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Collective Ink Unintended Consequences: Or Why Do Bad Things
Book SynopsisHow is it that, in doing our very best to achieve one thing, we can end up achieving just the opposite? There exists an unseen force with an unassuming name that conceals all manner of terrors. It is `Unintended Consequences', and it takes our efforts to do the good and right thing, turns them to ashes and blows them back in our faces. Whether it be governments fighting a "War on Terror" only to bring their economies crashing about their ears, ecologists attempting to stamp out pests but making things ten times worse in the process, or giving people lots of choice only for them to make worse decisions, it is all too easy to start out with the best of intentions, only to end up doing more harm than good. In Unintended Consequences, Clive Wills discusses national disasters, Prohibition and the War on Drugs, frustrated efforts to improve health and safety, and touches on issues of everyday life such as how to improve relationships and bring up children. As HL Mencken reflected, "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong". This book examines the many ways in which those apparently simple solutions can turn around and bite us, and more importantly, just what we can do about it.
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Collective Ink Essence of Reality, The – A Clear Awareness of
Book Synopsis"The Essence of Reality" is the most perceptive, exacting look at the flow of Reality ever. Rarely has a human glimpsed beyond the confines of the self-aware mind to see the interactive flow of mind-value into Reality. Thomas Nehrer here goes beyond a glimpse to specify that flow, depicting Consciousness explicitly. "The Essence of Reality" illustrates that all of one's life - health, success, authority, abundance - reflect one's inner nature, leading the reader to see exactly how that works. It gives explicit tools for delving into limiting mindsets to accomplish real change."The Essence of Reality" views life from four angles: one presents perspectives on Reality from the standpoint of "Clear Awareness", without the veil of distorting beliefs. Two considers healing disciplines, exposing their limitations, detailing how it is the Inner Journey, eliminating inner roots, that can heal outer problems. Three warns of hazards along the path. Four exposes philosophical and scientific notions of western thinking and how these have become distorted through time and translation.
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Collective Ink Destination of the Species – The Riddle of Human
Book SynopsisThere is really only one question for human beings that in the end matters. That is, what if any is the purpose of existence, and what are we here for? It is a question that has underlain religious conviction and philosophic inquiry throughout human history, and to which scientific rationalism in recent centuries has added some important insights. It highlights two contesting views of the nature of reality: is there a purpose behind the universe, and if so, is the evolution of man somehow related to that purpose, or is it a mechanistic universe driven by blind natural forces in which there is no ultimate purpose and no meaning of life? Or is there indeed some alternative third explanation? What is one to believe about the ultimates of human existence? What Michael Meacher seeks to do in this book is rather to assess the evidence - the whole range of it - without a predetermined world view as a premise, and to decide, as objectively as possible, what the evidence on balance points to.Trade ReviewI think it makes a worthwhile contribution to the field of religion and science. Dr George D. Chryssides, Head of Religious Studies, University of Birmingham
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Reaktion Books A Philosophy of Sport
Book SynopsisWhile previous writing on the philosophy of sport has tended to see sport as a kind of testing ground for philosophical theories devised to deal with other kinds of problems - of ethics, aesthetics or logical categorization - here Steven Connor offers a new philosophical understanding of sport in its own terms. In order to define what sport essentially is and means, Connor presents a complete grammar of sport, isolating and describing its essential elements, including the characteristic spaces of sport, the nature of sporting time, the importance of sporting objects like bats and balls, the methods of movement in sport, the role of rules and chance, and what it really means to cheat and to win. Defined as games that involve bodily exertion and exhaustion, sports simultaneously require constraint and the ability to overcome it. Sport, argues Connor, is a fundamental feature of modern humans. It is shown to be one of the most powerful ways in which we negotiate the relationship between the human and natural worlds. Encompassing a huge range of different sports, and enlisting the help of Hegel, Freud, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Adorno, Sartre, Ayer, Deleuze and Serres, A Philosophy of Sport will inform, surprise and delight thoughtful athletes and sporty philosophers alike.Trade Review'Connor muses interestingly on the football pitch as a palimpsest of geometries; on why to be in the lead is to have an advantage in time, "to have wound the clock forward"; on the extreme demands made on the too-easily-mocked sports commentator; on sprinting as "the enraptured attempt to escape the capturing drag of mass"; on the utility of magical thinking in the "follow-through" of bat or club; and on how one does things with balls.' - The Guardian
