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  • Argument in Composition

    by John Ramage, Micheal Callaway ...
    Series series Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition
    ARGUMENT IN COMPOSITION provides access to a wide range of resources that bear on the teaching of writing and argument. The ideas of major theorists of classical and contemporary rhetoric and argument-from Aristotle to Burke, Toulmin, and Perelman-are explained and elaborated, especially as they inform pedagogies of argumentation and composition. ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • 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

  • Social Epistemology

    Essential Readings

    Edited by Alvin Goldman, Dennis Whitcomb ...
    What if anything justifies us in believing the testimony of others? How should we react to disagreement between ourselves and our peers, and to disagreement among the experts when we ourselves are novices? Can beliefs be held by groups of people in addition to the people composing those groups? And if so, how should groups go about forming their beliefs? How should we design social systems, such ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • 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

  • The Human Condition

    by John Kekes ...
    The Human Condition is a response to the growing disenchantment in the Western world with contemporary life. John Kekes provides rationally justified answers to questions about the meaning of life, the basis of morality, the contingencies of human lives, the prevalence of evil, the nature and extent of human responsibility, and the sources of values we prize. He offers a realistic view of the ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Free Will

    A Contemporary Introduction

    by Michael McKenna, Derk Pereboom ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    As an advanced introduction to the challenging topic of free will, this book is designed for upper-level undergraduates interested in a comprehensive first-stop into the field’s issues and debates. It is written by two of the leading participants in those debates—a compatibilist on the issue of free will and determinism (Michael McKenna) and an incompatibilist (Derk Pereboom). These two authors ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Politics and Rhetoric

    A Critical Introduction

    by James Martin ...
    Rhetoric is the art of speech and persuasion, the study of argument and, in Classical times, an essential component in the education of the citizen. For rhetoricians, politics is a skill to be performed and not merely observed. Yet in modern democracies we often suspect political speech of malign intent and remain uncertain how properly to interpret and evaluate it. Public arguments are easily ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • The Free Market Existentialist

    Capitalism without Consumerism

    by William Irwin ...
    Incisive and engaging, The Free Market Existentialist proposes a new philosophy that is a synthesis of existentialism, amoralism, and libertarianism.Argues that Sartre’s existentialism fits better with capitalism than with MarxismServes as a rallying cry for a new alternative, a minimal state funded by an equal taxConfronts the “final delusion” of metaphysical morality, and proposes that we have ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Relative Justice

    Cultural Diversity, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility

    by Tamler Sommers ...
    When can we be morally responsible for our behavior? Is it fair to blame people for actions that are determined by heredity and environment? Can we be responsible for the actions of relatives or members of our community? In this provocative book, Tamler Sommers concludes that there are no objectively correct answers to these questions. Drawing on research in anthropology, psychology, and a host of ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • 50 Ways to Understand Communication

    A Guided Tour of Key Ideas and Theorists in Communication, Media, and Culture

    by Arthur Asa Berger ...
    Is consciousness like an iceberg? Does advertising lead to the commodification of humans? What is the hidden meaning of fairy tales? In 50 Ways to Understand Communication, Arthur Asa Berger familiarizes readers with important concepts written by leading communication and cultural theorists, such as Saussure, LZvi-Strauss, de Certeau, Lasswell, McLuhan, Postman, and many others. Organized in fifty ... Read more

    $33.99 USD