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The Political Potential of Sortition
A Study of the Random Selection of Citizens for Public Office
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
The central feature of every true lottery is that all rational evaluation is deliberately excluded. Once this principle is grasped, the author argues, we can begin to understand exactly what benefits sortition can bring to the political community. The book includes a study of the use of sortition...
by William Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
The British idealists of the late 19th and early 20th century are best known for their contributions to metaphysics, logic, and political philosophy. Yet they also made important contributions to social and public policy, social and moral philosophy and moral education, as shown by this volume. Their...
by Lindsay Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Liberal education used to command wide political support. Radicals disagreed with conservatives on whether the best culture could be appreciated by everyone, and they disagreed, too, on whether the barriers to understanding it were mainly social and economic, but there was no dispute that any worthwhile...
by Richard D. Ryder
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Machiavelli almost succeeded in removing morality from European politics and, indeed, since his day it has sometimes been assumed that morality and politics are separate. Ryder argues that the time has come for public policies to be seen to be based upon moral objectives. Politicians should be expected...
Illusionism
as a theory of consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Illusionism is the view that phenomenal consciousness (in the philosophers' sense) is an illusion. This book is a reprint of a special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies devoted to this topic. It takes the form of a target paper by the editor, followed by commentaries from various thinkers,...
Subjectivity and Being Somebody
Human Identity and Neuroethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
This book uses a neo-Aristotelian framework to examine human subjectivity as an embodied being. It examines the varieties of reductionism that affect philosophical writing about human origins and identity, and explores the nature of rational subjectivity as emergent from our neurobiological constitution....
Why the Mind Is Not a Computer
A Pocket Lexicon of Neuromythology
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
The equation "Mind = Machine" is false. This pocket lexicon of "neuromythology" shows why. Taking a series of key words such as calculation, language, information and memory, Professor Tallis shows how their misuse has a lured a whole generation into accepting the computational model of the mind.First...
Getting Darwin Wrong
Why Evolutionary Psychology Won't Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Brendan Wallace, with a background in psychology, demonstrates that the key claims of Evolutionary Psychology (EP), popularised by Steven Pinker and others, are based on the 'brain is a digital computer' argument. He then argues that as we now know this model of the brain will not work, therefore EP...
Art, Morality and Human Nature
Writings by Richard W. Beardsmore
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
This collection brings together the text of the monograph Art and Morality by the philosopher Richard Beardsmore along with fourteen other essays (both published and previously unpublished) in which he explores further some of the themes of his seminal book. With the revival of interest among philosophers...
Depression, Emotion and the Self
Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This volume addresses the question of what it is like to be depressed. Despite the vast amount of research that has been conducted into the causes and treatment of depression, the experience of depression remains poorly understood. Indeed, many depression memoirs state that the experience is impossible...
by Tibor R. Machan
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This work focuses on the topic of freedom. The author starts with the old issue of free will - do we as individual human beings choose our conduct, at least partly independently, freely? He comes down on the side of libertarians who answer Yes, and scorns the compatibilism of philosophers like Daniel...
James Beattie
Selected Philosophical Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
James Beattie (1735-1803) was appointed professor of moral philosophy and logic at Marischal College, Aberdeen, Scotland at the age of twenty-five. Though more fond of poetry than philosophy, he became part of the Scottish 'Common Sense' school of philosophy that included Thomas Reid and George Campbell....
by Laurence Browne
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Although much has been said and written about coincidences, there is a marked absence when it comes to the development of a comprehensive model that incorporates the many different ways in which they can be understood and explained. One reason for this omission is undoubtedly the sharp divide that...
Against All Authority
Anarchism and the Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
This volume examines historical and contemporary engagements of anarchism and literary production. Anarchists have used literary production to express opposition to values and relations characterizing advanced capitalist (and socialist) societies while also expressing key aspects of the alternative values...