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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Over Plato's Academy in ancient Athens, it is said, hung a sign: "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here." Plato thought no one could do philosophy without also doing mathematics. In The Waltz of Reason, mathematician and philosopher Karl Sigmund shows us why. Charting an epic story spanning millennia and continents, Sigmund shows that philosophy and mathematics are inextricably intertwined, mutual partners in a reeling search for truth. Beginning...
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Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to combat it-from the acclaimed author of Down Girl and Entitled. For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daughter was born. She's been bullied...
3) Would You Kill the Fat Man?: The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong
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"Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Philosophy, Association of American Publishers" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014" David Edmonds is the author, with John Eidinow, of the best-selling Wittgenstein's Poker, as well as Rousseau's Dog and Bobby Fischer Goes to War. The cofounder of the popular Philosophy Bites podcast series, Edmonds is a senior research associate at the University of Oxford's Uehiro Centre for Practical...
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William James (1842–1910) authored some of America's most original and evocative philosophy and psychology. Until recently, however, his work in ethics attracted little interest, despite suggestions from such distinguished peers as John Dewey that ethical themes suffused his writings. Taking those suggestions seriously, Clifford S. Stagoll provides an original and rigorous interpretation of James's ethics as a response to the socio-economic circumstances...
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Addressing perspectives about who "we" are, the importance of place and home, and the many differences that still separate individuals, this volume reimagines cosmopolitanism in light of our differences, including the different places we all inhabit and the many places where we do not feel at home. Beginning with the two-part recognition that the world is a smaller place and that it is indeed many worlds, Cosmopolitanism and Place critically explores...
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Español
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Para el Departamento de Bioética de la Universidad El Bosque es un placer presentar la segunda edición parcial en español del libro ¿Qué es la bioética? del profesor belga Gilbert Hottois, filósofo y experto bioeticista, como homenaje póstumo a uno de los pensadores contemporáneos más determinantes en el desarrollo de esta disciplina. En este escrito se sintetiza acertadamente la en el transcurso de su hasta ahora breve pero fructífera...
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Español
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El propósito de esta obra es presentar el pensamiento de Elio Sgreccia acerca de la dignidad de la persona, con sus aportes filosóficos en textos y las nuevas concepciones de la bioética personalista de Elio Sgreccia, pues en él se indican los motivos que han inducido a escribir la obra, relacionados con temas candentes como la donación de órganos, células madre, objeción de conciencia y estado vegetativo permanente. Es decir, sus importantes...
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Follow the renowned novelist's journey to his own peace. Leo Tolstoy was born to an aristocratic Russian family, became a world-famous influential novelist, and then chose to lead the simple life of a peasant. Dating from this last part of his life, Tolstoy's influential book, What I Believe, takes readers along on the path to a life modeled literally on Jesus Christ's "Sermon on the Mount" and the teachings of the Gospels. In revealing and frank...
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This book has a collection of Schweitzer's quotations on ethics and the human spirit. The emphasis is on the importance of the reverence for life and how following that ethic leads us to what is essential for civilization. The table of contents: Introductory Note; Feeling for Animal Life; Respect for Life; Mutual Knowledge; Riddles of Existence; The Meaning of Philosophy; Goethe; The Sanctuary of Thought; Religion Is Not a Force; When Thinking Was...
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Raymond Geuss is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Idea of a Critical Theory and History and Illusion in Politics.
Much political thinking today, particularly that influenced by liberalism, assumes a clear distinction between the public and the private, and holds that the correct understanding of this should weigh heavily in our attitude to human goods. It is, for instance, widely held that the state may...
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Wie man sich mit Platon verliebt, mit Sokrates gelassen wird und trotz Kant den Sinn des Lebens findet. Die kostbarste Ressource der Menschheit ist nicht Gold, nicht Kohle, nicht Uran oder Algorithmen - es ist der SINN. Sinn scheint jedoch in unserer Epoche zur Neige zu gehen. Wie können wir ihn uns neu erschließen? Der Philosoph Christoph Quarch lädt zu einer klugen und vergnüglichen Sinnsuche in die Welt der Philosophie ein: Sinn ist das, was...
12) Moral Relativism
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Moral relativism attracts and repels. What is defensible in it and what is to be rejected? Do we as human beings have no shared standards by which we can understand one another? Can we abstain from judging one another's practices? Do we truly have divergent views about what constitutes good and evil, virtue and vice, harm and welfare, dignity and humiliation, or is there some underlying commonality that trumps it all?
These questions turn up everywhere,...
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Peter Berkowitz is Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist and is a regular contributor to The New Republic.
Virtue has been rediscovered in the United States as a subject of public debate and of philosophical inquiry. Politicians from both parties, leading intellectuals, and concerned citizens from diverse backgrounds are addressing questions about the content of our character....
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Daniel N. Robinson is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University. He is Faculty Fellow in Philosophy at Oxford University where he has lectured annually since 1991. He is the author or editor of numerous books including Wild Beasts and Idle Humors: The Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the Present and Aristotle's Psychology.
How should a prize be awarded after a horse race? Should it go to the best rider, the best person,...
16) Multiculturalism
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Charles Taylor is Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at McGill University; K. Anthony Appiah, Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy at Harvard University; Jürgen Habermas, Professor of Philosophy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt am Main; Steven C. Rockefeller, Professor of Religion at Middlebury College; Michael Walzer, Permanent Member of the Faculty at the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced...
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"Third Place for the 2012 Cover/Jacket Award in the Professional, Scholarly category, New York Book Show" Emrys Westacott is professor of philosophy at Alfred University in Alfred, New York. His work has been featured in the New York Times and has appeared in the Philosopher's Magazine, Philosophy Now, the Humanist, the Philosophical Forum, and many other publications. He is also the coauthor of Thinking through Philosophy: An Introduction.
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18) Desert
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The description for this book, Desert, will be forthcoming. "A complex and subtle depiction of a highly irregular conceptual terrain. . . . Sher's discussion is sure to play an important part in future thinking about desert. It has many virtues, foremost among them its thoroughness and clarity and its refusal to dodge difficulties. It represents a stimulating and educative contribution to several different areas of philosophical debate, and on all...
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Li Zehou's thought has achieved wide popularity and influence among both academic readers and the broader Chinese-reading public. His culminating views on ethics are collected here in a series of essays that highlight the importance of Confucian philosophy today. Li's groundbreaking ethics presents a powerful contemporary theory-one that inventively reconciles longstanding oppositions between relativism and absolutism, emotions and rationalism, and...
20) Platonic Noise
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J. Peter Euben is Research Professor of Political Science and Kenan Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Ethics at Duke University. His books include Corrupting Youth and The Tragedy of Political Theory (both Princeton).
Platonic Noise brings classical and contemporary writings into conversation to enrich our experience of modern life and politics. Drawing on writers as diverse as Plato, Homer, Nietzsche, Borges, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth, Peter Euben...
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