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by Carlo Alvaro (Author)Ethical veganism is the view that raising animals for food is an immoral practice that must be stopped because of the harm it causes to the animals, the environment, and our health. Carlo Alvaro argues the only way to stop that harm is to acquire the virtues that enable us to act justly and benevolently toward animals.Author BiographyCarlo Alvaro teaches philosophy at New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York and at St. Francis College.
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by Lifongo J. Vetinde (Editor), Jean-Blaise Samou (Editor), Koni Benson (Contribution by)This edited collection explores how African artists use their art to articulate the need for a return to the traditional African vision of communal solidarity, hospitality, and respect of humanity. The collection highlights the artists' exposure of the catastrophic effects of the abandonment of African humanism on African culture and life.
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by Scott Davidson (Editor), Jean-Luc Amalric (Contribution by), Luz Ascárate Ascarate (Contribution by)Combining rigor and originality, Ricoeur's Fallible Man locates the possibility of evil in a self that is fundamentally in conflict with itself. The contributors to this volume shed light on an impressive range of themes from the most accessible of Ricoeur's early writings that resonate with contemporary debates in philosophy and religion.Author BiographyScott Davidson is professor of philos...
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by Sylvia Jane Burrow (Author)Sylvia Jane Burrow explores self-confidence as integral to autonomy development within everyday contexts threatening gender violence, arguing that self-defense training is significant to resistance and resilience.Author BiographySylvia Jane Burrow is associate professor of philosophy in the Department of Humanities at Cape Breton University and adjunct professor in the faculty of Graduate Studies at Dalhousie University.
Number of Pages: 126
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by Karolin Mirzakhan (Author)An Ironic Approach to the Absolute: Schlegel's Poetic Mysticism brings Friedrich Schlegel's ironic fragments in dialogue with the Dao De Jing and John Ashbery's Flow Chart to argue that poetic texts offer an intuition of the whole because they resist the reader's desire to comprehend them fully.Author BiographyKarolin Mirzakhan is a lecturer of philosophy at Kennesaw State University.
Number of Pages: 140
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Publication Date: March 06, 2020
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by H. Scott Hestevold (Author)Arguing that the universe is absolutely directioned and that there exist spatial (directional) relations that Leibniz overlooked, H. Scott Hestevold formulates a new relationalist theory of space, exploring its implications for the Special Composition Question, reductivism regarding boundaries and holes, and the nature of spacetime.Author BiographyH. Scott Hestevold is professor emeritus of philosophy at The University of Alabama.
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by José Daniel Parra (Author)This text explores Martin Heidegger's thinking in response to Nietzsche's philosophy: beginning with the problem of European nihilism, moving toward a period of transition situated in-between classical and post-Cartesian ontology.
Number of Pages: 224
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Publication Date: April 13, 2023
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by Lynn Mills Eckert (Author)By examining the highly contested legal debate about the regulation of pornography through an epistemic lens, this book analyzes competing claims about the proper role of speech in our society, pornography's harm, the relationship between speech and equality, and whether law should regulate and, if so, upon what grounds.Author BiographyLynn Mills Eckert is associate professor of political science at Marist College.
Number of Pages: 244
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by Aretha Phiri (Editor), Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe (Contribution by), Chielozona Eze (Contribution by)This volume probes the interdisciplinary relationships between African literature and African philosophy within the context of epistemological decolonization and the (South) African scholarly transformation project. The contributors map out how philosophy and literature can be viewed as mutually enriching disciplines within and for Africa.Author BiographyAretha Phiri is a senior lecturer i...
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by Lissa Skitolsky (Author)The author defends the philosophical value of underground hip-hop through illustrating how the culture significantly contributes to debates in multiple academic fields. She also examines the exclusion of hip-hop from discourses on knowledge, racism, genocide and trauma as a reflection of the neoliberal sensibility that hip-hop exposes and opposes.Author BiographyLissa Skitolsky is the 2020-2021 Simon and Riva Spatz Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies at Dalhousie Unive...
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by Alexander Keller Hirsch (Editor), David W. McIvor (Editor), Charles Fred Alford (Contribution by)This book reflects on the variety of ways in which mourning affects political and social life. Through the narrative of the contributors, the book demonstrates how mourning is intertwined with politics and how politics involves a struggle over which losses and whose lives can, or should, be mourned.
