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Four Decades of Scientific Explanation
As Aristotle stated, scientific explanation is based on deductive argument–yet, Wesley C. Salmon points out, not all deductive arguments are qualified explanations. The validity of the explanation must itself be…
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Hegel’s Systematic Contingency
John Burbidge shows that, far from incorporating everything into an all-consuming necessity, Hegel’s philosophy requires the novelty of unexpected contingencies to maintain its systematic pretensions. To know without fear of…
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Heideggerian Marxism
The Frankfurt School philosopher Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) studied with Martin Heidegger at Freiburg University from 1928 to 1932 and completed a dissertation on Hegel’s theory of historicity under Heidegger’s supervision….
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Inkosana Encini
Published for the first time in the South Africa indigenous language of isiXhosa, this is a translation of The Little Prince, one of the world’s most beautiful and popular stories. A pilot forced to land…
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Integral Humanism, Freedom in the Modern World, and A Letter on Independence, Revised Edition
The three books presented in this volume, Integral Humanism, Freedom in the Modern World, and A Letter on Independence, were all written in the early 1930s, a time of dire…
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John Dewey’s Liberalism
John Dewey’s classical pragmatism, Daniel M. Savage asserts, can be used to provide a self-development-based justification of liberal democracy that shows the current debate between liberal individualism and republican communitarianism…
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Luck
Luck touches us all. “Why me?” we complain when things go wrong—though seldom when things go right. But although luck has a firm hold on all our lives, we seldom…
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Moral Principles
“This[is a] forceful and sound little manual which is an interpretation of consistent psychology, ethics and sociology with reference to moral education in the school.”—Journal of Educational Psychology “The most…
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Nihil Unbound
Where much contemporary philosophy seeks to stave off the “threat” of nihilism by safeguarding the experience of meaning–characterized as the defining feature of human existence–from the Enlightenment logic of disenchantment,…
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On Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) possessed one of history’s great minds. The German philosopher, mathematician, and logician invented (independently of Sir Isaac Newton) calculus. His metaphysics bequeathed a set of problems…
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