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Rescher Studies: A Collection of Essays on the Philosophical Work of Nicholas Rescher
ISBN: 9783110328684 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 571 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In a career extending over almost six decades, Nicholas Rescher has conducted researches in almost every principal area of philosophy, historical and systematic alike. In this extraordinary volume, two dozen scholars join in offering penetrating discussions of various facets of Rescher's investigations. The result is an instructively critical panorama of the many-faceted contributions of this important American philosopher. In a career extending over almost six decades, Nicholas Rescher has conducted researches in almost every principal area of philosophy, historical a... |
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Global Warming: The Skeptic's Brief
ISBN: 9781941071342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In Global Warming: The Skeptic's Brief, Dr. Robert Almeder refutes the arguments of those who believe we are in a state of unprecedented global warming caused by human activities and escalating catastrophically into the next century and beyond. Analyzing the most compelling and respected research in the scientific community, Almeder shows that the extreme global warming movement lacks sufficient evidence to justify any of its central claims.
In Global Warming: The Skeptic's Brief, Dr. Robert Almeder refutes the arguments of those who believe we are in a state of unprecedented global warmin...
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Truth and Skepticism
ISBN: 9781442205130 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Robert Almeder provides a comprehensive discussion and definitive refutation of our common conception of truth as a necessary condition for knowledge of the world, and to defend in detail an epistemic conception of truth without falling into the usual epistemological relativism or classical idealism in which all properties of the world turn out to be linguistic in nature and origin. There is no other book available that clearly and thoroughly defends the case for an epistemic conception of truth and also claims success in avoiding idealism or epistemological relativism.
Robert Almeder provides a comprehensive discussion and definitive refutation of our common conception of truth as a necessary condition for knowledge ...
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546,32 |
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Human Happiness and Morality: A Brief in
ISBN: 9781573927604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Philosopher Robert Almeder provides lucid explanations of the major ethical theories and traditions, and looks at the answers to three basic questions: What makes a right act right? Why should I be moral? What is human happiness and how do I attain it? The author first discusses consequentialist and deontological theories, admitting that "we face daunting difficulties" when trying to decide what makes an an act right or wrong. He then imparts a clear understanding of what is needed for happiness and the place of traditional morality in that pursuit. In closing, the author details simple Stoic...
Philosopher Robert Almeder provides lucid explanations of the major ethical theories and traditions, and looks at the answers to three basic questions...
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Blind Realism: An Essay on Human Knowledge and Natural Science
ISBN: 9780847682805 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This work originated in the deeply-felt conviction that the widespread acceptance of Gettier-type counterexamples to the classical definition of knowledge rests in a demonstrably erroneous understanding of the nature of human knowledge.
This work originated in the deeply-felt conviction that the widespread acceptance of Gettier-type counterexamples to the classical definition of knowl...
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Materialism, Minds, and Cartesian Dualism
ISBN: 9780761872931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Human Cloning
ISBN: 9781617370762 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In Human Cloning a panel of distinguished philosophers, medical ethicists, religious thinkers, and social critics tackle the thorny problems raised by the now real possibility of human cloning. In their wide ranging reviews, the distinguished contributors critically examine the major arguments for and against human cloning, probe the implications of such a procedure for society, and critically evaluate the "Report and Recommendations of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission." The debate includes both religious and secular arguments, as well as an outline of the history of the cloning...
In Human Cloning a panel of distinguished philosophers, medical ethicists, religious thinkers, and social critics tackle the thorny problems raised by...
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Human Cloning
ISBN: 9780896035652 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In Human Cloning a panel of distinguished philosophers, medical ethicists, religious thinkers, and social critics tackle the thorny problems raised by the now real possibility of human cloning. In their wide ranging reviews, the distinguished contributors critically examine the major arguments for and against human cloning, probe the implications of such a procedure for society, and critically evaluate the "Report and Recommendations of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission." The debate includes both religious and secular arguments, as well as an outline of the history of the cloning...
In Human Cloning a panel of distinguished philosophers, medical ethicists, religious thinkers, and social critics tackle the thorny problems raised by...
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Care of the Aged
ISBN: 9781617374449 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In virtually all the developed countries of the Western world, people are living longer and reproducing less. At the same time, costs for the care of the elderly and infirm continue to rise dramatically. Given these facts, it should come as no surprise that we are experi encing an ever-increasing concern with questions relating to the proper care and treatment of the aged. What responsibilities do soci eties have to their aging citizens? What duties, if any, do grown chil dren owe their parents? What markers should we use to determine one's status as "elderly"? Does treatment of pain in aged...
In virtually all the developed countries of the Western world, people are living longer and reproducing less. At the same time, costs for the care of ...
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Alternative Medicine and Ethics
ISBN: 9780896034402 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Leading bioethicists and philosophers examine and debate the question of how the health care system should deal with using complimentary and alternative medicines. The distinguished authorities writing here both defend and criticize alternative medicine, with some arguing that the medical system should change substantially in order to accommodate alternative medicine, and others claiming that virtually all alternative treatments are worthless. In the heat of the debate many fundamental issues are raised concerning our health care system, among them the questions of therapeutic effectiveness,...
Leading bioethicists and philosophers examine and debate the question of how the health care system should deal with using complimentary and alternati...
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Allocating Health Care Resources
ISBN: 9780896032606 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES, leading authorities and researchers expose the basic philosophical, ethical, and economic issues underlying the current health care debate. The contributors wrestle with such complicated issues as whether it is ethical to ration health care, the morality of the worldwide bias against children in allocating health care resources, whether sin taxes can be defended morally, and how to achieve a just health care system. The book also includes an insightful analysis of the Clinton health care reform plan. ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES will be of...
In ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES, leading authorities and researchers expose the basic philosophical, ethical, and economic issues underlying the c...
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Stem Cell Research
ISBN: 9781617375439 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A collection of objective essays reviewing the principal arguments for and against stem cell research. Among the issues considered are whether stem cell research treats embryos as "commodities," violates the rights of human embryos, or alienates women from their reproductive labor, and whether human embryos are entitled to full membership in the moral community.
A collection of objective essays reviewing the principal arguments for and against stem cell research. Among the issues considered are whether stem ce...
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What Is Disease?
ISBN: 9780896033528 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 361 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Renowned philosophers and medical ethicists debate and discuss the profoundly important concepts of disease and health. Christopher Boorse begins with an extensive reexamination of his seminal definition of disease as a value-free scientific concept. In responding to all those who criticized this view, which came to be called "naturalism" or "neutralism," Boorse clarifies and updates his landmark ideas on this crucial question. Other distinguished thinkers analyze, develop, and oftentimes defend competing, nonnaturalistic theories of disease. Their combined thoughts review and update an issue...
Renowned philosophers and medical ethicists debate and discuss the profoundly important concepts of disease and health. Christopher Boorse begins with...
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Privacy and Health Care
ISBN: 9781617372339 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Western societies generally recognize both a legal and a moral right to privacy. However, at the present time there is no settled opin ion in the United States regarding how these rights should relate to medical information. On the one hand, virtually everyone agrees that one' s medical records should not be open to just any interested person' s inspection. On the other hand, most also agree that some sacrifices in medical privacy are necessary for scientific advancement, public health protection, and other social goals. However, what limits should be set upon those sacrifices, and how those...
Western societies generally recognize both a legal and a moral right to privacy. However, at the present time there is no settled opin ion in the Unit...
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What Is Disease?
ISBN: 9781617370151 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 361 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Renowned philosophers and medical ethicists debate and discuss the profoundly important concepts of disease and health. Christopher Boorse begins with an extensive reexamination of his seminal definition of disease as a value-free scientific concept. In responding to all those who criticized this view, which came to be called "naturalism" or "neutralism," Boorse clarifies and updates his landmark ideas on this crucial question. Other distinguished thinkers analyze, develop, and oftentimes defend competing, nonnaturalistic theories of disease. Their combined thoughts review and update an issue...
Renowned philosophers and medical ethicists debate and discuss the profoundly important concepts of disease and health. Christopher Boorse begins with...
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Privacy and Health Care
ISBN: 9780896038783 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Western societies generally recognize both a legal and a moral right to privacy. However, at the present time there is no settled opin ion in the United States regarding how these rights should relate to medical information. On the one hand, virtually everyone agrees that one' s medical records should not be open to just any interested person' s inspection. On the other hand, most also agree that some sacrifices in medical privacy are necessary for scientific advancement, public health protection, and other social goals. However, what limits should be set upon those sacrifices, and how those...
Western societies generally recognize both a legal and a moral right to privacy. However, at the present time there is no settled opin ion in the Unit...
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403,47 |
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Allocating Health Care Resources
ISBN: 9781475744798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES, leading authorities and researchers expose the basic philosophical, ethical, and economic issues underlying the current health care debate. The contributors wrestle with such complicated issues as whether it is ethical to ration health care, the morality of the worldwide bias against children in allocating health care resources, whether sin taxes can be defended morally, and how to achieve a just health care system. The book also includes an insightful analysis of the Clinton health care reform plan. ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES will be of...
In ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES, leading authorities and researchers expose the basic philosophical, ethical, and economic issues underlying the c...
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201,72 |
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Care of the Aged
ISBN: 9781588292407 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In virtually all the developed countries of the Western world, people are living longer and reproducing less. At the same time, costs for the care of the elderly and infirm continue to rise dramatically. Given these facts, it should come as no surprise that we are experi encing an ever-increasing concern with questions relating to the proper care and treatment of the aged. What responsibilities do soci eties have to their aging citizens? What duties, if any, do grown chil dren owe their parents? What markers should we use to determine one's status as "elderly"? Does treatment of pain in aged...
In virtually all the developed countries of the Western world, people are living longer and reproducing less. At the same time, costs for the care of ...
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403,47 |
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Reproduction, Technology, and Rights
ISBN: 9780896033269 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 157 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In Reproduction, Technology, and Rights, philosophers and ethicists debate the central moral issues and problems raised by today's revolution in reproductive technology. Leading issues discussed include the ethics of paternal obligations to children, the place of in vitro fertilization in the allocation of health care resources, and the ethical implications of such new technologies as blastomere separation and cloning. Also considered are how parents and society should respond to knowledge gained from prenatal testing and whether or not the right to abort should relieve men of the duty to...
In Reproduction, Technology, and Rights, philosophers and ethicists debate the central moral issues and problems raised by today's revolution in repro...
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Mental Illness and Public Health Care
ISBN: 9781617373107 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 149 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Is the involuntary commitment of the mentally ill morally proper? How can we determine proper psychiatric care in a managed health care system? And can a mental health professional violate patient's confidentiality when they believe a patient is a threat to someone? In six non-ideological essays, leading bioethicists, including one with practical experience in medical administration, search for clear moral and legal guidelines for dealing with the complex issues presented when treating mentally ill patients. Objective and readily understandable, Mental Illness and Public Health Care...
Is the involuntary commitment of the mentally ill morally proper? How can we determine proper psychiatric care in a managed health care system? And ca...
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