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Meaning, Mind, and Action
Julia Tanney’s Meaning, Mind, and Action challenges widely held presuppositions within philosophy in its classical ‘analytic’, ‘naturalist’, and ‘cognitivist’ forms. Beginning with canonical views in the philosophy of language and logic, the arguments are then applied to discussions of knowledge,...
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Space and Time as a Matter of Light and Death
Rather than treating space, time, and perception as purely physical phenomena, this book shows how they emerge from our embodied, mortal condition. It explores the existential role of light and death in shaping experience, revealing the hidden foundations of seemingly objective knowledge, both em...
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The Identity Politics of Postcolonial Feminism
The Identity Politics of Postcolonial Feminism provides an original analysis of the conceptual categories of essentialisms (situated and strategic) and the politics of location evoked and practised by five hyphenated South Asian postcolonial feminists in the contemporary Anglo-North-American acad...
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Knowledge and Human Liberation
Human liberation has become an epochal challenge in today’s world, requiring not only emancipation from oppressive structures but also from the oppressive self. This book seeks to rethink knowledge vis-à-vis familiar themes such as human interest, critical theory and cosmopolitanism.
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Ernst Cassirer and the Critical Science of Germany, 1899–1919
Reconstructing the relationship between science and politics in Imperial Germany, this book covers the early work of the philosopher and historian Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945) and discusses his relation to the Marburg School of philosophy.
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Practical Rationality, Learning and Convention
This volume consists of a selection of the writings of Christopher Winch on topics on and related to the philosophy of education from 1988 until the present.
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The End of the World and the Last God
The End of the World and the Last God is a philosophical work that poses a disturbing existential question: what if mankind is definitively bored with Earth? And if so, what will happen if we fail to find a way out of our planet?
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Ethics, Law and the Business of Being Human
This book presents a philosophical and legal inquiry into the sort of creatures we are, and so how to live well and behave well, and an indictment of the failure of the Academy to address these foundational questions.
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Final Reflections on Wittgenstein and Other Topics
This book is a collection of P.M.S. Hacker’s most recent papers on Wittgenstein. Some of them have been previously unpublished while others have been revised since their original publication.
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Wittgenstein, Scepticism and Naturalism
The essays in Wittgenstein, Scepticism and Naturalism cover the later Wittgenstein’s thought on scepticism about the external world; scepticism about other minds; knowledge and belief; meaning and rule-following; and the nature of psychological concepts. Focusing on topics in the later philosophy...
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Post-Truth
‘Post-truth’, Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 word of the year, appears to cover only the turn away from reason in contemporary politics. In fact the truth behind ‘post-truth’ is historically and philosophically more complex. As Fuller shows in this book, it reaches into the nature of knowledge itself.
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A Beginner's Guide to the Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein
In this Beginner’s Guide, Peter Hacker introduces the later philosophy of Wittgenstein in a lively and engaging combination of lectures and dialogues that presupposes no philosophical knowledge. He examines such topics as the nature of language and linguistic meaning, the analysis of necessity an...
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Consciousness is Curvature
Consciousness is Curvature envisions consciousness—human and artificial—as a dynamic curvature of informational and computational spaces, drawing parallels with the theory of general relativity’s malleable spacetime and with quantum theory’s probabilistic nature. This collection of philosophical ...
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Debunking Scholarly Nonsense
Debunking Scholarly Nonsense is a diatribe against the foolish claptrap that serious and respected scholars sometimes foist upon their peers and the public. The material discussed here does not usually derive from extreme political notions, conspiracy theories, or the ruminations of those who acc...
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Emmanuel Levinas and His Interlocutors
This book reexamines Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophy, emphasizing his focus on the "Other" and the ethical implications of prioritizing others over self. Through engaging discussions with his intellectual influences and imagined dialogues, it bridges Jewish and universal philosophy, making Levinas’ ...
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We Want to Believe
Why do we still believe in UFOs, despite repeated efforts to dismiss them? For most of the twentieth century, reports of unidentified flying objects were treated as cultural error: cranks, hoaxes, late-night radio. Then, abruptly, the posture changed. The Pentagon released videos it could not ex...
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Everyone Dies Young
A meditation in the style of Proust and Perec on the abstract relation of age to knowing ourselves and others.
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Philosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou
Philosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou is an anthology of writings on cinema and film by many of the major thinkers in continental philosophy. The book presents a selection of fundamental texts, each introduced by the editor, Christopher Kul-Want, who places the philosophers within a histori...
