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Handbook of Mathematical Geosciences : Fifty Years of IAMG
This Open Access handbook published at the IAMG's 50th anniversary, presents a compilation of invited path-breaking research contributions by award-winning geoscientists who have been instrumental in shaping the IAMG. It contains 45 chapters that are categorized broadly into five parts (i) theory, (ii) general applications, (iii) exploration and resource estimation, (iv) reviews, and (v) remini…
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Vagaries of Desire: A Collection of Philosophical Essays
Vagaries of Desire is a major collection of new essays by Timo Airaksinen on the philosophy of desire. The first part develops a novel account of the philosophical theory of desire, including Girard. The second part discusses Kafka’s main works, namely The Castle, The Trial, and Amerika, and Thomas Hobbes and the problems of intentionality. The text develops such linguistic tropes as metaphor…
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- 9789004410305
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- Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 340 Value Inquiry Book Series Online, Volume: 340 Philosophy, Literature, and Politics, Volume: 340
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Value without Fetish : Uno Kōzō’s Theory of ‘Pure Capitalism’ in Ligh…
Value without Fetish presents the first in-depth English-language study of the influential Japanese economist Uno Kōzō‘s (1897-1977) theory of ‘pure capitalism’ in the light of the method and object of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy. A close analysis of the theories of value, production and reproduction, and crisis in Uno’s central texts from the 1930s to the 1970s reveals his…
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- 9789004449909
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- Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 227
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Un piccolo esempio. La psicagogia matematica di Platone
‘Let me give you a simple example of what I mean, and you will see the rest for yourself.’ This is how Plato usually introduces mathematical examples to illustrate important philosophical puzzles. The research presented in this book offers a systematic analysis of these examples and demonstrates their crucial psychagogical function. Providing a toolkit of paradoxical objects that challenge …
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- Brill's Plato Studies Series, Volume: 18
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What Caused the Big Bang?
This book critically explores answers to the big question, What produced our universe around fifteen billion years ago in a Big Bang? It critiques contemporary atheistic cosmologies, including Steady State, Oscillationism, Big Fizz, Big Divide, and Big Accident, that affirm the eternity and self-sufficiency of the universe without God. This study defends and revises Process Theology and argumen…
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- 9789004496033
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- Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 115 Philosophy and Religion, Volume: 115
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Truth and Responsibility: A Personalist Reading of Newman
This book goes beyond a simple study of Newman’s thought and work and seeks to apply his deductions to modern value conflicts. Although it will be of particular relevance to academic readers with some prior knowledge of Newman’s works, it may also be of wider interest to students of history, philosophy, theology and spirituality. More generally, its unusual focus on Newman’s epistemology …
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- 9789004682818
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Translating Early Modern Science
Translating Early Modern Science explores the roles of translation and the practices of translators in early modern Europe. In a period when multiple European vernaculars challenged the hegemony long held by Latin as the language of learning, translation assumed a heightened significance. This volume illustrates how the act of translating texts and images was an essential component in the circ…
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- 9789004349261
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- 364 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Intersections, Volume: 51
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Ways of the Scientific World-Conception. Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath
Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) and Otto Neurath (1882-1945) had a decisive influence on the development of the scientific world view of logical empiricism. Their relationship was marked by mutual intellectual stimulation, close collaboration, and personal friendship, but also by controversies that were as heated as they were rarely fought out in public. Carnap and Neurath were, in the words of Olga …
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- 9789004680203
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- Studien zur Österreichischen Philosophie, Volume: 50
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Cow Care in Hindu Animal Ethics
This open access book provides both a broad perspective and a focused examination of cow care as a subject of widespread ethical concern in India, and increasingly in other parts of the world. In the face of what has persisted as a highly charged political issue over cow protection in India, intellectual space must be made to bring the wealth of Indian traditional ethical discourse to bear on t…
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- The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
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François Hemsterhuis, Œuvres philosophiques
This book has been published in open access thanks to the financial support of the Open Access Book Fund of the University of Groningen. François Hemsterhuis (1721-1790) was a Dutch philosopher on the crossroad of Enlightenment, Classicism and Romanticism. He published his treatises in French, with a beautiful lay-out. They were read and discussed immediately, by outstanding philosophers an…
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- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume: 238/15 Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History, Volume: 238/15
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