
ilość książek w kategorii: 120595
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Democracy, Risk, and Community: Technological Hazards and the Evolution of Liberalism
ISBN: 9780195120080 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book presents a novel and compelling thesis about technological risk, liberalism, and policy making in liberal societies. Opposed to most theories of risk that focus on individual decision makers and models or rational choice, this book argues that risks must be seen as intrinsically both emergent and political phenomena. As such, risks resist reduction to individual actors, events, or decisions. To fully understand and make policy for risk, then, it is necessary to recognize that risks call attention to the connections between individuals and events, to the power being exercised in the...
This book presents a novel and compelling thesis about technological risk, liberalism, and policy making in liberal societies. Opposed to most theorie...
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506,11 |
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Jonathan Edwards and the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy
ISBN: 9780195120097 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Jonathan Edwards has most often been considered in the context of the Puritanism of New England. In many ways, however, he was closer to the thinkers of the European Enlightenment. In this book. Leon Chai explores that connection, analyzing Edwards' thought in light of a number of the issues that preoccupied such Enlightenment figures as Locke, Descartes, Malebranche, and Leibniz. The book comprises three parts, each of which begins with a detailed analysis of a crucial passage from a classic Enlightenment text, and then turns to a major theological work of Jonathan Edwards' in which the same...
Jonathan Edwards has most often been considered in the context of the Puritanism of New England. In many ways, however, he was closer to the thinkers ...
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243,42 |
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Plutarch's Advice to the Bride and Groom and a Consolation to His Wife: English Translations, Commentary, Interpretive Essays, and Bibliography
ISBN: 9780195120233 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. While perhaps best known for his Lives, Plutarch also wrote philosophical dialogues that constitute a major intellectual legacy from the first century A.D. This collection presents two important short works from his writings in moral philosophy. They reveal Plutarch at his best--informative, sympathetic, rich in narrative--and are accompanied by an extensive commentary that situates Plutarch and his views on marriage in their historical context.
While perhaps best known for his Lives, Plutarch also wrote philosophical dialogues that constitute a major intellectual legacy from the firs...
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785,07 |
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A Most Detestable Crime
ISBN: 9780195120752 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Rape is one of the oldest crimes, yet in some ways it is the least understood. Criminal law classifies rape as a crime against the person along with murder, robbery, and battery. But in at least one respect rape is unique--with few exceptions its perpetrators are male and its victims are female. The gendered nature of rape raises questions of equality and fairness as well as about the scope of individual rights to autonomy, privacy, security, and bodily integrity. Rape is therefore an important subject for political and social philosophy as well as for ethics, feminist philosophy,...
Rape is one of the oldest crimes, yet in some ways it is the least understood. Criminal law classifies rape as a crime against the person alo...
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378,25 |
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Reflections on Philosophy and Religion
ISBN: 9780195121322 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book contains the collected papers of Alan Donagan on topics in the philosophy of religion. Donagan was respected as a leading figure in American moral philosophy. His untimely death in 1991 prevented him from collecting his philosophical reflections on religion, particularly Christianity, and its relation to ethics and other concerns. This collection, therefore, constitutes the fullest expression of Donagan's thought on Christianity and ethics, in which it is possible to discern the outlines of a coherent, overarching theory. Editor Anthony Perovich has supplied a useful introduction,...
This book contains the collected papers of Alan Donagan on topics in the philosophy of religion. Donagan was respected as a leading figure in American...
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552,60 |
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Science, Explanation, & Rationality
ISBN: 9780195121377 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Carl G. Hempel exerted greater influence upon philosophers of science than any other figure during the 20th century. In this far-reaching collection, distinguished philosophers contribute valuable studies that illuminate and clarify the central problems to which Hempel was devoted. The essays enhance our understanding of the development of logical empiricism as the major intellectual influence for scientifically-oriented philosophers and philosophically-minded scientists of the 20th century.
Carl G. Hempel exerted greater influence upon philosophers of science than any other figure during the 20th century. In this far-reaching collection, ...
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889,69 |
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An Invitation to Environmental Philosophy
ISBN: 9780195122046 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Brief, inviting, and provocative, this book is a perfect introduction to the burgeoning field of environmental ethics. It animates the basic questions, tells compelling stories, and offers a range of philosophical responses as complementary--not antagonistic--exploratory strategies vital to this growing topic. The book is built around five individually authored chapters, each a representative contribution by a major author in the field. Each chapter covers a central topic in environmental ethics in a somewhat different style. An epilogue offers both a bibliographical guide to these topics and...
