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Evolution and Cognition eBook Series

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  • In Gods We Trust

    The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion

    by Scott Atran ...
    Series series Evolution and Cognition
    This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott Atran argues that religion is a by-product of human evolution just as the cognitive intervention, cultural selection, and historical survival of religion is an accommodation of certain existential and moral elements ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

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  • The Honest Truth About Dishonesty

    How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves

    by Dan Ariely ...
    “A lively tour through the impulses that cause many of us to cheat, the book offers especially keen insights into the ways in which we cut corners while still thinking of ourselves as moral people.” — TimeDan Ariely, behavioral economist and New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality, returns with a thought-provoking work that challenges our ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

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  • Understanding History

    And Other Essays

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    Essays on topics from nuclear physics to the role of faith in society from the Nobel Prize–winning philosopher.Originally written in 1943 and published in 1957 by Philosophical Library, Inc, these vigorous essays from one of the most distinguished minds of our time reveal several facets of the English philosopher's thought. The title piece exposes the deadliness of the academic approach to the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Born Believers

    The Science of Children's Religious Belief

    by Justin L. Barrett ...
    Infants have a lot to make sense of in the world: Why does the sun shine and night fall; why do some objects move in response to words, while others won’t budge; who is it that looks over them and cares for them? How the developing brain grapples with these and other questions leads children, across cultures, to naturally develop a belief in a divine power of remarkably consistent traits––a god ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Fragility of Goodness

    Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy

    by Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    This book is a study of ancient views about 'moral luck'. It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control, and asks how this affects our appraisal of persons and their lives. The Greeks made a profound contribution to these questions, yet neither the problems nor the Greek views of them have ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Native American Wisdom

    Edited by Kent Nerburn, Louise Mengelkoch ...
    Joseph, Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, Black Elk, Ohiyesa, and many others share their insights on Native American ways of living, learning, and dying. There is something archetypal about the philosophy of the original Americans, especially to the sensibilities of modern European Americans. We recognize it as coming from the earth we walk on, from those who preceded us. As we read the wisdom of these ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Persistence through Time in Spinoza

    by Jason Waller ...
    This book concerns the nature of time and ordinary cases of persistence in Spinoza. The author argues for three major interpretive claims. First, that Spinoza is committed to an eternalist theory of time whereby all things (whether they seem to be past, present, or future) are equally real. Second, that a mode’s conatus or essence is a self-maintaining activity (not an inertial force or ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Practical Tortoise Raising

    and other philosophical essays

    by Simon Blackburn ...
    Simon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to 2010. He offers engaging and illuminating discussions of various problems which arise when such familiar notions as representation, truth, reason, and assertion are applied in the sphere of practical thought. It is puzzling how our thinking gets to grip with such things as values and norms. Blackburn explores how we can ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Politics and Society in Scottish Thought

    by Shinichi Nagao ...
    Series Book 8 - Library of Scottish Philosophy
    This volume illustrates the way political and social philosophers of 18th-century Scotland tried to answer the following question: 'What is, and what ought to be, the relationship between the modern market and stable, desirable social order?' The essays belong to the second half of the century and offer a snapshot of the achievements of Scots on political and social philosophy.The Scottish ... Read more

    $13.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Disciplining Freud on Religion

    Perspectives from the Humanities and Sciences

    by Jacob Belzen, Kelly Bulkeley, Michael Carroll, Jean-Joseph Goux, Diane Jonte-Pace, Gregory Kaplan, William B. Parsons, Bettina Bergo ...
    It is well known that in formulating his general theoretical framework and views on religion Freud drew on multiple disciplines within the natural and social sciences, as well as from the humanities. This edited collection adds to the continued multidisciplinary interest in Freud by focusing on his understanding and interpretation of and relationship to religion. It 'disciplines' Freud by ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Arguing Well

    by John Shand ...
    Arguing Well is a lucid introduction to the nature of good reasoning, how to test and construct successful arguments. It assumes no prior knowledge of logic or philosophy. The book includes an introduction to basic symbolic logic. Arguing Well introduces and explains: * The nature and importance of arguments * What to look for in deciding whether arguments succeed or fail * How to construct good ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Aquinas’s Philosophical Commentary on the Ethics

    A Historical Perspective

    by J.C. Doig ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Is Aquinas's Sententia libri Ethicorum an interpretation of Aristotle based on `principles of Christian ethics'? Or do we have in that work a presentation of the foundation of Aquinas's moral philosophy? Professor Doig answers these questions through an examination of the historical context within which the Sententia was composed.In Chapters 1-2, the work's role as a corrective of earlier ... Read more

    $152.99 USD