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This is the second of the three volumes of A System of Pragmatic Idealism, a series that will synthesize the life's work of the philosopher Nicholas Rescher. Rescher's numerous books and articles, which address almost every major philosophical topic, reflect a unified approach: the combination of pragmatism and idealism characteristic of his thinki

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This is the third and final volume of A System of Pragmatic Idealism, a series that will synthesize the life's work of the philosopher Nicholas Rescher. Rescher's numerous books and articles, which address almost every major philosophical topic, reflect a unified approach: the combination of pragmatism and idealism characteristic of his thinking th

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Offers an introduction to philosophy, suitable for general readers and first-year students coming to this subject for the first time. This guide covers various key terms, concepts and thinkers. It features more than 100 jargon-free entries on topics from Animal Ethics to Wittgenstein and includes witty anecdotes and handy tips on further reading.

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Offers an introduction to philosophy, suitable for general readers and first-year students coming to this subject for the first time. This guide covers various key terms, concepts and thinkers. It features more than 100 jargon-free entries on topics from Animal Ethics to Wittgenstein and includes witty anecdotes and handy tips on further reading.

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A new, philosophically grounded theory of the voicethe voice as the lever of thought, as one of the paramount embodiments of the psychoanalytic object.

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In dialogue with thinkers from Aristotle to Freud, Alfredo Ferrarin provides a philosophical account of the nature of images and the imagination.

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Wishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking. Many influential ethical views depend on the optimistic assumption that, despite appearances to the contrary, the human and natural world in which we live could, eventually, be made to make sense to us. In A World without Why, Raymond

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In the 40s BCE, during his forced retirement from politics under Caesar's dictatorship, Cicero turned to philosophy, producing a massive and important body of work. This title examines the rhetorical battle that Cicero stages in his philosophical prefaces - a battle between the forces that would oppose or support his project.

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Abandoning the Box is a science fiction novel that follows the story of an artificially intelligent droid named Franklin Stein that was created to be just like a human and starts off by trying to prove his humanity. Eventually, Franklin reproduces and the droids become naturally integrated into society and accelerating the development of new technologies but to the detriment of sustainability.

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A philosophical account of sexual desire in late capitalism, particularly looking at the way the sexual has become information, either in cyberspace or in genetic coding.

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Creativity has become a popular slogan in contemporary education and society. Ascribing creativity has become one of the principle means of praising, approving and commending. Yet in the process of becoming a universal term of positive evaluation, the concept of creativity has lost its connection with its origins.

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An argument that perception is something we do, not something that happens to us: not a process in the brain, but a skillful bodily activity.

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Leading philosophers explore responsibility from a variety of perspectives, including metaphysics, action theory, and philosophy of law.

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Covering a variety of philosophical disciplines, this text provides definitions of such key terms as chance, choice, duty, good and evil, honour, human nature, memory, time, soul, and will, and sheds light on how they have been interpreted, used, or abused in both scholarly and common discourse.