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“daniel jacobson”

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  • APIs: A Strategy Guide

    Creating Channels with Application Programming Interfaces

    by Daniel Jacobson, Greg Brail, Dan Woods ...
    Programmers used to be the only people excited about APIs, but now a growing number of companies see them as a hot new product channel. This concise guide describes the tremendous business potential of APIs, and demonstrates how you can use them to provide valuable services to clients, partners, or the public via the Internet. You’ll learn all the steps necessary for building a cohesive API ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Rational Sentimentalism

    by Justin D'Arms, Daniel Jacobson ...
    Rational Sentimentalism develops a novel theory of the sentimental values. These values, which include the funny, the disgusting, and the shameful, are profoundly important because they set standards for emotional responses that are part of our shared human nature. Yet moral philosophers have neglected them relative to their prominent role in human mental life. The theory is sentimentalist because ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Moral Psychology and Human Agency

    Philosophical Essays on the Science of Ethics

    Edited by Daniel Jacobson, Justin D'Arms ...
    These ten original essays examine the moral and philosophical implications of developments in the science of ethics, the growing movement that seeks to use recent empirical findings to answer long-standing ethical questions. Efforts to make moral psychology a thoroughly empirical discipline have divided philosophers along methodological fault lines, isolating discussions that will profit more from ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

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    Why Human Beings Need the Virtues

    by Alasdair MacIntyre ...
    Series series The Paul Carus Lectures
    "MacIntyre--one of the foremost ethicists of the past half-century--makes a sustained argument for the cetnrality, in well-lived human lives, of both virtue and local communities of giving and receiving. He criticizes the mainstream of Western ethics, including his own previous position, for not taking seriously the dependent and animal sides of human nature, thereby overemphasizing the powers of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • How Should We Live?

    A Practical Approach to Everyday Morality

    by John Kekes ...
    A "lucid, careful, tenacious, and always accessible" inquiry into practical morality for everyday life by the author of The Roots of Evil ( Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews).For centuries, moral philosophers have sought a single, overriding ideal that should guide everyone, always, everywhere. And after centuries of debate we're no closer to arriving at one. In How Should We Live?, philosopher ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Morality for Humans

    Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science

    by Mark Johnson ...
    "A welcome renewal and defense of John Dewey's ethical naturalism, which Johnson claims is the only morality 'fit for actual human beings.'" — Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsWhat is the difference between right and wrong? This is no easy question to answer, yet we constantly try to make it so, frequently appealing to absolutes, whether drawn from God, universal reason, or societal authority. ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life

    by Derk Pereboom ...
    Derk Pereboom articulates and defends an original conception of moral responsibility. He argues that if determinism were true we would not be morally responsible in the key basic-desert sense at issue in the free will debate, but that we would also lack this kind of moral responsibility if indeterminism were true and the causes of our actions were exclusively states or events. It is possible that ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Welfare and Rational Care

    by Stephen Darwall ...
    Series series Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
    What kind of life best ensures human welfare? Since the ancient Greeks, this question has been as central to ethical philosophy as to ordinary reflection. But what exactly is welfare? This question has suffered from relative neglect. And, as Stephen Darwall shows, it has done so at a price. Presenting a provocative new "rational care theory of welfare," Darwall proves that a proper understanding ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Naming the Mind

    How Psychology Found Its Language

    by Kurt Danziger ...
    Intelligence, motivation, personality, learning, stimulation, behaviour and attitude are just some of the categories that map the terrain of `psychological reality′. These are the concepts which, among others, underpin theoretical and empirical work in modern psychology - and yet these concepts have only recently taken on their contemporary meanings.This fascinating work is a persuasive ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Torture and Dignity

    An Essay on Moral Injury

    by J. M. Bernstein ...
    In this unflinching look at the experience of suffering and one of its greatest manifestations—torture—J. M. Bernstein critiques the repressions of traditional moral theory, showing that our morals are not immutable ideals but fragile constructions that depend on our experience of suffering itself. Morals, Bernstein argues, not only guide our conduct but also express the depth of mutual dependence ... Read more

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  • Knowledge and Virtue in Teaching and Learning

    The Primacy of Dispositions

    by Hugh Sockett ...
    The challenge this book addresses is to demonstrate how, in teaching content knowledge, the development of intellectual and moral dispositions as virtues is not merely a good idea, or peripheral to that content, but deeply embedded in the logic of searching for knowledge and truth.It offers a powerful example of how philosophy of education can be brought to bear on real problems of educational ... Read more

    $76.99 USD