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Anthropic Bias
Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy
Av Nick Bostrom
Häftad, 2010
798 kr
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Anthropic Bias explores how to reason when you suspect that your evidence is biased by "observation selection effects"--that is, evidence that has been filtered by the precondition that there be some suitably positioned observer to "have" the evidence. This conundrum--sometimes alluded to as "the …
Risk, Ambiguity and Decision
Inbunden, 2001
2525 kr
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Ellsberg elaborates on "Risk, Ambiguity, and the Savage Axioms" and mounts a powerful challenge to the dominant theory of rational decision in this book.
Phenomenological Reflections on Violence
A Skeptical Approach
Av James Dodd
Häftad, 2019
734 kr
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Following up on his previous book, Violence and Phenomenology, James Dodd presents here an expanded and deepened reflection on the problem of violence. The book’s six essays are guided by a skeptical philosophical attitude about the meaning of violence that refuses to conform to the exigencies of …
Mathematics in Kant's Critical Philosophy
Reflections on Mathematical Practice
Av Lisa Shabel
Häftad, 2011
915 kr
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Mathematics in Kant's Critical Philosophy provides a much needed reading (and re-reading) of Kant's theory of the construction of mathematical concepts through a fully contextualized analysis. In this work Lisa Shabel convincingly argues that it is only through an understanding of the relevant …
Frege and the Logic of Sense and Reference
Häftad, 2011
915 kr
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This book aims to develop certain aspects of Gottlob Frege's theory of meaning, especially those relevant to intentional logic. It offers a new interpretation of the nature of senses, and attempts to devise a logical calculus for the theory of sense and reference that captures as closely as …
Teleology and the Norms of Nature
Häftad, 2011
798 kr
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This work is an examination of teleological attributions i.e. ascriptions of proper functions and natural ends) to the features and behavior of living things with a view to understanding their application to human life.
Topics in the Philosophy of Possible Worlds
Av Daniel Nolan
Häftad, 2011
915 kr
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This book discusses a range of important issues in current philosophical work on the nature of possible worlds. Areas investigated include the theories of the nature of possible worlds, general questions about metaphysical analysis and questions about the direction of dependence between what is …
Language and History in Adorno's Notes to Literature
Av Ulrich Plass
Häftad, 2012
1035 kr
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Plass argues that Adorno’s essays on literature are of prime importance for an understanding of his aesthetics because they challenge the conceptual limitations of philosophical discourse.Selected Contents: Introduction: Adorno’s Literary Criticism 1. The Art of Transition 2. Rauschen 3. …
Wittgenstein's Novels
Häftad, 2012
1052 kr
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Analyzing features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates the impact of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work on contemporary German and French novelists.Drawing upon aesthetics, architectural history, philosophy of science, and photography, the …
Emmanuel Levinas
Ethics, Justice, and the Human Beyond Being
Av Lis Thomas
Häftad, 2012
915 kr
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This book explores Levinas's rethinking of the meaning of ethics, justice and the human from a position that affirms but goes beyond the anti-humanist philosophy of the twentieth century
Discourse, Desire, and Fantasy in Jurgen Habermas' Critical Theory
Häftad, 2012
915 kr
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This book argues that Jürgen Habermas’ critical theory can be productively developed by incorporating a wider understanding of fantasy and imagination as part of its conception of communicative rationality and communicative pathologies. Given that meaning is generated both linguistically and …
Volition, Rhetoric, and Emotion in the Work of Pascal
Häftad, 2012
827 kr
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This study identifies and analyzes a compelling theory and practice of persuasion that integrates the complexity of human desire. It demonstrates how the philosophical component in Pascal's description of the will makes a seamless integration into a vehicle of persuasion and poetics, providing a …
German Mittelweg
Garden Theory and Philosophy in the Time of Kant
Häftad, 2013
798 kr
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In the 1790s, a close-knit group of German philosophers published several garden theory texts. These works are unique in that a close-knit group of philosophers had never before--and has not since--produced so many works on the topic of garden design. In essence, this cohort sought to imbue the …
Immanent Word
The Turn to Language in German Philosophy, 1759-1801
Häftad, 2013
856 kr
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The Immanent Word establishes that the philosophical study of language inaugurated in the 1759 works of Hamann and Lessing marks a paradigm shift in modern philosophy; it analyzes the transformation of that shift in works of Herder, Kant, Fichte, Novalis and Schlegel. It contends that recent …
Sartre and the Moral Limits of War and Terrorism
Häftad, 2014
915 kr
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Reinterpreting Sartre’s main methodologies and removing Hegelian dialectics from his notion of violence, this book demolishes the supposed hostile intersubjective relations that characterizes all concrete relations. Furthering this stance, it reconstructs an interpretation of the "violent Sartre" …
Ethics of Need
Agency, Dignity, and Obligation
Häftad, 2014
915 kr
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The Ethics of Need: Agency, Dignity, and Obligation argues for the philosophical importance of the notion of need and for an ethical framework through which we can determine which needs have moral significance. In the volume, Sarah Clark Miller synthesizes insights from Kantian and feminist care …
