The acclaimed author of The Good Apprentice draws on the entire history of philosophy–and particularly on Plato and Kant–to formulate her own model of morality and demonstrate how thoroughly it is bound up with our daily lives. ‘An utterly absorbing book’.–The Wall Street Journal..
Category: Philosophy
Science and Philosophy in the West
This book examines the history of science and philosophy in Western thought through an historical presentation of primary selections covering the major developments in science and philosophy. Presents original scientific and philosophical thinking that demonstrates how the relationships and content in science and philosophy change and remain the same through history. Features a comprehensive selection of readings that present scientific and philosophical writings in the major disciplines from the beginning of Western philosophy to the twentieth century. The presentation is roughly historical organized by topics such as physics, chemistry, biology, metaphysics, epistemology, and methodology. Topics range from psychology and biology to the Rhard sciences.S An important reference for any medical or science professional as well as readers interested in scientific ethics..
Reason & Argument
Develops a precise, step-by-step method for analyzing arguments about a variety of topics — shows how to rewrite arguments in a format that makes them clearer and makes their evaluation easier; and then how to evaluate the rewritten argument. Illustrates methods by applying them to both serious and humorous arguments about different topics as they appear in a variety of contexts — e.g., newspaper and magazine editorials and columns, short essays, informal reports of scientific results, etc. Uses simple, relatively non-controversial examples to illustrate the basic ideas and concepts, and then offers more complicated and controversial examples for challenging applications..
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
In spite of its horrifying title Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals is one of the small books which are truly great: it has exercised on human thought an influence almost ludicrously disproportionate to its size. In moral philosophy it ranks with the Republic of Plato and the Ethics of Aristotle; and perhaps–partly no doubt through the spread of Christian ideals and through the long experience of the human race during the last two thousand years, it shows in some respects a deeper insight even than these..