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ISBN: 9780199680580 - Kinds of Reasons Kinds of Reasons
Maria Alvarez

ISBN10: 0199680582  ISBN13: 9780199680580
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 09 May 2013
Understanding human beings and their distinctive rational and volitional capacities requires a clear account of such things as reasons, desires, emotions, and motives, and how they combine to produce and explain human behaviour. Maria Alvarez... More

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ISBN: 9781409466956 - Heidegger on Death Heidegger on Death
George Pattison

ISBN10: 1409466957  ISBN13: 9781409466956
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group Ashgate Publishing Limited
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28 Apr 2013
This book examines the question of death in the light of Heidegger's paradigmatic discussion in Being and Time. Pattison reveals where and how Heidegger and theology part ways but also how Heidegger can helpfully challenge theology to rethink one... More

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ISBN: 9781780936802 - To Have or to Be? To Have or to Be?
Erich Fromm

ISBN10: 178093680X  ISBN13: 9781780936802
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Apr 2013
To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of... More

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ISBN: 9780199941353 - The View from Here The View from Here
R Jay Wallace

ISBN10: 0199941351  ISBN13: 9780199941353
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 25 Apr 2013
The View from Here is a study of our must fundamental attitudes toward the past. The book explores the dynamics of affirmation and regret, tracing the connections of each to our ongoing attachments. The focus is on situations in which our... More

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ISBN: 9780415894401 - Arguing About Human Nature Arguing About Human Nature
Stephen M Downes, Edouard Machery

ISBN10: 0415894409  ISBN13: 9780415894401
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 12 Apr 2013
"This text is a collection of recent research in the philosophy of human nature. It includes research in Anthropology, philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and other areas where there are fertile discussions about human nature"-- Arguing About... More

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ISBN: 9780195388923 - The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death
Ben Bradley, Fred Feldman, Jens Johansson

ISBN10: 0195388925  ISBN13: 9780195388923
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 12 Apr 2013
This Handbook consists of 21 new essays on the nature and value of death, the relevance of the metaphysics of time and personal identity for questions about death, the desirability of immortality, and the wrongness of killing. Death has long been... More

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ISBN: 9780674068124 - De Nobilitate Animi De Nobilitate Animi
Guillelmus, de Aragonia William D Paden

ISBN10: 0674068122  ISBN13: 9780674068124
Publisher: Harvard Department of the Classics
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 02 Apr 2013
Working in a renewed Aristotelian tradition, Guillelmus de Aragonia wrote De nobilitate animi, "On Nobility of Mind," around 1280--1290 and taught that true nobility is an acquired, not inborn, quality. This edition, based in part on hitherto... More

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ISBN: 9781409466949 - Heidegger on Death Heidegger on Death
George Pattison

ISBN10: 1409466949  ISBN13: 9781409466949
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group Ashgate Publishing Limited
Edition: New edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 28 Mar 2013
This book examines the question of death in the light of Heidegger's paradigmatic discussion in Being and Time. Pattison reveals where and how Heidegger and theology part ways but also how Heidegger can helpfully challenge theology to rethink one... More

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ISBN: 9780199746996 - Decomposing the Will Decomposing the Will
Andy Clark, Julian Kiverstein, Tillmann Vierkant

ISBN10: 0199746990  ISBN13: 9780199746996
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 28 Mar 2013
There is growing evidence from the science of human behavior that our everyday, folk understanding of ourselves as conscious, rational, responsible agents may be radically mistaken. The science, some argue, recommends a view of conscious agency as... More

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ISBN: 9780199740192 - On Emotions On Emotions
John Deigh

ISBN10: 0199740194  ISBN13: 9780199740192
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 28 Mar 2013
This volume brings together philosophical essays on emotions by eleven leading thinkers in the field. The essays cover a variety of topics that relate emotions to humor, opera, theater, justice, war, death, our intellectual life, authenticity... More