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Author: Raymond Geuss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-05-20
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1108930611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA survey on the nature of work, integrating conceptual analysis, historical reflection, autobiography and social commentary.
Author: Onora O'Neill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-02-10
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1108986811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores how digital technologies have raised new ethical issues for communication.
Author: Nancy Cartwright
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-06-30
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1009201905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is science and what can it do? Nancy Cartwright here takes issue with three common images of science: that it amounts to the combination of theory and experiment; that all science is basically reducible to physics; and that science and the natural world which it pictures are deterministic. The author's innovative and thoughtful book draws on examples from the physical, life, and social sciences alike, and focuses on all the products of science – not just experiments or theories – and how they work together. She reveals just what it is that makes science ultimately reliable, and how this reliability is nevertheless still compatible with a view of nature as more responsive to human change than we might think. Her book is a call for greater intellectual humility by and within scientific institutions. It will have strong appeal to anyone who thinks about science and how it is practised in society.
Author: Stephen Mumford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-05-20
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1108994938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduces the reader to a host of philosophical topics found in sport, exploring the place of sport in our lives.
Author: Raymond Geuss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-05-20
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1108944221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs work as we know it disappearing? And if so why should we care? These questions are explored by Raymond Geuss in this compact but sweeping survey which integrates conceptual analysis, historical reflection, autobiography and social commentary. Geuss explores our concept of work and its origins in industrial production, the incentives and compulsions which societies use to get us to work, and the powerful hold which the work ethic has over so many of us. He also looks at dissatisfaction with work - which is as old as work itself - and at various radical proposals for doing away with it, and at the seemingly irreversible growth of unemployment as a result of mechanisation. His book will interest anyone who wishes to understand the place of work in our world. This new series offers short and personal perspectives by expert thinkers on topics that we all encounter in our everyday lives.
Author: Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2019-07-30
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1501172514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom one of the world’s most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend our divided country. For decades Martha C. Nussbaum has been an acclaimed scholar and humanist, earning dozens of honors for her books and essays. In The Monarchy of Fear she turns her attention to the current political crisis that has polarized American since the 2016 election. Although today’s atmosphere is marked by partisanship, divisive rhetoric, and the inability of two halves of the country to communicate with one another, Nussbaum focuses on what so many pollsters and pundits have overlooked. She sees a simple truth at the heart of the problem: the political is always emotional. Globalization has produced feelings of powerlessness in millions of people in the West. That sense of powerlessness bubbles into resentment and blame. Blame of immigrants. Blame of Muslims. Blame of other races. Blame of cultural elites. While this politics of blame is exemplified by the election of Donald Trump and the vote for Brexit, Nussbaum argues it can be found on all sides of the political spectrum, left or right. Drawing on a mix of historical and contemporary examples, from classical Athens to the musical Hamilton, The Monarchy of Fear untangles this web of feelings and provides a roadmap of where to go next.
Author: Nancy Cartwright
Publisher:
Published: 2022
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781009201896
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Three common images of science, widely shared alike by philosophers, scientists and people in general: 1) science = theory + experiment, 2) it's all physics really, 3) science is deterministic: it says that what happens next follows inexorably from what happened before. This book paints, one-by-one, alternative pictures to these three standard images of science "--
Author: Benjamin Hale
Publisher: Open Court
Published: 2012-03-30
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0812698185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChess, the ancient strategy game, meets the latest, cutting-edge philosophy in this unique book. When 12 philosophers weigh in on one of the world's oldest and most beloved pastimes, the results are often surprising. Philosophical concepts as varied as phenomenology and determinism share the page with a treatise on hip-hop chess tactics and the question of whether Garry Kasparov is, in fact, a cyborg. Putting forth a remarkable array of different views on chess from philosophers with varied chess-proficiency, Philosophy Looks at Chess is an engaging read for chess adherents and the philosophically inclined alike.
Author: Paul Guyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-05-20
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1108909566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat should our buildings look like? Or is their usability more important than their appearance? Paul Guyer argues that the fundamental goals of architecture first identified by the Roman architect Marcus Pollio Vitruvius - good construction, functionality, and aesthetic appeal - have remained valid despite constant changes in human activities, building materials and technologies, as well as in artistic styles and cultures. Guyer discusses philosophers and architects throughout history, including Alberti, Kant, Ruskin, Wright, and Loos, and surveys the ways in which their ideas are brought to life in buildings across the world. He also considers the works and words of contemporary architects including Annabelle Selldorf, Herzog and de Meuron, and Steven Holl, and shows that - despite changing times and fashions - good architecture continues to be something worth striving for. This new series offers short and personal perspectives by expert thinkers on topics that we all encounter in our everyday lives.
Author: Michael Ruse
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-05-20
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1108820433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConsiders why humans consider themselves superior to all other animals, and whether they are right to do so.
