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  • The Miracle of Love at Christmas

    by Julia A. Royston, Deidre F. Lee, Sylvia Carlton, Margaret Gilbert, Teresa Martin, Zachary Honey ...
    A pine coned tree with lots of presents draped with bright colored paper and bows underneath. Chestnuts roasting on that open fire. Mistletoe perched above the front door. Stockings hung on the mantle. A turkey baking in the oven and hot chocolate in mugs topped with loads of marshmallows. The baby Jesus in the manger with the wise men coming to see him in the usual spot on the mantle. Who doesn't ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life in Groups

    How We Think, Feel, and Act Together

    by Margaret Gilbert ...
    Life in Groups: How We Think, Feel, and Act Together is a collection of standalone essays that explores the nature and consequences of our thinking, feeling, and acting together. Topics include collective intentions and their relation to agreements, culture as a collective construction, the impact of collective beliefs on scientific progress, group lies, and the relation of collective wisdom to ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • Living Together

    Rationality, Sociality, and Obligation

    by Margaret Gilbert ...
    Following up her landmark work On Social Facts, this collection of essays by noted social philosopher Margaret Gilbert develops and deepens her theory of social groups as "plural subjects." She asks, how far can our rationality take us when we pursue our personal goals? What does it mean to be a member of a group? Does group membership involve obligations and rights, and, if so, how? Gilbert ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Sociality and Responsibility

    New Essays in Plural Subject Theory

    by Margaret Gilbert ...
    Sociality and Responsibility develops and extends the application of her plural subject theory of human sociality, first introduced in the earlier works On Social Facts and Living Together. Demonstrating the extensive range and fruitfulness of plural subject theory Gilbert presents accounts of social rules, scientific change, political obligation, collective remorse, collective guilt, shared ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • On Social Facts

    by Margaret Gilbert ...
    Are social groups real in any sense that is independent of the thoughts, actions, and beliefs of the individuals making up the group? Using methods of philosophy to examine such longstanding sociological questions, Margaret Gilbert gives a general characterization of the core phenomena at issue in the domain of human social life. After developing detailed analyses of a number of central everyday ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Rights and Demands

    A Foundational Inquiry

    by Margaret Gilbert ...
    Rights are often invoked in contemporary moral and political debates, yet the nature of rights is contested. Rights and Demands provides the first full-length treatment of a central class of rights: demand-rights. To have such a right is to have the standing or authority to demand a particular action of another person. How are such rights possible? Everyday agreements are generally acknowledged to ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Socializing Metaphysics

    The Nature of Social Reality

    by Frederick F. Schmitt, Gary Ebbs, Margaret Gilbert, Sally Haslanger, Kevin Kimble, Ron Mallon, Seumas Miller, Philip Pettit, Abraham Sesshu Roth, John Searle, Raimo Tuomela, Edward Witherspoon ...
    Human life is conducted within a network of social relations, social groups, and societies. Grasping the implications of that fact starts with understanding social metaphysics. Social metaphysics provides a foundation for social theory, as well as for social epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, action theory, ethics, and political philosophy. This volume will interest anyone ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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    Vision Matters

    Strategy for Managing Sudden Change

    by Margaret Gilbert ...
    Narrated by Tricia Caughley ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 7 min

    The audio book provides a framework for managing ongoing and sudden change s it relates to vision loss and blindness.The book provides a focus on living well, how to manage change of circumstances as well as to provide solutions around employment, accommodation, managing in the medical environment.The book outlines the necessary tools to manage independently or with family. ... Read more

    $2.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Vision Matters

    by Margaret Gilbert ...
    Narrated by Tricia Caughley ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 16 min

    The book discusses issues of blind low vision and their families. It is difficult for families of blind low vision to know how they can assist or help their family member.The book provides practical advice and solutions for both the family member and blind low vision person in how to manage with the aim of providing advocacy skills for parents and empowerment for the blind low vision person.The ... Read more

    $1.01 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Series series Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy
    In Philosophy of Law, Andrei Marmor provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary debates about the fundamental nature of law--an issue that has been at the heart of legal philosophy for centuries. What the law is seems to be a matter of fact, but this fact has normative significance: it tells people what they ought to do. Is the normative content of a law entirely determined by the facts that ... Read more

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  • Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life

    by Derk Pereboom ...
    Derk Pereboom articulates and defends an original conception of moral responsibility. He argues that if determinism were true we would not be morally responsible in the key basic-desert sense at issue in the free will debate, but that we would also lack this kind of moral responsibility if indeterminism were true and the causes of our actions were exclusively states or events. It is possible that ... Read more

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  • Moral Contexts

    by Margaret Urban Walker ...
    Series series Feminist Constructions
    Many contexts shape and limit moral thinking in philosophy and life. Human conditions of vulnerability and interdependency, of limited awareness and control, of imperfect insight into ourselves and others are inevitable contexts that neither moral thought nor theory should forget. To be truly reflective, moral thinking and moral philosophy must become aware of the contexts that bind our thinking ... Read more

    $34.09 USD