Brief, inviting, and provocative, this book is a perfect introduction to the burgeoning field of environmental ethics. It animates the basic questions...
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339,87 |
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What Do We Deserve?: A Reader on Justice and Desert
ISBN: 9780195122183 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The concept of desert, which once enjoyed a central place in political and ethical theory, has been relegated to the margins of much of contemporary theory, if not excluded altogether. Recently a renewed interest in the topic has emerged, and several philosophers have argued that the notion merits a more central place in political and ethical theory. Some of these philosophers contend that justice exists to the extent that people receive exactly what they deserve, while others argue that desert should replace such considerations as rights, need, and equality as the basis for distributions....
The concept of desert, which once enjoyed a central place in political and ethical theory, has been relegated to the margins of much of contemporary t...
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480,49 |
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Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics
ISBN: 9780195122305 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this deft and vigorous book, Mark Balaguer demonstrates that there are no good arguments for or against mathematical platonism (ie., the view that abstract, or non-spatio-temporal, mathematical objects exist, and that mathematical theories are descriptions of such objects). Balaguer does this by establishing that both platonism and anti-platonism are defensible positions. In Part I, he shows that the former is defensible by introducing a novel version of platonism, which he calls full-blooded platonism, or FBP. He argues that if platonists endorse FBP, they can then solve all of the...
In this deft and vigorous book, Mark Balaguer demonstrates that there are no good arguments for or against mathematical platonism (ie., the view that ...
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185,25 |
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Morality: Its Nature and Justification
ISBN: 9780195122565 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For more than thirty years, philosopher Bernard Gert has been developing and refining his distinctive and comprehensive moral theory. His classic work, The Moral Rules: A New Rational Foundation for Morality, was first published in 1970. In 1988, Oxford published a fourth revision titled Morality: A New Justification of the Moral Rules. In this final revision, Gert has produced the fullest and most sophisticated account of this influential theoretical model. Here, he makes clear that morality is an informal system that does not provide unique answers to every moral question...
For more than thirty years, philosopher Bernard Gert has been developing and refining his distinctive and comprehensive moral theory. His classic work...
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350,35 |
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Understanding Truth
ISBN: 9780195123357 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this book, Scott Soames illuminates the notion of truth and the role it plays in our ordinary thought as well as in our logical, philosophical, and scientific theories. Soames aims to integrate and deepen the most significant insights on truth from a variety of sources. He powerfully brings together the best technical work and the most important philosophical reflection on truth and shows how each can illuminate the other. Investigating such questions as whether we need a truth predicate at all, what theoretical tasks it allows us to accomplish, and how we are to understand the content...
In this book, Scott Soames illuminates the notion of truth and the role it plays in our ordinary thought as well as in our logical, philosophical, and...
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210,83 |
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A Tear Is an Intellectual Thing: The Meanings of Emotion
ISBN: 9780195123371 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Is jealousy eliminable? If so, at what cost? What are the connections between pride the sin and the pride insisted on by identity politics? How can one question an individual's understanding of their own happiness or override a society's account of its own rituals? What makes a sexual desire "perverse," or particular sexual relations (such as incestuous ones) undesirable or even unthinkable? These and other questions about what sustains and threatens our identity are pursued using the resources of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and other disciplines. The discussion throughout is informed and...
Is jealousy eliminable? If so, at what cost? What are the connections between pride the sin and the pride insisted on by identity politics? How can on...
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355,01 |
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Value... and What Follows
ISBN: 9780195123487 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. How can we know what is worth seeking or avoiding in life? Is there anything to know? If so, is it in some sense personal? This fresh and engaging work by noted philosopher Joel Kupperman addresses these questions as it examines the epistemology of value. Kupperman looks first at how judgments of values manifest themselves, whether there can be evidence for them, and whether a realistic account is appropriate. Focusing on emotional states, he rejects the notion that there is one primary value, arguing instead for a pluralistic understanding of value. He contends that value is strongly...
How can we know what is worth seeking or avoiding in life? Is there anything to know? If so, is it in some sense personal? This fresh and engaging wor...
