Philosophie

Bunge vs. Esser - Eine Analyse von Kritik an der Rational-Choice-Theorie

Lukas Oldenburg

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Theoretische (Erkenntnis, Wissenschaft, Logik, Sprache), Note: 1,0, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Veranstaltung: Ratio...

World and Worldhood / Monde et Mondaneite

<P>In this book philosophers try to answer the following question: What is globalization and what does "globe" or "world" (monde) signify? Rémi Brague returns to the Greek i...

Das Unendliche

Rudolf Taschner

Philosophen und Theologen haben über das Unendliche nachgedacht. Doch die wahre Wissenschaft vom Unendlichen ist die Mathematik.<BR>Rudolf Taschner gelingt es, diesen zentralen Begriff auch...

Scientific Visualization: The Visual Extraction of Knowledge from Data

<P>One of the greatest scientific challenges of the 21<SUP>st</SUP> century is how to master, organize and extract useful knowledge from the overwhelming flow of information made...

A Subtle and Mysterious Machine

Emily Booth

Walter Charleton is an intriguing character—he flits through the diaries of Pepys and Evelyn, the correspondence of Margaret Cavendish, and his texts appear in the libraries of better-known cont...

Kierkegaard. Construcción de lo estético

Theodor W. Adorno

Conforme a su temática, el libro no se ha ocupado de los llamados discursos religiosos de Kierkegaard, de aquellos escritos teológicos positivos que acompañan a los filosóficos negativos -la n...

A Rosicrucian Utopia in Eighteenth-Century Russia

Raffaella Faggionato

<P>This is the first investigation of the history of Russian Freemasonry, based on the premise that the facts of the Russian Enlightenment preclude application of the interpretative framewor...

Phantasy, Image Consciousness, and Memory (1898-1925)

Edmund Husserl

<P>This is the first English translation of Husserliana XXIII, the volume in the critical edition of Edmund Husserl's works that gathers together a rich array of posthumous texts on repr...

Handbook of Philosophical Logic

Handbook of Philosophical Logic

Ethics Expertise

Section I examines historical philosophical understandings of expertise in order to situate the current institution of bioethics. Section II focuses on philosophical analyses of the concept of exp...

Kants Pflichtbeispiele in der Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten

Christian Koch

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Praktische (Ethik, Ästhetik, Kultur, Natur, Recht, ...), Note: 1,7, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstrac...

Conscious in a Vegetative State? A Critique of the PVS Concept

Peter McCullagh

<P>Having been originally introduced as a term to facilitate discussion of a specific group of patients regarded as entering a state of unawareness following coma, the ‘Persistent Vegetati...

Immanent Realism

Liliana Albertazzi

<P>In many respects, Brentano conducted pioneering analyses of problems that are currently in the focus of cognitive science and artificial intelligence: from the problem of reference to tha...

Research Ethics

Research Ethics

Activist Business Ethics

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“The truth can wait, for it lives a long life” (Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, 1788-1860) The philosopher Schopenhauer believed in the eventual triumph of truth, despite the disappoi...

Business Ethics

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“Morten: And what are we going to do, when you have made liberal-minded and high-minded men of us? Dr. Stockman: Then you shall drive all the wolves out of the country, my boys!” (Ibsen, An En...

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,...

Marxist Philosophy in China : From Qu Qiubai to Mao Zedong, 1923-1945

Nick Knight

This book recounts the history of Marxist philosophy in China between 1923 and 1945 through the writings and activities of four philosophers: Qu Qiubai, Ai Siqi, Li Da and Mao Zedong. Two of these...