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  • The Philosophy of Global Warming
    Neil Paul Cummins
    This is my most comprehensive and definitive work. In it you will learn:What the philosophy of global warming is and why it is of great importance. Why the decision-making process concerning the appropriate human response to global warming requires a consideration of the evolutionary forces which propel the planet.Why cutting fossil fuel emissions is a futile exercise.What the ...
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    21,55 €

  • Saviours or Destroyers
    Neil Paul Cummins
    There are many ways in which humans can conceptualise the relationship between their species and their surroundings; these ’surroundings’ can be taken to be the rest of the life-forms which exist on the Earth, or everything non-human that exists in the universe. In this book I focus on various possible relationships between the human species and the rest of the life-forms that ...
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    11,18 €

  • An Evolutionary Perspective on the Relationship Between Humans and Their Surroundings
    Neil Paul Cummins
    What is the relationship between humans and their surroundings? In order to understand the nature of this relationship we need to take the evolutionary perspective; we need to see the universe as an evolving entity which for billions of years has been very gradually been bringing forth new arrangements, and we need to appreciate that humans are some of these arrangements. The a...
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    20,51 €

  • What Does it Mean to be ’Green’?
    Neil Paul Cummins
    Most people believe that they know what it means to be ’green’. But do they? This book explores what it means to live a ’green’ life for an individual human, and what it means for the human species to be a ’green’ species. The conclusion is a provocative one - that at the level of an individual human being ’green’ is about the possession of a particular attitude to life and the...
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    12,28 €

  • What is the Problem of Consciousness?
    Neil Paul Cummins
    The ’problem of consciousness’ is widely seen as an intractable mystery - the biggest challenge humanity faces as it seeks to gain a ’complete’ understanding of both itself and the non-human world. But what exactly is consciousness? The aim of this book is to help to initiate a change of perspective and to thereby dissolve the seeming intractability of the ’problem of conscious...
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    10,10 €

  • The Purpose of the Environmental Crisis
    Neil Paul Cummins
    The German Romantic Friedrich Holderlin developed a unique perspective on the relationship between humankind and the rest of nature. He believed that humanity has a positive role to play in cosmic evolution, and that modernity is the crucial stage in fulfilling this role. In this book the author views Holderlin’s ideas from the perspective of the environmental crisis of moderni...
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    10,78 €

  • How Much of Man is Natural?
    Neil Paul Cummins
    In 2008 the Spinoza-Gesellschaft ran an international prize-essay competition entitled: How Much of Man is Natural? This book contains the winning essay which, in September 2008, was presented to the international conference of the Society in Marburg, Germany. In the preface and introduction the author reflects on the theme and the content of the winning essay. Three years afte...
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    10,70 €

  • Should I be a Vegetarian?
    Neil Paul Cummins
    The author has been a pescetarian for 20 years. In this book he reflects on the reasons why he became a pescetarian by considering a range of reasons why one might want to become a vegetarian, a pescetarian or a vegan. The main themes covered are the belief that it is not right to eat animals, the belief that eating meat is bad for one’s health, the belief that eating meat resu...
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    11,85 €

  • Is the Human Species Special? Why Human-Induced Global Warming Could Be in the Interests of Life
    Neil Paul Cummins
    In this groundbreaking book the author considers the place of the human species within an evolving universe. He contends that the human species is special because it is the pinnacle of the evolutionary process and has a purpose of vital importance. From this perspective he reaches the conclusion that human-induced global warming is in the interests of life. This unique perspect...
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    14,89 €