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The world is populated with many different objects, to which we often attribute properties: we say, for example, that grass is green, that the earth is spherical, that humans are animals, and that murder is wrong. We also take it that these properties are things in...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-05-12
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Key Concepts in Philosophy
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Roman Ingarden (1893-1970), one of Husserl’s closest students and friends, ranks among the most eminent of the first generation of phenomenologists. His magisterial Controversy over the Existence of the World, written during the years of World War II in occupied Poland,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-05
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Metaphysics and Epistemology: A Guided Anthology presents a comprehensive introductory overview of key themes, thinkers, and texts in metaphysics and epistemology. Presents a wide-ranging collection of carefully excerpted readings on metaphysics and epistemology Blends...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-09-25
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Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies
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In this engaging and wide-ranging new book, Nikk Effingham provides an introduction to contemporary ontology - the study of what exists - and its importance for philosophy today. He covers the key topics in the field, from the ontology of holes, numbers and...
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Polity
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2013-08-26
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In a series of thought-provoking and original essays, eighteen leading philosophers engage in head-to-head debates of nine of the most cutting edge topics in contemporary metaphysics. Explores the fundamental questions in contemporary metaphysics in a series of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-05-20
Collection :
Contemporary Debates in Philosophy
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What is free will? Why is it important? Can the same act be both free and determined? Is free will necessary for moral responsibility? Does anyone have free will, and if not, how is creativity possible and how can anyone be praised or blamed for anything?These are just...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-26
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Key Concepts in Philosophy
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A Companion to the Philosophy of Time presents the broadest treatment of this subject yet; 32 specially commissioned articles - written by an international line-up of experts – provide an unparalleled reference work for students and specialists alike in this exciting...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-01-22
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Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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A Companion to the Philosophy of Time presents the broadest treatment of this subject yet; 32 specially commissioned articles - written by an international line-up of experts – provide an unparalleled reference work for students and specialists alike in this exciting...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-01-14
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Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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An expansive, yet succinct, analysis of the Philosophy of Religion – from metaphysics through theology. Organized into two sections, the text first examines truths concerning what is possible and what is necessary. These chapters lay the foundation for the book’s second...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-12-15
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A Companion to Relativism presents original contributions from leading scholars that address the latest thinking on the role of relativism in the philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of science, logic, and metaphysics. Features original...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-21
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Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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Taking into account significant developments in the metaphysical thinking of E. J. Lowe over the past 20 years, More Kinds of Being: A Further Study of Individuation, Identity, and the Logic of Sortal Terms presents a thorough reworking and expansion of the 1989 edition...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-11-19
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Hard Truths is a groundbreaking new work in which noted philosopher Elijah Millgram advances a new approach to truth and its role in our day-to-day reasoning. Takes up the hard truths of real reasoning and draws out their implications for logic and metaphysics...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-30
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Fully extended and revised, A Companion to Metaphysics 2nd Edition includes a section of detailed review essays from renowned metaphysicians, and the addition of more than 30 new encyclopedic entries, taking the number of entries to over 300. Includes revisions to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-12
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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Focusing on the concepts and interactions of free will, moral responsibility, and determinism, this text represents the most up-to-date account of the four major positions in the free will debate. Four serious and well-known philosophers explore the opposing viewpoints...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-04
Collection :
Great Debates in Philosophy
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The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics is a definitive introduction to the core areas of metaphysics. It brings together sixteen internationally respected philosophers that demonstrate how metaphysics is done as they examine topics including causation, temporality,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Blackwell Philosophy Guides
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Might we be parts of a divine mind? Could anything like an afterlife make sense? Starting with a Platonic answer to why the world exists, Immortality Defended suggests we could well be immortal in all of three separate ways. Tackles the fundamental questions posed...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary Metaphysics is about some of the most fundamental kinds of things that there are; the things that we encounter in everyday experience. A book about the things that we encounter in everyday experience. Contains a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary Metaphysics is about some of the most fundamental kinds of things that there are; the things that we encounter in everyday experience. A book about the things that we encounter in everyday experience. Contains a thorough...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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