Télécharger le livre :  Manifest Activity

Manifest Activity presents and critically examines Thomas Reid's doctrines about the model of human power, the will, our capacities for purposeful conduct, and the place of our agency in the natural world. Reid is one of the most important philosophers of the 18th...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2004-03-25

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Télécharger le livre :  Pleasure and the Good Life

Fred Feldman's fascinating new book sets out to defend hedonism as a theory about the Good Life. He tries to show that, when carefully and charitably interpreted, certain forms of hedonism yield plausible evaluations of human lives. Feldman begins by explaining what...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2004-03-25

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Télécharger le livre :  The Politics of the Poor

This book is about the political views of the 'classic' poor of London's East End in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. The residents of this area have been historically characterized as abjectly poor, casually employed, slum dwellers with a poverty-induced...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2004-03-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Leviathan after 350 Years

Tom Sorell and Luc Foisneau bring together original essays by the world's leading Hobbes scholars to discuss Hobbes's masterpiece after three and a half centuries. The contributors address three different themes. The first is the place of Leviathan within Hobbes's...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2004-02-12

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Télécharger le livre :  Goscelin of Saint-Bertin: The Hagiography of the Female Saints of Ely

Goscelin, monk of Saint-Bertin, who came to England in the early 1060s, was one of the most prolific hagiographers of the Anglo-Saxon saints. William of Malmesbury described him as 'second to none since Bede in the celebration of the English saints'. Part of his career...
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Parution : 2004-02-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Why there is Something rather than Nothing

Why should there be anything at all? Why, in particular, should a material world exist? Bede Rundle advances clear, non-technical answers to these perplexing questions. If, as the theist maintains, God is a being who cannot but exist, his existence explains why there is...
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Parution : 2004-02-05

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Télécharger le livre :  The Letters of Charlotte Brontë

This final volume of Charlotte Brontë's letters covers the period from 1852, when she eventually completed Villette, to March 1855, when she died at the early age of 38. Published in January 1853, Villette reflects experiences and moods conveyed with sharp immediacy in...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2004-01-22

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Télécharger le livre :  The Divine Lawmaker

John Foster presents a clear and powerful discussion of a range of topics relating to our understanding of the universe: induction, laws of nature, and the existence of God. He begins by developing a solution to the problem of induction - a solution whose key idea is...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2004-01-15

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Télécharger le livre :  Quantum Physics in One Dimension

This book presents in a pedagogical yet complete way correlated systems in one dimension. Recent progress in nanotechnology and material research have made one dimensional systems a crucial part of today's physics. After an introduction to the basic concepts of...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2003-12-18

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Télécharger le livre :  The Realm of Reason

The Realm of Reason develops a new, general theory of what it is for a thinker to be entitled to form a given belief.The theory locates entitlement in the nexus of relations between truth, content, and understanding. Peacocke formulates three principles of rationalism...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2003-11-27

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Télécharger le livre :  Knowledge and Lotteries

Knowledge and Lotteries is organized around an epistemological puzzle: in many cases, we seem consistently inclined to deny that we know a certain class of propositions, while crediting ourselves with knowledge of propositions that imply them. In its starkest form, the...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2003-11-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Perfectionism and the Common Good

David Brink presents a study of T. H. Green's classic Prolegomena to Ethics (1883) and its role in his philosophical thought. Green is one of the two most important figures in the British idealist tradition, and his political writings and activities had a profound...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2003-10-02

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Télécharger le livre :  Agency and Responsibility

Is it ever possible for people to act freely and intentionally against their better judgement?Is it ever possible to act in opposition to one's strongest desire? If either of these questions are answered in the negative, the common-sense distinctions between...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2003-10-02

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Télécharger le livre :  Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality

Among the many practical failures that threaten us, weakness of will or akrasia is often considered to be a paradigm of irrationality. The eleven new essays in this collection, written by an excellent international team of philosophers, some well-established, some...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2003-09-04

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Télécharger le livre :  The Things We Mean

If there exist such things as the things we mean, then those things are also the things we believe, and the things in terms of which we must understand all semantic notions.If such entities as the things we mean and believe exist, an account of their nature must be the...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2003-09-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Intellectual Virtue

Virtue ethics has attracted a lot of attention over the past few decades, and more recently there has been considerable interest in virtue epistemology as an alternative to traditional approaches in that field. Ironically, although virtue epistemology got its...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2003-09-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Interpreting Kant's Critiques

Karl Ameriks here collects his most important essays to provide a uniquely detailed and up-to-date analysis of Kant's main arguments in all three major areas of his work: theoretical philosophy (Critique of Pure Reason), practical philosophy (Critique of Practical...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2003-08-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Ways a World Might Be

Ways a World Might Be collects, and adds to, Robert Stalnaker's published papers on metaphysical issues. The central theme that runs throughout the book is the role of possible worlds in articulating our various metaphysical commitments. The essays contain both...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2003-08-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Libertarianism without Inequality

Michael Otsuka sets out to vindicate left-libertarianism, a political philosophy which combines stringent rights of control over one's own mind, body, and life with egalitarian rights of ownership of the world. Otsuka reclaims the ideas of John Locke from the...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2003-07-03

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Télécharger le livre :  Moral Realism

Moral Realism is a systematic defence of the idea that there are objective moral standards. In the tradition of Plato and G. E. Moore, Russ Shafer-Landau argues that there are moral principles that are true independently of what anyone, anywhere, happens to think of...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2003-06-19

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