Hit the Road, Jack: Essays on the Culture of the American Road
Gordon E. Slethaug and Stacilee Ford
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All travelers know the seductive power of the open road and its suggestions of possibility, escape,...
Practical Knowledge: Selected Essays
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In the last forty years, action theory has revitalized moral philosophy. Philosophers have explored...
Sacrifice in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
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An examination of the practice and philosophy of sacrifice in three religious traditions In the book...
The Ethics of Sports Coaching
Alun R. Hardman, Carwyn Jones, Mike J. McNamee and Heather Reid
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* Is the role of the sports coach simply to improve sporting performance? * What are the key ethical...
The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the Jennifer Aniston Neuron
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If we lose our memories, are we still ourselves? Is identity merely a collection of electrical...
The Multiple Realization Book
Thomas W. Polger and Lawrence A. Shapiro
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Since Hilary Putnam offered multiple realization as an empirical hypothesis in the 1960s,...
The Rationality of Perception
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On a traditional conception of the human mind,reasoning can be rational or irrational, but...
What is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic
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What is Islam? How do we grasp a human and historical phenomenon characterized by such variety and...
Chance in Evolution
Grant Ramsey and Charles H. Pence
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Humans, however much we would care to think otherwise, do not represent the fated pinnacle of ape...
Order and Disorder: Science Essentials for the Non-Scientist
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Order and Disorder is a non-mathematical introduction to the most important ideas in science for...