Télécharger le livre :  Emotions in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

Emotions are the focus of intense debate both in contemporary philosophy and psychology and increasingly also in the history of ideas. Simo Knuuttila presents a comprehensive survey of philosophical theories of emotion from Plato to Renaissance times, combining rigorous...
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Parution : 2004-07-08

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Télécharger le livre :  The Architecture of Matter

Thomas Holden presents a fascinating study of theories of matter in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These theories were plagued by a complex of interrelated problems concerning matter's divisibility, composition, and internal architecture. Is any material body...
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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding People

Alan Millar examines our understanding of why people think and act as they do. His key theme is that normative considerations form an indispensable part of the explanatory framework in terms of which we seek to understand each other. Millar defends a conception...
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Télécharger le livre :  Minimal Semantics

Minimal Semantics asks what a theory of literal linguistic meaning is for - if you were to be given a working theory of meaning for a language right now, what would you be able to do with it? Emma Borg sets out to defend a formal approach to semantic theorizing from a...
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Télécharger le livre :  Mild Contraction

Isaac Levi's new book develops further his pioneering work in formal epistemology, focusing on the problem of belief contraction, or how rationally to relinquish old beliefs. Levi offers the most penetrating analysis to date of this key question in epistemology,...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2004-06-24

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Télécharger le livre :  Facing Death

The ancient philosophical school of Epicureanism tried to argue that death is 'nothing to us'. Were they right? James Warren provides a comprehensive study and articulation of the interlocking arguments against the fear of death found not only in the writings of...
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Parution : 2004-06-17

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Télécharger le livre :  Plasma Spectroscopy

This book focuses on the characteristics of optical radiation, or a spectrum, emitted by various plasmas. In plasma, the same atomic species can produce quite different spectra, or colours, depending on the nature of the plasma.This book gives a theoretical framework by...
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Télécharger le livre :  Ancient Philosophy

Sir Anthony Kenny tells the fascinating story of the birth of philosophy and its remarkable flourishing in the ancient Mediterranean world. This is the first of four volumes in which he will unfold a magisterial new history of Western philosophy. Specially written for a...
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Télécharger le livre :  Governments, Labour, and the Law in Mid-Victorian Britain

This is a study of how governments and their specialist advisers, in an age of free trade and the minimal state, attempted to create a viable legal framework for trade unions and strikes. It traces the collapse, in the face of judicial interventions, of the regime for...
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Parution : 2004-06-17

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Télécharger le livre :  Ethics Without Principles

Jonathan Dancy presents a long-awaited exposition and defence of particularism in ethics, a view with which he has been associated for twenty years. He argues that the traditional link between morality and principles, or between being moral and having principles, is...
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Parution : 2004-06-10

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Télécharger le livre :  The Physics of Inertial Fusion

This book is on inertial confinement fusion, an alternative way to produce electrical power from hydrogen fuel by using powerful lasers or particle beams. Two huge laser facilities are presently under construction to show that this method works. It involves the...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2004-06-03

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Télécharger le livre :  The Midwife of Platonism

Plato's Theaetetus is an acknowledged masterpiece, and among the most influential texts in the history of epistemology. Since antiquity it has been debated whether this dialogue was written by Plato to support his familiar metaphysical doctrines, or represents a...
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Parution : 2004-05-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Truth and Paradox

Truth and Paradox offers a comprehensive account of truth values and the norms governing claims about truth, based on a new approach to logic and semantics. Since the seminal work of Tarski in the mid-twentieth century, the Liar paradox and other related paradoxes have...
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Parution : 2004-05-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Reductive Logic and Proof-search

This book is a specialized monograph on the development of the mathematical and computational metatheory of reductive logic and proof-search, areas of logic that are becoming important in computer science. A systematic foundational text on these emerging topics, it...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2004-04-29

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Télécharger le livre :  Evidentialism

Evidentialism is a view about the conditions under which a person is epistemically justified in having a particular doxastic attitude toward a proposition.Evidentialism holds that the justified attitudes are determined entirely by the person's evidence. This is the...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2004-04-22

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Télécharger le livre :  Renewing Meaning

At the birth of analytic philosophy Frege created a paradigm that is centrally important to how meaning has been understood in the twentieth century. Frege invented the now familiar distinctions of sense and force, of sense and reference, of concept and object. He...
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Parution : 2004-04-15

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Télécharger le livre :  The Philosophy of Enchantment

This is the long-awaited publication of a set of writings by the British philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R.G. Collingwood on critical, anthropological, and cultural themes only hinted at in his previously available work. At the centre of the book are six...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2004-04-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Consciousness and its Objects

Colin McGinn presents his latest work on consciousness in ten interlinked essays, four of them previously unpublished. He extends and deepens his controversial solution to the mind-body problem, defending the view that consciousness is both ontologically unproblematic...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2004-03-25

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Télécharger le livre :  The Existence of God

Richard Swinburne presents a substantially rewritten and updated edition of his most celebrated book. No other work has made a more powerful case for the probability of the existence of God. Swinburne gives a rigorous and penetrating analysis of the most important...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2004-03-25

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Télécharger le livre :  Problems of Rationality

Problems of Rationality is the eagerly awaited fourth volume of Donald Davidson's philosophical writings. From the 1960s until his death in August 2003 Davidson was perhaps the most influential figure in English-language philosophy, and his work has had a profound...
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