Télécharger le livre :  Pufendorf's Theory of Sociability: Passions, Habits and Social Order
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This book centres on Samuel Pufendorf’s (1632–1694) moral and political philosophy, a subject of recently renewed interest among intellectual historians, philosophers and legal scholars in the English-speaking world. Pufendorf’s significance in conceptualizing...

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Télécharger le livre :  Infinity in Early Modern Philosophy
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This volume contains essays that examine infinity in early modern philosophy. The essays not only consider the ways that key figures viewed the concept. They also detail how these different beliefs about infinity influenced major philosophical systems throughout the...

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Parution : 2018-08-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Leibniz on Compossibility and Possible Worlds
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This volume brings together a number of original articles by leading Leibniz scholars to address the meaning and significance of Leibniz’s notions of compossibility and possible worlds. In order to avoid the conclusion that everything that exists is necessary, or that...

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Parution : 2016-12-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Leibniz's Metaphysics and Adoption of Substantial Forms
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This anthology is about the signal change in Leibniz’s metaphysics with his explicit adoption of substantial forms in 1678-79.This change can either be seen as a moment of discontinuity with his metaphysics of maturity or as a moment of continuity, such as a passage to...

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Télécharger le livre :  Aristotle's Theory of Abstraction
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This book investigates Aristotle’s views on abstraction and explores how he uses it. In this work, the author follows Aristotle in focusing on the scientific detail first and then approaches the metaphysical claims, and so creates a reconstructed theory that explains...

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Parution : 2014-07-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Hume's Critique of Religion: 'Sick Men's Dreams'
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In this volume, authors Alan Bailey and Dan O’Brien examine the full import of David Hume’s arguments and the context of the society in which his work came to fruition. They analyze the nuanced natured of Hume's philosophical discourse and provide an informed look into...

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Parution : 2013-10-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Imagined Causes: Hume's Conception of Objects
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This book provides the first comprehensive account of Hume’s conception of objects in Book I of A Treatise of Human Nature. What, according to Hume, are objects? Ideas? Impressions? Mind-independent objects? All three? None of the above? Through a close textual...

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Parution : 2012-09-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Pyrrhonism in Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary Philosophy
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In recent years, there has been renewed interest in Pyrrhonism among both philosophers and historians of philosophy. This skeptical tradition is complex and multifaceted, since the Pyrrhonian arguments have been put into the service of different enterprises or been...

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Parution : 2011-07-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1500
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This book locates Christine de Pizan's argument that women are virtuous members of the political community within the context of earlier discussions of the relative virtues of men and women. It is the first to explore how women were represented and addressed within...

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Parution : 2011-04-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Machines of Nature and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz
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In recent decades, there has been much scholarly controversy as to the basic ontological commitments of the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). The old picture of his thought as strictly idealistic, or committed to the ultimate reduction of bodies to the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Kant's Idealism
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This key collection of essays sheds new light on long-debated controversies surrounding Kant’s doctrine of idealism and is the first book in the English language that is exclusively dedicated to the subject. Well-known Kantians Karl Ameriks and Manfred Baum present...

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Parution : 2010-11-17
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Télécharger le livre :  The Rationalists: Between Tradition and Innovation
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This volume draws a balanced picture of the Rationalists by bringing their intellectual contexts, sources and full range of interests into sharper focus, without neglecting their core commitment to the epistemological doctrine that earned them their traditional label....

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Parution : 2010-10-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration
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This volume serves as an introduction to a rich and as yet under-explored period in the history of women’s ideas. The volume provides a partial insight into the richness and complexity of women’s political ideas in the centuries prior to the French Revolution. The...

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Parution : 2007-07-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Possibility, Agency, and Individuality in Leibniz's Metaphysics
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Leibniz’s notion of possibility is one of his most significant contributions to philosophy as well as one of the cornerstones of his metaphysics. This work attempts to bring out the intrinsic subtlety ofLeibniz’s approach to possibility and to explore some of its...

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Télécharger le livre :  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Leibniz is known to the wide public and to many scholars mainly as a logician and mathematician, and as the creator of a fascinating but strange metaphysical system. In these, as well as in other fields, his remarkable innovations were achieved by painstaking efforts to...

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Télécharger le livre :  Moral Philosophy on the Threshold of Modernity
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Over the past twenty years the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern era has received increasing attention from experts in the history of philosophy. In part, this new interest arises from claims, made in literature aimed at a less specialist...

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Parution : 2006-03-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Leibniz and the Natural World
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In the present book, Pauline Phemister argues against traditional Anglo-American interpretations of Leibniz as an idealist who conceives ultimate reality as a plurality of mind-like immaterial beings and for whom physical bodies are ultimately unreal and our perceptions...

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Parution : 2006-03-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Transformations in Medieval and Early-Modern Rights Discourse
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Rights language is a fundamental feature of the modern world. Virtually all significant social and political struggles are waged, and have been waged for over a century now, in terms of rights claims. In some ways, it is precisely the birth of modern rights...

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Parution : 2006-02-27
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