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Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments by Gina Perry Publisher Comments When social psychologist Stanley Milgram invited volunteers to take part in an experiment at Yale in the summer of 1961, none of the participants could have foreseen the worldwide sensation that the published results would cause. Milgram reported that... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Opus Dei: An Archaeology of Duty (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Giorgio Agamben Publisher Comments In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty, Agamben investigates the roots of our moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy. Beginning with the New Testament and working through to late... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Trolley Problem, or Would You Throw the Fat Guy Off the Bridge?: A Philosophical Conundrum by Thomas Cathcart Publisher Comments A trolley is careering out of control. Up ahead are five workers. On a spur to the right stands a single individual. And you're a bystander holding a switch that could divert the trolley. Should you let events unfold and watch as the trolley plows into... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Hardcover
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The Definitive Confucius: A New Translation of the Analects by Wusun (trn) Lin Publisher Comments The Analects (Lunyu) is the core text in the Confucian canon and the first of the essential "four books" of Confucian philosophy. This translationdecades in the makingby one of China's most senior and well respected translators bears the... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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The New Phenomenology: A Philosophical Introduction by J. Aaron Simmons Publisher Comments The New Phenomenology: A Philosophical Introduction is the first available introduction to the group of philosophers sometimes associated with the so-called ‘theological turn in contemporary French thought. This book argues that there has not been... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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On Tyranny: Including the Strauss-Kojeve Correspondence by Leo Strauss Publisher Comments On Tyranny is Leo Strauss’s classic reading of Xenophon’s dialogue Hiero, or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Included are a translation of the... (read more) Your price: $33.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Engaged Intellect: Philosophical Essays by John Mcdowell Synopsis This book collects important essays of John McDowell. Each involves a sustained engagement with the views of an important philosopher and is characterized by a modesty that is partly temperamental and partly methodological.... (read more) Your price: $31.75 New - Trade Paper
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Sons of Anarchy and Philosophy: Brains Before Bullets (Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture) by George A. (edt) Dunn Publisher Comments Are we right to admire members of a criminal organization? Are the Sons of Anarchy really anarchists? How does their relationship to their bikes help to shape the Sons’ moral code? Does membership in the MC tend to foster virtue or vice? How do the... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Posthumanism: A Critical Analysis by Stefan Herbrechter Publisher Comments What does it mean to be human today? The answer to this question, which is as old as the human species itself, is becoming less and less certain. Current technological developments increasingly erode our traditional humanist reflexes: consciousness... (read more) Your price: $138.95 New - Hardcover
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Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture #83: The Ultimate South Park and Philosophy: Respect My Philosophah! by Robert (edt) Arp Publisher Comments What can Kyle, Cartman, Kenny and Stan teach us about imagination, logic and reason? Is South Park anti-religion? Is this tiny town in the Rockies democratic, anarchic, or something else? Will Mr. Garrison and Big Gay Al ever be happy together in... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Popular Culture & Philosophy #80: Ender's Game and Philosophy: Genocide Is Child's Play by D. E. Wittkower Synopsis Enders Game, Orson Scott Cards award-winning 1985 novel, has been discovered and rediscovered by generations of science fiction fans, even being adopted as reading by the U.S. Marine Corps. Ender's Game and its sequels explore rich themes the... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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The New Phenomenology: A Philosophical Introduction by J. Aaron Simmons Publisher Comments The New Phenomenology: A Philosophical Introduction is the first available introduction to the group of philosophers sometimes associated with the so-called ‘theological turn in contemporary French thought. This book argues that there has not been... (read more) Your price: $127.25 New - Hardcover
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Opus Dei: An Archaeology of Duty (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Giorgio Agamben Publisher Comments In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty, Agamben investigates the roots of our moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy. Beginning with the New Testament and working through to late... (read more) Your price: $58.95 New - Hardcover
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Al-Ghazali's "Moderation in Belief" by Al-ghazali Publisher Comments Centuries after his death, al-Ghazali remains one of the most influential figures of the Islamic intellectual tradition. Although he is best known for his Incoherence of the Philosophers, Moderation in Belief is his most profound work of philosophical... (read more) Your price: $50.25 New - Hardcover
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Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments by Jack Russell Weinstein Publisher Comments In this thought-provoking study, Jack Russell Weinstein suggests the foundations of liberalism can be found in the writings of Adam Smith (17231790), a pioneer of modern economic theory and a major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. While... (read more) Your price: $76.25 New - Hardcover
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Making Sense of Freedom and Responsibility by Dana Kay Nelkin Publisher Comments Dana Kay Nelkin presents a simple and natural account of freedom and moral responsibility which responds to the great variety of challenges to the idea that we are free and responsible, before ultimately reaffirming our conception of ourselves as agents.... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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Category Mistakes (Oxford Philosophical Monographs) by Ofra Magidor Publisher Comments Category mistakes are sentences such as "Green ideas sleep furiously," "Saturday is in bed," and "The theory of relativity is eating breakfast." Such sentences strike most speakers as highly infelicitous but it is a challenge to explain precisely why... (read more) Your price: $65.25 New - Hardcover
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Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution by Steve Mcintosh Synopsis The integral worldview represents the next crucial step in the development of our civilization. Through its enlarged understanding of the evolution of consciousness and culture, the emerging perspective known as integral consciousness provides realistic... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?: The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong by David Edmonds Publisher Comments "Lucid, witty, and beautifully written, this book is a pleasure to read. While providing an introduction to moral philosophy, it also presents engaging portraits of some of the greatest moral philosophers from Thomas Aquinas to the present day, and it... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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A Companion to Marx's Capital, Volume 2 by David Harvey Publisher Comments The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression shows no sign of coming to a close and Marx’s work remains key in understanding the cycles that lead to recession. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Trade Paper
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