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This book is a philosophical investigation of the concepts of honor and authenticity, informed by the paradoxes of the individual-community continuum. To achieve this difficult balancing act, the author refines our concepts of both honor and authenticity. Raymond Angelo...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-29
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This volume brings together new papers advancing contemporary debates in foundational, conceptual, and methodological issues in cognitive neuroscience. The different perspectives presented in each chapter have previously been discussed between the authors, as the volume...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-02
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This book develops and defends a subjectivist account of meaning in life, which holds that the only place that meaning can ever be found is in the way we experience the living of our lives.
Many philosophers consider that a life can only be meaningful if it meets...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-07
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The book highlights a neglected aspect of our moral practices: we can morally protest objectionable conduct without blaming agents for it. In this way, moral responses to wrongful conduct are possible without assessing the blameworthiness of agents.
The book offers an...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-01-18
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The self, self-awareness and emotions are central subjects within contemporary philosophy of mind but comparatively little attention has been paid to the relationships between them.
This volume brings together philosophers from different specialisms to explore these...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-11
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Die Frage nach den Denkfähigkeiten von Maschinen beschäftigt die Menschheit, seit Turing 1950 diese Frage das erste Mal aufwarf. Um das Verhältnis menschlicher und maschineller Denkfähigkeit zu beleuchten, werden in diesem Buch die Argumentationsmodi von Kants...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2024-12-02
Collection :
BestMasters
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This book is the first monograph in English exclusively dedicated to the exegesis of Martin Heidegger’s radical conception of freedom which was developed in response to the human experience of existential guilt and mortality explained through the phenomena of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-12
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This book investigates dispositions in grammatical-normative terms through a contrast between a naturalized paradigm and a Wittgenstein-inspired perspective. The book presents a conceptual analysis of the notion of disposition informed by Wittgenstein's and Ryle's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-29
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"Deeply personal and infinitely digestible, Then I Am Myself the World is a remarkable must-read for anyone interested in knowing their mind.”―Judson Brewer MD, PhD, New York Times–bestselling author of Unwinding Anxiety The world’s leading...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2024-05-07
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This is a book about the moral-existential nature of, and the desire inscribed in, the deadlocks generated by our attempts to ground and exhaustively explain the concerns that provoke philosophical reflection.While the book argues that these deadlocks are symptomatic of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-30
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A singularly powerful and rigorous argument in favor of modern substance dualism In The Substance of Consciousness:A Comprehensive Defense of Contemporary Substance Dualism, two distinguished philosophers deliver a unique and powerful defense of contemporary substance...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-09-07
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This book provides the Latin text and its annotated English translation of the question-commentary of John Buridan (ca. 1300-1360) on Aristotle’s “On the Soul”. Buridan was the most influential Parisian nominalist philosopher of his time. His work speaks across...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-05-29
Collection :
Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action
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Nietzsche gilt als faszinierender Philosoph, der das Denken zu einer gefährlichen Sache, zu einem Abenteuer erklärt und der den/die Leser*in verlockt, sich auf das Wagnis seines Denkens einzulassen. Philosophie erscheint nicht als abstrakte Angelegenheit, sondern als...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-05-20
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Diese Arbeit bespricht die Bedingungen von Selbstbewusstsein. Nach eingehender Kritik an bestehenden philosophischen und naturwissenschaftlichen Theorien wird ein eigenständiger Ansatz zur Akquise von Selbstbewusstsein entwickelt, der die besondere Bedeutung der...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-04-28
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Nietzsche’s “drive theory”, as it is referred to in the secondary literature, is a rich, unique and fascinating articulation of the human condition. In broad brushstrokes, Nietzsche appears to contend that all human psychology is either directly reducible to animal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-21
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This book addresses several key issues in the biological study of death with the intent of capturing their genealogy, the assumptions and presuppositions they make, and the way that they open specific new research avenues. The book is divided into two sections: the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-14
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Discover fascinating and illuminating contributions to historical and contemporary issues in the philosophy of mind In the newly revised second edition of This Is Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction, accomplished philosopher Pete Mandik delivers an accessible primer on...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-10-14
Collection :
This is Philosophy
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Ist Verbundenheit, wie Studien nahelegen, die Essenz von Spiritualität? Und wie könnte ein Religionsmodell aussehen, das auf Verbundenheit als religiöse Bewusstseinsqualität aufbaut? Auf Basis qualitativer Daten aus Interviews mit Langzeitpraktizierenden aus...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-09-01
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This book brings together a team of international scholars to attempt to understand David Hume’s conception of the self. The standard interpretation is that he holds a no-self view: we are just bundles of conscious experiences, thoughts and emotions. There is nothing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-30
Collection :
Philosophers in Depth
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This book discusses the themes of personhood and personal identity. It argues that while there is a metaphysical answer to the question of personal identity, there is no metaphysical answer to the question of what constitutes a person. The author argues against both...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-08-04
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