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Gospel According to The Simpsons, Bigger and Possibly Even Better! Edition - Paperback

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by Mark I. Pinsky (Author)Introducing a complete revision of the study guide to the best-selling book The Gospel according to The Simpsons, complete with new studies on episodes of The Simpsons as well as studies for discussing other popular animated comedies such as Family Guy, King of the Hill, and Futurama.This new edition features a session plan for a "green retreat" based on The Simpsons feature film and the environmental film An Inconvenient Truth, as well as a listing of DVD availabili...

City Living: How Urban Spaces and Urban Dwellers Make One Another - Hardcover

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by Quill R. Kukla (Author)City Living is about urban spaces, urban dwellers, and how these spaces and people make, shape, and change one another. More people live in cities than ever before: more than 50% of the earth's people are urban dwellers. As downtown cores gentrify and globalize, they are becoming more diverse than ever, along lines of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, sexuality, and age. Meanwhile, we are in the early stages of what seems sure to be a period of intense civil unre...

Beyond Duty: Kantian Ideals of Respect, Beneficence, and Appreciation - Hardcover

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by Thomas E. Hill Jr (Author)Beyond Duty presents a new collection of essays on Kantian moral theory and practical ethics from a distinguished philosopher known for making Kantian ethics accessible and relevant to contemporary problems. With a new emphasis on ideals beyond the strictest requirements of moral duty, Thomas E. Hill, Jr. expands the core aspects of Kantian ethics and offers a broader perspective on familiar moral problems. Some essays explain Kantian concepts, while others review...

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by Suzanne Killmister (Author)In Contours of Dignity, Suzanne Killmister sets out an original and innovative approach to understanding dignity. She considers the relationship between dignity and respect, the ways in which shame and humiliation can constitute dignity violations, and the links between dignity and human rights. Departing from the dominant conception of dignity as an inherent feature of all human beings, Killmister instead ties dignity to personal and social standards. She argues...

Philosophy of Social Science: A New Introduction - Paperback

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by Nancy Cartwright (Editor), Eleanora Montuschi (Editor)This is a much-needed new introduction to a field that has been transformed in recent years by exciting new subjects, ideas, and methods. It is designed both for students with central interests in philosophy and those planning to concentrate on the social sciences, and it presupposes no particular background in either domain. From the wide range of topics at the forefront of debate in philosophy of social science, the editors have chose...

Essays on Actions and Events - Paperback

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by Donald Davidson (Author)Including two new essays, this remarkable volume is an updated edition of Davidson's classic Essays on Actions and Events (1980). A superb work on the nature of human action, it features influential discussions of numerous topics. These include the freedom to act; weakness of the will; the logical form of talk about actions, intentions, and causality; the logic of practical reasoning; Hume's theory of the indirect passions; and the nature and limits of decision theo...

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by Giovanni Aloi (Author), Ian Bogost (Editor), Christopher Schaberg (Editor)Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A quintessential feature in Western gardens and landscaping, the lawn is now at the center of a climate change controversy. The large carbon footprint maintenance, its unquenchable thirst for fertilizers, weedkillers, and water, and the notorious unfriendliness towards all forms of wildlife have recently attract...

After Sound: Toward a Critical Music - Paperback

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by G. Douglas Barrett (Author)After Sound considers contemporary art practices that reconceive music beyond the limitation of sound. This book is called After Sound because music and sound are, in Barrett's account, different entities. While musicology and sound art theory alike typically equate music with pure instrumental sound, or absolute music, Barrett posits music as an expanded field of artistic practice encompassing a range of different media and symbolic relationships. The works disc...

Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness: An Essay on Origins, Second Edition - Paperback

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by William Desmond (Author)Many philosophers since Hegel have been disturbed by the thought that philosophy inevitably favors sameness over otherness or identity over difference. Originally published at a time when the issue was not so widely discussed in the English-speaking world, William Desmond here offers a constructive and positive approach to the problem of difference and otherness. He systematically explores the question of dialectic and otherness by analyzing how human desire inevita...

Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study (Pocket Edition) - Paperback

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by Idries Shah (Author)Based on university lectures at the New School for Social Research, New York, and the University of California, San Francisco, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study deals with many of the problems of Sufic methods of study and those which militate against its effective progress in the modern world; notably the unrecognized assumptions which we make about ourselves and about learning and its process. Number of Pages: 196 Dimensions: 0.45 x 6 x 4 IN Publication Date: January 16...

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by Roberto Schwarz (Author), Francis Mulhern (Editor), Francis Mulhern (Introduction by)Roberto Schwarz is the foremost literary critic of his generation in Brazil and the most important Marxist practitioner in the tradition of the Frankfurt School writing anywhere today. This collection confirms the international significance of Schwarz's critical achievement. Studies of Kafka and Brecht respectively open and close the volume, which includes incisive studies of contemporary poetry and fictio...

Dialectics, Dialogue and Argumentation. an Examination of Douglas Walton's Theories of Reasoning - Paperback

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by Chris Reed (Editor), Christopher W. Tindale (Editor)This festschrift is in honour of a leading philosopher of argumentation. His theories of argument structure, whilst rooted in Aristotelian philosophy, have been influential in computer science and artificial intelligence. His theories have a strong empirical side and cover much of how argument and debate is conducted. They examine how the process of exploring disagreement and reaching consensus can be structured, and how the 'nuts and bol...

First and Foremost: The Book of Origins and Controversies - Paperback

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by Steve Bruttig (Author)Do you know how the world began? How the universe began? How life began? You may think you do, but you don't know - not really. Some may believe everything was created in some way (actually most people do). Some may believe in a "spontaneous event" like the Big Bang - many people believe that. But the operative word here is believe. We use words like know, believe, fact and truth, and we sort of use them interchangeably - but they're not the same. What about Creation ...

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by Brian Manning Delaney (Editor), Sven-Olov Wallenstein (Editor)Translating Hegel - The Phenomenology of Spirit and Modern Philosophy: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit stands at the crossroads of modern philosophy. Taking us from the lowest and simplest level of sense-certainty through ever more complex forms of knowing and acting, Hegel's monumental work even-tually aspires to nothing less than a blueprint for absolute knowledge: a unity of subject and object, finite and infinite, man and wo...

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by James Swartz (Author)Though non-dual, unconditional, ever-present love is the nature of the self of every being, the desire to constantly enjoy it informs our every pursuit. The nature of the manifold forms of love and how to attain pure unconditional love is the subject of this wonderful ancient Sanskrit text. When you understand what love is and what it isn't, there is no option but to unconditionally love your self because it is the only causeless and abiding source of happiness. Study ...

Why Science Is Wrong About Life and Evolution:

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by Ted Christopher (Author)Serious problems have long been apparent for the scientific understanding of life, in particular with regards to unusual behaviors. The general challenge unfolding for that understanding or vision, though, is in identifying the DNA basis for much of our inheritance. Without such a DNA/genetic basis science's vision of life and evolution does not work.In parallel with such challenges are concerns about the general fallout from science's mechanistic vision of life. Th...

The Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy - Paperback

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by Richard Joyce (Editor)In recent years, the relation between contemporary academic philosophy and evolutionary theory has become ever more active, multifaceted, and productive. The connection is a bustling two-way street. In one direction, philosophers of biology make significant contributions to theoretical discussions about the nature of evolution (such as "What is a species?"; "What is reproductive fitness?"; "Does selection operate primarily on genes?"; and "What is an evolutionary func...

The Bhagavad Gita (Annotated) (Deluxe Library Edition) - Hardcover

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by Vyasa (Author)The Bhagavad Gita is a dialogue between Pandava prince Arjuna and his guide and charioteer Krishna. At the start of the Dharma Yudhha (righteous war) between Pandavas and Kauravas, Arjuna is filled with moral dilemma and despair about the violence and death the war will cause. He wonders if he should renounce, and seeks Krishna's counsel, whose answers and discourse constitute The Bhagavad Gita. Krishna counsels Arjuna to fulfill his Kshatriya (warrior) duty to uphold the Dha...

The Humanistic Background of Science - Hardcover

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by Philipp Frank (Author), George a. Reisch (Editor), Adam Tamas Tuboly (Editor)The once-lost introduction to the philosophy of science by Philipp Frank (1884-1966), a leading member of the Vienna circle of philosophers and biographer of Albert Einstein.Author BiographyGeorge A. Reisch is managing editor of The Monist and the author of The Politics of Paradigms: Thomas S. Kuhn, James B. Conant, and the Cold War "Struggle for Men's Minds", also published by SUNY Press. Adam Tamas Tuboly is pos...

The Selected Writings of Jan Patocka: Care for the Soul - Paperback

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by Jan Patocka (Author), Erin Plunkett (Editor), Ivan Chvat?k (Editor)Jan Patocka's contribution to phenomenology and the philosophy of history mean that he is considered one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Yet, his writing is not widely available in English and the Anglophone world remains rather unfamiliar with his work. In this new book of essential Patocka texts, of which the majority have been translated from the original Czech for the first time, readers will exp...

Neoliberal Techniques of Social Suffering - Hardcover

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by Laura Quintana (Editor), Nuria Sánchez Madrid (Editor), María Inés Fernández Álvarez (Contribution by)This volume displays a critical analysis of the political agenda that has, in the last decades, triggered multifaceted forms of precarization and social exclusion of marginalized groups in Latin America and Spain.Author BiographyLaura Quintana is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Universidad de Los Andes.Nuria Sánchez Madrid is associate professor in the Faculty of...

Bulfinch's Mythology: Complete Collection with Illustrations - Hardcover

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by Thomas Bulfinch (Author), Valerie Willis (Designed by)BLACK AND WHITE EDITION: This is a cornerstone piece for anyone wanting to dive deeper into mythology of various kinds. Mr. Bulfinch does a wonderful job in making a collective account of stories for most of the entities he covers, including several excerpts from poets, historians, Milton, Homer, as well as his own brother and many more. Traversing from Greek and Roman to Hindu and Celtic and beyond, this is a great book for any mytho...

Lo Primero Y Lo Segundo: Ensayos Sobre Teología Y Ética - Paperback

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by C. S. Lewis (Author)Esta brillante colección de las obras de C. S. Lewis sacudirá toda tu visión de la historia, el trabajo, la oración, el amor y la vida misma desde un nuevo patrón; siendo uno de los escritores cristianos más influyentes del siglo XX C. S Lewis conducirá tu mente en una suave pero irresistible travesía sobre de la verdad.Descubre esta vibrante recopilación de ensayos sobre la vida del ser humano y la apologética cristina en contra de las corrientes de teologías modernist...

Bulletin of Sweet Briar College: Junior Year in France, 1961-62; v.43, no.7 - Paperback

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by Sweet Briar College (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserve...

Taking the Naturalistic Turn, or How Real Philosophy of Science Is Done - Paperback

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by Werner Callebaut (Editor)Philosophers of science traditionally have ignored the details of scientific research, and the result has often been theories that lack relevance either to science or to philosophy in general. In this volume, leading philosophers of biology discuss the limitations of this tradition and the advantages of the "naturalistic turn"--the idea that the study of science is itself a scientific enterprise and should be conducted accordingly. This innovative book presents can...

Astonishment and Science: Engagements with William Desmond - Paperback

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by Paul Tyson (Editor)Science can reveal or conceal the breathtaking wonders of creation. On one hand, knowledge of the natural world can open us up to greater love for the Creator, give us the means of more neighborly care, and fill us with ever-deepening astonishment. On the other hand, knowledge feeding an insatiable hunger for epistemic mastery can become a means of idolatry, hubris, and damage. Crucial to world-respecting science is the role of wonder: curiosity, perplexity, and astonish...

Experimental Philosophy of Identity and the Self - Paperback

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by Kevin Tobia (Editor), James R. Beebe (Editor), Justin Sytsma (Editor)Exploring issues ranging from the metaphysical to the moral and legal, a team of esteemed contributors bring together some of the most important and cutting-edge findings in experimental philosophy of the self to address longstanding philosophical questions about personal identity, such as: What makes us today the same person as our childhood and future selves? Can certain changes transform us into a different person? Do ...

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by Dominic Pettman (Author), Eugene Thacker (Author)"Everything is sad," wrote the Ancient poets. But is this sadness merely a human experience, projected onto the world, or is there a gloom attributable to the world itself? Could the universe be forever weeping the "tears of things"? In this series of meditations, Dominic Pettman and Eugene Thacker explore some of the key "negative affects" - both eternal and emergent - associated with climate change, environmental destruction, and cosmic so...

Outlines of the History of Greek Philosophy - Hardcover

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by Eduard Zeller (Author)Originally published in 1886, this book offers a comprehensive look at the history of Greek philosophy. Zeller traces the evolution of Greek philosophical thought from its origins in the pre-Socratic era to the Hellenistic period. A foundational work for anyone interested in the history of philosophy.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain ...

Self-Healing By Thought Force - Paperback

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by William Walker Atkinson (Author)"Self-Healing by Thought Force" is an enchanting literary masterpiece crafted by the discerning wordsmith, William Walker Atkinson. Within its sacred pages, Atkinson delves into the ethereal realms of the human mind, unveiling its extraordinary ability to weave threads of self-healing and holistic well-being through the sheer force of thought. Atkinson unravels the mystical tapestry that intertwines mind and body, illuminating the profound impact our thought...

'Twilight of the Idols' and Nietzsche's Late Philosophy: Toward a Revaluation of Values - Paperback

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by Thomas H. Brobjer (Author)Thomas Brobjer revisits Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols (1888) and positions it as a rich and stimulating work that contains and summarizes much of Nietzsche's late philosophy, especially his unfinished magnum opus, The Revaluation of All Values. By examining the contents and the purpose of The Twilight of the Idols in relation to Nietzsche's Hauptwerk, Brobjer shows the deep influence of the revaluation project on its construction, a theme ignored by almost al...

Euthanasia as Privileged Compassion - Paperback

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by Martin Buijsen (Author)This Element overviews developments and issues in Dutch euthanasia practice. Following an outline of the history of the Dutch Euthanasia Act and a survey of the most critical trends and figures, some current issues are explored in depth: euthanasia and incompetency, euthanasia by nonphysicians, and euthanasia for those who consider their lives completed. This Element is intended for a general readership, including undergraduate students in law, medicine, or ethics. T...