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By the end of the twentieth century, the idea of self-esteem had become enormously influential. A staggering amount of psychological research and self-help literature was being published and, before long, devoured by readers. Self-esteem initiatives permeated American...
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Polity
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2024-02-07
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This book presents consciousness models from Eastern and Western perspectives that accommodate current scientific research in the natural sciences and humanities, from neurological experiments through philosophical enquiries to spiritual approaches. It offers up to date...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-02-05
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This book presents the views of 22 women philosophers from outside the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian worlds. These eminent thinkers are from Mesopotamia, India, Tibet, China, Korea, Japan,
Australia, America, the Philippines and Nigeria. Six philosophers, the...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-02-02
Collection :
Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences
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The global triumph of democracy was announced thirty years ago, promising an age of consensus in which the dispassionate consideration of objective problems would give birth to a world at peace. Today, these grand hopes lie in ruins, and the era touted as new has turned...
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Polity
Parution :
2024-02-02
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This book explores indigenous sub-Saharan African agrarian thought. Indigenous African agrarian philosophy is an uncharted and largely overlooked area of study in the burgeoning fields of African philosophy and philosophy of nature. The book shows that wherever human...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-01-31
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Would Thierry Henry have been better off playing handball?
(Does the end justify the means?)
Why say, “we won,” when we weren’t even on the field?
(Is soccer the opium of the people?)
Would the result of the match have been the same if I hadn’t watched it?
(Destiny...
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Max Milo Editions
Parution :
2024-01-24
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Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary and random, storytelling becomes storyselling and narratives lose their...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-01-19
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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...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-01-17
Collection :
Great Debates in Philosophy
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This book examines practices on the relationship between sign and meaning in the Pre-Imperial period of China from the semiotics perspective. Although the Chinese civilization did not develop a comprehensive semiotics system in that period, they are highly semiotic in...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-01-11
Collection :
China Academic Library
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This book is a monograph on contemporary utilitarianism, focusing on its evolving path and logic. It describes the evolution of utilitarianism from the classical model to the contemporary model and then summarizes the characteristics of contemporary utilitarianism,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-01-09
Collection :
Interests Politics Series
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This book provides a collection of chapters on the development of scientific philosophy and symbolic logic in the early twentieth century. The turn of the last century was a key transitional period for the development of symbolic logic and scientific philosophy. The...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-01-03
Collection :
Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook
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This volume is devoted to a reappraisal of the Marginal Revolution on the occasion of its 150th anniversary.
The year 1871 should be remembered as one of the most important turning points in the history of economics. W. S. Jevons, C. Menger, and L. Walras published...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-01-02
Collection :
Monographs in Mathematical Economics
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The author analyses the concept of free will in the context of the psychophysical problem. He builds his analysis upon the presumption that the contemporary debate between compatibilists and incompatibilists is not of high relevance, since “free will” is a highly...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-01-02
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This book is a call to expand and diversify our approach to the study of the human mind in relation to the Theory of Mind. It proposes that it is necessary to combine cross-disciplinary methods to arrive at a more complete understanding of how our minds work. Seeking to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-01-01
Collection :
Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning
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This book explores René Descartes’s attempts to describe particular bodies, such as rocks, minerals, metals, plants, and animals, within the mechanistic interpretation of nature of his philosophical program. Despite his early rationalistic epistemology, Descartes’s...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-01-01
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This volume is about the most mind-boggling sacrament of the Christian faith, also referred to as the Sacrament of the Altar, the Eucharist: in its Roman Catholic interpretation, the conversion of the substance of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ for...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-01-01
Collection :
Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action
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An accessible and engaging journey through the philosophical themes and concepts of Ted Lasso Ted Lasso and Philosophy explores the hidden depths beneath the vibrant veneer of AppleTV's breakout, award-winning sitcom. Blending philosophical sophistication with winsome...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-12-29
Collection :
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie die ausgezeichnete normative Funktion, die unser vernünftiges Denken und Handeln normiert, ursprünglich konstituiert wird, indem es Husserls und Wittgensteins Spätphilosophie systematisch vergleicht.Jeweils in ihrer späten...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-12-28
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This book reports on cutting-edge research concerning social practices. Merging perspectives from various disciplines, including philosophy, biology, psychology and cognitive science, and economy, it discusses theoretical aspects of social behavior along with models to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-12-27
Collection :
Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
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A defining feature of being human is our ability to think. We refer to ourselves, after all, as Homo sapiens. But in a world where experiencing and achieving as much as possible is the number one preoccupation, there is little room for reflection. Technology is also...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-12-27
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