Philosophy
epub |eng | 2014-11-16 | Author:Nichols, Shaun

5 Debunking Arguments The rise of experimental philosophy has been accompanied by a rise in debunking arguments.1 I have already discussed two debunking arguments (in sections 2.6 and 4.3.5). But ...
( Category: Free Will & Determinism January 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-10 | Author:Tlumak, Jeffrey [Tlumak, Jeffrey]

1B Ideas constantly change. 2B There is no change without a cause. 3B Something causes ideas to change. (1, 2) 4B Qualities, ideas, combinations of ideas, and substances are all ...
( Category: Modern January 5,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:Ferber, Michael [Ferber, Michael]

In France, Alfred de Musset indulges in a similar nostalgia: ‘O Greece! … / / I am a citizen of your ancient ages; / My soul with the bee strays ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic January 3,2016 )
epub, azw |eng | 2015-02-09 | Author:David Boaz [Boaz, David]

GOVERNMENT’S DISCOORDINATION What is the role of government in the economy? To begin with, it plays a very important role: protecting property rights and freedom of exchange so that market ...
( Category: Political January 3,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2010-04-09 | Author:Weston, Anthony [Weston, Anthony]

23 Modus tollens A second valid deductive form is modus tollens (“the mode of taking”: take q, take p). If p then q. Not-q. Therefore, not-p. Here “Not-q” simply stands ...
( Category: Writing Skills January 3,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Nicos Poulantzas [Poulantzas, Nicos]

3 As I pointed out in the Preface, I am here speaking only in my own name. But of French works that tend in the same direction, I should mention ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism January 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-02 | Author:Pelluchon, Corine,Howse, Robert

Individualism, Liberalism, and Absolutism The major contribution of Hobbes is the distinction between right and positive law and the theory of sovereignty, of which the foundation is not the good, ...
( Category: Eastern January 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-02 | Author:Gurtler, Gary M.,Stern-Gillet, Suzanne

Love as Abundance The most important question is simply in what sense we may be said to need or desire another. For Aristophanes, the loved one was once near and ...
( Category: Social Philosophy January 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-02 | Author:Sullivan, Shannon

White supremacists are right about one thing: white parents need to openly discuss race, especially whiteness, with their white children. Of course, white allied parents need to do this in ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Susan Blackmore [Blackmore, Susan]

Oops. What? To my astonishment I find I’m half way through a great long line of thought about how the bird table fell over in the wind and whether it ...
( Category: Philosophy January 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Gschwandtner, Christina M.

The Excess of the Gift The gift has become the very paradigm of the impossible in phenomenology. The excessive depiction of the gift is certainly not particular to Marion. Jacques ...
( Category: Religious January 1,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Murchadha, Felix

Night and Light Night is ambiguous. Faith is in the night, but in night there is no safety, there are no guarantees, only confusion and danger. The relation to night ...
( Category: Religious January 1,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-26 | Author:Bowie, Andrew [Bowie, Andrew]

Ideology and commodity Marx’s mature work in Capital (first volume published 1867) seeks to analyse the mechanisms of 19th-century capitalism which lead to the impoverishment of the many in economies ...
( Category: History & Surveys January 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-15 | Author:MATTHEW R. X. DENTITH [DENTITH, MATTHEW R. X.]

8 Should We Prefer Official Theories? There is a view found in the work of several conspiracy theory theorists that goes something like this: theories with official status – to ...
( Category: Social Philosophy December 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-10 | Author:Raschke, Carl A.

COUNTERFEIT MONEY Derrida has also raised the question of the same aporia in reference to the religious, a question he derives from Levinas’s paradoxical formulation of the “infinite” responsibility a ...
( Category: Deconstruction December 29,2015 )