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THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON THAT HAS TOUCHEDTHE HEARTS OF OVER 9 MILLION READERS'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecelia Ahern__________Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague? Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were...
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Sphere
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2009-06-11
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As heard on Radio 4's Free ThinkingThe first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth century thought. At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson became the most famous philosopher...
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Basic Books
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2024-10-24
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What is at stake in that form of inquiry that the western philosophical tradition has called “first philosophy” or “metaphysics”? Is it an abstract, now outmoded branch of philosophy, or does it address a problem that is still of great interest – namely the unity of...
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Polity
Parution :
2024-04-08
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A lively and engaging debate between four representative views on free will, completely revised and updated with new perspectives Four Views on Free Will is a robust and careful debate about free will, how it interacts with determinism and indeterminism, and whether we...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-01-17
Collection :
Great Debates in Philosophy
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This book aims to encourage the reading of "On the Origin of Species" and to include it in the teaching of evolution. With a comprehensive overview of the development of Darwin's theory, the volume provides relevant aspects of Darwin's life and work in connection with...
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Springer
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2023-10-10
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Provides a comprehensive, cutting-edge, and accessible accompaniment to various narratives about free will A Companion to Free Will is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the philosophy of free will, offering an authoritative survey of perennial issues...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-06-13
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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This book offers a detailed defense of a metaphysics of Platonic universals and a conception of particular objects that is coherent with said metaphysics. The work discusses all the main alternatives in metaphysics of properties and tries to show why...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-10-27
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Synthese Library
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Metaphysics—the philosophical study of the nature of reality—is a dynamic sub-field which encompasses many of the most fundamental and elusive questions in contemporary analytic philosophy. A concise and focused introduction to contemporary metaphysics, This is...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-05-07
Collection :
This is Philosophy
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From its carnival origins to its current status as a global phenomenon, pro wrestling has a unique presence in popular culture. Part sport and part theatre, the impressive antics of its larger-than-life characters have captured the imaginations of generations of fans,...
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Polity
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2020-05-07
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Die «Schlusslogische Letztbegründung» sucht Antwort auf die Frage: Wie ist Philosophie als Wissenschaft möglich? Sie führt damit das Projekt einer ontologisch relevanten Logik fort, das seit der Antike im Zentrum der Geschichte des Idealismus und der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-04-03
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The triumph of technological rationality and of the sciences as a whole has by no means provided answers to humanity’s great questions. Instead, it has raised new and old questions and problems. To orient ourselves in the twenty-first century, we must take a new look at...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-11-11
Collection :
Theory Redux
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This massive book is an intensive inquest into the fate of the human subject as it passes through the primitive, despotic, passional and capitalist regimes found in Deleuze and Guattari. Emphatic, acerbic, loquacious, impassioned, and marshaling a considerable array of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-04-15
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This book explores persistence, taking human beings as an example case. It investigates how concrete particulars stay the same during their temporal carriers while changing significantly. Themes of relativity, structural realism, 4-dimensional ontologies and different...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-10-19
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This monograph presents Azzouni’s new approach to the rule-following paradox. His solution leaves intact an isolated individual’s capacity to follow rules, and it simultaneously avoids replacing the truth conditions for meaning-talk with mere assertability conditions...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-03-08
Collection :
Synthese Library
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The Atlas of REALITYThe Atlas of Reality: A Comprehensive Guide to Metaphysics presents an extensive examination of the key concepts, principles, and arguments of metaphysics, traditionally the very core of philosophical thought. Representing the first exhaustive survey...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-02-14
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This collection highlights the new trend away from rationalism and toward empiricism in the epistemology of modality. Accordingly, the book represents a wide range of positions on the empirical sources of modal knowledge. Readers will find an introduction that surveys...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-11-09
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Synthese Library
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This book articulates the theoretical outlines of a feminism developed from Aristotle’s metaphysics, making a new contribution to feminist theory. Readers will discover why Aristotle was not a feminist and how he might have become one, through an investigation of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-08-01
Collection :
Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action
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Metaphysical theories are beautiful. At the end of this book, Jiri Benovsky defends the view that metaphysical theories possess aesthetic properties and that these play a crucial role when it comes to theory evaluation and theory choice.Before we get there, the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-03-22
Collection :
Synthese Library
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The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism provides a systematic introduction to philosophical naturalism and its relation to other schools of thought. Features contributions from an international array of established and emerging scholars from across the humanities...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-12-23
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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In this new collection of recent essays, Habermas takes up and pursues the line of analysis begun in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. He begins by outlining the sources and central themes of twentieth-century philosophy, and the range of current debates. He...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-10-07
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