Pragmatism

William James

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• "The whole function of philosophy ought to be to find out what definite difference it will make to you and to me, at definite instances in our life, i... Lees meer

The Ethics of Organ Transplants

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• No one argues the need for transplants. The debate centers on how to satisfy the great need for healthy organs. Advances in medical technology and sci... Lees meer

Reason, Social Myths, and Democracy

Sidney Hook

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• In this fascinating work, Sidney Hook critiques "scientifically inadequate ways of belief" in the hope that, if we recognize the ways in which they ar... Lees meer

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Edmund Burke

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• As eighteenth-century Europe sizzled with revolutionary fervor fanned by the flames of the newly won freedom of the British colonies in America, one o... Lees meer

Gender in African Prehistory

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• Gender in African Prehistory provides methods and theories for delineating and discussing prehistoric gender relations and their change through time. ... Lees meer

Disability

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• What is it like to experience disability? What are the prevailing cultural attitudes toward those who experience disability? How do social norms and p... Lees meer

The Paradoxes of Freedom

Sidney Hook

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• One of America's most influential social philosophers offers a restatement of traditional liberal-democratic views as they pertain to our constitution... Lees meer

The Stem Cell Controversy

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• Stem cell research is headline news. Researchers are eager to move forward, state governments and private foundations are rushing to support it, and t... Lees meer

Essays

Francis Bacon

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• Francis Bacon (1561-1626), scientist, lawyer, and statesman, occupies a unique position in English letters. His most widely read work, the Essays, sti... Lees meer

Suicide

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• Classic volume revisits and clarifies the heated debate over life's ultimate choice.Updated and expanded with ten new selections, there is no more com... Lees meer

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

David Hume

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• Humankind has pondered many mysteries, but few more enticing than the existence of a divine creator who is said to have set the universe in motion. Im... Lees meer

The Essential Epicurus

Epicurus

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• Epicureanism is commonly regarded as the refined satisfaction of physical desires. As a philosophy, however, it also denoted the striving after an ind... Lees meer

Affirmative Action

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• What is our goal: equal opportunity or equality of result? The debate rages on.The November 5, 1996 decision by voters in California to eliminate most... Lees meer

Racism and Ethnic Discrimination

Alana Lentin

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• Despite the long struggle to eliminate racism, it is still very much with us. Since 9/11, racism appears to be on the rise, making it more important t... Lees meer

Food for Thought

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• For anyone who has ever wondered about the ethics of killing animals for food, this is the definitive collection of essays on the ethical debate. Writ... Lees meer

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

David Hume

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• How do we come to have ideas about the world and about the relationships of objects we perceive therein? Is all impressed upon the senses from outside... Lees meer

Come with Daddy

Carolyn Harris Johnson

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• Come with Daddy examines the tragic crime of familicide-the murder-suicide of children and a parent in the context of a dispute over custody or access... Lees meer

Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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• Leibniz (1646 - 1716) was a true polymath and has been called the most comprehensive thinker since Aristotle. In these two great works by the founder ... Lees meer

A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume

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• "Nothing is more curiously enquired after . . . than the causes of every phenomenon. . . . [We] push on our enquiries, till we arrive at the original ... Lees meer

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Adam Smith

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• To those who know Adam Smith principally by his classic treatise on economics, The Wealth of Nations, this earlier work may come as a revelation. Smit... Lees meer

Genetically Modified Foods

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• Finally, the real story about corporate America with its increased reliance on consultants. Since the 1990s, consulting solutions have become the de f... Lees meer

How We Think

John Dewey

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• John Dewey, one of America's greatest popular philosophers and educators, emphasizes the importance of critical thinking and the vital role education ... Lees meer

A Discourse on Method and Meditations

Rene Descartes

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• Is knowledge possible? If so, what can we know and how do we come to know it? What degree of certainty does our knowledge enjoy? In these two powerful... Lees meer

Bertrand Russell on Ethics, Sex, and Marriage

Bertrand Russell

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• During his long life (1872-1970) Bertrand Russell was one of a handful of social thinkers, let alone internationally recognized philosophers, whose vi... Lees meer