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This book deals with the philosophy of Daya Krishna, an Indian philosopher of the twentieth century. It discusses the central issues in Daya Krishna’s early philosophy as a synthesis of the Indian and Western philosophical methods. It presents problems of the past and...
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Springer
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2021-05-11
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This book proposes a novel position in the debate on scientific realism: Modal Empiricism. Modal empiricism is the view that the aim of science is to provide theories that correctly delimit, in a unified way, the range of experiences that are naturally possible given...
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Springer
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2021-05-07
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At first glance, Theodor W. Adorno’s critical social theory and Gershom Scholem’s scholarship of Jewish mysticism could not seem farther removed from one another. To begin with, they also harbored a mutual hostility. But their first conversations in 1938 New York were...
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Polity
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2021-05-06
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A milestone in the study of value in human life and thought, written by one of the world’s preeminent living philosophers The Moral Powers:A Study of Human Nature is a philosophical investigation of the moral potentialities and sensibilities of human beings, of the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-04-30
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Are we rational creatures? Do we have free will? Can we ever know ourselves? These and other fundamental questions have been discussed by philosophers over millennia. But recent empirical findings in psychology and neuroscience suggest we should reconsider them. This...
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Polity
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2021-04-28
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This book starts with the classification of the main views of different thinkers after the study of the original materials, which covers all the thinkers’ thoughts and conceptions. A major objective of this book is to reveal the ideas of...
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Springer
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2021-04-26
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A year after the end of the Second World War, the first International Summer Course for New Music took place in the Kranichstein Hunting Lodge, near the city of Darmstadt in Germany. The course, commonly referred to later as the Darmstadt course, was intended to...
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Polity
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2021-04-26
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What is knowledge? Why is it valuable? How much of it do we have (if any at all), and what ways of thinking are good ways to use to get more of it? These are just a few questions that are asked in epistemology, roughly, the philosophical theory of knowledge. This is...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-04-20
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This is Philosophy
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The contents of this book deliberate on the questions related to the function of art and to aesthetics as they exist in the context of the most salient philosophical and cultural late modernist tendencies.The book extracts cornerstone elements of the ever-changing ways...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-04-19
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This book traces the origins and evolution of cybersemiotics, beginning with the integration of semiotics into the theoretical framework of cybernetics and information theory. The book opens with chapters that situate the roots of cybersemiotics in Peircean semiotics,...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-04-14
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Immanuel Kants three critiques the Critique of Pure Reason, the Critique of Practical Reason and the Critique of Judgment are among the pinnacles of Western Philosophy. This accessible study grounds Kants philosophical position in the context of his intellectual...
Editeur :
Polity
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2021-04-14
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Classic Thinkers
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The book is an exploration of the affinities between Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics and Virginia Woolf’s philosophy of beauty and Being embodied in her oeuvre.The study addresses beauty as a mode of being rather than a mere adornment of human existence....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-04-13
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We all have minds, but what exactly is a mind? Is your mind the same thing as your brain? How does what’s happening in your mind cause your behaviour? Can you know what’s going on in other people’s minds? Can you even be sure what’s going on in your own? Are babies...
Editeur :
Polity
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2021-04-13
Collection :
What is Philosophy?
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Thomas Chalmers was arguably the most popular Scot and influential churchman of his age. However, when he was first educated, ordained, installed, and serving as a parish minister in the Church of Scotland, he was by his own admission not yet a converted Christian. How...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-04-05
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This book takes the reader on a philosophical quest to understand the dark side of emotions. The chapters are devoted to the analysis of negative emotions and are organized in a historical manner, spanning the period from ancient Greece to the present time. Each chapter...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-04-02
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Philosophy takes us by surprise. It challenges us, awakens us and opens our minds.In an increasingly opinionated world, philosophy encourages us to look within and think for ourselves. In doing so, we can find solutions to even our most confusing dilemmas.Let Fabrice...
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Orion Spring
Parution :
2021-04-01
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An unparalleled collection of original essays on Benedict de Spinoza's contributions to philosophy and his enduring legacy A Companion to Spinoza presents a panoramic view of contemporary Spinoza studies in Europe and across the Anglo-American world. Designed to...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-04-01
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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This landmark collection marks the publication of the 100th book in the Reimagining Ireland series. It attempts to provide a «forward look» (as opposed to what Frank O’Connor once referred to as the « backward look») at what Irish Studies might look like in the third...
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NBN International
Parution :
2021-03-31
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This book examines the controversial and repercussive contention that an objective of the law should be to promote personal morality - to make people ethically better. It surveys a number of domains, including criminal law, tort law, contract law, family law, and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-03-30
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Law
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This contributed volume explores the ways logical skills have been perceived over the course of history. The authors approach the topic from the lenses of philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and history to examine two opposing perceptions of logic: the first as an...
Editeur :
Birkhäuser
Parution :
2021-03-30
Collection :
Studies in Universal Logic
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