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What Money Can't Buy
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableShould we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? Isn't there something... more...
Image and Mind
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 35.00This book develops a theory of the nature of the cinematic medium, of the psychology of film viewing, and of film narrative. more...
Moralizing Technology
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 25.00Technology permeates nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Cars enable us to travel long distances, mobile phones help us to communicate, and medical devices make it possible to detect and cure diseases. But these aids to existence are not simply neutral instruments: they give shape to what we do and how we experience the world. And because technology... more...
Television and the Moral Imaginary
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00Just how bad is television? Drawing on a range of theoretical sources including Husserl Lacan, Lefebvre, Sartre, Schutz and Adam Smith, this book takes a phenomenological approach to the small screen to offer an original sociological approach to television and its contribution to moral culture of late modern societies. more...
Partiality
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 35.00We are partial to people with whom we share special relationships--if someone is your child, parent, or friend, you wouldn't treat them as you would a stranger. But is partiality justified, and if so, why? Partiality presents a theory of the reasons supporting special treatment within special relationships and explores the vexing problem of how... more...
Integrity and the Virtues of Reason
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 76.00Scherkoske situates integrity as an epistemic virtue and moves the debate surrounding impartial moral theories in important new directions. more...
Loyalty
NYU Press 2013; US$ 65.00Few topics are more ubiquitous in everyday life and, at the same time, more controversial in practice, than that of ones moral obligation to loyalty. Featuring essays by scholars working in a variety of subjects from law to psychology, Loyalty presents diverse perspectives on dilemmas posed by potential conflicts between loyalties to specific... more...
What is Property?
The Floating Press 1840; US$ 5.99French printer and pamphleteer Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was an autodidact who became increasingly interested in political philosophy and rose from humble roots to engage in discourse and debate with some of the top thinkers of the day, including Karl Marx. Based in part on the discussion in What is Property?, Proudhon refined the political theory of... more...
Epictetus
NuVision Publications, LLC 2003; US$ 9.99Epictetus, a great philosopher taught the importance of control over one's own mind and will, for true happiness must not depend on things one cannot control. Unlike most philosophers, Epictetus taught not for the select few, but for the many and humble. more...
Voltaire
NuVision Publications, LLC 2003; US$ 3.99Candide is about a man who believes in the philosophy that: 'what happens, happens for the best in the end.' that was taught to him by his personal philosopher Dr. Panlosss. Candide goes through many, many trials and everyone he meets has had something terrible happen to them. He searches the world over for his love Cundgonde. And in the end finds... more...









