Topics in philosophy

This book uses Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutic phenomenology of suspicion and naivete to shift the focus of the ideology of humanitarian intervention from the distorting (Marxism, realism) and legitimizing (social constructivism) to the integrating function of this ideology.

First published in 1968, The Language of Time clarifies certain large-scale features of ordinary or common-sense concept of time by using linguistic analysis or ordinary language philosophy.

First published in 1989, Mind and the Body Politic is a collection of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's twelve essays and lectures on political theory, psychoanalysis, feminism, and the theory of biography.

What is it to say that a thing is good or valuable?

Known as the Father of the American Revolution, English-American author Thomas Paine became famous for two pamphlets that inspired the colonists to fight for their independence.

Los trabajos que se reúnen en esta obra abordan, desde referentes teóricos y herramientas metodológicas diversas, algún elemento o faceta de una de las transformaciones sociales más importantes de la historia contemporánea.

In a world of endless predictions and precision algorithms The Power of Maybes offers a daring new way forward.

In a world of endless predictions and precision algorithms The Power of Maybes offers a daring new way forward.

Chat-GPT, humanoid robotics, and self-driving cars are just a few of the things that are changing our everyday lives.

Chat-GPT, humanoid robotics, and self-driving cars are just a few of the things that are changing our everyday lives.

En 1971 se publicaba Teoría de la justicia, una obra destinada a convertirse en el gran clásico contemporáneo de la filosofía política y que convertiría a su autor, el filósofo norteamericano John Rawls (1921-2002) en uno de los pensadores más influyentes del último medio siglo.

First published in 1968, The Language of Time clarifies certain large-scale features of ordinary or common-sense concept of time by using linguistic analysis or ordinary language philosophy.

En que condiciones podemos asegurar que "e;sabemos"e; que una afirmacion es cierta frente a simplemente "e;creer"e; que una afirmacion es cierta?

Das Buch behandelt die Aspekte der Andersheit in seiner ganzen Breite von der Intersubjektivität über das Ich in seiner Andersheit bis zur Andersheit Gottes und dem prärationalen und hyperrationalen Anderen.

Lacan on Society is an exhaustive archeological and contingent review of Lacan's approaches to society throughout his work, seminars, and ecrits.

Die jungst publizierten Schwarzen Hefte Heideggers und auch der Neufund des Heftes von 1945/46 machen deutlich: Heidegger entwickelt hier eine Theorie der Globalisierung.

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Der Wahrheitswert der Literatur ist in der Philosophie seit der Antike umstritten.

Die klassische Wissenschaftstheorie konzentriert sich oft auf die Naturwissenschaften und hat für die historischen Disziplinen nicht viel Raum.

Was ist das Sein?

Erfahrungen des Verzeihens und Entschuldigens gehören zu einem nicht-perfekten Leben.

In einer Zeit, in der die Demokratie als Staats- und Gesellschaftsform weltweit auf dem Ruckzug ist, bietet Julian Nida-Rumelin in diesem Buch notwendige Orientierung.

This volume contains a collection of published and unpublished essays and conference lectures prepared by Jean-Marie Robine.

First published in 1958, Humanistic Psychology opens with a consideration of the many different ways in which a system of psychology can be built.

Critical conversations and reflections about lessons learned at the intersection of social movements and artist production.

First published in 1958, Humanistic Psychology opens with a consideration of the many different ways in which a system of psychology can be built.

The book presents a description of the phenomenon of organising street performances, both informal and within formalised structures, as well as its interpretation from the point of view of humanistic management.

First published in 1984, in Probability, Objectivity and Evidence the author claims that the theory of probability provides a single, correct, analysis of probability and that the concept of probability employed in science can best be understood as that of inductive probability; to do so, it is necessary to show both how the logical relation theory of probability can be given a formulation sufficiently objective for the purposes of science, and how other attempts to explain the objective character of probability judgements are unsatisfactory.

This volume contains a collection of published and unpublished essays and conference lectures prepared by Jean-Marie Robine.

First published in 1984, in Probability, Objectivity and Evidence the author claims that the theory of probability provides a single, correct, analysis of probability and that the concept of probability employed in science can best be understood as that of inductive probability; to do so, it is necessary to show both how the logical relation theory of probability can be given a formulation sufficiently objective for the purposes of science, and how other attempts to explain the objective character of probability judgements are unsatisfactory.

This book probes the ethical, practical, and sociopolitical implications of leveraging innovative and disruptive means to address the world's various environmental crises.

This book motivates and systematically develops the view that knowledge should be at the centre of our theory of practical rationality.

This book unveils the hidden secrets of psychoanalytic thought for the field of sport integrity, sport ethics and the social sport sciences.

This book considers how methodologies, theories and analytical frameworks from gender studies can be applied to African societies' cultural, social, and historical contexts.

Soviet and East European Agriculture, edited by Jerzy F.

Soviet and East European Agriculture, edited by Jerzy F.

Being a salvage of cancellations and hallucinations, and for the forgotten and misbegotten, a preservation of things muddied, made washed and laid bare against bleached white, seeking far and nearby in an ever'flowing effervescent stream of thoughts and treatments of dream, this spell is something like blowing wind into one's sails, but into those sails memories past, impel themselves and become more romancing than real.

In this beautifully written book, Gary Selby shows how Martin Luther King, Jr.

Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book delves into the thriving industry of religious infrastructure in Romania, where 4,000 Orthodox churches and cathedrals have been built in three decades.

Understanding Woodrow Wilson's approach to international relations requires acknowledgment of his Protestant faith.

This book delves into the core of representative democracy in order to explain its main features - institutional and imaginary - and to show the reasons for its increasing dysfunctionality.

Directly challenging the prevailing interpretation, Corey Beals explores the ideas of twentieth-century philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's concept of love, love's relation to wisdom, and how love makes the Other visible to us.