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Télécharger le livre :  Vagueness as Arbitrariness
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Vagueness as Arbitrariness


Sagid Salles


This book proposes a new solution to the problem of vagueness. There are several different ways of addressing this problem and no clear agreement on which one is correct. The author proposes that it should be understood as the problem of explaining vague predicates in a...

Parution : 2021-03-12
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Springer
Collection : Synthese Library
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Télécharger le livre :  In the Land of the Cyclops
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In the Land of the Cyclops


Martin Aitken , Karl Ove Knausgaard


A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine.In the Land of the Cyclops is Karl Ove Knausgaard's first collection of essays to be published in English,...

Parution : 2021-01-07
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  The Mobile Philosopher: Matters of Lunch and Death
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The Mobile Philosopher: Matters of Lunch and Death


Will Bynoe


· What's wrong with gluttony?· Would it be boring to live forever?· Should education prepare us for work or leisure?With a light touch, Matters of Lunch and Death distils complex philosophical thought from the ancient world to the present day into a...

Parution : 2020-11-05
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Short Books
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Télécharger le livre :  Be Water, My Friend
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Be Water, My Friend


Shannon Lee


Bruce Lee's daughter illuminates her father's most powerful life philosophies, and how we can apply his teachings to our daily lives'Empty your mind; be formless, shapeless like water'Bruce Lee is a cultural icon, world renowned for his martial arts and film legacy. But...

Parution : 2020-10-08
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Ebury Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  The Book of Delights
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The Book of Delights


Ross Gay


A heart-warming and joyful collection of short lyric essays, reminding us of the purpose and pleasure of praising, extolling and celebrating ordinary wonders'Pure balm for your soul' CELESTE NG, author of Little Fires Everywhere'His delight is infectious. It's hard to...

Parution : 2020-08-11
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Coronet
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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding YHWH
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Understanding YHWH


Hillel Ben-Sasson , Michelle Bubis


This book unlocks the Jewish theology of YHWH in three central stages of Jewish thought: the Hebrew bible, rabbinic literature, and medieval philosophy and mysticism. Providing a single conceptual key adapted from the philosophical debate on proper names, the book...

Parution : 2019-12-11
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The History of Sexuality: 1
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The History of Sexuality: 1


Michel Foucault


'A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that "in the beginning" sexual activity was guilt-free and delicious, being repressed and blighted only by the gloom of Victorianism' Spectator We talk about sex more and more, but are...

Parution : 2019-11-14
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Power
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Power


Michel Foucault


'Who since Weber, or perhaps even Hobbes, has done as much to show why power is such a profound, elusive and treacherous presence throughout our experience?' The Times Higher EducationThe third and final volume of the Essential Works of Foucault series, Power brings...

Parution : 2019-11-14
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Discipline and Punish
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Discipline and Punish


Michel Foucault


'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book ReviewThe grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed?In his revolutionary work on...

Parution : 2019-11-14
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  In Praise of Shadows
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In Praise of Shadows


Junichiro Tanizaki


Were it not for shadows there would be no beauty.Nothing evokes the calm and nuance of the traditional Japanese aesthetic more profoundly than this book. Tanizaki’s eye ranges over architecture, jade, food, even toilets, examining the design and feel of the intimate...

Parution : 2019-11-07
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  Pragmatics and Philosophy. Connections and Ramifications
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Pragmatics and Philosophy. Connections and Ramifications


Alessandro Capone


This book shows how pragmatics and philosophy are interconnected, and explores the consequences and ramifications of this innovative idea, especially in addressing and solving the problem of breaking Grice's circle. The author applies philosophy in order to get to...

Parution : 2019-06-14
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Springer
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Télécharger le livre :  The Second Mountain
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The Second Mountain


David Brooks


NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SOCIAL ANIMALAre you on your first or second mountain? Is life about you - or others? About success - or something deeper? The world tells us that we should pursue our self-interest: career wins, high status, nice things. These are the...

Parution : 2019-04-16
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Discourse, Structure and Linguistic Choice
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Discourse, Structure and Linguistic Choice


Oliver Cresswell , T. Price Caldwell , Robert J. Stainton


This volume presents eight papers and a draft monograph by T. Price Caldwell on topics in linguistics, semiotics and philosophy of language. From the beginning of his professional career onwards, Caldwell wrote short fiction and poetry, and he taught English...

Parution : 2018-06-19
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : Springer
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Télécharger le livre :  Kant: Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
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Kant: Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason


Immanuel Kant


Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is a key element of the system of philosophy which Kant introduced with his Critique of Pure Reason, and a work of major importance in the history of Western religious thought. It represents a great philosopher's attempt to...

Parution : 2018-02-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Plotinus: The Enneads
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Plotinus: The Enneads


George Boys-Stones , John M. Dillon , R. A. H. King , Andrew Smith


The Enneads by Plotinus is a work which is central to the history of philosophy in late antiquity. This volume is the first complete edition of the Enneads in English for over seventy-five years, and also includes Porphyry's Life of Plotinus. Led by Lloyd P. Gerson, a...

Parution : 2017-12-28
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Télécharger le livre :  The Semantics and Pragmatics of Quotation
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The Semantics and Pragmatics of Quotation


Michael Johnson , Paul Saka


The chapters in this volume address a variety of issues surrounding quotation, such as whether it is a pragmatic or semantic phenomenon, what varieties of quotation exist, and what speech acts are involved in quoting. Quotation poses problems for many prevailing...

Parution : 2017-12-07
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : Springer
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Télécharger le livre :  Affirming
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Affirming


Isaiah Berlin


‘IB was one of the great affirmers of our time.’ John Banville, New York Review of BooksThe title of this final volume of Isaiah Berlin’s letters is echoed by John Banville’s verdict in his review of its predecessor, Building: Letters 1960–75, which saw Berlin publish...

Parution : 2017-09-07
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  Dialogues on Fundamental Questions of Science and Philosophy
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Dialogues on Fundamental Questions of Science and Philosophy


A. Pfeiffer


Dialogues on Fundamental Questions of Science and Philosophy presents a compilation of dialogues concerning the basic questions of science and philosophy. This book discusses the relationship between philosophy and science. Organized into two parts encompassing 10...

Parution : 2017-07-26
Format(s) : PDF sans DRM
Éditeur : Pergamon
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Télécharger le livre :  Philebus
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Philebus


Plato , Robin Waterfield


Taking the form of a discussion between the hedonist Philebus, his naïve disciple Protarchus and Socrates, Philebus is a compelling consideration of the popular belief that pleasure is the greatest attainable good. Here, Socrates speculates on the differing intensities...

Parution : 2017-05-04
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
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Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?


Agnieszka Kolakowska , Leszek Kolakowski


Can nature make us happy? How can we know anything? What is justice? Why is there evil in the world? What is the source of truth? Is it possible for God not to exist?Can we really believe what we see? There are questions that have intrigued the world’s great thinkers...

Parution : 2017-05-04
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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