Discrimination and Disrespect (Oxford Philosophical Monographs) 9780198732877, 9780191047084, 0198732872

Everyone agrees that discrimination can be a grave moral wrong. Yet this consensus masks fundamental disagreements about

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Discrimination and Disrespect (Oxford Philosophical Monographs)
9780198732877, 9780191047084, 0198732872

Everyone agrees that discrimination can be a grave moral wrong. Yet this consensus masks fundamental disagreements about

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Vagueness is the study of concepts that admit borderline cases: the property of being bald is vague because there are pe

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Poellner, Peter

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The Critical Imagination is a study of metaphor, imaginativeness, and criticism of the arts. Since the eighteenth centur

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What is it to have a reason to do something? is one sort of question; what is it we have reason to do? is another. These

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Category mistakes are sentences such as "Green ideas sleep furiously," "Saturday is in bed," and &qu

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There is not one but many ways to picture the world--Australian "x-ray" pictures, cubish collages, Amerindian

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This pioneering book demonstrates the crucial importance of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics to his philoso

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Heidegger presented reflections on animality most extensively in his 1929-30 lecture course The Fundamental Concepts of

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Five Modes of Scepticism examines the argument forms that lie at the heart of Pyrrhonian scepticism as expressed in the

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