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This book provides the first systematic study on three types of incentives for organ donation. It covers extensive research conducted in four culturally different societies: Hong Kong, mainland China, Iran and the United States, and shows on the basis of the research...
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Springer
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2023-05-02
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Based on the ethical thinking of the pre-Qin Dynasty, this book discusses the formation and development of traditional Chinese ethics, the refinement of the Confucian ethical normative system and the establishment of its orthodoxy, as well as the deepening and...
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Springer
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2023-04-28
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This volume, the first of its kind written in English, interprets the realistic-phenomenological philosophy of Hedwig Conrad-Martius (1888-1966). She was a prominent figure in the Munich-Göttingen Circle, the first generation of phenomenology after Edmund Husserl...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-04-21
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Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences
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This ambitious text is a monograph about human experiences concerning the potentialities, capacities, and features of humankind from the wholeness of the collective mind body spirit. The purpose in reframing human endeavors is for enhanced alignment for livability and...
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Springer
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2023-04-21
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Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress
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This volume investigates Eric Weil’s innovative conceptualization of the place of violence in the philosophical tradition with a focus on violence’s relationship to language and to discourse. Weil presents violence as the central philosophical problem. According to this...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-04-12
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Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning
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This book is about the philosophical, historical, and interpretative aspects of Mencius. It explores his influence, reception, and relevance in China from the third century BCE to the present, as well as offers comparative studies of Mencius and major figures in the...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-04-11
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Certain great friendships have left their mark in the annals of philosophy – and, without a doubt, the friendship of Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers is among them. Although they wrote very few texts together, their intellectual companionship lasted for over thirty...
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Polity
Parution :
2023-04-11
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This book, Thales and the Beginnings of European Reflection, is more than a field guide to all major testimonies about Thales. It does not merely contain a summary and critique of the available literature on the subject, but also lays down a new, holistic...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-04-10
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This book provides an original perspective on the debate about anti-representationalism and the nature of philosophy.This debate has come to prominence in recent years through the work of people like Richard Rorty, Paul Horwich, Huw Price and Amie Thomasson. It is the...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-04-08
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Synthese Library
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This book is an elucidation and defense of four main propositions: (1) human nature is essentially rational; (2) rational nature is a conversation; (3) as the essential fabric of human nature, the reason exists as a potentiality in the formal organization of the human...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-04-06
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This Handbook discusses representative philosophers in the history of the philosophy of law and social philosophy, giving clear concise expert definitions and explanations of key personalities and their ideas. It provides an...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-04-03
Collection :
Studies in the History of Law and Justice
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This Handbook discusses representative philosophers in the history of the philosophy of law and social philosophy, giving clear concise expert definitions and explanations of key personalities and their ideas. It provides an...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-04-03
Collection :
Studies in the History of Law and Justice
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This Handbook discusses representative philosophers in the history of the philosophy of law and social philosophy, giving clear concise expert definitions and explanations of key personalities and their ideas. It provides an...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-03-28
Collection :
Studies in the History of Law and Justice
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This book is the first volume featuring the work of American women philosophers in the first half of the twentieth century. It provides selected papers authored by Mary Whiton Calkins, Grace Andrus de Laguna, Grace Neal Dolson, Marjorie Glicksman Grene, Marjorie...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-03-22
Collection :
Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences
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The book is a true knowledge-enhancing project, dealing with the forms of rationality at work in social life, which are so many, varied and complex. Published already in Spanish and Italian, it analyses the role played by rationality through the lens of social theories...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-03-21
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INDIANA JONES AND PHILOSOPHY What does it mean to choose wisely? Can heroes seek fortune and glory? Why does Indy take a leap of faith? Do Indy’s adventures provide him evidence of the supernatural? Should we hide the Ark of the Covenant in a military-controlled...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-03-21
Collection :
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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Objects generate time; time does not generate or change objects. That is the central thesis of this book by the philosopher Graham Harman and the archaeologist Christopher Witmore, who defend radical positions in their respective fields. Against a current and pervasive...
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Polity
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2023-03-21
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Right now, someone, somewhere is being cancelled. Off-the-cuff tweets or "harmless" office banter have the potential to wreck lives. The Left condemns theRight and the bigotry of the old elites. TheRight complains about brain-dead political correctness. In reality, both...
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Polity
Parution :
2023-03-09
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Ever since the end of World War II, when the sheer enormity of the Nazi crime against the Jews became apparent, there have been repeated attempts to deny that the Holocaust really happened. The existence of gas chambers was questioned and the testimony of survivors was...
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Polity
Parution :
2023-03-03
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