Philosophy

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by Nélida Naveros Córdova Cdp (Author), Cdp Nélida Naveros Córdova (Author)This comprehensive sourcebook of Philo of Alexandria presents topics and themes drawn from commonly studied Philonic texts in seven chapters: theology, cosmology, anthropology, ethics, biblical characters, Jewish Law, and Jewish worship and observances.Author BiographyNélida Naveros Córdova, CDP, is assistant professor of biblical studies and director of graduate programs in theology and ministry at Spring Hill College...

The Concept of Intrinsic Evil and Catholic Theological Ethics - Paperback

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by Nenad Polgar (Editor), Joseph A. Selling (Editor), S. J. James T. Bretzke (Contribution by)The Concept of Intrinsic Evil and Catholic Theological Ethics examines the origin and meaning of the concept of intrinsic evil and its use in sexual ethics in the teachings of the Catholic Church, and in the construction of a systematic approach to theological ethics. It concludes with a suggestion of how the concept might be used in future ethical discourse. Number of Pages: 184 Dimensions: 0.42 x 9...

William James, Essays in Radical Empiricism - Hardcover

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by H. G. Callaway (Editor)This new critical edition is an examination of William James's Essays in Radical Empiricism in light of the scientific naturalism prominent in James's Principles of Psychology (1890) and the subsequent development of Darwinian, functional psychology and functionalism in psychology, the philosophy psychology and the philosophy of mind.Author BiographyH. G. Callaway has a PhD in philosophy from Temple University and is an independent scholar. Number of Pages: ...

African Philosophical Adventures - Hardcover

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by John Murungi (Author)African Philosophical Adventures calls for a recognition and affirmation of African philosophy as an adventure. This understanding fosters and cultivates inquisitive open-mindedness and is animated by wonder.Author BiographyJohn Murungi is professor of philosophy at Towson University. Number of Pages: 180 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: May 31, 2023

The Philosophy of Practical Affairs: An Introduction - Hardcover

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by Joseph Agassi (Author)This book addresses the problems of everyday life faced by twenty-first-century individuals and explores practical questions central to philosophy of life: What is a good life? What makes a life good or satisfactory? What is the proper aim of life? Author BiographyJoseph Agassi is professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and York University. Number of Pages: 172 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 23, 2022

Caregiving, Carebots, and Contagion - Paperback

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by Michael C. Brannigan (Author)This work explores caring robots' lifesaving benefits, particularly during contagion, while probing the threat they pose to interpersonal engagement and genuine human caregiving. As humans, we have a binding moral responsibility to care for the Other, and genuine caring demands our embodied, human-to-human presence.Author BiographyMichael C. Brannigan is adjunct professor of intercultural bioethics at Albany Medical College and adjunct professor of philosophy a...

Philosophical Praxis: Origin, Relations, and Legacy - Hardcover

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by Gerd B. Achenbach (Author), Michael Picard (Translator)Gerd B. Achenbach's Philosophical Praxis: Origin, Relations, and Legacy, translated by Michael Picard, offers unique insights into the compelling origin and development of what has been called a renaissance of philosophy: a storied trove of thought steeped in tradition, character, and experience, and redeployed in the service of understanding the individual life. Throughout this book, the author explores Philosophical Praxis not only t...

Surfing and the Philosophy of Sport - Hardcover

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by Daniel Brennan (Author)This book considers the unique perspective found in the sport of surfing for reconsidering questions in the philosophy of sport. Through the lens of surfing Brennan explores questions of ethics, aesthetics, gender equality, the nature of sport, Olympism, technology, and the good life.Author BiographyDaniel Brennan is assistant professor of philosophy at Bond University. Number of Pages: 196 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 03, 2021

Reviving the Love for Economic Justice: Foul Was Never Fair - Hardcover

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by Roshnee Ossewaarde-Lowtoo (Author)In this book, Roshnee Ossewaarde-Lowtoo explores ways to reverse the cultural preference for utility and wealth over the democratic ideals of justice and civic friendship. She argues that economies and markets can be legitimately subordinated to the ideal of fellowship because human experience reveals love as the telos of human existence.Author BiographyRoshnee Ossewaarde-Lowtoo teaches in the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology and the Department of Syste...

Embodied Humanism: Toward Solidarity and Sensuous Enjoyment - Hardcover

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by Jeff Noonan (Author)Jeff Noonan traces the development of humanist values from the ancient philosophies of India, China, and Greece, to contemporary struggles against oppression. Embodied Humanism argues that humanism is a critical social philosophy in which need-satisfaction and life-enjoyment have always been paramount. Author BiographyJeff Noonan is professor of philosophy at the University of Windsor. Number of Pages: 246 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: A...

A Hermeneutics of Contemplative Silence: Paul Ricoeur, Edith Stein, and the Heart of Meaning - Hardcover

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by Michele Kueter Petersen (Author)This book probes the texts of Paul Ricoeur and Edith Stein to disclose the role of silence in the creation of meaning. To understand and live out of contemplative awareness as a way to think through transformative human experience is an ethical and spiritual task, one that warrants explanation and interpretation.Author BiographyMichele Kueter Petersen is visiting assistant professor of philosophy and theology at St. Ambrose University. Number of Pages: 238 D...

Mediations between Nature and Culture - Hardcover

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by Aaron K. Kerr (Author)This book explores the placement of human beings, a "betweenness" that elicits the fact that human communication is the mediation between one's intellectual, moral, and political experience. Aaron K. Kerr explores the relationship between nature and culture, exposing the obscurities caused by technology and economic dogmatism. A renewal of the mediatory role of human communication is juxtaposed to the immediacy of digital consumption. The author reveals that to redres...

Moral Injury among Returning Veterans: From Thank You for Your Service to a Liberative Solidarity - Hardcover

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by Joshua Morris (Author)This book expands the conversation on moral injury to include a more formal role for society in it. The author utilizes an interdisciplinary practical theology combining liberation theologies and cultural studies to interrogate how dominate ideologies can complicate moral injury reintegration among veterans.Author BiographyJoshua T. Morris, Ph.D. is a bivocational scholar-practitioner who serves as a pediatric staff chaplain and also as a chaplain in the United States...

White Ignorance and Complicit Responsibility: Transforming Collective Harm beyond the Punishment Paradigm - Hardcover

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by Eva Boodman (Author)White ignorance is a form of collective denial that aggressively resists acknowledging the role of race and racism. It dominates our political landscape, warps white moral frameworks and affective responses, intervenes in white self-conceptions, and organizes white identities. In this way, white ignorance poses a problem for conceptions of responsibility that rely on individuals' intentions, causal contributions, or knowledge of the facts. As Eva Boodman shows, our mora...

John Stuart Mill and Epistemic Democracy - Hardcover

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by Ivan Cerovac (Author)John Stuart Mill and Epistemic Democracy explores the epistemic, or cognitive, character of democratic institutional practices and the protection of basic liberties in Mill's political thought. Mapping Mill's theory of representative democracy and critically engaging Mill's more controversial issues, Ivan Cerovac identifies the epistemic criteria within these proposals and uses them as a basis for unifying Mill's political thought. The book addresses the epistemic role...

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by Duncan Richter (Other)This book presents both a new translation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus (often similar to Ogden's, but with significant improvements) and a line-by-line guide to relevant secondary literature. Rather than arguing for any particular interpretation, it presents a variety of positions for the reader to consider.Author BiographyDuncan Richter is author of Historical Dictionary of Wittgenstein's Philosophy, Anscombe's Moral Philosophy, Why Be Good?, Wittgenstein at His Word,...

Well-Being in African Philosophy: Insights for a Global Ethics of Development - Hardcover

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by Bolaji Bateye (Editor), Mahmoud Masaeli (Editor), Louise M?ler (Editor)This book explores the notion of well-being in African and intercultural philosophy and draw insights into global ethics of development. It centralizes critical African voices on human well-being as they address the major global challenges of our time.Author BiographyBolaji Bateye is associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Obafemi Awolowo University.Mahmoud Masaeli is professor of human rights stud...

A Consequentialist Defense of Libertarianism - Paperback

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by Richard Fumerton (Author)In defending freedom, most libertarians have appealed to a moral framework that puts an emphasis on the concept of moral rights. Rejecting that approach, Richard Fumerton offers a fresh, nuanced, and balanced "consequentialist" perspective on the importance of defending liberty.Author BiographyRichard Fumerton is F. Wendell Miller Professor of philosophy at the University of Iowa. Number of Pages: 232 Dimensions: 0.49 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 24, 2022

Passionate Animals: Emotions, Animal Ethics, and Moral Pragmatics - Hardcover

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by Mara-Daria Cojocaru (Author)Passionate Animals: Emotions, Animal Ethics, and Moral Pragmatics draws on the theoretical achievements made in ethics, political philosophy, and human-animal studies, addressing the problem that these advancements have not resulted in practical change toward significantly improved human-animal-relations. Mara-Daria Cojocaru argues that this gap between theory and action can close only if humans live up to the task of becoming passionate animals themselves-and p...

A Philosophical Journey into the Anthropocene - Hardcover

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by Agostino Cera (Author)This book presents a philosophical journey into the Anthropocene that views this geological epoch as the potential métarécit of our age and the planetary framework within which technology becomes the environment for human life. The appropriate name for this epochal phenomenon is, as a result, not Anthropocene, but Technocene.Author BiographyAgostino Cera is assistant professor of theoretical philosophy in the Department of Humanities at the University of Ferrara. ...

Connection to Nature, Deep Ecology, and Conservation Social Science: Human-Nature Bonding and Protecting the Natural World - Paperback

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by Christian Diehm (Author), Holmes Rolston III (Foreword by)This book explores human-nature connectedness through deep ecological philosophy and conservation social science. Emphasizing ecologically-inclusive identities, it argues that connection to nature is more important than many environmental advocates realize and that deep ecology contributes much to the increasingly pressing conversations about it.Author BiographyChristian Diehm is professor of philosophy and environmental ethics pr...

Dewey and the Aesthetic Unconscious: The Vital Depths of Experience - Hardcover

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by Bethany Henning (Author)Bethany Henning argues that within the naturalistic strains of American philosophy, there is an implicit theory of the unconscious that finds its fullest expression within the work of John Dewey. Although the unconscious contributes to all experience, it plays a principal role in experiences that are emphatically aesthetic.Author BiographyBethany Henning is the Besl Chair for Ethics/Religion and Society in the Philosophy Department at Xavier University. Number of Pa...

Democracy and the History of Political Thought - Paperback

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by Patrick N. Cain (Editor), Stephen Patrick Sims (Editor), Stephen A. Block (Editor)This volume provides a fresh perspective on current democratic theory and practice by recovering the rich evaluations of democracy in the history of political thought. Each essay addresses a single thinker's reflections on the virtues and defects of democracy and the relationship between democracy and other regimes.Author BiographyStephen Patrick Sims is assistant professor of political science at Rochester I...

The Great Synthesis of Wang Yangming Neo-Confucianism in Korea: The Chonon (Testament) by Chong Chedu (Hagok) - Paperback

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by Edward Y. J. Chung (Other)The Great Synthesis of Wang Yangming Neo-Confucianism in Korea, a pioneering study of Chŏng Chedu (Hagok, 1649-1736) and Korean Yangming Neo-Confucianism, includes an annotated translation of the Chonŏn, Hagok's most important work on self-cultivation, and a comprehensive introduction to his life, scholarship, and thought.Author BiographyEdward Y. J. Chung is Asian studies director and professor of religious studies at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canad...

Political Disagreement, Violence and Nonviolence: An Analysis of Political Ideologies and their Distinctions between Kinds of Violence - Hardcover

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by Greg McCreery (Author)McCreery descriptively analyzes distinctions between kinds of violence, including nonviolence, as outlined by numerous philosophical theorists, arguing that a commonsense view of violence and nonviolence is based on paradigmatic cases. Beyond these what counts as kinds of violence and nonviolence is essentially contested due to political, ideological disagreements.Author BiographyGreg McCreery is professor at University of South Florida's Judy Genshaft Honors College....

Legal and Ethical Issues of Live Streaming - Paperback

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by Shing-Ling S. Chen (Editor), Zhuojun Joyce Chen (Editor), Nicole Allaire (Editor)This book uses a critical lens to discuss live stream uses and misuses, as well as the impacts of live streaming on various fields. In the landscape of the historical evolution of communication technologies, this volume opens up a new space for discussing legal and ethical issues associated with the use of live streaming. Author BiographyShing-Ling S. Chen is professor of mass communication in the Department o...

Edibility and In Vitro Meat: Ethical Considerations - Hardcover

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by Rachel Robison-Greene (Author)Consumers and policy makers have unprecedented choices to make in the years to come about how and what we eat. If we continue down our current path of food production, we risk ever-increasing levels of animal exploitation, environmental destruction, biodiversity loss, and challenges to human health. In vitro meat production, or the process of growing meat in a lab, has the potential to reduce the severity of these problems. This proposal would change our food ...

Words and Meaning in Metasemantics: Grounds for an Interactive Theory - Hardcover

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by Juan José Colomina-Almiñana (Author)In Words and Meaning in Metasemantics, Juan José Colomina-Almiñana argues that language meaning determination requires close attention to the constant interaction between speech communities, speaker's intentions, and the audience's uptakes.Author BiographyJuan J. Colomina-Almiñana is assistant professor in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and the Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics at Louisiana State University. Number of...

Philosophical Children in Literary Situations: Toward a Phenomenology of Childhood - Paperback

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by Peter Costello (Author)This book is a series of readings of phenomenological texts and novels for children that carves out an interdisciplinary space that allows phenomenology to offer provocative literary analyses.Author BiographyPeter R. Costello is professor of philosophy and of public and community service at Providence College. Number of Pages: 188 Dimensions: 0.43 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 18, 2022

Self Definition: A Philosophical Inquiry from the Global South and Global North - Paperback

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by Teodros Kiros (Author)This book argues that anatomy and biology frame our gender, sex, and class, but they do not decide our possibilities. Our life-styles are our own constructions and expressions of self-definition. Teodros Kiros supports his argument by a careful reading of the literature from both the Global South and Global North that spans figures, works, and eras from antiquity to our late modern present. Number of Pages: 140 Dimensions: 0.33 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 13, 2023

Shame, Gender Violence, and Ethics - Paperback

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by Lenart Skof (Editor), Shé M. Hawke (Editor), Janet H. Anderson (Contribution by)Through cutting-edge accounts and interdisciplinary critiques of shame, this collection responds to the epidemic of gendered violence that the world witnesses daily. Contributors expose and challenge how oppression and violence connect to regimes of injustice that have dominated modern times.Author BiographyLenart Skof is head of the Institute for Philosophical Studies at Science and Research Centre of Koper an...

McLuhan's Techno-Sensorium City: Coming to Our Senses in a Programmed Environment - Hardcover

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by Jaqueline McLeod Rogers (Author)This book presents McLuhan as both an activist and a speculative urbanist who endeavored to alter human perception and imagine a sustainable future based on collective participation in a responsive urban environment--a techno-sensorium--in which technology is designed and programmed to be favorable to life and capable of engaging multiple senses. Author BiographyJaqueline McLeod Rogers is professor and chair of the Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Commun...