Télécharger le livre :  Conceptions of Truth

Truth is one of the most debated topics in philosophy; Wolfgang Künne presents a comprehensive critical examination of all major theories. Conceptions ofTruth is organized around a flow-chart comprising sixteen key questions, ranging from Is truth a property? to Is...
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Parution : 2003-06-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Nietzsche's Critiques

Kevin Hill's highly original new interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy is the first to examine in detail his debt to Kant, in particular the Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, and Critique of Judgement. Nietzsche, Hill argues, knew Kant far better...
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Parution : 2003-05-29

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Télécharger le livre :  Platonopolis

Conventional wisdom suggests that the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity, from Plotinus (third century) to the sixth-century schools in Athens and Alexandria, neglected the political dimension of their Platonic heritage in their concentration on an otherworldly...
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Parution : 2003-05-01

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Télécharger le livre :  From an Ontological Point of View

Is the world hierarchically arranged, incorporating 'levels' of reality? What is the nature of objects and properties? What does 'realism' about ordinary objects or states of mind demand? When an assertion is true, what makes it true? Are natural properties best...
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Télécharger le livre :  Finite Element Methods for Maxwell's Equations

Since the middle of the last century, computing power has increased sufficiently that the direct numerical approximation of Maxwell's equations is now an increasingly important tool in science and engineering. Parallel to the increasing use of numerical methods in...
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Parution : 2003-04-17

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Télécharger le livre :  A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals

Conditional sentences are among the most intriguing and puzzling features of language: analysis of their meaning and function has important implications for, and uses in, many areas of philosophy. Jonathan Bennett, one of the world's leading experts, distils many years'...
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Parution : 2003-04-03

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Télécharger le livre :  Virtue Ethics

Christine Swanton offers a new, comprehensive theory of virtue ethics which addresses the major concerns of modern ethical theory from a character-based perspective. Discussion of many problems in moral theory, such as moral constraints, rightness of action, the good...
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Parution : 2003-03-20

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Télécharger le livre :  The Seventh Sense

The Seventh Sense is the definitive study of the aesthetic theory of the great eighteenth-century philosopher Francis Hutcheson, arguably the founder of the modern discipline of aesthetics, and one of the most important figures of the Scottish Enlightenment. This new...
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Parution : 2003-02-20

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Télécharger le livre :  The Heirs of Plato

The Heirs of Plato is the first book exclusively devoted to an in-depth study of the various directions in philosophy taken by Plato's followers in the first seventy years or so following his death in 347 BC. - the period generally known as 'The Old Academy'....
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Parution : 2003-01-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Knowing Persons

Knowing Persons is an original study of Plato's account of personhood. For Plato, embodied persons are images of a disembodied ideal. The ideal person is a knower. Hence, the lives of embodied persons need to be understood according to Plato's metaphysics of...
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Parution : 2003-01-16

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Télécharger le livre :  Reasons and Purposes

People do things for reasons. But philosophers have disagreed sharply about how 'reasons explanations' of actions actually work and hence about their implications for human freedom and autonomy. The dominant view in contemporary philosophy is the (Humean) idea that the...
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Parution : 2003-01-16

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Télécharger le livre :  The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature

The aesthetics of nature has over the last few decades become an intense focus of philosophical reflection, as it has been ever more widely recognised that it is not a mere appendage to the aesthetics of art. Just as nature offers aesthetic experiences beyond the reach...
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Parution : 2003-01-09

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Télécharger le livre :  The Resurrection of God Incarnate

Whether or not Jesus rose bodily from the dead remains perhaps the most critical and contentious issue in Christianity. Until now, argument has centred upon the veracity of explicit New Testament accounts of the events following Jesus's crucifixion, often ending in...
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Parution : 2003-01-09

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Télécharger le livre :  System Control and Rough Paths

This book describes a completely novel mathematical development which has already influenced probability theory, and has potential for application to engineering and to areas of pure mathematics. Intended for probabilists, mathematicians and engineers with a...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2002-12-19

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Télécharger le livre :  Truth, Rationality, and Pragmatism

Christopher Hookway presents a series of studies of themes from the work of the great American philosopher Charles S. Peirce (1839-1913), often described as the founder of pragmatism. These themes concern how we are able to investigate the world rationally; and, as...
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Parution : 2002-12-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Aspects of Hobbes

Noel Malcolm, one of the world's leading experts on Thomas Hobbes, presents a set of extended essays on a wide variety of aspects of the life and work of this giant of early modern thought. Malcolm offers a succinct introduction to Hobbes's life and thought, as a...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2002-11-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Political Thought in Ireland 1776-1798

This is the first comprehensive analysis of late eighteenth-century Irish patriot thought and its development into 1790s radical republicanism. The book is a history of the rich political ideas and languages that emerged from the tumultuous events and colourful...
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Parution : 2002-11-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Rules, Reasons, and Norms

Philip Pettit has drawn together here a series of interconnected essays on three subjects to which he has made notable contributions. The first part of the book deals with the rule-following character of thought. The second discusses the many factors to which choice is...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2002-10-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Thinking about Knowing

Jay Rosenberg offers a systematic philosophical theory of knowledge which is specifically responsive to the fact that we always engage the world from a particular perspective within it. It consequently calls into question in a fundamental way many received...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2002-10-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Virtues and Vices

'Foot stands out among contemporary ethical theorists because of her conviction that virtues and vices are more central ethical notions than rights, duties, justice, or consequences - the primary focus of most other contemporary theorists. This volume brings together a...
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Parution : 2002-10-17

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