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By: Nicholas Rescher

ISBN: 9780691603537
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This is the second of the three volumes of A System of Pragmatic Idealism, a series that will synthesize the life's work of the philosopher Nicholas Rescher. Rescher's numerous books and articles, which address almost every major philosophical topic, reflect a unified approach: the combination of pragmatism and idealism characteristic of his thinki


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By: Nicholas Rescher

ISBN: 9780691632841
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Nicholas Rescher

ISBN: 9780691636672
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Nicholas Rescher

ISBN: 9780691608198
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This is the third and final volume of A System of Pragmatic Idealism, a series that will synthesize the life's work of the philosopher Nicholas Rescher. Rescher's numerous books and articles, which address almost every major philosophical topic, reflect a unified approach: the combination of pragmatism and idealism characteristic of his thinking th


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By: Raymond Geuss

ISBN: 9780691169200
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Wishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking. Many influential ethical views depend on the optimistic assumption that, despite appearances to the contrary, the human and natural world in which we live could, eventually, be made to make sense to us. In A World without Why, Raymond


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By: John Kultgen

ISBN: 9780739188194
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book advocates for the United States to abolish nuclear weapons, arguing its necessity in terms of the harmful consequences of nuclear deterrence. Kultgen's argument is based on conceptions of human rights and is couched in terms accessible to the disciplines that address human affairs in the social sciences, history, arts, and humanities.


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By: David K. Chan

ISBN: 9781498519649
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Joseph Keim Campbell

ISBN: 9780262514842
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Leading philosophers explore responsibility from a variety of perspectives, including metaphysics, action theory, and philosophy of law.


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By: Jack A. Hill

ISBN: 9781498504577
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Part biography and part constructive ethical inquiry, this book is an original interpretation of the Scottish philosopher Adam Fergusons ethical method and view of ethical integrity, with an emphasis on his Analysis, Institutes, and Principles.


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By: John McHugh

ISBN: 9781350088573
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Jennifer Scuro

ISBN: 9781498540742
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book outlines the scale and scope of ableist bias, as it manifests both institutionally and intergenerationally. Ranging across disability studies, continental philosophy, and bioethics, the philosophical questions addressed in this work confront and resist ableism as it frames our world in uninhabitable and unsustainable ways.


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By: John J. Shea

ISBN: 9781498574785
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In Adulthood, Morality, and the Fully Human, John Shea examines what it means for someone to achieve full moral development or to become what he calls fully human. Shea highlights integrity, mutuality, care, and justice as core components of this process and depicts the effects of personal growth on education, psychotherapy, and spirituality.


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By: Hagop Sarkissian

ISBN: 9781472509383
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Hagop Sarkissian

ISBN: 9781474257121
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Thomas Nadelhoffer

ISBN: 9781350188129
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Thomas Nadelhoffer

ISBN: 9781350188082
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Alex Wiegmann

ISBN: 9781350377806
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: G. Elijah Dann

ISBN: 9780826489029
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Richard Rorty is regarded as something of a pariah in mainstream philosophical circles. In this book, the author takes seriously Rorty's writings, showing how, contrary to what many philosophers believe, he actually helps to enhance and enliven both the philosophy of religion and the chances for moral progress.


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By: G. Elijah Dann

ISBN: 9781441181442
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Trained by some of the most eminent philosophers of the 20th century, Richard Rorty has come to be one of the strongest critics of the philosophical tradition. This book considers the impact of Rorty's position on religious belief. It suggests that he helps to enhance and enliven both the philosophy of religion and the chances for moral progress.


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By: Simon Feldman

ISBN: 9780739182000
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Simon Feldman explores how the concept of authenticity has become an unrealistic ideal founded on metaphysically confused notions of the self. In Against Authenticity, Feldman argues for the validity and value of inauthenticity in our lives, providing an exciting challenge for studies of ethics, metaethics, metaphysics, and moral psychology.


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By: Simon Feldman

ISBN: 9781498506786
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Simon Feldman explores how the concept of authenticity has become an unrealistic ideal founded on metaphysically confused notions of the self. In Against Authenticity, Feldman argues for the validity and value of inauthenticity in our lives, providing an exciting challenge for studies of ethics, metaethics, metaphysics, and moral psychology.


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By: Henry Rosemont

ISBN: 9780739199800
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book is both a critique of the concept of the rights-holding, free, autonomous individual and attendant ideology dominant in the contemporary West, and an account of an alternative view, that of the role-bearing, interrelated responsible person of classical Confucianism, suitably modified for addressing the manifold problems of today.


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By: Henry Rosemont

ISBN: 9780739199824
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book is both a critique of the concept of the rights-holding, free, autonomous individual and attendant ideology dominant in the contemporary West, and an account of an alternative view, that of the role-bearing, interrelated responsible person of classical Confucianism, suitably modified for addressing the manifold problems of today.


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By: Bruce N. Waller

ISBN: 9780262553810
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2024
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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