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Watkins Media Limited Mountains and Desire: Climbing vs. The End of the
Book SynopsisIn 1923, a reporter asked George Mallory why he wanted to summit Mount Everest. “Because it’s there”. Today the question "why do this?" is included in nearly every mountaineering story or interview. Meanwhile, interest in climbing is steadily on the rise, from commercial mountaineering and climbing walls in university gyms and corporate workplaces to the flood of spectacular climbing imagery in advertising, cinema, and social media. Climbing has become the theater for imagining limits—of the human body and of the planet— and the nature of desire, motivation, and #goals. Covering the degradation of Everest, the banning of climbing on Australia’s Uluru, UNESCO’s decision to name alpinism an Intangible Cultural Heritage, the sudden death of Ueli Steck, and the commercial and critical success of Free Solo, Mountains and Desire chases after what remains of this pursuit – marred by its colonial history, coopted by nationalistic chauvinism, ableism, and the capitalist compulsion to unlimited growth – for both climbers and their fans.Trade Review"In this beautiful book, Margret Grebowicz examines the many meanings of mountaineering, then and now: what these meanings tell us about ourselves, and what they tell us about mountains as well.""A philosophical speed-climb, a topo map of our new Terra Incognita. I finished it grateful for a new sense of clarity.”"A treasure trove of insights exploring and critiquing the idea of climbing – upward pursuit -– in all its forms. Generous, fascinating, and written in sharp and lucid prose, Mountains and Desire illuminates an intoxicating and dangerous obsession through a startling range of material.""A fascinating attempt to answer the eternal question – why are you going up there? – for a new century. It will spur many to think more deeply."“Offers a timely appraisal of our relationship with high places.”
£11.77
ERIS Dialogues on Consciousness
Book SynopsisA series of focused dialogues to set out the standard positions on consciousness and suggest some alternatives.
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ERIS Rameau's Nephew
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Information Age Publishing Who Are You Without Colonialism?: Pedagogies of
Book SynopsisThis is not a conventional book because the seed comes from the depth of the volcanic cauldron that awaits silently underneath the Lake Ilopango, the umbilical cord of our Humanity and yours. It is a scream, it is an offering, it is pain and it is love. It is a collective offering to those who are responding to a call of Liberation based on Indigenous Principles to protect and defend the land beyond theories, beyond rhetorical and metaphorical questions. This is a tiny-tiny glimpse into Lak'ech.A living testament that today, there are people buried on sand, on water, on air, on blood, among carcasses of bodies eaten by vultures—literally and metaphorically—a living testament of open wounds that heal and are traumatized again and again because you, the reader, the listener, the writer, the transcriber, the colonizer, the upholder of patriarchy and caste and class, the translator and the guardian of the door of the Master's House refuse to listen politically.
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Information Age Publishing Who Are You Without Colonialism?: Pedagogies of
Book SynopsisThis is not a conventional book because the seed comes from the depth of the volcanic cauldron that awaits silently underneath the Lake Ilopango, the umbilical cord of our Humanity and yours. It is a scream, it is an offering, it is pain and it is love. It is a collective offering to those who are responding to a call of Liberation based on Indigenous Principles to protect and defend the land beyond theories, beyond rhetorical and metaphorical questions. This is a tiny-tiny glimpse into Lak'ech.A living testament that today, there are people buried on sand, on water, on air, on blood, among carcasses of bodies eaten by vultures—literally and metaphorically—a living testament of open wounds that heal and are traumatized again and again because you, the reader, the listener, the writer, the transcriber, the colonizer, the upholder of patriarchy and caste and class, the translator and the guardian of the door of the Master's House refuse to listen politically.
£86.70
Almuzara SENECA Y EL SECRETO DE LA FELICIDAD
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Atico de Los Libros Cerdo Que Quería Ser Jamón, El
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Ned Eclipse de la Atencion, El
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Las Virtudes Fundamentales
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Taylor & Francis The Philosophers New Clothes The Theaetetus the Academy and Philosophys Turn against Fashion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Pets
Book Synopsis'When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?' - Michel de Montaigne. Why do we live with pets? Is there something more to our relationship with them than simply companionship? What is it we look for in our pets and what does this say about us as human beings? In this fascinating book, Erica Fudge explores the nature of this most complex of relationships and the difficulties of knowing what it is that one is living with when one chooses to share a home with an animal. Fudge argues that our capacity for compassion and ability to live alongside others is evident in our relationships with our pets, those paradoxical creatures who give us a sense of comfort and security while simultaneously troubling the categories human and animal. For what is a pet if it isn't a fully-fledged member of the human family? This book proposes that by crossing over these boundaries pets help construct who it is we think we are. Drawing on the works of modern writers, such as J. M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and Jacques Derrida, Fudge shows how pets have been used to think with and to undermine our easy conceptions of human, animal and home. Indeed, "Pets" shows our obsession with domestic animals that reveals many of the paradoxes, contra - dictions and ambiguities of life. Living with pets provides thought-provoking perspectives on our notions of possession and mastery, mutuality and cohabitation, love and dominance. We might think of pets as simply happy, loved additions to human homes but as this captivating book reveals perhaps it is the pets that make the home and without pets perhaps we might not be the humans we think we are. For anyone who has ever wondered, like Montaigne, what their cat is thinking, it will be illuminating reading.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Living with pets 3. Thinking with pets 4. Being with pets 5. Conclusion Further Reading
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The God of Philosophy: An Introduction to
Book SynopsisFor centuries philosophers have argued about the existence and nature of God. Do we need God to explain the origins of the universe? Can there be morality without a divine source of goodness? How can God exist when there is so much evil and suffering in the world? All these questions and many more are brought to life with clarity and style in The God of Philosophy. The arguments for and against God's existence are weighed up, along with discussion of the meaning of religious language, the concept of God and the possibility of life after death. This new edition brings the debate right up to date by exploring the philosophical arguments of the new atheists such as Richard Dawkins, as well as considering what the latest discoveries in science can tell us about why many believe in the existence of the divine.Trade Review"A timely addition to resources ... illuminating without being overbearing." - Times Educational SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Concept of God 2. The Cosmological Argument 3. The Teleological Argument 4. The Ontological Argument 5. The Moral Argument 6. The Argument from Religious Experience 7. Miracles 8. Faith and Reason 9. Religious Language 10. The Problem of Evil 11. Life After Death 12. The Origins of God and the New Atheism
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Cambridge University Press Interpreting Carnap
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Cambridge University Press The Skeptic and the Veridicalist
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Cambridge University Press Philosophy Bullshit and Peer Review
Book SynopsisThis Element examines some of the concerns on peer review that it no longer is fit to ensure that published work meets high standards of rigor and interest. It uses evidence that critics of peer review sometimes cite to show its failures. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Bullshit philosophy; 2. Intellectual charity in everyday (Academic) life; 3. Too much trust? The lesson of hoaxes; 4. Publication requires commitment; 5. In Lieu of a conclusion; References.
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Cambridge University Press The Skeptic and the Veridicalist
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Cambridge University Press Philosophy Bullshit and Peer Review
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Cambridge University Press Wittgenstein on Realism and Idealism
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Cambridge University Press Kierkegaard Socrates and the Meaning of Life
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Cambridge University Press Wittgenstein on Realism and Idealism
Book SynopsisThis Element concerns Wittgenstein's evolving attitude toward the opposition between realism and idealism in philosophy. Wittgenstein can be understood as rejecting both positions, while nonetheless seeing insights in each position worth retaining. Wittgenstein was insistent on seeing language and thought as worldly phenomena.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The early Wittgenstein; 3. The middle Wittgenstein; 4. The later Wittgenstein; 5. Coda: On certainty; References.
