
ilość książek w kategorii: 120656
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Privacy, Intimacy, and Isolation
ISBN: 9780195104608 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Privacy is a puzzling concept. From the backyard to the bedroom, everyday life gives rise to an abundance of privacy claims. In the legal sphere, privacy is invoked with respect to issues including abortion, marriage, and sexuality. Yet privacy is surrounded by a mire of theoretical debate. Certain philosophers argue that privacy is neither conceptually nor morally distinct from other interests, while numerous legal scholars point to the apparently disparate interests involved in constitutional and tort privacy law. By arguing that intimacy is the core of privacy, including privacy law,...
Privacy is a puzzling concept. From the backyard to the bedroom, everyday life gives rise to an abundance of privacy claims. In the legal sphere, priv...
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199,59 |
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Problems of Vision: Rethinking the Causal Theory of Perception
ISBN: 9780195104981 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this book Gerald Vision argues for a new causal theory, one that engages provocatively with direct realism and makes no use of a now discredited subjectivism.
In this book Gerald Vision argues for a new causal theory, one that engages provocatively with direct realism and makes no use of a now discredited su...
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318,44 |
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Utilitarianism, Institutions, and Justice
ISBN: 9780195105100 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This compelling book advances utilitarianism as the basis for a viable public philosophy, effectively rebutting the common charge that, as moral doctrine, utilitarian thought permits cruel acts, justifies unfair distribution of wealth, and demands too much of moral agents. James Wood Bailey defends utilitarianism through novel use of game theory insights regarding feasible equilibria and evolutionary stability, elaborating a sophisticated account of institutions that real-world utilitarians would want to foster. If utilitarianism seems in principle to dictate that we make each and every...
This compelling book advances utilitarianism as the basis for a viable public philosophy, effectively rebutting the common charge that, as moral doctr...
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775,02 |
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Morality and the Good Life
ISBN: 9780195105384 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Contemporary moral philosophers have produced an enormous amount of rich and varied published work on virtually all the issues falling within the scope of ethics and moral philosophy. Morality and the Good Life is a comprehensive survey of contemporary ethical theory which collects thirty-four selections on morality and the theory of value. Emphasizing value theory, metaethics, and normative ethics, it is non-technical and accessible to a wide range of readers. Selections are organized under six main topics: (1) Concepts of Goodness, (2) What Things are Good?, (3) Virtues and Ethics,...
Contemporary moral philosophers have produced an enormous amount of rich and varied published work on virtually all the issues falling within the scop...
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855,60 |
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The Significance of Free Will
ISBN: 9780195105506 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the past quarter-century, there has been a resurgence of interest in philosophical questions about free will. After a clear and broad-reaching survey of these recent debates, Robert Kane presents his own controversial view. Arguing persuasively for a traditional incompatibilist or libertarian conception of free will, Kane demonstrates that such a conception can be made intelligible without appeals to obscure or mysterious forms of agency and thus can be reconciled with a contemporary scientific picture of the world.
In the past quarter-century, there has been a resurgence of interest in philosophical questions about free will. After a clear and broad-reaching surv...
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821,60 |
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Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
ISBN: 9780195106114 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A survey of the philosophy of science from positivism to social constr uctivism, this book focuses on the ontological implications of science . An innovative feature is the author's use of immunology as a source of descriptive examples, thus providing lively illustrations from a li fe science with universal appeal and allowing continuity throughout th is volume. The coverage of Quinean holism and supervenience clarify co ncepts which have been often misunderstood, while the discussion of th e Kuhnian model of science rectifies the distortions it underwent due to misuse in the past. Feminist...
A survey of the philosophy of science from positivism to social constr uctivism, this book focuses on the ontological implications of science . An inn...
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612,17 |
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Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness
ISBN: 9780195106466 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A New York Times bestseller when it appeared in 1989, Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind was universally hailed as a marvelous survey of modern physics as well as a brilliant reflection on the human mind, offering a new perspective on the scientific landscape and a visionary glimpse of the possible future of science. Now, in Shadows of the Mind, Penrose offers another exhilarating look at modern science as he mounts an even more powerful attack on artificial intelligence. But perhaps more important, in this volume he points the way to a new science, one that may eventually explain the...