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199,21 |
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What's Within?: Nativism Reconsidered
ISBN: 9780195123845 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This powerfully iconoclastic book reconsiders the influential nativist position toward the mind. Nativists assert that some concepts, beliefs, or capacities are innate or inborn: "native" to the mind rather than acquired. Fiona Cowie argues that this view is mistaken, demonstrating that nativism is an unstable amalgam of two quite different--and probably inconsistent--theses about the mind. Unlike empiricists, who postulate domain-neutral learning strategies, nativists insist that some learning tasks require special kinds of skills, and that these skills are hard-wired into our brains at...
This powerfully iconoclastic book reconsiders the influential nativist position toward the mind. Nativists assert that some concepts, beliefs, or capa...
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378,25 |
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On Moral Considerability: An Essay on Who Morally Matters
ISBN: 9780195123913 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this fresh and powerfully argued book, Mark Bernstein identifies the qualities that make an entity deserving of moral consideration. It is frequently assumed that only (normal) human beings count. Bernstein argues instead for "experientialism"--the view that having conscious experiences is necessary and sufficient for moral standing. He demonstrates that this position requires us to include many non-human animals in our moral realm, but not to the extent that many deep ecologists champion.
In this fresh and powerfully argued book, Mark Bernstein identifies the qualities that make an entity deserving of moral consideration. It is frequent...
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227,10 |
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Three Challenges to Ethics: Environmentalism, Feminism, and Multiculturalism
ISBN: 9780195124767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this unique work, James P. Sterba argues that traditional ethics has yet to confront the three significant challenges posed by environmentalism, feminism, and multiculturalism. He maintains that while traditional ethics has been quite successful at dealing with the problems it faces, it has not addressed the possibility that its solutions to these problems are biased in favor of humans, men, and Western culture. In Three Challenges to Ethics: Environmentalism, Feminism, and Multiculturalism, Sterba examines each of these challenges. In the case of environmentalism, he argues that...
In this unique work, James P. Sterba argues that traditional ethics has yet to confront the three significant challenges posed by environmentalism, fe...
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275,31 |
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New Essays on the Rationalists
ISBN: 9780195124880 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This collection presents some of the most vital and original recent writings on Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, the three greatest rationalists of the early modern period. Their work offered brilliant and distinct integrations of science, morals, metaphysics, and religion, which today remain at the center of philosophical discussion. The essays written especially for this volume explore how these three philosophical systems treated matter, substance, human freedom, natural necessity, knowledge, mind, and consciousness. The contributors include some of the most prominent writers in the field,...
This collection presents some of the most vital and original recent writings on Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, the three greatest rationalists of th...
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257,37 |
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Modeling Rationality, Morality, and Evolution
ISBN: 9780195125498 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This collection focuses on questions that arise when morality is considered from the perspective of recent work on rational choice and evolution. Linking questions like "Is it rational to be moral?" to the evolution of cooperation in "The Prisoners Dilemma," the book brings together new work using models from game theory, evolutionary biology, and cognitive science, as well as from philosophical analysis. Among the contributors are leading figures in these fields, including David Gauthier, Paul M. Churchland, Brian Skyrms, Ronald de Sousa, and Elliot Sober.
This collection focuses on questions that arise when morality is considered from the perspective of recent work on rational choice and evolution. Link...
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185,25 |
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Modeling Rationality, Morality, & Evolution
ISBN: 9780195125504 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This collection focuses on questions that arise when morality is considered from the perspective of recent work on rational choice and evolution. Linking questions like "Is it rational to be moral?" to the evolution of cooperation in "The Prisoners Dilemma," the book brings together new work using models from game theory, evolutionary biology, and cognitive science, as well as from philosophical analysis. Among the contributors are leading figures in these fields, including David Gauthier, Paul M. Churchland, Brian Skyrms, Ronald de Sousa, and Elliot Sober.
This collection focuses on questions that arise when morality is considered from the perspective of recent work on rational choice and evolution. Link...
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482,86 |
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Reasoning Practically
ISBN: 9780195125511 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Reasoning Practically deals with a classical philosophical topic, the link between thought and action--how we think about what we do or ought to do, and how we move from thinking to doing. The essays by such renowned contributors as Donald Davidson, Barry Stroud, Cass R. Sunstein, Seyla Benhabib, and Gerald Dworkin, cover a range of issues raised when we link reason and practice. This collection connects state-of-the-art philosophical work with concrete issues in social life and political practice, making it of interest not only to philosophers, but to political theorists, legal...
Reasoning Practically deals with a classical philosophical topic, the link between thought and action--how we think about what we do or ought...
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715,33 |