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Penguin Books Ltd Poetry from the Future Why a Global Liberation
Book SynopsisBorn in 1983 in former Yugoslavia, Srecko Horvat is a European philosopher without stable address. He is traveling across continents giving lectures, visiting refugee camps and protests, advocating radical democracy as one of the founders and figureheads of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25). He is the author of numerous books, including The Radicality of Love, What Does Europe Want (co-authored with Slavoj Žižek) and Subversion!
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MIT Press Ltd Positive Nihilism My Confrontation with
Book SynopsisA German writer's aphoristic, poetic, and difficult reflections on Heidegger's Being and Time.There is a beyond of reason and unreason. It is the human psyche.—Positive NihilismLike many German intellectuals, Hartmut Lange has long grappled with Heidegger. Positive Nihilism is the result of a lifetime of reading Being and Time and offers a series of reflections that are aphoristic, poetic, and (appropriately, considering his object of study) difficult. Lange begins with an abyss (“There is an abyss of the finite. It is temporality”) and proceeds almost immediately to extremity: “The twentieth century was governed by psychopaths. They collapsed the boundaries of moral reason and refuted Kant's analysis of consciousness.” He reflects further: “But who shall punish whom? One man's virtue is another man's crime. Thus Hitler could feel unwaveringly, as he wiped out entire populations, the starry sky above him a
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WW Norton & Co Why Does the World Exist An Existential Detective
Book Synopsis2012 New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year Slate.com 2012 Staff Pick In this astonishing and profound work, an irreverent sleuth traces the riddle of existence from the ancient world to modern times.Trade Review"If Jim Holt's deft and consuming Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story has anything to tell us, it's that such a comment is less about literary riffing than deep philosophy." -- David Ulin - Los Angeles Times"There could have been nothing. It might have been easier. Instead there is something. The universe exists, and we are here to ask about it. Why? In Why Does the World Exist?, Jim Holt, an elegant and witty writer comfortably at home in the problem’s weird interzone between philosophy and scientific cosmology, sets out in search of such answers. ...There is no way to do justice to any of these theories in a brief review, but Holt traces the reasoning behind each one with care and clarity—such clarity that each idea seems resoundingly sensible even as it turns one’s brain to a soup of incredulity.... I can imagine few more enjoyable ways of thinking than to read this book." -- Sarah Bakewell - New York Times Book Review, Front page review"Winding its way to no reassuringly tidy conclusion, this narrative ultimately humanizes the huge metaphysical questions Holt confronts, endowing them with real-life significance. A potent synthesis of philosophy and autobiography." -- Booklist, Starred Review"The pleasure of this book is watching the match: the staggeringly inventive human mind slamming its fantastic conjectures over the net, the universe coolly returning every serve.... Holt traffics in wonder, a word whose dual meanings—the absence of answers; the experience of awe—strike me as profoundly related. His book is not utilitarian. You can’t profit from it, at least not in the narrow sense.... And yet it does what real science writing should: It helps us feel the fullness of the problem." -- Kathryn Schulz - New York Magazine"A guided tour of ideas, theories and arguments about the origins of the universe…. Through discussions with philosophers of religion and science, humanists, biologists, string theorists, as well as research into the scholarship of days past—from Heidegger, Parmenides, Pythagoras and others—and an interview with John Updike, Holt provides a master's-level course on the theories and their detractors. The interludes find the author positioning himself as an existential gumshoe, but also working through the sudden loss of a pet and, later, the death of his mother. Holt may not answer the question of his title, but his book deepens the appreciation of the mystery." -- Kirkus Reviews"It’s the mystery William James called “the darkest in all philosophy”: “[W]hy is there something rather than nothing?” For Jim Holt, it