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As If - Idealization and Ideals by Kwame Anthony Appiah
$54.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Idealization is a basic feature of human thought. We proceed "as if" our representations were true, while knowing they are not. Kwame Anthony Appiah defends the centrality of the imagination in science, morality, and everyday life and shows that our best chance for accessing reality is to open our minds ...Show more
As If: Idealization and Ideals by Appiah, Kwame Anthony
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Idealization is a fundamental feature of human thought. We build simplified models in our scientific research and utopias in our political imaginations. Concepts like belief, desire, reason, and justice are bound up with idealizations and ideals. Life is a constant adjustment between the models we make ...Show more
Cosmopolitanism by Kwame Anthony Appiah
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This landmark work challenges the separatist doctrines which have come to dominate our understanding of the world. Appiah revives the ancient philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, which dates back to the Cynics of the 4th century, as a means of understanding the complex world of today. Arguing that we concentr ...Show more
Cosmopolitanism by Kwame Anthony Appiah
$39.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Experiments in Ethics by Kwame Anthony Appiah
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Mary Flexner Lecture Series of Bryn Mawr College Ser.
In the past few decades, scientists of human nature - including experimental and cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, evolutionary theorists, and behavioral economists - have explored the way we arrive at moral judgments. They have called into question commonplaces about character and offered troub ...Show more
The Ethics of Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah
$39.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities" constrain our fr ...Show more
The Lies That Bind - Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
From the bestselling author of "Cosmopolitanism" comes a ringing philosophical statement for the anxious, conflict-ridden 21st century--a revealing exploration of how the collective identities that shape our polarized world are riddled with contradiction.over.
The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A new theory of identity that embraces a hybrid model of identification, radically different to traditional organising structures.
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