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People with scrupulosity have rigorous, obsessive moral beliefs that lead them to perform extreme, compulsive moral acts. A waitress with this condition checks and rechecks levels of cleaners and solvents to avoid any risk of poisoning her customers. Another individual...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-08-29
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Recent decades have seen attacks on philosophy as an irrelevant field of inquiry when compared with science. In this book, Graham McFee defends the claims of philosophy against attempts to minimize either philosophy’s possibility or its importance by deploying a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-08-27
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What does it mean to understand something?What is the essence of understanding, when compared across multiple domains? Varieties of Understanding offers new and original work on the nature of understanding, raising questions about what understanding looks like from...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-08-22
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What is the role of consciousness in our mental lives? Declan Smithies argues here that consciousness is essential to explaining how we can acquire knowledge and justified belief about ourselves and the world around us. On this view, unconscious beings cannot form...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-08-02
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What are humans?What makes us who we are?
Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by being conscious. In Are We Bodies or Souls? Richard Swinburne comes to the defence of the soul and presents new...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-07-25
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What are humans?What makes us who we are?
Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by being conscious. In Are We Bodies or Souls? Richard Swinburne comes to the defence of the soul and presents new...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-07-25
Format(s) : ePub
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Philosophers have always recognized the value of reason, but the process of reasoning itself has only recently begun to emerge as a philosophical topic in its own right. Is reasoning a distinctive kind of mental process? If so, what is its nature? How does reasoning...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-05-23
Format(s) : ePub
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Philosophers have always recognized the value of reason, but the process of reasoning itself has only recently begun to emerge as a philosophical topic in its own right. Is reasoning a distinctive kind of mental process? If so, what is its nature? How does reasoning...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-05-23
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Die hier erstmals veröffentlichte Philosophische Anthropologie des weltweit anerkannten Religionsphilosophen Richard Schaeffler (1926 bis 2019) ist eine Reflexion auf die seit jeher das Nachdenken der Menschen bewegende Frage ‚Wer bin ich?‘. Immanuel Kant behauptet,...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2019-05-16
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Das Bild vom Menschen und die Ordnung der Gesellschaft
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This book introduces concepts in philosophy of mind and neurophilosophy. Inside, three scholars offer approaches to the problems of identity, consciousness, and the mind. In the process, they open new vistas for thought and raise fresh controversies to some of the...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-02-23
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Larry M. Jorgensen provides a systematic reappraisal of Leibniz's philosophy of mind, revealing the full metaphysical background that allowed Leibniz to see farther than most of his contemporaries. In recent philosophy much effort has been put into discovering a...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-02-21
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This book is about the interweaving between cognitive penetrability and the epistemic role of the two stages of perception, namely early and late vision, in justifying perceptual beliefs. It examines the impact of the epistemic role of perception in defining cognitive...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-02-07
Collection :
Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy
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Die Frage nach dem ‚Eigenen‘ in Kontrast zu einem wie auch immer gearteten ‚Fremden‘ ist auf vielen Ebenen, sowohl in der Gesellschaft als auch in den Wissenschaften, eine theoretische wie praktische Herausforderung. Damit einhergehende Grenzziehungen, die eine Trennung...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2019-02-06
Collection :
Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie
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Heidegger with Derrida: Being Written attempts, for the first time, to think Heidegger's philosophy through the lens of Derrida's logocentric thesis, according to which speech has, throughout the history of metaphysics, been given primacy over writing. The book offers a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-01-09
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Der vorliegende Band versammelt Studien sowie grundlegende Beiträge unterschiedlicher Disziplinen, um den Spuren von Körper und Raum-Relationen nachzugehen. Die Annahme, dass Körper und Räume in einer permanenten wie ursprünglichen Beziehung zueinander stehen, wird in...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2019-01-04
Collection :
Studien zur Interdisziplinären Anthropologie
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In this book, the author takes a stand for a variant of panpsychism as being the best solution available to the mind-body problem. More exactly, he defends a view that can be labelled 'dual-aspect-pan-proto-psychism'. Panpsychism claims that mentality is ubiquitous to...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-12-08
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The relationship between our living body and our soul, our mental expressions of life and our physical environment, are both classical topics for discussion and ones which currently present themselves as part of a truly exciting philosophical debate: are we today still...
Editeur : J.B. Metzler
Parution : 2018-11-21
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Philosophie
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Much of what we say is never said aloud. It occurs only silently, as inner speech. We chastise, congratulate, joke, and generate endless commentary, all without making a sound. This distinctively human ability to create public language in the privacy of our own...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-11-10
Format(s) : PDF
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Much of what we say is never said aloud. It occurs only silently, as inner speech. We chastise, congratulate, joke, and generate endless commentary, all without making a sound. This distinctively human ability to create public language in the privacy of our own...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-11-09
Format(s) : ePub
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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...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-11-01
Format(s) : ePub
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