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Body and Justice
Body and Justice is written by two female Brazilian philosophers, in language which is at the same time academic and accessible to the wider public. It is a must read for anyone interested in subjects connected with the body, justice, sexual morality, ethics and philosophy. Body and Justice insightfully looks at the western woman today: their bodies, sexuality and where we stand at the start of this new millennium. The book asks the questions: How far have we advanced in terms of fairness and justice? How fair is a world where women are still being forced into extreme measures such as dieting, plastic surgery or even bulimia or anorexia to conform to certain traditional patterns of beauty in...
Max Weber's Complete Writings on Academic and Political Vocations
Annotation This is the first edition in any language of all of Max Weber's writings on academic and political vocations. The translation is new and liberally annotated, including a look at Weber's personality and what it was that made him such a phenomenon. Max Weber made many significant interpretations of both academic and political vocations in his two lectures on Science as a Vocation (Wissenschaft als Beruf, 1917) and Politics as a Vocation (Politik als Beruf) 1919), as well as in a series of newspaper articles including those written between 1908 and 1920. Since these writings are of more than historical interest, there was a need to bring them all together in a single volume. Newly tr...
Philosophical Semantics
This book offers an innovative systematic approach to the problems of meaning, reference and related issues, unifying in promising ways some of the best insights, not only of exponential philosophers like Wittgenstein and Frege, but also of some influential later theorists like Michael Dummett, Ernst Tugendhat, John Searle and Donald Williams. Moreover, it exposes some main errors popularized by clever formalist-oriented philosophers, from Willard Van Orman Quine to Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam. In this way, it shows how some older major approaches could regain their central importance and how the cartography of philosophy of language could be once more redrawn. The book is clearly written, and will be of interest to anyone with basic training in analytic philosophy.
Lines of Thought
Lines of Thought: Rethinking Philosophical Assumptions is a highly innovative and powerfully argued book. According to the author, noted Brazilian philosopher Claudio Costa, many philosophical ideas that today are widely seen as old-fashioned and outdated should not be dismissed, but instead should be extensively reworked and reformulated. This also means that contemporary analytical philosophy should begin to question many of its most cherished views and reconsider some of the current ways of looking at philosophy. Following this path, in the philosophy of language, the author suggests replacing the causal-historical view of proper names with a much more sophisticated form of descriptive-in...
Kant's Shorter Writings
This collection highlights the importance of Kant’s shorter writings, which span the entire intellectual career of this seminal thinker. It contrasts with other philosophical studies of Kant’s work, which typically focus on a specific period of his career, and on either his theoretical philosophy or his practical philosophy. These shorter works offer a framework for understanding several central questions of critical philosophy in the context of Kant’s complete corpus of writings. As such, this volume provides a ground-breaking approach to contemporary Kant studies by offering a new interpretive perspective to enable Kant scholars to advance their research projects. At the same time, it allows a general overview of Kant’s work for a broader non-scholarly audience interested in his critical philosophy and its context.
Kant in Brazil: apropos Kant's critique of the Cartesian ontological argument
A selection of the best papers written by Brazilian Kant scholars. Kant in Brazil is a collected volume of essays conceived at the 2005 International Kant Congress in Sao Paulo as a way to make accessible to Anglophone Kant scholars some of the best work on Kant produced by Brazilian scholars. The availability of this material in English for the first time will promote interaction between North American and Brazilian scholars as well as enable Anglophone readers worldwide to incorporate excellent but previously neglected work into their own debates about Kant. The book contains an editor's introduction providing an overview of the institutional structure of Kant studies in Brazil. The essays...
Aperfeiçoamento Moral (Moral Enhancement)
“If the history of mankind is a history of enhancement, it is understandable that the concept of enhancement emerged as a philosophical category. Enhancement is not only an improvement, or a technological advance, but all and any kind of mechanical or biotechnological alteration in our body in order to improve our capacities and body skills. So, enhancement is very different from therapy. In therapy technology is used in order to restore our natural capacities, while in enhancement technology and/or biotechnology is used to improve our capacities. The difference is clear: if someone loses both their legs in a traffic accident and doctors attach mechanical legs to this person, restoring the...
Recht und Frieden in der Philosophie Kants
Die fünf Bände enthalten die Hauptvorträge und eingeladene Beiträge der panels des X. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, der 2005 in Sao Paolo stattfand.
La alteridad en el debate ético contemporáneo
La alteridad (del latín alter que significa otro') es la existencia humana que se vive en relaciones de generosidad, gratuidad y reconocimiento mutuo del otro. Esta fascinante experiencia vital es sistematizada por la ciencia ética filosófica y teológica. Si en la humanidad corriéramos por esta senda, dejaríamos de estar agobiados por las desgarradoras realidades que marcan nuestro mundo contemporáneo. Superar esta angustiosa y monstruosa hecatombe solo es posible si cambiamos nuestra manera de comportarnos, es decir, si asumimos una nueva ética, no halada por los absolutos del dinero y el poder, sino animada en profundidad por la alteridad. Como humanidad, vivimos en un mismo espaci...
Arquiteturas Conceituais
Este livro é uma coleção de 26 textos sobre questões filosóficas relevantes, escritos nos últimos trinta anos e revistos para publicação. Embora em geral contenham defesas de posições sustentadas pelo autor como sendo as mais plausíveis, eles conservam um considerável valor didático, posto que são suficientemente claros para serem compreendidos por qualquer pessoa realmente interessada em familiarizar-se com os principais problemas da filosofia contemporânea.
