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Book SynopsisThis truly philosophical book takes us back to fundamentals - the sheer experience of proof, and the enigmatic relation of mathematics to nature. It asks unexpected questions, such as 'what makes mathematics mathematics?', 'where did proof come from and how did it evolve?', and 'how did the distinction between pure and applied mathematics come into being?' In a wide-ranging discussion that is both immersed in the past and unusually attuned to the competing philosophical ideas of contemporary mathematicians, it shows that proof and other forms of mathematical exploration continue to be living, evolving practices - responsive to new technologies, yet embedded in permanent (and astonishing) facts about human beings. It distinguishes several distinct types of application of mathematics, and shows how each leads to a different philosophical conundrum. Here is a remarkable body of new philosophical thinking about proofs, applications, and other mathematical activities.Trade Review'Hacking does not restrict himself to the foundations of mathematics, but dares to cover both the breadth and the depth of mathematical philosophy.' Literary Review of Canada'… readable, presented in easily digestible chunks, clearly explained, and just a lot of fun …' Danny Yee's Book Reviews'Show[s] non-specialists … the sort of distinctive contribution to science and maths that a brilliant, very well-informed, philosopher can bring … I thoroughly recommend this book.' Alan Weir, The Times Literary Supplement'Hacking has composed a great overview of our understanding of mathematics and of the historical turning points and philosophical basics.' Peeter Müürsepp, Mathematical ReviewsTable of ContentsForeword; 1. A Cartesian introduction; 2. What makes mathematics mathematics?; 3. Why is there philosophy of mathematics?; 4. Proofs; 5. Applications; 6. In Plato's name; 7. Counter-Platonisms; Disclosures.

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Book SynopsisWhile Kant's philosophy of science is a growing field of study, his Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science has often been poorly understood. This volume will be an invaluable resource for understanding one of Kant's most difficult works, and will set the agenda for future scholarship on Kant's philosophy of science.

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Book SynopsisIn this Element, we extend our earlier treatment of biology''s first law. The law says that in any evolutionary system in which there is variation and heredity, there is a tendency for diversity and complexity to increase. The law plays the same role in biology that Newton''s first law plays in physics, explaining what biological systems are expected to do when no forces act, in other words, what happens when nothing happens. Here we offer a deeper explanation of certain features of the law, develop a quantitative version of it, and explore its consequences for our understanding of diversity and complexity.Table of Contents1. The Zero-Force Evolutionary Law; 2. What the ZFEL is not; 3. The ZFEL quantified; 4. What the ZFEL means for biology.

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Book SynopsisThis Element argues that aesthetics broadly conceived plays a significant role in Wittgenstein's philosophy. It traces a continuous line of thought pertaining to a non-conceptual form of encounter with reality and contributes to Wittgenstein's understanding of language and the method of philosophy throughout his career.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Wittgenstein's early philosophy; 3. The middle period; 4. From the brown book to the philosophical investigations; 5. Aesthetics and philosophy; References.

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Book SynopsisA contribution to the growing literature on desert in moral philosophy, this book both engages with contemporary literature and offers a new approach to understanding the concept and its relationship to justice. It will be an important resource for upper-level undergraduates and graduate researchers in moral and political philosophy.Trade Review'This is a gem of a book. Precise conceptual analysis, philosophical argumentation of the highest calibre, and incisive engagement with all of the leading authors on desert. It will be a valuable resource for readers in moral and political philosophy studying desert, justice and a host of other related concepts.' Kristján Kristjánsson, University of BirminghamTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Reviewing the Received Wisdom on Desert: 1. The work we expect desert to do; 2. How we came to have the concept 'desert'; 3. The scope of desert bases. Part II. An Alternative Model of Desert: 4. Stories that point beyond the three-place model of desert; 5. Setting another place for desert; 6. Getting exactly what one deserves; 7. The fullness of truth and the emptiness of desert; Concluding remarks.

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Book SynopsisSteven Luper explores what persons, species, organisms, and material objects are, and what it is to live and persist. After death or extinction, what could something become? Could it persist in another form? This metaphysical study gets to the heart of the deepest questions about the nature of life.

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Book SynopsisA philosophical look at the movie Inception and its brilliant metaphysical puzzles Is the top still spinning? Was it all a dream? In the world of Christopher Nolan''s four-time Academy Award-winning movie, people can share one another''s dreams and alter their beliefs and thoughts. Inception is a metaphysical heist film that raises more questions than it answers: Can we know what is real? Can you be held morally responsible for what you do in dreams? What is the nature of dreams, and what do they tell us about the boundaries of self and other? From Plato to Aristotle and from Descartes to Hume, Inception and Philosophy draws from important philosophical minds to shed new light on the movie''s captivating themes, including the one that everyone talks about: did the top fall down (and does it even matter)? Explores the movie''s key questions and themes, including how we can tell if we''re dreaming or awake, how to make sense of a paradox, and Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS: The Dream Team xi The Editor’s Totem: An Elegant Solution for Keeping Track of Reality 1 Introduction: Plato’s Academy Award 11 PART ONE WAS MAL RIGHT? WAS IT ALL JUST A DREAM?: MAKING SENSE OF INCEPTION 1 Was It All a Dream?: Why Nolan’s Answer Doesn’t Matter 17 Ruth Tallman 2 Let Me Put My Thoughts in You: It Was All Just a Dream 31 Jason Southworth 3 Even If It Is a Dream, We Should Still Care 46 Andrew Terjesen 4 The Unavoidable Dream Problem 62 James T. M. Miller PART TWO IS THE TOP STILL SPINNING?: TACKLING THE UNANSWERABLE QUESTION 5 The Parable of the Spinning Top: Skepticism, Angst, and Cobb’s Choice 77 Katherine Tullmann 6 Reality Doesn’t Really Matter 92 Dan Weijers 7 Why Care whether the Top Keeps Spinning? 108 Bart Engelen PART THREE IS INCEPTION POSSIBLE?: THE METAPHYSICS, ETHICS, AND MECHANICS OF INCEPTING 8 How to Hijack a Mind: Inception and the Ethics of Heist Films 125 Daniel P. Malloy 9 Inception, Teaching, and Hypnosis: The Ethics of Idea-Giving 140 Adam Barkman 10 Inception and Free Will: Are They Compatible? 152 John R. Fitzpatrick and David Kyle Johnson 11 Honor and Redemption in Corporate Espionage 166 Albert J. Chan PART FOUR WHAT IS DREAMING?: EXPLORING THE NATURE OF (SHARED) DREAMS (UPON DREAMS) 12 Shared Dreaming and Extended Minds 177 Ken Marable 13 Morally Responsible Dreaming: Your Mind Is the Scene of the Crime 187 Lance Belluomini 14 Dream Time: Inception and the Philosophy of Time 199 Michael J. Sigrist 15 Dreams and Possible Worlds: Inception and the Metaphysics of Modality 215 Charles Joshua Horn 16 Do Our Dreams Occur While We Sleep? 231 Keith Dromm PART FIVE SHOULD I TAKE A LEAP OF FAITH?: RELIGIOUS THEMES IN INCEPTION 17 Taking a Leap of Faith: A How-to Guide 249 David Kyle Johnson 18 Limbo, Utopia, and the Paradox of Idyllic Hope 265 Clint Jones 19 Unlocking the Vault of the Mind: Inception and Asian Philosophy 276 Scott Daniel Dunbar PART SIX WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?: FINDING THE HIDDEN LESSONS OF INCEPTION 20 Mal-Placed Regret 295 Kimberly Blessing 21 “You’re Just a Shade”: Knowing Others, and Yourself 310 Daniel Forbes 22 Paradox, Dreams, and Strange Loops in Inception 326 Tyler Shores APPENDIX : A Safe Full of Secrets: Hidden Gems You May Have Missed 343 CONTRIBUTORS: The Architects 363 INDEX: The PASIV (Plenary Alphabetized Subject Index for This Volume) Device 371

