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Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Critic…
Identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous Middle English recipes for the philosophers' stone dating from the fifteenth century.Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous recipes for the philosophers' stone dating from the fifteenth century. These were circulated and received in association…
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Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
The volume reconstructs the work of the great philosophical and literary figures of the last two centuries who recast the concept of memory and brought it into the forefront of the modernist and postmodernist imagination—among them, Bergson, Halbwachs, Freud, Proust, Benjamin, Adorno, Derrida, and Deleuze. Drawing on recent advances in the sciences and in the humanities, the contributors addr…
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- 9780823232611
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Dialogue as a Trans-disciplinary Concept: Martin Buber’s Philosophy of Dial…
"This volume of essays takes as its point of departure Martin Buber`s principle of dialogue, which he applied as a comprehensive hermeneutic method for the study of various cultural phenomena. The volume critically evaluates the methodological purchase to be gained by the introduction of Buber`s conception of dialogue in political theory, psychology and psychiatry, and religious studies."
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- 9783110402377
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Blackfoot ways of knowing : the worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi
Blackfoot Ways of Knowing is a journey into the heart and soul of Blackfoot culture. As a scholar and researcher, Betty Bastien places Blackfoot tradition within a historical context of precarious survival amid colonial displacement and cultural genocide. In sharing her personal story of reclaimed identity, Bastien offers a gateway into traditional Blackfoot ways of understanding and experienci…
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- 1-55238-109-9
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- 191.089 973 52 BAS b
The Pedagogics of Unlearning
What does it mean to unlearn? Once we have learned something, is it ever possible to unlearn that something? If something is said to have been unlearned, does that mean that it is simply forgotten or does some residual force of learning, some perverse force, also resonate in ways that might help us to rethink traditional approaches to teaching and learning? Might we say that education today is …
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- 370 DUN p
Re-Thinking Time at the Interface of Physics and Philosophy: The Forgotten Pr…
The current volume of the Parmenides Series “On Thinking” addresses our deepest and most personal experience of the world, the experience of “the present,” from a modern perspective combining physics and philosophy. Many prominent researchers have contributed articles to the volume, in which they present models and express their opinions on and, in some cases, also their skepticism abou…
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- 978-3-319-10446-1
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- X, 274
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- On Thinking
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Bernard de Mandeville's Tropology of Paradoxes
Edmundo Balsemão is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Coimbra. He graduated from the University of Coimbra, in Philosophy (1986). He has a Master degree in Contemporary Philosophy, obtained in 1990 with a thesis on Emmanuel Levinas, and a Ph. D. with a dissertation on Hegel’s Political Philosophy (1999). He studied at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Hegel-Archiv) during a research y…
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- 978-3-319-19380-9
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- X, 264
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- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
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North-South Knowledge Networks : Towards Equitable Collaboration Between Acad…
Since the 1990s, internationalisation has become key for institutions wishing to secure funding for higher education and research. For the academic community, this strategic shift has had many consequences. Priorities have changed and been influenced by new ways of thinking about universities, and of measuring their impact in relation to each other and to their social goals. Debates are ongoing…
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Bioethics Education in a Global Perspective
This book critically analyses experiences with bioethics education in various countries across the world and identifies common challenges and interests. It presents ethics teaching experiences in nine different countries and the basic question of the goals of bioethics education. It addresses bioethics education in resource-poor countries, as the conditions and facilities are widely different a…
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- 978-94-017-9232-5
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- XII, 221
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- Advancing Global Bioethics
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Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science: EPSA13 Helsinki
This volume showcases the best of recent research in the philosophy of science. A compilation of papers presented at the EPSA 13, it explores a broad distribution of topics such as causation, truthlikeness, scientific representation, gender-specific medicine, laws of nature, science funding and the wisdom of crowds. Papers are organised into headings which form the structure of the book. Read…
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- 978-3-319-23015-3
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- IX, 391
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- European Studies in Philosophy of Science
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