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Philipp Frank (1884-1966) was an influential philosopher of science, public intellectual, and Harvard educator whose las......more
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All of us who work in the field of death and dying are, beyond our projects and our practices, working on our awareness ......more
Posthumanism has come to synthesize philosophical, literary, and artistic responses to the pressures of technology, glob......more
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In his latest book, Terry Eagleton, one of the most celebrated intellects of our time, considers the least regarded of t......more
Is there any such thing as a single ethical system to which all human beings could conceivably subscribe? The short answ......more
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Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher, argued that human beings needed government in order to save t......more
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Concentric Space as a Life Principle beyond Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Ricoeur invites a fresh vision of human experien......more
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Why do we think ourselves superior to all other animals? Are we right to think so? In this book, Michael Ruse explores t......more
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In Antigone’s Sisters, Lenart Skof explores the power of love in our world--stronger than violence and, ultimately, stro......more
The classical conception of reason (or logos) has been repeatedly attacked in the modern era. Its enemies range from Des......more
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This volume is a collection of essays on a special theme in Aristotelian philosophy of mind: the internal senses. The fi......more
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In our modern time of division, who belongs to the we is an important and underexamined area of philosophical investigat......more
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This monograph presents a clear account of when and how attentional processes can shape perceptual experience. This argu......more
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Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives is the first book to offer students......more
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) is one of the most important and influential philosophers of the modern period. He......more
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Introduction.- Part I: The Concept of Violence.- 1. Violence as Metaphor, Vasti Roodt.- 2. Violence and Essentialism, Lo......more
In this book, William Ian Miller offers his reflections on the perverse consequences, indeed often the opposite of inten......more
With The Human Animal Earthling Identity Carrie P. Freeman asks us to reconsider the devastating division we have create......more
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Natural kinds is a widely used and pivotal concept in philosophy - the idea being that the classifications and taxonomie......more
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This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Though Kan......more
This is a collection of pithy and accessible essays on the nature and implications of human embodiment which explore the......more