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The Night Listener (2006)
... ill and he and Donna are keeping a low profile in a small town in Wisconsin to avoid discovery by Pete's mother. Gabriel develops an unsettling long-distance telephone relationship with the boy and his guardian. Nothing is as it seems and the skepticism of friends causes Gabriel to become suspicious of Donna and her motives, so he tries to resolve the loose ends by traveling to Wisconsin to confront Donna and Pete. But this effort is largely unsuccessful and we are left wondering if Pete is ...
Stephen Darwall The Second Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect, and Accountability
... | 2006-10-01 | ISBN: 0674022742 | PDF | 362 pages | 1.36 MB Why should we avoid doing moral wrong? The inability of philosophy to answer this question in a compelling manner--along with the moral skepticism and ethical confusion that ensue--result, Stephen Darwall argues, from our failure to appreciate the essentially interpersonal character of moral obligation. After showing how attempts to vindicate morality have tended to change the subject--falling back on nonmoral ...
The Strange Death of American Liberalism
... means of their solution? How has the word liberal become a term of abuse in American political discourse? From the Revolution on, argues Brands, Americans have been chronically skeptical of their government. This book succinctly traces this skepticism, demonstrating that it is only during periods of war that Americans have set aside their distrust and looked to their government to defend them. The Cold War, Brands shows, created an extended--and historically anomalous--period of dependence, ...
Steve Kenson, Stephanie Pui Man Law. "The Witch's Handbook"
... and their making, and herbs and their magical applications.RS | IF Mirror | ES Mirror"Reminds readers of the extent to which science, reason, and skepticism failed to destroy the realm of arcane arts and nightmares."Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesXIX RS | XIX IF Mirror | & ...
An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)
... a clear and accessible introduction to the subject. It discusses some of the main theories of justification, including foundationalism, coherentism, reliabilism, and virtue epistemology. Other topics include the Gettier problem, internalism and externalism, skepticism, the problem of epistemic circularity, the problem of the criterion, a priori knowledge, and naturalized epistemology. Intended primarily for students taking a first class in epistemology, this lucid and well-written text would ...
Beyond the philosopher's fear: a Cavellian reading of gender, origin and religion in modern skepticism
... -Bailey, "Beyond the philosopher's fear: a Cavellian reading of gender, origin and religion in modern skepticism". Publisher: Ashgate Publishing | ISBN: 0754655229 | 2007 edition | PDF | 177 Pages | 1.12 ... Cavell's treatment of the skeptical problem, this book addresses the relationship between gender and religion in modern skepticism. Engaging in dialogue with Julia Kristeva's philosophy, Viefhues claims that a religious problem underlies Cavell's understanding ...
Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault
Stephen R. C. Hicks, "Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault" Scholargy Publishing | 2004 | ISBN: 1592476465 | 230 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB Tracing postmodernism from its roots in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant to their development in thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Richard Rorty, philosopher Stephen Hicks provides a provocative account of why postmodernism has been the most vigorous intellectual movement of the late 20th century. ...
Environmental Skepticism
Peter J. Jacques, "Environmental Skepticism" Ashgate | 2009 | ISBN: 075467102X | 234 pages | PDF | 3,1 MB About the Author Peter J. Jacques is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Central Florida, USA. depositfiles.com uploading.com mirror Not all books on AvaxHome appear on the homepage. In order not to miss many of them follow ebooks section (see top of each page on AH) and visit too :) NO MIRRORS according to ...
Nietzsche's Political Skepticism
Tamsin Shaw, "Nietzsche's Political Skepticism" Princeton University Press | 2007 | ISBN: 0691133220 | 192 pages | PDF | 1,5 MBA very fine piece of research and argument. This book reads Nietzsche against the grain, since it challenges both a fair bit of what Nietzsche explicitly says about his own beliefs as well as the interpretations that these pronouncements have inspired. But it does so successfully, for Shaw questions those pronouncements in the name of ...
The 9/11 Conspiracy (Repost)
The 9/11 Conspiracy Publisher: Open Court | ISBN: 0812696123 | edition 2007 | PDF | 342 pages | 1,17 mbTime is showing a growing development of skepticism about the official version of 9/11. The experts contributing to this book have conducted their own research into this seminal event that the Bush administration has used to subvert civil liberties, conduct preemptive wars, and bring the world perilously closer to chaos. In articles and appendices, The 9/11 Conspiracy ...
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