is a question that may never find an answer, but one endlessly worth asking. In this highly engaging book, Holt visits great thinkers in mathematics, quantum physics, artificial intelligence, theology, philosophy, and literature. These conversations don’t lead him toward any conclusion, but they make for a lively, thoughtful read, whether your worldview tends toward Spinoza (in which “reality is a self-sustaining causal loop: the world creates us, and we in turn create the world”) or like Stephen Hawking, still searching for the final theory of everything." -- Kate Tuttle - Boston Globe"He [Jim Holt] leaves us with the question Stephen Hawking once asked but couldn't answer, ‘Why does the universe go through all the bother of existing?’" -- Ron Rosenbaum - Slate"In Why Does the World Exist? Mr. Holt picks up this question about being versus nothingness and runs quite a long and stylish way with it. He combines his raffish erudition with accounts of traveling to tap the minds of cosmologists, theologians, particle physicists, philosophers, mystics and others." -- Dwight Garner - New York Times"… an eclectic mix of theology, cutting-edge science (of the cosmological and particle-physics variety) and extremely abstract philosophising, rendered (mostly) accessible by Mr. Holt’s facility with analogies and clear, witty language." -- The Economist"I’ve [read] Why Does the World Exist? by Jim Holt to get my existential buzz." -- Bruce Springsteen"A reminder that the quest for foundational truths is not only a supremely human activity but also one that brings us, if not absolute truth (which may be unknowable), at least better and better approximations of the truth… A gifted essayist and critic… Holt intersperses his intellectual investigation with brief but revealing glimpses of his own life, including the death of his mother, when existential musings on the nature of being seem anything but abstract." -- Jay Tolson - The American Scholar"[Holt] is a spirited interlocutor and a deft explainer, patiently making sense of subjects ranging from Platonism to quantum mechanics, while nonetheless marveling at their seemingly fantastical nature… This cheerful persistence—combined with anecdotes celebrating the thrills of travel, good food, and drink—helps to sweeten what is, finally, a somber vision, in which reality may take the form of ‘infinite mediocrity’ and ‘the life of the universe, like each of our lives, may be a mere interlude between two nothings.’" -- New Yorker"The author takes on the origin of everything in this wonderfully ambitious book encompassing mathematics, theology, physics, ethics and more." -- Michael S. Roth - The Washington Post"Jim Holt’s Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story is a portrait gallery of leading modern philosophers…. Their answers give us vivid glimpses of the speakers… Holt’s philosophers belong to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries… When and why did philosophy lose its bite? How did it become a toothless relic of past glories? These are the ugly questions that Jim Holt’s book compels us to ask." -- Freeman Dyson - New York Review of Books
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Urbanomic Media Ltd Hydroplutonic Kernow Urbanomic Redactions 7
Book SynopsisA geophilosophical odyssey through the remains of Cornwall's industrial past offers a historical portrait of geotrauma in action.This unique document provides a pioneering case study in post-“site-specific” geophilosophy. Based on a weird field trip into Cornwall's mining heartlands with geologists, philosophers, and ecologists as guides, Hydroplutonic Kernow drills down through nature, industry, and cultural capital to site the local within the global, unfolding the telluric plots that manipulated populations and devastated the landscape during the industrial age. In doing so, it provides a historical portrait of geotrauma in action.This geophilosophical odyssey takes us through the remains of the region's industrial past, reading them through the twisted prism of the geocosmic theory of trauma espoused by legendary “cryptographer” Dr. Daniel Barker and further developed by Iranian philosopher Reza Negarestani, and uncovering the deep pl
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Christmas Philosophy for Everyone
