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The philosophy of gesture
A revolutionary pragmatist account of creativity and synthetic reasoning that relies upon gesture, an action that carries on meaning.
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Gilles deleuze
One of the most radical philosophers of the twentieth century, Gilles Deleuze has become hugely influential in philosophy, cultural studies, literature, art, and architecture. Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts brings together leading specialists from a variety of different disciplines in an easy-to-ac...
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Wish i were here
An urgent, timely, and political analysis of the boredom that dominates our everyday immersion in distracting technologies.
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Central works of philosophy, volume 1
Ranging over 2,500 years of philosophical writing, this five-volume collection of essays is an unrivalled companion for studying and reading philosophy. Each essay provides an overview of a work and a clear exposition of its central ideas. Covering the most influential works of our greatest philo...
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The origins of walter rauschenbusch's social ethics
Walter Rauschenbusch is known as the father of the Social Concern movement in America. Traditionally, the source of his social ethic has been seen to lie in the single motif of liberalism. Donovan Smucker provides a new perspective, arguing that Rauschenbusch's social ethic was based on not one b...
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The spiritual significance of overload boredom
The spiritual crisis of the digital age is overload boredom. This book attends to sensation and emotion to show how our interior lives are radically reconfigured by information, stimulation, and choice overload. Sharday Mosurinjohn argues that the antidote is not withdrawal or resistance, but ked...
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Art's emotions
How is that artistic works have the power to move the human heart? Why does Manet's Woman with a Parrot evoke reverie, and an Edward Elgar cello concerto, nostalgia? What is the value of such experiences? Art's Emotions is a reflective, thought-provoking exploration of the significance that exper...
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The form of politics
A study of Aristotle’s and Plato’s interpretations of friendship and their significance for political life.
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The philosophy of heidegger
In The Philosophy of Heidegger, Michael Watts provides an overview of Heidegger's thoughts that is suitable for both beginning and advanced students. Free from jargon and the standard idioms of academic philosophical writing, Watts uses several illustrations and concrete examples to introduce key...
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Language ethics
An innovative interdisciplinary approach to the political ethics of linguistic diversity.
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Science and social context
The first major product of agricultural biotechnology was recombinant bovine growth hormone (rbGH, also know as rbST), a drug produced by Monsanto to increase milk production in cows. Following worldwide debate about its safety, it was approved in the United States in 1993 but rejected in Canada ...
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Rights
The language of rights pervades modern social and political discourse, yet there is deep disagreement amongst citizens, politicians and philosophers about just what rights are. In this comprehensive and engaging introduction to rights, Duncan Ivison pays particular attention to their political ch...
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Reasonable self-esteem, second edition
A philosophical investigation of the moral ideal of reasonable self-esteem.
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Justice, rights, and toleration
The political theory of Richard Vernon has made major contributions to the many complex dimensions of political morality, democratic dialogue, justice, and toleration. Justice, Rights, and Toleration offers critical engagement with the central ideas of his work on the perennial political challeng...
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An aristotelian account of induction
Through a study of argument, science, art, and human intelligence, Louis Groarke explores and builds on a line of Aristotelian thought that traces the origins of logic and knowledge to a mental creativity that is able to leap to insightful and truthful conclusions on the basis of restricted evide...
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Life embodied
A compelling tour through the scientific, philosophical, and cultural meanings of vital force in Spanish modernity.
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The aesthetics of fear in german romanticism
A comprehensive investigation of how German Romanticism used fear to criticize social, cultural, and scientific norms.
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The philosophy of habermas
In The Philosophy of Habermas Andrew Edgar covers the full range of Habermas's ideas from his early work on student politics, the public sphere, and the development of Marxist theory to his current work on communicative action, ethics, and law. Edgar examines Habermas's key texts in chronological...
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David armstrong
David (D.M.) Armstrong is one of Australia's greatest philosophers. His chief philosophical achievement has been the development of a core metaphysical program that covers the topics of universals, laws, modality, and facts - a naturalistic metaphysics, consistent with a scientific view of the na...
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How to understand language
Why are philosophers, as opposed to, say, linguists and psychologists, puzzled by language? How should we attempt to shed philosophical light on the phenomenon of language? How to Understand Language frames a discussion in light of these two questions and begins by thinking about the reasons that...
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Imperial paradoxes
At war for sixty years, eighteenth-century Britain and France experienced demographic, social, and economic exchanges despite their imperial rivalry. Paradoxically, this rivalry spurred their participation in scientific and industrial developments. Their shared interest in standards of living and...
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The boomerang effect of decolonization
Scholars from various disciplines explore how, two decades after Aimé Césaire spoke of the imperial boomerang, Edward Said’s Orientalism represented the beginnings of his attempts to appropriate the boomerang’s recursive nature and empower decolonial processes that would transform everyone, for t...
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Paradox
Paradoxes are more than just intellectual puzzles: they raise substantive philosophical issues. Indeed, an apparently impeccable argument that leads to an apparently outrageous conclusion is a threat to the very trustworthiness of reason. In this introduction to paradox and paradoxes Doris Olin s...
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Historical judgement
Jonathan Gorman advances current philosophy of historiography by analysing the nature of historical judgement, both factual and moral. In doing so, he addresses the essential modern and postmodern problems of historical understanding and the ethics of the writing of history. Many historians are a...
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Philosophy, neuroscience, and consciousness
Explaining consciousness is one of the last great unanswered scientific and philosophical problems. Immediately known, familiar and obvious, consciousness is also baffling, opaque, and strange. How and when did we become conscious? What exactly is consciousness? A gift from God? Some kind of emer...
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The experience of beauty
An original answer to a question of permanent interest: the place of beauty in our lives.
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Empty revelations
A rich and engaging investigation into the nature of literary fiction.
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Civic freedom in an age of diversity
James Tully is one of the most influential political philosophers at work today. Offering a wide-ranging critical discussion of his work by leading scholars from various fields of study, Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity provides a rich perspective on the full extent of Tully’s contribution.
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The philosophy of nietzsche
Nietzsche's influence upon European philosophy has been, and continues to be, profound. Indeed, recent years have seen Nietzsche scholarship become the battleground for debates over philosophical method between the analytic and continental traditions. This fresh introduction to Nietzsche's philos...
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This great national object
In This Great National Object, Roberta Styran and Robert Taylor - the unparalleled experts on the subject - recount the story of the canals, with particular emphasis on the experiences of the engineers, contractors, and labourers who built the inland waterways between 1824 and 1889.
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The recovery of wonder
Environmental degradation. Globalization. The closure of our public life to the transcendent dimensions of human existence. For esteemed philosopher Kenneth Schmitz these are the by-products of modernity and post-modernity. But The Recovery of Wonder is not a denunciation of modern philosophy. In...
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Ethics
In this engaged and engaging survey Piers Benn examines the major currents of ethical theory, concentrating on sound reasoning about morality. Benn's account offers a qualified defence of Aristotelian virtue theory, while bringing out what is distinctive and valuable in a broad range of approache...
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Saul kripke
Saul Kripke's work has had a tremendous impact on philosophy in the last thirty years and continues to dominate key debates in the field. In the first introduction to his philosophy written expressly for general students, G.W. Fitch provides a thorough exposition of Kripke's ideas.Beginning with ...
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Dawn of a new feeling
Dawn of a New Feeling acknowledges that computers have become a formidable tool for creating art but contends that virtual reality is not conducive to meditations on the aesthetic object. Virtual or augmented reality, Raffaele Milani argues, is illusory and prevents the viewer from feeling a genu...
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The age of secularization
A thought-provoking collection of essays and lectures by one of the most perceptive Italian cultural critics of the twentieth century.
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Space, time and einstein
In Space, Time and Einstein J.B. Kennedy offers an introduction to one of the liveliest and most popular fields in philosophy - time and space - aimed specifically at a beginning readership with no background in philosophy or science. He goes to the philosophical heart of the issues without recou...
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Art as revolt
Using philosophies of immanence – conceived by Deleuze, Braidotti, and others – and the arts to challenge contemporary capitalist ways of being human subjects.
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Questions of miracle
This collection of essays explores new avenues in the ongoing debate on miracles and sheds light on various theological and philosophical issues. Presented as a dialogue between Robert Larmer and other leading philosophers in the field, all sides of the issues are provocatively explored.
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Network democracy
A unique hybrid of ancient and contemporary conservative thought that offers a radical challenge to Western liberalism.
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Integrity, second edition
How to restore integrity so that social values can be upheld and family welfare strengthened.
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War as paradox
The origin and continued importance of dialectical war theory in the works of Clausewitz and Hegel.
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Aesthetic dilemmas
Hugo von Hofmannsthal is frequently portrayed as an aloof writer, out of step with modern sensibilities. Aesthetic Dilemmas re-evaluates his place in twentieth-century European Modernism by arguing that his work is not escapist but instead engages the consciousness of readers through dynamic enco...
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Fichte in berlin
Fichte in Berlin offers a new reading of Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s philosophical output during his time in Berlin from 1804 to 1806. The study focuses on the philosopher’s second set of lectures on the Wissenschaftslehre from 1804, one of the most exemplary versions of Fichte’s philosophical project.
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A state of minds
In A State of Minds Thomas Courchene examines the political structures that link local, provincial, and federal governments and challenges many longstanding beliefs about how society should be organized and financed. While focusing on Canadian competitiveness in a global economy, Courchene shows ...
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Against rousseau
A fierce opponent of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Joseph de Maistre was a widely read critic of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Against Rousseau provides the English-speaking reader with a rare first-hand view of the intellectual world of the early counter-revolution.
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The philosophy of merleau-ponty
An introduction to the life and thought of one of the most important French thinkers of the twentieth-century.
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Religion, truth, and social transformation
A lucid introduction to a living philosophical tradition and a creative contribution to change-oriented scholarship.
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Donald davidson
Donald Davidson's work is of seminal importance in the development of the analytic tradition following Quine. His views on the nature of language, mind, and action occupy a prominent position in the philosophical literature and are a starting point for much of contemporary analytic philosophy.Dav...
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The ancient mythology of modern science
Examining the nature of myth-making and its surprising appearance in popular science writing.
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Attitudes of play
Gabor Csepregi presents a comprehensive study of the persistent human tendency to bring attitudes of play to even serious and mundane situations. He offers a phenomenological description of forms of playfulness, examines the skills that support them, and provides diverse examples.
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Scottish common sense in germany, 1768-1800
Proponents of Scottish common-sense philosophy, especially Thomas Reid, James Oswald, and James Beattie, had a substantial influence on late enlightenment German philosophy. In this illuminating study Manfred Kuehn explores the nature and extent of that influence. He finds that the work of these...
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Archives and the event of god
An innovative approach to thinking about religion through post-structuralist concepts.
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Raymond klibansky and the warburg library network
A new approach to the legacy of the Warburg Library and a companion to the pioneering work Saturn and Melancholy.
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We find ourselves put to the test
A philosophical exploration of the question of whether the world we inhabit offers us hospitality or indifference.
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Reading nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil is one of the classics of western philosophy. Pithy, lyrical, and complex, it demands that readers have some familiarity with key Nietzschean concepts such as the will-to-power, perspectivism, and eternal recurrence and that they be able to leap with Nietzschean agility acros...
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The absolute violation
State torture has found an increasing number of defenders in law, philosophy, and public policy. Their defences often ignore the empirical literature on torture and thus misunderstand its nature and the damage it does, as well as accepting the illusory benefits it promises.Richard Matthews challe...
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Art, education, and cultural renewal
A call for solidarity and renewal in the arts and the academy.
