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  • Gewirth

    Critical Essays on Action, Rationality, and Community

    by Anita Allen, Lawrence C. Becker, Deryck Beyleveld, David Cummiskey, David DeGrazia, David M. Gallagher, Alan Gewirth, Virginia Held, Barbara Koziak, Donald Regan, Jeffrey Reiman, Henry Richardson, Beth J. Singer, Michael Slote, Edward Spence, James P. Sterba ...
    Series series Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
    As one of the most important ethicists to emerge since the Second World War, Alan Gewirth continues to influence philosophical debates concerning morality. This book provides a picture of Gewirth's theory and its applications, including such new perspectives as feminism, the Stoics, and Sartre. ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

  • Our Stage And Its Critics

    by Edward Fordham Spence ...
    This insightful essay collection probes the vitality of British theatre, weighing critics roles against commercial pressures stifling originality while championing a national stage alive with modern aspirations. Its preface voices cautious optimism amid concerns over stagnant traditions and mass tastes dictating playhouses, urging bolder artistic expression beyond gossip-driven reviews. Themes of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Stoic Philosophy and the Control Problem of AI Technology

    Caught in the Web

    by Edward H. Spence ...
    Series series Values and Identities: Crossing Philosophical Borders
    To what degree is technology in the form of products and processes capable of contributing human enhancement and wellbeing?In cases where the impact of a technology on society is not only very negligible but overall negative and harmful, what is technology good for?To answer these questions, Spence develops and applies a normative model based on rationalist and virtue ethics as well as stoic ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Wisdom in the Age of Intelligent Machines

    by Edward H. Spence ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book offers an innovative approach to evaluating information and knowledge and its relation to the good life, in the Age of Autonomous Intelligent Machines, through the concept of Wisdom. Wisdom is understood as a type of meta-information and meta-knowledge, which comprises epistemic, ethical, and eudaimonic features, and provides a direct conceptual and practical link between the concepts of ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Our Stage and Its Critics

    By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"

    by Edward Fordham Spence ...
    In "Our Stage and Its Critics," Edward Fordham Spence delves into the intricacies of theatrical criticism during a transformative period in the performing arts. Blending analytical acumen with a rich narrative style, Spence navigates the landscape of early 20th-century theatre, examining the intersection of artistic expression and critical reception. The book is replete with incisive critiques of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ethics for a Digital Era

    by Deni Elliott, Edward H. Spence ...
    Series series Blackwell Public Philosophy Series
    "Elliott and Spence have produced a tight, teachable, and timely primer on media ethics for users and creators of information in the digital age. Pitched at just the right depth of detail to provide a big picture contextualization of changing media practices grounded in concerns for democracy and the public good, the book explores and reflects the implications of the convergence of the Fourth and ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • The Dialogical Turn

    New Roles for Sociology in the Postdisciplinary Age

    by Andrew Abbott, Saïd Amir Arjomand, S N. Eisenstad, Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, Johan Heilbron, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Eleanor Miller, Richard A. Münch, Neil J. Smelser, Thomas Spence Smith, Edward A. Tiryakian, Stephen P. Turner ...
    The discipline of sociology was born-and has been recurrently reconstituted-in response to the fragmentation of ideas about the social world. For two centuries, sociologists have sought refuge in "synthesis:" programs designed to integrate multiple perspectives within a unifying framework. Yet even as this cause has inspired many of the discipline's major thinkers, past and present, its objective ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Media, Markets, and Morals

    by Edward H. Spence, Andrew Alexandra, Aaron Quinn, Anne Dunn ...
    Media, Markets, and Morals provides an original ethical framework designed specifically for evaluating ethical issues in the media, including new media. The authors apply their account of the moral role of the media, in their dual capacity as information providers for the public good and as businesses run for profit, to specific morally problematic practices and question how ethical behavior can ... Read more

    $74.00 USD

  • Our Stage and Its Critics

    by Edward Fordham Spence ...
    In this book, Spence critiques the tendencies of contemporary theater critics, both in the mainstream press and among intellectual circles, exploring how their opinions affected the success or failure of plays, actors, and playwrights. He touches on the relationship between the theater and the public, arguing that critics often wield disproportionate influence over the artistic direction of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Morality and Justice

    Reading Boylan's 'A Just Society'

    by James A. Donahue, Marcus Duwell, Dale Jacquette, Tanja Kohen, Christopher Lowry, Seumas Miller, Johann-Christian Poder, Edward H. Spence, Wanda Teays, John-Stewart Gordon, Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez, Michael Boylan, Robert Paul Churchill, Udo Schuklenk, Rosemarie Tong ...
    This book is a collection of twelve essays devoted to Michael Boylan's important work in moral philosophy,A Just Society. The collection is thematically organized to mirror Boylan's own volume, so the first half explores fundamental issues of justification in ethics while the second half focuses on issues involving ethical discourse, social justice, and the moral foundations of public policy. In ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Media Corruption in the Age of Information

    by Edward H. Spence ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book provides an applied model of corruption to identify, analyse, and assess the ethics of major types of corruption in the media involving practices such as cash-for-comment, media release journalism, including video news releases (VNRs), fake news, deep fakes, and staged news. The book starts with a conceptual philosophical analysis of corruption in general, followed by an in-depth ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Creating Communication and Media Research Labs

    A Blueprint for Success

    Edited by Chad Edwards, Autumn Edwards, Patric R. Spence ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers a practical guide for creating, funding, and growing a communication or media research lab. Drawing on the insights of experienced lab directors, it covers essential steps—from defining a mission and securing space to navigating funding and fostering a collaborative, inclusive culture that supports innovation.The book is divided into two sections. Section 1 explores reasons for ... Read more

    $40.99 USD