Art as Abstract Machine
Ontology and Aesthetics in Deleuze and Guattari
Häftad, 2015
929 kr
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The aim of this book is to understand what Deleuze and Guattari mean by art. Stephen Zepke argues that art, in their account, is an ontological term and an ontological practice that results in a new understanding of aesthetics. For Deleuze and Guattari understanding what art is means understanding …
Phenomenological Reflections on Violence
A Skeptical Approach
Av James Dodd
Inbunden, 2017
2525 kr
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Following up on his previous book, Violence and Phenomenology, James Dodd presents here an expanded and deepened reflection on the problem of violence. The book’s six essays are guided by a skeptical philosophical attitude about the meaning of violence that refuses to conform to the exigencies of …
Violence and Phenomenology
Av James Dodd
Inbunden, 2009
2525 kr
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This book pursues the problem of whether violence can be understood to be constitutive of its own sense or meaning, as opposed to being merely instrumental. Dodd draws on the resources of phenomenological philosophy, and takes the form of a series of dialogues between figures both inside and …
Kant, Foucault, and Forms of Experience
Häftad, 2011
798 kr
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This study presents the theoretical apparatus of Foucault’s early historical analyses as a version of Kantian criticism. In an initial textual exposition, the author attempts to distill a unified discursive practice from Kant’s theoretical writings, arguing for Foucault’s proximity to Kant on the …
Mystical in Wittgenstein's Early Writings
Häftad, 2011
915 kr
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The aim of this book is to consider what reasonably follows from the hypothesis that the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus can be interpreted from a mystical point of view. Atkinson intends to elucidate Wittgenstein’s thoughts on the mystical in his early writings as they pertain to a number of topics …
On Mechanism in Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy
Av Nathan Ross
Häftad, 2013
915 kr
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On Mechanism in Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy examines the role of the concept of mechanism in Hegel’s thinking about political and social institutions. It counters as overly simplistic the notion that Hegel has an ‘organic concept of society’. It examines the thought of Hegel’s peers and …
Violence and Phenomenology
Av James Dodd
Häftad, 2013
915 kr
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This book pursues the problem of whether violence can be understood to be constitutive of its own sense or meaning, as opposed to being merely instrumental. Dodd draws on the resources of phenomenological philosophy, and takes the form of a series of dialogues between figures both inside and …
Understanding the Many
Av Byeong-uk Yi
Häftad, 2014
915 kr
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This book presents a mathematically and logically sophisticated analysis of the many, or the more than one. Covering issues of natural numbers, facts and their proper analysis, properties and their instantiation, as well as the logic of sets, this book elucidates one of the most debated concepts of …
German Gita
Hermeneutics and Discipline in the Early German Reception of Indian Thought
Häftad, 2009
915 kr
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How did the Bhagavadgãtà first become an object of German philosophical and philological inquiry? How were its foundational concepts initially interpreted within German intellectual circles, and what does this episode in the history of cross-cultural encounter teach us about the status of …
Sartre and the Moral Limits of War and Terrorism
Inbunden, 2009
2759 kr
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Reinterpreting Sartre’s main methodologies and removing Hegelian dialectics from his notion of violence, this book demolishes the supposed hostile intersubjective relations that characterizes all concrete relations. Furthering this stance, it reconstructs an interpretation of the "violent Sartre" …
Heidegger on East-West Dialogue
Anticipating the Event
Av Lin Ma
Häftad, 2009
798 kr
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This book traces a most obscure and yet most intriguing theme concealed in Heidegger’s thinking and work, which has hitherto not yet been made the focus of a thorough and sustained investigation: that is, the emergence and course of Heidegger’s interest in East Asian thought and of his reflection …
Gramsci and Trotsky in the Shadow of Stalinism
The Political Theory and Practice of Opposition
Häftad, 2009
915 kr
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This book examines the legacy of Antonio Gramsci and Leon Trotsky in the shadow of Stalinism in order to reassess the very different and distorted academic reception of the two figures, as well as to contribute to the revitalization of Marxism for our time. While Gramsci and Trotsky lived and died …
Bioregionalism and Global Ethics
A Transactional Approach to Achieving Ecological Sustainability, Social Justice, and Human Well-being
Inbunden, 2010
2525 kr
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Bioregionalism and Global Ethics suggests that current trends towards globalization are creating entirely new social and environmental problems which require cross-cultural dialogue towards the creation of a new "global ethic." Current models of development are based on an implicit global ethic …
Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity
A Phenomenology of Human Rights
Häftad, 2009
798 kr
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Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity explores the theme of human rights in the work of Hannah Arendt. Parekh argues that Arendt's contribution to this debate has been largely ignored because she does not speak in the same terms as contemporary theoreticians of human rights. Beginning by …
