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  • Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism
    Michael Huemer
    Worldwide every year, 83 billion animals are slaughtered on factory farms, at the end of brief lives full of suffering. Is it wrong to buy the products of this industry? In this book, two college students - a meat-eater and an ethical vegetarian - discuss this question in a series of dialogues conducted over five days. ...
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    28,98 €

  • Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism
    Michael Huemer
    Worldwide every year, 83 billion animals are slaughtered on factory farms, at the end of brief lives full of suffering. Is it wrong to buy the products of this industry? In this book, two college students - a meat-eater and an ethical vegetarian - discuss this question in a series of dialogues conducted over five days. ...
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    268,40 €

  • Can We Know Anything?
    Bryan Frances / Michael Huemer
    In this book, Michael Huemer and Bryan Frances debate whether - and how - we can gain knowledge of the world outside of our own minds. Starting with opening statements, the debate moves through two rounds of replies. ...
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    227,58 €

  • Can We Know Anything?
    Bryan Frances / Michael Huemer
    In this book, Michael Huemer and Bryan Frances debate whether - and how - we can gain knowledge of the world outside of our own minds. Starting with opening statements, the debate moves through two rounds of replies. ...
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    53,09 €

  • Is Political Authority an Illusion?
    Daniel Layman / Michael Huemer
    What gives some people the right to issue commands to everyone else and force everyone else to obey them? And why should people obey the commands of those with political power? These two key questions are the heart of the issue of political authority, and, in this volume, two philosophers debate the answers. ...
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    268,18 €

  • Is Political Authority an Illusion?
    Daniel Layman / Michael Huemer
    What gives some people the right to issue commands to everyone else and force everyone else to obey them? And why should people obey the commands of those with political power? These two key questions are the heart of the issue of political authority, and, in this volume, two philosophers debate the answers. ...
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    57,17 €

  • Justice before the Law
    Michael Huemer
    America’s legal system harbors serious, widespread injustices. Many defendants are sent to prison for nonviolent offenses, including many victimless crimes. Convicts often serve draconian sentences in crowded prisons rife with abuse. Almost all defendants are convicted without trial because prosecutors threaten defendants with drastically higher sentences if they request a tria...
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    35,36 €

  • Paradox Lost
    Michael Huemer
    Paradox Lost covers ten of philosophy’s most fascinating paradoxes, in which seemingly compelling reasoning leads to absurd conclusions. The following paradoxes are included: The Liar Paradox, in which a sentence says of itself that it is false. Is the sentence true or false?The Sorites Paradox, in which we imagine removing grains of sand one at a time from a heap of sand. Is t...
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    78,78 €

  • Transesophageal Echocardiography
    Günter Huemer / Michael Zimpfer / Nikolai Kolev
    'Everything should be as simple as can be, but not simpler. ' Albert Einstein The past decade has been marked by a trend from invasive to noninvasive intraoperative monitoring. As far as respiratory monitoring is concerned, initial experience with transcutaneous gas analysis laid the foundation for widespread clinical use of pulse oximetry and end-tidal gas analysis. It has bee...
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    48,43 €

  • The Problem of Political Authority
    Michael Huemer
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    193,56 €

  • The Problem of Political Authority
    Michael Huemer
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    133,44 €

  • The Problem of Political Authority
    Michael Huemer
    The state is often ascribed a special sort of authority, one that obliges citizens to obey its commands and entitles the state to enforce those commands through threats of violence. This book argues that this notion is a moral illusion: no one has ever possessed that sort of authority. ...
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    47,34 €

  • Ethical Intuitionism
    Michael Huemer
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    133,71 €

  • Ethical Intuitionism
    Michael Huemer
    This book defends a form of ethical intuitionism, according to which (i) there are objective moral truths; (ii) we know some of these truths through a kind of immediate, intellectual awareness, or 'intuition'; and (iii) our knowledge of moral truths gives us reasons for action independent of our desires. The author rebuts all the major objections to this theory and shows that t...
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    132,57 €

  • Epistemology
    Michael Huemer
    This comprehensive anthology of classic and contemporary readings by leading philosophers complements Robert Audi’s Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 1997). Each topic is carefully introduced by the editor. ...
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    266,61 €

  • Epistemology
    Michael Huemer
    This comprehensive anthology of classic and contemporary readings by leading philosophers complements Robert Audi’s Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 1997). Each topic is carefully introduced by the editor. ...
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    95,77 €

  • Skepticism and the Veil of Perception
    Michael Huemer
    This book develops and defends a version of direct realism: the thesis that perception gives us direct awareness, and non-inferential knowledge, of the external world. Huemer rebuts the main arguments used by philosophical skeptics to try to show that we cannot know anything about the world outside of the mind, as well as the arguments used by representationalists to try to sho...
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    69,66 €