A New York Times bestseller when it appeared in 1989, Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind was universally hailed as a marvelous survey of modern ph...
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195,24 |
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Metaphilosophy and Free Will
ISBN: 9780195107623 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Why is debate over the free will problem so intractable? In this broad and stimulating look at the philosophical enterprise, Richard Double uses the free will controversy to build on the subjectivist conclusion he developed in The Non-Reality of Free Will (OUP 1991). Double argues that various views about free will--e.g., compatibilism, incompatibilism, and even subjectivism--are compelling if, and only if, we adopt supporting metaphilosophical views. Because metaphilosophical considerations are not provable, we cannot show any free will theory to be most reasonable. Metaphilosophy and Free...
Why is debate over the free will problem so intractable? In this broad and stimulating look at the philosophical enterprise, Richard Double uses the f...
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635,25 |
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The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge
ISBN: 9780195107630 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This original analysis examines the three leading traditional solutions to the dilemma of divine foreknowledge and human free will--those arising from Boethius, from Ockham, and from Molina. Though all three solutions are rejected in their best-known forms, three new solutions are proposed, and Zagzebski concludes that divine foreknowledge is compatible with human freedom. The discussion includes the relation between the foreknowledge dilemma and problems about the nature of time and the causal relation; the logic of counterfactual conditionals; and the differences between divine and human...
This original analysis examines the three leading traditional solutions to the dilemma of divine foreknowledge and human free will--those arising from...
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194,93 |
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The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle
ISBN: 9780195107685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is a thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Richard Popkin's classic The History of Scepticism, first published in 1960, revised in 1979, and since translated into numerous foreign languages. This authoritative work of historical scholarship has been revised throughout, including new material on: the introduction of ancient skepticism into Renaissance Europe; the role of Savonarola and his disciples in bringing Sextus Empiricus to the attention of European thinkers; and new material on Henry More, Blaise Pascal, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Nicolas Malebranche, G.W....
This is a thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Richard Popkin's classic The History of Scepticism, first published in 1960, revised in ...
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201,93 |
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Causation and Persistence: A Theory of Causation
ISBN: 9780195107944 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Ehring shows the inadequacy of received theories of causation, and, introducing conceptual devices of his own, provides a wholly new account of causation as the persistence over time of individual properties, or "tropes."
Ehring shows the inadequacy of received theories of causation, and, introducing conceptual devices of his own, provides a wholly new account of causat...
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360,37 |
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The Last Word
ISBN: 9780195108347 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. If there is such a thing as reason, it has to be universal. Reason must reflect objective principles whose validity is independent of our point of view--principles that anyone with enough intelligence ought to be able to recognize as correct. But this generality of reason is what relativists and subjectivists deny in ever-increasing numbers. And such subjectivism is not just an inconsequential intellectual flourish or badge of theoretical chic. It is exploited to deflect argument and to belittle the pretensions of the arguments of others. The continuing spread of this relativistic way of...
If there is such a thing as reason, it has to be universal. Reason must reflect objective principles whose validity is independent of our point of vie...
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588,66 |
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Ethics Through Corporate Strategy
ISBN: 9780195108552 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Ethics Through Corporate Strategy is a daring challenge to anyone who uses the customary language of business in America. It is daring because Daniel Gilbert argues that we should discard two popular ways of linking business and ethics. It is challenging, because Gilbert proceeds from the premise that everyone who uses a language of business is responsible for the ethical implications of that way of talking. This work is one demonstration of how we can relocate conversations about business in the larger conversation that we know as liberal education.
Ethics Through Corporate Strategy is a daring challenge to anyone who uses the customary language of business in America. It is daring becaus...
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169,31 |
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Causality and Explanation
ISBN: 9780195108644 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For over two decades Wesley Salmon has helped to shape the course of debate in philosophy of science. He is a major contributor to the philosophical discussion of problems associated with causality and the author of two influential books on scientific explanation. This long-awaited volume collects twenty- six of Salmon's essays, including seven that have never before been published and others difficult to find. Part I comprises five introductory essays that presuppose no formal training in philosophy of science and form a background for subsequent essays. Parts II and III contain Salmon's...
