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The DSM-5 in Perspective
Since its third edition in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association has acquired a hegemonic role in the health care professions and has had a broad impact on the lay public. The publication in May 2013 of its fifth edition, the DSM-5, marked the latest milestone in the history of the DSM and of American psychiatry. In The DSM…
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- 978-94-017-9765-8
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- XXIV, 238
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- History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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The Complex Itinerary of Leibniz’s Planetary Theory The Complex Itinerar…
This book presents new insights into Leibniz’s research on planetary theory and his system of pre-established harmony. Although some aspects of this theory have been explored in the literature, others are less well known. In particular, the book offers new contributions on the connection between the planetary theory and the theory of gravitation. It also provides an in-depth discussion of Kep…
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- 978-3-319-21236-4
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- X, 188,
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- Science Networks. Historical Studies
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The Quantum Dissidents
This book tells the fascinating story of the people and events behind the turbulent changes in attitudes to quantum theory in the second half of the 20th century. The huge success of quantum mechanics as a predictive theory has been accompanied, from the very beginning, by doubts and controversy about its foundations and interpretation. This book looks in detail at how research on foundations e…
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- 978-3-662-44662-1
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- XVI, 356, 12 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
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The Presence of Duns Scotus in the Thought of Edith Stein
This book examines the phenomenological anthropology of Edith Stein. It specifically focuses on the question which Stein addressed in her work Finite and Eternal Being: What is the foundational principle that makes the individual unique and unrepeatable within the human species? Traditional analyses of Edith Stein’s writings have tended to frame her views on this issue as being influenced by …
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- 978-3-319-15663-7
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- XV, 184, 6 b/w illustrations
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- Analecta Husserliana
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Crafting the 613 Commandments Maimonides on the Enumeration, Classification,…
Rabbinic tradition has it that 613 commandments were given to Moses on Mount Sinai, but it does not specify those included in the enumeration. Maimonides methodically and artfully crafts a list of 613 commandments in a work that serves as a prolegemenon to the Mishneh Torah, his monumental code of law. This book explores the surprising way Maimonides put this tradition to use and his possible r…
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- 9781618118486
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Otto Bauer (1881-1938) Thinker and Politician
Gegenstand des Buches ist die Darstellung Otto Bauers als führende Gestalt des Austromarxismus und der SDAP, sowie die kritisch-analytische Lesart seiner philosophisch-historischen, wirtschaftlichen, soziologischen und sozialpolitischen Theorien, die vor dem Hintergrund der damaligen Diskussion in der II. und der III. Internationale, der politischen Ereignisse in der SDAP, der internationalen …
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- 9789004325838
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A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility
David Armstrong's book is a contribution to the philosophical discussion about possible worlds. Taking Wittgenstein's Tractatus as his point of departure, Professor Armstrong argues that nonactual possibilities and possible worlds are recombinations of actually existing elements, and as such are useful fictions. There is an extended criticism of the alternative-possible-worlds approach champion…
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- 9781139172226
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A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche: Life and Works
Nietzsche looms over modern literature and thought; according to Gottfried Benn, 'everything my generation discussed, thought through innerly; one could say: suffered; or one could even say: took to the point of exhaustion - all of it had already been said . . . by Nietzsche; all the rest was just exegesis.' Nietzsche's influence on intellectual life today is arguably as great; witness the vari…
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- 9781571137739
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Foucault and Educational Ethics
In his works on ethics, Foucault turned towards an examination of one's relationship with oneself and others. This differs from the modern approaches that explore the relationship between and the responsibilities of actors to each other by adopting criteria. Ethical criteria engender assumptions about the actors by focusing on their responsibilities. Instead of relying on criteria, Foucault's w…
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- 978-1-137-57496-1
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- XIV, 112 pages
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Ethics for A-Level
What does pleasure have to do with morality? What role, if any, should intuition have in the formation of moral theory? If something is ‘simulated’, can it be immoral? This accessible and wide-ranging textbook explores these questions and many more. Key ideas in the fields of normative ethics, metaethics and applied ethics are explained rigorously and systematically, with a vivid writing st…
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- 9781783743902
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