Michael Huemer: 6 books

Since Descartes, one of the central questions of Western philosophy has been that of how we know that the objects we seem to perceive are real. Philosophical skeptics claim that we know no such thing. Representationalists claim that we can gain such knowledge only by inference, by showing that the...

Border control continues to be a highly contested and politically charged subject around the world. This collection of essays challenges reactionary nationalism by making the positive case for the benefits of free movement for countries on both ends of the exchange. Open Borders counters the knee-jerk...

After lives filled with deep suffering, 74 billion animals are slaughtered worldwide every year on factory farms. Is it wrong to buy the products of this industry? In this book, two college students – a meat-eater and an ethical vegetarian – discuss this question in a series of dialogues...

Paradox Lost covers ten of philosophy’s most fascinating paradoxes, in which seemingly compelling reasoning leads to absurd conclusions. The following paradoxes are included:  The Liar Paradox, in which a sentence says of itself that it is false. Is the sentence true or false? The...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich VWL - Fallstudien, Länderstudien, Note: Sehr gut, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (Institut für Finanzwissenschaft und Öffentliche Wirtschaft), Veranstaltung: Instituionenökonomik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Seit Beginn der Europäischen Integration...

Das Buch richtet sich vor allem an junge Anästhesiologen und Assistenzärzte auf Intensivstationen, die die Technik der transösophageale Echokardiographie erlernen möchten, aber ebenso an Kardiologen und Internisten, die Patienten kardiologisch betreuen.