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This deep pierian spring : an account of the human quest for meaning
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ISBN: 1443894257 9781443894258 9781443888936 Year: 2016 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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Fundamental questions about life arise in various contexts, making us wonder about the real worth of living. However, it is certainly a sign of our times when one is alerted to the fundamental question about the meaning and significance of life by an ominous text message. The main character of this book, Professor Enrique de los Reyes, receives such a warning: the onset of super-typhoon Haiyan, the strongest ever to hit landfall, and the impending danger to his friend and his relatives in the Philippines. As he anxiously awaits more news, he recalls and reviews in the context of this tragedy h


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Kommunikation über Glaubensinhalte : Grundlagen der epistemistischen Linguistik
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ISBN: 3110855798 Year: 2016 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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Semantische Paradoxien, Typentheorie und ideale Sprache : Studien zur Sprachphilosophie Bertrand Russels
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ISBN: 3110849216 Year: 2016 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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Le fantôme de la transparence
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ISBN: 9791030404449 Year: 2016 Publisher: Paris : Allia,

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Le logicien s'attache à démontrer l'impossibilité de l'exigence contemporaine de transparence absolue. Tracer les limites de la raison est donc l'objet de cet essai, soulignant qu'il faut aussi compter sur la déraison, du moins avec elle. Le propos s'appuie sur divers domaines, de la science à l'actualité en passant par la philosophie ou le cinéma. ©Electre 2017

Pragmatism and law : from philosophy to dispute resolution
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ISBN: 1138264024 131524618X 1351909282 9781351909297 1351909290 9781351909280 9780754622086 0754622088 9781315246185 9781351909273 9781138264021 Year: 2016 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Synonymie und Ersetzbarkeit : Von Einstellungszuschreibungen zu den Paradoxien der Analyse
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ISBN: 311043265X 3110432811 Year: 2016 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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Dieses Buch verteidigt die These, dass bis auf leicht ausgrenzbare Ausnahmen die Ersetzung von Synonyma in einem Satz die Wahrheit oder Falschheit des Satzes nicht beeinflusst. Maik Sühr liefert eine sorgsame Formulierung der These, indem er sie aus dem im Allgemeinen akzeptierten Prinzip der Kompositionalität ableitet. Er konfrontiert sie im Anschluss mit zum Teil noch weithin unbekannten augenscheinlichen Gegenbeispielen und macht eine Reihe von neuen Vorschlägen, um diese zu entkräften. In diesem Zusammenhang setzt sich Sühr mit verschiedenen Themen innerhalb der Sprachphilosophie und der Philosophie des Geistes auseinander. So bespricht er u.a. Freges Sinnhierarchie, kognitive Äquivalenz sowie verschiedene Aspekte der Semantik von Allquantifikationen und weil-Sätzen. Ferner nimmt er mit neuen Argumenten Stellung zur Debatte zwischen Externalisten und Internalisten in Bezug auf mentalen Gehalt und plädiert für eine grundsätzliche Unterscheidung zwischen semantischen und mentalen Gehalt. Im Schlussteil wendet er die Ersetzbarkeits-These auf das sogenannte Paradox der Analyse an. Im Zuge seiner kritischen Diskussion verschiedener Theorien über Begriffsanalysen entwickelt er dabei seine eigene Konzeption von Analysen als Erklärungen. This book promulgates the thesis that – apart from some easily explained exceptions – the substitution of synonyms in a sentence does not affect its truth or falsehood. Maik Sühr carefully defends this assertion against apparent counter-examples and applies it to the so-called paradox of analysis. Sühr develops a number of new arguments on basic issues in the philosophy of language as well as an original model of conceptual analysis.


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Pragmatism in Philosophical Inquiry : Theoretical Considerations and Case Studies
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ISBN: 3319309021 331930903X Year: 2016 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This book showcases the history and theory of pragmatism and its alignment to the sensibilities of contemporary analytic philosophy. It does this not only by describing its mode of operation and explaining its legitimating rationale, but also by substantiating its claims by a series of instructive case studies. The unifying insight of this approach is that the natural criterion of merit within any goal-oriented enterprise—be its orientation practical or cognitive—pivots on its contribution to the effective and efficient realization of the aims at issue. The aim of this volume is to describe and illustrate this broadened conception of pragmatism as a far-reaching and many-sided approach to philosophical inquiry. Theoretical considering apart, it offers a variety of case studies to illustrate the range and fertility of this approach. Nicholas Rescher has published extensively on the history and theory of pragmatism and on its alignment to the sensibilities of contemporary analytic philosophy over the last 30 years.


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The mutual cultivation of self and things : a contemporary Chinese philosophy of the meaning of being
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ISBN: 9780253021076 9780253021113 9780253021199 0253021111 0253021073 0253021197 Year: 2016 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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"Yang Guorong is one of the most prominent Chinese philosophers working today and is best known for using the full range of Chinese philosophical resources in connection with the thought of Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Heidegger. In The Mutual Cultivation of Self and Things, Yang grapples with the philosophical problem of how the complexly interwoven nature of things and being relates to human nature, values, affairs, and facts, and ultimately creates a world of meaning. Yang outlines how humans might live more fully integrated lives on philosophical, religious, cultural, aesthetic, and material planes. This first English translation introduces current, influential work from China to readers worldwide."--Page [4] of cover.


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Formele semantiek : een inleiding in de formele analyse van betekenis
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ISBN: 9789089647139 9089647139 Year: 2016 Publisher: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press


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Free will, agency, and meaning in life
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ISBN: 0198776861 0191508721 0199685517 0191765678 9780191508721 9781306426343 1306426340 9780191765674 9780199685516 9780198776864 0191022624 9780191022623 Year: 2016 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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Derk Pereboom articulates and defends an original, forward-looking conception of moral responsibility. He argues that although we may not possess the kind of free will that is normally considered necessary for moral responsibility, this does not jeopardize our sense of ourselves as agents, or a robust sense of achievement and meaning in life.

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