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A Naïve Realist Theory of Colour defends the view that colours are mind-independent properties of things in the environment, that are distinct from properties identified by the physical sciences. This view stands in contrast to the long-standing and wide-spread view...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-24
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François Recanati has pioneered the 'mental file' framework for thinking about concepts and how we refer to the world in thought and language.
Mental files are based on 'epistemically rewarding' relations to objects in the environment. Standing in such relations to...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-17
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A Naïve Realist Theory of Colour defends the view that colours are mind-independent properties of things in the environment, that are distinct from properties identified by the physical sciences. This view stands in contrast to the long-standing and wide-spread view...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-17
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Dieses Buch leistet zweierlei: Einerseits beantwortet es in allgemeinverständlicher Form die Frage, wie es dazu gekommen ist, dass es den Menschen gibt und was das Besondere an ihm ist. Der Leser wird nicht nur in die Entwicklung der Materie vom Urknall bis zur...
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Springer VS
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2016-10-31
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Kirk Ludwig develops a novel reductive account of plural discourse about collective action and shared intention. Part I develops the event analysis of action sentences, provides an account of the content of individual intentions, and on that basis an analysis of...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-10-06
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Towards Non-Being presents an account of the semantics of intentional language--verbs such as 'believes', 'fears', 'seeks', 'imagines'. Graham Priest tackles problems concerning intentional states which are often brushed under the carpet in discussions of...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-22
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Das Buch spannt einen Bogen von der Kernfrage der Metaphysik hin zur Ausgangsfrage der Anthropologie: Was ist der Mensch? Ein missratenes Geschöpf, dem nur die blanke Verzweiflung bleibt, weil es für die Welt besser wäre, wenn es ihn gar nicht gäbe? Oder geht, um es mit...
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Springer VS
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2016-09-02
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Das Bild vom Menschen und die Ordnung der Gesellschaft
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The experience of illness is a universal and substantial part of human existence. Like death, illness raises important philosophical issues. But unlike death, illness, and in particular the experience of being ill, has received little philosophical attention. This may...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-08-26
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This book aims to answer two simple questions: what is it to want and what is it to intend? Because of the breadth of contexts in which the relevant phenomena are implicated and the wealth of views that have attempted to account for them, providing the answers is not...
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Springer
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2016-03-01
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Shelley Weinberg argues that the idea of consciousness as a form of non-evaluative self-awareness runs through and helps to solve some of the thorniest issues in Locke's philosophy: in his philosophical psychology and in his theories of knowledge, personal identity, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-01-07
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Shelley Weinberg argues that the idea of consciousness as a form of non-evaluative self-awareness runs through and helps to solve some of the thorniest issues in Locke's philosophy: in his philosophical psychology and in his theories of knowledge, personal identity, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-01-07
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This book provides an overview of key features of (philosophical) materialism, in historical perspective. It is, thus, a study in the history and philosophy of materialism, with a particular focus on the early modern and Enlightenment periods, leading into the 19th and...
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Springer
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2016-01-06
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This book is divided into three main parts: an introduction to theories of culture, a section on Chinese culture, and one on cultural construction. The first part can be interpreted as an attempt to explore the meta-theoretical system of culture at the philosophical...
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Springer
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2015-12-21
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Religion, das Phänomen des Religiösen, Religiosität als
Verhaltensweise sowie die vielfältigen Formen religiöser Praxis stehen im
Zentrum wissenschaftlicher Debatten und alltäglicher sozialpolitischer
Diskussionen über die Grenzbestimmungen von Kulturen, Gesellschaften...
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Springer VS
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2015-12-14
Collection :
Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie
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Alle kulturellen Praktiken sind verkörpert: Ihnen ist die Spannungseinheit von leiblichem Erleben, physischem Tun und kulturellem Sinn eingeschrieben. Von den Kognitions- bis zu den Kulturwissenschaften ist Verkörperung daher mittlerweile ein zentrales Forschungsthema....
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Springer VS
Parution :
2015-11-10
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Studien zur Interdisziplinären Anthropologie
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This book collects nine seminal essays by Mark Richard published between 1980 and 2014, alongside four new essays and an introduction that puts the essays in context. Each essay is an attempt, in one way or another, to understand the idea of a proposition. Part I...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-10-29
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What is a religious or spiritual delusion?What does religious delusion reveal about the difference between good and bad spirituality?What is the connection between religious delusion and moral failure? Or between religious delusion and religious terrorism? Or religious...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-08-27
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What is a religious or spiritual delusion?What does religious delusion reveal about the difference between good and bad spirituality?What is the connection between religious delusion and moral failure? Or between religious delusion and religious terrorism? Or religious...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-08-27
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Contemporary China, in an era of globalization and in the midst of transition, now faces both great opportunities and unprecedented challenges. People are more and more becoming “economic man,” “technological man” and “one-dimensional man,” and are increasingly losing...
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Springer
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2015-08-25
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