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Scientists, ethicists, religious leaders and legal experts explore the benefits and costs of cloning. Topics include: is cloning against human nature; the separation of reproduction from human relationships; clones in medicine; eugenic/dysgenic and the cultural consequences of human cloning.

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Scientists, ethicists, religious leaders and legal experts explore the benefits and costs of cloning. Topics include: is cloning against human nature; the separation of reproduction from human relationships; clones in medicine; eugenic/dysgenic and the cultural consequences of human cloning.

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Professor Baier defends the view that both our reasoning and our intention-formation require a commons of mind, that is, the background existence of shared reasonings, intentions and actions. However she concludes that moral reflection, still in its infancy, is not assured with regard to morality.

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Traces the history of comparative religion

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Written by the most important scholars in contemporary Confucian studies, these approachable essays focus on the relevance of Confucius's ideas to modern living, with special attention given to the "Analects, " his seminal text. Topics covered include tradition and creativity, grief and mourning, the doctrine of correcting names, Confucian kungfu, and moral cultivation.

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An assortment of different points of view on conspiracy thinking and conspiracy theories, pro and con.

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A collection of 50 writings on diverse aspects of the transition to adulthood. The contributions include personal experiences, practical information about professional work, anthropological descriptions, mythic stories, and comments on social problems such as teenage pregnancy.

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Contains a selection of addresses given to the Parliament, including contributions by Protestant ministers, African Americans, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and other Asian religions. Also included are various "points of contact and contention", between counterparts in different traditions.

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This work faces up to the reality of death and demolishes some populart errors in our thinking about death. It examines the metaphors which can mislead us: death as parting; death as sleep; immortality as the denial of death; and selflessness as a kind of consolation.

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A collection of important writings on deflationism. A comparatively new approach, with its roots in the thinking of some early 20th-century philosophers, deflationism rejects all the traditional theories of truth. Contributors include Frege, Quine, Tarski, Ayer, Ramsey, Horwich and Schiffer.

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This work compares humans to other intelligent animals, drawing conclusions about human social life and our treatment of those whom it argues we should no longer call "disabled". It shows that humans are independent but they are also dependent animals who must learn in order to stay independent.

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Famous throughout the world, the "Doctor Who" series is the longest-running sci-fi TV show in history. This title covers such topics as: the Doctor's philosophy of science, the ethics of a universe with millions of intelligent species, what makes one life-form more important than another, whether time travellers can change history, and more.

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A selection of 25 articles on the question of drug legalization - chosen either because the editors consider them to be effectively argued, or because they are written by leaders of the debate and capture essential positions in a readable form.

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These essays present analyses of the central figures of analytical philosophy from the beginning of the analytic movement into the 1930's. The study does not reflect a single perspective, rather, it expresses diverse interpretations of this intellectual milieu.

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