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Ontological commitment implies that each theory is supposed to specify the type of entities that form its components. Representatives of a theory share an ontological commitment in relation to the ob …

The problems associated with understanding come to light in many facets of our lives. This volume is dedicated to describing these facets and clarifying problems related to levels of comprehension, c …

Research on federalism is rarely concerned with its philosophical foundations. However, arguments on why and how best to organise a plurality of states in a multilevel political order have first been …

Alvin Plantinga’s Warranted Christian Belief has very quickly become one of the most influential books in philosophy of religion. In this collection of essays, German philosophers, theologians and a …

Script and writing were among the most important inventions in human history, and until the invention of printing, the handwritten book was the primary medium of literary and cultural transmission. A …

To understand many of our everyday joint actions we need a theory of skillful joint action. In everyday contexts we do numerous things together. Philosophers of collective intentionality have wondere …

Powers of chaos accompany any order of the human world, being the force against which this order is set. Human experience of history is two-fold. There is history ruled by chaos and history ruled by …

Master’s Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Philosophy – Miscellaneous, , course: MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY IN INFORMATION SCIENCES, language: English, abstract: Government libraries Kenya face many …

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Philosophy – Miscellaneous, grade: 9, Maastricht University, language: English, abstract: In the history of art, Ernst Gombrich’s groundbreaking Art an …

Pre-University Paper from the year 2011 in the subject Philosophy – Miscellaneous, , language: English, abstract: Let us make a thought experiment: We assume that the average life span of a citizen i …