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Book SynopsisA lighthearted meditation on the philosophical quandaries of the hit television show The Big Bang Theory Ever wonder what Aristotle might say about the life Sheldon Cooper leads? Why Thomas Hobbes would applaud the roommate agreement? Who Immanuel Kant would treat with haughty derision for weaving un-unravelable webs? And?most importantly?whether Wil Wheaton is truly evil? Of course you have. Bazinga! This book mines the deep thinking of some of history''s most potent philosophical minds to explore your most pressing questions about The Big Bang Theory and its nerdy genius characters. You might find other philosophy books on science and cosmology, but only this one refers to Darth Vader Force-chokes, cloning Leonard Nimoy, and oompa-loompa-like engineers. Fo-shizzle. Gives you irresistibly geek-worthy insights on your favorite Big Bang Theory characters, story lines, and ideas Examines important themes involving ethicsTrade Review“If you’re looking for a straight discussion of philosophy try reading Frederick Copleston’s The History of Philosophy, but if you’re open to learning in a fun environment try this book. Just remember that this book is first of all a study of philosophy geared to the non-specialist. The by-product of the book is that you will deepen your understanding of and engagement with the characters in these shows.” (Ponderings on a Faith Journey, 10 August 2012) Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: “Unraveling the Mysteries” 1 Part One “It All Began On A Warm Summer’s Evening In Greece”: Aristotelian Insights 1 Aristotle on Sheldon Cooper: Ancient Greek Meets Modern Geek 7Greg Littmann 2 “You’re a Sucky, Sucky Friend”: Seeking Aristotelian Friendship in The Big Bang Theory 21Dean A. Kowalski 3 The Big Bang Theory on the Use and Abuse of Modern Technology 35Kenneth Wayne Sayles III Part Two “Is It Wrong To Say I Love Our Killer Robot?”: Ethics And Virtue 4 Feeling Bad about Feeling Good: Is It Morally Wrong to Laugh at Sheldon? 51W. Scott Clifton 5 . . . But Is Wil Wheaton Evil? 65Donna Marie Smith 6 Do We Need a Roommate Agreement?: Pleasure, Selfishness, and Virtue in The Big Bang Theory 80Gregory L. Bock and Jeffrey L. Bock Part Three “Perhaps You Mean A Different Thing Than I Do When You Say ‘Science’”: Science, Scientism, And Religion 7 Getting Fundamental about Doing Physics in The Big Bang Theory 99Jonathan Lawhead 8 Sheldon, Leonard, and Leslie: The Three Faces of Quantum Gravity 112Andrew Zimmerman Jones 9 The One Paradigm to Rule Them All: Scientism and The Big Bang Theory 128Massimo Pigliucci 10 Cooper Considerations: Science, Religion, and Family 144Adam Barkman and Dean A. Kowalski Part Four “I Need Your Opinion On A Matter Of Semiotics”: Language And Meaning 11 Wittgenstein and Language Games in The Big Bang Theory 161Janelle Pötzsch 12 “I’m Afraid You Couldn’t Be More Wrong!”: Sheldon and Being Right about Being Wrong 175Adolfas Mackonis 13 The Cooper Conundrum: Good Lord, Who’s Tolerating Whom? 189Ruth E. Lowe 14 The Mendacity Bifurcation 203Don Fallis Part Five “The Human Experience That Has Always Eluded Me”: The Human Condition 15 Mothers and Sons of The Big Bang Theory 219Ashley Barkman 16 Penny, Sheldon, and Personal Growth through Difference 233Nicholas G. Evans 17 Deconstructing the Women of The Big Bang Theory: So Much More Than Girlfriends 244Mark D. White and Maryanne L. Fisher The Episode Compendium: “Hey, It’s a Big Menu—There’s Two Pages Just for Desserts” 257 Contributors:“But If We Were Part of the Team . . . We Could Drink for Free in Any Bar in Any College Town” 261 Index: “Cornucopia . . . Let’s Make That Our Word of the Day” 267

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Book SynopsisCelebrate the Dude with an abiding look at the philosophy behind The Big Lebowski Is the Dude a bowling-loving stoner or a philosophical genius living the good life? Naturally, it's the latter, and The Big Lebowski and Philosophy explains why.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Thanks to Some Real Achievers xi Introduction: Sometimes There’s a Film 1 PART ONE FIRST ROUND ROBIN: TYING IT ALL TOGETHER, OR NOT 1. What Would the Dude Do? Deconstructing the Dude 7 Joseph A. Zeccardi and Hilda H. Ma 2. The Big Lebowski and Mathematical Logic 24 Craig Jackson PART TWO SECOND ROUND ROBIN: THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION, OR FROM SOCRATES TO SANDY KOUFAX 3. The Dude Abides, but Does He Flourish? 39 Jason T. Eberl 4. “Man Down!”: Aristotle, Epicurus, and the Dude on Friendship and Solidarity 55 Ian O’Loughlin 5. Epicurus and “Contented Poverty”: The Big Lebowski as Epicurean Parable 67 Morgan Rempel 6. Buddhism, Daoism, and Dudeism 79 Joseph J. Lynch PART THREE THIRD ROUND ROBIN: OVER THE LINE! 7. Drawing a Line in the Sand: Rules of Aggression in The Big Lebowski 93 David Svolba and Adam Betz 8. “That Ain’t Legal Either”: Rules, Virtue, and Authenticity in The Big Lebowski 106 Troy Jollimore and Robert C. Jones PART FOUR FOURTH ROUND ROBIN: NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF 9. Bowling Our Way out of Nihilism 123 Jeffery Nicholas 10. Existentialism, Absurdity, and The Big Lebowski 136 Bryan N. Baird 11. Bowling, Despair, and American Nihilism 147 Evan Brown and Peter S. Fosl PART FIVE FIFTH ROUND ROBIN: WHAT MAKES A DUDE? 12. The Big Lebowski’s Oedipal Complex 161 Roger Hunt 13. In the Dude, I Abide: Being an Achiever at Lebowski Fest 174 Julie Dufort and Roseline Lemire-Cadieux 14. “Mr. Treehorn Treats Objects Like Women, Man”: The Dude as Feminist Ally 190 Ben Almassi 15. “Well, I Do Work, Sir”: The Dude and the Value of Sloth 207 Nicolas Michaud PART SIX SIXTH ROUND ROBIN: MARK IT ZERO! 16. “Am I Wrong?”: Walter’s Will to Believe 221 Daniel P. Malloy 17. “That’s Just Like, Uh, Your Opinion, Man”: Jesus, the Dude, and Ordinary Language Philosophy 237 Reuben Stern and Sam Wilkinson PART SEVEN SEVENTH ROUND ROBIN: LIVIN’ IN THE PAST 18. Hippies, Jews, and the Philosophy of Memory 251 Clancy Smith 19. “I Don’t Roll on Shabbas!”: Jewish Identity and the Meaning of History in The Big Lebowski 262 Joseph A. Edelheit CONTRIBUTORS: The Rest of the Dude’s Bowling Team 275 INDEX: Little of This, Little of That 283

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth look at the philosophical issues behind HBO''s Game of Thrones television series and the books that inspired it George R.R. Martin''s New York Times bestselling epic fantasy book series, A Song of Ice and Fire, and the HBO television show adapted from it, have earned critical acclaim and inspired fanatic devotion. This book delves into the many philosophical questions that arise in this complex, character-driven series, including: Is it right for a good king to usurp the throne of a bad one and murder his family? How far should you go to protect your family and its secrets? In a fantasy universe with medieval mores and ethics, can female characters reflect modern feminist ideals? Timed for the premiere of the second season of the HBO Game of Thrones series Gives new perspectives on the characters, storylines, and themes of Game of Thrones Draws on great philosophers from ancient Greece to modern America tTable of ContentsFOREWORD by Elio M. Garcia and Linda Antonsson ix A RAVE N FROM HOUSE WI LEY: Editor’s Note on Spoilers xiii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: How I Was Spared from Having to Take the Black xv Introduction: So What if Winter Is Coming? 1Henry Jacoby PART ONE “YOU WIN OR YOU DIE” 1 Maester Hobbes Goes to King’s Landing 5Greg Littmann 2 It Is a Great Crime to Lie to a King 19Don Fallis 3 Playing the Game of Thrones: Some Lessons from Machiavelli 33Marcus Schulzke 4 The War in Westeros and Just War Theory 49Richard H. Corrigan PART TWO “THE THINGS I DO FOR LOVE” 5 Winter Is Coming!: The Bleak Quest for Happiness in Westeros 63Eric J. Silverman 6 The Death of Lord Stark: The Perils of Idealism 75David Hahn 7 Lord Eddard Stark, Queen Cersei Lannister: Moral Judgments from Different Perspectives 87Albert J. J. Anglberger and Alexander Hieke 8 It Would Be a Mercy: Choosing Life or Death in Westeros and Beyond the Narrow Sea 99Matthew Tedesco PART THREE “WINTER IS COMING” 9 Wargs, Wights, and Wolves That Are Dire: Mind and Metaphysics, Westeros Style 115Henry Jacoby 10 Magic, Science, and Metaphysics in A Game of Thrones 129Edward Cox 11 “You Know Nothing, Jon Snow”: Epistemic Humility Beyond the Wall 142Abraham P. Schwab 12 “Why Is the World So Full of Injustice?”: Gods and the Problem of Evil 154Jaron Daniël Schoone PART FOUR “THE MAN WHO PASSES THE SENTENCE SHOULD SWING THE SWORD” 13 Why Should Joffrey Be Moral If He Has Already Won the Game of Thrones? 169Daniel Haas 14 The Moral Luck of Tyrion Lannister 183Christopher Robichaud 15 Dany’s Encounter with the Wild: Cultural Relativism in A Game of Thrones 194Katherine Tullman 16 “There Are No True Knights”: The Injustice of Chivalry 205Stacey Goguen PART FIVE “STICK THEM WITH THE POINTY END” 17 Fate, Freedom, and Authenticity in A Game of Thrones 223Michael J. Sigrist 18 No One Dances the Water Dance 236Henry Jacoby 19 The Things I Do For Love: Sex, Lies, and Game Theory 250R. Shannon Duval 20 Stop the Madness!: Knowledge, Power, and Insanity in A Song of Ice and Fire 264Chad William Timm CONTRIBUTORS: The Learned Lords and Ladies from beyond the Seven Kingdoms 279 INDEX: From the Archives at Oldtown 287

