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God, Suffering, and the Value of Free Will

Oxford University Press, 2021

For many of us, the question of whether or not God exists is one of the most perplexing and profound questions of our lives, and numerous philosophers and theologians have debated it for centuries. Laura Ekstrom here takes a new look at the issue of God's existence by examining it against the
reality of human suffering, bringing...

The Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics

MIT Press, 2012

One of the enduring concerns of moral philosophy is deciding who or what is deserving of ethical consideration. Much recent attention has been devoted to the "animal question" -- consideration of the moral status of nonhuman animals. In this book, David Gunkel takes up the "machine question": whether and to what extent...

Making Sense of Motherhood: A Narrative Approach

Cambridge University Press, 2005

Becoming a mother changes lives in many ways, and this book explores how women try to make sense of, and narrate their experiences of, first-time motherhood in industrialized society. It charts the social, cultural and moral contours of contemporary motherhood and engages with sociological and feminist debates on how selves are constituted,...

Mathematica by Example

Academic Press, 1992

Mathematica bv Example is intended to bridge the gap which has existed between the very elementary handbooks available on Mathematica and those reference books written for the more advanced Mathematica users. This book is an extension of a manuscript which was developed to quickly introduce enough Mathematica commands to a group of...

Faith and Place: An Essay in Embodied Religious Epistemology

Oxford University Press, 2009

Faith and Place takes knowledge of place as a basis for thinking about the relationship between religious belief and our embodied life.

Recent epistemology of religion has appealed to various secular analogues for religious belief - especially analogues drawn from sense perception and scientific theory construction. These approaches tend...

The Fearful Rise of Markets: Global Bubbles, Synchronized Meltdowns, and How To Prevent Them in the Future

FT Press, 2010

“This enjoyable, fast-moving book is concise, relevant, and perceptive. My bottom line is a simple one: This book should be read by all those interested in the way markets operate, be they investors, analysts, or policy makers.”

From the Foreword by Mohamed A....

The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics

Cambridge University Press, 2010

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have profoundly changed many aspects of life, including the nature of entertainment, work, communication, education, healthcare, industrial production and business, social relations and conflicts. They have had a radical and widespread impact on our moral lives and hence on contemporary...

Indra's Net and the Midas Touch: Living Sustainably in a Connected World

MIT Press, 2011

We live today in a global web of interdependence, connected technologically, economically, politically, and socially. As a result of these expanding and deepening interdependencies, it has become impossible fully to control -- or foretell -- the effects of our actions. The world is rife with unintended consequences. The first law of human...

The Bloomsbury Companion to Socrates (Bloomsbury Companions)

Bloomsbury Reference, 2013

Socrates, the largely enigmatic Greek thinker, is universally considered to have laid the foundations of western philosophy. His philosophy, available to us through the early dialogues of Plato and the writings of his contemporaries, has had a remarkably enduring influence on virtually every area of philosophical enterprise .

This...

Greed, Lust and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas

Oxford University Press, 2010

When does the pursuit of self-interest go too far, lapsing into morally unacceptable behaviour? Until the unprecedented events of the recent global financial crisis economists often seemed unconcerned with this question, even suggesting that "greed is good." A closer look, however, suggests that greed and lust are generally...

Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes) (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 74)

De Gruyter, 2019

This multiauthored volume, as well as bringing into clearer focus the notion of drama and oratory as important media of public inquiry and critique, aims to generate significant attention to the unified intentions of the dramatist and the orator to establish favourable conditions of internal stability in democratic Athens. We hope that readers...

Kant's Search for the Supreme Principle of Morality

Cambridge University Press, 2002

'... the author joins the discussion of the grounds for a moral theory that has preoccupied philosophers for some time, and advances that discussion significantly further. This is a book that will be required reading for those interested in that topic of Kant's moral theory.' Roger Sullivan, author of Immanuel Kant's Moral Theory and An...

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