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Cengage Advantage Books: Understanding Arguments
An Introduction to Informal Logic
Av Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Robert Fogelin
Häftad, 2014
1099 kr
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ADVANGEBOOKS - UNDERSTANDING ARGUMENTS: AN INTRODUCTION TO INFORMAL LOGIC, 9E shows readers how to construct arguments in everyday life, using everyday language. In addition, this easy-to-read textbook also devotes three chapters to the formal aspects of logic including forms of argument, as well …
Neuroscience and Philosophy
Av Felipe De Brigard, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
1066 kr
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Neuroscience and Philosophy II
Av Felipe De Brigard, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
982 kr
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An interdisciplinary volume exploring the intersection of neuroscience and philosophy as applied to morality, agency, mental imagery, consciousness, and representation. Neuroscience and Philosophy II , edited by Felipe De Brigard and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, continues the interdisciplinary mission …
Free Will
Philosophers and Neuroscientists in Conversation
Av Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Uri Maoz
E-bok, 2022
277 kr
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What is free will? Can it exist in a determined universe? How can we determine who, if anyone, possesses it? Philosophers have debated the extent of human free will for millennia. In recent decades neuroscientists have joined the fray with questions of their own. Which neural mechanisms could …
Think Again
How to Reason and Argue
Häftad, 2018
130 kr
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A masterclass in persuasion from the inspiring philosopher who has taught a million people to argue through his popular open online courseOur personal and political worlds are rife with arguments and disagreements, some of them petty and vitriolic. The inability to compromise and understand the …
Think Again
How to Reason and Argue
E-bok, 2018
108 kr
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A masterclass in persuasion from the inspiring philosopher who has taught a million people to argue through his popular open online courseOur personal and political worlds are rife with arguments and disagreements, some of them petty and vitriolic. The inability to compromise and understand the …
Clean Hands
Philosophical Lessons from Scrupulosity
Av Jesse S. Summers, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Inbunden, 2019
1148 kr
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People with scrupulosity have rigorous, obsessive moral beliefs that lead them to perform extreme, compulsive moral acts. A waitress with this condition checks and rechecks levels of cleaners and solvents to avoid any risk of poisoning her customers. Another individual asks repeatedly whether he …
Clean Hands
Philosophical Lessons from Scrupulosity
Av Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Jesse S. Summers
E-bok, 2019
1027 kr
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People with scrupulosity have rigorous, obsessive moral beliefs that lead them to perform extreme, compulsive moral acts. A waitress with this condition checks and rechecks levels of cleaners and solvents to avoid any risk of poisoning her customers. Another individual asks repeatedly whether he …
Clean Hands
Philosophical Lessons from Scrupulosity
Av Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Jesse S. Summers
E-bok, 2019
1027 kr
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People with scrupulosity have rigorous, obsessive moral beliefs that lead them to perform extreme, compulsive moral acts. A waitress with this condition checks and rechecks levels of cleaners and solvents to avoid any risk of poisoning her customers. Another individual asks repeatedly whether he …
Finding Consciousness
The Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law of Severe Brain Damage
Av Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Inbunden, 2016
1720 kr
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Modern medicine enables us to keep many people alive after they have suffered severe brain damage and show no reliable outward signs of consciousness. Many such patients are misdiagnosed as being in a permanent vegetative state when they are actually in a minimally conscious state. This mistake has …
Finding Consciousness
The Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law of Severe Brain Damage
E-bok, 2016
935 kr
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Modern medicine enables us to keep many people alive after they have suffered severe brain damage and show no reliable outward signs of consciousness. Many such patients are misdiagnosed as being in a permanent vegetative state when they are actually in a minimally conscious state. This mistake has …
Finding Consciousness
The Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law of Severe Brain Damage
E-bok, 2016
935 kr
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Modern medicine enables us to keep many people alive after they have suffered severe brain damage and show no reliable outward signs of consciousness. Many such patients are misdiagnosed as being in a permanent vegetative state when they are actually in a minimally conscious state. This mistake has …
Pyrrhonian Skepticism
E-bok, 2004
734 kr
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Throughout the history of philosophy, skepticism has posed one of the central challenges of epistemology. Opponents of skepticism--including externalists, contextualists, foundationalists, and coherentists--have focussed largely on one particular variety of skepticism, often called Cartesian or …
Conscious Will and Responsibility
A Tribute to Benjamin Libet
Av Lynn Nadel, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
E-bok, 2010
1064 kr
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We all seem to think that we do the acts we do because we consciously choose to do them. This commonsense view is thrown into dispute by Benjamin Libet''s eyebrow-raising experiments, which seem to suggest that conscious will occurs not before but after the start of brain activity that produces …
