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My Beautiful Despair: The Philosophy of Kim Kierkegaardashian
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Date: 10/15/18 02:41 in : E-Books & Audio Books
The love child of Søren Kierkegaard and Kim Kardashian, the @KimKierkegaard Twitter account has been admired, praised, and adored in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Financial Times, The Economist, New York, Buzzfeed, and more, and has amassed nearly a quarter o...
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Animal Philosophy is the first text to look at the place and treatment of animals in Continental thought. A collection of essential primary and secondary readings on the animal question, it brings together contributions from the following key Continental thinkers: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Bata...
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Reference and Structure in the Philosophy of Language A Defense of the Russellian Orthodoxy
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Date: 09/08/18 02:39 in : E-Books & Audio Books
Arthur Sullivan, "Reference and Structure in the Philosophy of Language: A Defense of the Russellian Orthodoxy" 2017 | ISBN-10: 1138062634, 0415634008 | 180 pages | PDF | 1 MB This volume investigates the precise contours of the connections between two foundational concepts: reference (the...
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In the course of fifty years, director Stanley Kubrick produced some of the most haunting and indelible images on film. His films touch on a wide range of topics rife with questions about human life, behavior, and emotions: love and sex, war, crime, madness, social conditioning, and technol...
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The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece by Maria Michela Sassi, translated by Michele AsuniEnglish | July 10, 2018 | ISBN: 0691180504 | PDF | 232 pages | 2 MB A celebrated study of the origins of ancient Greek philosophy, now in English for the first timeHow can we talk about the beginnings o...
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Spanish Philosophy of Technology: Contemporary Work from the Spanish Speaking Community
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Date: 07/13/18 02:40 in : E-Books & Audio Books
This volume features essays that detail the distinctive ways authors and researchers in Spanish speaking countries express their thoughts on contemporary philosophy of technology. Written in English but fully capturing a Spanish perspective, the essays bring the views and ideas of pioneer a...
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Sci-Phi Science Fiction as Philosophy [Audiobook]
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Date: 07/03/18 02:42 in : E-Books & Audio Books Audio Books
The Great Courses, Professor David K. Johnson PhD University of Oklahoma (Narrator), "Sci-Phi: Science Fiction as Philosophy"ASIN: B07CZ1Y2Q9 | 2018 | [email0;protected] kbps | ~13:30:00 | 401 MB The science fiction genre has become increasingly influential in mainstream popular culture, ev...
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Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
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Date: 06/14/18 02:40 in : E-Books & Audio Books
From one of America's greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human brain. The mind is ...
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Philosophy in Crisis: The Need for Reconstruction
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Date: 05/28/18 02:41 in : E-Books & Audio Books
Is philosophy dead? Some philosophers have declared it to be so, and judging by some of the mental acrobatics now fashionable in postmodernist circles a reasonable person might have to agree. Though recognizing the moribund state ...
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More Dr. Seuss and Philosophy: Additional Hunches in Bunches
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Date: 04/04/18 02:39 in : E-Books & Audio Books
More Dr. Seuss and Philosophy: Additional Hunches in Bunches by Jacob M. HeldEnglish | April 1st, 2018 | ASIN: B079C6RM8L, ISBN: 1538101335 | 288 Pages | EPUB | 3.21 MB Dr. Seuss and Philosophy delighted thousands of readers by demonstrating the insights of these children's classics through ...
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Reasoning from Faith: Fundamental Theology in Merold Westphal's Philosophy of Religion
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Date: 03/27/18 02:40 in : E-Books & Audio Books
Merold Westphal is considered to be one of the preeminent Continental philosophers of religion. His articulation of faith as the task of a lifetime has become a touchstone in contemporary debates concerning faith's relationship to reason. As Justin Sands explores his philosophy, he illu...
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Jacques Derrida and the Institution of French Philosophy
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Date: 03/06/18 02:39 in : E-Books & Audio Books
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was unquestionably one of the most celebrated and reviled French thinkers of the last thirty years. Outside France, his influence in comparative literature circles, through deconstruction and other ideas, has been so profound that his personal role as a leader of...
