The Philosophy Shop: Ideas, Activities and Questions to Get People, Young and Old, Thinking Philosophically
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The Philosophy Shop is a veritable emporium of philosophical puzzles and challenges to develop...
Language Lost and Found: On Iris Murdoch and the Limits of Philosophical Discourse
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Language Lost and Found takes as its starting-point Iris Murdoch's claim that "we have suffered a...
An Inquiry into the Philosophical Concept of Schole: Leisure as a Political End
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Though the ancient Greek philosophical concept of schole is usually translated as 'leisure', there...
Scientific Understanding: Philosophical Perspectives
Sabina Leonelli, Kai Eigner and Henk W. de Regt
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To most scientists, and to those interested in the sciences, understanding is the ultimate aim of...
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
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'Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.' In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke...
Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting
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The 21st century offers a dizzying array of new technological developments: robots smart enough to...
The Way of Nature and the Way of Grace: Philosophical Footholds on Terrence Malick's the Tree of Life
Jonathan Beever and Vernon W. Cisney
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Amid all the controversy, criticism, and celebration of Terence Malick's award-winning film The Tree...
Philosophical Religions from Plato to Spinoza: Reason, Religion, and Autonomy
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Many pagan, Jewish, Christian and Muslim philosophers from Antiquity to the Enlightenment made no...
Dignaga's Investigation of the Percept: A Philosophical Legacy in India and Tibet
Douglas Duckworth, Malcolm David Eckel, Jay L Garfield and John Powers
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Investigation of the Percept is a short (eight verses and a three page autocommentary) work that...
God's Final Victory: A Comparative Philosophical Case for Universalism
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God's Final Victory addresses the ongoing controversy concerning which doctrine is more defensible:...