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Whale and the Reactor A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226692548, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"In an age in which the inexhaustible power of scientific technology makes all things possible, it remains to be seen where we will draw the line, where we will be able to say, here are possibilities that wisdom suggest we avoid". First published to...
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Aristotle Democracy and Political Science
ISBN: HB: 9780226553542, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Today, democracy is seen as the best or even the only legitimate form of government – hardly in need of defense. Delba Winthrop punctures this complacency and takes up the challenge of justifying democracy through Aristotle's political science. In Ar...
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Moral Meaning of Nature Nietzsche's Darwinian Religion and Its Critics
ISBN: PB: 9780226539898, ISBN: HB: 9780226539751, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
What, if anything, does biological evolution tell us about the nature of religion, ethical values, or even the meaning and purpose of life? "The Moral Meaning of Nature" sheds new light on these enduring questions by examining the significance of an...
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Android Dreams The Past, Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence
ISBN: HB: 9781849048712, Hurst Publishers, September 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The development of thinking machines is an adventure as bold and ambitious as any that humans have attempted. And the truth is that Artificial Intelligence is already an indispensable part of our daily lives. Without it, Google...
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£17,99
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Does Altruism Exist? Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others
ISBN: PB: 9780300219883, ISBN: HB: 9780300189490, Yale University Press, April 2016
224 pp., 21x14 cm
David Sloan Wilson, one of the world's leading evolutionists, addresses a question that has puzzled philosophers, psychologists, and evolutionary biologists for centuries: Does altruism exist naturally among the Earth's creatures? The key to understa...
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Acquaintance, Knowledge, and Logic New Essays on Bertrand Russell's "The Problems of Philosophy"
ISBN: PB: 9781575868462, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2015
281 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Bertrand Russell, the recipient of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature, was one of the most distinguished, influential, and prolific philosophers of the twentieth century".Acquaintance, Knowledge, and Logic" brings together ten new essays on Russell'...
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Lost Second Book of Aristotle's "Poetics"
ISBN: PB: 9780226274119, ISBN: HB: 9780226875088, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
336 pp., 23x15 cm
Of all the writings on theory and aesthetics – ancient, medieval, or modern – the most important is indisputably Aristotle's "Poetics", the first philosophical treatise to propound a theory of literature. In the "Poetics", Aristotle writes that he wi...
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£43,50
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Rhythm of Thought Art, Literature, and Music after Merleau-Ponty
ISBN: PB: 9780226274256, ISBN: HB: 9780226030920, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
184 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 halftones, 20 line illus.
Between present and past, visible and invisible, and sensation and idea, there is resonance – so philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty argued and so Jessica Wiskus explores in "The Rhythm of Thought". Holding the poetry of Stephane Mallarme, the painting...
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Vindication of the Rights of Woman
ISBN: PB: 9780300176476, Yale University Press, August 2014
416 pp., 21x14 cm
Mary Wollstonecraft's visionary treatise, originally published in 1792, was the first book to present women's rights as an issue of universal human rights. Ideal for coursework and classroom study, this comprehensive edition of Wollstonecraft's heart...
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Adam Smith's Pluralism Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments
ISBN: HB: 9780300162530, Yale University Press, October 2013
360 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
In this thought-provoking study, Jack Russell Weinstein suggests the foundations of liberalism can be found in the writings of Adam Smith (1723-1790), a pioneer of modern economic theory and a major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. While offerin...
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