Number of Pages: 252
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Publication Date: April 06, 2023
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by Xiaoping Wang (Author)This book provides a reexamination of the debates between Hu Feng, Lu Ling, and other Chinese left-wing theorists from a cultural-political perspective. The author argues that individualism should be understood within changing historical contexts and that subjectivity should be treated as class-based and derived from collective community.Author BiographyXiaoping Wang is distinguished professor of comparative literature at Tongji University.
Number of Pages: 236
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by Lissa Skitolsky (Author)The author defends the philosophical value of underground hip-hop through illustrating how the culture significantly contributes to debates in multiple academic fields. She also examines the exclusion of hip-hop from discourses on knowledge, racism, genocide, and trauma as a reflection of the neoliberal sensibility that hip-hop exposes and opposes.Author BiographyLissa Skitolsky is the 2020-2021 Simon and Riva Spatz Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies at Dalhousie Univ...
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by Nathan R. B. Loewen (Author)This book reinvents the philosophy of religion, investigating how social actors perceive necessities and grapple with accidents that disrupt them. Loewen draws upon on the work of Derrida and critical theorists of religion to argue that the usual commitments to categories structured by theism no longer prevent cross-cultural studies of "evil."Author BiographyNathan R.B. Loewen is assistant professor at the University of Alabama.
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by James D. Reid (Author), Candace R. Craig (Author)Agency and Imagination in the Films of David Lynch: Philosophical Perspectives offers a sustained philosophical interpretation of the filmmaker's work in light of classic and contemporary discussions of human agency and the complex relations between our capacity to act and our ability to imagine.Author BiographyJames D. Reid is professor of philosophy at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Candace R. Craig teaches English at Pikes Peak ...
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by VIVIL Valvik Haraldsen (Editor), Olof Pettersson (Editor), Oda E. Wiese Tvedt (Editor)Contributors to this volume focus on the character of Socrates as the embodiment of philosophy, employing this as a starting point for exploring various themes in the Apology. These include the relation of philosophy to democracy, rhetoric, politics, or society in general, and the overarching question of what comprises the philosophic life.Author BiographyVivil Valvik Haraldsen is lecturer at the Universi...
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by Arthur Willemse (Author)The Motif of the Messianic is the first sustained commentary on Giorgio Agamben's use of the messianic, with a view of his polemical relationship to Jacques Derrida. Arthur Willemse explains Agamben's move beyond Derrida by way of his critical intervention in the Aristotelian concept of potentiality and the ensuing transformation of the role of theology and theist assumptions within philosophy. Willemse argues that it is not the case that Agamben announces the redun...
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by David P. Nichols (Editor), Pauline E. Erickson (Contribution by), Alina N. Feld (Contribution by)This volume brings Continental philosophical interpretations of Van Gogh into dialogue with one another to explore how for Van Gogh, art places human beings in their world, and yet in other ways displaces them, not allowing them to belong to that world.Author BiographyDavid P. Nichols is associate professor of philosophy at Saginaw Valley State University.
Number of Pages: 270
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by Devonya N. Havis (Author)This book explores how vernacular practices created within Black American diasporic cultures via narratives, the blues, jazz, work songs, and other expressive forms, can be understood as philosophy in their own right.Author BiographyDevonya N. Havis is associate professor of philosophy at Canisius College and the University at Buffalo.
Number of Pages: 128
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Publication Date: December 21, 2022
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by Eleanor Curran (Author)This book takes a new look at the history of individual rights, focusing on how philosophers have written that history. Eleanor Curran argues that the turn to jurisprudence, after the philosophical rejection of natural rights, has resulted in an impoverished notion of rights as no more than claims and entitlements.Author BiographyEleanor Curran is honorary senior lecturer in the Philosophy Department and Law School at the University of Kent.
Number of Pages: 180
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by Neal Leavitt (Author)This book describes the foreign policy of John Rawls and Amartya Sen while building up towards a policy recommendation. By redirecting some military spending to development goals, the core needs of more civilians can be better met--while simultaneously advancing human security. Author BiographyNeal Leavitt is a lecturer in the humanities at Boston University. He received his doctorate in philosophy from Boston College and his bachelor of arts in philosophy from Harvard...
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by William H. F. Altman (Author)In a 1934 speech, marking the Twenty-fifth Reunion of his high school class, Martin Heidegger spoke eloquently of classmates killed in the Great War and called on his audience to recognize that the national rebirth now occuring in Hitler's Germany must continue to draw inspiration from the war dead. In this process, he refers to the war of 1914-1918 as "the First World War." Since the condition for the possibility of "the First" is a Second World War, Martin He...
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by Don Ihde (Author)Acoustic Technics, aware that digital and computer embedded technologies produce data that today can be transformed into acoustic images, notes the transformations these phenomena imply for a diverse set of practices, such as music, communication, medical diagnosis, and scientific knowledge.Author BiographyDon Ihde is distinguished professor of philosophy, emeritus, at Stony Brook University.
Number of Pages: 148
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by August John Hoffman (Author)Philosophical Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology explains how the topic of evolutionary psychology has developed from the contributions of philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Rene Descartes.Author BiographyAugust John Hoffman is professor of psychology at Metropolitan State University.
Number of Pages: 230
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Publication Date: July 24, 2017
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by Adam Barkman (Author), Ashley Barkman (Author), Nancy Kang (Author)The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott, edited by Adam Barkman, Ashley Barkman, and Nancy Kang, brings together eighteen critical essays that illuminate a nearly comprehensive selection of the director's feature films from cutting-edge multidisciplinary and comparative perspectives. Chapters examine such signature works as Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Thelma and Louise (1991), Gladiator (2000), Hannibal (2001), Bl...
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by Sarah A. Mattice (Author)Sarah A. Mattice explores contemporary philosophical activity and the way in which one aspect of language--metaphor--gives shape and boundary to the landscape of the discipline. The book examines metaphors of combat, play, and aesthetic experience and emphasizes how the choices we make in philosophical language are deeply intertwined with what we think philosophy is and how it should be practiced. Drawing on a broad range of resources, from cognitive linguistics an...
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by Elliot D. Cohen (Author)Through engaging, illustrative case studies, this book serves as a guidebook for philosophical and psychological practitioners, as well as a text for instructors of philosophy and psychotherapy who wish to demonstrate the practical value of philosophy in their respective fields.Author BiographyElliot D. Cohen is professor and chair of the Humanities Department at Indian River State College, and adjunct professor of clinical ethics at Florida State University.
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by Peter Worley (Author), Thomas E. Wartenberg (Other)A practical guide to facilitating philosophical conversations with groups (especially in schools) based on philosophical and pedagogical principles derived from the ancient Greek philosophers but supported my modern-day research and pedagogical practices. Author BiographyPeter Worley is the co-CEO and co-founder of the registered charity The Philosophy Foundation. He is also a Visiting Research Associate at King's College London and an aut...
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by Dominic P. Scibilia (Other), Kristen Hawley Turner (Editor)This book address ethical issues in the teaching of digital literacy.Author BiographyKristen Hawley Turner, PhD, is Professor and Director of Teacher Education at Drew University in New Jersey. She is the founder and director of the Drew Writing Project and Digital Literacies Collaborative.
Number of Pages: 200
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Publication Date: December 11, 2019
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by Dominic P. Scibilia (Other), Kristen Hawley Turner (Editor)This book address ethical issues in the teaching of digital literacy.Author BiographyKristen Hawley Turner, PhD, is Professor and Director of Teacher Education at Drew University in New Jersey. She is the founder and director of the Drew Writing Project and Digital Literacies Collaborative.
Number of Pages: 200
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Publication Date: January 10, 2020
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by Jana Mohr Lone (Author)Discussing the meaning of childhood, friendship, justice and fairness, happiness, and death, Jana Mohr Lone considers how listening to children's ideas can expand our thinking about societal issues and deepen our respect for children's perspectives. Author BiographyJana Mohr Lone is director of the Center for Philosophy for Children and affiliate associate professor of philosophy at the University of Washington, and author of The Philosophical Child, co-author of Phi...
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by Peter Raabe (Author)In this book, Raabe argues that philosophy can effectively inform and improve conventional methods of treating mental illness. He presents clinical evidence showing that mild and so-called clinical mental illnesses can be both prevented and alleviated with philosophical talk therapy. Raabe offers concrete case examples that support his findings.Author BiographyPeter Raabe teaches a variety of philosophy courses at the University of the Fraser Valley. He is the author of...
