Humanism

Humanists are sometimes accused of being so focused on the human race that they ignore the environment and other species. The contributors to this important new work, all humanists in the naturalistic tradition, address their critics by showing that the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439216675Author SemaanFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781441536419Author Michael Mohan JoshuaFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419648212Author Lloyd D MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156216005Author Lewis MumfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner Books

For the first time in English the world community of scholars is systematically assembling and presenting the results of recent research in the vast literature of Soren Kierkegaard. Based on the definitive English edition of Kierkegaard's works by...

This volume collects a number of Perry's classic works on personal identity as well as four new pieces, The Two Faces of Identity,Persons and Information,Self-Notions and The Self, and The Sense of Identity. Perry's Introduction puts his own work and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991996292Author Jean Jacques RousseauFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Binker NorthPublisher Binker NorthWeight(grams) 109g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312610746Author Adam PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957404403Author Alistair SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Almostic PublicationsPublisher Almostic Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780931779732Author Michael WernerFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Humanist PressPublisher Humanist PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

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With exceptionally clear analysis, James Fetzer dissects the philosophical issues underlying today's most contentious moral debates. He examines unflinchingly the controversies where science, religion, and politics meet intelligent design, creationism,...

Mikael Stenmark examines four models of rationality and argues for a discussion of rationality that takes into account the function and aim of such human practices as science and religion.About the AuthorMikael Stenmark is professor in philosophy of...

This book examines the content of a complex perfective anthropology beyond absolute, abstract, negative and minimalist readings. A rich sense of perfection is here to stay because of the ineradicable existential role of gradational estimation in terms of...

The Buddha was what today is called an empirical philosopher, taking his philosophy from careful study of the empirical world, and rejecting "high flown" philosophies. As philosophy of existence, his view overlaps with Marx in his most interesting form,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839983344Author Susan E. BabbittFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780829405040Author James B ReichmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Loyola University Press,U.S.Publisher Loyola University Press,U.S.

Everyday Humanism seeks to move the discussion of humanism's positive contributions to life away from the macro-level to focus on the everyday, or micro-dimensions of our individual and collective existence. How might humanist principles impact...

Global Justice and the Mind of Our Epoch explores the mind of our epoch, defined as the period since the Nuremberg Trial and the establishment of the United Nations in 1945. Xunwu Chen examines four defining ideas of this epoch-global justice,...

This volume begins with excerpts from Aquinas' commentary on De Anima, excerpts that proceed from a general consideration of soul as common to all living things to a consideration of the animal soul and, finally, to what is peculiar to the human soul...

The first modern translation of the complete texts of La Mettrie's pioneering L'Homme machine and L'Homme plante, first published in 1747 and 1748, respectively, this volume also includes translations of the advertisement and dedication to L'Homme...

Are we made of junk? Thierry Bardini believes we are. Examining an array of cybernetic structures from genetic codes to communication networks, he explores the idea that most of culture and nature, including humans, is composed primarily of useless, but...

Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre are usually identified with completely different philosophical traditions: intellectualism and voluntarism. In this original study, Stephen Wang shows, instead, that there are some profound similarities in their...

In thirteen original essays, eminent scholars of the history of philosophy and of contemporary philosophy examine weakness of will, or incontinence - the phenomenon of acting contrary to one's better judgment. The volume covers all major periods of...

Digital Media: Human-Technology Connection examines what it is like to be alive in today's technologically textured world and showcases specific digital media technologies that make this kind of world possible. So much of human experience occurs through...

In this book, Sven Bernecker investigates the defining characteristics of memory and the issues essential to understanding it. The book gives a comprehensive philosophical account of memory and illuminates issues central to contemporary discussions of...

Philosophers, both western and eastern, have long been divided between 'humanists', for whom 'man is the measure of things', and their opponents, who claim that there is a way, in principle knowable and describable, that the world anyway is, independent...

"A powerful study of weakness of will combining ethical, semantic, and literary insights." -- Michael Stocker, Syracuse UniversityAbout the AuthorRobert Dunn is the author of a series of fiction novels about rock-music history, including Cutting Time,...

A subtle and distinguished work by a philosopher renowned for his groundbreaking analysis of human emotions, About LoveAbout the AuthorRobert C. Solomon, (1942-2007), was Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy and Distinguished...

Designed for a first course in the philosophy of mind, this book has several distinctive features. Unlike any other book of its kind, it offers extensive treatment of the emotions and of the problem of other minds. Throughout the text insights from other...

Explores the ideas of Turing, Lucas, Scriven, Putnam, and Searle, and renders the Goedel-Church-Lucas argument in terms intelligible to beginning students.Updated and expanded to take into account important arguments and developments in the ten years...

Explores the ideas of Turing, Lucas, Scriven, Putnam, and Searle, and renders the Goedel-Church-Lucas argument in terms intelligible to beginning students.Updated and expanded to take into account important arguments and developments in the ten years...

Tyler Roberts encourages scholars to abandon rigid conceptual oppositions between "secular" and "religious" to better understand how human beings actively and thoughtfully engage with their worlds and make meaning. The artificial distinction between a...

Tyler Roberts encourages scholars to abandon rigid conceptual oppositions between "secular" and "religious" to better understand how human beings actively and thoughtfully engage with their worlds and make meaning. The artificial distinction between a...

Caught in the whirlwind of the postindustrial revolution, many members of today's labor force look upon the changing job landscape and feel displaced and devalued. Robert Sessions and Jack Wortman have compiled this selection of humanities readings to...

Do the reasons we have for acting as we do derive from our concerns and desires, or are there objective values in the world that we are rationally required to pursue and protect? Alan H. Goldman argues for the internalist or subjectivist view of...

What is intentionality? Intentionality is a distinguishing characteristic of states of mind (such as beliefs, thoughts, wishes, dreams, and desires): that they are about things outside themselves. About this book: William Lyons explores various ways...