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  • Pragmatist Ethics for a Technological Culture

    Edited by Michiel Korthals, T.E. Swierstra, F.W. Jozef Keulartz, M. Schermer ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Our technological culture has an extremely dynamic character: old ways of reproducing ourselves, managing nature and keeping animals are continually replaced by new ones; norms and values with respect to our bodies, food production, health care and environmental protection are regularly being put up for discussion. This constantly confronts us with new moral problems and dilemmas. In discussion ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Wisdom of George Santayana

    by Philosophical Library ...
    Series series Wisdom
    A survey of the influential—and prolific—modern philosopherIn dozens of books, magazine articles, and essays, George Santayana infused his philosophy with exquisite language, wit, and subtle humor, prompting one authority to state that he "writes philosophy more beautifully than any other thinker since Plato."The Wisdom of George Santayana makes accessible both his ideas and his oft-quoted ... Read more

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  • Naturalism in the Philosophy of Health

    Issues and Implications

    Edited by Élodie Giroux ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    In a series of papers published in the 1970s, Christopher Boorse proposed a naturalist theory of health, mainly based on a value-free concept of ‘biological function’, a concept of ‘reference class’ and the notion of ‘statistical normality’. His theory has profoundly shaped the philosophical debates on the concepts of health and disease. It could even be said that the numerous criticisms of his ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of William James

    Radical Empiricism and Radical Materialism

    by Donald A. Crosby ...
    The focus in this book is on the philosophy of William James as it relates to his conceptions of “pure” and ordinary experience, the respective natures of self and world, the interrelations of experience, self, and world, the awareness of a common world by two or more selves, and the extent to which and means by which those selves can gain access to one another’s personal consciousness. The book ... Read more

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    Essays on Birth and Death

    by J. David Velleman ...
    In nine lively essays, bioethicist J. David Velleman challenges the prevailing consensus about assisted suicide and reproductive technology, articulating an original approach to the ethics of creating and ending human lives. He argues that assistance in dying is appropriate only at the point where talk of suicide is not, and he raises moral objections to anonymous donor conception. In their place, ... Read more

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  • From Cause to Causation

    A Peircean Perspective

    by M. Hulswit ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    From Cause to Causation presents both a critical analysis of C.S. Peirce's conception of causation, and a novel approach to causation, based upon the semeiotic of Peirce.The book begins with a review of the history of causation, and with a critical discussion of contemporary theories of the concept of `cause'. The author uncovers a number of inadequacies in the received views of causation, and ... Read more

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  • Indirect Reports and Pragmatics

    Interdisciplinary Studies

    Edited by Alessandro Capone, Ferenc Kiefer, Franco Lo Piparo ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume offers the reader a singular overview of current thinking on indirect reports. The contributors are eminent researchers from the fields of philosophy of language, theoretical linguistics and communication theory, who answer questions on this important issue. This exciting area of controversy has until now mostly been treated from the viewpoint of philosophy. This volume adds the views ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Success in Referential Communication

    by M. Paul ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    One of the most basic themes in the philosophy of language is referential uptake, viz., the question of what counts as properly `understanding' a referring act in communication. In this inquiry, the particular line pursued goes back to Strawson's work on re-identification, but the immediate influence is that of Gareth Evans. It is argued that traditional and recent proposals fail to account for ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language

    Edited by Edward Keenan, Denis Paperno ...
    Series Book 90 - Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
    Covering a strikingly diverse range of languages from 12 linguistic families, this handbook is based on responses to a questionnaire constructed by the editors. Focusing on the formation, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions, the book explores 17 languages including German, Italian, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Malagasy, Hebrew, Pima, Basque, and more. The ... Read more

    $350.09 USD

  • Babies for Sale?

    Transnational Surrogacy, Human Rights and the Politics of Reproduction

    Edited by Miranda Davies ...
    Transnational surrogacy – the creation of babies across borders – has become big business. Globalization, reproductive technologies, new family formations and rising infertility are combining to produce a 'quiet revolution' in social and medical ethics and the nature of parenthood. Whereas much of the current scholarship has focused on the US and India, this groundbreaking anthology offers a far ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Origins of Mind

    Edited by Liz Swan ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The big question of how and why mindedness evolved necessitates collaborative, multidisciplinary investigation. Biosemiotics provides a new conceptual space that attracts a multitude of thinkers in the biological and cognitive sciences and the humanities who recognize continuity in the biosphere from the simplest to the most complex organisms, and who are united in the project of trying to account ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • The Founders of Evolutionary Genetics

    A Centenary Reappraisal

    Edited by S. Sarkar ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    genetics. " It is simply the appropriation of that term, very likely with insufficient knowledge and respect for its past usage. For that, the Editor alone is responsible and requests tolerance. He has, as far as he can tell, no intention or desire to use it for any historiographical purposes other than that just mentioned. Even more important, the decision to consider Muller together with Fisher, ... Read more

    $188.09 USD