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Free Download Melayna Kay Lamb, "A Philosophical History of Police Power"
English | ISBN: 1350204048 | 2024 | 232 pages | EPUB, PDF | 682 KB + 11 MB
Rethinking the philosophical grounds of police power, Melayna Lamb argues that traditional ideas of sovereignty and the law need to be radically re-evaluated. In placing police at the centre of analysis this book demonstrates the manner in which police power exists in a complex and overlapping relationship with sovereignty and law in a form which is not reducible to implementation. In doing this it argues for the centrality of order in any consideration of police and challenging a common narrative whereby a dynamic, interventionist sovereign power that follows from a belief of order as ‘artificial’ is replaced by a liberal, limited non-interventionist sovereign power that proceeds from a ‘natural’ order. Moving through thinkers such as Hobbes, Hegel and Adam Smith the book argues that police power is in fact an-archic in form, in a manner that makes it impossible to hold accountable through the law.

Free Download The Illusion of Free Will: Philosophical and Scientific Considerations
by Daniel Zaborowski
English | 2023 | ASIN: B0CCKBW9HD | 85 Pages | ePUB | 0.25 MB

Free Download James M. Magrini, "Philosophical Sojourns in Aesthetics, Existence, and Education"
English | ISBN: 1527591972 | 2023 | 195 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Free Download Achim Stephan, "Depression, Emotion and the Self: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1845407466 | ASIN: B00LVRYAIE | EPUB | pages: 260 | 0.8 mb
This volume addresses the question of what it is like to be depressed. Despite the vast amount of research that has been conducted into the causes and treatment of depression, the experience of depression remains poorly understood. Indeed, many depression memoirs state that the experience is impossible for others to understand. However, it is at least clear that changes in emotion, mood, and bodily feeling are central to all forms of depression, and these are the book’s principal focus. In recent years, there has been a great deal of valuable philosophical and interdisciplinary research on the emotions, complemented by new developments in philosophy of psychiatry and scientifically-informed phenomenology. The book draws on all these areas, in order to offer a range of novel insights into the nature of depression experiences. To do so, it brings together a distinguished group of philosophers, psychiatrists, anthropologists, clinical psychologists and neuroscientists, all of whom have made important contributions to current research on emotion and/or psychiatric illness.

Teaching Ethics with Three Philosophical Novels

Free Download Teaching Ethics with Three Philosophical Novels by Michael Boylan
English | PDF | 2019 | 779 Pages | ISBN : 3030248712 | 578.6 MB

Free Download Handbook of Philosophical Logic By Dirk van Dalen (auth.), Dov M. Gabbay, F. Guenthner (eds.)
2002 | 360 Pages | ISBN: 904815927X | PDF | 12 MB
It is with great pleasure that we are presenting to the community the second edition of this extraordinary handbook. It has been over 15 years since the publication of the first edition and there have been great changes in the landscape of philosophical logic since then. The first edition has proved invaluable to generations of students and researchers in formal philosophy and language, as well as to consumers of logic in many applied areas. The main logic article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica 1999 has described the first edition as ‘the best starting point for exploring any of the topics in logic’. We are confident that the second edition will prove to be just as good,! The first edition was the second handbook published for the logic commu nity. It followed the North Holland one volume Handbook of Mathematical Logic, published in 1977, edited by the late Jon Barwise. The four volume Handbook of Philosophical Logic, published 1983-1989 came at a fortunate temporal junction at the evolution of logic. This was the time when logic was gaining ground in computer science and artificial intelligence circles. These areas were under increasing commercial pressure to provide devices which help and/or replace the human in his daily activity. This pressure required the use of logic in the modelling of human activity and organisa tion on the one hand and to provide the theoretical basis for the computer program constructs on the other.

Free Download A Philosophical Journey into the Anthropocene: Discovering Terra Incognita by Agostino Cera
English | January 23, 2023 | ISBN: 179363081X | True EPUB/PDF | 232 pages | 1.6/6.9 MB
A Philosophical Journey into the Anthropocene: Discovering Terra Incognita presents the Anthropocene not only as a geological epoch, but rather as the potential métarécit of our age and the most faithful expression of the current zeitgeist. Insofar as the Anthropocene establishes that the human agency as technological omni-power represents a "global geophysical force" capable of altering the destiny of the Earth system, the coming of this new epoch shows that technology now embodies the subject of both history and nature. In this totalized form, technology achieves the status of an integral epochal phenomenon: the new environment for human life.

Free Download The Science of Sensibility: Reading Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry By Koen Vermeir, Michael Funk Deckard (auth.), Koen Vermeir, Michael Funk Deckard (eds.)
2012 | 338 Pages | ISBN: 9400721013 | PDF | 4 MB
Attracting philosophers, politicians, artists as well as the educated reader, Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry, first published in 1757, was a milestone in western thinking. This edited volume will take the 250th anniversary of the Philosophical Enquiry as an occasion to reassess Burke’s prominence in the history of ideas. Situated on the threshold between early modern philosophy and the Enlightenment, Burke’s oeuvre combines reflections on aesthetics, politics and the sciences. This collection is the first book length work devoted primarily to Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry in both its historical context and for its contemporary relevance. It will establish the fact that the Enquiry is an important philosophical and literary work in its own right.

Free Download Philosophical Reflections on Disability By D. Christopher Ralston, Justin Ho (auth.), D. Christopher Ralston, Justin Hubert Ho (eds.)
2010 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 904812476X | PDF | 2 MB
This project draws together the diverse strands of the debate regarding disability in a way never before combined in a single volume. After providing a representative sampling of competing philosophical approaches to the conceptualization of disability as such, the volume goes on to address such themes as the complex interplay between disability and quality of life, questions of social justice as it relates to disability, and the personal dimensions of the disability experience. By explicitly locating the discussion of various applied ethical questions within the broader theoretical context of how disability is best conceptualized, the volume seeks to bridge the gap between abstract philosophical musings about the nature of disease, illness and disability found in much of the philosophy of medicine literature, on the one hand, and the comparatively concrete but less philosophical discourse frequently encountered in much of the disability studies literature. It also critically examines various claims advanced by disability advocates, as well as those of their critics. In bringing together leading scholars in the fields of moral theory, bioethics, and disability studies, this volume makes a unique contribution to the scholarly literature, while also offering a valuable resource to instructors and students interested in a text that critically examines and assesses various approaches to some of the most vexing problems in contemporary social and political philosophy.

Free Download Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics By Prof. George Bragues (auth.), Christoph Luetge (eds.)
2013 | 1582 Pages | ISBN: 9400714939 | PDF | 11 MB
The Handbook of Business Ethics: Philosophical Foundations is a standard interdisciplinary reference handbook in the field of business ethics. Articles by notable philosophers and economists examine fundamental concepts, theories and questions of business ethics: Are morality and self-interest compatible? What is meant by a just price? What did the Scholastic philosophers think about business? The handbook will cover the entire philosophical basis of business ethics. Articles range from historical positions such as Aristotelianism, Kantianism and Marxism to systematic issues like justice, religious issues, rights and globalisation or gender. The book is intended as a reference work for academics, students (esp. graduate), and professionals.