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  • Analog Hunger in a Digital World

    Confronting Today's Identity Crisis

    by Paul C. Vitz ...
    Renowned psychologist Paul Vitz addresses the troubling fact that scientific progress is no longer making human beings happy. In fact, the reverse trend is taking hold: individuals are more distressed and struggle with overwhelming confusion regarding personal identity and the meaningfulness of life as technology makes daily life more 'manageable.' Vitz asserts there is a noteworthy connection ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Faith of the Fatherless

    The Psychology of Atheism

    by Dr. Paul C. Vitz ...
    In this updated, expanded edition, starting with Freud's "projection theory" of religion - that belief in God is merely a product of man's desire for security - Professor Vitz argues that psychoanalysis actually provides a more satisfying explanation for atheism. Disappointment in one's earthly father, whether through death, absence, or mistreatment, frequently leads to a rejection of God.A ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Naturalness of Belief

    New Essays on Theism’s Rationality

    by Paul Copan, Charles Taliaferro, Clifford Williams, Aku Visala, Ronald Scott Smith, Graham Oppy, Angus Menuge, Jonathan J. Loose, Jeremiah J. Johnston0, Matthew Flannagan1, Robert Larmer2, J.P. Moreland3, Paul C. Vitz4, James S. Spiegel5, Justin L. Barrett6 ...
    Despite its name, “naturalism” as a world-view turns out to be rather unnatural in its strict and more consistent form of materialism and determinism. This is why a number of naturalists opt for a broadened version that includes objective moral values, intrinsic human dignity, consciousness, beauty, personal agency, and the like. But in doing so, broad naturalism begins to look more like theism. ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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    Teaching Robots Right from Wrong

    by Wendell Wallach, Colin Allen ...
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    $26.39 CAD

  • The Shipwrecked Mind

    On Political Reaction

    by Mark Lilla ...
    Covering centuries of thought and politics, this collection of essays “offers a fascinating framework for making sense of our contemporary political landscape” (Vox).“Skillfully untangles the apocalyptic ‘mytho-histories,’ ‘just-so narratives,’ and ‘political bedtime stories’ favored by the modern right, in Europe and America.” —The New YorkerWe don’t understand the reactionary mind. In this ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Minor Gesture

    by Erin Manning ...
    Series series Thought in the Act
    In this wide-ranging and probing book Erin Manning extends her previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of the minor gesture. The minor gesture, although it may pass almost unperceived, transforms the field of relations. More than a chance variation, less than a volition, it requires rethinking common assumptions about human agency and political action. To embrace the minor ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Spinoza

    Freedom's Messiah

    by Ian Buruma ...
    Series series Jewish Lives
    Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own timeBaruch (Benedictus) Spinoza (1632–1677) was a radical free thinker who led a life guided by strong moral principles despite his disbelief in an all-seeing God. Seen by many—Christians as well as Jews—as Satan’s disciple during his lifetime, ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • The Twilight of Atheism

    The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World

    by Alister McGrath ...
    In this bold and provocative new book, the author of In the Beginning and The Reenchantment of Nature challenges the widely held assumption that the world is becoming more secular and demonstrates why atheism cannot provide the moral and intellectual guidance essential for coping with the complexities of modern life.Atheism is one of the most important movements in modern Western culture. For the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Robot Ethics 2.0

    From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence

    Edited by Patrick Lin, Keith Abney, Ryan Jenkins ...
    The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets. (Mars is inhabited entirely by robots.) As robots slip into more domains of human life--from the operating room to the bedroom--they take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from psychological to physical. This makes it all the more urgent to study their ethical, legal, and policy impacts. To help the ... Read more

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  • This Incredible Need to Believe

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    Series series European Perspectives
    "A sprawling analysis of religion in major psychological and philosophical literature, fiction and in private life . . . compelling and remarkable."— Publishers Weekly"Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the agnostics, that the history of Christianity ... Read more

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  • Scenes of Attention

    Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses

    Edited by D. Graham Burnett, Justin E. H. Smith ...
    Are we paying enough attention? At least since the nineteenth century, critics have alleged a widespread and profound failure of attentiveness—to others, to ourselves, to the world around us, to what is truly worthy of focus. Why is there such great anxiety over attention? What is at stake in understanding attention and the challenges it faces?This book investigates attention from a range of ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Age of Atheists

    How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God

    by Peter Watson ...
    **A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014From one of England’s most distinguished intellectual historians comes “an exhilarating ride…that will stand the test of time as a masterful account of” (The Boston Globe) one of the West’s most important intellectual movements: Atheism.**In 1882, Friedrich Nietzche declared that “God is dead” and ever since tens of thousands of brilliant, courageous, ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD