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  • Pragmatist Ethics for a Technological Culture

    Edited by Michiel Korthals, T.E. Swierstra, F.W. Jozef Keulartz, M. Schermer ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Our technological culture has an extremely dynamic character: old ways of reproducing ourselves, managing nature and keeping animals are continually replaced by new ones; norms and values with respect to our bodies, food production, health care and environmental protection are regularly being put up for discussion. This constantly confronts us with new moral problems and dilemmas. In discussion ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

    by eBooksLib ...
    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. Are these the only works of Providence in us? What words suffice to praise or set them forth? Had we but understanding, should we ever cease hymning and blessing the Divine Power, both openly and in secret, and telling of His gracious gifts? Whether digging or ploughing or eating, should we not sing the hymn to God: � ... Read more

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  • The Wisdom of George Santayana

    by Philosophical Library ...
    Series series Wisdom
    A survey of the influential—and prolific—modern philosopherIn dozens of books, magazine articles, and essays, George Santayana infused his philosophy with exquisite language, wit, and subtle humor, prompting one authority to state that he "writes philosophy more beautifully than any other thinker since Plato."The Wisdom of George Santayana makes accessible both his ideas and his oft-quoted ... Read more

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  • Classification, Disease and Evidence

    New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine

    Edited by Philippe Huneman, Gérard Lambert, Marc Silberstein ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which attempt to answer very general (interdependent) questions: (a) what is a disease and what is health? (b) How do we (causally) explain diseases? (c) And how do we distinguish diseases, i.e. define classes of diseases and recognize that an instance X of disease belongs to a given class B? ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Doing Philosophy of Technology

    Essays in a Pragmatist Spirit

    by Joseph C. Pitt ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    As science becomes more deeply embedded in a complex technological infrastructure, has this changed the relationship between the sciences and the various technologies that support them? As our technologies help shrink our world, can we restrict our ethical concerns or must we find a way to face the fact that we are now one world? What do new forms of architecture say about whom we are? Is the ... Read more

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  • Diagnosis: Philosophical and Medical Perspectives

    by N. Laor, J. Agassi ...
    Series Book 15 - Episteme
    GENERAL The term "diagnostics" refers to the general theory of diagnosis, not to the study of specific diagnoses but to their general framework. It borrows from different sciences and from different philosophies. Traditionally, the general framework of diagnostics was not distinguished from the framework of medicine. It was not taught in special courses in any systematic way; it was not accorded ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Moral Responsibility

    Beyond Free Will and Determinism

    Edited by Nicole A. Vincent, Ibo van de Poel, Jeroen van den Hoven ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    It is well over a decade since John Fischer and Mark Ravizza – and before them, Jay Wallace and Daniel Dennett – defended responsibility from the threat of determinism. But defending responsibility from determinism is a potentially endless and largely negative enterprise; it can go on for as long as dissenting voices remain, and although such work strengthens the theoretical foundations of these ... Read more

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  • Francis Bacon on Motion and Power

    Edited by Guido Giglioni, James A.T. Lancaster, Sorana Corneanu, Dana Jalobeanu ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive and unitary study of the philosophy of Francis Bacon, with special emphasis on the medical, ethical and political aspects of his thought. It presents an original interpretation focused on the material conditions of nature and human life. In particular, coverage in the book is organized around the unifying theme of Bacon’s notion of appetite, which is considered in ... Read more

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  • The Scientific Enterprise

    The Bar-Hillel Colloquium: Studies in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Volume 4

    Edited by Edna Ullmann-Margalit ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The volume before us is the fourth in the series of proceedings of what used to be the Israel Colloquium for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science. This Colloquium has in the meantime been renamed. It now bears the name of Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1915-1975). Bar-Hillel was an eminent philosopher of science, language, and cognition, as well as a fearless fighter for enlightenment and a ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Quine and His Place in History

    Edited by Gary Kemp, Frederique Janssen-Lauret ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Containing three previously unpublished papers by W.V. Quine as well as historical, exegetical, and critical papers by several leading Quine scholars including Hylton, Ebbs, and Ben-Menahem, this volume aims to remedy the comparative lack of historical investigation of Quine and his philosophical context. ... Read more

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  • Talking Wolves

    Thomas Hobbes on the Language of Politics and the Politics of Language

    by A. Biletzki ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Talking Wolves advances an analysis of Hobbes which takes language seriously (as seriously as Hobbes took it). It presents a reading of Hobbes's view of society at large, and political society in particular, through a comprehensive discussion based on, and intimately linked to, his philosophy of language. This philosophy, in turn, is seen in a new light as being a pragmatic theory of language in ... Read more

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  • The DSM-5 in Perspective

    Philosophical Reflections on the Psychiatric Babel

    Edited by Patrick Singy, Steeves Demazeux ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Since its third edition in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association has acquired a hegemonic role in the health care professions and has had a broad impact on the lay public. The publication in May 2013 of its fifth edition, the DSM-5, marked the latest milestone in the history of the DSM and of American psychiatry. In The DSM-5 ... Read more

    $116.09 USD