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  • Why It's OK Not to Think for Yourself

    by Jonathan Matheson ...
    Series series Why It's OK
    We tend to applaud those who think for themselves: the ever-curious student, for example, or the grownup who does their own research. Even as we’re applauding, however, we ourselves often don’t think for ourselves. This book argues that’s completely OK.In fact, it’s often best just to take other folks’ word for it, allowing them to do the hard work of gathering and evaluating the relevant evidence ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Epistemic Autonomy

    Edited by Jonathan Matheson, Kirk Lougheed ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Epistemology
    This is the first book dedicated to the topic of epistemic autonomy. It features original essays from leading scholars that promise to significantly shape future debates in this emerging area of epistemology.While the nature of and value of autonomy has long been discussed in ethics and social and political philosophy, it remains an underexplored area of epistemology. The essays in this collection ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Inquiry

    Philosophical Perspectives

    Edited by Aaron B. Creller, Jonathan Matheson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Epistemology
    This volume brings together essays from several different perspectives on a topic in epistemology that is garnering increased attention: Inquiry. It is the first volume focused solely on philosophical issues related to inquiry.Inquiry is a fundamental human practice. We have questions, and we want answers. These questions span numerous domains and range from the trivial to questions of the utmost ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • The Ethics of Belief

    Edited by Jonathan Matheson, Rico Vitz ...
    How do people form beliefs, and how should they do so? This book presents seventeen new essays on these questions, drawing together perspectives from philosophy and psychology. The first section explores the ethics of belief from an individualistic framework. It begins by examining the question of doxastic voluntarism-i.e., the extent to which people have control over their beliefs. It then shifts ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

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    Learning to "Think Like a Lawyer"

    by Elizabeth Mertz ...
    In this linguistic study of law school education, Mertz shows how law professors employ the Socratic method between teacher and student, forcing the student to shift away from moral and emotional terms in thinking about conflict, toward frameworks of legal authority instead. ... Read more

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  • Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology

    by Philip Manning ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    The work of Erving Goffman has had an enormous impact throughout the social sciences. Yet his writings have not received the detailed scrutiny which they deserve.This new book is the first comprehensive and accessible account of Erving Goffman's contributions, ranging in its scope from his very earliest work right up to the projects upon which he was engaged at the time of his death. Goffman's ... Read more

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  • Knowledge and Virtue in Teaching and Learning

    The Primacy of Dispositions

    by Hugh Sockett ...
    The challenge this book addresses is to demonstrate how, in teaching content knowledge, the development of intellectual and moral dispositions as virtues is not merely a good idea, or peripheral to that content, but deeply embedded in the logic of searching for knowledge and truth.It offers a powerful example of how philosophy of education can be brought to bear on real problems of educational ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • Moral Sentimentalism

    by Michael Slote ...
    There has recently been a good deal of interest in moral sentimentalism, but most of that interest has been exclusively either in metaethical questions about the meaning of moral terms or in normative issues about benevolence and/or caring and their place in morality. In Moral Sentimentalism Michael Slote attempts to deal with both sorts of issues and to do so, primarily, in terms of the notion or ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Qualitative Marketing Research

    A Cultural Approach

    by Johanna Moisander, Anu Valtonen ...
    Series series Introducing Qualitative Methods series
    Aimed at both graduate and undergraduate students majoring in business administration and in other fields of social sciences, Qualitative Marketing Research unpacks the emerging cultural approach in the field of marketing and consumer research and provides an interesting and informed study for anyone interested in cultural approaches to economic and social theory.The book also provides insights ... Read more

    $124.79 CAD

  • Moral Reasoning in a Pluralistic World

    by Patricia Marino ...
    Moral diversity is a fundamental reality of today’s world, but moral theorists have difficulty responding to it. Some take it as evidence for skepticism - the view that there are no moral truths. Others, associating moral reasoning with the search for overarching principles and unifying values, see it as the result of error. In the former case, moral reasoning is useless, since values express ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Education and Human Values

    Reconciling Talent with an Ethics of Care

    by Michael Slote ...
    Two of our greatest educational theorists, John Dewey and Nel Noddings, have been reluctant to admit that some students are simply more talented than others. This was no doubt due to their feeling that such an admission was inconsistent with democratic concern for everyone. But there really is such a thing as superior talent; and the present book explains how that admission is compatible with our ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Modern Social Theory

    Key Debates And New Directions

    by Dr Derek Layder, Derek Layder ...
    This book is intended for undergraduate courses in social theory for second and third year sociology students, as well as postgraduate and academic researchers. Secondary markets include social psychology, social geography, social anthopology, cultural studies. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD