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Perception and intuition are our basic sources of knowledge about the concrete world around us, and more abstract matters such as mathematics, metaphysics, and morality.Perception and intuition, however, are also capacities we deliberately improve in ways that draw on...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-12-23
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Human actions unfold over time, in pursuit of ends that are not fully specified in advance. Rational Powers in Action locates these features of the human condition at the heart of a new theory of instrumental rationality. Where many theories of rational agency focus on...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-11-05
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Imagination will remain a mystery--we will not be...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-06
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Imagination will remain a mystery--we will not be...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-06
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The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness provides the most comprehensive overview of current philosophical research on consciousness. Featuring contributions from some of the most prominent experts in the field, it explores the wide range of types of...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-10
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The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness provides the most comprehensive overview of current philosophical research on consciousness. Featuring contributions from some of the most prominent experts in the field, it explores the wide range of types of...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-10
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In this book, renowned philosopher John Kekes develops and defends a humanistic conception of wisdom as a personal attitude--one that can guide how we face adversities and evaluate the often conflicting possibilities and limits of life in the context in which we...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-05-29
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Shaun Gallagher presents a ground-breaking interdisciplinary account of human action, bringing out its essentially social dimension. He explores and synthesizes the different approaches of action theory, social cognition, and critical social theory. He shows that in...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-09
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Shaun Gallagher presents a ground-breaking interdisciplinary account of human action, bringing out its essentially social dimension. He explores and synthesizes the different approaches of action theory, social cognition, and critical social theory. He shows that in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-04-09
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Representing the world is a puzzling thing. How can it be that mundane events such as processing a thought--and from there putting those thoughts into words--acquire this property of 'aboutness'? How can expressions, which depend on anything from the most fundamental...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-01-09
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Most of the research on the epistemology of perception has focused on visual perception. This is hardly surprising given that most of our knowledge about the world is largely attributable to our visual experiences. The present volume is the first to instead focus on the...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-01-03
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Early Modern German Philosophy (1690-1750) makes some of the key texts of early German thought available in English, in most cases for the first time. The translations range from texts by the most important figures of the period, including Christian Thomasius, Christian...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-12
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Early Modern German Philosophy (1690-1750) makes some of the key texts of early German thought available in English, in most cases for the first time. The translations range from texts by the most important figures of the period, including Christian Thomasius, Christian...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-12
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Most of the time people perceive using multiple senses. Out walking, we see colors and motion, hear chatter and footsteps, smell petrichor after rain, feel a breeze or the brush of a shoulder. We use our senses together to navigate and learn about the world. In spite of...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-12-03
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Articulating a thought can be astoundingly easy. We generally have no trouble expressing complex ideas that we have never considered before, though not always.Articulating a thought can also be extremely hard. Our difficulties in articulating thoughts pervade many...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-11-28
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The continuities between human and animal minds are increasingly well understood. This has led many people to make claims about consciousness in animals, which has often been taken to be crucial for their moral standing. Peter Carruthers argues compellingly that there...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-28
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Articulating a thought can be astoundingly easy. We generally have no trouble expressing complex ideas that we have never considered before, though not always.Articulating a thought can also be extremely hard. Our difficulties in articulating thoughts pervade many...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-28
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The continuities between human and animal minds are increasingly well understood. This has led many people to make claims about consciousness in animals, which has often been taken to be crucial for their moral standing. Peter Carruthers argues compellingly that there...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-28
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What do we express when we use the first-person pronoun 'I' in phrases such as 'I think' or 'I ought to'? Do we refer to ourselves as biologically unique, socially determined individuals? Or do we express a consciousness of ourselves as the bearers of thoughts we share,...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-11-27
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Bertrand Russell famously distinguished between 'knowledge by acquaintance' and 'knowledge by description'. For much of the latter half of the twentieth century, many philosophers viewed the notion of acquaintance with suspicion, associating it with Russellian ideas...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-11-27
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