Find everything you need for a solid introduction to philosophy with this brief, powerful text. One of the most concise introductory philosophy anthologies available, KNOWLEDGE, NATURE, AND NORMS: AN INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY, Second Edition features classical philosophy readings, short fiction, and literature from popular writers, as well as a wealth of effective learning tools. Concise, well-edited selections are designed to give first-time philosophy students what you need to succeed--a well-crafted focus on the essential elements of philosophical debate. Integrated learning tools, such...

A breakthrough examination of the professional wrestling, its history, its fans, and its wider cultural impact
The Squared Circlegrows out of David Shoemaker s writing for Deadspin, where he started the column Dead Wrestler of the Week (which boasts more than 1 million page views) a feature on the many wrestling superstars who died too young because of the abuse they subject their bodies to and his writing for Grantland, where he covers the pro wrestling world, and its place in the pop culture mainstream. Shoemaker s sportswriting has since struck a nerve with generations of...

David Shoemaker presents an original, pluralistic theory of the nature of responsibility, built out of the different kinds of emotional responses people tend to have to the expressions of different kinds of quality of will. The approach is motivated by the ambivalent reactions had to several real-life agents on the margins of our moral responsibility communities, including those with clinical depression, Alzheimer's dementia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, psychopathy, autism, and intellectual disabilities. Shoemaker develops and defends a tripartite theory of responsibility, with...

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes, investigating such questions as:
DT What does it mean to be an agent?
DT What is the nature of moral responsibility? Of criminal responsibility? What is the relation between moral and criminal responsibility (if any)?
DT What is the relation between responsibility and the metaphysical issues of determinism and free will?
DT What do various psychological disorders tell us about agency and responsibility?
DT How do moral agents develop? How does this...

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes, investigating such questions as:
DT What does it mean to be an agent?
DT What is the nature of moral responsibility? Of criminal responsibility? What is the relation between moral and criminal responsibility (if any)?
DT What is the relation between responsibility and the metaphysical issues of determinism and free will?
DT What do various psychological disorders tell us about agency and responsibility?
DT How do moral agents develop? How does this...