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Kant and Education
Interpretations and Commentary
Av Klas Roth, Chris Surprenant
Inbunden, 2011
2759 kr
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Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy of judgement have been and continue to be widely discussed among many scholars. The impact of his thinking is beyond doubt and his ideas continue to inspire and encourage an on-going dialogue among many people in our world …
Kant and Education
Interpretations and Commentary
Av Klas Roth, Chris Surprenant
Häftad, 2014
915 kr
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Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy of judgement have been and continue to be widely discussed among many scholars. The impact of his thinking is beyond doubt and his ideas continue to inspire and encourage an on-going dialogue among many people in our world …
Non-Ideal Foundations of Language
Häftad, 2022
649 kr
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This book argues that the major traditions in the philosophy of language have mistakenly focused on highly idealized linguistic contexts. Instead, it presents a non-ideal foundational theory of language that contends that the essential function of language is to direct attention for the purpose of …
Philosophy and Psychology of Ambivalence
Being of Two Minds
Av Berit Brogaard, Dimitria Electra Gatzia
Häftad, 2023
651 kr
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This book collects original essays by top scholars that address questions about the nature, origins, and effects of ambivalence. While the nature of agency has received an enormous amount of attention, relatively little has been written about ambivalence or how it relates to topics such as agency, …
Evolutionary Debunking Arguments
Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Mathematics, Metaphysics, and Epistemology
Inbunden, 2022
2525 kr
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Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in evolutionary debunking arguments directed against certain types of belief, particularly moral and religious beliefs. According to those arguments, the evolutionary origins of the cognitive mechanisms that produce the targeted beliefs render these …
Microaggressions and Philosophy
Av Lauren Freeman, Jeanine Weekes Schroer
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This is the first book to offer a philosophical engagement with microaggressions. It aims to provide an intersectional analysis of microaggressions that cuts across multiple dimensions of oppression and marginalization, and to engage a variety of perspectives that have been sidelined within the …
Mental Action and the Conscious Mind
Av Michael Brent, Lisa Miracchi Titus
Inbunden, 2022
2525 kr
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Mental action deserves a place among foundational topics in action theory and philosophy of mind. Recent accounts of human agency tend to overlook the role of conscious mental action in our daily lives, while contemporary accounts of the conscious mind often ignore the role of mental action and …
Defense of Simulated Experience
New Noble Lies
Av Mark Silcox
Inbunden, 2018
2525 kr
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This book defends an account of the positive psychological, ethical, and political value of simulated human experience. Philosophers from Plato and Augustine to Heidegger, Nozick, and Baudrillard have warned us of the dangers of living on too heavy a diet of illusion and make-believe. But …
Modes of Truth
The Unified Approach to Truth, Modality, and Paradox
Av Carlo Nicolai, Johannes Stern
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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The aim of this volume is to open up new perspectives and to raise new research questions about a unified approach to truth, modalities, and propositional attitudes. The volume’s essays are grouped thematically around different research questions. The first theme concerns the tension between the …
Philosophy and Psychology of Ambivalence
Being of Two Minds
Av Berit Brogaard, Dimitria Electra Gatzia
Inbunden, 2020
2759 kr
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This book collects original essays by top scholars that address questions about the nature, origins, and effects of ambivalence. While the nature of agency has received an enormous amount of attention, relatively little has been written about ambivalence or how it relates to topics such as agency, …
Domination and Global Political Justice
Conceptual, Historical and Institutional Perspectives
Av Barbara Buckinx, Jonathan Trejo-Mathys m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
768 kr
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Domination consists in subjection to the will of others and manifests itself both as a personal relation and a structural phenomenon serving as the context for relations of power. Domination has again become a central political concern through the revival of the republican tradition of political …
Time and the Philosophy of Action
Av Roman Altshuler, Michael J. Sigrist
Häftad, 2019
768 kr
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Although scholarship in philosophy of action has grown in recent years, there has been little work explicitly dealing with the role of time in agency, a role with great significance for the study of action. As the articles in this collection demonstrate, virtually every fundamental issue in the …
Reification and the Aesthetics of Music
Häftad, 2019
791 kr
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This innovative study re-evaluates the philosophical significance of aesthetics in the context of contemporary debates on the nature of philosophy. Lewis's main argument is that contemporary conceptions of meaning and truth have been reified, and that aesthetics is able to articulate why this is …
Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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This is the first book to bring a philosophical lens to issues of socio-political and cultural importance in twenty-first century Ireland. While the social, political, and economic landscape of contemporary Ireland has inspired extensive scholarly debate both within and well beyond the field of …
Transhumanism, Nature, and the Ends of Science
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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This book offers a social, political, and aesthetic critique of transhumanism and of the accelerating growth of scientific knowledge generally. Rather than improving our lives, science and technology today increasingly leave us debilitated and infantilized. It is time to restrain the runaway …
