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“peter danielson”

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  • Artificial Morality

    Virtuous Robots for Virtual Games

    by Peter Danielson ...
    This book explores the role of artificial intelligence in the development of a claim that morality is person-made and rational. Professor Danielson builds moral robots that do better than amoral competitors in a tournament of games like the Prisoners Dilemma and Chicken. The book thus engages in current controversies over the adequacy of the received theory of rational choice. It sides with ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Wild Things! Acts of Mischief in Children’s Literature

    by Betsy Bird, Julie Danielson, Peter D. Sieruta ...
    Secret lives, scandalous turns, and some very funny surprises — these essays by leading kids’ lit bloggers take us behind the scenes of many much-loved children’s books.Told in lively and affectionate prose, this treasure trove of information for a student, librarian, parent, or anyone wondering about the post–Harry Potter children’s book biz brings contemporary illumination to the warm-and-fuzzy ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Matters of Care

    Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds

    by María Puig de la Bellacasa ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care, María Puig de la Bellacasa presents a powerful challenge to conventional notions of care, exploring its significance as an ethical and political obligation for thinking in the more than human worlds of technoscience and ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Relationship Anarchy

    Occupy Intimacy!

    by Juan-Carlos Pérez-Cortés ...
    A non-fiction best-seller that intertwines the principles of social anarchism with an extension of politics to interpersonal relationships.This «relationship anarchy» endeavors to be a real revolution sparked from our affections, rooting not only in the long tradition of anarchism but also in contributions from the most recent sociology, anthropology, feminism, queer theory, and non-monogamous ... Read more

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  • The Ethics of Care and Empathy

    by Michael Slote ...
    Eminent moral philosopher Michael Slote argues that care ethics presents an important challenge to other ethical traditions and that a philosophically developed care ethics should, and can, offer its own comprehensive view of the whole of morality. Taking inspiration from British moral sentimentalism and drawing on recent psychological literature on empathy, he shows that the use of that notion ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Is That True?

    Critical Thinking for Sociologists

    by Joel Best ...
    Across disciplines, critical thinking is praised, taught, and put into practice. But what does it actually mean to think critically? In this brief volume, sociologist Joel Best examines how to evaluate arguments and the evidence used to support them as he hones in on how to think in the field of sociology and beyond.With inimitable style that melds ethnographic verve with dry humor, Best examines ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Why Things Matter to People

    Social Science, Values and Ethical Life

    by Andrew Sayer ...
    Andrew Sayer undertakes a fundamental critique of social science's difficulties in acknowledging that people's relation to the world is one of concern. As sentient beings, capable of flourishing and suffering, and particularly vulnerable to how others treat us, our view of the world is substantially evaluative. Yet modernist ways of thinking encourage the common but extraordinary belief that ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • International Education in Global Times

    Engaging the Pedagogic

    by Paul Tarc ...
    Series Book 10 - Global Studies in Education
    This book illuminates the changing landscape and expediency of international education in global times. Within this larger picture, the book focuses on the educational effects of international encounters, experiences and lessons – the complex processes of learning and subject formation in play during and after one's international/intercultural experience. These complex processes, hinged on past ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Words, Objects and Events in Economics

    The Making of Economic Theory

    Edited by Peter Róna, László Zsolnai, Agnieszka Wincewicz-Price ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book examines from a variety of perspectives the disappearance of moral content and ethical judgment from the models employed in the formulation of modern economic theory, and some of the papers contain important proposals about how moral judgment could be reintroduced in economic theory. The chapters collected in this volume result from the favorable reception of the first volume ... Read more

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  • Understanding Rawls

    A Reconstruction and Critique of A Theory of Justice

    by Robert Paul Wolff ...
    Since its publication in 1971, John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice has been the subject of a lively debate among philosophers, economists, and political scientists. In this book, Robert Paul Wolff provides an interpretation and critique of Rawls’ theory that both clarifies it and reveals its basic flaws.According to Professor Wolff, Rawls’ device of a bargaining game among self-interested parties is ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Why Worry About Future Generations?

    by Samuel Scheffler ...
    The things we do today may make life worse for future generations. But why should we care what happens to people who won't be born until after all of us are gone? Some philosophers have treated this as a question about our moral responsibilities, and have argued that we have duties of beneficence to promote the well-being of our descendants. Rather than focusing exclusively on issues of moral ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Amartya Sen

    Edited by Christopher W. Morris ...
    Series series Contemporary Philosophy in Focus
    Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1998 'for his contributions in welfare economics'. Although his primary academic appointments have been mostly in economics, Sen is also an important and influential social theorist and philosopher. His work on social choice theory is seminal, and his writings on poverty, famine, and development, as well his contributions to moral ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD