Topics in philosophy

This book uncovers the extent to which the Gehlen Organization, the intelligence organization created by the United States at the end of World War Two, recruited and used controversial individuals who had been heavily involved in the atrocities committed by the Nazis.

Economics has long modeled its theories on bakers and butchers rather than husbands, wives, lovers, and prostitutes.

Economics has long modeled its theories on bakers and butchers rather than husbands, wives, lovers, and prostitutes.

Как бы ни был человек самонадеян и жизнерадостен и какую бы должность ни занимал, он обречён.

The New Scientist recently declared that "e;Philosophers of knowledge, your time has come"e; and even Barack Obama has warned of an "e;epistemological crisis.

Du freust dich über inspirierende Geschichten und Erzählungen, die dich berühren und wenn du es erlaubst, heilsame Impulse in deinem Bewusstsein anregen?

Nicht nur Robert Spaemanns Stellungnahmen zu vielfältigen ethischen und gesellschaftlichen Fragen der Zeit haben große Beachtung gefunden, auch seine philosophischen Entwürfe – mehrfach mit dem Untertitel »Versuch« – haben eine für einen Philosophen außergewöhnlich große Leserschaft erreicht und wurden in viele Sprachen übersetzt.

Platons Höhlengleichnis ist weit mehr als nur eine philosophische Allegorie – es ist ein zeitloser Schlüssel zum Verständnis der menschlichen Wahrnehmung und der Suche nach Wahrheit.

En el itinerario de su conversión, el autor recupera por oleadas algunas convicciones de la niñez, conservadas entre las líneas de cuentos de hadas y novelas de aventuras.

Wayne Wu's Attention was the first book to provide a systematic overview and assessment of different empirical and philosophical works on attention.

First published in 1969, Modernization in Ghana and the U.

Interdisciplinary in approach, this book employs the key concepts of fragmentation and reconfiguration to consider the ways in which human experience and artistic practice can engage with and respond to the disintegration that characterises modern cities.

This edited volume explores the interplay between political, economic, and financial development in twentieth-century European authoritarian regimes.

Das wichtigste Ziel Michaels im 21.

Esta obra se centra en el análisis del documento Kairós, un texto de carácter ecuménico y contextual elaborado en 1985, cuando Sudáfrica vive uno de los momentos más trágicos de su historia reciente bajo el régimen del apartheid.

This book argues that moralism is a troublesome emotion of the sort one might seek help with from a psychotherapist.

In Laboratory Epistemologies: A Hands-On Perspective, Jenny Boulboulle examines the significance of hands-on experiences in contemporary life sciences laboratories.

This book engages broadly with the impacts of media practices on our prospects for thriving as moral beings in today's digital spaces.

Joe Strummer was one of the twentieth century's iconic rock'n'roll rebels.

Originally published in 1935, this volume Is War Obsolete?

With ISIS on the rise, what do we need to know?

Conservatives and progressives rarely agree on much-but one thing many agree upon is that it's not OK to be a moderate.

How do universal moral laws and the will to power coexist in the tapestry of ethical thought?