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  • Nature in Indian Philosophy and Cultural Traditions

    by Meera Baindur ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Working within a framework of environmental philosophy and environmental ethics, this book describes and postulates alternative understandings of nature in Indian traditions of thought, particularly philosophy. The interest in alternative conceptualizations of nature has gained significance after many thinkers pointed out that attitudes to the environment are determined to a large extent by our ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Ecocultural Ethics

    Critical Essays

    by Mariam Taha Al-Naqr, Meera Baindur, Anita Balakrishnan, Jaharlal Debbarma, Alan Drengson, Dee Horne, Divya Kalathingal, Anchitha Krishna, Alyssa Luboff, Venu Mehta, Kalpita Bhar Paul, K. Y. Ratnam, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, Vidya Sarveswaran ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    The book offers twelve cases of ethics relating to ecology and culture. The twelve cases presented in the twelve essays, are written by eminent scholars from India, USA, Canada and Egypt. Employing various ecocritical frameworks, the writers have tried to understand/analyse literary, cinematic and other cultural texts and contexts. The volume argues that the principles of ethics are as dynamic as ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

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    by Dagobert D. Runes ...
    The ethical teachings of Judaism and Christianity are presented in distilled form in this concise volume of Biblical writings.A Bible for the Liberal is not a new book. It is, rather, a selection of the principles of ethics, taken from all biblical literature, including the Hebrew Books of Wisdom and The Apocrypha, without the usual mythological and ritualistic framework.In these selections, ... Read more

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  • Philosophy In a Week: Teach Yourself

    by Mel Thompson ...
    Learn in a week, remember for a lifetime!In just one week, this accessible book will give you knowledge to last forever. End of chapter summaries and multiple choice questions are all designed to help you test your knowledge and gain confidence.So whether you are a student or you simply want to widen your knowledge, you will find this seven-day course a very memorable introduction.Sunday: Think ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Understanding Descartes: I Am, I Exist

    Understanding Philosophy, #5

    by Hercules Bantas ...
    Series Book 5 - Understanding Philosophy
    In Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes uses rational thought to argue that his essence exists in his thoughts alone. He reasons that the mind and body are distinct and separable, and that the mind, as the originator of thought, is what defines the person. This guide will outline the reasoning Descartes' uses in establishing his theory of knowledge that he argues is necessary to form a ... Read more

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  • The Devil in Modern Philosophy

    by Ernest Gellner ...
    The essays in this volume gather together Gellner's thinking on the connection between philosophy and life and they approach the topic from a number of directions: philosophy of morals, history of ideas, a discussion of individuals including R. G. Collingwood, Noam Chomsky, Piaget and Eysenck and discussions on the setting of philosophy in the general culture of England and America. ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • 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

    $115.99 CAD

  • Engineering Ethics for a Globalized World

    Edited by Colleen Murphy, Paolo Gardoni, Hassan Bashir, Charles E. Harris, Jr., Eyad Masad ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume identifies, discusses and addresses the wide array of ethical issues that have emerged for engineers due to the rise of a global economy. To date, there has been no systematic treatment of the particular challenges globalization poses for engineering ethics standards and education. This volume concentrates on precisely this challenge. Scholars and practitioners from diverse national ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • A Critical Overview of Biological Functions

    by Justin Garson ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is a critical survey of and guidebook to the literature on biological functions. It ties in with current debates and developments, and at the same time, it looks back on the state of discourse in naturalized teleology prior to the 1970s. It also presents three significant new proposals. First, it describes the generalized selected effects theory, which is one version of the selected ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Concept of Truth

    by R. Campbell ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book addresses the contemporary disillusion with truth, manifest in sceptical relativism. Contending that all contemporary theories of truth are too narrow, it argues for a novel conception of truth, by showing how error is implicated in the actions of all living things; and by analyzing uses of 'true' in non-linguistic contexts. ... Read more

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  • Meaning and Analysis: New Essays on Grice

    by Richard Breheny ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The anthology 'Meaning and Analysis' addresses the key topics of H. Paul Grice's philosophy of language, such as rationality, non-natural meaning, communicative actions, conversational implicatures, the semantics-pragmatics distinction and recent debates concerning minimalist versus contextualist semantics. ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Adam Smith and the Philosophy of Law and Economics

    Edited by J. Evensky, R.P. Malloy ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Adam Smith and the Philosophy of Law and Economics is a unique book. Malloy and Evensky bring together a team of international and interdisciplinary scholars to address the work of Adam Smith as it relates to law and economics. In addition to their own contributions, the book includes works by Dr. John W. Cairns of the University of Edinburgh, Dr. J. Ralph Lindgren of Lehigh University, Professor ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD