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Taking Wittgenstein At His Word - A Textual Study

de Robert J. Fogelin

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 Taking Wittgenstein at His Word is an experiment in reading organized around a central question: What kind of interpretation of Wittgenstein's later philosophy emerges if we adhere strictly to his claims that he is not in the business of presenting and defending philosophical theses and that his only aim is to expose persistent conceptual misunders
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Hegel On Self-Consciousness - Desire And Death In The Phenomenology Of Spirit

de Robert B. Pippin

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 In the most influential chapter of his most important philosophical work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel makes the central and disarming assertions that "self-consciousness is desire itself" and that it attains its "satisfaction" only in another self-consciousness. Hegel on Self-Consciousness presents a groundbreaking new interpretation of thes
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Justice Is Conflict

de Stuart Hampshire

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 Develops a distinction between justice in procedures, which demands that both sides in a conflict should be heard, and justice in matters of substance, which will always be disputed.
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When Is True Belief Knowledge?

de Richard Foley

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 A woman glances at a broken clock and comes to believe it is a quarter past seven. Yet, despite the broken clock, it really does happen to be a quarter past seven. Her belief is true, but it isn't knowledge. This title finds a solution to the problem in the observation.
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Hegel On Self-Consciousness - Desire And Death In The Phenomenology Of Spirit

de Robert B. Pippin

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 In the most influential chapter of his most important philosophical work, the "Phenomenology of Spirit", Hegel makes the central and disarming assertions that 'self-consciousness is desire itself' and that it attains its 'satisfaction' only in another self-consciousness. This book presents a fresh interpretation of these revolutionary claims.
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Kant And Skepticism

de Michael N. Forster

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 Presents a reappraisal of Immanuel Kant's conception of and response to skepticism, as set forth principally in the "Critique of Pure Reason". This work distinguishes among three types of skepticism: 'veil of perception' skepticism; Humean skepticism; and Pyrrhonian skepticism.
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Physicalism, Or Something Near Enough

de Jaegwon Kim

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 Contemporary discussions in philosophy of mind have largely been shaped by physicalism, the doctrine that all phenomena are ultimately physical. This book lays out mental causation and consciousness as the two principal challenges to contemporary physicalism.
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Welfare And Rational Care

de Stephen Darwall

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 What kind of life best ensures human welfare? Since the ancient Greeks, this question has been as central to ethical philosophy as to ordinary reflection. But what exactly is welfare? Presenting a rational care theory of welfare, this work proves that an understanding of welfare fundamentally changes how we think about what is best for people.
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Freedom, Resentment, And The Metaphysics Of Morals

de Pamela Hieronymi

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 An innovative reassessment of philosopher P. F. Strawson's influential "Freedom and Resentment"P. F. Strawson was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his 1962 paper "Freedom and Resentment" is one of the most influential in modern moral philosophy, prompting responses across multiple disciplines, from psychology t
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Freedom, Resentment, And The Metaphysics Of Morals

de Pamela Hieronymi

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 An innovative reassessment of philosopher P. F. Strawson's influential "Freedom and Resentment"P. F. Strawson was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his 1962 paper "Freedom and Resentment" is one of the most influential in modern moral philosophy, prompting responses across multiple disciplines, from psychology t
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Italo Calvino - Letters, 1941-1985

de Italo Calvino

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 Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. This book includes a selection of about 650 letters, written between World War II and the end of Calvino's life.
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Kierkegaard'S Concept Of Despair

de Michael Theunissen

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 The literature on Kierkegaard is often content to paraphrase. By contrast, Michael Theunissen articulates one of Kierkegaard's central ideas, his theory of despair, in a detailed and comprehensible manner and confronts it with alternatives. Understanding what Kierkegaard wrote on despair is vital not only because it illuminates his thought as a who
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The Pathologies Of Individual Freedom - Hegel'S Social Theory

de Axel Honneth

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 This is a penetrating reinterpretation and defense of Hegel's social theory as an alternative to reigning liberal notions of social justice. The eminent German philosopher Axel Honneth rereads Hegel's Philosophy of Right to show how it diagnoses the pathologies of the overcommitment to individual freedom that Honneth says underlies the ideas of Raw
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The New Deal - A Global History

de Kiran Klaus Patel

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 The New Deal: A Global History provides a radically new interpretation of a pivotal period in US history. The first comprehensive study of the New Deal in a global context, the book compares American responses to the international crisis of capitalism and democracy during the 1930s to responses by other countries around the globe--not just in Europ
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Social Conventions - From Language To Law

de Andrei Marmor

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 Social conventions are those arbitrary rules and norms governing the countless behaviors all of us engage in every day without necessarily thinking about them, from shaking hands when greeting someone to driving on the right side of the road. In this book, Andrei Marmor offers a pathbreaking and comprehensive philosophical analysis of conventions a
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American Big Business In Britain And Germany - A Comparative History Of Two "Special Relationships" In The 20th Century

de Volker R. Berghahn

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 Examines the triangular relationship between the American, British, and German business communities and how the special relationship that Britain believed it had with the United States was supplanted by one between America and Germany.
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Locke On Personal Identity - Consciousness And Concernment - Updated Edition

de Galen Strawson

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 John Locke's theory of personal identity underlies all modern discussion of the nature of persons and selves - yet it is widely thought to be wrong. This book argues that in fact it is Locke's critics who are wrong, and that the famous objections to his theory are invalid.
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Kierkegaard'S Concept Of Despair

de Michael Theunissen

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 The literature on Kierkegaard is often content to paraphrase. By contrast, this book articulates one of Kierkegaard's central ideas, his theory of despair, in a comprehensible manner and confronts it with alternatives. In addition to articulating and evaluating his concept of despair, it relates his ideas to those of Heidegger, Sartre, and others.
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Partiality

de Simon Keller

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 We are partial to people with whom we share special relationships--if someone is your child, parent, or friend, you wouldn't treat them as you would a stranger. But is partiality justified, and if so, why? Partiality presents a theory of the reasons supporting special treatment within special relationships and explores the vexing problem of how we
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Self-Deception Unmasked

de Alfred R. Mele

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 Self-deception raises questions about the nature of belief and the structure of the human mind. This book takes the issue with commonplace attempts to equate the processes of self-deception with those of stereotypical interpersonal deception.
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Evaluating Education And Training Programmes

de J Heckman

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Mary'S Mosaic - The Cia Conspiracy To Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, And Their Vision For World Peace

de Peter Janney

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 Deals with the life and death story of political peace activist Mary Pinchot Meyer. Highlighting her allegedly romantic and drug-riddled relationship with John F Kennedy, this title aims to debunk conventional wisdom regarding her death and expose the CIA cover-up of her murder - just two weeks after the release of the Warren Commission Report.
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The Simple Joys Of Grandparenting - Stories, Nursery Rhymes, Recipes, Games, Crafts, And More

de Abigail Gehring

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 Suitable for new grandpas and grandmas, this title features stories, recipes such as chocolate chip cookies, mac 'n cheese, and the cupcakes, crafts that entertain any child on a rainy day, and words of wisdom from grandparents through the centuries.
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Thinking Of Others - On The Talent For Metaphor

de Ted Cohen

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 Argues that the ability to imagine oneself as another person is an indispensable human capacity - as essential to moral awareness as it is to literary appreciation - and that this talent for identification is the same as the talent for metaphor. This title offers an original meditation on the necessity of imagination to moral and aesthetic life.
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