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A confluence of scholarly interest has resulted in a revival of Thomistic scholarship across the world. Several areas in the investigation of St. Thomas Aquinas, however, remain under-explored. This volume contributes to two of these neglected areas. First, the volume...
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Springer
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2013-03-12
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This Handbook is intended to show the links between the philosophy written in the Middle Ages and that being done today. Essays by over twenty medieval specialists, who are also familiar with contemporary discussions, explore areas in logic and philosophy of language,...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-05-30
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This book investigates the re-discovery of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed by the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement in Germany of the nineteenth and beginning twentieth Germany. Since this movement is inseparably connected with religious reforms that took place at...
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Springer
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2012-05-03
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Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Philosophy
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Thomas Aquinas (1224/6-1274) lived an active, demanding academic and ecclesiastical life that ended while he was still comparatively young. He nonetheless produced many works, varying in length from a few pages to a few volumes.
The present book is an introduction to...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-07-01
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This book locates Christine de Pizan's argument that women are virtuous members of the political community within the context of earlier discussions of the relative virtues of men and women. It is the first to explore how women were represented and addressed within...
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Springer
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2011-04-05
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The New Synthese Historical Library
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Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values come to be regarded as the yardstick for all other forms of knowledge? Stephen Gaukroger shows just how bitterly the cognitive and cultural standing of science was contested in its early development....
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Clarendon Press
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2008-10-23
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the demise ofthe logical positivism programme. The answers given to these qu- tions have deepenedthe already existing gap between philosophy andthe history and practice of science. Whilethe positivists argued for a spontaneous, steady and continuous growth of scientific...
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Springer
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2008-07-15
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Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
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From time immemorial, concern with timing of life has been crucial for the regulation of human praxis as well as for the philosophical quest to understand existence by seeking its meaning. The two used to inform each other, until modernity, when they parted. In spite of...
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Springer
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2007-09-19
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Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue
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Forming the Mind deals with the internal senses, the mind/body problem and other problems associated with the concept of mind as it developed from Avicenna to the medical Enlightenment. The book collects essays from some of the foremost scholars in a relatively new and...
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Springer
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2007-07-20
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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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Clarendon Press
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2007-03-01
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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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Clarendon Press
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2007-03-01
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Truth is one of the most debated topics in philosophy; Wolfgang Künne presents a comprehensive critical examination of all major theories. Conceptions ofTruth is organized around a flow-chart comprising sixteen key questions, ranging from Is truth a property? to Is...
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Clarendon Press
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2003-06-06
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The work of Thomas Aquinas has always enjoyed a privileged position as a pillar of Catholic theology, but for centuries his standing among western philosophers was less sure. Today, Aquinas's work is recognized as a cornerstone of the western philosophical tradition.
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Oxford University Press
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2002-12-05
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Byzantine philosophy is an almost unexplored field. Being regarded either as mere scholars or as primarily religious thinkers,Byzantine philosophers, for the most part, have not been studied on their own philosophical merit, and their works have hardly been scrutinized...
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OUP Oxford
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2002-03-28
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Facing Facts is a powerful, original examination of attempts to dislodge a cornerstone of modern philosophy: the idea that our thoughts and utterances are representations of slices of reality. Representations that are accurate are usually said to be true, to correspond...
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Clarendon Press
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2001-11-01
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Robert Grosseteste (c 1168-1253) was the initiator of the English scientific tradition, one of the first chancellors of Oxford University, and a famous teacher and commentator on the newly discovered works of Aristotle. In this book, James McEvoy provides the first...
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Oxford University Press
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2000-09-21
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This volume provides a brief and accessible introduction to the 9th-century philosopher and theologian John Scottus Eriugena--perhaps the most important philosophical thinker to appear in Latin Christendom in the period between Augustine and Anselm. Eriugena was known...
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Oxford University Press
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2000-03-09
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The nature and content of the thought of Duns Scotus (c. 1266-1308) remains largely unknown except by the expert. This book provides an accessible account of Scotus' theology, focusing both on what is distinctive in his thought, and on issues where his insights might...
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Oxford University Press
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1999-06-17
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About Aquinas: St Thomas Aquinas lived from 1224/5 to 1274, mostly in his native Italy but for a time in France. He was the greatest of the medieval philosopher/theologians, and one of the most important of all Western thinkers. His most famous books are the two...
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Clarendon Press
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1999-06-17
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