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Ethics appears early in the life of a culture. It is not the creation of philosophers. Many philosophers today think that their job is to take the ethics of their society in hand, analyse it into parts, purge the bad ideas, and organize the good into a systematic moral theory. The philosoph...
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Author of The Worldly Philosophers, a 3-million-copy seller, Robert Heilbroner offers here a compendium of readings from the "worldly philosophers" themselves. The selections range from the earliest economic thought to such towering volumes as Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nation...
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A Philosophy of Intellectual Property (Applied Legal Philosophy)
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Date: 02/20/18 02:39 in : E-Books & Audio Books
Are intellectual property rights like other property rights? More and more of the world's knowledge and information is under the control of intellectual property owners. What are the justifications for this? What are the implications for power and for ...
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The Philosophy of Science and Engineering Design
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Date: 01/25/18 02:40 in : E-Books & Audio Books
This book discusses the relationship between the philosophy of science and philosophy of engineering, and demonstrates how philosophers of engineering design as well as design researchers can benefit from the conceptual toolkit that the philosophy of science has to offer. In this regard, it...
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The Modern Scholar: Philosophy and the Law: How Judges Reason [Audiobook]
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Date: 01/11/18 02:42 in : E-Books & Audio Books Audio Books
Do judges deduce their decisions from legal rules and principles, or do they decide cases based on what is fair given the facts at hand? The latter view, held by Legal Realists, serves as the starting point for Professor Stephen Mathis's eye-opening look at how judges reason. In this co...
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It's Just a Feeling The Philosophy of Desirism
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Date: 12/23/17 02:39 in : E-Books & Audio Books
Joel Marks, "It's Just a Feeling: The Philosophy of Desirism" 2013 | pages: 107 | ISBN: 1483947610 | EPUB | 0,2 mb Written in an engaging style for the general reader, It's Just a Feeling addresses the fundamental question of ethics: "How shall I live?" The answer it offers is: "In accordan...
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Arrested Development and Philosophy [Audiobook]
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Date: 12/22/17 02:41 in : E-Books & Audio Books Audio Books
A smart philosophical look at the cult hit television show Arrested Development.Arrested Development earned six Emmy awards, a Golden Globe award, critical acclaim, and a loyal cult following - and then it was canceled. Fortunately, this book steps into the void left by the show's prema...
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The relationship between philosophy and theatre is a central theme in the writings of Plato and Aristotle and of dramatists from Aristophanes to Stoppard. Where Plato argued that playwrights and actors should be banished from the ideal city for ...
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Tragic Pathos: Pity and Fear in Greek Philosophy and Tragedy
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Date: 12/18/17 02:39 in : E-Books & Audio Books
Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotle's poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Plato's critique of pity in the Republic. However, this book shows that, while Greek thinkers all acknowledge pity and some form of fear...
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Towards a Philosophy of Narco Violence in Mexico
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Date: 12/13/17 02:42 in : E-Books & Audio Books
This book explores the politics of narco-killing and public attitudes to violence and death in the Mexican Drug War. It examines questions such as the culture of human sacrifice, the religious principles that sanction egregious violence and most importantly the society's complex response...
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Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy
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Date: 11/18/17 02:39 in : E-Books & Audio Books
This landmark book shows how five African civilizations-Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River-have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the Uni...
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Hits: Philosophy in the Jukebox is an extraordinary foray into what Apple has convinced us is the soundtrack of our lives.How does music come to inhabit us, to possess and haunt us? What does it mean that a piece of music can insert itself-Szendy's term for this, borrowed from German,...
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Judaism as Philosophy Studies in Maimonides and the Medieval Jewish Philosophers of Provence
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Date: 10/09/17 02:40 in : E-Books & Audio Books
Howard Kreisel, "Judaism as Philosophy: Studies in Maimonides and the Medieval Jewish Philosophers of Provence" 2015 | ISBN-10: 1618111795 | 500 pages | PDF | 4 MB In this volume, Howard Kreisel revisits some of his most important essays, many of them appearing here in English for the fi...
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