Autor: Little Adrian

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Politics

The Politics is one of the most influential texts in the history of political thought, and it raises issues which still confront anyone who wants to think seriously about the ways in which human …


geschrieben von R. F. Stalley (Herausgeber) und Ernest Barker (Übersetzung) und Aristotle (Autor)

Churchgoing and Christian Ethics

Robin Gill argues that moral communities should take center stage in ethics. This book examines recent evidence about church communities in relation to faith, moral order and love, and shows that …

Preface; List of tables; Introduction; Part I. The Theoretical Context: 1. Churchgoing and the bias of virtue ethicists; 2. Churchgoing and the bias of sociologists; 3. Four theories of churchgoing; …


geschrieben von Robin Gill (Autor) und Robin Gill (Herausgeber) und Stephen R. L. Clark (Herausgeber)

Society, Economics, and Philosophy

Society, Economics, and Philosophy represents the full range of Polanyi's interests outside his scientific work: economics, politics, society, philosophy of science, religion and positivist obstacles …


geschrieben von Michael Polanyi (Autor) und Richard Allen (Solist)

Mechanical Mind: A Philosophical Introduction to Minds, Machines and Mental Representation

How can the human mind represent the external world? What is thought, and can it be studied scientifically? Does it help to think of the mind as a kind of machine?
Tim Crane sets out to answer …

The puzzle of representation; Understanding thinkers and their thoughts; Computers and thought; The …


geschrieben von Tim Crane (Autor)

Capabilities Equality: Basic Issues and Problems

University of Georgia, …

The capabilities approach to equality, developed by Amartyr Sen and Martha Nussbaum, seeks to answer the question, what is a proper measure of a person's condition for the purposes of determining what …

Introduction; Alexander Kaufman; I. A Sufficientarian Approach?; 1. Distributive Justice and Basic Capability Equality: 'Good Enough Is Not Good Enough; Richard Arneson; 2. Capabilities as Fundamental …


geschrieben von Alexander Kaufman (Herausgeber)

Beyond Liberal Education: Essays in Honour of Paul H. Hirst

This collection of essays by philosophers and educationalists of international reputation, all published here for the first time, celebrates Paul Hirst's professional career. The introductory essay by …

Introduction 1.Good Teaching 2.Truth and Liberal Education Liberal Education and Vocational Preparation 3.Paul Hirst's Structure, or The Uses and Abuses of an Overworked Concept The Curriculum: The …


geschrieben von Robin Barrow (Autor) und Robin Barrow (Herausgeber) und Patricia White (Herausgeber)

The New Testament: A Student's Introduction

This introductory student-centered text is now full color, enhancing its readers' visual experience! The fifth edition of "The New Testament" retains its effective 5-part organization ("An Invitation …


geschrieben von Stephen Harris (Autor) und Harris Stephen (Autor)

Hume's Difficulty: Time and Identity in a Treatise

Donald L. M. Baxter's meticulous attention to textual detail yields a highly original interpretation of some of the most neglected or maligned parts of Hume's Treatise. The book will be useful to …

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1 Interpreting Hume as metaphysician and skeptic 2 Moments and durations 3 Steadfast objects 4 Identity 5 Representing personal identity 6 Systematic …


geschrieben von Donald L. M. Baxter (Autor)

The Unity of Plato's Sophist: Between the Sophist and the Philosopher

Plato’s later dialogue, the Sophist, is deemed one of the greatest works in the history of philosophy, but scholars have been shy of confronting the central problem of the dialogue. For …

Preface; Notes and abbreviations; Division of the Sophist; 1. How to read the Sophist; 2. The sophist and the philosopher; 3. How the sophist appears; 4. Analysis of the structure of appearance; 5. …

"...the book is scholarly, clearly argued, textually supported, and highly recommended...Notomi's book succesfully re-frames the dialogue in terms of its fundamental question; for this it merits the …

Noburu Notomi presents an interpretation of one of Plato’s most important dialogues, the Sophist, addressing both historical context and philosophical content. He shows how important the …


geschrieben von Noburu Notomi (Autor)

On Philosophy and Economics

On Philosophy, Politics and Economics is an introductory text covering the basics of instrumental rationality, utility theory, game theory, axiomatic social choice theory and public choice theory. It …


geschrieben von Gerald F. Gaus (Autor)


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