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A Comparative Doxastic-Practice Epistemology of Religious Experience
This book takes a theoretical enterprise in Christian philosophy of religion and applies it to Buddhism, thus defending Buddhism and presenting it favorably in comparison. Chapters explore how the claims of both Christianity and Theravada Buddhism rest on people’s experiences, so the question as to which claimants to religious knowledge are right rests on the evidential value of those expe…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-09455-7
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- SpringerBriefs in Religious Studies
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- 200.11 WEB c
Emotional Self-Knowledge
Alba Montes Sánchez, Alessandro Salice, emotional self-knowledge, self-knowledge, emotions, affectivity, philosophy of emotion, self-discovery, social identity, responsibility, Indian philosophy, self-esteem, narrative self-understanding, Alba Montes Sánchez, Alessandro Salice, emotional self-knowledge, self-knowledge, emotions, affectivity, philosophy of emotion, self-discovery, social ident…
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- 9781003310945
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Reflections on Life in Higher Education
This book explores the challenges of an academic teaching career. The authors discuss the issues that may arise in the tenure process, scholarship activities, publishing, and providing service to their academic communities as well as how to keep teaching lessons relevant and fresh.
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Critical Rhythm : The Poetics of a Literary Life Form
Explores both the theory and practice of rhythm in literature with a focus on nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry. Emphasis on rhythm's role in contemporary literary criticism, including debates about poetic form and genre. This collection intervenes in recent debates over formalism, historicism, poetics, and lyric by focusing on one of literary criticism's most important, most vested, and …
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- 9780823282043
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- Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
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- 800 GLA c
Rethinking Obligation A Feminist Method for Political Theory
In Rethinking Obligation, Nancy J. Hirschmann provides an innovative analysis of liberal obligation theory that uses feminism as a theoretical method for rethinking political obligations from the bottom up. In articulating a feminist method for political theory, Hirschmann skillfully brings together theoretical categories and methods previously seen as opposed: feminist standpoint and postmoder…
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- 9781501725647
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Ambivalences of Creating Life: Societal and Philosophical Dimensions of Synth…
"Synthetic biology" is the label of a new technoscientific field with many different facets and agendas. One common aim is to "create life", primarily by using engineering principles to design and modify biological systems for human use. In a wider context, the topic has become one of the big cases in the legitimization processes associated with the political agenda to solve global problems wit…
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- 978-3-319-21088-9
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- XVII, 335
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- Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment
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- 100 AMB a
Reductive Explanation in the Biological Sciences
This book develops a philosophical account that reveals the major characteristics that make an explanation in the life sciences reductive and distinguish them from non-reductive explanations. Understanding what reductive explanations are enables one to assess the conditions under which reductive explanations are adequate and thus enhances debates about explanatory reductionism. The account of r…
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- 978-3-319-25310-7
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- XI, 277
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- History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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- 101
The Anthology of Babel
Why should there only be literary scholarship about authors who actually lived, and texts which exist? Where are the articles on Enoch Campion, Linus Withold, Redondo Panza, Darshan Singh, or Heidi B. Morton? That none of these are real authors should be no impediment to interpreting their invented writings. In the first collection of its kind, The Anthology of Babel publishes academic articles…
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- 9781950192472
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The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 2
The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters written both to and from Bentham over a 50-year period, beginning in 1752 (aged three) with his earliest surviving letter to his grandmother, and ending in 1797 with correspondence concerning his attempts to set up a national scheme for the provision of poor relief. Against the background of the debates on…
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Numinous Subjects: Engendering the Sacred in Western Culture, An Essay
Part religious studies, part feminist theory, part philosophy, part indescribable: such is Numinous Subjects. Described by the author as ‘a kaleidoscopic exploration of why three gendered figures of the sacred matter within western culture,’ the experience of reading this text truly is akin to gazing through a constantly turning kaleidoscope. Images, concepts, phrases and quotes are continu…
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