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  • Why Empathy Matters

    The Science and Psychology of Better Judgment

    by J. D. Trout ...
    A road map to empathic and efficient decisions and policies, constructed from new insights in the science of human judgmentFaced with another's suffering, human beings feel sympathy and may even be moved to charity. However, for all our good intentions and vaunted free will, we are lousy at making the bigger decisions that actually improve lives. Why? Drawing on his sweeping and innovative ... Read more

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  • Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment

    by Michael A Bishop, J. D. Trout ...
    Bishop and Trout here present a unique and provocative new approach to epistemology (the theory of human knowledge and reasoning). Their approach aims to liberate epistemology from the scholastic debates of standard analytic epistemology, and treat it as a branch of the philosophy of science. The approach is novel in its use of cost-benefit analysis to guide people facing real reasoning problems ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Wondrous Truths

    The Improbable Triumph of Modern Science

    by J.D. Trout ...
    A fresh, daring, and genuine alternative to the traditional story of scientific progress Explaining the world around us, and the life within it, is one of the most uniquely human drives, and the most celebrated activity of science. Good explanations are what provide accurate causal accounts of the things we wonder at, but explanation's earthly origins haven't grounded it: we have used it to ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • All Talked Out

    Naturalism and the Future of Philosophy

    by J.D. Trout ...
    Series series The Romanell Lectures
    In All Talked Out J.D. Trout exemplifies the power of science in a philosopher's hands, and takes a welcome look at the resulting fate of philosophy. Based on his 2013 Phi Beta Kappa Romanell Lectures, each chapter presents a novel and positive view of intellectual advancements with respect to traditional topics in philosophy, and explains why these achievements occurred despite the archaic and ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Contemporary Materialism

    A Reader

    Edited by Paul K. Moser, J. D. Trout ...
    Contemporary Materialism brings together the best recent work on materialism from many of our leading contemporary philosophers. This is the first comprehensive reader on the subject. The majority of philosophers and scientists today hold the view that all phenomena are physical, as a result materialism or 'physicalism' is now the dominant ontology in a wide range of fields. Surprisingly no single ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Empathy Gap, The

    Building Bridges to the Good Life and the Good Society

    by J. D. Trout ...
    Narrated by J. D. Trout ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 10 min

    Drawing on his sweeping and innovative research, philosopher and cognitive scientist J. D. Trout recruits the latest findings in psychology, behavioral economics, and neuroscience to answer the question: How can we make better personal decisions and design social policies that improve the lives of everyone?We are touched when faced with the hardships of others, whether caused by unemployment, poor ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    #1 New York Times BestsellerAvailable in a special hardcover edition, Christina Baker Kline’s smash bestseller, a captivating historical novel that is “a lovely novel about the search for family that also happens to illuminate a fascinating and forgotten chapter of American history” (Ann Packer).Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the ... Read more

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  • The School of Franz Brentano

    Edited by L. Albertazzi, M. Libardi, R. Poli ...
    Series Book 52 - Nijhoff International Philosophy Series
    The central idea developed by the contributions to this book is that the split between analytic philosophy and phenomenology - perhaps the most impor tant schism in twentieth-century philosophy - resulted from a radicalization of reciprocal partialities. Both schools of thought share, in fact, the same cultural background and their same initial stimulus in the thought of Franz Brentano. And one ... Read more

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  • Either/Or

    A Fragment of Life

    by Alastair Hannay, Søren Kierkegaard ...
    Translated by Alastair Hannay ...
    In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A', and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section - Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for a meaningful existence, contemplating subjects as diverse as Mozart, drama, boredom, and, in the famous Seducer's Diary, the cynical seduction and ultimate rejection of a young, beautiful woman. A ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

    Enriched edition. The original 1922 edition with an introduction by Bertram Russell

    by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Camille Bishop ...
    Ludwig Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus' is a groundbreaking work in the field of philosophy, exploring the nature of logic and language. Written in a concise and aphoristic style, the book delves into complex topics such as the limits of language and the relationship between language and reality. Wittgenstein's unique literary style, marked by his innovative use of propositions and ... Read more

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  • Rousseau

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert Wokler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    One of the most profound thinkers of modern history, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) was a central figure of the European Enlightenment. He was also its most formidable critic, condemning the political, economic, theological, and sexual trappings of civilization along lines that would excite the enthusiasm of romantic individualists and radical revolutionaries alike. In this study of Rousseau's ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Globalization and the Decolonial Option

    Edited by Walter D. Mignolo, Arturo Escobar ...
    This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of "coloniality", understood as the hidden agenda and the darker side of modernity and whose members are based in South America and the United States. The project called for an understanding of modernity not from modernity itself but from its darker side, coloniality, and proposes the de ... Read more

    $79.99 USD