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In this book, renowned philosopher John Kekes develops and defends a humanistic conception of wisdom as a personal attitude--one that can guide how we face adversities and evaluate the often conflicting possibilities and limits of life in the context in which we...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-06-09
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This book formulates a new theory of subjectivity in the context of the claimed “death of the subject” in the post-modern and post-human age. The new theory is developed against the conception of the subject as a transcendental ego whose constitutive roles, recognition,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-18
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This edited collection re-examines the global impact of Sartre’s philosophy from 1944-68. From his emergence as an eminent philosopher, dramatist, and novelist, to becoming the ‘world’s conscience’ through his political commitment, Jean-Paul Sartre shaped the mind-set...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-21
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This book argues that existentialism’s concern with human existence does not simply make it another form of humanism. Influenced by Heidegger’s 1947 ‘Letter on Humanism’, structuralist and post-structuralist critics have both argued that existentialism is synonymous...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-11
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Perception is basic for human knowledge and a major concern of both epistemology and the philosophy of mind. The scholarship in this area, however, has left two important aspects of perception underexplored: its relevance to understanding a priori...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-06
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Representing the world is a puzzling thing. How can it be that mundane events such as processing a thought--and from there putting those thoughts into words--acquire this property of 'aboutness'? How can expressions, which depend on anything from the most fundamental...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-09
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Most of the research on the epistemology of perception has focused on visual perception. This is hardly surprising given that most of our knowledge about the world is largely attributable to our visual experiences. The present volume is the first to instead focus on the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-01-03
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Early Modern German Philosophy (1690-1750) makes some of the key texts of early German thought available in English, in most cases for the first time. The translations range from texts by the most important figures of the period, including Christian Thomasius, Christian...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-12
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Early Modern German Philosophy (1690-1750) makes some of the key texts of early German thought available in English, in most cases for the first time. The translations range from texts by the most important figures of the period, including Christian Thomasius, Christian...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-12
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Most of the time people perceive using multiple senses. Out walking, we see colors and motion, hear chatter and footsteps, smell petrichor after rain, feel a breeze or the brush of a shoulder. We use our senses together to navigate and learn about the world. In spite of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-03
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Articulating a thought can be astoundingly easy. We generally have no trouble expressing complex ideas that we have never considered before, though not always.Articulating a thought can also be extremely hard. Our difficulties in articulating thoughts pervade many...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-28
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The continuities between human and animal minds are increasingly well understood. This has led many people to make claims about consciousness in animals, which has often been taken to be crucial for their moral standing. Peter Carruthers argues compellingly that there...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-28
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Articulating a thought can be astoundingly easy. We generally have no trouble expressing complex ideas that we have never considered before, though not always.Articulating a thought can also be extremely hard. Our difficulties in articulating thoughts pervade many...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-28
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The continuities between human and animal minds are increasingly well understood. This has led many people to make claims about consciousness in animals, which has often been taken to be crucial for their moral standing. Peter Carruthers argues compellingly that there...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-28
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What do we express when we use the first-person pronoun 'I' in phrases such as 'I think' or 'I ought to'? Do we refer to ourselves as biologically unique, socially determined individuals? Or do we express a consciousness of ourselves as the bearers of thoughts we share,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-27
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Bertrand Russell famously distinguished between 'knowledge by acquaintance' and 'knowledge by description'. For much of the latter half of the twentieth century, many philosophers viewed the notion of acquaintance with suspicion, associating it with Russellian ideas...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-27
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What do we express when we use the first-person pronoun 'I' in phrases such as 'I think' or 'I ought to'? Do we refer to ourselves as biologically unique, socially determined individuals? Or do we express a consciousness of ourselves as the bearers of thoughts we share,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-27
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Bertrand Russell famously distinguished between 'knowledge by acquaintance' and 'knowledge by description'. For much of the latter half of the twentieth century, many philosophers viewed the notion of acquaintance with suspicion, associating it with Russellian ideas...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-21
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Dieses Buch zeichnet ein knappes Bild von Karl Jaspers‘ ungewöhnlichem Leben und von seiner Philosophie. Der Leser lernt eine tapfere Persönlichkeit kennen, die ein Leben zwischen den Extremen bewältigen musste. Bedroht durch eine unheilbare Krankheit und bedrängt durch...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-11-01
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In diesem Buch führt Andreas Schönau neurowissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse und Modelle mit philosophischen Theorien und Konzeptionen der Handlungstheorie aus einer neuartigen Bottom-up-Perspektive zusammen. Damit ermöglicht er einen interdisziplinären Blick auf die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-09-14
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