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Democratic Theory and Practice After the Deliberative TurnRevisioning macro-democratic processes in light of the processes and promise of        micro-deliberation, Innovating Democracy provides an integrated perspective on        democratic theory and practice after the deliberative turn....

Do we know or even have evidence that external material objects exist? Butchvarov offers a highly original approach to this perennial philosophical issue. He argues that only a direct realist view of perception - the view that in perception we are directly aware of material objects - has any hope of providing a compelling response to the sceptic....

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Leading philosophers from both sides of the Atlantic present essays on Wilfrid Sellars's  Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, one of the crowning achievements of 20th-century analytic philosophy. They discuss empiricism, perception, epistemology, realism, and normativity, showing how vibrant Sellarsian philosophy remains in the 21st century....

This book introduces the work of an important medieval Islamic philosopher who is little known outside the Persian world. Afdal al-Din Kashani was a contemporary of a number of important Muslim thinkers, including Averroes and Ibn al-Arabi. In this book, Chittick uses Kashani and his work to introduce the basic issues and arguments of Islamic...

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