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John Dewey's Quest for Unity: The Journey of a Promethean Mystic
by Richard M. Gale  Synopsis In this appreciation of John Deweys enormous contribution to American philosophy, Richard M. Gale argues that what makes Deweys philosophy unique and exciting is his attempt to synthesize what Gale calls Prometheanism with Deweys unique brand of...
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The Morality of Embryo Use
by Louis M. Guenin Publisher Comments Is it permissible to use a human embryo in stem cell research, or in general as a means for benefit of others? Acknowledging each embryo as an object of moral concern, Louis M.Guenin argues that it is morally permissible to decline intrauterine transfer...
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A Beginner's Guide to Philosophy
by Dominique Janicaud Publisher Comments A brief yet illuminating history of western philosophy, from Plato to Descartes to Nietzsche. A small marvel, A Beginner's Guide to Philosophy provides an instructive and delightful introduction to Western philosophy. Despite its brevity, this beginner's...
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The Autonomy of Morality
by Charles E. Larmore Publisher Comments In The Autonomy of Morality, Charles Larmore challenges two ideas that have shaped the modern mind. The world, he argues, is not a realm of value-neutral fact, nor does human freedom consist in imposing principles of our own devising on an alien reality....
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Feeling Our Feelings: What Philosophers Think and People Know
by Eva Brann Publisher Comments In Feeling Our Feelings, Eva Brann considers what the great philosophers on the passions and feelings have thought and written about them. She examines the relevant work of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Adam Smith, Hume...
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Technics and Time, 2: Disorientation (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
by Bernard Stiegler Publisher Comments Disorientation is the first publication in English of the second volume of Technics and Time, in which French philosopher Bernard Stiegler engages in a close dialogue with Husserl, Derrida, and other philosophers who have devoted their energies to...
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Technics and Time, 2: Disorientation (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
by Bernard Stiegler Publisher Comments Disorientation is the first publication in English of the second volume of Technics and Time, in which French philosopher Bernard Stiegler engages in a close dialogue with Husserl, Derrida, and other philosophers who have devoted their energies to...
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Existentialism for Dummies (For Dummies)
by Christopher Panza Publisher Comments Existentialism For Dummies offers information on both the core concepts of this philosophical movement and the individuals who have contributed to it. It also examines the influence of Existentialism on art, literature, and the world around us....
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Critical Thinking
by Brooke Noel Moore Publisher Comments More than any other textbook, Moore and Parker's Critical Thinking has defined the structure and content of the critical thinking course at colleges and universities across the country--and has done so with a witty writing style that students enjoy...
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What Philosophy Can Tell You about Your Cat
by Steven D. Hales Publisher Comments What ethical obligations do people have to cats? Are cats more rational than humans? What can cats teach humans about evolutionary psychology? In this fascinating collection of articles, 18 philosophers try to answer these questions and more as they...
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The Ontological Argument from Descartes to Hegel
by Kevin J. Harrelson Synopsis In addition to correcting many common misunderstandings about the ontological argument, the author highlights what appears to be an irremovable tension between the conclusion and the explanation of the proof. Both the common objections to the argument...
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The Crane's Walk: Plato, Pluralism, and the Inconstancy of Truth
by Jeremy Barris Publisher Comments The central aim of The Crane's Walk is to show that we can conceive and live with a pluralism of standpoints that have conflicting standards for truth, while the truth of each is at the same time entirely unaffected by the truth of the others. The book...
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Fragmentation and Memory: Meditations on Christian Doctrine
by Karmen Mackendrick Publisher Comments Philosophers have long and skeptically viewed religion as a source of too-easy answers, with the singular, totalizing God and the comfort of an immortal soul as the ultimate among these. But in fact religious thought is far more interesting as rich...
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Rationale of Punishment (Great Books in Philosophy)
by Jeremy Bentham Synopsis Through a careful examination and comparison of original manuscriptsplus the 1818 French edition by tienne Dumont and the 1830 edition by Richard SmithMcHugh reveals that Dumont and Smith were more than editors and translators. In fact, they were actual...
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Acting Out (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
by Bernard Stiegler Publisher Comments Acting Out is the first appearance in English of two short books published by Bernard Stiegler in 2003. In How I Became a Philosopher, he outlines his transformation during a five-year period of incarceration for armed robbery. Isolated from what had...
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Providence Lost
by Genevieve Lloyd Publisher Comments To the ancient Greeks, providence was the inherent purpose and rational structure of the world. In Christian thought, it became a benign will providing for human well-being. And in our own ever more secular times--is providence lost? Perhaps, but as...
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International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives In #199: Renaissance Scepticisms
by Gianni Paganini Publisher Comments Even if specific pieces of research (on the sources or on individual authors, such as Pico, Agrippa, Erasmus, Montaigne, Sanches etc.) have given and are still producing significant results on Renaissance skepticism, an overall synthesis comprising the...
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My Teaching
by Jacques Lacan Publisher Comments The father of psychoanalytic philosophy's invaluable introduction to his own thought, available in English for the first time. Bringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented to the public by Lacan at the height of his career, My...
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Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher
by Peter Stanlis Publisher Comments Robert Frost is by far the most celebrated major American poet of the twentieth century. In part, this is because his poetry seems, on the surface, to be so accessible, even homey. But Frost was not just a powerful writer of popular lyric and narrative...
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Rediscovering Aesthetics: Transdisciplinary Voices from Art History, Philosophy, and Art Practice
by Francis Halsall Publisher Comments Rediscovering Aesthetics brings together prominent international voices from art history, philosophy, and artistic practice to discuss the current role of aesthetics within and across their disciplines. Following a period in which theories and histories...
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