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In this book, Roberto Esposito continues his philosophical exploration of the relation between institutions and human life. Starting from the enigmatic Latin term vitam instituere, he charts its early emergence in modern philosophy and its development along a path that...
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Polity
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2025-09-04
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The earth is not a dead, mute landscape but an eloquent, living being. Sometimes it just takes a spade, a packet of seeds, and a pair of sturdy boots to realize it.The philosopher Byung-Chul Han spent three springs, summers, autumns, and winters in his secret garden in...
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Polity
Parution :
2025-09-03
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This book presents an argument for a new type of scientific realism beyond naturalism, correlationism and what the author terms 'objective realism'. To achieve this positive philosophical proposal, Jan Voosholz develops a thorough critique of current debates surrounding...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-30
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This volume offers a series of thought-provoking analyses that explore non-mainstream perspectives on knowledge acquisition and scientific discovery. A central theme across many of the contributions is the heuristic conception of method, a view that finds its...
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Springer
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2025-08-30
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Feminism has been defeated.Once a politics, feminism is now a philosophy, an epistemology, a method. Once for women, it is now for everyone. Once in pursuit of liberation, it now seeks only inclusion.In Feminism, Defeated, Kate Phelan traces the depoliticization and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-08-28
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This Brief focuses on Nietzsche’s aesthetics not merely as an artistic field but as a way of understanding life itself. Unlike his predecessors, Nietzsche rather saw aesthetics as a fundamental principle aim of human existence.This volume demonstrates how...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-28
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Thus far unpublished even in its original German, Lux intelligibilis. Investigation on the Metaphysics of Light of the Greeks, submitted by Werner Beierwaltes as a doctoral dissertation in 1957, is presented here for the first time in English...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-28
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With the growing use of AI and the introduction of large language models, such as ChatGPT, conversations about ethics have become commonplace. For many, this is the first time they have meaningfully considered the ethical and unethical use of technology in various...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-28
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Unlock the Secrets of Hyrule with the Power of Philosophy A groundbreaking and critically acclaimed masterpiece, The Legend of Zelda was released in Japan in 1986. That first entry spawned one of the greatest series in gaming history, leading up to Echoes of Wisdom in...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2025-08-26
Collection :
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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This book offers new insights into Hume’s problem of induction. In addition to that, it argues against the coherentist justification of induction, refuting Hume's initial problem of induction and develops counter-inductions to defend scientific realism from...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-25
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In the West today, suffering has become a new sacred cow. Once a common feature of the human condition, it is now a special trait you can use to impress your contemporaries. It provides you with a borrowed identity, transforming you into an exceptional being who can...
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Polity
Parution :
2025-08-21
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This volume explores the work of Mary B. Hesse (1924–2016), a pivotal figure in twentieth-century philosophy of science. At a time when the foundations of an integrated approach to the history and philosophy of science were being established, Hesse, as a female...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-20
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“You’re not a painter if you haven’t painted gray”, declared Paul Cézanne. The same could be said of philosophers: you’re not a philosopher if you have never thought gray. This simple four-letter word signifies much more than a quasi-neutral color lying between black...
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Polity
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2025-08-20
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This book defends the idea of autonomy as the balancing of normative arguments, which captures the essential feature of autonomous judgement as being simultaneously free and normatively bound. However, this approach runs counter to the dominant view of arguments as...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-12
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This book explores the processes of disfiguration in the 'classical' and 'ritual-healing' performances of India, with a particular focus on the rich and diverse performance traditions of Kerala. It examines three modes of disfiguration—'blood,' 'madness,' and...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-09
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This book offers a new perspective on the emergence of concepts that shaped the world, set against the dramatic background of political upheaval and crisis of scientific knowledge that characterized interwar Germany and Austria. On the one hand, the...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-07
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A compilation of cutting-edge, comprehensive insights into digital ethics from leading scholars As digital technologies shape every aspect of today's society, ethical considerations have never been more pressing. InA Companion to Digital Ethics, editors Luciano Floridi...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-08-07
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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This book journeys into the dark territory of solitary confinement. It examines its practice in prisons, jails, immigration detention facilities, and even schools. It looks at international ethics codes such as that of the World Medical Association, the World Health...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-30
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This book explores how prehistoric aesthetic consciousness of the Chinese nation evolved from animality and barbarism, how it was epitomized in prehistoric artifacts, and most importantly, how this aesthetic consciousness has exerted an ever-lasting influence upon the...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-29
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This book helps answer a fundamental question: What is the social world made of? It presents a comprehensive ontology of social entities, activities, and relations. Basic building blocks of the social world, from humans and animals to objects and cognitive entities are...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-28
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