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Humanizing mental illness
Humanizing Mental Illness demonstrates that we need to challenge our explicit and implicit biases and learn to interact with mental illness in more intentional, supportive, and inclusive ways. While most philosophical accounts of the matter are concerned with the question of how much agency a per...
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Political philosophy
Political Philosophy is a comprehensive introduction to the major topics in political theory. It explores the philosophical traditions that have formed and continue to inform our political judgements about fundamental questions such as why and when we can demand freedom, claim rights, complain wh...
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Being and its surroundings
Gianni Vattimo, one of Europe's foremost contemporary philosophers and most famously associated with the concept of weak thought, explores theoretical and practical issues flowing from his fundamental rejection of the traditional Western understanding of Being as an absolute, unchanging, and tran...
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A disciplined intelligence
This highly original contribution to Canadian intellectual history examines the course of critical inquiry and its relationship to the assertion of moral authority in English-Canadian thought during the Victorian era.
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The end of ethics in a technological society
A critical assessment of the failure of liberal ethics to meet the challenges posed by techno-science.
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Relativism
Relativism lies at the very heart of philosophy since there can be little point to debates in other philosophical areas if the issues surrounding relativism are not resolved. This book offers a systematic discussion of a variety of different relativist positions that are often grouped together un...
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Cause for thought
An innovative exploration of causal agency as it functions in physical, biological, psychological, and cosmological domains.
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Action
By focusing on the idea that agency involves causal sensitivity to reasons, Rowland Stout shows how agency is one of the most useful ways into the philosophy of mind: if one can understand what it is to be a free and rational agent, then one can understand what it is to be a conscious subject of ...
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Ethics for a broken world
Imagine living in the future in a world already damaged by humankind, a world where resources are insufficient to meet everyone's basic needs and where a chaotic climate makes life precarious. Then imagine looking into the past - back to our own time - and assessing the ethics of the early twenty...
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Ideas, concepts, and reality
An original exploration of the distinction between subjective ideas and objective concepts.
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Sophocles' use of psychological terminology
This masterly study examines Sophocles' use of six key psychic terms, analysing how he refers to these terms as sources of thought, emotion, and will. A meticulous synthesis of existing scholarship and philological inquiry, it compares Sophocles' use of language with that of earlier and contempor...
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Philosophy of science
The third volume in McGill-Queen's University Press's Fundamentals of Philosophy series, Philosophy of Science is an engaging and accessible introduction to the main themes of contemporary philosophy of science. The book offers an indispensable grounding in the philosophical understanding of scie...
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Bird on an ethics wire
An exploration of the urgent need to rebalance individuals' unfettered freedom to choose, especially regarding birth and death.
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Externalism
The externalist conception of the mind was one of the most significant developments in the philosophy of mind in the second half of the twentieth century. Despite its central importance, however, most recent work on externalism has been very technical, often making the basic ideas and principles ...
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Descartes and the enlightenment
Peter Schouls examines the role played by the concepts of freedom, mastery, and progress in Descartes' writings, arguing that these ideas express a vital and fundamental feature of Descartes' thought. These theories also occupy a central position in the thought of the Enlightenment. Since the mor...
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John rawls
John Rawls (1921-2002) is one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Contemporary political philosophy has been reshaped by his seminal ideas and most current work in the discipline is a response to them. Catherine Audard introduces his central ideas and examines their contrib...
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Nietzsche's genealogy of morality
Combining philosophical acuity, psychological insight, and a remarkably powerful prose style, Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality remains an incisive attack on European "morality." David Owen provides a detailed analysis of the Genealogy, situating it in the context of the development of Nietzsche'...
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Proximity, levinas, and the soul of law
Proximity, Levinas, and the Soul of Law links the controversial ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas to the common law legal tradition that has recently invigorated the idea of "the duty of care." Desmond Manderson argues that the ethicist and lawyer struggle with the same basic questions of wh...
