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n Psychiatry in the Scientific Image, Dominic Murphy looks at psychiatry from the viewpoint of analytic philosophy of science,...
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Moral thinking pervades our practical lives, but where did this way of thinking come from, and what purpose does it serve? Is...
'Post modernism' became the buzzword of contemporary society in the 1990s. Yet, even now, it still remains confusing and baffling...
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The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings,"...
Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of rights or justice...
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