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The book presents contemporary or emerging areas where alignment with notions of justice is not yet sufficiently established and so issues of equity and fairness need to be sorted out. It aims to clarify the issues of justice at stake, and highlight the facets of...
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Springer
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2025-07-11
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
A wide range of governmental policies...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-07-11
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The book pays homage to and deepens the well-known themes of On Liberty by John Stuart Mill and Harm to Self by Joel Feinberg. It explores topics such as the arguments for and against legal paternalism and antipaternalism, the value of individual autonomy in support of...
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Springer
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2025-07-09
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Aristotle argues that the actions central to human flourishing are those that involve reason. But reason manifests itself in a human life in more than one way. We employ reason to investigate what there is (theoretical reason) and when we determine what to do (practical...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-07-09
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Oxford Pragmatism uncovers and explores the unrecognized impact of American pragmatism on theOxford linguistic philosophy that thrived from the 1930s to the 1950s, made famous by Gilbert Ryle and J. L Austin. Cheryl Misak argues that Margaret Macdonald, a neglected...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-09
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The Gorgias is one of Plato's most important and interesting dialogues. This book consists of a set of independent but interconnected essays on its philosophical riches. Casey Perin devotes two essays to each of the three major episodes within the dialogue: Socrates'...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-09
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Philosophical work on the nature of thought has, until recently, focused primarily on what it is for an individual to think, leaving aside important questions about the intersubjective dimension of thought. For example: In what sense, if any, can thoughts really be...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-08
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Formulierte Kant mit der Frage „Was soll ich tun?" noch das moralphilosophische Postulat eines unbedingten Sollens, so setzt Hegel den revolutionären Schritt, das Sollen selbst begrifflich zu fassen: Das Sollen wird als Denkbestimmung Gegenstand der Logik. In...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2025-07-07
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Parmenides is one of the most widely studied and controversial early Greek philosophers. This edited collection examines Parmenides' modes of argument and their legacy, his poetics and intertextuality, and the relation between different parts of his poem. It also...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-07
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Parmenides is one of the most widely studied and controversial early Greek philosophers. This edited collection examines Parmenides' modes of argument and their legacy, his poetics and intertextuality, and the relation between different parts of his poem. It also...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-07
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This book is a journey of in-depth exploration into the social dimensions of understanding. As human beings, we strive to understand the world around us. The path to understanding, however, is rarely walked alone; we walk the path with others. We understand more...
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Springer
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2025-07-04
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The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century disrupts the widespread impression that there were no women philosophers in this period. Building on feminist histories of philosophy that cover other eras, this volume includes...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-07-04
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People often yearn for a sense of belonging and connection: they long to live in a meaningful community. In the modern age, however, this often seems to be a chimera. Does modernity doom us to be atomised individuals? Does the promise of community imply a loss of...
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Polity
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2025-07-04
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Key Concepts
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Nearly all of us aspire to live a prudentially good life. To achieve this, we must understand which things are good for us and which things are bad for us - in other words, we must understand what well-being and ill-being consist in. While well-being has been the...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-03
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Nearly all of us aspire to live a prudentially good life. To achieve this, we must understand which things are good for us and which things are bad for us - in other words, we must understand what well-being and ill-being consist in. While well-being has been the...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-03
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In the years leading up to the U.S. Civil War, former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass maintained that enslaved Black Americans were already American citizens. Through a systematic analysis of his political writings from the 1840s through the 1890s, Philip...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-07-02
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Nearly all properties are, to a certain extent, versatile: there are many different ways to instantiate them. Consider a light-blue scarf and a dark-blue gemstone. They share the property of being blue, despite being different kinds of objects and differing in the way...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-06-30
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Dieses Büchlein bietet eine fundierte politikphilosophische Reflektion über die Schicksalhaftigkeit von „Krieg und Frieden“ samt ihrer universalen Bedeutung für Mensch, Gesellschaft, Natur und Kosmos.
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Springer
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2025-06-28
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Truth and Social Reality: A Metaphysical Inquiry presents a new theory of social truth and social construction. The book weds truthmaker theory with recent work in social ontology, arguing that social truths are true in virtue of socially constructed portions of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-06-25
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This book shows the interesting connections within political epistemology that can be established between ancient approaches and contemporary ones. It stems from the conviction that ancient thought can be brought into discussion with contemporary views. Although...
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Springer
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2025-06-25
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