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Descartes
A Very Short Introduction
Av Tom Sorell
Häftad, 2000
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René Descartes (1596-1650) had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endured to the present day. He is perhaps best known for his statement 'Cogito, ergo sum'. By a mixture of 'intuition' and 'deduction' Descartes derived …
Descartes
A Very Short Introduction
Av Tom Sorell
E-bok, 2000
92 kr
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René Descartes (1596-1650) had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endured to the present day. He is perhaps best known for his statement ''Cogito, ergo sum''. By a mixture of ''intuition'' and ''deduction'' Descartes …
Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy
Av G. A. J. Rogers, Tom Sorell
E-bok, 2005
1888 kr
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Philosophy written in English is overwhelmingly analytic philosophy, and the techniques and predilections of analytic philosophy are not only unhistorical but anti-historical, and hostile to textual commentary. Analytic usually aspires to a very high degree of clarity and precision of formulation …
Descartes
A Very Short Introduction
Av Tom Sorell
E-bok, 2000
92 kr
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René Descartes (1596-1650) had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endured to the present day. He is perhaps best known for his statement ''Cogito, ergo sum''. By a mixture of ''intuition'' and ''deduction'' Descartes …
The Rise of Modern Philosophy
The Tension between the New and Traditional Philosophies from Machiavelli to Leibniz
Av Tom Sorell
Häftad, 1995
986 kr
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`Modern' philosophy in the West is said to have begun with Bacon and Descartes. Their methodological and metaphysical writings, in conjunction with the discoveries that marked the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, are supposed to have interred both Aristotelian and scholastic science and …
Leviathan after 350 Years
Inbunden, 2004
2673 kr
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Tom Sorell and Luc Foisneau bring together original essays by the world's leading Hobbes scholars to discuss Hobbes's masterpiece after three and a half centuries. The contributors address three different themes. The first is the place of Leviathan within Hobbes's output as a political philosopher. …
Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy
Av Tom Sorell, G. A. J. Rogers
Inbunden, 2005
2948 kr
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Philosophy written in English is overwhelmingly analytic philosophy, and the techniques and predilections of analytic philosophy are not only unhistorical but anti-historical, and hostile to textual commentary. Analytic usually aspires to a very high degree of clarity and precision of formulation …
Business Ethics After the Global Financial Crisis
Lessons from The Crash
Av Christopher Cowton, James Dempsey m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
722 kr
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The global financial crisis (GFC) that began in 2007 concentrated attention on the morality of banking and financial activities. Just as mainstream businesses became increasingly defined by their financial performance, banks, it seemed, got themselves – and everyone else – into trouble through an …
Scientism
Philosophy and the Infatuation with Science
Av Tom Sorell
Häftad, 1994
812 kr
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First Published in 2004. Scientism is the belief that science, especially natural science, is the most valuable part of our culture. Although not confined to philosophers, it is from Bacon and Descartes up to the naturalized epistemology of Quine that the clearest statements of the scientistic …
Health Care, Ethics and Insurance
Inbunden, 1998
766 kr
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This volume is an exploration of the ethical issues raised by health insurance, which is particularly timely in the light of recent advances in medical research and political economy. Focusing on a wide range of areas, such as AIDS, genetic engineering, screening and underwriting, new disability …
Health Care, Ethics and Insurance
Häftad, 1998
372 kr
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This volume is an exploration of the ethical issues raised by health insurance, which is particularly timely in the light of recent advances in medical research and political economy. Focusing on a wide range of areas, such as AIDS, genetic engineering, screening and underwriting, new disability …
Hobbes
The Arguments of the Philosophers
Av Tom Sorell
Inbunden, 1999
4603 kr
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First Published in 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher of major influence and significance. Hobbes's writings are …
Hobbes
The Arguments of the Philosophers
Av Tom Sorell
Häftad, 2008
754 kr
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First Published in 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher of major influence and significance. Hobbes's writings are …
Insiders and Outsiders in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
Av G.A.J. Rogers, Tom Sorell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2759 kr
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Seventeenth-century philosophy scholars come together in this volume to address the Insiders--Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, and Hobbes--and Outsiders--Pierre Gassendi, Kenelm Digby, Theophilus Gale, Ralph Cudworth and Nicholas Malebranche--of the philosocial canon, and the ways in which …
Insiders and Outsiders in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
Av G.A.J. Rogers, Tom Sorell m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
915 kr
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Seventeenth-century philosophy scholars come together in this volume to address the Insiders--Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, and Hobbes--and Outsiders--Pierre Gassendi, Kenelm Digby, Theophilus Gale, Ralph Cudworth and Nicholas Malebranche--of the philosocial canon, and the ways in which …
Business Ethics After the Global Financial Crisis
Lessons from The Crash
Av Tom Sorell, James Dempsey m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
849 kr
