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  • Descartes

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Tom Sorell ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    René Descartes (1596-1650) had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endured to the present day. He is perhaps best known for his statement 'Cogito, ergo sum'. By a mixture of 'intuition' and 'deduction' Descartes derived from the 'cogito' principle first the existence of a material world. But Descartes did not intend the ... En savoir plus

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  • Emergencies and Politics

    A Sober Hobbesian Approach

    par Tom Sorell ...
    In this book Tom Sorell argues that emergencies can justify types of action that would normally be regarded as wrong. Beginning with the ethics of emergencies facing individuals, he explores the range of effective and legitimate private emergency response and its relation to public institutions, such as national governments. He develops a theory of the response of governments to public emergencies ... En savoir plus

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  • Scientism

    Philosophy and the Infatuation with Science

    par Tom Sorell ...
    Collections series International Library of Philosophy
    First Published in 2004. Scientism is the belief that science, especially natural science, is the most valuable part of our culture. Although not confined to philosophers, it is from Bacon and Descartes up to the naturalized epistemology of Quine that the clearest statements of the scientistic attitude are to be found. This book shows how Western philosophy has been dominated by an identification ... En savoir plus

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  • Hobbes

    The Arguments of the Philosophers

    par Tom Sorell ...
    First Published in 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher of major influence and significance. Hobbes's writings are dominated by a preoccupation with science: what it is, how it is organized and learned, and why creatures ... En savoir plus

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  • Microfinance, Rights and Global Justice

    Modifié par Tom Sorell, Luis Cabrera ...
    Microfinance - the practice of providing small loans to promote entrepreneurial activity among those with few financial assets - is increasingly seen as a sustainable means of aiding the global poor. Perhaps its most influential advocate, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, has claimed that there is a human right to microfinance, given its potential for poverty alleviation. This book directs critical ... En savoir plus

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  • Business Ethics After the Global Financial Crisis

    Lessons from The Crash

    Collections series Routledge Studies in Business Ethics
    The global financial crisis (GFC) that began in 2007 concentrated attention on the morality of banking and financial activities. Just as mainstream businesses became increasingly defined by their financial performance, banks, it seemed, got themselves – and everyone else – into trouble through an over-emphasis on themselves as commercial enterprises that need pay little attention to traditional ... En savoir plus

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes

    Modifié par Tom Sorell ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    It was as a political thinker that Thomas Hobbes first came to prominence, and it is as a political theorist that he is most studied today. Yet the range of his writings extends well beyond morals and politics. Hobbes had distinctive views in metaphysics and epistemology, and wrote about such subjects as history, law, and religion. He also produced full-scale treatises in physics, optics, and ... En savoir plus

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  • Scientia in Early Modern Philosophy

    Seventeenth-Century Thinkers on Demonstrative Knowledge from First Principles

    Modifié par Tom Sorell, G.A. Rogers, Jill Kraye ...
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    Scientia is the term that early modern philosophers applied to a certain kind of demonstrative knowledge, the kind whose starting points were appropriate first principles. In pre-modern philosophy, too, scientia was the name for demonstrative knowledge from first principles. But pre-modern and early modern conceptions differ systematically from one another. This book offers a variety of glimpses ... En savoir plus

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  • Health Care, Ethics and Insurance

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    Collections series Professional Ethics
    This volume is an exploration of the ethical issues raised by health insurance, which is particularly timely in the light of recent advances in medical research and political economy. Focusing on a wide range of areas, such as AIDS, genetic engineering, screening and underwriting, new disability legislation and the ethics of private and public health insurance, this comprehensive and sometimes ... En savoir plus

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  • Insiders and Outsiders in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy

    Modifié par G.A.J. Rogers, Tom Sorell, Jill Kraye ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
    Seventeenth-century philosophy scholars come together in this volume to address the Insiders--Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, and Hobbes--and Outsiders--Pierre Gassendi, Kenelm Digby, Theophilus Gale, Ralph Cudworth and Nicholas Malebranche--of the philosocial canon, and the ways in which reputations are created and confirmed. In their own day, these ten figures were all considered to be ... En savoir plus

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    Descartes

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Tom Sorell ...

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    Descartes is perhaps best known for his statement, "Cogito, ergo sum," the cornerstone of his metaphysics. But he did not intend the metaphysics to stand apart from his scientific work, which included important investigations into physics, mathematics, and optics. In this book, Sorell shows that Descarates was, above all, an advocate and practitioner of the new mathematical approach to physics, ... En savoir plus

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    Aristotle

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    The influence of Aristotle, the prince of philosophers, on the intellectual history of the West is second to none. In this book Jonathan Barnes examines Aristotle's scientific researches, his discoveries in logic and his metaphysical theories, his work in psychology and in ethics and politics, and his ideas about art and poetry, placing his teachings in their historical context. ... En savoir plus

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