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Law and disorder in the postcolony

Table of Contents: “…Caldeira -- Death squads and democracy in Northeast Brazil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Some notes on disorder in the Indonesian postcolony / Patricia Spyer -- Witchcraft and the limits of the law: Cameroon and South Africa / Peter Geschiere -- The ethics of illegality in the Chad Basin / Janet Roitman -- Criminal obsessions, after foucault: postcoloniality, policing, and the metaphysics of disorder / Jean Comaroff and John L. …”
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Dispositions and causal powers

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Bruno Gnassounou and Max Kistler -- Part I: The metaphysics of dispositions and causal powers -- Dispositions and counterfactuals : from Carnap to Goodman's children and grandchildren / François Schmitz -- Filled in space / Stephen Mumford -- Dispositions and essences / Claudine Tiercelin -- The causal efficacy of macroscopic dispositional properties / Max Kistler -- Opium's virtue dormitive / Cyrille Michon -- Conditional possibility / Bruno Gnassounou -- On ascribing dispositions / Ludger Jansen -- Part II: Dispositions and causal powers in science -- An extended semantic field of dispositions and the grounding role of causal powers / Rom Harré -- What makes a capacity a disposition? …”
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Reasonable perspectives on religion

Table of Contents: “…Bellah -- 5. Hegel's Metaphysics and Religious Pluralism / Patrick Rogers Horn -- 6. …”
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Dispositions and causal powers

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Bruno Gnassounou and Max Kistler -- Part I: The metaphysics of dispositions and causal powers -- Dispositions and counterfactuals : from Carnap to Goodman's children and grandchildren / François Schmitz -- Filled in space / Stephen Mumford -- Dispositions and essences / Claudine Tiercelin -- The causal efficacy of macroscopic dispositional properties / Max Kistler -- Opium's virtue dormitive / Cyrille Michon -- Conditional possibility / Bruno Gnassounou -- On ascribing dispositions / Ludger Jansen -- Part II: Dispositions and causal powers in science -- An extended semantic field of dispositions and the grounding role of causal powers / Rom Harré -- What makes a capacity a disposition? …”
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Reasonable perspectives on religion

Table of Contents: “…Bellah -- 5. Hegel's Metaphysics and Religious Pluralism / Patrick Rogers Horn -- 6. …”
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Being reduced new essays on reduction, explanation, and causation /

Table of Contents: “…Stewart -- Real reduction in real neuroscience : metascience, not philosophy of science (and certainly not metaphysics!) / John Bickle -- Reduction in real life / Peter Godfrey-Smith -- Group agency and supervenience / Christian List and Philip Pettit -- Reduction and reductive explanation : is one possible without the other? …”
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The perspective of the acting person essays in the renewal of thomistic moral philosophy / by Rhonheimer, Martin, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…-- "Intrinsically evil acts" and the moral viewpoint : clarifying a central teaching of veritatis splendor -- Intentional actions and the meaning of object : a reply to Richard McCormick -- The cognitive structure of the natural law and the truth of subjectivity -- Practical reason and the "naturally rational" : on the doctrine of the natural law as a principle of praxis in Thomas Aquinas -- The moral significance of pre-rational nature in Aquinas : a reply to Jean Porter (and Stanley Hauerwas) -- The cognitive structure of the natural law and the truth of subjectivity -- The perspective of the acting person and the nature of practical reason : the "object of the human act" in thomistic anthropology of action -- Practical reason and the truth of subjectivity : the self-experience of the moral subject at the roots of metaphysics and anthropology -- Review of Jean Porter's Nature as reason : a thomistic theory of the natural law.…”
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The Blackwell guide to Kant's ethics

Table of Contents: “…Kerstein -- Why Kant needs the second-person standpoint / Stephen Darwall -- Justice : private, public, and international right -- Kant on law and justice / Arthur Ripstein -- Kant on punishment / Nelson Potter -- Kant's vision of a just world order / Thomas Pogge -- Virtue : love, respect, and duties to oneself -- Beneficence and other duties of love in The metaphysics of morals / Marcia Baron and Melissa Seymour Fahmy -- Duties to oneself, duties of respect to others / Allen Wood -- Retrospective -- Reflections on the enduring value of Kant's ethics / Arnulf Zweig.…”
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John Dewey and Continental philosophy

