all in one handy book perfect for keeping on your bedside table or carrying wherever you go. Now is the perfect time to expand your knowledge and learn something new or delve deeper into a...
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Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2021-08-03
Collection :
Bedside Books
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This book offers new essays exploring concepts and applications of nonideal theory in bioethics. Nonideal theory refers to an analytic approach to moral and political philosophy (especially in relation to justice), according to which we should not assume that there will...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-08-03
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This book is a collection of contributions honouring Arnon Avron’s seminal work on the semantics and proof theory of non-classical logics. It includes presentations of advanced work by some of the most esteemed scholars working on semantic and proof-theoretical aspects...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-07-30
Collection :
Outstanding Contributions to Logic
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The subject of power (singular) and multiple social powers (plural) is unquestionably central to contemporary societies all over the globe. Growing stronger and expanding farther all the time, the world’s anti-systemic movements have been forced to address this...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-07-27
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This book illustrates the potential for computer simulation in the study of modern slavery and worker abuse, and by extension in all social issues. It lays out a philosophy of how agent-based modelling can be used in the social sciences. In addressing modern slavery,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-07-22
Collection :
Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research
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This monograph presents new material on Francisco Suárez’s comprehensive theory of sense perception. The core theme is perceptual intentionality in Suárez’s theory of the senses, external and internal, as presented in his Commentaria una cum quaestionibus in libros...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-07-20
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Conservatism is often labelled as a ‘disposition’, ‘tradition’, or even a set of knee-jerk reactions, rather than an ideology, and its suspicion of grand theorising has lent itself to this characterization. In this book, leading political theorist Edmund Neill...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-07-20
Collection :
Key Concepts in Political Theory
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Interkulturalität ist in sämtlichen Bereichen des alltäglichen Lebens zu einem Merkmal unserer Zeit geworden. Mit den sich hieraus ergebenden Herausforderungen sieht sich auch die deutsche Justiz zunehmend konfrontiert. Am Beispiel des Strafrechts gibt dieser Band...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-07-16
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This volume comprises the lecture course that Heidegger gave in 1941 on the metaphysics of German Idealism. The first part of the lecture course contains a preliminary consideration of the distinction between ground and existence. The elucidation of the conceptual...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-07-16
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Edizione Premium con il commento di Prof. Teodoro Pertusati"perché ogni pena non sia una violenza di uno o di molti contro un privato cittadino, dev'essere essenzialmente pubblica, pronta, necessaria, la minima delle possibili nelle date circostanze, proporzionata a'...
Editeur :
Alicia Éditions
Parution :
2021-07-12
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This book provides a collection of essays representing the state of the art in the research into argumentation in classical antiquity. It contains essays from leading and up and coming scholars on figures as diverse as Parmenides, Gorgias, Seneca, and Classical...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-07-12
Collection :
Argumentation Library
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This volume collects chapters dedicated to finding affinities and disagreements between Marx and Wittgenstein. It aims at integrating different ways to address Marx(ism) and Wittgenstein from multiple philosophical vantage points and from their philosophical attitude...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-07-12
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The philosophy of Paul Ricoeur is rarely viewed through the lens of political philosophy, and yet questions of power, and of how to live together in the polis, were a constant preoccupation of his writings. This volume brings together a selection of his texts spanning...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-07-09
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This book brings together philosophical, social-theoretical and empirically oriented contributions on the philosophical and socio-theoretical debate on migration and integration, using the instruments of recognition as a normative and social-scientific category....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-07-07
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