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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding Evolution in Darwin's "Origin"
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Understanding Evolution in Darwin's "Origin"


Maria Elice Brzezinski Prestes


This book aims to encourage the reading of "On the Origin of Species" and to include it in the teaching of evolution. With a comprehensive overview of the development of Darwin's theory, the volume provides relevant aspects of Darwin's life and work in connection with...

Parution : 2023-10-10
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132,72
Télécharger le livre :  A Metaphysics of Platonic Universals and their Instantiations
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A Metaphysics of Platonic Universals and their Instantiations


José Tomás Alvarado


This book offers a detailed defense of a metaphysics of Platonic universals and a conception of particular objects that is coherent with said metaphysics. The work discusses all the main alternatives in metaphysics of properties and tries to show why...

Parution : 2020-10-27
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Collection : Synthese Library
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112,30
Télécharger le livre :  Real Fourdimensionalism
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Real Fourdimensionalism


Ludwig Jaskolla


This book explores persistence, taking human beings as an example case. It investigates how concrete particulars stay the same during their temporal carriers while changing significantly. Themes of relativity, structural realism, 4-dimensional ontologies and different...

Parution : 2017-10-19
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91,88
Télécharger le livre :  The Rule-Following Paradox and its Implications for Metaphysics
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The Rule-Following Paradox and its Implications for Metaphysics


Jody Azzouni


This monograph presents Azzouni’s new approach to the rule-following paradox. His solution leaves intact an isolated individual’s capacity to follow rules, and it simultaneously avoids replacing the truth conditions for meaning-talk with mere assertability conditions...

Parution : 2017-03-08
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81,67
Télécharger le livre :  Modal Epistemology After Rationalism
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Modal Epistemology After Rationalism


Bob Fischer , Felipe Leon


This collection highlights the new trend away from rationalism and toward empiricism in the epistemology of modality. Accordingly, the book represents a wide range of positions on the empirical sources of modal knowledge. Readers will find an introduction that surveys...

Parution : 2016-11-09
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102,09
Télécharger le livre :  An Aristotelian Feminism
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An Aristotelian Feminism


Sarah Borden Sharkey


This book articulates the theoretical outlines of a feminism developed from Aristotle’s metaphysics, making a new contribution to feminist theory. Readers will discover why Aristotle was not a feminist and how he might have become one, through an investigation of...

Parution : 2016-08-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Meta-metaphysics
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Meta-metaphysics


Jiri Benovsky


Metaphysical theories are beautiful. At the end of this book, Jiri Benovsky defends the view that metaphysical theories possess aesthetic properties and that these play a crucial role when it comes to theory evaluation and theory choice.Before we get there, the...

Parution : 2016-03-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Existence as a Real Property
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Existence as a Real Property


Francesco Berto


This profound exploration of one of the core notions of philosophy—the concept of existence itself—reviews, then counters (via Meinongian theory), the mainstream philosophical view running from Hume to Frege, Russell, and Quine, summarized thus by Kant: “Existence is...

Parution : 2012-10-17
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Télécharger le livre :  How Ficta Follow Fiction
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How Ficta Follow Fiction


Alberto Voltolini


This book is devoted to fictional entities or, to be more precise, fictional entities as they emerge from the literary process of storytelling. They encompass the great immortal figures in human literature—Don Quixote, Faust, Sherlock Holmes and so on—as well as the...

Parution : 2006-11-22
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142,93
Télécharger le livre :  Self and Substance in Leibniz
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Self and Substance in Leibniz


Marc Elliott Bobro


There is a close connection in Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s mind between the notions of self and substance. R. W. Meyer, in his classic 1948 text, Leibnitz and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution, writes that “the monad … is nothing but a 1 représentation (in both senses...

Parution : 2006-01-16
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Éditeur : Springer
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51,04

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