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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “bernard rollin”
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  • Putting the Horse before Descartes

    My Life's Work on Behalf of Animals

    by Bernard Rollin ...
    Series series Animals and Ethics
    When philosopher Bernard Rollin was six years old, he visited an animal shelter and was told about unwanted dogs being put to sleep. The event shaped his moral outlook and initiated his concern for how animals were treated. In his irreverent memoir, Putting the Horse before Descartes, Rollin provides an account of how he came to educate himself and others about the ethical treatment of animals and ... Read more

    $29.89 USD

  • Slaughter of Farmed Animals, The

    Practical ways of enhancing animal welfare

    by Faith Baier, Miki Ben-Dor, Lotta Berg, Lily N. Edwards-Callaway, Helen Kline, Andy Lamey, F Leroy, Frank Mitloehner, Mohan Raj, Bernard Rollin, Peter Singer, Claudia Terlouw, Dennis Wilson, Erika Voogd ...
    This book provides both evidence-based scientific studies and practical guidance to enhance the welfare of cattle, pigs, sheep and poultry at slaughter. Temple Grandin and Michael Cockram have brought together a range of international experts to prepare chapters on philosophical and ethical views on the slaughter of farmed animals. These include welfare issues and their assessment, the condition ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Strangers to Nature

    Animal Lives and Human Ethics

    by Drucilla Cornell, Julian H. Franklin, Heather M. Kendrick, Andrew Linzey, Paola Cavalieri, Rod Preece, Ted Benton, Peter Sloterdijk, Michael Allen Fox, Ralph R. Acampora, Bernard Rollin, Eduardo Mendieta, Michael J. Thompson, Lori Gruen ...
    Series series Logos: Perspectives on Modern Society and Culture
    Strangers to Nature challenges a reading public that has grown complacent with the standard framework of the animal ethics debate. Human influence on, and the control of, the natural world has greater consequences than ever, making the human impact on the lives of animals more evident. We cannot properly interrogate our conduct in the world without a deeper understanding of how our actions affect ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Metamorphoses of the Zoo

    Animal Encounter after Noah

    by Helena Pedersen, Natalie Dian, Matthew Chrulew, Jennifer Wlech, Ralph Acampora, Nicole Mazur, Koen Margodt, Lisa Kemmerer, Chilla Bulbeck, Leesa Fawcett, Traci Warkentin, David Lulka, Gay Bradshaw, Debra Durham, Randy Malamud, Bernard Rollin ...
    Series series Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space
    Metamorphoses of the Zoo: Animal Encounter After Noah is a volume dedicated to radically transformative approaches to spaces set aside as zoological parks or gardens. Historically, these establishments served as symbols of power and venues for entertainment, but today, they have taken to portraying themselves as flagships of environmental education, scientific research, and wildlife conservation. ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

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  • The Expanding Circle

    Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

    by Peter Singer ...
    What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology--especially in Darwinian theories of evolution and self-preservation. But if evolution is a struggle for survival, why are we still capable of altruism?In his classic study The Expanding Circle, Peter Singer argues ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Ethics

    The Fundamentals

    by Julia Driver ...
    Series series Fundamentals of Philosophy
    Ethics: The Fundamentals explores core ideas and arguments in moral theory by introducing students to different philosophical approaches to ethics, including virtue ethics, Kantian ethics, divine command theory, and feminist ethics.The first volume in the new Fundamentals of Philosophy series.Presents lively, real-world examples and thoughtful discussion of key moral philosophers and their ideas ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • Ethical Theory

    An Anthology

    Edited by Russ Shafer-Landau ...
    Series Book 13 - Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies
    The second edition of Ethical Theory: An Anthology features a comprehensive collection of more than 80 essays from classic and contemporary philosophers that address questions at the heart of moral philosophy.Brings together 82 classic and contemporary pieces by renowned philosophers, from seminal works by Hume and Kant to contemporary views by Derek Parfit, Susan Wolf, Judith Jarvis Thomson, and ... Read more

    $69.00 USD

  • Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy

    by Bernard Williams ...
    By the time of his death in 2003, Bernard Williams was one of the greatest philosophers of his generation. Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is not only widely acknowledged to be his most important book, but also hailed a contemporary classic of moral philosophy.Presenting a sustained critique of moral theory from Kant onwards, Williams reorients ethical theory towards ‘truth, truthfulness and ... Read more

    $165.00 USD

  • Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History

    Exploring Kant, Hegel, and Marx

    by Real Fillion ...
    Series series Philosophica
    Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History provides a strikingly original reading of key texts in the philosophy of history by Kant, Hegel, and Marx, as well as strong arguments for why these texts are still relevant to understanding history today. Réal Fillion offers a critical exposition of the theses of these three authors on the dynamics and the ends of history, in order to provide an ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • In Praise of Reason

    Why Rationality Matters for Democracy

    by Michael P. Lynch ...
    A spirited defense of the relevance of reason for an era of popular skepticism over such matters as climate change, vaccines, and evolution.Why does reason matter, if (as many people seem to think) in the end everything comes down to blind faith or gut instinct? Why not just go with what you believe even if it contradicts the evidence? Why bother with rational explanation when name-calling, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Education

    by Nel Noddings ...
    The first edition of Nel Noddings' Philosophy of Education was acclaimed as the 'best overview in the field' by the journal Teaching Philosophy and predicted to 'become the standard textbook in philosophy of education' by Educational Theory. This classic text, originally designed to give the education student a comprehensive look at philosophical thought in relation to teaching, learning, research ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Michel Foucault

    Key Concepts

    by Dianna Taylor ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. His work on freedom, subjectivity, and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, education, psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology, and criminology. "Michel Foucault: Key Concepts" explores Foucault's central ideas, such as ... Read more

    $49.99 USD