Modality – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 9

Kurt Gray

Outraged

A groundbreaking new perspective on the moral mind that rewrites our understanding of where moral judgments come from, and how we can overcome the feelings of outrage that so often divide us It’s easy to…

David Edmonds

Parfit

From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilism Derek Parfit (1942–2017) is the mos…

Joseph F. Fletcher

Situation Ethics

This is a new edition of Joseph Fletcher's 1966 work that ignited a firestorm of controversy at the time of its publication. It was hailed by many as a much-needed reformation of morality--and as an invit…

Ruth Braunstein

My Tax Dollars

When the mundane reality of paying taxes takes on moral significanceIn My Tax Dollars, Ruth Braunstein maps the contested moral landscape in which Americans experience and make sense of the tax system. Br…

Hanno Sauer

The Invention of Good and Evil

For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing and reinventing the concepts of 'Good' and 'Evil', and weaving them into our cities, laws and customs. Mo…

Mohammed Ghaly

Islamic Ethics and Incidental Findings

This open access book offers unique insights into the key ethical issues faced by practitioners and discussed by ethicists in the field of genomics and incidental findings, with a focus on the Islamic mor…

Jing Xu

'Unruly' Children

How do we become moral persons? What about children's active learning in contrast to parenting? What can children teach us about knowledge-making more broadly? Answer these questions by delving into the g…

Dmitri Tymoczko

Tonality

Wide-ranging in scope, and with almost 700 musical examples from the Middle Ages to the present day, Tonality: An Owner's Manual weaves philosophy, mathematics, statistics, and computational analysis into…

Jing Xu

'Unruly' Children

"Integrating humanistic interpretation with computational and machine-learning approaches, this book examines the 1958-1960 Taiwan fieldnotes of two renowned anthropologists. The world's first ethnographi…

Hanno Sauer

The Invention of Good and Evil

In this ambitious volume Hanno Sauer integrates the findings of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research into a sweeping synthetic narrative of human evolution -- a history with morality at its core. He ex…

Matt Wilde

A Blessing and a Curse

"A Blessing and a Curse examines the lived experience of political change, moral uncertainty, and economic crisis amid Venezuela's controversial Bolivarian Revolution. Drawing on ethnographic research con…

Matt Wilde

A Blessing and a Curse

"A Blessing and a Curse examines the lived experience of political change, moral uncertainty, and economic crisis amid Venezuela's controversial Bolivarian Revolution. Drawing on ethnographic research con…

Annette Hanshaw

The Personality Girl

Ype de Boer

Agamben's Ethics of the Happy Life

Ype de Boer invites you to rethink what you know about the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben. In a compelling and original argument, De Boer contends that, in the work of Agamben, ethics takes primacy over p…

Lorenzo Magnani

Understanding Violence

This book offers a philosophical account of violence, engaged with both empirical and theoretical debates in disciplines such as cognitive science, sociology, psychiatry, anthropology, political theory, e…

J. A. Mitchell

You - The Greatest Good

Beneath the surface of modern governance lies a hidden tug of war, silently shaping the fabric of law and politics in liberal democracies. This book uncovers and explores the two enduring sets of ideas be…

Darren Bryant

Agency and Locality in the London Blitz

This book takes a fresh approach to the London Blitz by viewing this time through individual local boroughs of the metropolis. The term London Blitz means that culturally we have become accustomed to un…

Kristin Surak

The Golden Passport

Kristin Surak offers the first on-the-ground investigation of the global market in citizenship for the rich. She tracks the countries that sell citizenship, the elites who buy it, and the intermediaries w…

Roger Crisp

Sacrifice Regained

From Thomas Hobbes to Jeremy Bentham, 'British Moralists' have questioned whether being virtuous makes you happy. Roger Crisp elucidates their views on happiness and virtue, self-interest and sacrifice, a…