Télécharger le livre :  The Structural Foundations of Quantum Gravity

Quantum gravity is the name given to a theory that unites general relativity - Einstein's theory of gravitation and spacetime - with quantum field theory, our framework for describing non-gravitational forces. The Structural Foundations ofQuantum Gravity brings together...
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Télécharger le livre :  Hegel: Philosophy of Mind

G. W. F. Hegel is an immensely important yet difficult philosopher. Philosophy of Mind is the third part of Hegel's Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, in which he summarizes his philosophical system. It is one of the main pillars of his thought. Michael Inwood...
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Télécharger le livre :  Pascal's Wager

What if there is no strong evidence that God exists? Is belief in God when faced with a lack of evidence illegitimate and improper? Evidentialism answers yes. According to Evidentialism, it is impermissible to believe any proposition lacking adequate evidence. And if...
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Télécharger le livre :  The Porous Medium Equation

The Heat Equation is one of the three classical linear partial differential equations of second order that form the basis of any elementary introduction to the area of PDEs, and only recently has it come to be fairly well understood. In this monograph, aimed at research...
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Télécharger le livre :  Kant, Science, and Human Nature

Robert Hanna argues for the importance of Kant's theories of the epistemological, metaphysical, and practical foundations of the 'exact sciences'--- relegated to the dustbin of the history of philosophy for most of the 20th century. Hanna's earlier book Kant and the...
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Parution : 2006-10-19

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Télécharger le livre :  How the Body Shapes the Mind

How the Body Shapes the Mind is an interdisciplinary work that addresses philosophical questions by appealing to evidence found in experimental psychology, neuroscience, studies of pathologies, and developmental psychology. There is a growing consensus across these...
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Parution : 2006-10-12

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Télécharger le livre :  Thought and Reality

In this short, lucid, rich book Michael Dummett sets out his views about some of the deepest questions in philosophy. The fundamental question of metaphysics is: what does reality consist of? To answer this, Dummett holds, it is necessary to say what kinds of fact...
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Parution : 2006-10-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Contemplating Art

Contemplating Art is a compendium of writings from the last ten years by one of the leading figures in aesthetics, Jerrold Levinson. The book contains twenty-four essays and is divided into seven parts. The first is about issues relating to art in general, not specific...
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Parution : 2006-10-05

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Télécharger le livre :  The Letters of Adam Marsh

The first Franciscan friar to occupy a chair of theology at Oxford, Adam Marsh became famous both in England and on the continent as one of the foremost Biblical scholars of his time. He moved with equal assurance in the world of politics and the scholastic world of the...
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Parution : 2006-09-28

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Télécharger le livre :  The Architecture of the Mind

This book is a comprehensive development and defense of one of the guiding assumptions of evolutionary psychology: that the human mind is composed of a large number of semi-independent modules. The Architecture of the Mind has three main goals. One is to argue for...
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Parution : 2006-09-28

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Télécharger le livre :  The Moral Demands of Affluence

How much are we morally required to do to help people who are much worse off than us? On any credible moral outlook, other people's pressing need for assistance can ground moral requirements on us to help them---requirements of beneficence.How far do those requirements...
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Parution : 2006-09-21

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Télécharger le livre :  Kant and the Historical Turn

Immanuel Kant's work changed the course of modern philosophy; in these essays Karl Ameriks examines how. He compares the philosophical system set out in Kant's Critiques with the work of the major philosophers before and after him (Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, Reid,...
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Parution : 2006-09-14

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Télécharger le livre :  From Epicurus to Epictetus

A.A. Long, one of the world's leading writers on ancient philosophy, presents eighteen essays on the philosophers and schools of the Hellenistic and Roman periods---Epicureans, Stoics, and Sceptics. The discussion ranges over four centuries of innovative and challenging...
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Parution : 2006-09-14

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Télécharger le livre :  The Architecture of the Imagination

This volume presents new essays on the propositional imagination by leading researchers. The propositional imagination---the mental capacity we exploit when we imagine that everyone is colour-blind or that Hamlet is a procrastinator---plays an essential role in...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2006-09-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Aristotle: Metaphysics Theta


Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2006-08-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Mathematical Methods for the Magnetohydrodynamics of Liquid Metals

This comprehensive text focuses on mathematical and numerical techniques for the simulation of magnetohydrodynamic phenomena, with an emphasis laid on the magnetohydrodynamics of liquid metals, and on a prototypical industrial application. Aimed at research...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2006-08-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Reasons and the Good

In Reasons and the Good Roger Crisp answers some of the oldest questions in moral philosophy. Claiming that a fundamental issue in normative ethics is what ultimate reasons for action we might have, he argues that the best statements of such reasons will not employ...
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Parution : 2006-08-24

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Télécharger le livre :  Thought's Footing

Thought's Footing is an enquiry into the relationship between the ways things are and the way we think and talk about them. It is also a study of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: Charles Travis develops his account of certain key themes into a unified view...
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Parution : 2006-08-03

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Télécharger le livre :  On Images

Whether it was the demands of life, leisure, or a combination of both that forced our hands, we have developed a myriad of artefacts---maps, notes, descriptions, diagrams, flow-charts, photographs, paintings, and prints---that stand for other things. Most agree that...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2006-08-03

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Télécharger le livre :  Words and Thoughts

It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words. Sentences, it is said, are what we believe, assert, and argue for; uses of them constitute our evidence in semantics; only they stand in inferential relations, and are true or false....
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