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What is Consciousness? A Debate

What is Consciousness? A Debate

What is consciousness and why is it so philosophically and scientifically puzzling? For many years philosophers approached this question assuming a standard physicalist framework on which consciousness can be explained by contemporary physics biology neuroscience and cognitive science. This book is a debate between two philosophers who are united in their rejection of this kind of standard physicalism - but who differ sharply in what lesson to draw from this. Amy Kind defends dualism 2. 0 a thoroughly modern version of dualism (the theory that there are two fundamentally different kinds of things in the world: those that are physical and those that are mental) decoupled from any religious or non-scientific connotations. Daniel Stoljar defends non-standard physicalism a kind of physicalism different from both the standard version and dualism 2. 0. The book presents a cutting-edge assessment of the philosophy of consciousness and provides a glimpse at what the future study of this area might bring. Key Features Outlines the different things people mean by consciousness and provides an account of what consciousness is Reviews the key arguments for thinking that consciousness is incompatible with physicalism Explores and provides a defense of contrasting responses to those arguments with a special focus on responses that reject the standard physicalist framework Provides an account of the basic aims of the science of consciousness Written in a lively and accessibly style Includes a comprehensive glossary | What is Consciousness? A Debate

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What Painting Is

What is Music Literacy?

What is Colonialism?

What Even Is Gender?

What is Ahead of Us?

What is Soul?

What is Soul?

Rooted in the metaphysics of bygone times the notion of soul in our Western tradition is packed with associations and meanings that are incompatible with the anthropological and naturalistic thinking that prevails in modernity. Whereas treatises of old conceived of the soul as an infinite immaterial substance which was the ground of man’s hope for eternal salvation modern psychology has for the most part discarded the concept in favor of more tangible touchstones such as the emotions desires and attachments which characterize man as a finite bodily-existing positive fact. An exception to this trend has been the analytical psychology of C. G. Jung. Against the positivistic spirit of his times Jung insisted upon a ‘psychology with soul ’ that is a psychology based upon the hypothesis of an autonomous mind. In this volume Wolfgang Giegerich once again takes up the Jungian commitment to a psychology with soul. Agreeing with Jung that the soul concept is indispensable for a truly psychological psychology he supplements and re-orients the Jungian approach to both this concept and the phenomenology of the soul by means of a whole series of nuanced discussions that are as rigorous as they are thoroughgoing. The result is nothing short of a tour de force. Tarrying with the negative Giegerich’s particular contribution resides in his showing the movement against the soul to be the soul’s own doing. In animus moments of itself consciousness in the form of philosophy and Enlightenment reason turned upon itself as religion and metaphysics. Far from abolishing the soul however these incisive negations were themselves negated. As if dancing upon its own demise the soul came home to itself not as an invisible metaphysical substance but more invisibly still as the logically negative evaporation of that substance into the form of subject or even better said into psychology. | What is Soul?

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Raw Veganism The Philosophy of The Human Diet

Raw Veganism The Philosophy of The Human Diet

Human beings are getting fatter and sicker. As we question what we eat and why we eat it this book argues that living well involves consuming a raw vegan diet. With eating healthfully and eating ethically being simpler said than done this book argues that the best solution to health environmental and ethical problems concerning animals is raw veganism—the human diet. The human diet is what humans are naturally designed to eat and that is a raw vegan diet of fruit tender leafy greens and occasionally nuts and seeds. While veganism raises challenging questions over the ethics of consuming animal products while also considering the environmental impact of the agriculture industry raw veganism goes a step further and argues that consuming cooked food is also detrimental to our health and the environment. Cooking foods allows us to eat food that is not otherwise fit for human consumption and in an age that promotes eating foods in ‘moderation’ and having ‘balanced’ diets this raises the question of why we are eating foods that should only be consumed in moderation at all as moderation clearly implies they aren’t good for us. In addition from an environmental perspective the use of stoves ovens and microwaves for cooking contributes significantly to energy consumption and cooking in general generates excessive waste of food and resources. Thus this book maintains that living well and living a noble life that is good physical and moral health requires consuming a raw vegan diet. Exploring the scientific and philosophical aspects of raw veganism this novel book is essential reading for all interested in promoting ethical healthful and sustainable diets. | Raw Veganism The Philosophy of The Human Diet

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What is Financialization?

What is Food? Researching a Topic with Many Meanings

What is this thing called Metaethics?

What is this thing called Metaethics?

