Philosophy
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From  Introduction: Where Are We Headed? |
Introduction | Réal Fillion | 17 | 2008 | $2.21 Add |
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From  Preface |
Provides an overivew of the topic of Research Confidentiality and the problem that academic researchers are not protected by law when it comes to assuring confidentiality to their participants, … | James L Turk | 7 | 2014 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Preface to the English EditionFrom: Being and Swine |
In the preface, philosopher Fahim Amir discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our perspective of the natural world and the ways in which we have begun to perceive animals as political … | Corvin Russell; Fahim Amir; Geoffrey C. Howes | 5 | 2020 | $0.50 Add |
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From  Preface to the New EditionFrom: Honest Politics Now |
Discusses ethics in politics and the effects of various forms of political corruption on democracy. | Ian Greene | 8 | 2017 | $0.80 Add |
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From  PrologueFrom: Not Just a Pretty Face |
The cosmetics industry is in desperate need of a makeover. It is the unregulated, poorly studied chemical industry in a bottle. Toxic chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects and learning … | Stacy Malkan | 4 | 2007 | $0.40 Add |
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From  PrologueAgainst School |
I taught for thirty years in some of the worst schools in Manhattan, and in some of the best, and during that time, I became an expert in boredom. | John Taylor Gatto | 11 | 2010 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Section A: ChangemakingFrom: Changemakers |
The first section explores the idea of transformative change — what it is, what difference it makes, and how it is connected to learning. It tells the story of Anna, which gives us plenty … | Fay Weller; Mary Wilson | 37 | 2018 | $3.70 Add |
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From  NEW! The Nameless Uncarved WoodFrom: The Web of Meaning |
Traditional Chinese and Greek philosophy of mind is discussed, along with the insights of modern neuroscience. The chapter describes the role of the pre-frontal cortex as the executive function, … | Jeremy Lent | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
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From  A Sketch of Ingarden’s Life, Career, and Works |
A Chronological Overview of Ingarden’s Life and Major Publications | Jeff Mitsecherling | 32 | 1997 | $3.52 Add |
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From  AlienationFrom: Finding Our Niche |
In the first chapter of Finding Our Niche, Alienation, Loring introduces the eco-modernist philosophy that humans are inherently destructive of and separate from nature, and explains how that … | Philip A. Loring | 26 | 2020 | $2.60 Add |
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From  Chapter 1Midsommervisen "Vi elsker vort land" |
The readings in Part One of this title explore the history of witch hunts and place them in the context of contemporary violence against women. This reading consists of the first three verses of … | Silvia Federici | 3 | 2018 | $0.30 Add |
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From Ethics and the Principles of DemocracyFrom: Honest Politics Now |
Discusses how ethical politics is a requirement for genuinely democratic government. | Ian Greene | 28 | 2017 | $2.80 Add |
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From Everything You Know About Schools is Wrong |
Forced schooling seduces the trapped into believing that inert knowledge, memorized fact bits and sequences is the gold standard of intellectual achievement. Learning to connect those bits into … | John Taylor Gatto | 26 | 2010 | $2.60 Add |
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From  God and Argument: Strong and Weak Theories of ExistenceFrom: God and Argument - Dieu et l'argumentation philosophique |
In discussing the relation of ‘God and Argument,’ it is best to begin with a few fundamentals. So I will offer here some reflections on the philosophical treatment of existence and … | James Bradley | 9 | 1999 | $1.08 Add |
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From  NEW! Green CathedralFrom: In Praise of Retreat |
In this reading the author recounts their experience of leaving the city to a retreat in the forest and the positive psychological effect that the experience had on them. | Kirsteen MacLeod | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Impossible News |
In this chapter, Boyd breaks down the severity of the climate crisis and details the disastrous future that a failure to stop the rise in global temperature makes inevitable. Boyd explains why it … | Andrew Boyd | 47 | 2023 | $4.70 Add |
