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by F M Kamm  Publisher Comments In this second volume, Kamm continues to explore questions of life and death as illustrations of general issues in moral theory. Resuming her development of non- consequentialist ethical theory and its application to practical ethical problems, she... (read more)  List Price $72.00 Your price $12.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Richard Rorty Publisher Comments This volume presents a selection of the philosophical papers which Richard Rorty has written over the past decade, and complements three previous volumes of his papers: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth, Essays on Heidegger and Others, and Truth and... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stuart Sim Publisher Comments For Jean-Francois Lyotard, the cyborg is a symbol of fear, Mankind already inhabits a world which views machine implantation in humans as normal and necessary. It implies a future, Lyotard warns, which may dangerously negate the value of humanity itself.... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $3.71 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by George W Harris Publisher Comments This is a second book by George Harris that continues the project of developing an Aristotelian-based theory of ethical behavior as well as cogent critique of Kantian moral theory.... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Lynch Publisher Comments Masterful essays that illuminate not only how people die but also how they live. Thomas Lynch, poet, funeral director, and author of the highly praised "The Undertaking", continues to examine the relations between the "literary and mortuary arts".... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Baruch A Brody Publisher Comments A collection of recent essays by one of the leading names in bioethics, Baruch Brody discusses four major areas of bioethics--methodology, research ethics, clinical ethics, and Jewish medical ethics--and takes issue with conventional bioethical wisdom to... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $34.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alex Orenstein Publisher Comments The most influential philosopher in the analytic tradition of his time, Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) changed the way we think about language and its relation to the world. His rejection of the analytic/synthetic distinction, his scepticism about... (read more) Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Ignatieff Publisher Comments Isaiah Berlin was witness to a century. Born in Riga in the twilight of the Czarist empire, he lived long enough to see the Soviet state collapse. Biographer of Marx, scholar of the Romantic movement, and defer of the liberal idea of freedom against... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Plato And Hackforth Publisher Comments The book is written for anyone seriously interested in Plato's thought and in the history of literary theory or of rhetoric. No knowledge of Greek is required. The focus of this account is on how the resources both of persuasive myth and of formal... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Madsen Pirie Publisher Comments Deals with one fallacy, explaining what the fallacy is, giving and analysing an example, outlining when/where/why the particular fallacy tends to occur and finally showing how you can perpetrate the fallacy on other people in order to win an argument.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by F Orlans Publisher Comments The first set of case studies on animal use, this volume offers a thorough, up-to-date exploration of the moral issues related to animal welfare. Its main purpose is to examine how far it is ethically justifiable to harm animals in order to benefit... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by W Andrew Hoffecker Publisher Comments Revolutions in Worldview traces the historical development of the western mind through ten eras. It explores the fundamental ideas that revolutionized the way in which people thought and acted from the ancient Greeks and the Biblical writers through the... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price $23.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Portmann Publisher Comments Although many of us deny it, it is not uncommon to feel pleasure over the suffering of others, particularly when we feel that suffering has been deserved. The German word for this concept-Schadenfreude-has become universal in its expression of this... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $16.46 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Arthur Lupia Publisher Comments Advances in the social sciences are used to uncover cognitive foundations of social decision making.... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price $22.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kwame Anthony Appiah Publisher Comments Reviving the ancient philosophy of "Cosmopolitanism," a school of thought that dates to the Cynics of the fourth century BCE, Appiah traces its influence through history to show how Western intellectuals and leaders have wildly exaggerated the power of... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lorenz Jager Publisher Comments Theodor W. Adorno—philosopher, cultural critic, sociologist, and music theorist—was one of the most important German intellectuals of the twentieth century. This concise, readable life is the first attempt to look at his philosophical and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Christopher Macann Publisher Comments "Four Phenomenological Philosophers" is the first book to examine the major texts of the leading figures of phenomenology in one volume. In separate chapters, the book explores the ideas of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price $30.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Irving Singer Publisher Comments George Santayana was unique in his contribution to American culture. For almost sixty years before his death in 1952, he combined literary and philosophical talents, writing not only important works of philosophy but also a best-selling novel, volumes of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Soren Kierkegaard Publisher Comments Love can be surprising. Love can be heartbreaking. Love can be an art. But love is the singular emotion that all humans rely on most . . . and crave endlessly, no matter what the cost. United by this theme of love, the nine titles in the Penguin Great... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Conrad Lodziak Publisher Comments Widely regarded as a major contemporary theoretician, Andre Gorz's comprehensive critique of social formations offers both a direction and meaning to the current technological revolution. In this accessible introduction to Gorz's work, Tatman and Lodziak... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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