Résultats pour "Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)"

Pragmatism

William James

• Livre broché | Anglais | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• "The whole function of philosophy ought to be to find out what definite difference it will make to you and to me, at definite instances in our life, i... Savoir plus

The Ethics of Organ Transplants

• Livre broché | Anglais | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• No one argues the need for transplants. The debate centers on how to satisfy the great need for healthy organs. Advances in medical technology and sci... Savoir plus

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Edmund Burke

• Livre broché | Anglais | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• As eighteenth-century Europe sizzled with revolutionary fervor fanned by the flames of the newly won freedom of the British colonies in America, one o... Savoir plus

Reason, Social Myths, and Democracy

Sidney Hook

• Livre broché | Anglais | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• In this fascinating work, Sidney Hook critiques "scientifically inadequate ways of belief" in the hope that, if we recognize the ways in which they ar... Savoir plus

Cyberethics

• Livre broché | Anglais | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• The amazing transformation of society brought about by the wide dispersion of computers has given rise to new moral dilemmas. With the rapid developme... Savoir plus

Gender in African Prehistory

• Livre broché | Anglais | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• Gender in African Prehistory provides methods and theories for delineating and discussing prehistoric gender relations and their change through time. ... Savoir plus

Disability

• Livre broché | Anglais | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• What is it like to experience disability? What are the prevailing cultural attitudes toward those who experience disability? How do social norms and p... Savoir plus

Suicide

• Livre broché | Anglais | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• Classic volume revisits and clarifies the heated debate over life's ultimate choice.Updated and expanded with ten new selections, there is no more com... Savoir plus

The Paradoxes of Freedom

Sidney Hook

• Livre broché | Anglais | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• One of America's most influential social philosophers offers a restatement of traditional liberal-democratic views as they pertain to our constitution... Savoir plus

Essays

Francis Bacon

• Livre broché | Anglais | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• Francis Bacon (1561-1626), scientist, lawyer, and statesman, occupies a unique position in English letters. His most widely read work, the Essays, sti... Savoir plus

The Stem Cell Controversy

• Livre broché | Anglais | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• Stem cell research is headline news. Researchers are eager to move forward, state governments and private foundations are rushing to support it, and t... Savoir plus

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

David Hume

• Livre broché | Anglais | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• Humankind has pondered many mysteries, but few more enticing than the existence of a divine creator who is said to have set the universe in motion. Im... Savoir plus

Affirmative Action

• Livre broché | Anglais | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• What is our goal: equal opportunity or equality of result? The debate rages on.The November 5, 1996 decision by voters in California to eliminate most... Savoir plus

The Essential Epicurus

Epicurus

• Livre broché | Anglais | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• Epicureanism is commonly regarded as the refined satisfaction of physical desires. As a philosophy, however, it also denoted the striving after an ind... Savoir plus

Food for Thought

• Livre broché | Anglais | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• For anyone who has ever wondered about the ethics of killing animals for food, this is the definitive collection of essays on the ethical debate. Writ... Savoir plus

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

David Hume

• Livre broché | Anglais | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• How do we come to have ideas about the world and about the relationships of objects we perceive therein? Is all impressed upon the senses from outside... Savoir plus

Come with Daddy

Carolyn Harris Johnson

• Livre broché | Anglais | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• Come with Daddy examines the tragic crime of familicide-the murder-suicide of children and a parent in the context of a dispute over custody or access... Savoir plus

Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

• Livre broché | Anglais | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• Leibniz (1646 - 1716) was a true polymath and has been called the most comprehensive thinker since Aristotle. In these two great works by the founder ... Savoir plus

A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume

• Livre broché | Anglais | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• "Nothing is more curiously enquired after . . . than the causes of every phenomenon. . . . [We] push on our enquiries, till we arrive at the original ... Savoir plus

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Adam Smith

• Livre broché | Anglais | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• To those who know Adam Smith principally by his classic treatise on economics, The Wealth of Nations, this earlier work may come as a revelation. Smit... Savoir plus

Genetically Modified Foods

• Livre broché | Anglais | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• Finally, the real story about corporate America with its increased reliance on consultants. Since the 1990s, consulting solutions have become the de f... Savoir plus

How We Think

John Dewey

• Livre broché | Anglais | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• John Dewey, one of America's greatest popular philosophers and educators, emphasizes the importance of critical thinking and the vital role education ... Savoir plus

A Discourse on Method and Meditations

Rene Descartes

• Livre broché | Anglais | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• Is knowledge possible? If so, what can we know and how do we come to know it? What degree of certainty does our knowledge enjoy? In these two powerful... Savoir plus

Ethics

Benedictus De Spinoza

• Livre broché | Anglais | Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)
• In the genre of Christian philosophers, Spinoza presents a geometric argument for the necessary existence of God as the one absolute substance underly... Savoir plus