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Book SynopsisBrains before bullets ancient and modern wisdom for mechanics and motorcycle enthusiasts Essential reading for fans of the show, this book takes readers deeper into the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, the Teller-Morrow family, and the ethics that surround their lives and activities.Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Gotta Look This Life in the Eye” viii Acknowledgments: Thanks to the Reaper Crew x Part I “An Equal Mix of Might and Right”: Ethics at 92 mph 1 1 Virtue and Vice in the SAMCROpolis: Aristotle Views Sons of Anarchy 3 Jason T. Eberl 2 A Prospect’s Guide to Nietzsche 16 Tim Jung and Minerva Ahumada 3 Tig Needs an Escort Home: Is Loyalty a Virtue? 29 James Edwin Mahon 4 A Saint among the Sons: Aquinas on Murder and the Men of Mayhem 38 Randall M. Jensen Part II “Off the Social Grid”: The Politics of Mayhem 51 5 SAMCRO versus the Leviathan: Laying Down the (Motor)Cycle of Violence 53 George A. Dunn 6 “The Rat Prince” and The Prince: The Machiavellian Politics of the MC 65 Timothy M. Dale and Joseph J. Foy 7 Chaos and Order: Anarchy in the MC 73 Bruno de Brito Serra 8 “Another Fun-Filled Day in the Six Counties”: The Real IRA—Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? 85 Philip Smolenski 9 SAMCRO Goes to War 94 Alex Leveringhaus Part III “The Concept Was Pure, Simple, True”: Biker Identity and Meaning 105 10 My Skin, My Self: SAMCRO’s Ink and Personal Identity 107 Charlene Elsby 11 The Faith of Our Sons and the Tragic Quest 117 Kevin Corn 12 Once a Biker Slut, Always a Biker Slut: Narrative Identity in Charming 128 Minerva Ahumada and Tim Jung 13 SAMCRO and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 139 Massimiliano L. Cappuccio Part IV “The Passion in His Heart and the Reason in His Mind”: Sex, Love, and Gender 151 14 Sometimes a Motorcycle Is Just a Motorcycle: Freud and Hamlet Come to Charming 153 Andrea Zanin 15 When a Charming Woman Speaks 165 Leslie A. Aarons 16 Mothers of Anarchy: Power, Control, and Care in the Feminine Sphere 175 Leigh C. Kolb Part V “Each Savage Event Was a Catalyst for the Next”: The Historic and the Homeric 187 17 Sons of History: How SAMCRO Lost and Found Its Way 189 Peter S. Fosl 18 Anarchism and Authenticity, or Why SAMCRO Shouldn’t Fight History 201 Peter S. Fosl 19 Good Old Fashioned Mayhem 214 Greg Littmann 20 The Road Out of Mayhem 225 Greg Littmann Contributors: Philosophers of Mayhem 237 List of Episodes: The Life (and Death?) of Sam Crow 243 Index 246

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPrefaces to First and Second Edition ix Sources and Acknowledgements xiii Introduction 1 1 Doubt 7 Introduction to the Problem 7 Introduction to Descartes 8Rene Descartes, ‘First Meditation: What Can Be Called into Doubt’ 9 Commentary on Descartes 12 Introduction to Moore 17G. E. Moore, ‘Proof of an External World’ (extracts) 18 Commentary on Moore 21 2 Self 27 Introduction to the Problem 27 Introduction to Descartes 28Rene Descartes, ‘Second Meditation: Of the Nature of the Human Mind…’ (extract) 29 Commentary on Descartes 32 Introduction to Ryle 35Gilbert Ryle, ‘Descartes’ Myth’ 36 Commentary on Ryle 45 3 Tragedy 51 Introduction to the Problem 51 Introduction to Hume 52David Hume, ‘Of Tragedy’ 53 Commentary on Hume 58 Introduction to Feagin 63Susan L. Feagin, ‘The Pleasures of Tragedy’ 64 Commentary on Feagin 72 4 Dilemma 77 Introduction to the Problem 77 Introduction to Lemmon 80E. J. Lemmon, ‘Moral Dilemmas’ (extract) 80 Commentary on Lemmon 85 Introduction to Foot 89Philippa Foot, ‘Moral Dilemmas Revisited’ (extracts) 89 Commentary on Foot 94 Introduction to Nussbaum 100Martha C. Nussbaum, ‘The Costs of Tragedy: Some Moral Limits of Cost‐Benefit Analysis’ (extract) 100 Commentary on Nussbaum 113 5 Friendship 119 Introduction to the Problem 119 Introduction to Aristotle 121Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII (extracts) 121 Commentary on Aristotle 124 Introduction to Stroud 129Sarah Stroud, ‘Epistemic Partiality in Friendship’ (extracts) 129 Commentary on Stroud 142 6 Equality 149 Introduction to the Problem 149 Introduction to Williams 150Bernard Williams, ‘The Idea of Equality’ (extracts) 150 Commentary on Williams 165 Introduction to Nozick 173Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia (extracts) 173 Commentary on Nozick 178 7 Identity 183 Introduction to the Problem 183 Introduction to Locke 186John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (extracts) 187 Commentary on Locke 194 Introduction to Williams 199Bernard Williams, ‘The Self and the Future’ 199 Commentary on Williams 213 8 Freedom 219 Introduction to the Problem 219 Introduction to Schopenhauer 220Arthur Schopenhauer, Prize Essay on the Freedom of the Will (extracts) 220 Commentary on Schopenhauer 233 Introduction to Wolf 237Susan Wolf, ‘Asymmetrical Freedom’ (extract) 238 Commentary on Wolf 245 9 Consciousness 253 Introduction to the Problem 253 Introduction to Nagel 254Thomas Nagel, ‘What Is It Like to Be a Bat?’ (extracts) 255 Commentary on Nagel 262 Introduction to Churchland 266Patricia Churchland, ‘The Hornswoggle Problem’ (extracts) 267 Commentary on Churchland 274 10 Causality 279 Introduction to the Problem 279 Introduction to Hume 280David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I (extracts from Part III) 282 Commentary on Hume 291 Introduction to Anscombe 300G. E. M. Anscombe, ‘Causality and Determination’ (extract) 300 Commentary on Anscombe 307 11 Qualities 313 Introduction to Some Problems 313 Introduction to Boyle and Locke 315Robert Boyle, The Origin of Forms and Qualities (extracts) 316 Commentary on Boyle 318John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (extract from Book II, Chapter VIII) 322 Commentary on Locke 328 Introduction to Berkeley 332George Berkeley, The Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (extracts) 333 Commentary on Berkeley 338 Further Reading and Resources 345 Index 351

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Book SynopsisThe Atlas of REALITY The Atlas of Reality: A Comprehensive Guide to Metaphysics presents an extensive examination of the key concepts, principles, and arguments of metaphysics, traditionally the very core of philosophical thought. Representing the first exhaustive survey of metaphysics available, the book draws from historic sources while presenting the latest cutting-edge research in the field. Seminal works of philosophers such as David Lewis, Alvin Plantinga, Kit Fine, Peter van Inwagen, John Hawthorne and many others are covered in depth, without neglecting the critical contributions of historical figures like René Descartes, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Bertrand Russell, and more. Written in an accessible manner without sacrificing rigor, readers at all levels will gain illuminating insights into metaphysical topics ranging from the problem of universals, individuation and composition, and relations and qualities, to time, space, causation, existence, modality, and idealism. The autTable of ContentsAcknowledgements xvii Part I Foundations 1 Introduction 3 1.1 A Brief History of Metaphysics 3 1.2 Why Do Metaphysics? 5 1.3 How to Use the Book 9 2 Truthmakers 13 2.1 Introduction 13 2.2 Five Arguments for Classical Truthmaker Theory 19 2.3 The Challenge of Deflationism 25 2.4 Truthmaker Maximalism 30 2.5 Alternatives to Truthmaker Maximalism 36 2.6 Conclusion and Preview 44 Notes 45 3 Grounding, Ontological Dependence, and Fundamentality 47 3.1 Is Grounding Real? 49 3.2 Relation between Grounding and Truthmaking 55 3.3 Relation between Grounding and Ontological Dependence 58 3.4 Conceptual vs. Extra-Conceptual Grounding 62 3.5 Alternatives to Grounding? 65 3.6 Can Grounding Relations be Grounded? 69 3.7 Connections between Grounding and Entailment 71 3.8 How is Grounding Different from Causal Explanation? 72 3.9 Conclusion: Grounding and Ontological Economy 72 Notes 73 Part II Dispositions 4 Conditionals 77 4.1 Counterfactual Conditionals: Semantics, Logic, and Metaphysics 78 4.2 Hypotheticalism 84 4.3 Anti-Hypotheticalism and Laws of Nature 86 4.4 Strong Hypotheticalism: Counterfactual Accounts of Powers and Dispositions 90 Notes 92 5 Laws of Nature 94 5.1 Strong Nomism: The Dretske-Armstrong-Tooley (DAT) Theory of Laws 94 5.2 Neo-Humeism: Reduction of Conditionals, Laws, and Powers 99 Notes 105 6 Powers and Properties 106 6.1 Advantages of Strong Powerism 106 6.2 The Individuation of Properties 108 6.3 Objections to Strong Powerism 118 6.4 Conclusion 121 Notes 121 Part III Universals and Particulars 7 Universals 125 7.1 Introduction 125 7.1.1 What properties must explain 126 7.2 Realism 128 7.3 Universals and the Problem of Intentionality 142 7.4 Properties as the Ground of Causal Powers 145 Notes 145 8 Reductive Nominalism and Trope Theory 147 8.1 Reductive Nominalism 147 8.2 Trope Theory 165 8.3 Conclusion 169 Notes 169 9 Particulars and the Problem of Individuation 171 9.1 Introduction 171 9.2 Facts 172 9.3 Substances 175 Notes 200 10 Relations, Structures, and Quantities 201 10.1 Accounts of Relational Facts 201 10.2 Non-Symmetrical Relations and the Problem of Order 206 10.3 Structural Universals and Constituent Ontology 215 10.4 Determinables, Quantities, and Real Numbers 219 10.5 Conclusion and Preview 225 Notes 225 Part IV The Nature of Reality 11 Nihilism and Monism 229 11.1 Nihilism and Aliquidism 229 11.2 Monism 237 Note 252 12 The Non-Existent and the Vaguely Existing 253 12.1 Does Everything Exist? 253 12.2 Ontic Vagueness 271 12.3 Conclusion 280 13 Solipsism, Idealism, and the Problem of Perception 281 13.1 Defining the Mental and the External 282 13.2 Solipsism and Phenomenalism 284 13.3 Theories of Perception 286 13.4 Arguments against Phenomenalism 306 13.5 Arguments against Solipsism 309 13.6 Conclusion and Preview 312 Notes 313 Part V Modality 14 Possibility, Necessity, and Actuality: Concretism 317 14.1 Introduction 317 14.2 Concretism:Worlds as Universes 321 14.3 Problems for Concretism 327 14.4 Conclusion 331 Note 331 15 Abstractionism:Worlds as Representations 332 15.1 Magical Abstractionism 333 15.2 Structural Abstractionism 341 15.3 Aristotelian Theories of Possibility 348 15.4 Conclusion 350 Note 351 16 De Re Modality and Modal Knowledge 352 16.1 Modality De Re: Transworld Identity and Counterpart Theory 352 16.2 Modality and Epistemology: Possibility and Conceivability 363 16.3 Conclusion 369 Notes 369 Part VI Space and Time 17 Is Space Merely Relational? 373 17.1 The Nature of Location 373 17.2 Spatial Substantivalism 375 17.3 Spatial Relationism 381 17.4 Absences and Vacuums 386 17.5 Conclusion 388 Notes 389 18 Structure of Space: Points vs. Regions 390 18.1 Constructing Points from Regions 391 18.2 Points vs. Regions 394 18.3 Arguments against Points as Fundamental 397 18.4 Voluminism vs. Volume-Boundary Dualism 408 18.5 Conclusion 414 Note 414 19 The Structure of Time 415 19.1 Is Time Composed of Instants or Intervals? 415 19.2 Instants as Dependent Entities 425 19.3 Does Time have a Beginning? 427 19.4 Conclusion 429 20 Time’s Passage 430 20.1 Tensers and Anti-Tensers 432 20.2 Varieties of Anti-Tensism 435 20.3 Varieties of Tensism 437 20.4 Presentism 439 20.5 Arguments for Tensism 442 20.6 Conclusion 456 Note 457 21 Arguments for Anti-Tensism 458 21.1 How Fast Does Time Flow? 458 21.2 Truthmakers for Truths about the Past 461 21.3 The Theory of Relativity 469 21.4 Epistemological Problems for Tensism 473 21.5 McTaggart’s Paradox 474 21.6 Brute Necessities of Time 476 21.7 Conclusion 478 Part VII Unity 22 Material Composition: The Special Question 481 22.1 The Existence of Composite Things 482 22.2 Are Composite Things an “Ontological Free Lunch”? 482 22.3 Redundancy 485 22.4 Fundamental Heaps 490 22.5 Fundamental Artifacts 497 22.6 Living Organisms vs. Mereological Nihilism 499 22.7 Finding an Intelligible Principle of Composition 504 Notes 513 23 Composition: The General Question 514 23.1 Formal Mereology: Le´sniewski, Goodman, and Leonard 514 23.2 Three (or Four) Answers to the General Composition Question 518 23.3 Accounting for the Correct Principles of Mereology 523 23.4 Parthood and Truthmaking 529 Notes 530 24 Change and Persistence 531 24.1 Does Anything Change? Does Anything Persist? 532 24.2 How Objects Change Properties: Substratism vs. Replacementism 537 24.3 The Metaphysics of Motion 551 Notes 554 25 The Persistence of Composite Things 555 25.1 Mereological Constancy and Inconstancy 556 25.2 Coincident Things 564 25.3 Conclusion 573 Note 574 Part VIII Causation 26 The Existence and Scope of Causation 577 26.1 Are there Causes? 577 26.2 The Scope of Causation 583 Note 589 27 Causation: A Relation between Things or Truths? 591 27.1 Causal Explanationism 592 27.2 Causal Connectionism 605 Notes 611 28 Discrete and Continuous Causation 613 28.1 Is All Causation Discrete? 614 28.2 The Nature of Discrete Causation 614 28.3 Is All Causation Continuous? 616 28.4 The Nature of Continuous Processes 618 28.5 Processes and the Direction of Continuous Causation 621 28.6 Are Processes an Exception to Hume’s Epistemic Principle? 622 28.7 Conclusion: The Consequences of Causation 623 Notes 623 29 Conclusion: The Four Packages 624 Appendix A 633 Appendix B 651 References 655 Index 671

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Book SynopsisThe revised and updated edition of Goodin and Pettit's highly-acclaimed contemporary political philosophy anthology, bringing together the field's most important readings in a single volume Unparalleled in the breadth and scope of its coverage, this newly-revised third edition traces the evolution of political philosophy as a contemporary practice, and raises important questions about the impact of current political events. Fully updated to include 49 contemporary and classic selections from the most distinguished scholars in political philosophy Offers expanded coverage of international affairs and political oppression Includes essays which represent a diversity of political and ideological positions, and features interdisciplinary voices in politics, law, and economics Edited by two of the field's most highly-respected scholars The ideal collection of primary readings to accompany the Companion to Contemporary PolitTable of ContentsPreface ix Part I Doing Political Philosophy 1 1 Realism and Moralism in Political Theory 3 Bernard Williams 2 What Do We Want from a Theory of Justice? 13 Amartya Sen 3 Utopophobia 26 David Estlund 4 Political Political Theory: An Inaugural Lecture 37 Jeremy Waldron Part II State and Society 53 5 The State 55 Quentin Skinner 6 State Simplification 77 James C. Scott 7 The Liberal State 105 Catharine A. Mackinnon 8 The Market and the Forum: Three Varieties of Political Theory 116 Jon Elster 9 Invoking Civil Society 130 Charles Taylor Part III Democracy 141 10 The Public Sphere 143 Jürgen Habermas 11 Procedural Democracy 147 Robert A. Dahl 12 Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy 165 Joshua Cohen 13 Dealing with Difference: A Politics of Ideas or a Politics of Presence? 177 Anne Phillips 14 A “Selection Model” of Political Representation 188 Jane Mansbridge Part IV Justice 207 15 Justice as Fairness 209 John Rawls 16 Nozick’s Entitlements 224 Onora O’neill 17 Justice Engendered 233 Martha Minow 18 Political Responsibility and Structural Injustice 253 Iris Marion Young 19 Superseding Historic Injustice 263 Jeremy Waldron Part V Rights 279 20 Are There Any Natural Rights? 281 H. L. A. Hart 21 Taking Rights Seriously 289 Ronald M. Dworkin 22 Basic Rights 301 Henry Shue 23 The Dark Side of Human Rights 315 Onora O’neill 24 A Defense of Abortion 324 Judith Jarvis Thomson 25 Justice and Minority Rights 334 Will Kymlicka Part VI Liberty 357 26 Two Concepts of Liberty 359 Isaiah Berlin 27 What’s Wrong with Negative Liberty? 376 Charles Taylor 28 A Third Concept of Liberty 386 Quentin Skinner 29 Libertarian Paternalism 403 Richard H. Thaler And Cass R. Sunstein 30 Political Liberalism and Religion: On Separation and Establishment 408 Cécile Laborde Part VII Equality 421 31 Complex Equality 423 Michael Walzer 32 Equality of What? 439 Amartya Sen 33 Equality and Priority 450 Derek Parfit 34 Chance, Choice, and Justice 461 Brian Barry 35 What Is the Point of Equality? 471 Elizabeth S. Anderson Part VIII Oppression 501 36 Power, Right, Truth 503 Michel Foucault 37 The Domination Contract 511 Charles Mills 38 Race, Sex, and Indifference 525 Carole Pateman 39 Respecting Beliefs and Rebuking Rushdie 545 Peter Jones 40 The Structure of Proletarian Unfreedom 561 G. A. Cohen 41 What’s Wrong with Colonialism 577 Lea Ypi Part IX International Affairs 595 42 Just War: The Case of World War II 597 G. E. M. Anscombe 43 National Self‐determination 609 Avishai Margalit and Joseph Raz 44 The Ethical Significance of Nationality 622 David Miller 45 The Romance of the Nation‐State 632 David Luban 46 Democracy: From City‐States to a Cosmopolitan Order? 636 David Held 47 Transnationalizing the Public Sphere: On the Legitimacy and Efficacy of Public Opinion in a Postwestphalian World 658 Nancy Fraser 48 Migration and Poverty 672 Thomas Pogge 49 Humanity and Justice in Global Perspective 682 Brian Barry Index 697

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Book SynopsisThe work of Simone de Beauvoir has endured and flowered in the last two decades, thanks primarily to the lasting influence of The Second Sex on the rise of academic discussions of gender, sexuality, and old age. Now, in this new Companion dedicated to her life and writings, an international assembly of prominent scholars, essayists, and leading interpreters reflect upon the range of Beauvoir's contribution to philosophy as one of the great authors, thinkers, and public intellectuals of the twentieth century. The Companion examines Beauvoir's rich intellectual life from a variety of anglesincluding literary, historical, and anthropological perspectivesand situates her in relation to her forbears and contemporaries in the philosophical canon. Essays in each of four thematic sections reveal the breadth and acuity of her insight, from the significance of The Second Sex and her work on the metaphysics of gender to her plentiful contributions in ethics a

