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ISBN: 9781782790563 - Levinas Unhinged Levinas Unhinged
Tom Sparrow

ISBN10: 178279056X  ISBN13: 9781782790563
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing Zero Books
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28 Jun 2013
Levinas Unhinged presents philosopher Emmanuel Levinas as a metaphysician racked by the sensuous, and often terrifying, materiality of existence. Through six heterodox essays this book extracts a materialist account of subjectivity and aesthetics... More

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ISBN: 9780199681051 - Geometric Possibility Geometric Possibility
Gordon Belot

ISBN10: 0199681058  ISBN13: 9780199681051
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 20 Jun 2013
Relationalism seeks to ground all claims about the structure of space in facts about actual and possible configurations of matter. Gordon Belot elucidates the prospects for this view of the nature of space by investigating the key notion of... More

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ISBN: 9780199654666 - Consciousness and the Limits of Objectivity Consciousness and the Limits of Objectivity
Robert J Howell

ISBN10: 0199654662  ISBN13: 9780199654666
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 13 Jun 2013
Robert J. Howell offers a new account of the relationship between conscious experience and the physical world, based on a neo-Cartesian notion of the physical and careful consideration of three anti-materialist arguments. His theory of subjective... More

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ISBN: 9780199914746 - Naturalism and the First-person Perspective Naturalism and the First-person Perspective
Lynne Rudder Baker

ISBN10: 0199914745  ISBN13: 9780199914746
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Jun 2013
This book investigates the limits of scientific naturalism. It has three goals: (1) to show that no wholly impersonal account of reality can be adequate to all phenomena; (2) to formulate a nonCartesian account of the first-person perspective... More

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ISBN: 9780674051607 - The Matter and Form of Maimonides' Guide The Matter and Form of Maimonides' Guide
Josef Stern

ISBN10: 0674051602  ISBN13: 9780674051607
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 07 Jun 2013
Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed is generally read as an attempt either to harmonize reason and revelation or to show that they are irreconcilable. Moving beyond these familiar debates, Josef Stern argues that the perplexity addressed in this... More

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ISBN: 9780199928385 - Reference and Existence Reference and Existence
Saul A Kripke

ISBN10: 019992838X  ISBN13: 9780199928385
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 06 Jun 2013
This volume collects Saul Kripke's Locke Lectures, which were delivered in Oxford in 1973. Saul Kripke's Locke Lectures were delivered in Oxford in 1973. Delivered in Kripke's usual extemporaneous style, for years the lectures have only been... More

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ISBN: 9780520276031 - The Fate of Place The Fate of Place
Edward S Casey

ISBN10: 0520276035  ISBN13: 9780520276031
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Jun 2013
Offers a philosophical history of the evolving conceptualizations of place and space in Western thought. In this title, the author begins with mythological and religious creation stories and the theories of Plato and Aristotle and then explores... More

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ISBN: 9780199680603 - The Evident Connexion The Evident Connexion
Galen Strawson

ISBN10: 0199680604  ISBN13: 9780199680603
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 May 2013
The Evident Connexion presents a bold new reading of David Hume's famous 'bundle' theory of the self or mind, and his later rejection of it. Galen Strawson illuminates the 'uniting principle' of Hume's philosophy and argues that the bundle theory... More

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ISBN: 9780199931118 - The Value of Living Well The Value of Living Well
Mark LeBar

ISBN10: 0199931119  ISBN13: 9780199931118
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 30 May 2013
In this book, Mark LeBar develops Virtue Eudaimonism, which brings the philosophy of the ancient Greeks to bear on contemporary problems in metaethics, especially the metaphysics of norms and the nature of practical rationality. Since the middle... More

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ISBN: 9781441132949 - Metaphysics Metaphysics
Alexander Baumgarten

ISBN10: 1441132945  ISBN13: 9781441132949
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 23 May 2013
Alexander Baumgarten (1714-1762), an influential German philosopher preceding Immanuel Kant, is remembered mainly as a founder of modern aesthetics. Yet his manual on metaphysics was one of the chief textbooks of philosophical instruction in... More