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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-939169-1
EAN 9780199391691
After centuries of neglect, the ethics of food are back with a vengeance. Justice for food workers and small farmers has joined the rising tide of concern over the impact of industrial agriculture on food animals and the broader environment, all while a global epidemic of obesity-related diseases threatens to overwhelm modern health systems. An ...
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The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter
A Portrait of Descartes
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 22,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16575-2
EAN 9780691165752
In the Louvre museum hangs a portrait of a middle-aged man with long dark hair, a mustache, and heavy-lidded eyes, and he is dressed in the starched white collar and black coat of the typical Dutch burgher. The painting is now the iconic image of René Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. And the painter ...
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The Physicist and the Philosopher
Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16534-9
EAN 9780691165349
On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physics. Bergson, who gained fame as a philosopher by arguing that time should not be understood exclusively through the lens ...
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Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants
An Introduction to Ethics
- Columbia, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 33,45 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16923-3
EAN 9780231169233
A beloved best-seller in France, Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants makes philosophy fun, tactile, and popular. Moral thinking is simple, Ruwen Ogien argues, and as inherent as the senses. In our daily experiences, in the situations we confront and the scenes we witness, we develop an understanding of right and wrong as ...
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"Dans la vie, il faut, je crois, observer la loi qui est gardée dans les festins des Grecs : "Qu'il boive ou qu'il s'en aille !" C'est raisonnable : que l'on jouisse comme les autres et avec eux du plaisir de boire ; ou bien que l'homme sobre ne se heurte pas à la violence ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-674-96751-9
EAN 9780674967519
For Descartes, knowledge exists as ideas in the mind that represent the world. In a radical critique, Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor argue that knowledge consists of much more than the representations we formulate in our minds. They affirm our direct contact with reality-both the physical and the social world-and our shared understanding of it."A ...
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Pagans and Philosophers
The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 41,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14255-5
EAN 9780691142555
From the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated and troubled by the 'Problem of Paganism,' which this book identifies and examines for the first time. How could the wisdom and virtue of the great thinkers of antiquity be reconciled with the fact that they were pagans ...
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Thinking Things Through
An Introduction to Philosophical Issues and Achievements
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 472 páginas
PVP: 50,65 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52720-0
EAN 9780262527200
Thinking Things Through offers a broad, historical, and rigorous introduction to the logical tradition in philosophy and its contemporary significance. It is unique among introductory philosophy texts in that it considers both the historical development and modern fruition of a few central questions. It traces the influence of philosophical ideas and arguments on modern logic, ...
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- Zed Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78360-419-7
EAN 9781783604197
What happens with thinkers who operate outside the European philosophical 'pedigree'? In this powerfully honed polemic, Dabashi argues that they are invariably marginalised, patronised and mis-represented. Challenging, pugnacious, but also stylish, Can Non-Europeans Think? forges a new perspective in postcolonial studies by looking at how intellectual debate continues to reinforce a colonial regime of knowledge, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18027-5
EAN 9780300180275
Peter Singer's books and ideas have been disturbing our complacency ever since the appearance of Animal Liberation. Now he directs our attention to a challenging new movement in which his own ideas have played a crucial role: effective altruism. Effective altruism is built upon the simple but profoundly unsettling idea that living a fully ethical ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-837-3
EAN 9781781688373
It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth. NietzscheIn A Philosophy of Walking, a bestseller in France, leading thinker Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble and reveals what they say about us.Gros draws attention to ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 24,45 €
ISBN 978-0-674-50380-9
EAN 9780674503809
Martha Nussbaum asks: How can we sustain a decent society that aspires to justice and inspires sacrifice for the common good? Amid negative emotions endemic even to good societies, public emotions rooted in love-intense attachments outside our control-can foster commitment to shared goals and keep at bay the forces of disgust and envy.
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- Hill & Wang, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-8090-3362-1
EAN 9780809033621
The latest in the celebrated Cartoon Introduction series, The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy is an authoritative and engaging guide to the fundamental questions about our existence. In this indispensable primer, Kevin Cannon'one of the talented illustrators behind Evolution and The Stuff of Life'and the philosopher Michael F. Patton introduce the wisecracking Greek Heraclitus, who hops ...
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Philosophy of Language
The Classics Explained
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 42,15 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02845-5
EAN 9780262028455
Many beginning students in philosophy of language find themselves grappling with dense and difficult texts not easily understood by someone new to the field. This book offers an introduction to philosophy of language by explaining ten classic, often anthologized, texts. Accessible and thorough, written with a unique combination of informality and careful formulation, the book ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-674-41670-3
EAN 9780674416703
There are moments when things suddenly seem strange-objects in the world lose their meaning, we feel like strangers to ourselves, or human existence itself strikes us as bizarre and unintelligible. Through a detailed philosophical investigation of Heidegger's concept of uncanniness (Unheimlichkeit), Katherine Withy explores what such experiences reveal about us. She argues that while others ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-674-33591-2
EAN 9780674335912
Vanishing into Things explores the concept of knowledge in Chinese thought over two millennia, from Confucius to Wang Yangming (ca. 1500 CE), and compares the different philosophical imperatives that have driven Chinese and Western thought. Challenging the hyperspecialized epistemology of modern philosophy in the West, Barry Allen urges his readers toward an ethical appreciation of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-449-3
EAN 9781846144493
In The Soul of the Marionette, John Gray draws together the religious, philosophic and fantastical traditions that question the very idea of human freedom. We flatter ourselves about the nature of free will and yet the most enormous forces - biological, physical, metaphysical - constrain our every action. Many writers and intellectuals have always understood ...
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Seeing Things as They Are
A Theory of Perception
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-19-938515-7
EAN 9780199385157
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- Penguin UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 3,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139764-1
EAN 9780141397641
'I'll stop doing it as soon as I understand what I'm doing.' Somewhere between a historical account and work of philosophy, Socrates' Defence details the final plea of Plato's beloved mentor. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books ...
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