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Book SynopsisA philosophical look at the twisted, high-tech near-future of the sci-fi anthology seriesBlack Mirror, offering a glimpse of the darkest reflections of the human condition in digital technology Black Mirror?the Emmy-winning Netflix series that holds up a dark, digital mirror of speculative technologies to modern societyshows us a high-tech world where it is all too easy to fall victim to ever-evolving forms of social control.In Black Mirror and Philosophy, original essays written by a diverse group of scholars invite you to peer into the void and explore the philosophical, ethical, and existential dimensions of Charlie Brooker's sinister stories. The collection reflects Black Mirror's anthology structure by pairing a chapter with every episode in the show's five seasonsincluding an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure analysis of Bandersnatchand concludes with general essays that explore the series' broader themes. Chapters address Table of ContentsContibutors xi The Black Mirror Multiverse: An Editor’s Note xxiii Introduction 1 Black Mirror: What Science Fiction Does Best 3David Kyle Johnson, with Leander P. Marquez, and Sergio Urueña Season 1 9 1 The National Anthem and Weighing Moral Obligations: Is It Ever OK to F*ck a Pig? 11Brian J. Collins with Brandon Boesch 2 Fifteen Million Merits and Fighting Capitalism: How Can We Resist? 20Chris Byron with Matthew Brake 3 The Entire History of You and Knowing Too Much: Should You Want the Grain? 29Gregor Balke and Bart Engelen Season 2 39 4 Be Right Back and Rejecting Tragedy: Would You Bring Back Your Deceased Loved One? 41Bradley Richards 5 White Bear and Criminal Punishment: How Far is too Far? 50Sid Simpson with Chris Lay 6 The Waldo Moment and Political Discourse: What’s Wrong with Disrespect in Politics? 59Greg Littmann The Christmas Special 69 7 White Christmas and Technological Restraining Orders: Are Digital Blocks Ethical? 71Cansu Canca and Laura Haaber Ihle Season 3 81 8 Nosedive and the Anxieties of Social Media: Is the Future Already Here? 83Sergio Urueña and Nonna Melikyan 9 Playtest and the Power of Virtual Reality: Are Our Fears Real? 92Claire Benn 10 Shut Up and Dance and Vigilante Justice: Should We Ever Take the Law into Our Own Hands? 101Juliele Maria Sievers and Luiz Henrique da Silva Santos 11 San Junipero and the Digital Afterlife: Could Heaven be a Place on Earth? 109James Cook 12 Men Against Fire and Political Manipulation: How Are We Tricked into Dehumanizing Others? 118Bertha Alvarez Manninen 13 Hated in the Nation and #DeathTo: What are the Consequences of Trial by Twitter? 128Aline Maya Season 4 141 14 USS Callister and Non‐Player Characters: How Should We Act in Video Games? 143Russ Hamer with Steven Gubka 15 Arkangel and Parental Surveillance: What are a Parent’s Obligations? 151Catherine Villanueva Gardner with Alexander Christian 16 Crocodile and the Ethics of Self Preservation: How Far is Too Far? 160Darci Doll 17 Hang the DJ and Digital Dating: Should We Use Computers to Help Us Find Mates? 168Skye C. Cleary and Massimo Pigliucci 18 Metalhead and Technophobia: How Dangerous Will Robots Be? 177Scott Midson with Justin Donhauser 19 Black Museum and Righting Wrongs: Should We Seek Revenge? 187Gregory L. Bock, Jeffrey L. Bock, and Kora Smith Bandersnatch 197 20 Bandersnatch: A Choose‐Your‐Own Philosophical Adventure 199Chris Lay and David Kyle Johnson Season 5 239 21 Striking Vipers and Closed Doors: How Meaningful Are Sexual Fantasies? 241Darren M. Slade 22 Smithereens and the Economy of Attention: Are We All Dopamine Addicts? 251Pierluca D’Amato 23 Empathy, Emulation and Ashley Too: Can a Robot Be a Friend? 260George A. Dunn Black Mirror Reflections 271 24 Consciousness Technology in Black Mirror: Do Cookies Feel Pain? 273David Gamez with David Kyle Johnson 25 Personal Identity in Black Mirror: Is Your Cookie You? 282Molly Gardner and Robert Sloane 26 Death in Black Mirror: How Should We Deal with Our Mortality? 292Edwardo Pérez and Sergio Genovesi 27 Love in Black Mirror: Who Do We Really Love? 301Robert Grant Price 28 Perception in Black Mirror: Who Controls What You See? 311Brian Stiltner and Anna Vaughn 29 The Dangers of Technology in Black Mirror: A Dialogue between Uploaded Dead Philosophers 320Ben Springett with Luiz Adriano Borges Conclusion 333 30 Black Mirror in the Future: Will We Still be Watching? 335Geoffrey A. Mitelman Appendix: How to Use This Book in the Classroom 338 Index 340

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Book SynopsisTHIS IS PHILOSOPHY The second edition of This is Philosophy improves upon an excellent first edition. This clear, succinct book is quite possibly the best introduction to Western philosophy on the market. Gregory Morgan, Stevens Institute of TechnologyThis is a terrific book. The writing is not only extremely clear, it is downright grippingwith relevant and detailed examples at every turn. Steven Hales has produced not just a great little introduction to philosophyhe has produced a great little book in philosophy, period. Michael Lynch, University of ConnecticutHales clearly explains important philosophical ideas with a minimum of jargon and without sacrificing depth of content and he consistently gives a fair and accurate presentation of both sides of central philosophical disputes. Matthew Van Cleave, Teaching PhilosophyAs the oldest discipline in the academy, philosophy began by asking questions of the world and of human natTable of ContentsPreface for Instructors x Preface for Students xiv Acknowledgments xvi 1 Ethics: Preliminary Views 1 1.1 Is Morality Just Acting on Principles? 3 1.2 Divine Command Theory (Is Morality Just What God Tells Me to Do?) 6 1.3 Egoism (Is Morality Just My Own Personal Code?) 10 1.4 Moral Relativism (Is Morality Just How Society Says We Should Act?) 18 2 Ethics: The Big Three Theories 27 2.1 Utilitarianism (Is Morality Doing What I Can to Make This the Best World Possible?) 27 2.2 Deontology, or Kantianism (Is There an Absolute Moral Law?) 42 2.3 Objections 48 2.4 Virtue Ethics (Is Morality all about Having a Virtuous Character?) 52 2.5 Objections 54 3 God 62 3.1 The Attributes of God 64 3.2 Why There is a God 66 3.3 Why There is No God 93 3.4 Atheist Responses to the Free Will Defense 102 4 Freedom 111 4.1 Against Free Will, Part 1: Divine Foreknowledge 114 4.2 Against Free Will, Part 2: A Regress of Reasons for Acting 117 4.3 Against Free Will, Part 3: Determinism and the Dilemma Argument 123 4.4 The Incompatibilist Argument 126 4.5 The Dilemma Argument Against Free Will 129 4.6 Free Will and Moral Responsibility 129 4.7 Agent Causation 133 4.8 Compatibilism 135 4.9 The Feeling of Freedom 139 5 Self 145 5.1 Preliminary Positions 147 5.2 The Soul Criterion 149 5.3 Objections 151 5.4 The Physicalist Criterion 156 5.5 The Psychological Criterion 163 5.6 The Bundle Theory 173 6 Mind 183 6.1 Substance Dualism 184 6.2 Behaviorism 192 6.3 Mind-brain Identity Theory 196 6.4 Functionalism 202 7 Knowledge 215 7.1 The Value of Truth 215 7.2 The Value of Evidence 219 7.3 The Sources of Evidence 230 7.4 The Nature of Knowledge 233 7.5 The Skeptic’s Challenge 236 8 Politics 254 8.1 State of Nature 255 8.2 Anarchy 257 8.3 Contractarianism 260 8.4 Leviathan and the Philosopher Kings 266 8.5 The Minimal State 272 8.6 The Liberal State 276 Postscript 284 Index 286

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Book SynopsisExplore the fascinating historical and contemporary philosophical issues that arise in Black Panther In Black Panther and Philosophy: What Can Wakanda Offer The World, a diverse panel of experts delivers incisive critical reflections on the Oscar-winning 2018 film, Black Panther, and the comic book mythology that preceded it. The collection explores historical and contemporary issuesincluding colonialism, slavery, the Black Lives Matter movement, intersectionality, and identityraised by the superhero tale. Beyond discussions of the influences of race and ethnicity on the most critically and culturally significant movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this book presents the moral, feminist, metaphysical, epistemological, existential, and Afrofuturistic issues framing Black Panther's narrative. The explorations of these issues shed light on our increasingly interconnected world and allow the reader to consider engaging questions like: Should Wakanda rule the world?Was Killmonger actualTable of ContentsContributors: One Single Tribe xi Introduction: A Few Words from the Wakandan International Outreach Centre 1Edwardo Pérez and Timothy E. Brown Part I Yibambe! 3 1 Challenge Day: Tradition and Revolution in Wakanda 5Armond Boudreaux 2 Transforming Wakanda: Justice (or Not?) in Black Panther 14Steve Bein and Deana Lewis 3 Sins of the Fathers: Historical Injustice and Its Repair in Black Panther 22Ben Almassi 4 “What Would You Have Wakanda Do about It?”: Black Panther, Global Justice, and African Philosophy 32Christine Hobden 5 T’Challa’s Liberalism and Killmonger’s Pan-Africanism 42Stephen C.W. Graves Part II Wakanda Forever! 51 6 Panther Virtue: The Many Roles of T’Challa 53Mark D. White 7 Should Wakanda Take Over the World? The Ethics of International Power 61Greg Littmann 8 T’Challa, the Revolutionary King: Legitimation Crises in Wakanda 70Kevin J. Porter 9 T’Challa’s Machiavellian Methods 80Ian J. Drake and Matthew B. Lloyd 10 Understanding the Reigns of T’Challa and Killmonger through Hannah Arendt 87Jolynna Sinanan Part III The Heart-Shaped Herb 95 11 Beastly Boys: The Racial-Sexual Politics of Meat 97Sofia Huerter 12 Panther Mystique: Wakandan Feminism Demystified 107J. Lenore Wright and Edwardo Pérez 13 The Ancestral Plane: Metaphysical Mystery or Meaningful Metaphor? 123Dean A. Kowalski 14 The Afterlife of Erik Killmonger in African Philosophy 132Paul A. Dottin 15 Wakandan Resources: The Epistemological Reality of Black Panther’s Fiction 152Ruby Komic Part IV Vibranium 163 16 When Tech Meets Tradition: How Wakandan Technology Transcends Anti-Blackness 165Timothy E. Brown 17 Vibranium Dreams and Afrofuturist Visions: Technology, Nature, and Culture 175Alessio Gerola 18 Black Panther’s Afrofuturism: Reconnecting Neural and Cultural Pathways 184Michael J. Gormley, Benjamin D. Wendorf, and Ryan Solinsky 19 Wakanda and the Dilemma of Racial Utopianism 193Juan M. Floyd-Thomas 20 The Value of Vibranium 203Edwardo Pérez Part V Black Lives Matter 211 21 Dismantling the Master’s House with the Master’s Tools 213Thanayi M. Jackson 22 An Impossible Return? (Anti)Colonialism in/of Black Panther 221Julio C. Covarrubias-Cabeza 23 T’Challa’s Dream and Killmonger’s Means: Echoes of MLK and Malcolm X 230Gerald Browning 24 “It’s Time They Knew the Truth about Us! We’re Warriors!”: Black Panther and the Black Panther Party 238Karen Joan Kohoutek 25 Fear of a Black Museum: Black Existentialism in Black Panther 247Charles F. Peterson Index 256

