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The Great Council of Malines in the 18th century
This work studies the Great Council of Malines as an institution. It analyzes the Council’s internal organization and staff policy, its position within the broader society of the Austrian Netherlands, the volume and nature of litigation at the Council and its final years and ultimate demise in the late 18th and early 19th century. By means of this institutional study, this volume provides ins…
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- 978-3-319-09638-4
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- XVII, 348, 18 illustrations in colour
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- Studies in the History of Law and Justice
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The Phenomenological Critique of Mathematisation and the Question of Responsi…
This edited collection discusses phenomenological critiques of formalism and their relevance to the problem of responsibility and the life-world. The book deals with themes of formalization of knowledge in connection to the life-world, the natural world, the history of science and our responsibility for both our epistemic claims and the world in which we live. Readers will discover critiques…
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- 978-3-319-09828-9
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- X, 223
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- Contributions to Phenomenology
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G.W. Leibniz, Interrelations between Mathematics and Philosophy
Up to now there have been scarcely any publications on Leibniz dedicated to investigating the interrelations between philosophy and mathematics in his thought. In part this is due to the previously restricted textual basis of editions such as those produced by Gerhardt. Through recent volumes of the scientific letters and mathematical papers series of the Academy Edition scholars have obtained …
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- 978-94-017-9664-4
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The Great Council of Malines in the 18th century
This work studies the Great Council of Malines as an institution. It analyzes the Council’s internal organization and staff policy, its position within the broader society of the Austrian Netherlands, the volume and nature of litigation at the Council and its final years and ultimate demise in the late 18th and early 19th century. By means of this institutional study, this volume provides ins…
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- 978-3-319-09638-4
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- XVII, 348
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- Studies in the History of Law and Justice
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Unifying the Philosophy of Truth
This anthology of the very latest research on truth features the work of recognized luminaries in the field, put together following a rigorous refereeing process. Along with an introduction outlining the central issues in the field, it provides a unique and unrivaled view of contemporary work on the nature of truth, with papers selected from key conferences in 2011 such as Truth Be Told (Amster…
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- 978-94-017-9673-6
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- 30 b/w illustrations
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Leibniz’s Metaphysics and Adoption of Substantial Forms: Between Continuity…
This anthology is about the signal change in Leibniz’s metaphysics with his explicit adoption of substantial forms in 1678-79. This change can either be seen as a moment of discontinuity with his metaphysics of maturity or as a moment of continuity, such as a passage to the metaphysics from his last years. Between the end of his sejour at Paris (November 1676) and the first part of the Ha…
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- 978-94-017-9956-0
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Leibniz on the Parallel Postulate and the Foundations of Geometry: The Unpubl…
This book offers a general introduction to the geometrical studies of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) and his mathematical epistemology. In particular, it focuses on his theory of parallel lines and his attempts to prove the famous Parallel Postulate. Furthermore it explains the role that Leibniz’s work played in the development of non-Euclidean geometry. The first part is an overview o…
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- 978-3-319-19863-7
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Models of the History of Philosophy:Vol. III: The Second Enlightenment and th…
This is the third volume of Models of the History of Philosophy, a collaborative work on the history of the history of philosophy dating from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. The volume covers a decisive period in the history of modern thought, from Voltaire and the great “Encyclopédie” of Diderot and d'Alembert to the age of Kant, i.e. from the histoire de l'esprit hu…
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- 978-94-017-9965-2
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- XXXII, 1000
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- International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
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Models of the History of Philosophy:Vol. III: The Second Enlightenment and th…
This is the third volume of Models of the History of Philosophy, a collaborative work on the history of the history of philosophy dating from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. The volume covers a decisive period in the history of modern thought, from Voltaire and the great “Encyclopédie” of Diderot and d'Alembert to the age of Kant, i.e. from the histoire de l'esprit hu…
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- 978-94-017-9965-2
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- XXXII, 1000
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- International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
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A History of Biophysics in Contemporary China
This book gives a concise history of biophysics in contemporary China, from about 1949 to 1976. It outlines how a science specialty evolved from an ambiguous and amorphous field into a fully-fledged academic discipline in the socio-institutional contexts of contemporary China. The book relates how, while initially consisting of cell biologists, the Chinese biophysics community redirected their …
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- 978-3-319-18093-9
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- SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology
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- 501 LUK h
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