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  • Memory:A Philosophical Study

    A Philosophical Study

    by Sven Bernecker ...
    In this book, Sven Bernecker investigates the defining characteristics of memory and the issues essential to understanding it. The book gives a comprehensive philosophical account of memory and illuminates issues central to contemporary discussions of metaphysics and epistemology such as personal identity, causation, mental content, and justification.Bernecker argues that remembering something, ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Memory: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Sven Bernecker ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Epistemology of Fake News

    Edited by Sven Bernecker, Amy K. Flowerree, Thomas Grundmann ...
    Series series Engaging Philosophy
    News is vital for a healthy democracy. Collective decision-making requires accurate, reliable information. Nevertheless, much of the information we encounter is inadequate for this task. And some--peddled by politicians, profiteers, bots and algorithms--is fake. Social media platforms and emerging technologies allow fake news to dominate our information landscape. An adequate understanding our ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Epistemology

    Edited by Sven Bernecker, Duncan Pritchard ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy Companions
    Epistemology, the philosophy of knowledge, is at the core of many of the central debates and issues in philosophy, interrogating the notions of truth, objectivity, trust, belief and perception. The Routledge Companion to Epistemology provides a comprehensive and the up-to-date survey of epistemology, charting its history, providing a thorough account of its key thinkers and movements, and ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • The Ethics and Epistemology of Vaccine Hesitancy

    Edited by Sven Bernecker, Tom Sorell ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Applied Ethics
    Philosophers have long discussed the ethical and epistemological issues raised by vaccines, but issues have assumed new significance since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This volume focuses on vaccine hesitancy as a case of deep overlap of ethics and epistemology.Vaccine hesitancy stems from a range of concerns, many of which are fuelled by conspiracy theories, misunderstandings about ... Read more

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    This guide outlines concepts and principles of philosophy in an easy to understand format. Topics covered in this guide include: metaphysics, mind body problems, language games and much more. ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

  • The Internet of Us

    Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data

    by Michael P. Lynch ...
    "An intelligent book that struggles honestly with important questions: Is the net turning us into passive knowers? Is it degrading our ability to reason? What can we do about this?" —David Weinberger, Los Angeles Review of BooksWe used to say "seeing is believing"; now, googling is believing. With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world’s information at our fingertips, we no longer trek to the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Language, Culture, and Society

    An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

    by James Stanlaw, Nobuko Adachi, Zdenek Salzmann ...
    Why should we study language? How do the ways in which we communicate define our identities? And how is this all changing in the digital world? Since 1993, many have turned to Language, Culture, and Society for answers to questions like those above because of its comprehensive coverage of all critical aspects of linguistic anthropology. This seventh edition carries on the legacy while addressing ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Institutional Ethnography

    A Sociology for People

    by Dorothy E. Smith ...
    Series series Gender Lens
    Prominent sociologist Dorothy Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social institutions. Concerned with articulating an inclusive sociology that goes beyond looking at a particular group of people from the detached viewpoint of the researcher, this is a method of inquiry for people, incorporating the expert's research and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Language Matters: A Guide to Everyday Questions About Language

    A Guide to Everyday Questions About Language

    by Donna Jo Napoli, Vera Lee-Schoenfeld ...
    Is Ebonics really a dialect or simply bad English? Do women and men speak differently? Will computers ever really learn human language? Does offensive language harm children? These are only a few of the issues surrounding language that crop up every day. Most of us have very definite opinions on these questions one way or another. Yet as linguists Donna Jo Napoli and Vera Lee-Schoenfeld point out ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Dark Matter of the Mind

    The Culturally Articulated Unconscious

    by Daniel L. Everett ...
    From a linguist and anthropologist, "a fascinating argument" about culture, cognition, and the concept of human nature ( Choice).Is it in our nature to be altruistic, or evil, to make art, use tools, or create language? Is it in our nature to think in any particular way? For Daniel L. Everett, the answer is a resounding no: it isn't in our nature to do any of these things because human nature does ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Infocracy

    Digitization and the Crisis of Democracy

    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    The tsunami of information unleashed by digitization is threatening to overwhelm us, drowning us in a sea of frenzied communication and disrupting many spheres of social life, including politics. Election campaigns are now being waged as information wars with bots and troll armies, and democracy is degenerating into infocracy.In this new book, Byung-Chul Han argues that infocracy is the new form ... Read more

    $14.00 USD