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Scientific Understanding
This book provides a novel philosophical account of scientific understanding, this account is based on and supported by a detailed investigation of an episode from scientific practice in biology.
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Spatial Social Thought
This volume presents perspectives on spatially construed knowledge systems and their struggle to interrelate. Western social sciences tend to be wrapped up in very specific, exclusionary discourses, and Northern and Southern knowledge systems are sidelined. Spatial Social Thought reimagines the s...
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Forum für osteuropäische Ideen- und Zeitgeschichte
Since 1997, FORUM has been an integral part of the landscape of European studies. In addition to contemporary history, it offers insights into the history of ideas and reviews books on Central and Eastern European history. It offers more than just history—for instance, interdisciplinary discussio...
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Epistenology
In Epistenology, Nicola Perullo argues that wine comes to life not in the abstract space of the professional tasting but in the real world of shared experiences. Interweaving philosophical arguments with personal reflections and literary examples, this book is a journey with wine that shows how i...
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The Case Against Travel
A vigorous assault on the idea that there is something transformative or ennobling about recreational travel.
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LoveKnowledge
Since its inception, philosophy has struggled to perfect individual understanding through discussion and dialogue based in personal, poetic, or dramatic investigation. The positions of such philosophers as Socrates, Spinoza, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Derrida differ in almost every respec...
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Notes to Literature
Notes to Literature is a collection of the great social theorist Theodor W. Adorno’s essays on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Goethe, and Benjamin, as well as his reflections on a variety of subjects. This edition presents this classic work in full in a single volume, with a new introduction by Pau...
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Posthumanism in Art and Science
Posthumanism in Art and Science is an anthology of indispensable statements and artworks featuring groundbreaking theorists as well as innovative, influential artists and curators. Their provocative and compelling works speak to the ongoing conceptual and political challenge of posthuman theories...
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What Matters Most
This collection of philosophical conversations invite us to think anew about the complexities and challenges involved in living a good life in a world characterized by uncertainty and change.
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America's Public Philosopher
John Dewey was America’s greatest public philosopher. This book gathers the clearest and most powerful of Dewey’s public writings and shows how they continue to speak to the challenges we face today.
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Moved by the Past
A prominent Dutch historian upsets our linear conception of time and event and introduces a new way to envision history.
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Doing Time
Kristian Vistrup Madsen deliberates on his correspondence with an inmate in a California prison named Michael.
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A Spy for an Unknown Country
Soviet-era philosopher Merab Mamardashvili developed an original and subtle philosophical system distinct from both his orthodox and dissident colleagues. This volume provides English-speaking audiences with a range of his lectures and writings on ancient philosophy, civil society, the European p...
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Aimlessness
Aimlessness collects ideas and stories from around the world that value indirection, wandering, getting lost, waiting, meandering, lingering, sitting, laying about, daydreaming, and other ways to be open to possibility, chaos, and multiplicity.
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Taste
Taste is a lyric meditation on one of our five senses. Structured as a series of “small bites,” the book considers the ways that we ingest the world. Through flavorful explorations of the sweet, the sour, the salty, the bitter, and umami, Jehanne Dubrow reflects on the nature of taste.
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Real Life in China at the Height of Empire
Toward the end of the eighteenth century, the scholar and wit Ji Xiaolan published five collections of anecdotes and discourses on the interaction between the mundane and the spirit worlds, incorporating earthly life stories and happenings. Containing Ji's thoughts and others' experiences, these ...
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A Load of Shit
John Berger’s essay is an extended reflection on shit as an emblem of what it means to be human.
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Contempt is a Dangerous Way to Lead a Country
Bishop Budde’s address stands as a calm but resonant call for compassion in an increasingly vicious and punitive political culture.
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On Talkativeness
Plutarch’s essay takes on an unusual philosophical problem: people who talk too much.
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Civility Unbound
An urgent interrogation of an eroding normAmidst unprecedented turmoil in American Democracy—as norms of conduct in our institutions erode and polarizing, combative behavior is increasingly rewarded—an acclaimed group of thought leaders, policymakers, artists, activists, and scholars interrogate ...
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Is Equal Opportunity Enough
Equal opportunity is a widely shared ideal. As Joe Biden put it in his first executive order as president, “equal opportunity is the bedrock of American democracy.” But is equal opportunity enough? Does it truly capture the meaning of equality? In a neoliberal age that prizes personal responsibil...
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On Changing the World
Michael Löwy highlights the cultural, “spiritual,” and ethical dimensions of Marxist thought largely neglected by most of the existing literature.
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Experience and Reflection
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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What Is Progress
Does the idea of progress still apply to our times? If so, what does progress really mean? Today, many believe that progress is a word to be avoided, a relic from a past, the dangerous product of an era of intellectual naivety that would be best forgotten. Yet, the idea of progress is rooted in a...
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The Tyranny of Algorithms
A clear-eyed, timely investigation of the threat posed by Artificial Intelligence to individual freedom, social cohesion, and the democratic process—and a radical proposal on how to fight back. In this sharp, urgent book, philosopher, psychoanalyst, and former resistance fighter Miguel Benasayag ...
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Luck
Fearless personal essays from a treasured feminist poet and activistLuck is a collection of essays covering such topics as memory, language, landscape, poetry, anger, sex, food, pandemics, war, violence, feminism, lies, imagination, death, power, identity, and of course luck. Some are full-blown ...
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American Environmental History and Policy
This timely book explores the rocky trajectory of US environmental history and policy from pre-European settlement to the present. It includes underreported aspects of early history, and the first in-depth synthesis of the framing and outcomes of the groundbreaking environmental laws of the 1970s...
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Ecosocialism (Revised and Expanded Edition)
In this new edition of his acclaimed book, Michael Löwy argues that capitalism is killing the planet—and offers a competing vision of radical, ecosocialist transformation. This expanded and revised edition foregrounds Löwy’s canonical essays, from sharp critiques of environmentalist complicity t...
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Real Life Mindfulness
Lean how to be an ocean of calm in a chaotic world by harnessing the power of mindfulness
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Japan from Anime to Zen
An accessible compendium of the most important aspects of Japanese arts, culture and history, for quick reference or a longer, in-depth read, for actual and armchair travelers alike..
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Denotation of Generic Terms in Ancient Indian Philosophy
This is a print on demand publication. This work deals with a topic to which philosophy, most notably analytic philosophy, has given considerable attention. Indian thinkers discuss the denotation of generic terms in a very sophisticated manner at a very early time. This book seeks to make these d...
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Japaneseness
Can traditional Japanese life concepts—like loyalty, harmony, meticulousness—make sense in Western societies? Here are dozens of ideas for "decluttering the spirit."
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My Heart Sutra
: A cultural and personal journey into the famous sutra that teaches "form is emptiness; and emptiness is form."
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Regenerative Economics
Regenerative Economics is based on the deceptively simple idea that an economic system should emulate the process and patterns that define all life. This science-based next evolution of economics explains the root cause of the polycrisis and promises a hopeful pathway forward, rooted in unseen po...
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Coming Together in the Great Turning
The Work That Reconnects has helped countless individuals transform denial and despair into meaningful action. Coming Together in the Great Turning is essential for facilitators seeking to deepen the Work by addressing systemic racism, injustice, and oppression, making its powerful impact availab...
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Martial Arts and Philosophy
Martial arts and philosophy have always gone hand in hand, as well as fist in throat. Philosophical argument is closely paralleled with hand-to-hand combat. And all of today’s Asian martial arts were developed to embody and apply philosophical ideas. In his interview with Bodidharma, Graham Pries...
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Essence of the Upanishads
The Katha Upanishad embraces the key ideas of Indian mysticism in a mythic story we can all relate to – the quest of a young hero, Nachiketa, who ventures into the land of death in search of immortality.But the insights of the Katha are scattered, hard to understand. Easwaran presents them system...
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The Compassionate Universe
A practical and inspiring approach to tackling our environmental crisis, from a master spiritual teacher. We can heal our earth by choosing a simpler, more fulfilling lifestyle, as trustees of a compassionate universe. Eknath Easwaran presents a penetrating analysis of the spiritual roots of our...
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The Upanishads
(LARGE PRINT EDITION) Easwaran’s best-selling translation of the ancient wisdom texts called the Upanishads is reliable, readable, and profound.In the Upanishads, illumined sages share flashes of insight, the results of their investigation into consciousness itself.In extraordinary visions, they ...
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The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume 2
This warm, practical commentary by the author of the best-selling translation of the Bhagavad Gita helps us understand and apply the Gita’s teachings, to find meaning, peace, and wisdom in our lives.
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The Bhagavad Gita
(LARGE PRINT EDITION) The Bhagavad Gita is the best known of all the Indian scriptures, and Eknath Easwaran’s best-selling translation is reliable, readable, and profound.Easwaran's 55-page introduction places the Bhagavad Gita in its historical setting, and brings out the universality and timele...
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Pájaros y luciérnagas: Pensamientos y aforismos / Stray Birds & Firefly
Un acercamiento a los versos y al pensamiento del gran escritor y Premio Nobel indio.La profunda contemplación de la naturaleza, la libertad de los seres humanos, la vida espiritual o el amor como significado último son algunos de los conceptos que pueblan esta selección de pensamientos y aforis...
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Los pájaros nunca miran atrás mientras vuelan: La libertad que proviene del desapego / The Birds Don’t Look Back While Flying
El poeta más vendido de Corea del Sur nos presenta una antología de relatos llenos de belleza e inteligencia acerca de la esencia de la vida. ¿Quién soy? ¿Qué es la felicidad y cuál es el sentido de la vida? ¿Cómo permanecer en el momento presente? ¿Qué puede sanar un corazón herido? Todas esta...
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El arte japonés de curar heridas emocionales: Kintsukuroi / Kintsukuroi: The Japanese Art of Healing Emotional Wounds
Kintsukuroi es el arte japonés de recomponer lo que se ha roto. Cuando una pieza de cerámica se rompe, los maestros kintsukuroi la reparan rellenado las grietas con oro o plata, resaltando de este modo la reconstrucción, porque una pieza reconstruida es símbolo de fragilidad, pero también de fort...
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An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Wildlife Corridors
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Wildlife Corridors charts some best practices and makes new theoretical contributions about the design and creation of wildlife corridors. The book provides the necessary background for understanding habitat connectivity projects, and ma...
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Non-Violence and Ecological Imperatives
In this era, when climate change is the biggest global challenge to humanity, it is crucial to investigate the relationship between humans and the environment. The book will unfold the relevance of non-violence that is not only limited to the peaceful co-existence of humankind but also signifies ...
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Climates of Migration
Climates of Migration offers a transcultural, transhistorical, transcolonial and transnational analysis of the interplay between migration and climate change. The emphasis is on the anxiety, disinformation and fear generated by the political instrumentalization of these issues, and examines how t...
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Becoming-Into-Others (BIO)
As the world faces escalating species extinction, increasing urbanization, and widespread pollution, this book advocates for a new paradigm of coexistence, “becoming-into-others” (BIO). It calls for rethinking connections to enhance cohabitation among all life forms, expanding our ontological fra...
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A Kind of Pantheism
A Kind of Pantheism: Escape from Cosmic Pessimism and the Quest for a Biocentric Ethic explores how such nineteenth-century transcendentalists as Henry David Thoreau and John Muir advanced a biocentric ethic that recognized the intrinsic worth of both plants and animals. This ethic required a pan...
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Climate Justice Now
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of debates on climate justice across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, developing a new conceptual framework that transcends disciplinary divides.
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How Does the Psychiatrist Know?
A new philosophical investigation into how psychiatrists draw diagnostic conclusions.
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Theory of Identities
A new theory that reconciles scientific and philosophical ideas of the self.
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Trust, Responsibility, and Digital Governance
A new approach to the ethics and politics of digital systems, grounded in the capacities of individuals, groups, and organisations to critically assess and actively shape these technologies.
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Thinking the Problematic
This book explores central scenes and conceptual elaborations of what historically has been called “the problem” or “the problematic.” The chapters contextualize the (re-)arising of this notion within the history of power and knowledge since the late nineteenth century.
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Understanding Social Struggles
This book brings together leading scholars working at the intersection of epistemic injustice theories and recognition theories, setting out to apply insights from this relation to contemporary phenomena and backlashes in the formation and acts of socially struggling emancipators.
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The Philosophy of Expertise
From the use of expert testimony in the courtroom to the advice we rely on to solve key economic, political, and social problems, expertise is an essential part of our decision-making process. However, the extent to which experts can be trusted is a subject of persistent and contentious debate. T...
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Reflecting on Practices
This collection of original essays aims to better understand what researchers do when they practice research. It reinforces a specifically geographic and spatial account that is needed for the development of practice theory while also shining new light on current debates in practice theory on pow...
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The Force of the Example
During the twentieth century, the view that assertions and norms are valid insofar as they respond to principles independent of all local and temporal contexts came under attack from two perspectives: the partiality of translation and the intersubjective constitution of the self, understood as re...
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The Construction of Analogy-Based Research Programs
Rebecca Mertens explains the appeal of the lock-and-key analogy to investigate the relation between chemical structure and biological specificity by its role in model building and in the construction of long-term, crossgenerational research programs.
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