Table of Contents: “…German Post-Kantian Idealism and Dewey's Metaphysics : Mutual Themes / James Scott Johnston -- Dewey, Hegel, and Knowledge after Kant / Tom Rockmore -- Traces of Hegelian Bildung in Dewey's Philosophy / James A. …”
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Faith and reason historical analysis and perspectives for the present / by Sabetta, Antonio, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Faith and reason in the Church Magisterium from Pius IX to Fides et ratio -- Pius IX (1846-1878) between the Qui pluribus and the syllabus -- Faith and reason in the First Vatican Council -- From the syllabus to the First Vatican Council -- Constitution Dei filius -- Leo XIII and the Aeterni patris -- Faith and reason in the light of Fides et ratio -- Fides et ratio after Dei filius and Aeterni patris: faith and reason -- Truth, foundation and metaphysics -- Historical reconstruction of Chapter IV -- Patristic and Medieval period -- Faith and reason in the modern age -- For a comprehensive review -- Difference and reciprocity of faith and reason -- Stressing difference: S. …”
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The traditions of invention Romanian ethnic and social stereotypes in historical context / by Drace-Francis, Alex

Table of Contents: “…Representations of the Romanian peasant from ancient stereotype to modern symbol -- A provincial imperialist and a curious account of Wallachia: Ignaz von Born -- "At ten minutes past two, I gazed ecstatically on both lighthouses": -- Time, self and object in early Romanian travel texts -- "Like a member of a free nation, he spoke without shame": foreign travellers as a trope in Romanian cultural tradition -- Dinicu Golescu's Account of my travels (1826): Eurotopia as manifesto -- National ideology between lyrics and metaphysics: the political writings of Mihai Eminescu -- Ion Luca Caragiale: the tall tale of the Romanian nation -- Eugen Ionescu's Selves, 1934-60 -- Beyond the land of green plums: Romanian language and culture in Herta -- Muller's work -- Sex, lies and stereotypes: images of Romania in British literature 1945-2000 -- Paradoxes of occidentalism: on travel and travel writing in Ceausescu's Romania.…”
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Swedenborg, Oetinger, Kant three perspectives on the secrets of heaven / by Hanegraaff, Wouter J.

Table of Contents: “…Swedenborg's secrets of heaven -- A key to the secrets : Swedenborg's doctrine of correspondences -- The structure of secrets of heaven -- Method, history, and doctrine -- The method of biblical exegesis -- History and the styles of the word -- Teachings about charity and faith -- Biblical exegesis -- Genesis on the development of churches -- Genesis on the Lord's inner development -- Exodus on the spiritual church -- Accounts of memorable occurrences -- Heaven, hell, and their inhabitants -- The universal human constituted of angelic communities -- Hells and the process of spiritual devastation -- Oetinger, Kant, and the early reception of secrets of heaven -- The early reception of secrets of heaven -- Friedrich Christoph Oetinger -- Oetinger's first acquaintance with Swedenborg -- Swedenborgs and others earthly and heavenly philosophy -- From qualified acceptance to unqualified rejection -- Swedenborg in Oetinger's last works -- Immanuel Kant -- The Knobloch letter and the Herder fragments -- Dreams of a spirit seer -- Early reviews -- The later lectures on metaphysics -- What was at stake? -- Some later readers of secrets of heaven.…”
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The Blackwell guide to Kant's ethics

Table of Contents: “…Kerstein -- Why Kant needs the second-person standpoint / Stephen Darwall -- Justice : private, public, and international right -- Kant on law and justice / Arthur Ripstein -- Kant on punishment / Nelson Potter -- Kant's vision of a just world order / Thomas Pogge -- Virtue : love, respect, and duties to oneself -- Beneficence and other duties of love in The metaphysics of morals / Marcia Baron and Melissa Seymour Fahmy -- Duties to oneself, duties of respect to others / Allen Wood -- Retrospective -- Reflections on the enduring value of Kant's ethics / Arnulf Zweig.…”
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John Dewey and Continental philosophy