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On the divine things and their revelation
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi’s influential text Von den göttlichen Dingen und Ihrer Offenbarung aroused the final debate about the intrinsic nihilism of modern philosophy. In this first English translation, Paolo Livieri provides readers with a history of the debates that preceded and followed it, a...
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The new pragmatism
A brilliant overview of the development of a key philosophical movement.
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Karl polanyi on ethics and economics
Breaking new ground in Polanyi scholarship, Gregory Baum explores the relation between ethics, culture, and economics in Karl Polanyi's writings. He identifies and analyses key concepts of Polanyi's thought and shows how they apply to the contemporary debate on ethics and economics.
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Embodiment and the meaning of life
A brazen defence of the good of human limitations in the face of naive technological optimism.
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Rule-following and meaning
A selection of readings on a central topic in contemporary philosophy of language, mind, and metaphysics.
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Henri bergson and british modernism
Mary Ann Gillies shows that French philosopher Henri Bergson played a central role in the development of British literary modernism. While Bergson's influence on modernism has long been debated, this is the first thorough, current examination of the ways in which his ideas are manifest in British...
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The philosophy of schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) crafted one of the most unified philosophical systems by synthesizing Plato, Kant, and Asian religious traditions such as Buddhism and Hinduism into an encyclopedic worldview that combines the empirical science of his day with Eastern mysticism in a radically ideal...
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The pause
When COVID-19 spread across the globe, protection measures such as social distancing, self-isolation, and self-quarantine were experienced as life on hold. A cultural inquiry into the moment of pausing and its social, political, and personal manifestations, The Pause captures the experience of be...
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Dilemmas of trust
Every human relationship, whether between lovers, friends, family members, or colleagues, involves trust or distrust. When we trust, we take for granted that others are not out to harm us; we relax and feel safe. When we distrust, we are fearful; we withdraw and try to protect ourselves. In Dilem...
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Uttering the unutterable
Uttering the Unutterable explores how we use literature as an honorific term to describe texts that are so overpowering that the encounter with meaning exceeds the capacities of ordinary language. Through a new reading of Aristotelian philosophy, Groarke identifies an experience of transcendence ...
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Minor ethics
Minor Ethics takes up a range of canonical ethical questions and thinks through concrete ethical problems relating to drug addiction, environmental responsibility, xenophobia, trauma, refugees, political parties, and cultural difference. The responses to these concerns demonstrate the minoritaria...
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Democracy and the intersection of religion and traditions
An innovative approach to the ways in which a major philiosopher's ideas have been configured and incorporated in different countries and contexts.
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Thomas nagel
Thomas Nagel's contribution to philosophy over the past forty years has been enormously influential. In the first sustained examination of Nagel's ideas, Alan Thomas provides readers with a detailed exploration of the central dichotomy around which Nagel organizes his philosophy: the concern over...
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Grace and philosophy
A case for the reinstatement in philosophy of astonished wonder about life, and the poetic and artistic expressions of such wonder.
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Central works of philosophy, volume 2
Ranging over 2,500 years of philosophical writing, this five-volume collection of essays is an unrivalled companion for studying and reading philosophy. Each essay provides an overview of a work and a clear exposition of its central ideas. Covering the most influential works of our greatest philo...
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Beyond vision
In this unique and exhilarating autobiography, Allan Jones - Canada's first blind diplomat - vividly describes how an untreatable eye disease slowly decimated his visual world, most challengingly during his postings in Tokyo and New Delhi, and how he discovered and took to heart the revelatory In...
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Améliorer le leadership dans les services de santé au canada
How to train senior managers to make better use of evidence to transform health care.
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Theories of scientific method
An authoritative and comprehensive examination of the major theories of scientific method and the demarcation of science in the past fifty years, Scientific Method begins with the question of what methodology might mean and explores the distinction between discovery and justification as well as t...
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Free will
Free Will explores the determinist rejection of free will through detailed exposition of the central determinist argument and consideration of responses to each of its premises. At every stage familiar examples and case studies help frame and ground the argument.
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