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Reasoning in Ethics and Law
The Role of Theory Principles and Facts
Av Albert W. Musschenga, Wim J. van der Steen
Inbunden, 1999
2513 kr
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Legal and moral reasoning share much methodology, and they address similar problems. This volume charts two shared problems: the relation between theory, principles and particular judgments; and the role of facts and factual assertions in normative settings. The relation between 'theory' and …
Historical Foundations of Informal Logic
Av Douglas Walton, Alan Brinton
Häftad, 2016
924 kr
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In just the last twenty years there has arisen a strong interest, especially among teachers of logic at the universities, in teaching techniques of applied logical reasoning and critical thinking. Many universities are now stressing these skills at an introductory level, and to meet the need, …
Trying Without Willing
An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind
Häftad, 2016
866 kr
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Within the context of a critique of volitional accounts of action based on trying, Trying Without Willing articulates a conception of intentional action based on the notion of de re intention. A central theme is that volitional theories of action based on the concept of trying presuppose dubious …
Webbs, Fabianism and Feminism
Fabianism and the Political Economy of Everyday Life
Av Peter Beilharz, Chris Nyland
Häftad, 2016
414 kr
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This book seeks to explore the understanding of Fabianism of both the Webbs and the Fabian Women’s Group and how this understanding shaped their views regarding such gender-centred issues as the family wage; protective labour law; and women’s place in the welfare state, the home and the labour …
Schopenhauer's Early Fourfold Root
Translation and Commentary
Av F. C. White
Häftad, 2016
382 kr
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Schopenhauer’s Early Fourfold Root constitutes a landmark in Schopenhaurian scholarship. It is a translation with concise commentary of Schopenhauer’s doctoral thesis as submitted to the University of Jena and published at Rudolstadt in 1813. In spite of the great and increasing interest in the …
Webbs, Fabianism and Feminism
Fabianism and the Political Economy of Everyday Life
Av Peter Beilharz, Chris Nyland
Inbunden, 1998
764 kr
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This book seeks to explore the understanding of Fabianism of both the Webbs and the Fabian Women’s Group and how this understanding shaped their views regarding such gender-centred issues as the family wage; protective labour law; and women’s place in the welfare state, the home and the labour …
Genetic Imaginations
Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Human Genome Research
Av Peter Glasner, Harry Rothman
Inbunden, 1998
2585 kr
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The title of this book derives from C. Wright Mills’ classic The Sociological Imagination (Penguin, 1970), in which he sees the essential project of social science as the use of the imagination to 'grasp history and biography and the relations between the two in society'. This enables the social …
Answers Lie Within Us
Towards a Science of the Human Spirit
Inbunden, 1998
764 kr
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This book suggests that religion, in its usual sense, can be replaced by something better, that the human spirit or subjectivity can be the subject of scientific study and that lack of purpose or design in the universe is not a handicap but a positive opportunity for intelligent beings to make of …
Historical Foundations of Informal Logic
Av Douglas Walton, Alan Brinton
Inbunden, 1997
2519 kr
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In just the last twenty years there has arisen a strong interest, especially among teachers of logic at the universities, in teaching techniques of applied logical reasoning and critical thinking. Many universities are now stressing these skills at an introductory level, and to meet the need, …
Schopenhauer's Early Fourfold Root
Translation and Commentary
Av F. C. White
Inbunden, 1997
766 kr
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Schopenhauer’s Early Fourfold Root constitutes a landmark in Schopenhaurian scholarship. It is a translation with concise commentary of Schopenhauer’s doctoral thesis as submitted to the University of Jena and published at Rudolstadt in 1813. In spite of the great and increasing interest in the …
Trying Without Willing
An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind
Inbunden, 1997
2519 kr
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Within the context of a critique of volitional accounts of action based on trying, Trying Without Willing articulates a conception of intentional action based on the notion of de re intention. A central theme is that volitional theories of action based on the concept of trying presuppose dubious …
Mind, Self and Interiority
Av Thomas Duddy
Inbunden, 1995
512 kr
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Contemporary philosophers of mind often raise serious questions around the concepts of self, subjectivity, and ’the inner life’ on the grounds that such concepts have their origin in a discredited Cartesian metaphysics. The contention of this book is that the rejection of ’interiority’ and related …