What makes something morally right? Where do our ethical standards come from? Are they relative to cultures or timeless and universal? Are there any objective moral facts? What is goodness? If there are moral facts how do we learn about them? What do we mean when we say someone ought to do something? These are all questions in metaethics the branch of ethics that investigates the status of morality the nature of ethical value the possibility of ethical knowledge and the meaning of ethical statements. To the uninitiated it can appear abstract and far removed from its two more concrete cousins ethical theory and applied ethics yet it is one of the fastest-growing and most exciting areas of ethics. What is this thing called Metaethics? demystifies this important subject and is ideal for students coming to it for the first time. Beginning with a brief overview of metaethics and the development of a conceptual toolkit Matthew Chrisman introduces and assesses the following key topics: ethical reality: including questions about naturalism and non-naturalism moral facts and the distinction between realism and antirealism ethical language: does language represent reality? What mental states are expressed by moral statements? moral psychology: the theory of motivation and the connection between moral judgement and motivation moral knowledge: intuitionist and coherentist moral epistemologies and theories of objectivity and relativism in metaethics prominent metaethical theories: naturalism nonnaturalism error-theory and expressivism new directions in metaethics including non-traditional theories thick ethical concepts and extensions to metaepistemology and metanormative theory The Second Edition has been completely revised and updated throughout. This includes a new thematic organization of the core chapters many new examples a newly written final chapter including discussion of thick ethical concepts and all-things-considered normativity updated references to recent scholarly literature improved learning resources an expanded glossary of terms and much more. Additional features such as chapter summaries questions of understanding and suggestions for further reading make What is this thing called Metaethics? an ideal introduction to metaethics.

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What is Europe?

What is Europe?

This authoritative yet accessible introduction to understanding Europe today moves beyond accounts of European integration to provide a wide-ranging and nuanced study of contemporary Europe and its historical development. This fully updated edition adds material on recent developments such as Brexit and the migrant and Eurozone crises. The concept of Europe is instilled with a plethora of social cultural economic and political meanings. Throughout history and still today scholars writing on Europe and politicians involved in national or European politics often disagree on the geographic limits of this space and the defining elements of Europe. Europe is therefore first and foremost a concept that takes different shapes and meanings depending on the realm of life on which it is applied and on the historical period under investigation. At a given point in time depending on the perspective we adopt and the situation in which we find ourselves Europe may represent very different things. Thus we should better talk about ‘Europes’ in plural. What is Europe? explores these evolving conceptions of Europe from antiquity to the present. This book is all the more timely as Europe responds to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Britain’s departure from the European Union financial slump refugee emergencies and the COVID-19 pandemic. This book offers a fully updated introduction to European studies from an interdisciplinary perspective. It is a crucial companion to any undergraduate or graduate course on Europe and the European Union. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license.

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Tolstoy on Aesthetics What is Art?

What is Music Production? A Producers Guide: The Role the People the Process

What is the Theatre?

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What is this thing called Metaphysics?

What is this Professor Freud Like? A Diary of an Analysis with Historical Comments

What Is In A Rim? Critical Perspectives On The Pacific Region Idea

Special Education What It Is and Why We Need It

What is Theatre? An Introduction and Exploration

What is Theatre? An Introduction and Exploration

This major introductory textbook is from one of the leading educators working in theatre today. What Is Theatre? will make its reader a better playgoer responding more fully to performance with a keener appreciation of all the resources of theatre-acting design direction organization theatre buildings and audiences. By focusing on the best professional practice and the most helpful learning processes Dr. Brown shows how to read a play-text and to see and hear its potential for performance. Throughout this book suggestions are given for student essays and class discussions to help both instructor and reader to clarify their thoughts on all aspects of theatre-going. While the main focus is on present-day theatre in North America history is used to illuminate current practice. Theatres in Europe and Asia also feature in the discussion. A view is given of all contributors to performance with special emphasis placed on actors and the plays they perform. This textbook is not tied to a few specific play-texts but designed to be effective regardless of which play a student sees or reads. In Part Two leading practitioners of different generations and cultural backgrounds describe their own work providing a variety of perspectives on the contemporary theatre. All this is supplemented by nearly 100 black and white and color illustrations from productions working drawings and plans. This new text engages its readers in the realities of the theatre; it is up-to-date comprehensive and packed with practical advice for understanding how theatre works and how plays come alive in performance. John Russell Brown is professor of Theatre at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and has taught at a variety of colleges including New York and Stanford Universities. For 15 years he was an associate director of the National Theatre in London and he has directed plays in many other theatres including Cincinnati Playhouse. | What is Theatre? An Introduction and Exploration

GBP 175.00
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What is Thinking? And Other Philosophical Reflections

