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This book proposes a theory of reference--answering the question of whether Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptures refer to the same God--within a semantic framework acceptable to atheists and fideists.

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This book proposes a theory of reference--answering the question of whether Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptures refer to the same God--within a semantic framework acceptable to atheists and fideists.

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In this first extended treatment of Kurt Godel's life and work, Hao Wang brings out the full subtlety of Godel's ideas and their connection with grand themes in the history of mathematics and philosophy.

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Reflections on the Religious, the Ethical, and the Political presents a thematic arrangement of fourteen essays on the interconnected issues of religion, ethics, and politics. A trans- or post-disciplinary praxis-based approach is advanced and employed, as the essays collected provide a critical supplement to Calvin O. Schrag's published book projects.

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This important new book explores the contemporary refugee crisis and the untold realities and experiences of refugees themselves. A team of top scholars offer a critical and necessary diagnosis of the challenges, complexities, and contradictions impacting our philosophical approaches to the contemporary figure of the refugee.

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This important new book explores the contemporary refugee crisis and the untold realities and experiences of refugees themselves. A team of top scholars offer a critical and necessary diagnosis of the challenges, complexities, and contradictions impacting our philosophical approaches to the contemporary figure of the refugee.

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Nathan Bell argues for nothing less than a new concept of the political: that societies (liberal or not, in the mode of the sovereign state or some other form) embrace an ethos of responsibility for others, where the right to seek asylum becomes foundational for politics itself.

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This work provides a defense of traditional, human-centred ethics against Peter Singer's ethical theory. The author argues that in today's world, human life has been cheapened and the values of the marketplace have begun to govern medical care and organ donation, birth and death.

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Examining the operation of tolerance in contexts as different as the War on Terror, campaigns for gay rights, and the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance, this book traces the operation of tolerance in contemporary struggles over identity, citizenship, and civilization.

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Drawing on recent work in social epistemology, critical race theory, and settler colonial studies, Millicent Churcher outlines how Adam Smiths account of sympathy as an imaginative and reflective capacity provides fertile resources for addressing systemic failures to recognize the histories, needs, and experiences of marginalized social groups.

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Offers a different perspective on what it means to be a human being and to strive in the world despite the wounding effects of the socialization process. Drawing on the legacies of French poststructuralism, this book builds an alternative to the post-Foucaultian tendency to envision subjectivity as a function of hegemonic systems of power.

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Beginning with a review of the major traditional definitions of relativism and the classical arguments against it, this book examines twentieth-century accounts and defenses of relativism and points out that each account faces problems similar to those of the traditional versions.

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This is a much-needed critical study of epistemological relativism in contemporary American philosophy, with special refence to the views of Alasdair MacIntyre, Hilary Putnam and Richard Rorty.

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Offers a comprehensive introduction to relativism and how it applies to the different parts of the basic, foundational areas of philosophy and, indeed, to every area of human enquiry. This guide provides a summary of the role of relativism in three key academic disciplines: science, politics, and religion.

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Offers a comprehensive introduction to relativism and how it applies to the different parts of the basic, foundational areas of philosophy and, indeed, to various areas of human enquiry. This book provides a summary of the role of relativism in three key academic disciplines: science, politics, and religion.

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Wittgenstein's work remains, undeniably, now, that of one of those few philosophers who will be read by all future generations.

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This study provides insight into the human desire to return to important places of our past and to establish places of memory. Drawing upon philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, Janet Donohoe uses the idea of a palimpsest as a jumping-off point to explore how we make and preserve memories.

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