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  • Strength of Mind
    Brad Andrews / Jacob L. Goodson / Jacob LGoodson
    Higher education in the twenty-first century should bring together freedom and knowledge with courage and hope. Why these four concepts? As Goodson argues in Strength of Mind, higher education in the twenty-first century offers preparation for ordinary life. Freedom and knowledge serve as the conditions for cultivating courage and hope within one’s ordinary life. More specifica...
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    54,64 €

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple
    Seth J. Gillihan / Seth JGillihan
    Cognitive behavior therapy strategies to help you manage anxiety and depression, whether you struggle with an anxiety disorder or are just feeling uneasy in life.Get lasting relief from anger, panic, stress, and other mood-related conditions by applying the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy to your daily life. From writing down your goals to addressing negative thought...
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    15,65 €

  • Livestock
    Erin McKenna
    Most livestock in America currently live in cramped and unhealthy confinement, have few stable social relationships with humans or others of their species, and finish their lives by being transported and killed under stressful conditions. In Livestock, Erin McKenna allows us to see this situation and presents alternatives. She interweaves stories from visits to farms, interview...
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    122,06 €

  • Two Existential Theories of Knowledge
    Joseph W. Long
    In chapter 1 of this book, I explore four paradigms of justification: epistemic foundationalism and coherentism (which I call the traditional paradigms) and pragmatism and contextualism (the existential paradigms). I argue that the existential paradigms are pragmatically superior. In chapter 2, I build a bridge between pragmatist thinkers like James and Dewey, contextualists ...
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    10,15 €

  • Ejercicios espirituales para materialistas
    Luis Roca Jusmet
    Pierre Hadot y Michel Foucault, dos de los más importantes representantes de la filosofía contemporánea de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, son autores de culto.Pero, aunque comparten la pertenencia a un mismo país y a una misma generación, tienen trayectorias vitales y filosóficas diametralmente opuestas. Será a principios de los años ochenta cuando Foucault, interesado por las ...
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    13,52 €

  • Philosophical Pragmatism and International Relations
    What are the implications of philosophical pragmatism for international relations theory and foreign policy practice? According to John Ryder, 'a foreign policy built on pragmatist principles is neither naïve nor dangerous. In fact, it is very much what both the U.S. and the world are currently in need of.' Close observers of Barack Obama’s foreign policy statements have also r...
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    64,08 €

  • George Herbert Mead in the Twenty-first Century
    This volume is composed of extended versions of selected papers presented at an international conference held in June 2011 at Opole University-the seventh in a series of annual American and European Values conferences organized by the Institute of Philosophy, Opole University, Poland. The papers were written independently with no prior guidelines other than the obvious need to ...
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    63,74 €

  • Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Religion
    Michael R. Slater / Michael RSlater
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    44,74 €

  • Evolutionary Pragmatism and Ethics
    Beth Eddy / Beth L. Eddy / Beth LEddy
    In the late nineteenth century, culture critics who were readers of Darwin’s work on evolution pondered what the implications of natural selection might be for human culture, religion and ethics. American pragmatists, by and large, rejected a social Darwinian spin on ethics, economics, and theology in favor of a less determinate humanist version of the ethical implications that...
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    125,32 €

  • Building a Social Democracy
    Robert Danisch
    Building a Social Democracy offers an alternative intellectual history of American pragmatism, one that tries to reclaim the middle of the twentieth century in order to push neo-pragmatism beyond its philosophical limitations. Danisch argues that the major entailment of the invention of American pragmatism at the beginning of the twentieth century is that rhetorical practices a...
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    157,76 €

  • Pragmatist Neurophilosophy
    John R. Shook
    Pragmatist Neurophilosophy:American Philosophy and the Brain explains why the broad tradition of pragmatism is needed now more than ever. Bringing pragmatist philosophers together with cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists, this volume explores topics of urgent interest across neuroscience and philosophy from the perspective of pragmatism. Discussing how Charles Peirce, ...
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    64,05 €

  • Cognitive Complications
    Nicholas Rescher
    The prime intent of Cognitive Complications is one of innovation. Rescher addresses issues that are under-examined in the present state of discussion, their inherent interest notwithstanding. The linking thread of these investigations is their pragmatic dimension, inherent in the idea that rational inquiry is itself a practice-albeit one that functions in the ideationally cogni...
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    141,65 €

  • Recovering Integrity
    Stuart Rosenbaum
    The world of moral theory finds no place for the idea of integrity. The natural intellectual home of the idea of integrity is the American pragmatist tradition. Pragmatism makes possible an account of integrity that enables it to become philosophically central in thinking about morality. The idea of integrity enables what Dewey called 'a working theory of morality.' Other i...
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    125,22 €

  • The Indispensable Excess of the Aesthetic
    Katya Mandoki
    The Indispensable Excess of the Aesthetic: Evolution of Sensibility in Nature traces the evolution of sensibility from the most primal indications detectable at the level of cellular receptors and plant tendril sensitivity, animal creativity and play to cultural ramifications. Taking on Darwin’s insistence against Wallace that animals do have a sense of beauty, and on recent ev...
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    141,51 €