Book SynopsisFrom Santa, elves and Ebenezer Scrooge, to the culture wars and virgin birth, Christmas - Philosophy for Everyone explores a host of philosophical issues raised by the practices and beliefs surrounding Christmas. Offers thoughtful and humorous philosophical insights into the most widely celebrated holiday in the Western world Contributions come from a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, theology, religious studies, English literature, cognitive science and moral psychology The essays cover a wide range of Christmas themes, from a defence of the miracle of the virgin birth to the relevance of Christmas to atheists and pagans Trade Review"'Philosophy' here means not the serious study of logic, metaphysics, and so on, but something closer to ‘a collection of interesting ideas and arguments', an eclectic amalgam of popular psychology, sociology and morality ... Be irenic by all means, but to allow your opponent to win before you have even begun is to eviscerate the arguments and discussion that are the very reason for this book." (New Directions, 1 December 2011) "For those more philosophically trained or inclined, the utilization of these philosophical works within the context of the great Christmas debate provide an alternative dimension into classic philosophical arguments of ethics and sociological structures, not typically revealed in academic literature." (Metapsychology, 30 September 2011) "Wickedly humorous and innovative philosophical insights in a range of essays on Christmas themes make you think more than twice about the most widely celebrated holiday in the Western world." (Suite101.com, December 2010)"Still, it contains several thoughtful and bruising entries, the perfect mix for this time of year". (CBC News, 21 December 2010) "This great new book, in fine Socratic fashion, probes the meaning of Christmas, asking challenging questions that help us reflect on how we celebrate the birth of Jesus." (The Englewood Review of Books, January 2011) "It seems that this time of year most of us are consumed with, well, consuming, whether it's indulgent holiday fare or gift giving. But if you've ever found yourself contemplating some of the deeper aspects of the season, Christmas Philosophy for Everyone offers insight into the season of giving with thought and humor". (Urban Baby, 17 December 2010) From Santa Claus, elves and Ebenezer Scrooge to rampant consumerism and controversial questions of multiculturalism and the virgin birth, this immensely entertaining and thought-provoking volume, in the oft-audacious Philosophy for Everyone series, explores a plethora of philosophical issues raised by the practices and beliefs surrounding Christmas." (Suite101.com, 16 December 2010) "It all goes to show that philosophy can engage comfortably with popular themes after all - in this case, by offering an antidote to festive semiotic overload, and bringing a little reason to the season". (Time Out, 16 December 2010)Table of ContentsForeword: Joining the Manger to the Sleigh? (Stephen Nissenbaum). Editor's Introduction (Scott C. Lowe). Part I: Christmas: In the Beginning. 1. Jesus, Mary and Hume: On the Possibility of the Virgin Birth (Zachary Jurgensen and Jason Southworth). 2. The Virgin Birth: Authentic Christmas Magic (Victor Lyons). 3. Putting the "Yule" Back in "Yuletide" (Todd Preston). Part II: Is Celebrating Christmas Really a Good Idea? 4. Armed for the War on Christmas (Scott F. Aiken). 5. Christmas Mythologies: Sacred and Secular (Guy Bennett-Hunter). 6. The Significance of Christmas for Liberal Multiculturalism (Mark Mercer). 7. Crummy Commercials and BB Guns: Son-of-a-Bitch Consumerism in a Christmas Classic (Erin Haire and Dustin Nelson). Part III: Santa: A Deeper Look. 8. The Mind of Santa Claus and the Metaphors He Lives By (William E. Deal and S. Waller). 9. Making a List, Checking It Twice: The Santa Claus Surveillance System (Richard Hancuff and Noreen O'Connor). 10. You'd Better Watch Out… (Will Williams). 11. Santa's Sweatshop: Elf Exploitation for Christmas (Matthew Brophy). Part IV: The Morality of Christmas. 12. Against the Santa Clause Lie: The Truth We Should Tell Our Children (David Kyle Johnson). 13. Lying to Children about Santa: Why It's Just Not Wrong (Era Gavrielides). 14. Putting Claus Back into Christmas (Steven D. Hales). 15. Scrooge Learns it All in One Night: Happiness and the Virtues of Christmas (Dane Scott). Part V: Christmas Through Others' Eyes. 16. Holly Jolly Atheists: A Naturalistic Justification for Christmas (Ruth Tallman). 17. Heaven, Hecate and Hallmark: Christmas in Hindsight (Marion G. Mason). 18. Festivus and the Need for Seasonal Absurdity (Caleb Holt). 19. Common Claus: Santa as Cross-Cultural Connection (Cindy Scheopner). Afterword (Santa Claus). Notes on Contributors (Santa's Elves).
