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By: Richard Greene
ISBN: 9780812699913
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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A posse of philosophers chases after the most exciting philosophical ideas in Westworld.
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By: Richard Greene
ISBN: 9780812696837
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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Why do vampires and vegetarians share a similar worldview Why is understanding zombies the key to health care reform What does 'healthy in mind and body' mean for the undead This book addresses these questions.
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By: David Hume
ISBN: 9780812690545
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1999
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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A superb classroom edition with a detailed introduction and extensive notes by Anthony Flew, author of Hume's Philosophy of Belief. This also includes Hume's autobiography, My Own Life; Hume's An abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature; the key passage Why a Cause is Always Necessary from Hume's Treatise; three letters by Hume, and the famous letter on Hume's death by Adam Smith.
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By: David Ramsay Steele
ISBN: 9780812696370
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2008
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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By: Jeff Walker
ISBN: 9780812693904
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 1999
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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Jeff Walker debunks the cult-like following that developed around the author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.
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By: Greg Frost-Arnold
ISBN: 9780812698305
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2013
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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By: Graham Harman
ISBN: 9780812694567
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2005
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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By: Ralph Ellis
ISBN: 9780812696639
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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By: Ph.D. Jeffrey A. Schaler
ISBN: 9780812696042
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2007
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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By: Kimberly A. Blessing
ISBN: 9780812695755
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2005
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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A compelling collection of essays explores philosophical issues through the lens of popular Hollywood films, finding interesting topics in Fight Club, Being John Malkovich, American Beauty, and many other movies. Original.
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By: Judith Jarvis Thomson
ISBN: 9780812696585
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2009
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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By: Rondo Keele
ISBN: 9780812696509
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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A guide to the life and work of important medieval philosopher William Ockham, explaining "Ockham's Razor", the controversy surrounding it, and anti-Razor theories. Beginning with Ockham's youth, it gives the reader background to the theology and some of the Aristotelian philosophy he would have studied as a boy.
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By: Aurel Kolnai
ISBN: 9780812695663
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2003
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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By: Ph.D. Jeffrey A. Schaler
ISBN: 9780812696189
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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Explores one of the most controversial philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer, and his radical and inspiring work on animal rights, ethics, and globalization. This book gives a platform to critics of Singer's many contentious ideas about disability and euthanasia, utilitarianism abortion and global poverty, among others.
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By: David Detmer
ISBN: 9780812697971
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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By: Paul Voice
ISBN: 9780812696806
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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By: Colin Howson
ISBN: 9780812695786
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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By: Ph.D. Jeffrey A. Schaler
ISBN: 9780812695687
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2004
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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Here, psychologists, psychiatrists and other leading experts who disagree with Thomas Szasz's views on specific issues explain their reasons, with no holds barred, and Szasz replies cogently and pungently to each of them.
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By: Erica Helm Meade
ISBN: 9780812693027
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1999
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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This work presents a collection of stories about contemporary women of various ages and ethnic backgrounds who have one thing in common: each embraces a pertinent myth as her guide through a difficult passage in life. This is the third book in Open Court's "Dreamcatcher" series.
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By: Roger T. Ames
ISBN: 9780812693942
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1999
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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This work asks, "Will democracy figure prominently in China's future", and, "If so, what kind of democracy". The authors draw upon the ideas of Dewey and Confucius to help address these questions. They suggest that it is a mistake to equate "modernization" for China with "westernization".
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By: Erazim Kohak
ISBN: 9780812694116
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2000
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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Presenting a wide range of views and strategies, The Green Halo analyzes the problematic relations between humans and the rest of the natural world. The author looks at the views of thinkers including John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and Al Gore, and suggests alternative ways to view nature, assign it value, and respond to ecological crises.
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By: Lewis Edwin Hahn
ISBN: 9780812693997
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1999
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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This volume in the series celebrates the philosophy of American Donald Davidson, whose process covers different types of philosophy. Admired for developing a system based on his theory of mind and language, he considers two of his most central interests to be the concepts of truth and objectivity.
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By: Graham Bird
ISBN: 9780812695908
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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By: David Bzdak
ISBN: 9780812698237
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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By many accounts, HBO's The Wire was and remains the greatest and most important television drama of all time. The Wire was able to reveal the overlapping, criss-crossing, and colliding realities that shape - if not control - the people, institutions, and culture of the modern American city. This book celebrates this show's realism.