Table of Contents: “…German Post-Kantian Idealism and Dewey's Metaphysics : Mutual Themes / James Scott Johnston -- Dewey, Hegel, and Knowledge after Kant / Tom Rockmore -- Traces of Hegelian Bildung in Dewey's Philosophy / James A. …”
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Faith and reason historical analysis and perspectives for the present / by Sabetta, Antonio, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Faith and reason in the Church Magisterium from Pius IX to Fides et ratio -- Pius IX (1846-1878) between the Qui pluribus and the syllabus -- Faith and reason in the First Vatican Council -- From the syllabus to the First Vatican Council -- Constitution Dei filius -- Leo XIII and the Aeterni patris -- Faith and reason in the light of Fides et ratio -- Fides et ratio after Dei filius and Aeterni patris: faith and reason -- Truth, foundation and metaphysics -- Historical reconstruction of Chapter IV -- Patristic and Medieval period -- Faith and reason in the modern age -- For a comprehensive review -- Difference and reciprocity of faith and reason -- Stressing difference: S. …”
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The traditions of invention Romanian ethnic and social stereotypes in historical context / by Drace-Francis, Alex

Table of Contents: “…Representations of the Romanian peasant from ancient stereotype to modern symbol -- A provincial imperialist and a curious account of Wallachia: Ignaz von Born -- "At ten minutes past two, I gazed ecstatically on both lighthouses": -- Time, self and object in early Romanian travel texts -- "Like a member of a free nation, he spoke without shame": foreign travellers as a trope in Romanian cultural tradition -- Dinicu Golescu's Account of my travels (1826): Eurotopia as manifesto -- National ideology between lyrics and metaphysics: the political writings of Mihai Eminescu -- Ion Luca Caragiale: the tall tale of the Romanian nation -- Eugen Ionescu's Selves, 1934-60 -- Beyond the land of green plums: Romanian language and culture in Herta -- Muller's work -- Sex, lies and stereotypes: images of Romania in British literature 1945-2000 -- Paradoxes of occidentalism: on travel and travel writing in Ceausescu's Romania.…”
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Swedenborg, Oetinger, Kant three perspectives on the secrets of heaven / by Hanegraaff, Wouter J.

Table of Contents: “…Swedenborg's secrets of heaven -- A key to the secrets : Swedenborg's doctrine of correspondences -- The structure of secrets of heaven -- Method, history, and doctrine -- The method of biblical exegesis -- History and the styles of the word -- Teachings about charity and faith -- Biblical exegesis -- Genesis on the development of churches -- Genesis on the Lord's inner development -- Exodus on the spiritual church -- Accounts of memorable occurrences -- Heaven, hell, and their inhabitants -- The universal human constituted of angelic communities -- Hells and the process of spiritual devastation -- Oetinger, Kant, and the early reception of secrets of heaven -- The early reception of secrets of heaven -- Friedrich Christoph Oetinger -- Oetinger's first acquaintance with Swedenborg -- Swedenborgs and others earthly and heavenly philosophy -- From qualified acceptance to unqualified rejection -- Swedenborg in Oetinger's last works -- Immanuel Kant -- The Knobloch letter and the Herder fragments -- Dreams of a spirit seer -- Early reviews -- The later lectures on metaphysics -- What was at stake? -- Some later readers of secrets of heaven.…”
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Essays on Plato’s Epistemology / by Trabattoni, Franco

Table of Contents: “…On the distinguishing features of Plato's "Metaphysics" (starting from the Parmenides) -- 12. Is there such a thing as a "Platonic theory of the ideas" according to Aristotle? …”
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Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium by Öykü Tekten, Alexander R. Galloway, Benjamin H. Bratton, McKenzie Wark, Ed Keller (ed.), Nicola Masciandaro (ed.), Eugene Thacker (ed.), Zach Blas, Melanie Doherty, Anthony Sciscione, Kate Marshall, Alisa Andrasek, Dan Mellamphy, Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, Ben Woodard, Lionel Maunz, Reza Negarestani

Table of Contents: “…-- Eugene Thacker, "Black Infinity; or, Oil Discovers Humans" -- Nicola Masciandaro, "Gourmandized in the Abattoir of Openness" -- Dan Mellamphy & Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, "Phileas Fogg, or the Cyclonic Passepartout: On the Alchemical Elements of War" -- Ben Woodard, "The Untimely (and Unshapely) Decomposition of Onto-Epistemological Solidity: Negarestani's Cyclonopedia as Metaphysics" -- Ed Keller,Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Open Book Publishers website; viewed on 2020-00- )…”
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Being reduced new essays on reduction, explanation, and causation /

Table of Contents: “…Stewart -- Real reduction in real neuroscience : metascience, not philosophy of science (and certainly not metaphysics!) / John Bickle -- Reduction in real life / Peter Godfrey-Smith -- Group agency and supervenience / Christian List and Philip Pettit -- Reduction and reductive explanation : is one possible without the other? …”
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