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  • Neuroscience and Philosophy II

    Edited by Felipe De Brigard, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong ...
    An interdisciplinary volume exploring the intersection of neuroscience and philosophy as applied to morality, agency, mental imagery, consciousness, and representation.Neuroscience and Philosophy II, edited by Felipe De Brigard and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, continues the interdisciplinary mission of its predecessor by bringing together new work from alumni of the Summer Seminars in Neuroscience ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • A History of Art in Ancient Egypt (1&2) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Illustrated Edition

    by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez, Wesley Calderwick ...
    Translated by Walter Armstrong ...
    A History of Art in Ancient Egypt (1&2) offers a sweeping examination of Egyptian architecture, sculpture, painting, decorative arts, and funerary design, situating them within the religious, political, and social structures that shaped the Nile Valley. Across its two volumes, the work combines archaeological description, comparative analysis, and richly contextualized interpretation, moving from ... Read more

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  • Neuroscience and Philosophy

    Edited by Felipe De Brigard, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong ...
    Philosophers and neuroscientists address central issues in both fields, including morality, action, mental illness, consciousness, perception, and memory.Philosophers and neuroscientists grapple with the same profound questions involving consciousness, perception, behavior, and moral judgment, but only recently have the two disciplines begun to work together. This volume offers fourteen original ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Free Will

    Philosophers and Neuroscientists in Conversation

    Edited by Uri Maoz, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong ...
    What is free will? Can it exist in a determined universe? How can we determine who, if anyone, possesses it? Philosophers have debated the extent of human free will for millennia. In recent decades neuroscientists have joined the fray with questions of their own. Which neural mechanisms could enable conscious control of action? What are intentional actions? Do contemporary developments in ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Wrestling - Styles And Systems

    by Walter Armstrong ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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  • Think Again

    How to Reason and Argue

    by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong ...
    Our personal and political worlds are rife with arguments and disagreements, some of them petty and vitriolic. The inability to compromise and understand the opposition is epidemic today, from countries refusing to negotiate, to politicians pandering to their base. Social media has produced a virulent world where extreme positions dominate. There is much demonization of the other side, very little ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Moral AI

    And How We Get There

    by Jana Schaich Borg, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Vincent Conitzer ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    A balanced and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethicsCan computers understand morality? Can they respect privacy? And what can we do to make AI safe and fair?The artificial intelligence revolution has begun. Today, there are self-driving cars on our streets, autonomous weapons in our armies, robot surgeons in our hospitals – and AI's presence in our lives will only ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

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  • Moral Psychology, Volume 4

    Free Will and Moral Responsibility

    Edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong ...
    Leading philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists address issues of moral responsibility and free will, drawing on new findings from empirical science.Traditional philosophers approached the issues of free will and moral responsibility through conceptual analysis that seldom incorporated findings from empirical science. In recent decades, however, striking developments in psychology and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Morality Without God?

    by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong ...
    Series series Philosophy in Action
    Some argue that atheism must be false, since without God, no values are possible, and thus "everything is permitted." Walter Sinnott-Armstrong argues that God is not only not essential to morality, but that our moral behavior should be utterly independent of religion. He attacks several core ideas: that atheists are inherently immoral people; that any society will sink into chaos if it is becomes ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Conscious Will and Responsibility

    A Tribute to Benjamin Libet

    Edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Lynn Nadel ...
    We all seem to think that we do the acts we do because we consciously choose to do them. This commonsense view is thrown into dispute by Benjamin Libet's eyebrow-raising experiments, which seem to suggest that conscious will occurs not before but after the start of brain activity that produces physical action. Libet's striking results are often claimed to undermine traditional views of free will ... Read more

    $81.89 USD

  • Moral Psychology, Volume 5

    Virtue and Character

    Edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Christian B. Miller ...
    Groundbreaking essays and commentaries on the ways that recent findings in psychology and neuroscience illuminate virtue and character and related issues in philosophy.Philosophers have discussed virtue and character since Socrates, but many traditional views have been challenged by recent findings in psychology and neuroscience. This fifth volume of Moral Psychology grows out of this new wave of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Pyrrhonian Skepticism

    Edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong ...
    Throughout the history of philosophy, skepticism has posed one of the central challenges of epistemology. Opponents of skepticism--including externalists, contextualists, foundationalists, and coherentists--have focussed largely on one particular variety of skepticism, often called Cartesian or Academic skepticism, which makes the radical claim that nobody can know anything. However, this version ... Read more

    $69.29 USD