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Zen Buddhism is a form of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China and is strongly focused on meditation. It is characteristically sceptical towards language and distrustful of conceptual thought, which explains whyZen Buddhist sayings are so enigmatic and succinct....
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Polity
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2022-08-29
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This book presents an experiential, aesthetic-affective approach to the study of institutions. Drawing on institutional sociology, hermeneutics, phenomenology and process philosophy, it conceptualises institutions as collective experiences with their own self-promoting...
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Springer
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2022-08-27
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The theory of the square of opposition has been studied for over 2,000 years and has seen a resurgence in new theories and research since the second half of the twentieth century. This volume collects papers presented at the Sixth World Congress on the Square of...
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Birkhäuser
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2022-08-23
Collection :
Studies in Universal Logic
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In der Mitte des vorigen Jahrhunderts galt das Mythische als etwas Überwundenes, Gegenstand geschichtlicher Beratung, abgetan als Element des Erkennens vor dem Walten des rationalen Geistes. Aber seine Kraft, das Leben durch Gestalten und Bilder zu deuten, scheint...
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Alicia Éditions
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2022-08-22
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In a series of 50 accessible essays, Ben Dupré introduces and explains the philosophical questions around knowledge, consciousness, identity, ethics and justice that have engaged the minds of thinkers from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. From Plato's cave to...
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Greenfinch
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2022-08-18
Collection :
50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series
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In a series of 50 accessible essays, Ben Dupré introduces and explains the central ideas of politics, philosophy, religion, economics, science, and the arts that have engaged key thinkers and leaders, from Plato to the present day.From the Big Bang to romanticism, fate...
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Greenfinch
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2022-08-18
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50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series
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In Star Trek and Star Wars: The Enlightenment versus the Anti-Enlightenment, George A. Gonzalez shows that these two behemoths of popular culture put the Enlightenment and anti-Enlightenment before the viewing public. Star Trek is arguably the popular culture vehicle...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2022-08-17
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An Instant New York Times Bestseller “This book will change your sense of how grand the sweep of human history could be, where you fit into it, and how much you could do to change it for the better. It's as simple, and as ambitious, as...
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Basic Books
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2022-08-16
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This book provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the problem of a priori knowledge from a historical as well as a systematic perspective. The author explores Kant’s views in connection with the possibility of revision, something hardly, if at all, done in...
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Springer
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2022-08-10
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This book discusses the themes of personhood and personal identity. It argues that while there is a metaphysical answer to the question of personal identity, there is no metaphysical answer to the question of what constitutes a person. The author argues against both...
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Springer
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2022-08-04
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This book seeks to provide new perspectives, to broaden the field of philosophy of science, or to renew themes that have had a great impact on the profession. Thus, after an initial chapter to situate the current trends in philosophy of science and the prospective of...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-07-25
Collection :
Synthese Library
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The tsunami of information unleashed by digitization is threatening to overwhelm us, drowning us in a sea of frenzied communication and disrupting many spheres of social life, including politics. Election campaigns are now being waged as information wars with bots and...
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Polity
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2022-07-19
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In recent decades, green chemistry dominated the imagination of sustainability scholars all over the world and was embraced by leading global universities and companies. This new concept is supposed to address the environmental crisis by making chemistry safer and less...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2022-07-18
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Provides students and scholars with a comprehensive introduction to the growing field of environmental philosophy and ethics Mitigating the effects of climate change will require global cooperation and lasting commitment. Of the many disciplines addressing the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-07-18
Collection :
This is Philosophy
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This open access book presents a new generation multi-criteria, multi-stake holder, decision aide, called an "institutional compass". Based on hard data, the compass tells us what quality-direction we are heading in as an institution, region, system or...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-07-08
Collection :
Methodos Series
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This book offers a selection of the papers of the Women in Pragmatism International Conference held at the University of Barcelona in January 2020. The conference gathered women and non-binary scholars from twelve different countries.This was the first pragmatist...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-07-07
Collection :
Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences
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CONSCIOUSNESS Consciousness is a thought-provoking collection of classic and contemporary philosophical literature on consciousness, bringing together influential scholarship by seminal thinkers and the work of emerging voices who reflect the diversity of the field....
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-07-06
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Readings in Philosophy
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America is at an important turning point. Remote warfare is not just a mainstay of post–9/11 wars, it is a harbinger of what lies ahead—a future of high-tech, artificial intelligence–enabled, and autonomous weapons systems that raise a host of new...
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PublicAffairs
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2022-07-05
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This volume collects 22 essays on the history of logic written by outstanding specialists in the field. The book was originally prompted by the 2018-2019 celebrations in honor of Massimo Mugnai, a world-renowned historian of logic, whose contributions on Medieval and...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-07-04
Collection :
Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
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Three years after the political novice Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to Ukraine’s highest office, he found himself catapulted into the role of war-time leader. The former comedian has become the public face of his country’s courageous and bloody struggle against a...
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Polity
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2022-07-04
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