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContributors: “We Have Top Men [and Women] Working on It” ix Acknowledgments: “We Can Discuss My Honorarium over Dinner and Champagne Tonight—Your Treat” xv Introduction: “Indiana Jones—I Always Knew Some Day You’d Come Walking Back through My Door. I Never Doubted That” 1 Part I “It Was Wrong and You Knew It!”: Ethics and Values 3 1 Acting Without Thinking: The Sagacity of Indiana Jones 5 Justin Kitchen 2 Does It Always Belong in a Museum? 16 Edwardo Pérez 3 The Virtues that Made the Man, and the Man Who Became the Legend: The Adventures in Philosophy of Young Indiana Jones 24 Robert M. Mentyka 4 Raiders of the Lost Kant: Indy Meets the Categorical Imperative 33 Mia Wood 5 Feminism and Indiana Jones: A Field Guide 4 Kate C.S. Schmidt Part II “…But Choose Wisely”: Existentialism and Authenticity 53 6 The Absurd Hero: Indiana Jones, God, and Sisyphus 55 Justin Fetterman 7 Indiana Jones and Existential Self-Affirmation 65 Daniel Tilsley 8 Nietzschean Themes in Raiders of the Lost Ark: God May Be Dead, But Best Not Disturb His Corpse 74 Duncan Gale Homeward Bound with Indiana Jones 84 Charles Taliaferro and Annalissa Lane Part III “Knowledge Was Their Treasure”: Truth and Evidence 95 10 Fact, Truth, and Evidence: A Lesson from Dr. Tyree 97 Dean A. Kowalski 11 Indiana Jones and the Quest for Agnosticism: What if All Stories Are True? 108 Robert Grant Price 12 The Shadow Realities of Indiana Jones 118 Matthew Crippen and Matthew Dixon 13 Pride and Prudence in the Pursuit of Knowledge: Indiana Jones, René Belloq, and Irina Spalko 127 Alexander Hooke and Dean A. Kowalski Part IV “You Will Become a True Believer”: Religion and Theology 137 14 Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Numinous Presence of God 139 Matthew Brake 15 Indiana Jones and the Leap of Faith 148 Tait Szabo 16 Sacred Objects and Cosmic Justice in Indiana Jones 158 Christopher Helali Part V “You Call This Archaeology?”: Archaeology and Politics 167 17 On My “Colleague” Dr. Jones and his “Publications” 169 Aren M. Maeir 18 “Sharing Your Adventures Has Been an Interesting Experience”: Indiana Jones and Professional Archaeology 178 Louise A. Hitchcock 19 Meddling with (Almost) Incomprehensible Powers 188 Robert Seddon Part VI “If It’s Truth You’re Interested in …”: More from Dr. Tyree’s Classroom 199 20 Timeless Artifacts and Aging Humans: Indiana Jones and the Philosophy of Time 201 Siobhan Lyons 21 Listening to the Music of Indiana Jones: John Williams and Aesthetic Appreciation 211 Lance Belluomini 22 “Germany Has Declared War on the Jones Boys!”: Asymmetric Strategy and Honor among Raiders 220 Nikolaj Kærslund Andersen 23 Indiana Jones in India, India in Indiana Jones 231 Pankaj Singh and Dean A. Kowalski 24 “Some of the Passageways in Here Can Run for Miles”: An Aristotelian Exploration of Fact and Truth in The Last Crusade 242 Timothy Brown Index: “If I Walk It through Mayan First…” 251

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContributors: Expanded Rocinante Crew List x Acknowledgements xv Foreword xvii Introduction xix Jeffery L. Nicholas First Orbit: From Earth to the Stars 1 1 The Infinite and the Sublime in The Expanse 3 Michael J. O’Neill 2 Interplanetary Expansion and the Deep Future 13 Margarida Hermida 3 Humanity’s Dilemma before Abaddon’s Gate 25 Leonard Kahn 4 Hate Expectations: Politics and Gender Roles in The Expanse 33 S. W. Sondheimer Second Orbit: Is It the Protomolecule, or Just Human Nature? 45 5 The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt and Jules-Pierre Mao 47 R. S. Leiby 6 Amos Meets Nietzsche 57 Pankaj Singh 7 Is Amos Evil? 65 Diana Sofronieva 8 Moral Obligation in an Anarchic World 74 Matthew D. Atkinson and Darin DeWitt 9 Terrorism and the Churn 84 Trip McCrossin Third Orbit: Remember the Cant! 91 10 The Inners Must Die: Marco Inaros and the Righteousness of Anti-Colonial Violence 93 Sid Simpson 11 Being Beltalowda: Patriotism and Nationalism in The Expanse 102 Caleb McGee Husmann and Elizabeth Kusko 12 Anarchy in the OPA: Sovereignty, Capitalism, and Bare Life 111 Lisa Wenger Bro 13 “Can’t We Try Something Else?” Is James Holden a Hero? 125 Jeffery L. Nicholas Fourth Orbit: They Still Dream 133 14 “We had a garden and we paved it”: The Expanse and the Philosophy of the Anthropocene 135 Diletta De Cristofaro 15 We Can Be Gods: Remorseless Logic or Shared Humanity 145 Max Gemeinhardt 16 Gunnery Sergeant Draper and the Martian Congressional Republic’s Vision for Mars 151 James S. J. Schwartz Fifth Orbit: Tilting at Windmills 161 17 How to Be a Hero: Hannah Arendt and Naomi Nagata on Making and Doing Politics 163 Tiago Cerqueira Lazier 18 The Lives of Naomi Nagata: Intersectionality and the Impossible Choices of Resistance 171 Guilel Treiber 19 Risky Tradeoffs in The Expanse 179 Claire Field and Stefano Lo Re Sixth Orbit: Riding the Roci 187 20 The Long Dark Night of The Hat: The Metaphysical Fate of Detective Josephus Miller and His Headwear 189 S. W. Sondheimer 21 Between Worlds: The Multiplicitous Subjectivity of Naomi Nagata 195 Eric Chelstrom 22 Language Games in The Expanse: If a Lion Could Showxa, We Would Not Pochuye Him 203 Andrew Magrath Appendix: The Expanse Episodes List 215 Index 217

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Book SynopsisThis new edition of Eva Feder Kittayâs feminist classic, Loveâs Labor, explores how theories of justice and morality must be reconfigured when intersecting with care and dependency, and the failure of policy towards women who engage in care work. The work is hailed as a major contribution to the development of an ethics of care. Where society is viewed as an association of equal and autonomous persons, the work of caring for dependents figures neither in political theory nor in social policy. While some women have made many gains, equality continues to elude many others, as in large measure, social institutions fail to take into account the dependency of childhood, illness, disability and frail old age and fail to adequately support those who care for dependents. Using a narrative of her experiences caring for her disabled daughter, Eva Feder Kittay discusses the relevance of her analysis of dependency to significant cognitive disability. She explores the significance of dependency work by analyzing John Rawls' influential liberal theory and two examples of public policyâwelfare reform and family leaveâto show how theory and policy fail women when they miss the centrality of dependency to issues of justice. This second edition has updated material on care workers, her adult disabled daughter and key changes in welfare reform. Using a mix of personal reflection and political argument, this new edition of a classic text will continue to be an innovative and influential contribution to the debate on searching for greater equality and justice for women. Loveâs Labor has spoken to audiences around the world and has had an impact on readers from many countries and in many disciplines: philosophy, sociology, disability studies, nursing. It has been required and supplementary reading on many undergraduate courses on Ethics, Feminist Ethics, Gender and Religious Ethics, Political Theory, Bioethics and Disability Studies. It has been translated into Italian, Japanese and Korean.Trade ReviewThe publication of Eva Kittay's Love's Labor in 1999 was a significant event in American moral and political philosophy for more than one reason. First, Kittay's book puts issues of disability on the agenda of moral and political philosophy; second, it articulates some very persuasive and powerful criticisms of contractarian models of justice; third, it shows how good philosophy can help us think well about concrete political choices.Finally, and not at all least, the book compels attention because of its moving and beautifully written account of Kittay's daughter Sesha. Kittay thus raises important questions about the role of the imagination of particulars in philosophy aimed at radical moral and social change.– Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of ChicagoTwenty years ago Eva Kittay’s book Love’s Labor poignantly and persuasively argued that modern liberal states, and liberal philosophers, fail to recognize caregiving as essential human labor that sustains the species, and as work that deserves the protection of states, of rights, and of civil society. She then showed how liberal commitments can be reworked to center and protect that work. This edition further develops the argument in a global context, highlighting the often dire conditions of migrant and immigrant women who travel far from their own homes, separated from their kin, in order to care for first world children not their own. Kittay’s book underscores the humanity and universality of carework, and the need to construct a just world that respects the needs of caregivers and their dependents worldwide.– Robin West, Frederick J. Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy, Georgetown LawFew books touch and expand the moral imagination as deeply and humanely as Love’s Labor. Eva Feder Kittay carefully explores the grounds of interdependence and relationality in the human condition. She rejects facile notions of individualistic and competitive social being. She conjoins philosophy and feeling in the story of her personal confrontation with profound cognitive impairment in the life of her daughter, Sesha. This remarkable book of many methods opens for all of us new understandings of equality, social justice, and the practices of care.– Bruce Jennings, Senior Advisor, The Hastings CenterLove’s Labor was the first book to give sustained consideration to disability in the study of feminist care ethics. Arguing for the personhood of people with profound disabilities, it also made a compelling argument for why a just society must recognize the dignity and rights of care workers. In its unforgettable story of a mother’s love for her daughter it shows the power of a philosophy grounded in lived experience, feeling, and attachment. Groundbreaking in its time, Love’s Labor continues to be necessary reading for scholars working at the intersection of feminist theory, moral philosophy, and disability studies. – Rachel Adams, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Relationships of Dependency and Equality 2. Vulnerability and the Moral Nature of Care Giving 3. The Presuppositions of Equality 4. The Benefits and Burdens of Social Cooperation 5. Policy and Public Ethics of Care 6. "Not my way Sesha. Your Way –Slowly. A Personal Story" 7. Maternal Thinking with a Difference