Time in Action
The Temporal Structure of Rational Agency and Practical Thought
Inbunden, 2022
2525 kr
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This book explores the role of time in rational agency and practical reasoning. Agents are finite and often operate under severe time constraints. Action takes time and unfolds in time. While time is an ineliminable constituent of our experience of agency, it is both a theoretical and a practical …
Language and Phenomenology
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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At first blush, phenomenology seems to be concerned preeminently with questions of knowledge, truth, and perception, and yet closer inspection reveals that the analyses of these phenomena remain bound up with language and that consequently phenomenology is, inextricably, a philosophy of language. …
Normativity and Naturalism in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Av Mark Risjord
Häftad, 2019
739 kr
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Normativity and Naturalism in the Social Sciences engages with a central debate within the philosophy of social science: whether social scientific explanation necessitates an appeal to norms, and if so, whether appeals to normativity can be rendered "scientific." This collection brings together …
Freedom to Care
Liberalism, Dependency Care, and Culture
Inbunden, 2019
2759 kr
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This book presents the first systematic account of dependency care in a liberal theory of justice. Despite the fact that receiving dependency care is necessary for human survival, the practices with which we meet society’s care needs are seldom recognized for their functional role. Instead, norms …
Moved by Machines
Performance Metaphors and Philosophy of Technology
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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Given the rapid development of new technologies such as smart devices, robots, and artificial intelligence and their impact on the lives of people and on society, it is important and urgent to construct conceptual frameworks that help us to understand and evaluate them. Benefiting from tendencies …
Social Contexts of Intellectual Virtue
Knowledge as a Team Achievement
Av Adam Green
Häftad, 2019
739 kr
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This book reconceives virtue epistemology in light of the conviction that we are essentially social creatures. Virtue is normally thought of as something that allows individuals to accomplish things on their own. Although contemporary ethics is increasingly making room for an inherently social …
Science and the Self
Animals, Evolution, and Ethics: Essays in Honour of Mary Midgley
Av Ian James Kidd, Liz McKinnell
Häftad, 2019
739 kr
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Mary Midgley is one of the most important moral philosophers working today. Over the last thirty years, her writings have informed debates concerning animals, the environment and evolutionary theory. The invited essays in this volume offer critical reflections upon Midgley’s work and further …
McTaggart's Paradox
Häftad, 2019
739 kr
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McTaggart’s argument for the unreality of time, first published in 1908, set the agenda for 20th-century philosophy of time. Yet there is very little agreement on what it actually says—nobody agrees with the conclusion, but still everybody finds something important in it. This book presents the …
How Propaganda Became Public Relations
Foucault and the Corporate Government of the Public
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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How Propaganda Became Public Relations pulls back the curtain on propaganda: how it was born, how it works, and how it has masked the bulk of its operations by rebranding itself as public relations. Cory Wimberly uses archival materials and wide variety of sources — Foucault’s work on …
Naturalism, Human Flourishing, and Asian Philosophy
Owen Flanagan and Beyond
Av Bongrae Seok
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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Naturalism, Human Flourishing, and Asian Philosophy: Owen Flanagan and Beyond is an edited volume of philosophical essays focusing on Owen Flanagan’s naturalized comparative philosophy and moral psychology of human flourishing. Flanagan is a philosopher well-known for his naturalized approach to …
Digital Hermeneutics
Philosophical Investigations in New Media and Technologies
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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This is the first monograph to develop a hermeneutic approach to the digital—as both a technological milieu and a cultural phenomenon. While philosophical in its orientation, the book covers a wide body of literature across science and technology studies, media studies, digital humanities, digital …
Complex Reality of Pain
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book employs contemporary philosophy, scientific research, and clinical reports to argue that pain, though real, is not an appropriate object of scientific generalisations or an appropriate target for medical intervention. Each pain experience is instead complex and idiosyncratic in a way …
Cross-Tradition Engagement in Philosophy
A Constructive-Engagement Account
Av Bo Mou
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book presents a systematic unifying-pluralist account—a "constructive-engagement" account—of how cross-tradition engagement in philosophy is possible. The goal of this "constructive-engagement" account is, by way of reflective criticism, argumentation, and methodological guiding principles, to …
Aesthetic Disinterestedness
Art, Experience, and the Self
Häftad, 2019
739 kr
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The notion of disinterestedness is often conceived of as antiquated or ideological. In spite of this, Hilgers argues that one cannot reject it if one wishes to understand the nature of art. He claims that an artwork typically asks a person to adopt a disinterested attitude towards what it shows, …
Social Theory of Freedom
Häftad, 2019
739 kr
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In A Social Theory of Freedom, Mariam Thalos argues that the theory of human freedom should be a broadly social and political theory, rather than a theory that places itself in opposition to the issue of determinism. Thalos rejects the premise that a theory of freedom is fundamentally a theory of …
