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Disjunctivism :contemporary readings
This reader collects in one volume classic texts that define and react to disjunctivism. These include an excerpt from a book by the late J.M. Hinton.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255219
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- 1 online resource (xxix, 334 pages).
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The act of thinking
"A Bradford book."A new theory proposes that thinking is a learned action.In this remarkable monograph, Derek Melser argues that the core assumption of both folk psychology and cognitive science--that thinking goes on in the head--is mistaken. Melser argues that thinking is not an intracranial process of any kind, mental or neural, but is rather a learned action of the person.After an introduct…
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- 9780262279659
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 287 pages)
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Acoustic phonetics
Content DescriptionOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585087202
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- 1 online resource (viii, 607 pages) :illustrations.
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Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche :philosophy, culture, and agency
Are Hegel and Nietzsche philosophical opposites? Can twentieth-century Continental philosophers be categorized as either Hegelians or Nietzscheans? In this book Elliot Jurist places Hegel and Nietzsche in conversation with each other, reassessing their relationship in a way that affirms its complexity. Jurist examines Hegel's and Nietzsche's claim that philosophy and culture are linked and expl…
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- 0585442681
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- 1 online resource (xii, 355 pages).
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Between philosophy and social science :selected early writings
These essays reveal another side of Horkheimer, focusing on his remarkable contributions to critical theory in the 1930s. Max Horkheimer is well known as the director of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and as a sometime collaborator with Theodor Adorno, especially on their classic Dialectic of Enlightenment. These essays reveal another side of Horkheimer, focusing on his remarkable …
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- 0262275694
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- 1 online resource (440 pages).
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Language, music, and mind
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282024
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- 1 online resource (xi, 169 pages) :illustrations
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Knowledge of meaning :an introduction to semantic theory
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262277945
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 639 pages)
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Knowledge and mind :a philosophical introduction
"A Bradford book."This is the only contemporary text to cover both epistemology and philosophy of mind at an introductory level. It also serves as a general introduction to philosophy: it discusses the nature and methods of philosophy as well as basic logical tools of the trade. The book is divided into three parts. The first focuses on knowledge, in particular, skepticism and knowledge of the …
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- 0585184178
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 253 pages) :illustrations.
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The Kantian legacy in nineteenth-century science
"Historians of philosophy, science, and mathematics explore the influence of Kant's philosophy on the evolution of modern scientific thought."--Jacket.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262273268
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- 1 online resource (vi, 370 pages) :illustrations.
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Is human nature obsolete? :genetics, bioengineering, and the future of the hu…
Papers from a conference held in spring 2001 at the University of Scranton.As our scientific and technical abilities expand at breathtaking speeds, concern that modern genetics and bioengineering are leading us to a posthuman future is growing. Is Human Nature Obsolete? poses the overarching question of what it is to be human against the background of these current advances in biotechnology. It…
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- 9780262267571
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- 1 online resource (x, 422 pages).
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