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Book SynopsisRobert Brandomâs rationalist philosophy of language, expounded in his highly influential Making It Explicit, has been the subject of intense scrutiny and debate, establishing him as one of the leading philosophers of his generation. In A Spirit of Trust, Brandom presents the fruits of his thirty-year engagement with Hegel. He submits that the Phenomenology of Spirit holds not only many lessons for todayâs philosophy of language, but also a moral lesson much needed in todayâs increasingly polarized societies, in the form of a postmodern ethics of trust.In this outstanding collection, leading philosophers examine and assess A Spirit of Trust. The twelve specially commissioned chapters explore topics including: negation and truth empirical and speculative concepts experience conflict and recognition varieties of idealism premodern ethical life and modern alienation a postmodernTable of ContentsIntroduction Gilles Bouché Part I: Semantics 1. Brandom on Hegel on Negation Robert B. Pippin 2. Truth and Incompatibility Elena Ficara 3. Brandom on the Introduction to the Phenomenology John McDowell 4. The Possibility of a Semantic Interpretation of Hegel’s Conception of Consciousness Paul Redding 5. Where is the Conflict in Brandom’s Theory of Recognition (and Why Should There Be Any)? Georg W. Bertram 6. Intentional Agency and Conceptual Idealism: Brandom on Hegelian Reason Dean Moyar Part II: With an Edifying Intent 7. Semantic Self-Consciousness Terry Pinkard 8. Is Brandom a Positivist? Notes on Alienation, Trust, Confession, and Forgiveness J.M. Bernstein 9. Spirit and Alienation in Brandom’s A Spirit of Trust: Entfremdung, Entäußerung, and the Causal Entropy of Normativity Italo Testa 10. A Pure Philosophy of Language with an Edifying Intent: Brandom’s Reply to Rorty Gilles Bouché 11. Brandom on Postmodern Ethical Life: Moral and Political Problems Franz Knappik 12. Brandom’s Hegel Charles Taylor. Index

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Book SynopsisA study of the increasingly precarious relationship between humans and nature, this book seeks to go beyond work already contributed to the environmental movement. It does so by highlighting the importance of experiencing, rather than merely theorizing nature, while realizing that such experience is becoming increasingly rare, thus reinforcing the estrangement from nature that is a source of its ongoing human-caused destruction. In his original approach to environmental philosophy, the author argues for the reinstatement of nature''s value outside of its exploitative usefulness for human ends. Such a perspective emphasizes the extent to which the environmental problem is a concrete reality requiring urgent action, based on a multi-sensuous appreciation of humans'' dependence on nonhuman lifeforms.Designed as an accompaniment to undergraduate and postgraduate research, The Denial of Nature draws on empirically informed literature from the social sciences to examiTable of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements Introduction: Confronting the end of nature Chapter 1: The foundational fantasy goes global Chapter 2: Nature deficit in critical theory Chapter 3: Philosophizing value in nature Chapter 4: Technology, encounter, and the dangers of abstraction Conclusion: Revindicating panpsychism Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volumethe second in Max Van Manen's Phenomenology of Practice seriesbrings together personal narrative, human research methodology, and an extensive knowledge of aesthetic discourse to redefine the sublime in terms of direct and immediate experience. Erika Goble first traces the concept's origin and development in Western philosophy, revealing how efforts to theorize aesthetic quality in axiomatic or objective frameworks fail to account for the variety of experiential paradoxes that can be evoked by a single image. She then examines several first-person descriptions of encounters with the sublime in order to reflect on a series of questions that have escaped aesthetic philosophy so far: What makes an experience uniquely sublime? What does this experience reveal about the human phenomenon of sublimity when it is evoked by an image? What does the experience of the sublime reveal about ourselves as being in the world with images? Goble's book is a corrective to the rampant philosoTrade Review"This engaging and original book reveals whole new dimensions of the experiences of the sublime. It will captivate art critics, philosophers, and laymen alike." - Alphonso Lingis, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State UniversityTable of ContentsContents:1) An Introduction to the Sublimity of Images 2) The Flight of Icarus: The Sublime as Awe & Terror 3) The Tate’s Blue Butterflies: The Sublime as the Experience of the Exquisite & the Monstrous 4) The Raw Appeal of a Figure with Meat: The Sublime as the Experience of Horror & Delight5) The Challenge of Doubting Thomas: The Sublime as the Experience of Clarity & Mystery6) On a Starry Night like this, I would like to Die: The Sublime as Existence & Inexistence7) Sublimity and the Image 8) Pedagogy and the Sublime Image 9) References

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Book SynopsisRapid changes in technology and the growing use of electronic media signal a need for understanding both clear and subtle ethical and social implications of the digital, and of specific digital technologies. Understanding Digital Ethics: Cases and Contexts is the first book to offer a philosophically grounded examination of digital ethics and its moral implications. Divided into three clear parts, the authors discuss and explain the following key topics: Becoming literate in digital ethics Moral viewpoints in digital contexts Motivating action in digital ethics Speed and scope of digital information Moral algorithms and ethical machines The digital and the human Digital relations and empathy machines Agents, autonomy, and action Digital and ethical activism.The book includes cases and examples that explore the ethical implications of digital hardware and software including videogames, social mTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Ethical and Digital Literacy 1. Becoming Literate in Digital Ethics 2. Moral Viewpoints in Digital Contexts 3. Motivating Action in Digital Ethics Part 2: The Nature of Digital Ethics 4. Speed and Scope of Digital Information (Distributedness) 5. Moral Algorithms and Ethical Machines (Programmability and Procedurality) 6. The Digital and the Human (Embeddedness) Part 3: Implications of Digital Ethics 7. Digital Relations and Empathy Machines 8. Agents, Autonomy, and Action 9. Digital and Ethical Activism Conclusion: Literate Practice and Pedagogy. Appendix: Developing Cases in Digital Ethics Index

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Book SynopsisFor more than six decades, and for thousands of students, Introduction to Logic has been the gold standard in introductory logic texts. In this fifteenth edition, Carl Cohen and Victor Rodych update Irving M. Copi's classic text, improving on its many strengths and introducing new and helpful material that will greatly assist both students and instructors.In particular, chapters 1, 8, and 9 have been greatly enhanced without disturbing the book's clear and gradual pedagogical approach. Specifically: Chapter 1 now uses a simpler and better definition of deductive validity, which enhances the rest of the book (especially chapters 1 and 8-10, and their new components). Chapter 8 now has: Simpler definitions of simple statement and compound statement More and more detailed examples of the Complete Truth-Table Method. Chapter 9 now has: Table of ContentsPart I: Logic and Language 1. Basic Logical Concepts 2. Analyzing Arguments 3. Language and Definitions 4. Fallacies Part II: Deduction 5. Categorical Propositions 6. Categorical Syllogisms 7. Syllogisms in Ordinary Language 8. Propositional Logic I: Truth-Functional Statements and Arguments 9. Propositional Logic II: Methods of Deduction 10. Predicate Logic: Quantification Theory Part III: Induction 11. Analogical Reasoning 12. Causal Reasoning 13. Science and Hypothesis 14. Probability Logic Overviews