Moral Knowledge?: New Readings in Moral Epistemology
Av Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Mark Timmons
Inbunden, 1996
2257 kr
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Moral Knowledge New Readings
Av Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Mark Timmons m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
1000 kr
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This is a collection of essays on the topic of moral knowledge. Each paper represents a major position within the field of moral epistemology, and starts by introducing readers to the position the author defends, locating that position vis-a-vis competing views, and explaining technical vocabulary, …
Philosophy of Law
Classic and Contemporary Readings with Commentary
Av Frederick Schauer, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Inbunden, 1995
2993 kr
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Ideal for undergraduate courses in philosophy of law, this comprehensive anthology examines such topics as the concept of law, the dispute between natural law theorists and legal positivists, the relations between law and morality, criminal responsibility and legal punishment, the rights of the …
Pyrrhonian Skepticism
Inbunden, 2004
1109 kr
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Throughout the history of philosophy, skepticism has posed one of the central challenges of epistemology. Yet the only skeptical view that has been truly held--by Sextus, Montaigne, Hume, Wittgenstein, and, most recently, Robert Fogelin--has been Pyrrohnian skepticism. Pyrrhonian skeptics do not …
Moral Skepticisms
Inbunden, 2006
1001 kr
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Moral epistemology is the term for thinking about how a moral belief can be justified. All contentious moral issues --from gay marriage to terrorism--raise difficult questions about the formation and status of moral beliefs. If we do form an opinion, how is that belief justified, particularly when …
Morality Without God?
Inbunden, 2009
649 kr
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Some argue that atheism must be false, since without God, no values are possible, and thus "everything is permitted." Walter Sinnott-Armstrong argues that God is not only not essential to morality, but that our moral behavior should be utterly independent of religion. He attacks several core ideas: …
Moral Skepticisms
Häftad, 2008
552 kr
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Sinnott-Armstrong here provides an extensive survey of the difficult subject of moral beliefs. He covers theories that grapple with questions of morality such as naturalism, normativism, intuitionism, and coherentism. He then defends his own theory that he calls "moderate moral skepticism," which …
Conscious Will and Responsibility
A Tribute to Benjamin Libet
Av SINNOTT-ARMSTRONG, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1940 kr
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We all seem to think that we do the acts we do because we consciously choose to do them. This commonsense view is thrown into dispute by Benjamin Libet's eyebrow-raising experiments, which seem to suggest that conscious will occurs not before but after the start of brain activity that produces …
Free Will
Philosophers and Neuroscientists in Conversation
Av Uri Maoz, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Inbunden, 2022
1469 kr
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What is free will? Can it exist in a determined universe? How can we determine who, if anyone, possesses it? Philosophers have debated the extent of human free will for millennia. In recent decades neuroscientists have joined the fray with questions of their own. Which neural mechanisms could …
Free Will
Philosophers and Neuroscientists in Conversation
Av Uri Maoz, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Häftad, 2022
337 kr
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What is free will? Can it exist in a determined universe? How can we determine who, if anyone, possesses it? Philosophers have debated the extent of human free will for millennia. In recent decades neuroscientists have joined the fray with questions of their own. Which neural mechanisms could …
Free Will
Philosophers and Neuroscientists in Conversation
Av Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Uri Maoz
E-bok, 2022
277 kr
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What is free will? Can it exist in a determined universe? How can we determine who, if anyone, possesses it? Philosophers have debated the extent of human free will for millennia. In recent decades neuroscientists have joined the fray with questions of their own. Which neural mechanisms could …
Pyrrhonian Skepticism
E-bok, 2004
734 kr
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Throughout the history of philosophy, skepticism has posed one of the central challenges of epistemology. Opponents of skepticism--including externalists, contextualists, foundationalists, and coherentists--have focussed largely on one particular variety of skepticism, often called Cartesian or …
Moral Skepticism
E-bok, 2006
294 kr
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All contentious moral issues--from gay marriage to abortion and affirmative action--raise difficult questions about the justification of moral beliefs. How can we be justified in holding on to our own moral beliefs while recognizing that other intelligent people feel quite differently and that many …
Conscious Will and Responsibility
A Tribute to Benjamin Libet
Av Lynn Nadel, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
E-bok, 2010
1064 kr
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We all seem to think that we do the acts we do because we consciously choose to do them. This commonsense view is thrown into dispute by Benjamin Libet''s eyebrow-raising experiments, which seem to suggest that conscious will occurs not before but after the start of brain activity that produces …
Morality Without God?
E-bok, 2009
228 kr
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Some argue that atheism must be false, since without God, no values are possible, and thus "everything is permitted." Walter Sinnott-Armstrong argues that God is not only not essential to morality, but that our moral behavior should be utterly independent of religion. He attacks several core ideas: …