What Makes a Philosopher Great? Thirteen Arguments for Twelve Philosophers

What Makes a Philosopher Great? Thirteen Arguments for Twelve Philosophers

This book is inspired by a single powerful question. What is it to be great as a philosopher? No single grand answer is presumed to be possible; instead rewardingly close studies of philosophical greatness are developed. This is a scholarly yet accessible volume blending metaphilosophy with the long history of philosophy and traversing centuries and continents. The result is a series of case studies by accomplished scholars each chapter trying to understand and convey a particular philosopher’s greatness: Lloyd P. Gerson on Plato Karyn Lai on Zhuangzi David Bronstein on Aristotle Jonardon Ganeri on Buddhaghosa Jeffrey Hause on Aquinas Gary Hatfield on Descartes Karen Detlefsen on du Chtelet Don Garrett on Hume Allen Wood on Kant (as a moral philosopher) Nicholas F. Stang on Kant (as a metaphysician) Ken Gemes on Nietzsche Cheryl Misak on Peirce David Macarthur on Wittgenstein This also serves a larger philosophical purpose. Might we gain increased clarity about what philosophy is in the first place? After all in practice we individuate philosophy partly through its greatest practitioners’ greatest contributions. The book does not discuss every philosopher who has been regarded as great. The point is not to offer a definitive list of The Great Philosophers but rather to learn something about what great philosophy is and might be from illuminated examples of past greatness. | What Makes a Philosopher Great? Thirteen Arguments for Twelve Philosophers

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Pharmacy What It Is and How It Works

Pharmacy What It Is and How It Works

Now fully updated for its fourth edition Pharmacy: What It Is and How It Works continues to provide a comprehensive review of all aspects of pharmacy from the various roles pathways and settings of pharmacists to information about how pharmacy works within the broader health care system. Beginning with a brief historical perspective on the field the book discusses the many facets of the pharmacy profession. It describes the role of pharmacists in different settings and provides information ranging from licensing requirements to working conditions highlighting the critical role of pharmacists within the health care system. The author examines the drug use process with sections on distribution prescribing dispensing and pricing. He also discusses the role of pharmacy support personnel. A chapter on informatics explores how pharmacy has evolved through information technology and automation. Additional chapters cover poison control pharmaceutical care pharmacy organizations the drug approval process and career development. Designed for classroom and professional use the book contains numerous tools to facilitate comprehension including: Learning objectives to help readers focus on the goals of each chapter Informative tables and figures summarizing data Summary paragraphs tying in salient points Discussion questions and exercises to test assimilation Challenges which place the material in broader context Websites and references to encourage further study This valuable text provides a look into the profession that is both broad and deep supplying a one-stop introduction to a promising career in pharmacy. | Pharmacy What It Is and How It Works

GBP 66.99
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What Do We Owe Other Animals? A Debate

What Do We Owe Other Animals? A Debate

Philosophers Bob Fischer and Anja Jauernig agree that human society often treats animals in indefensible ways and that all animals morally matter; they disagree on whether humans and animals morally matter equally. In What Do We Owe Other Animals?: A Debate Fischer and Jauernig square off over this central question in animal ethics. Jauernig defends the view that all living beings morally matter equally and are owed compassion on account of which we are also obligated to adopt a vegan diet. Fischer denies that we have an obligation to become vegans and argues for the position that humans morally matter more than all other living creatures. The two authors each offer a clear well-developed opening statement a direct response to the other’s statement and then a response to the other’s response. Along the way they explore central questions like: What kind of beings matter morally? What kind of obligations do we have towards other animals? How demanding can we reasonably expect these obligations to be? Do our individual consumer choices such as the choice to purchase factory-farmed animal products make a difference to the wellbeing of animals? The debate is helpfully framed by introductions and conclusions to each of the major parts and by smaller introductions to each of the sub-sections. A Foreword by Dustin Crummett sets the context for the debate within a larger discussion of sentience moral standing reason-guided compassion and the larger field of animal ethics. Key Features Showcases the presentation and defense of two points of view on the moral worth of non-human animals Provides frequent summaries of previously covered material Includes a topically-organized list of Further Readings and a Glossary of all specialized vocabulary | What Do We Owe Other Animals? A Debate

GBP 26.99
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Behavior Modification What It Is and How To Do It

Behavior Modification What It Is and How To Do It

Behavior Modification: What It Is and How to Do It is a comprehensive practical presentation of the principles of behavior modification and guidelines for their application. Appropriate for university students and for the general reader it teaches forms of behavior modification ranging from helping children learn necessary life skills to training pets to solving personal behavior problems. It teaches practical how-to skills including: discerning long-term effects; designing implementing and evaluating behavioral programs; interpreting behavioral episodes; observing and recording behaviors; and recognizing instances of reinforcement extinction and punishment. Behavior Modification is ideal for courses in Behavior Modification Applied Behavior Analysis Behavior Therapy the Psychology of Learning and related areas; and for students and practitioners of various helping professions (such as clinical psychology counselling education medicine nursing occupational therapy physiotherapy psychiatric nursing psychiatry social work speech therapy and sport psychology) who are concerned directly with enhancing various forms of behavior development. The material is presented in an interesting readable format that assumes no prior knowledge of behavior modification or psychology. Specific cases and examples clarify issues and make the principles real. Guidelines throughout provide a ready source to use as a reference in applying the principles. Online resources including an instructor’s manual are available at www. routledge. com/9780815366546. | Behavior Modification What It Is and How To Do It

GBP 130.00
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