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Book SynopsisIn a thoroughly updated second edition of his popular and engaging book, John D. Caputo revisits Augustine's ancient question what do I love when I love my God? and presses it into service in the post-modern world. Accessible but without compromising the big ideas, he raises the question of what religion means today in the face of widespread religious violence after 9/11, of spreading secularization, the dazzling discoveries of contemporary cosmology, and the eerie advent of the post-human world. All along sculpting the idea of a post-modern, post-secular religion without religion, which turns on the mystical element of our lives, he wonders what the future of traditional religion will be, or whether it even has one.On Religion will fascinate anyone interested in the challenges religion faces in the contemporary world. It offers an ideal starting point from which undergraduate and postgraduate students, teachers, and lecturers can explore religion and philosophyTrade Review"Caputo's ability to distill Continental thought - making it both more potent and more easily imbibed - was already on full display in On Religion. This revised edition maintains all the depth and approachability of the first while increasing the breadth of concepts, influences, and applications covered. For anyone teaching or just interested in the (re)turn to religion, it is time to move On Religion from 'recommended' to 'required'." - David Cerequas, Hunter College (CUNY), USA"Many are the people who write uninterestingly and unintelligently about religion. Precious few do the opposite, and no one writes more brilliantly and delightfully on religion than John Caputo. From the first sentence of On Religion to the last, Caputo guides you into what is arguably life's most alluring (and insistent) exploration. On Religion is both incisive and playful, accessible and profound, snarky (in a philosophical way) and reverent. This new second edition preserves all that made the original edition so outstanding and adds new material that makes this book even more worth reading - whether you're an agnostic college student or an aging minister like me." - Brian D. McLaren, author of The Great Spiritual Migration"This second edition of John Caputo's classic text on religion is a most welcome event. It is a book full of bold wit, singular compassion and surprising grace. Vintage Caputo, inviting us to an impossible God beyond God before whom one can dance and sing." - Richard Kearney, Boston College, USA"On Religion, 2nd Edition entertains as it provokes, and it should not be missed by anyone concerned with religion in a postmodern condition."- Eric Weislogel, Saint Joseph's University, USA, Reading ReligionTable of ContentsPreface to the Second EditionThe Love of God One Religion is for Lovers The ImpossibleThe Secret What do I Love When I Love My God? How the Secular World Became Post-Secular Two The Sacral Age Secularization Our Prophets: Kierkegaard and Nietzsche Desecularization: The Death of the Death of God Putting Religion in Its Place ThreeWhat is What?Why the Why?The Mystical Element in LifeThe Place of Religion Can There Be a Religion with Religion? FourNever Say "Only" a SymbolA God Before Whom We Can Sing and DanceWhy is Religion So Violent? FiveImpossible PeopleReligious ViolenceBan the BibleBan the UnconditionalWhy Was Jesus Killed?The Hermeneutics of LoveCosmic Grace: World Without Why, Amen SixGod is Dead—Or Maybe Not So FastCosmo-TheologyPanentheism or the Divine MilieuNot Your Great-Grandfather’s NewtonianismThe Post-Humans: Immaculate Electronic Conceptions,Virginally Virtual Births, Copy and Paste Resurrections Becoming Divine: The Electronic Tree of LifeCosmic Grace: World Without Why, AmenOn Religion – Without Religion Seven Religious Truth/True Religion The Tragic Sense of Life The Faith of a Post-Modern Axioms of a Religion Without Religion Adieu Index

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Book SynopsisBefore Marcuse and Laing, before Heidegger and Sartre, even before Freud, the way was prepared for the anarcho-psychological critique of economic man, of all codes of ideology or absolute morality, and of scientific habits of mind. First published in 1974, this title traces this philosophical tradition to its roots in the nineteenth century, to the figures of Stirner, Nietzsche and Dostoevsky, and to their psychological demolition of the two alternative axes of social theory and practice, a critique which today reads more pertinently than ever, and remains unanswered.To understand this critique is crucial for an age which has shown a mounting revulsion at the consequences of the Crystal Palace, symbol at once of technologico-industrial progress and its rationalist-scientist ideology, an age whose imaginative preoccupations have telescoped onto the individual, and whose interest has switched from the social realm to that of anarchic, inner, ''psychological man''.Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction: Liberal-Rationalism and the Progress Model Part 2: The Critique of Ideology 1. The origins of Anarcho-Psychology 2. The antichrist 3. The Immoralist 4. The Existentialist 5. The anarcho-individualist and Social Action 6. Stirner and Marx 7. Nietzsche Part 3: The Critique of Knowledge 8. The critique of Absolute Truth 9. The Critique of Empiricist Positivist Truth 10. Irrationalism 11. Critique of Nietzsche's Theory of Knowledge Part 4: The Critique of Homo Economicus 12. Stirner's Redefintion of Property 13. Dostoevsky's Critique of Utilitarianism and Socialism 14. Some notes Toward a Psychology of Homo Economicus 15. The Critique of the Undialectical Progress Model

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Book SynopsisAn engaging introduction to one of the most significant works of philosophy. Written for readers approaching Hume's work for the first time, it is essential reading for undergraduate students studying the history of modern philosophy, and all those who wish to engage more deeply with this classic work.

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Book SynopsisThe 14th Edition of Introduction to Logic, written by Copi, Cohen & McMahon, is dedicated to the many thousands of students and their teachers - at hundreds of universities in the United States and around the world - who have used its fundamental methods and techniques of correct reasoning in their everyday lives. To those who have not previously used or reviewed Introduction to Logic we extend the very warmest welcome. Please join us and our international family of users! Let us help you teach students the methods and principles needed in order to distinguish correct from incorrect reasoning. For, Introduction to Logic is a proven textbook that has been honed through the collaborative efforts of many scholars over the last five decades. Its scrupulous attention to detail and precision in exposition and explanation is matched by the greatest accuracy in all associated detail. In addition, it continues to capture student interest through its personalized human setting and curren

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Book SynopsisAn impassioned investigation of the self, Kierkegaard’s The Sickness unto Death, now newly translated, is a founding document of modern existentialism

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Book SynopsisA timeless volume to be read and treasured, The Stone Reader provides an unparalleled overview of contemporary philosophy

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Book SynopsisThis newly translated Fear and Trembling, a foundational document of modern philosophy and existentialism, could not be more apt for our perilous times

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces the reader to the exciting new field of plant philosophy and takes it in a new direction to ask: what does it mean to say that plants are sexed? Do male' and female' really mean the same when applied to humans, trees, fungi and algae? Are the zoological categories of sex really adequate for understanding the uniquely dibiontic' life cycle of plants?Vegetal Sex addresses these questions through a detailed analysis of major moments in the history of plant sex, from Aristotle to the modern day. Tracing the transformations in the analogy between animals and plants that characterize this history, it shows how the analogy still functions in contemporary botany and asks: what would a non-zoocentric, plant-centred philosophy of vegetal sex be like?By showing how philosophy and botany have been and still are inextricably entwined, Vegetal Sex allows us to think vegetal being and, perhaps, to recognize the vegetal in us all.Trade ReviewVegetal Sex demands to be read: not only as a critical history that transforms what we took for granted about the sex of plants into a problem for thought, but also as a rigorous reframing of the category of sex in general and a manifesto for a renewed plant-philosophy. * Daniel Whistler, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK *Critically examining a long botanical tradition that speaks about “male” and “female” plants, Stella Sandford’s Vegetal Sex is a lucid, rigorous philosophical analysis that asks what it would mean to stop projecting human sexuality onto plants. The irreducible specificity of vegetal sex is shown here to have the power of challenging our general understanding of sexuality, emerging from this analysis as open and ambiguous. * Antónia Szabari, Associate Professor, University of Southern California, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. What is Plant Philosophy? 2. Plant Philosophy and Plant Sex: Aristotle to Albertus 3. The Joint Venture: Philosophy and Botany 4. From Analogy to Identity: The Carnival of Plant Sex 5. What are ‘Male’ and ‘Female’ in Plants? 6. Are We Family? The Mother Tree and other humans Epilogue Vegetal sexuality and us Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisBeyond Language (Oltre il Linguaggio) is one of Italian philosopher Emmanuele Severino's major works, wrestling with whether it's possible to think meaningfully outside of the restrictions of language. Increasingly recognised as a truly foundational thinker in the formation of contemporary theory, Severino's ideas around self-expression, forms of communication and the limitations of language continue are brought to the fore in this book. Beyond Language specifically opens the door to the themes that Severino developed in his later works, including the concrete meaning of self-being and the decline of language. The depth and breadth of Severino's philosophical insight is as profound today as it was when first penned in 1992, making this first English translation of a key work in the history of continental philosophy crucial reading for those engaged with contemporary theory.Table of ContentsForeword: Being Beyond Language, by Ines Testoni and Giulio Goggi Beyond Translation, by Damiano Sacco Part I 1. Violence and Salvation 2. Anxiety and Will to Power 3. Scientific Specialisation and Nothingness Part II 4. Nietzsche and Gentile 5. Problematicism and Actual Idealism 6. Socrates, Silenus, and Virtue Part III 7. On Identity and Difference 8. The Unfolding of Language and the Appearing of Destiny 9. Language and Destiny

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Book SynopsisExplore the nature of modern leadership In Confronting Our Freedom, a team of dedicated leadership coaches delivers an exciting and engaging new take on management and leadership. Drawing on recent events in the market and in the world, including the Great Resignation, the COVID-19 pandemic, and widespread digital transformation, the authors invite you to reimagine ideas of freedom and accountability in the context of work. You'll explore how freedom of actionfor managers and employeesis what gives rise to true accountability, both in the community and in the workplace. In the book, you'll also find: Discussions of the power and structure of freedom, including its implications for our own choices and lives Ways to shift the focus of your leadership and management to accountability and freedom Strategies for shifting the illusion of clear roles and expectations to one compatible with fully human organizations A groundbreakingTable of ContentsPreface Prologue: Then Was the Moment The past is not past What lies ahead Introduction: The Philosophic Insight Conversations on freedom and accountability The view from where we are Parenting is the origin story of management and leadership Shifting the historical context Philosophic insight in the world of organized effort The existential understanding I The Power and Structure of Freedom Rewards Freedom, reality, choice, and will Accepting our freedom The fundamental insight Implications: The Forms of Freedom Choice, reality, and will II The Potential of Anxiety The fruits of your patience Solving anxiety The promise of anxiety The language of freedom: It is an inside job Shifting the context to freedom and accountability Implications: Anxiety as an ally of accountability both central to performance in a time of permanent uncertainty The permanent condition Being conscious III Speaking of Death and Evil Death is an option A storm in the shelter Facing reality. Taking charge of our life. A summary of usefulness of the reality of death Final facts The presence of evil Denying the reality of evil Do no harm Implications: failure, fear, death, and evil IV Fully Human Organizations Guilty as chosen and guilty as charged The Sound of freedom Reversing the illusion of clear roles and expectations Not enough Our expectations What are we to do? Real and chosen accountability? Fully human organizations Epilogue References and Background Reading Acknowledgments About the Authors Index About Designed Learning

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