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Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments
Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments
by Gina Perry
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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)

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Opus Dei: An Archaeology of Duty (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
Opus Dei: An Archaeology of Duty (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
by Giorgio Agamben
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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)

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The Trolley Problem, or Would You Throw the Fat Guy Off the Bridge?: A Philosophical Conundrum
The Trolley Problem, or Would You Throw the Fat Guy Off the Bridge?: A Philosophical Conundrum
by Thomas Cathcart
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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)

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The Definitive Confucius: A New Translation of the Analects
The Definitive Confucius: A New Translation of the Analects
by Wusun (trn) Lin
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The Analects (Lunyu) is the core text in the Confucian canon and the first of the essential "four books" of Confucian philosophy. This translation—decades in the making—by one of China's most senior and well respected translators bears the... (read more)

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The New Phenomenology: A Philosophical Introduction
The New Phenomenology: A Philosophical Introduction
by J. Aaron Simmons
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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)

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On Tyranny: Including the Strauss-Kojeve Correspondence
On Tyranny: Including the Strauss-Kojeve Correspondence
by Leo Strauss
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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)

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The Engaged Intellect: Philosophical Essays
The Engaged Intellect: Philosophical Essays
by John Mcdowell
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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)

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Sons of Anarchy and Philosophy: Brains Before Bullets (Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture)
Sons of Anarchy and Philosophy: Brains Before Bullets (Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture)
by George A. (edt) Dunn
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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)

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Posthumanism: A Critical Analysis
Posthumanism: A Critical Analysis
by Stefan Herbrechter
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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)

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Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture #83: The Ultimate South Park and Philosophy: Respect My Philosophah!
Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture #83: The Ultimate South Park and Philosophy: Respect My Philosophah!
by Robert (edt) Arp
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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)

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Popular Culture & Philosophy #80: Ender's Game and Philosophy: Genocide Is Child's Play
Popular Culture & Philosophy #80: Ender's Game and Philosophy: Genocide Is Child's Play
by D. E. Wittkower
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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)

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The New Phenomenology: A Philosophical Introduction
The New Phenomenology: A Philosophical Introduction
by J. Aaron Simmons
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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)

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Opus Dei: An Archaeology of Duty (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
Opus Dei: An Archaeology of Duty (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
by Giorgio Agamben
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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)

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Al-Ghazali's "Moderation in Belief"
Al-Ghazali's "Moderation in Belief"
by Al-ghazali
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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)

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Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments
by Jack Russell Weinstein
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In this thought-provoking study, Jack Russell Weinstein suggests the foundations of liberalism can be found in the writings of Adam Smith (1723–1790), a pioneer of modern economic theory and a major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. While... (read more)

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Making Sense of Freedom and Responsibility
Making Sense of Freedom and Responsibility
by Dana Kay Nelkin
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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)

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Category Mistakes (Oxford Philosophical Monographs)
Category Mistakes (Oxford Philosophical Monographs)
by Ofra Magidor
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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)

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Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution
Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution
by Steve Mcintosh
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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)

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Would You Kill the Fat Man?: The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong
Would You Kill the Fat Man?: The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong
by David Edmonds
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"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)

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A Companion to Marx's Capital, Volume 2
A Companion to Marx's Capital, Volume 2
by David Harvey
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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)

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