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On Action

by Carl Ginet

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 This book deals with foundational issues in the theory of the nature of action, the intentionality of action, the compatibility of freedom of action with determinism, and the explantion of action. Ginet's is a volitional view: that every action has as its core a 'simple' mental action.
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Resistance To Evidence

by Mona (University Of Glasgow) Simion

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 Explores the phenomenon of distrusting evidence coming from reliable sources with current examples including climate change and vaccine scepticism. The book argues that evidence resistance relates to a type of cognitive malfunction and distinguishes it from justified evidence rejection occurring in environments polluted with disinformation.
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Resistance To Evidence

by Mona (University Of Glasgow) Simion

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 Explores the phenomenon of distrusting evidence coming from reliable sources with current examples including climate change and vaccine scepticism. The book argues that evidence resistance relates to a type of cognitive malfunction and distinguishes it from justified evidence rejection occurring in environments polluted with disinformation.
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Normative Reasons - Between Reasoning And Explanation

by Arturs (Universitat Zurich) Logins

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 What are reasons to do something? This study assesses and critiques the current theories of normative reasons and provides a new theory of reasons as answers to normative why-questions, both for specialists and advanced students in epistemology, metaethics and ethics.This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Normative Reasons - Between Reasoning And Explanation

by Arturs Logins

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 What are reasons to do something? This study assesses and critiques the current theories of normative reasons and provides a new theory of reasons as answers to normative why-questions, both for specialists and advanced students in epistemology, metaethics and ethics.This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Normative Reasons - Between Reasoning And Explanation

by Arturs Logins

34,45€ + 10% CARD

 What are reasons to do something? This study assesses and critiques the current theories of normative reasons and provides a new theory of reasons as answers to normative why-questions, both for specialists and advanced students in epistemology, metaethics and ethics.This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Normative Reasons - Between Reasoning And Explanation

by Arturs (Universitat Zurich) Logins

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 What are reasons to do something? This study assesses and critiques the current theories of normative reasons and provides a new theory of reasons as answers to normative why-questions, both for specialists and advanced students in epistemology, metaethics and ethics.This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Sharing Knowledge - A Functionalist Account Of Assertion

by Christoph Kelp e Mona Simion

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 This book explores the relation between assertion and knowledge sharing. It shows that assertion and knowledge sharing are intimately connected: what it takes to assert well is explained in terms of assertion's function of knowledge sharing.
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Sharing Knowledge - A Functionalist Account Of Assertion

by Christoph Kelp e Mona Simion

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 This book explores the relation between assertion and knowledge sharing. It shows that assertion and knowledge sharing are intimately connected: what it takes to assert well is explained in terms of assertion's function of knowledge sharing.
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Sharing Knowledge - A Functionalist Account Of Assertion

by Christoph (University Of Glasgow) Kelp e Mona (University Of Glasgow) Simion

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 This book explores the relation between assertion and knowledge sharing. It shows that assertion and knowledge sharing are intimately connected: what it takes to assert well is explained in terms of assertion's function of knowledge sharing.
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The Primitivist Theory Of Truth

by Jamin (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) Asay

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 Asay's book offers a new perspective on the age-old question 'What is truth?', one which promises to shake up contemporary views, and yet is rooted in the very origins of analytic philosophy. For all those interested in the philosophy of language, and metaphysics.
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Papers In Philosophical Logic: Volume 1

by David Lewis

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 This is the first of a three-volume collection of David Lewis's most recent papers in all the areas to which he has made significant contributions. This first volume is devoted to Lewis's work on philosophical logic from the last twenty-five years. It will serve as an important reference tool for all philosophers and their students.
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Theory And Practice Of Autonomy

by Gerald Dworkin

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 This book develops a new concept of autonomy which has emerged as central to contemporary moral and political philosophy, particularly in the area of applied ethics. It uses the concept to analyze practical moral issues such as proxy consent in medicine, paternalism and entrapment by officials.
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Knowledge, Thought, And The Case For Dualism

by Richard (University Of Iowa) Fumerton

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 Fumerton makes a powerful case for the rehabilitation of the knowledge argument for dualism - the observation that we can know the truth that we exist without knowing any truths about the physical world. The book will be of great interest to those studying epistemology and the philosophy of mind.
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Familiar Objects And Their Shadows

by Crawford L. (University Of Connecticut) Elder

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 Most contemporary metaphysicians are sceptical about the reality of familiar objects. They prefer an ontology of the spatially tiny or temporally tiny (or both). Crawford L. Elder argues that all such attempts to 'explain away' familiar objects project downwards, onto the tiny entities, structures and features of familiar objects themselves.
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The Primitivist Theory Of Truth

by Jamin (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) Asay

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 Asay's book offers a new perspective on the age-old question 'What is truth?', one which promises to shake up contemporary views, and yet is rooted in the very origins of analytic philosophy. For all those interested in the philosophy of language, and metaphysics.
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Meaning, Expression And Thought

by Wayne A. (Georgetown University, Washington Dc) Davis

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 This philosophical treatise on the foundations of semantics is a systematic effort to clarify, deepen and defend the classical doctrine that words are conventional signs of mental states, principally thoughts and ideas, and that meaning consists in their expression.
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Understanding Phenomenal Consciousness

by William S. (Iowa State University) Robinson

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 Understanding Phenomenal Consciousness focuses on sensory experience and perception qualities to present a dualistic view of the mind that goes against the dominant materialist views. This book will interest students and professionals working in the philosophy of mind and will have cross-disciplinary appeal in cognitive psychology and the brain sciences.
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Implicature - Intention, Convention, And Principle In The Failure Of Gricean Theory

by Wayne A. (Georgetown University, Washington Dc) Davis

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 H. P. Grice's theory of implicature provides the leading paradigm for research in pragmatics. Wayne Davis argues controversially that Gricean theory does not work. This challenging book offers a searching and systematic critique of one of the most established doctrines in the philosophy of language.
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Probability And Evidence

by Paul Horwich

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 This 1982 volume diagnoses the failure of other attempts to a number of problems in the philosophy of science as stemming from a too-rigid, all-or-nothing conception of belief, and adopts instead a Bayesian strategy, emphasising the degree of confidence to which we are entitled the light of scientific evidence.
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Goodness And Justice - A Consequentialist Moral Theory

by Joseph (University Of Nebraska, Lincoln) Mendola

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 In Goodness and Justice, Joseph Mendola develops a unified moral theory that defends the hedonism of classical utilitarianism, while evading utilitarianism's familiar difficulties by adopting two modifications. His theory incorporates a developed form of consequentialism.
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The Principle Of Sufficient Reason - A Reassessment

by Alexander R. (Georgetown University, Washington Dc) Pruss

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 The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) says that all contingent facts must have explanation. In this 2006 volume, which was the first on the topic in the English language in nearly half a century, Alexander Pruss examines the substantive philosophical issues raised by the Principle of Sufficient Reason.
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Common Sense - A Contemporary Defense

by Noah (Depauw University, Indiana) Lemos

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 This 2004 book presents a strong defense of the common sense tradition, the view that we may take as data for philosophical inquiry many of the things we ordinarily think we know. It discusses the main features of that tradition as expounded by Thomas Reid, G. E. Moore and Roderick Chisholm.
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Anti-Individualism - Mind And Language, Knowledge And Justification

by Sanford C. (University Of Kentucky) Goldberg

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 In acknowledging an ineliminable social dimension to mind, language, and the epistemic categories of knowledge, justification, and rationality, this book develops fundamental links between externalism in the philosophy of mind and language, on the one hand, and externalism in epistemology, on the other.
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