  • Humanity at the Crossroads
    Garth J. Hallett / Garth JHallett
    Humanity now stands at a crossroads between a world of unimaginable wonders and one of unprecedented terrors. The choices we make now will determine not only the shape of our future, but whether there will be, for us as a species, a future at all. But, if we are at such a crossroads, are we even properly aware of it? Governed by instincts rooted in the past, are we prepared to...
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    32,18 €

  • Thinking with Whitehead and the American Pragmatists
    This collection of original essays explores the connections between the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead and the classical American pragmatists. ...
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    133,14 €

  • American Philosophy
    Erin McKenna
    American Philosophy offers the first historically framed introduction to the tradition of American philosophy and its contemporary engagement with the world.Born out of the social and political turmoil of the Civil War, American philosophy was a means of dealing with conflict and change. In the turbulence of the 21st century, this remains as relevant as ever. Placing the work o...
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    54,08 €

  • American Philosophy
    Erin McKenna / Scott L. Pratt
    American Philosophy offers the first historically framed introduction to the tradition of American philosophy and its contemporary engagement with the world.Born out of the social and political turmoil of the Civil War, American philosophy was a means of dealing with conflict and change. In the turbulence of the 21st century, this remains as relevant as ever. Placing the work o...
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    225,24 €

  • Persuasion and Compulsion in Democracy
    The book presents a variety of philosophical and socio-political perspectives related to the relationship between persuasion and compulsion in democracy. It meets the need of the present time, in America and in Europe, to re-read and discuss the basic assumptions of democracy and the role of individual within it in the context of institutional persuasions that can become factua...
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    63,90 €

  • The Priority of Democracy
    Jack Knight / James Johnson
    Why democracy is the best way of deciding how decisions should be madePragmatism and its consequences are central issues in American politics today, yet scholars rarely examine in detail the relationship between pragmatism and politics. In The Priority of Democracy, Jack Knight and James Johnson systematically explore the subject and make a strong case for adopting a pragmatist...
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    40,09 €

  • Richard Rorty
    Richard Rorty was one of the most important philosophers of the last half of the twentieth century. His work helped effect global transformations in the way philosophy thinks about its work and role midst contemporary culture. He was influential across a diversity of disciplines in perturbing our inherited self-understandings of the place of intellectuals in culture and the rol...
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    64,26 €

  • Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Sport
    Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Sport explores the philosophical significance of sport - the phenomenological experience, the training, coaching, and the competition - from a uniquely pragmatic angle of vision. The philosophical insights of John Dewey, William James, C.S. Peirce, Jane Addams, and Josiah Royce shed new light on the meaning of the physical practices that take pl...
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    66,97 €

  • The Bloomsbury Companion to Leibniz
    Brandon C. Look
    The Bloomsbury Companion to Leibniz presents a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the life, thought and work of one of the great polymaths of the modern world, G.W. Leibniz.This guide enriches the reader’s understanding of Leibniz by establishing the philosophies of, and Leibniz’s reactions to, his most important philosophical contemporaries from Descartes to Maleb...
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    61,08 €

  • Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Religion
    Michael R. Slater
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    132,24 €

  • Pragmatist Neurophilosophy
    Pragmatist Neurophilosophy:American Philosophy and the Brain explains why the broad tradition of pragmatism is needed now more than ever. Bringing pragmatist philosophers together with cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists, this volume explores topics of urgent interest across neuroscience and philosophy from the perspective of pragmatism. Discussing how Charles Peirce, ...
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    206,44 €

  • The Great War and the Death of God
    Charles a. O'Connor III
    This book attributes the success of the atheistic cosmology in displacing the deeply rooted belief in nature's divine governance to the First World War and its effect on Western theology, philosophy, literature, and art. The catastrophic Great War left humanity in a world no longer trustworthy and reassuring but seemingly meaningless and indifferent. Instead of redressing human...
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    39,16 €

  • Evolution of Immortality
    Adam Stanczyk
    Humans have long wondered whether we might be able to cure to all diseases and put a stop aging. But what if we were able to revive the dead to achieve an even more universal version of immortality? In this study, Adam Stanczyk, an architect, considers various aspects of the debate on immortality and all of its possibilities, arguing that humanity can achieve more than we ever ...
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    15,17 €

  • Pragmatism
    William James
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    52,25 €

  • George Santayana at 150
    Giuseppe Patella / Jennifer ARea / Matthew CFlamm
    Santayana at 150: International Interpretations is an anthology gathering seventeen scholar’s essays on the thought and life of Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana. Themes considered include: materialism, naturalistic ethics, aesthetics, and cosmopolitanism. This volume marks the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of Santayana’s birth. ...
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    157,99 €

  • The Pragmatic Vision
    Nicholas Rescher
    Since C. S. Pierce advocated a pragmatic approach to truth and knowledge, it has been one of the characteristic themes of American philosophy. This book examines how pragmatism’s central ideas can be applied and implemented across the entire domain of philosophical deliberations, ranging from theory of knowledge and the value theory to providing explanations for human actions, ...
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    141,89 €


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