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This book focuses on the problem of responsibility voids: these are cases where responsibility for a morally undesirable outcome cannot be attributed to any of the involved agents. Responsibility voids are thought to occur in collective decision-making and in the...
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Springer
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2022-03-07
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Synthese Library
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The ecological crisis is a very real crisis for the many species that face extinction, but it is also a crisis of sensibility – that is, a crisis in our relationships with other living beings. We have grown accustomed to treating other living beings as the material...
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Polity
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2022-03-07
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This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of Sextus Empiricus based on his own view of what he calls the distinctive character of skepticism. It focuses on basic topics highlighted by this ancient philosopher concerning Pyrrhonism, a kind of skepticism named for...
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Springer
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2022-03-01
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Synthese Library
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This volume focuses on the emergent field of neuroethics comparing and contrasting how two democracies, Canada and the United States, have begun adapting public policy design to better fit human minds. The book focuses on issues relevant to all members of the general...
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Springer
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2022-03-01
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This book is dedicated to Edith Stein (1891–1942), who is known widely for her contributions to metaphysics. Though she never produced a dedicated work on questions of ethics, her corpus is replete with pertinent reflections.
This book is the first major...
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Springer
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2022-02-28
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Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences
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Der vorliegende Band ist der letzte einer Reihe, in der die Beiträge veröffentlicht werden, die während des gleichnamigen VII. Kongresses der Internationalen Fichte-Gesellschaft 2009 in Brüssel gehalten wurden. Dieser Band enthält die Plenarvorträge dieser Konferenz....
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EuroPhilosophie Éditions
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2022-02-25
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idéalismes allemands
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This book offers a defense against non-classical approaches to the paradoxes. The author argues that, despite appearances, the paradoxes give no reason at all to reject classical logic. In fact, he believes classical solutions fare better than non-classical ones with...
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Springer
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2022-02-25
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Synthese Library
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This book offers an unprecedented study of the influence of the skepticism of the New Platonic Academy on David Hume’s and Immanuel Kant’s critiques of metaphysics. By demonstrating how the skeptical teachings of the Academy affected these authors’ Enlightened attacks...
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Springer
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2022-02-25
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Synthese Library
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A keen athlete in his late forties, philosophy professor Kevin Aho hadn’t given much thought to his own mortality, until he suffered a sudden heart attack that left him fighting for his life. Confronted with death for the first time, he realized that the things he...
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Polity
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2022-02-25
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A startling and thought-provoking work from one of the most powerful philosophers in the Western canon Thus Spoke Zarathustra:A Philosophy Classic, is Friedrich Nietzsche’s classic masterpiece of philosophy and literature. Nietzsche writes from the perspective of...
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Capstone
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2022-02-24
Collection :
Capstone Classics
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This book reconstructs the philosophical issues informing the debate between the makers of modern India: Ambedkar and Gandhi. At one level, this debate was about a set of different but interconnected issues: caste and social hierarchies, untouchability, Hinduism,...
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Springer
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2022-02-22
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This volume contains twenty-four essays by the British/Australian analytic metaphysician, Brian Garrett. These essays are followed by four short dialogues that emphasize and summarize some of the main points of the essays and discuss new perspectives that have emerged...
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Springer
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2022-02-21
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Synthese Library
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This volume presents a double argumentative analysis of the debate between Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston on the existence of God. It includes an introduction justifying the choice of text and describing the historical and philosophical background of the...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-02-21
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Argumentation Library
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The latest edition of an essential resource in the theory and applications of environmental ethics In the newly revised Third Edition of Environmental Ethics, internationally renowned philosopher Michael Boylan delivers another accessible introduction for students new...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-02-16
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This book examines how philosophy was taught in the early modern period in Europe. It breaks new ground in a number of ways. Firstly, it seeks to bring text-based scholars in the history of philosophy together with social and cultural historians to examine the...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-02-15
Collection :
Archimedes
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This monograph offers a comprehensive study of contingent a priori truths. Building onto a theoretical framework developed by the philosopher and logician Saul Kripke, the author also presents a new approach to these truths.
The first part of the book details the many...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-02-14
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Synthese Library
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This book engages a multidisciplinary approach to understand Gandhi in addressing specific contemporary societal issues. The issues highlighted in the book through thirteen distinct, yet interrelated, themes offer solutions to the societal challenges through the prism...
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Springer
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2022-02-11
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This text explores how self-consciousness and self-understanding differ phenomenologically from the experience and comprehension of others, and the extent to which such relations are constitutively interdependent.Jardine argues that Husserl’s analyses of selfhood and...
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Springer
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2022-02-11
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