For over two decades Wesley Salmon has helped to shape the course of debate in philosophy of science. He is a major contributor to the philosophical d...
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374,35 |
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In Nature's Interests?: Interests, Animal Rights, and Environmental Ethics
ISBN: 9780195108651 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book offers a powerful response to what Varner calls the "two dogmas of environmental ethics"--the assumptions that animal rights philosophies and anthropocentric views are each antithetical to sound environmental policy. Allowing that every living organism has interests which ought, other things being equal, to be protected, Varner contends that some interests take priority over others. He defends both a sentientist principle giving priority to the lives of organisms with conscious desires and an anthropocentric principle giving priority to certain very inclusive interests which only...
This book offers a powerful response to what Varner calls the "two dogmas of environmental ethics"--the assumptions that animal rights philosophies an...
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127,39 |
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Making Mortal Choices: Three Exercises in Moral Casuistry
ISBN: 9780195108774 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Bedau demonstrates the usefulness of casuistry, or the method of cases in arriving at moral decisions. He examines cases that may compel us to consider questions about who ought to survive when not all can. It seeks to teach something about how we actually reason concerning such life and death situations, as well as about how we ought to reason if we wish both to be consistent and properly respect human life.
Bedau demonstrates the usefulness of casuistry, or the method of cases in arriving at moral decisions. He examines cases that may compel us to conside...
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192,61 |
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Making Mortal Choices: Three Exercises in Moral Casuistry
ISBN: 9780195108781 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The answer, to crew and passengers aboard the sinking lifeboat, must have seemed both grimly obvious and unthinkably alien. To save the lives of many, the lives of some would have to be sacrificed. With seawater crashing over the gunwhales, only a lightening of the human cargo would keep the craft afloat. In a procedure that took much of the night, fourteen men and two women were consigned to watery graves.
This notorious event, aftermath to the sinking of the William Brown in 1841, represents a shocking example of life and death decision-making, a case where cruel circumstance... The answer, to crew and passengers aboard the sinking lifeboat, must have seemed both grimly obvious and unthinkably alien. To save the lives of many,...
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199,59 |
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The Golden Rule
ISBN: 9780195110364 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In an age plagued by selfishness, materialism, and violence, ethicists feel impelled to find a universal system of values. To arrive at such a "rule" requires that they struggle with a series of seemingly irreconcilable questions. First, are universal values possible in a pluralistic world, and how does one do justice to both human equality and to individual and cultural differences? How is one to understand the interface between religious moral teachings and the ethics of secular humanism? Finally, can such a system integrate moral intuition and moral reason? In the first scholarly book in...
In an age plagued by selfishness, materialism, and violence, ethicists feel impelled to find a universal system of values. To arrive at such a "rule" ...
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201,93 |
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Emotion and the Arts
ISBN: 9780195111057 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The only work of its kind, this exciting collection assembles a number of analytically minded philosophers, psychologists, and literary theorists, all of whom seek to provide fine-grained accounts of critical problems having to do with emotion and art. How best to explain emotions produced by works of art? What goes on when we feel emotion for an abstract art such as music? How is it that we can intelligibly feel emotion for persons and situations that we know are fictional? What is involved in our empathic experience of negative emotion through the art of tragedy? A strongly...
The only work of its kind, this exciting collection assembles a number of analytically minded philosophers, psychologists, and literary theorists, all...
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369,69 |
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Dividing Reality
ISBN: 9780195111422 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The central question in this book is why it seems reasonable for the words of our language to divide up the world in ordinary ways rather than other imaginable ways. Hirsch calls this the division problem. His book aims to bring this problem into sharp focus, to distinguish it from various related problems, and to consider the best prospects for solving it. In exploring various possible responses to the division problem, Hirsch examines series of "division principles" which purport to express rational constraints on how our words ought to classify and individuate. The ensuing discussion deals...
The central question in this book is why it seems reasonable for the words of our language to divide up the world in ordinary ways rather than other i...
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369,69 |