Télécharger le livre :  Aquinas on Friendship

Daniel Schwartz examines the views on friendship of the great medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas. For Aquinas friendship is the ideal type of relationship that rational beings should cultivate. Schwartz argues that Aquinas fundamentally revises some of the main...
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Parution : 2007-03-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality

In philosophy as in ordinary life, cause and effect are twin pillars on which much of our thought seems based. But almost a century ago, Bertrand Russell declared that modern physics leaves these pillars without foundations. Russell's revolutionary conclusion was that...
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Parution : 2007-02-22

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Télécharger le livre :  Works of Music

In this original and iconoclastic book, Julian Dodd argues for what he terms the simple view of the ontological nature of works of pure, instrumental music. This account is the conjunction of two theses: the type/token theory and sonicism. The type/token theory...
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Télécharger le livre :  South Asian Writers in Twentieth-Century Britain

South Asian Writers in Twentieth-Century Britain is the first book to provide a historical account of the publication and reception ofSouth Asian anglophone writing from the 1930s to the present, based on original archival research drawn from a range of publishing...
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Parution : 2007-02-22

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Télécharger le livre :  Plotinus on Intellect

Plotinus (205-269 AD) is considered the founder of Neoplatonism, the dominant philosophical movement of late antiquity, and a rich seam of current scholarly interest. Whilst Plotinus' influence on the subsequent philosophical tradition was enormous, his ideas can also...
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Télécharger le livre :  Truth, etc.

Truth, etc. is a wide-ranging study of ancient logic based upon the John Locke lectures given by the eminent philosopher Jonathan Barnes in Oxford. Its six chapters discuss, first, certain ancient ideas about truth; secondly, the Aristotelian conception of predication;...
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Parution : 2007-01-25

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Télécharger le livre :  The Impartial Spectator

D.D. Raphael provides a critical account of the moral philosophy of Adam Smith, presented in his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Whilst it does not have the same prominence in its field as his work on economics, The Wealth of Nations, Smith's writing on...
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Télécharger le livre :  Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers

Animal rights do not feature explicitly in ancient thought. Indeed the notion of natural rights in general is not obviously present in the classical world. Plato and Aristotle are typically read as racist and elitist thinkers who barely recognise the humanity of their...
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Télécharger le livre :  Hegel and the Transformation of Philosophical Critique

William F. Bristow presents an original and illuminating study of Hegel's hugely influential but notoriously difficult Phenomenology of Spirit. Hegel describes the method of this work as a 'way of despair', meaning thereby that the reader who undertakes its inquiry must...
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Télécharger le livre :  Developmental Theism

This is a work of speculative theology based on three themes: that a version of materialism is a help not a hindrance in philosophical theology; that God develops; and that this development is on the whole kenotic, in other words an abandonment of power. Peter Forrest...
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Parution : 2007-01-18

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Télécharger le livre :  Intellectual Virtues

Out of the ferment of recent debates about the intellectual virtues, Roberts and Wood have developed an approach they call 'regulative epistemology'. This is partly a return to classical and medieval traditions, partly in the spirit of Locke's and Descartes's concern...
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Parution : 2007-01-11

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Télécharger le livre :  Intellectual Virtues

Out of the ferment of recent debates about the intellectual virtues, Roberts and Wood have developed an approach they call 'regulative epistemology'. This is partly a return to classical and medieval traditions, partly in the spirit of Locke's and Descartes's concern...
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Télécharger le livre :  Thomas Reid's Theory of Perception

The thesis that the mind cannot directly apprehend features of the physical world - what Reid calls the Way of Ideas - is a staple of Early Modern philosophical tradition. This commitment to the direct awareness of, and only of, mental representations unifies the...
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Parution : 2007-01-11

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Télécharger le livre :  Fuseli's Milton Gallery

Fuseli's Milton Gallery challenges the antipictorial theories and canons of Romantic period culture. Between 1791 and 1799 Swiss painter Henry Fuseli turned Milton's Paradise Lost into a series of 40 pictures.Fuseli's project and other literary galleries developed...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2006-12-21

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Télécharger le livre :  A Future for Presentism

Presentism, the view that only the present exists, was a much neglected position in the philosophy of time for a number of years. Recently, however, it has been enjoying a renaissance among philosophers. A Future for Presentism is meant as a timely contribution to this...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2006-12-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Texts and Traditions

Texts and Traditions explores Shakespeare's thoroughgoing engagement with the religious culture of his time. In the wake of the recent resurgence of interest in Shakespeare's Catholicism, Groves eschews a reductively biographical approach and considers instead the ways...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2006-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Powers

George Molnar came to see that the solution to a number of the problems of contemporary philosophy lay in the development of an alternative to Hume's metaphysics. This alternative would have real causal powers at its centre. Molnar set about developing a thorough...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2006-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Chaucerian Conflict

Chaucerian Conflict explores the textual environment of London in the 1380s and 1390s, revealing a language of betrayal, surveillance, slander, treason, rebellion, flawed idealism, and corrupted compaignyes. Taking a strongly interdisciplinary approach, it examines how...
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Télécharger le livre :  The Law of Non-Contradiction

The Law of Non-Contradiction-that no contradiction can be true-has been a seemingly unassailable dogma since the work of Aristotle, in Book Gamma of the Metaphysics. It is an assumption challenged from a variety of angles in this collection of original papers....
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Télécharger le livre :  Evolution and the Levels of Selection

Does natural selection act primarily on individual organisms, on groups, on genes, or on whole species? Samir Okasha provides a comprehensive analysis of the debate in evolutionary biology over the levels of selection, focusing on conceptual, philosophical and...
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Parution : 2006-11-16

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