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The global financial crisis (GFC) that began in 2007 concentrated attention on the morality of banking and financial activities. Just as mainstream businesses became increasingly defined by their financial performance, banks, it seemed, got themselves – and everyone else – into trouble through …
Business Ethics After the Global Financial Crisis
Lessons from The Crash
Av Tom Sorell, James Dempsey m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
849 kr
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The global financial crisis (GFC) that began in 2007 concentrated attention on the morality of banking and financial activities. Just as mainstream businesses became increasingly defined by their financial performance, banks, it seemed, got themselves – and everyone else – into trouble through …
Cambridge Companion to Hobbes
Av Tom Sorell
E-bok, 1996
511 kr
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It was as a political thinker that Thomas Hobbes first came to prominence, and it is as a political theorist that he is most studied today. Yet the range of his writings extends well beyond morals and politics. Hobbes had distinctive views in metaphysics and epistemology, and wrote about such …
The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes
Av Tom Sorell
Inbunden, 1996
1413 kr
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It was as a political thinker that Thomas Hobbes first came to prominence, and it is as a political theorist that he is most studied today. Yet the range of his writings extends well beyond morals and politics. Hobbes had distinctive views in metaphysics and epistemology, and wrote about such …
The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes
Av Tom Sorell
Häftad, 1996
536 kr
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It was as a political thinker that Thomas Hobbes first came to prominence, and it is as a political theorist that he is most studied today. Yet the range of his writings extends well beyond morals and politics. Hobbes had distinctive views in metaphysics and epistemology, and wrote about such …
Descartes' Meditations
Background Source Materials
Av Rene Descartes, Roger Ariew m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1710 kr
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No single text could be considered more important in the history of philosophy than Descartes' Meditations. This unique collection of background material to this magisterial philosophical text has been translated from the original French and Latin. The texts gathered here illustrate the kinds of …
Descartes' Meditations
Background Source Materials
Av Rene Descartes, Roger Ariew m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
878 kr
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No single text could be considered more important in the history of philosophy than Descartes' Meditations. This unique collection of background material to this magisterial philosophical text has been translated from the original French and Latin. The texts gathered here illustrate the kinds of …
Descartes Reinvented
Av Tom Sorell
Inbunden, 2005
1058 kr
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In this study, Tom Sorell seeks to rehabilitate views that are often instantly dismissed in analytic philosophy. His book serves as a reinterpretation of Cartesianism and responds directly to the dislike of Descartes in contemporary philosophy. To identify what is defensible in Cartesianism, Sorell …
Moral Theory and Capital Punishment
Av Tom Sorell
Häftad, 1987
555 kr
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Tom Sorell's book concerns not simply capital punishment but the use of philosophical theories of right and wrong. He argues that such theories are not to be regarded as giving expert knowledge of value, still less a definite technique for resolving practical dilemmas. Instead, they improve moral …
Moral Theory and Anomaly
Av Tom Sorell
Inbunden, 1999
1561 kr
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Moral Theory and Anomaly considers and rejects the claim that moral theory is too utopian to apply properly to worldly pursuits like political office holding and business, and too patriarchal and speciesist to generate a theory of justice applicable to women and the non-human natural world.
Moral Theory and Anomaly
Av Tom Sorell
Häftad, 1999
583 kr
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Moral Theory and Anomaly considers and rejects the claim that moral theory is too utopian to apply properly to worldly pursuits like political office holding and business, and too patriarchal and speciesist to generate a theory of justice applicable to women and the non-human natural world.
Ethics and Epistemology of Vaccine Hesitancy
Inbunden, 2026
2525 kr
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Philosophers have long discussed the ethical and epistemological issues raised by vaccines, but issues have assumed new significance since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This volume focuses on vaccine hesitancy as a case of deep overlap of ethics and epistemology.Vaccine hesitancy stems …
Emergencies and Politics
A Sober Hobbesian Approach
Av Tom Sorell
Inbunden, 2013
1628 kr
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In this book Tom Sorell argues that emergencies can justify types of action that would normally be regarded as wrong. Beginning with the ethics of emergencies facing individuals, he explores the range of effective and legitimate private emergency response and its relation to public institutions, …
Microfinance, Rights and Global Justice
Inbunden, 2015
1450 kr
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Microfinance - the practice of providing small loans to promote entrepreneurial activity among those with few financial assets - is increasingly seen as a sustainable means of aiding the global poor. Perhaps its most influential advocate, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, has claimed that there is a …
Health Care, Ethics and Insurance
E-bok, 2002
436 kr
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This volume is an exploration of the ethical issues raised by health insurance, which is particularly timely in the light of recent advances in medical research and political economy. Focusing on a wide range of areas, such as AIDS, genetic engineering, screening and underwriting, new disability …
