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  • Applied Ethics Primer

    by Letitia Meynell, Clarisse Paron ...
    The Applied Ethics Primer offers a concise introduction to both basic argumentation and normative ethical theory. The concepts discussed reflect the ethical theories that currently ground most professional ethics codes and debates in applied ethics. More inclusive than many similar resources, this primer gives students a sense of the truly global history of ethics, while remaining squarely focused ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Chimpanzee Rights

    The Philosophers’ Brief

    by Kristin Andrews, Crozier G.K.D., Sue Donaldson, Andrew Fenton, L. Syd M Johnson, Will Kymlicka, Letitia Meynell, Nathan Nobis, David Pena-Guzman, Jeff Sebo, Gary Comstock, Tyler John, Robert Jones ...
    Since 2013, an organization called the Nonhuman Rights Project has brought before the New York State courts an unusual request—asking for habeas corpus hearings to determine whether Kiko and Tommy, two captive chimpanzees, should be considered legal persons with the fundamental right to bodily liberty.While the courts have agreed that chimpanzees share emotional, behavioural, and cognitive ... Read more

    $48.08 CAD

  • Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy, and the Arts

    Edited by Melanie Frappier, Letitia Meynell, James Robert Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
    From Lucretius throwing a spear beyond the boundary of the universe to Einstein racing against a beam of light, thought experiments stand as a fascinating challenge to the necessity of data in the empirical sciences. Are these experiments, conducted uniquely in our imagination, simply rhetorical devices or communication tools or are they an essential part of scientific practice? This volume ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

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    Top 10 Poets – Born in London, The - The Women

    Five poems each from some of the London born female poets ever

    by Christina Rossetti, Charlotte Mew, Amy Levy, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Alice Meynell, Charlotte Dacre, Elizabeth Siddal, Louisa Sarah Bevington, Adelaide Anne Proctor, Edith Nesbit ...
    Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Alex Jennings, Ghizela Rowe ...

    Unabridged

    The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be ... Read more

    $20.60 CAD

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    by Bell Hooks ...
    In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks-writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual-writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal.bell hooks speaks to the heart of education today: how can we ... Read more

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  • Ethics: The Basics, 2nd Edition

    by John Mizzoni ...
    Updated and revised, Ethics: The Basics, Second Edition, introduces students to fundamental ethical concepts, principles, theories, and traditions while providing them with the conceptual tools necessary to think critically about ethical issues.Introduces students to core philosophical problems in ethics in a uniquely reader-friendly mannerLays out clearly and simply a rich collection of ethical ... Read more

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  • A Decent Life

    Morality for the Rest of Us

    by Todd May ...
    "In lively prose, May . . . breaks down complex philosophical concepts and uses a range of everyday examples to illustrate how morality can be practical." — Publishers WeeklyIn a world full of suffering and deprivation, it's easy to despair—and it's also easy to judge ourselves for not doing more. Even if we gave away everything we own and devoted ourselves to good works, it wouldn't solve all the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Jurgen Habermas and Deliberative Democracy

    Understanding Deliberative Democracy, #3

    by Hercules Bantas ...
    Series Book 3 - Understanding Deliberative Democracy
    Jurgen Habermas is one of the most influential thinkers of our time. This detailed, article length guide examines his theory of deliberative democracy and covers many of the central concepts such as communicative reason, communicative power, and the ideal speech community. ... Read more

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  • Michel Foucault

    Key Concepts

    by Dianna Taylor ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. His work on freedom, subjectivity, and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, education, psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology, and criminology. "Michel Foucault: Key Concepts" explores Foucault's central ideas, such as ... Read more

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  • Critical Perspectives on bell hooks

    Edited by Maria del Guadalupe Davidson, George Yancy ...
    Series series Critical Social Thought
    Although bell hooks has long challenged the dominant paradigms of race, class, and gender, there has never been a comprehensive book critically reflecting upon this seminal scholar’s body of work. Her written works aim to transgress and disrupt those codes that exclude others as intellectually mediocre, and hooks’ challenge to various hegemonic practices has heavily influenced scholars in numerous ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Some Reflections on Ethics

    by Dr. Ramendra ...
    "The aim of a rational ethics should be to maximize freedom and avenues of happiness and to minimize avoidable suffering."In this highly thought provoking and stimulating book, the author, Dr. Ramendra, has briefly and critically discussed the ethical ideas of G. E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, Lokayat, Buddha, Epicurus and John Stuart Mill before expounding his own ideas in a logical manner. The ... Read more

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  • Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity

    Edited by Maurice Hamington, Michael Flower ...
    How care can resist the stifling force of the neoliberal paradigmIn a world brimming with tremendous wealth and resources, too many are suffering the oppression of precarious existences—and with no adequate relief from free market–driven institutions. Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity assembles an international group of interdisciplinary scholars to explore the question of care theory as a ... Read more

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