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd College Sex Philosophy for Everyone
Book SynopsisWritten with insight and humor, College Sex - Philosophy for Everyone investigates a broad array of philosophical issues relating to student sex. Examines the ethical issues of dating, cheating, courtship, homosexual experimentation, and drug and alcohol use Considers student-teacher relationships, sexual experimentation, the meaning of sex in a college setting and includes two essays based on influential research projects on friends with benefits' Many of the authors teach classes that explore the philosophy of love and sex, and most are scholars from the Society of the Philosophy of Sex and Love Trade Review"Overall then, College Sex is a valuable collection. Most readers will want to skip and dip around the essays, looking for those that are most helpful to them. Many of the essays are not traditional philosophical approaches, but the use of communications and psychology scholarship in the book fits well with the philosophical discussion. Furthermore, the level of the writing is pitched well for lower level undergraduate courses in the philosophy of sex love: I plan to use some of the chapters here for my future courses." (Metapsychology, 31 May 2011) "You actually get something from it. Rather than a textbook in a class that you read and forget almost instantaneously, College Sex forces you to see sex from a more objective perspective - you'll soon be asking questions regarding your own sex life and how good and healthy it actually is." (Her Campus, September 2010) "The sex and philosophy combo might seem like a peculiar mix, but as you flip and through the book's sections (freshman year, sophomore year, junior year and senior year), it's plausible to see how Socrates, Nietzsche, Aristotle and sex are closely connected with one another." (Campus Circle, 25 August 2010)Table of ContentsForeword (Heather Corinna). Acknowledgments (Michael Bruce and Robert M. Stewart). Campus Orientation: An Introduction to College Sex – Philosophy for Everyone (Michael Bruce and Robert M. Stewart). PART I FRESHMAN YEAR: Hook-Up Culture. 1 Sex and Socratic Experimentation (Sisi Chen and George T. Hole). 2 The Straight Sex Experiment (Bassam Romaya). 3 The Virtual Bra Clasp: Navigating Technology in College Courtship (Michael Bruce). 4 Smeared Makeup and Stiletto Heels: Clothing, Sexuality, and the Walk of Shame (Brett Lunceford). 5 Relations at a Distance (Bill Puka). PART II SOPHOMORE YEAR: Friends With Benefits. 6 What's Love Got to Do with It? Epicureanism and Friends with Benefits (William O. Stephens). 7 Friends with Benefits: A Precarious Negotiation (Timothy R. Levine and Paul A. Mongeau). 8 The Philosophy of Friends with Benefits: What College Students Think They Know (Kelli Jean K. Smith and Kelly Morrison). PART III JUNIOR YEAR: Ethics of College Sex. 9 A Horny Dilemma: Sex and Friendship between Students and Professors (Andrew Kania). 10 Philosophers and the Not So Platonic Student-Teacher Relationship (Danielle A. Layne). 11 Thinking About Thinking About Sex (Ashley McDowell). 12 Exploring the Association Between Love and Sex (Guy Pinku). 13 Sex for a College Education (Matthew Brophy). PART IV SENIOR YEAR: Sex and Self-Respect. 14 Meaningful Sex and Moral Respect (Robert M. Stewart). 15 Can Girls Go Wild With Self-Respect? (John Draeger). 16 Mutual Respect and Sexual Morality: How to Have College Sex Well (Yolanda Estes). 17 Bad Faith or True Desire? A Sartrean View on College Sex (Antti Kuusela). Notes on Contributors.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Philosophy on Tap
Book SynopsisWhen beer starts to flow, philosophical discussions naturally follow. Philosophy on Tap takes pub philosophy to the next level, pairing 48 of life''s greatest philosophical questions with 48 of the world''s best beers. Features a unique presentation of philosophical puzzles, paradoxes, and debates by considering 48 of life''s biggest questions in the context of 48 distinctive beers from around the world Provides a highly engaging and sociable approach to the classic philosophical problems as well as a unique look at the conundrums that directly affect the beer drinker Combines a philosopher''s insights with thematic humor and trivia to explore issues such as free will, God''s existence, the nature