Télécharger le livre :  The Brute Within

Hendrik Lorenz presents a comprehensive study of Plato's and Aristotle's conceptions of non-rational desire. They see this as something that humans share with animals, and which aims primarily at the pleasures of food, drink, and sex. Lorenz explores the cognitive...
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Parution : 2006-04-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Eadmer of Canterbury: Lives and Miracles of Saints Oda, Dunstan, and Oswald

This volume in Oxford Medieval Text contains Eadmer's Lives of Saints Oda, Dunstan, and Oswald, as well as the Miracles of Dunstan and Oswald. These three English saints, together with Æthelwold of Winchester, were key figures in the Benedictine revival of the tenth...
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Parution : 2006-04-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Metaphysical Essays

John Hawthorne is widely regarded as one of the finest philosophers working today. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to metaphysics, and this volume collects his most notable papers in this field. Hawthorne offers original treatments of fundamental topics...
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Parution : 2006-04-06

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Télécharger le livre :  I: The Meaning of the First Person Term

I is perhaps the most important and the least understood of our everyday expressions. This is a constant source of philosophical confusion. Max de Gaynesford offers a remedy: he explains what this expression means, its logical form and its inferential role. He thereby...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2006-03-02

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Télécharger le livre :  Fear of Knowledge

The academic world has been plagued in recent years by scepticism about truth and knowledge. Paul Boghossian, in his long-awaited first book, sweeps away relativist claims that there is no such thing as objective truth or knowledge, but only truth or knowledge from a...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2006-02-24

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Télécharger le livre :  Saints and their Communities

Saints and their Communities offers a new approach to the study of lay religion as evidenced in collections of miracle narratives in twelfth-century England. There are a number of problems associated with the interpretation of this hagiographical genre and an extended...
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Parution : 2006-02-23

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Télécharger le livre :  John Skelton and Poetic Authority

John Skelton and Poetic Authority is the first book-length study of Skelton for almost twenty years, and the first to trace the roots of his poetic theory to his practice as a writer and translator. It demonstrates that much of what has been found challenging in his...
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Parution : 2006-02-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Agency and Autonomy in Kant's Moral Theory

Andrews Reath presents a selection of his best essays on various features of Kant's moral psychology and moral theory, with particular emphasis on his conception of rational agency and his conception of autonomy. The opening essays explore different elements of Kant's...
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Parution : 2006-02-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Becoming a Subject

Marcia Cavell draws on philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the sciences of the mind in a fascinating and original investigation of human subjectivity. A 'subject' is a creature, we may say, who recognizes herself as an 'I', taking in the world from her own subjective...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2006-02-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Modernizing Nature

Modernizing Nature contributes to the debate regarding the origins, institutionalization, and politics of the sciences and systems of knowledge underlying colonial frameworks of environmental management. It departs from the widely prevalent scholarly perspective that...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2006-02-16

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Télécharger le livre :  In Contradiction

In Contradiction advocates and defends the view that there are true contradictions (dialetheism), a view that flies in the face of orthodoxy in Western philosophy since Aristotle. The book has been at the centre of the controversies surrounding dialetheism ever since...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2006-02-16

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Télécharger le livre :  The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham

This twelfth volume of Correspondence contains authoritative and fully annotated texts of all known letters sent both to and from Bentham between July 1824 and June 1828. The 301 letters, most of which have never before been published, have been collected from archives,...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2006-02-16

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Télécharger le livre :  Experience and the World's Own Language

John McDowell's 'minimal empiricism' is one of the most influential and widely discussed doctrines in contemporary philosophy. Richard Gaskin subjects it to careful examination and criticism. The doctrine is undermined, he argues, by inadequacies in the way McDowell...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2006-02-09

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Télécharger le livre :  Metaethics after Moore

Metaethics, understood as a distinct branch of ethics, is often traced to G. E. Moore's 1903 classic, Principia Ethica. Whereas normative ethics is concerned to answer first order moral questions about what is good and bad, right and wrong, metaethics is concerned to...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2006-01-26

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Télécharger le livre :  The Roots of Reason

David Papineau presents a controversial view of human reason, portraying it as a normal part of the natural world, and drawing on the empirical sciences to illuminate its workings. In these six interconnected essays he offers a fresh approach to some long-standing...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2006-01-26

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Télécharger le livre :  Vagueness in Context

Stewart Shapiro's aim in Vagueness in Context is to develop both a philosophical and a formal, model-theoretic account of the meaning, function, and logic of vague terms in an idealized version of a natural language like English. It is a commonplace that the extensions...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2006-01-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Doubt Truth to be a Liar

Dialetheism is the view that some contradictions are true. This is a view which runs against orthodoxy in logic and metaphysics since Aristotle, and has implications for many of the core notions of philosophy. Doubt Truth to Be a Liar explores these implications for...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2005-12-15

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Télécharger le livre :  The Four-Category Ontology

E. J. Lowe sets out and defends his theory of what there is. His four-category ontology is a metaphysical system that recognizes two fundamental categorial distinctions which cut across each other to generate four fundamental ontological categories. The distinctions are...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2005-12-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Physical Relativity

Physical Relativity explores the nature of the distinction at the heart of Einstein's 1905 formulation of his special theory of relativity: that between kinematics and dynamics. Einstein himself became increasingly uncomfortable with this distinction, and with the...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2005-11-24

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Télécharger le livre :  Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning

Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning brings together Nathan Salmon's influential papers on topics in the metaphysics of existence, non-existence, and fiction; modality and its logic; strict identity, including personal identity; numbers and numerical quantifiers; the...
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Parution : 2005-11-24

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