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  • How We Govern Our Minds Through Others

    Epistemic Autonomy Beyond the Myth of Independence

    by Neil Levy, J. Adam Carter ...
    Epistemic autonomy worth valuing requires epistemic dependence on others, as well as on tools and technology.In How We Govern Our Minds Through Others, J. Adam Carter and Neil Levy argue that epistemic autonomy worth valuing requires various kinds of epistemic dependence on others, as well as on tools and technology. Challenging the Cartesian ideal of self-sufficient knowledge acquisition, they ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Cognition Switch #4

    by Scott Aaronson, James Q Whitman, Costica Bradatan, Angela Kennedy, Matthew Francis, David Munns, Chris Kempes, Van Savage, Neil Levy, Stefani Engelstein, Walter Vannini, Tom Winterbottom, Lori Miller Kase, Matthew Karp, Philip Goff ...
    Series Book 4 - Cognition Switch
    Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New IdeasIssue #4: March 2019Featuring Ideas by: James Q Whitman, Costica Bradatan, Angela Kennedy, Matthew Francis, David Munns, Chris Kempes, Van Savage, Neil Levy, Stefani Engelstein, Walter Vannini, Tom Winterbottom, Lori Miller Kase, Matthew Karp, Philip Goff, and Scott Aaronson ... Read more

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  • Moral Relativism

    by Neil Levy ...
    On September 11 2001, thousands of people died in the attacks on the United States. How could the terrorists justify these acts?A young man kills his sister to protect his family's honour. How could this be 'right'These are just some of the questions tackled by Neil Levy in an incisive and elegant guide to the philosophy of moral relativism - the idea that concepts of 'rightness' and 'wrongness' ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Self-Control

    by Marcela Herdova, Stephen Kearns, Neil Levy ...
    Series series New Problems of Philosophy
    Self-control is a fundamental part of what it is to be a human being. It poses important philosophical and psychological questions about the nature of belief, motivation, judgment, and decision making. More immediately, failures of self-control can have high costs, resulting in ill-health, loss of relationships, and even violence and death, whereas strong self-control is also often associated with ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review

    by Neil Levy ...
    Series series Elements in Epistemology
    Peer review is supposed to ensure that published work, in philosophy and in other disciplines, meets high standards of rigor and interest. But many people fear that it no longer is fit to play this role. This Element examines some of their concerns. It uses evidence that critics of peer review sometimes cite to show its failures, as well as empirical literature on the reception of bullshit, to ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Bad Beliefs

    Why They Happen to Good People

    by Neil Levy ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Bad beliefs - beliefs that blatantly conflict with easily available evidence - are common. Large minorities of people hold that vaccines are dangerous or accept bizarre ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • Evolutionary Psychology

    Volume II

    by Neil Levy ...
    Series series The International Library of Essays on Evolutionary Thought
    Evolutionary approaches to the study of human beings have been able to explain the origin and maintenance of many of the features of our bodies. Many thinkers believe that an evolutionary approach will be equally fruitful when it comes to explaining the features of our minds. Since our behaviour is driven by our minds, our cognitive dispositions and processes are likely to have been a target of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Responsibility and Healthcare

    Edited by Ben Davies, Neil Levy, Gabriel De Marco, Julian Savulescu ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This edited collection brings together world-leading authors writing about a wide range of issues related to responsibility and healthcare, and from a variety of ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • The Kindness of Strangers

    Philanthropy and Higher Education

    by Deni Elliott, Lynn G. Beck & Joseph Murphy, Robert L. Payton, W Bruce Cook, Allen Buchanan, Neil Levy ...
    Series series Issues in Academic Ethics
    In The Kindness of Strangers, Deni Elliott examines ethically questionable situations that have arisen in response to institutional dependency on external benefactors. Major concerns analyzed include: The increased professionalism of fundraising and of donating, an increased willingness of institutions to cater to the demands of donors, creation of dual roles for faculty, students and staff when ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Antipodean Philosopher

    Public Lectures on Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand, Volume 1

    by John Bigelow, Raymond D. Bradley, Andrew Brennan, James Franklin, Karen Green, Russell Grigg, Matthew Sharpe, Jeanette Kennett, Neil Levy, Gary Malinas, Chris Mortensen, Robert Nola, Charles R. Pidgen, Val Plumwood, Greg Restall, Paul Thom, Paul Patton, Jack Reynolds, Michelle Boulous Walker, Tony Coady, Peter Forrest, Catriona Mackenzie, Graham Priest ...
    Philosophy in both Australia and New Zealand has been has been experiencing, for some time now, something of a 'golden age', exercising an influence in the global arena that is disproportionate to the population of the two countries. To capture the distinctive and internationally recognised contributions Australasian philosophers have made to their discipline, a series of public talks by leading ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Free Will

    Edited by Kevin Timpe, Meghan Griffith, Neil Levy ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy Companions
    Questions concerning free will are intertwined with issues in almost every area of philosophy, from metaphysics to philosophy of mind to moral philosophy, and are also informed by work in different areas of science (principally physics, neuroscience and social psychology). Free will is also a perennial concern of serious thinkers in theology and in non-western traditions. Because free will can be ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Evolutionary Ethics

    Volume III

    Edited by Neil Levy ...
    Series series The International Library of Essays on Evolutionary Thought
    Might human morality be a product of evolution? An increasing number of philosophers and scientists believe that moral judgment and behaviour emerged because it enhanced the fitness of our distant ancestors. This volume collects some recent explorations of the evidence for this claim, as well as papers examining its implications. Is an evolved morality a genuine morality? Does an evolutionary ... Read more

    $73.99 USD