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Philosophy of Language
2008
5015 kr
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What do ‘meaning’ and ‘truth’ mean? And how are they situated in the concrete practices of linguistic communication? What is the relationship between words and the world? How—with words—can people do such varied things as marry, inaugurate a president, and declare a country’s independence? How is …
Postmodernism: Critical Concepts
Av Victor E. Taylor, Charles E. Winquist
1998
21589 kr
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Postmodernism has emerged as a significant cultural, political and intellectual concept which has fundamentally altered our understanding of architecture, selfhood, knowledge formation, ethics, history, economics and politics. Until now, the primary and most historically significant accounts of …
Applied Ethics
Critical Concepts in Philosophy
Av Ruth Chadwick, Doris Schroeder
2001
19624 kr
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Applied ethics has become established as a distinct area of study, but its methodology and practicality are still matters of controversy.This collection examines how the field has developed over the last fifty years, by bringing together those articles that have been seminal in the development of …
Pragmatism
2005
23753 kr
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Presenting key texts in and about pragmatism, this collection of essays explores pragmatism's origins, applications, and weaknesses, as well as its remarkable versatility as an approach not only to issues of truth and knowledge, but to ethics and social philosophy, literature, law, aesthetics, …
Free Will
2005
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Over the last three decades there has been a tremendous amount of philosophical work in the Anglo-American tradition on the cluster of topics pertaining to Free Will.Contemporary work has in some instances been in the form of lively debates between proponents of different viewpoints, and literature …
Philosophy of Law
Av Brian Bix
2006
17273 kr
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Edited by a leading scholar in the field, Philosophy of Law is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series Critical Concepts in Philosophy. It is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research and covers a significant range of topics in the field.The first two volumes of the …
Metaphysics
Av Michael Rea
2008
18730 kr
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Metaphysics, at least roughly speaking, is the systematic investigation of fundamental presuppositions underlying commonsense and scientific views of the world. Most of us believe that we have bodies and minds, that we are free, that some things in the world are composed of other things and that …
Metaethics
2008
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Metaethics is the branch of knowledge that considers the foundational issues of morality, and deals especially with the nature of ethical statements. Philosophers doing metaethics ask vital and fundamental questions such as these:• is morality merely conventional, or are there objective standards …
Philosophy of Religion
2009
20092 kr
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The past forty years or so have witnessed a renaissance in the philosophy of religion. New tools (modal logic, probability theory, and so on) and new historical research have prompted many thinkers to take a fresh look at old topics (God’s existence, the problem of evil, faith and reason, and the …
Philosophy of Mind
2010
19862 kr
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Philosophy of Mind is concerned with fundamental issues about the relation between mind and body and mind and world, and with the nature of the diverse variety of mental phenomena, such as thought, self-knowledge, consciousness, perception, sensation, and emotion. Philosophers of mind explore some …
Philosophy and Gender
2011
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How are ‘philosophy’ and ‘gender’ implicated? Throughout history, philosophers—mostly men, though with more women among their number than is sometimes supposed—have often sought to specify and justify the proper roles of women and men, and to explore the political consequences of sexual difference. …
Epistemology
Av Ram Neta
2012
19581 kr
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For those working in Epistemology dizzying questions such as the following arise:• When are beliefs rational, or justified?• How should we update our beliefs in the light of new evidence?• Is it possible to gain knowledge, or justification?• How do we know what we know, and why do we care about …
Virtue Ethics
Av Tom Angier
2018
23833 kr
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Explorations about and around the ethics of virtue dominated philosophical thinking in the ancient world, and recent moral philosophy has seen a massive revival of interest in virtue ethics as a rival to Kantian and utilitarian approaches.To help users make sense of the gargantuan—and, often, …
Existentialism
2012
22985 kr
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Existentialism entered the public consciousness after the Second World War, especially through the work of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Indeed, these charismatic and engaged thinkers gave philosophy a level of glamour it had not before enjoyed, while existentialism’s …
Philosophy of Psychology
Av Jose Luis Bermudez, Brandon Towl
2012
23496 kr
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The study of human behaviour, and the minds that produce that behaviour, has been an occupation of scholars, artists, and philosophers for millennia. But it was not until the turn of the twentieth century that psychology came into its own as a distinct field of study—and, more importantly, as a …
Ganeri: Indian Philosophy, 4-vol. set
2016
23496 kr
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The learned editor of this new four-volume collection from Routledge argues that its subject matter is ‘a vast—and vastly undersurveyed—body of inquiry into the most fundamental problems of philosophy. As the broader discipline of philosophy continues to evolve into a genuinely international field, …
Van Dyke: Medieval Philosophy, 4-vol. set
Av Christina Van Dyke, Andrew W Arlig
2019
18136 kr
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The Middle Ages saw a great flourishing of philosophy. Now, to help students and researchers make sense of the gargantuan—and, often, dauntingly complex—body of literature on the main traditions of thinking that stem from the Greek heritage of late antiquity, this new four-volume collection is the …
Philosophy of Mathematics
Av A. Paseau
2017
22883 kr
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Mathematics is everywhere and yet its objects are nowhere. There may be five apples on the table but the number five itself is not to be found in, on, beside or anywhere near the apples. So if not in space and time, where are numbers and other mathematical objects such as perfect circles and …
Perception
Av William Fish
2016
20092 kr
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Conscious perceptual experiences are not only one of the most pervasive and familiar mental states that we enjoy in our lives as minded creatures, but they are also the most fundamental source of our knowledge of the world in which we live. An understanding of perception is therefore essential to …
Philosophy of Emotion
Av Aaron Ben Ze'ev, Angelika Krebs
2017
21071 kr
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Emotions punctuate almost all significant events in our lives, but their nature, causes, and consequences are among the least well understood aspects of human experience. It is easier to express emotions than to describe them and even harder to analyse and explain them. Despite their apparent …
Chinese Philosophy
Av Bo Mou
2018
17879 kr
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Chinese philosophy has been shaped over the last 3000 years by various movements, schools of philosophical thought, philosophical ways of thinking and their thinkers. The rich resources of Chinese philosophy and their value and significance to the common philosophical enterprise, especially to the …
Aesthetics
Av James Young
2005
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Aesthetics is one of the most vital and wide-ranging fields of philosophical inquiry. This four volume set brings together both classic and contemporary writings to provide a comprehensive collection of the most important essays on the subject. All of the various artistic genres are addressed, with …
German Idealism
2007
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German Idealism represents one of the most intense and ambitious periods in the history of philosophy. It was the time when the possibility of an alternative to both empiricism and rationalism was explored, and the era when comprehensive system building took place. Discussing this highly visible …
Philosophy of Time
2008
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What is the nature of temporal passage—the movement of events or moments of time from the future through the present into the past? Is the future and the past as real as the present, or is the present—or perhaps the present and the past—all that exists? What role, if any, does language play in …
Ethics of War and Conflict
Av Asa Kasher
2013
15326 kr
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Standing on the shoulders of thinkers who have sought carefully to delineate proper behaviour in armed conflict—not least to distinguish just from illegitimate wars—military ethics is a subdiscipline enjoying renewed interest and, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, increasing practical …
Philosophy of Race
Av Paul Taylor
2011
14877 kr
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Since at least the early 1990s, philosophical race theory has emerged as a dynamic and fertile area of serious scholarly inquiry, and this new four-volume Major Work from Routledge meets the need for a comprehensive collection to facilitate ready access to the most influential and important …