of the soul, time travel, the aesthetics of taste, the role of beer in the good life, and the infamous beer goggles paradox For beer drinkers who enjoy philosophy, philosophers who enjoy beer, and anyone who has ever pondered the meaning of life oveTrade Review"The book is certainly a remarkable tour de force, combining amusement and instruction. It can be read from cover to cover, or can dip into it when a beery occasion arises. However, even teetotalers can peruse it with pleasure and profit." (Metapsychology, 15 November 2011) "Recommended for fraternity brothers who missed Philosophy 101 or nonteetotaling philosophy majors seeking to broaden their beer horizons. For a more serious yet similarly accessible intro to philosophy, readers will want to consider the excellent (and free) courses on iTunes U from Oxford, Yale, and Berkeley"". (Libraryjournal.com, 15 May 2011) "But, if you're already open minded you should have just as much fun without the beer! But if you enjoy both prepare for an exploration of life's toughest questions and some of its tastiest brews. If anything, it's wonderful to know that with barely any effort you can have a real (read: non-superficial) conversation with almost anyone by reading one of these puzzles aloud." (The Beer Connoisseur, 2011) "This fun paperback considers the Big Questions that have troubled college sophomores since Aristotle had his tenure." (Philly.com, 15 April 2011) Table of ContentsPreface. A funny thing happened on the way to the monastery Personal Acknowledgments. Acknowledgments. 1. Transporter Troubles. 2. Zeno’s Hand to Mouth Paradox. 3. If a Pint Spills in the Forest. 4. The Beer Goggles Paradox. 5. Pascal’s Wager. 6. The Experience Machine. 7. Lucretius’ Spear. 8. The Omnipotence Dilemma. 9. What Mary Didn’t Know About Lager. 10. Malcolm X and the Whites Only Bar. 11. Untangling Taste. 12. The Foreknowledge Paradox. 13. The Buddha’s Missing Self. 14. The Blind Men and the Black and Tan. 15. Liar’s Paradox. 16. Paley’s Cask. 17. Chuang Tzu’s Butterfly. 18. Descartes’ Doubt. 19. God’s Command. 20. Mill’s Drunkard. 21. The Myth of Gyges. 22. Laplace’s Superscientist. 23. Gaunilo’s Perfect Ale. 24. The Problem of Moral Truth. 25. How to Sew on a Soul. 26. Plato’s Forms. 27. Realizing Nirvana. 28. The Problem of Evil. 29. Time’s Conundrum. 30. Time Travel Paradoxes. 31. Hitler’s Lager. 32. The Zen Koan. 33. Sex and Sensibility. 34. Socrates’ Virtue. 35. Nature Calls. 36. Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence. 37. The Most Interesting Man and the Firing Line. 38. Turing’s Tasting Machine. 39. Singer’s Pond. 40. The Wisest One of All. 41. Enter the Matrix. 42. A Case of Bad Faith. 43. Cask and Cleaver. 44. Flirting with Disaster. 45. Fear of Zombies. 46. Lao Tzu’s Empty Mug. 47. Beer and the Meaning of Life. 48. The Case for Temperance. Notes. Glossary of Beer and Philosophical Terms.
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Basic Books The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience
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Ebury Publishing What Am I Doing with My Life?: And other late
Book SynopsisLife philosophy based on Google searchesHave I found 'the one'?Am I a psychopath?Should I be allowed to say whatever I want? Millions of people ask Google all sorts of questions, everything from the big and small. Responding to the biggest, existential questions asked online and using the wisdom of Plato, Kant, Kierkegaard and other philosophical greats philosopher, academic, and all-round polymath, Stephen Law, undertakes the challenge and explores our modern-day concerns with tongue-in-cheek sagacity. No matter what you’ve googled in a midnight moment of existential despair, this book will answer all your burning questions.Trade ReviewA humorous yet serious introduction to philosophy, answering people's real questions from the internet. Nobody will agree with all of it, but it will make everybody think harder. It is full of good and important stuff -- The Reverend Canon Professor Keith Ward, University of OxfordThe wisdom of the past addressing the questions of contemporary life. Law is able to make the most challenging philosophical ideas accessible and relevant to everyday life. A joy to read -- Dr Philip Goff, author of Galileo's Error
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