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  • Philosophy of Social Science

    by Alexander Rosenberg ...
    Philosophy of Social Science provides a tightly argued yet accessible introduction to the philosophical foundations of the human sciences, including economics, anthropology, sociology, political science, psychology, history, and the disciplines emerging at the intersections of these subjects with biology. Philosophy is unavoidable for social scientists because the choices they make in answering ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Sociobiology and the Preemption of Social Science

    by Alexander Rosenberg ...
    Originally published in 1981. Why have the social sciences in general failed to produce results with the ever-increasing explanatory power and predictive strength of the natural sciences? In seeking an answer to this question, Alexander Rosenberg, a philosopher of science, plunges into the controversial discipline of sociobiology. Sociobiology, Rosenberg asserts, deals in those forces governing ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The First Ride

    A Memoir

    by Alexander H. Rosenberg ...
    "The First Ride" tells the story of author's foolhardy and ill conceived journey through Central America on a motorcycle. New to motorcycles, he struggles to stay in the saddle and suffers from multiple misadventures on a wild ride  from the United States to Panama. In the process, the author makes new discoveries about the land, the people,and himself. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    The Power to Break

    by Lisa Suzanne ...
    Narrated by Dara Rosenberg, Alexander Cendese ...
    Series series Unbreakable Thread

    Unabridged

    9 hours 4 min

    Bestselling author Lisa Suzanne's newest rock star romance sets love against revenge.As the bad boy drummer for the multi-platinum band Vail, Ethan Fuller thinks he's invincible. He acts on impulse and has committed to the stereotypes of the rock star life with no regard for consequences. The one girl who had the power to tame him is just a distant memory.Now that she has landed the opening gig on ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Unbreakable Thread

    The Complete Series

    by Lisa Suzanne ...
    Narrated by Alexander Cendese, Dara Rosenberg, Kendall Taylor ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 3 min

    The Power to Break: I had a plan. I landed the opening gig for a huge rock band with the sole purpose of getting the drummer to fall in love with me.I wanted to break his heart the way he once broke mine. The one thing I didn't account for? Feelings getting in the way. If I choose my heart, I won't reach my goals. And if I carry out the plan, I'll walk away with a broken heart.Life has a funny way ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Formal Thought and the Sciences of Man

    Translated by Alexander Rosenberg ...
    by G.G. Granger ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    system reflected in Saussure's linguistic theory, and so influential in the great progress linguistic theory has made in this century. Indeed, Granger sees linguistic theory as expressing a paradigm for scientific theorizing, which research in other social sciences should adopt. But 'structuralism' as a method in science does not, in Granger's view, begin with Saussure and the linguists. It is ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Debt-Related Vulnerabilities and Financial Crises

    by Brad Mr. Setser, Ioannis Mr. Halikias, Alexander Mr. Pitt, Christoph Mr. Rosenberg, Brett Mr. House, Jens Mr. Nystedt, Christian Mr. Keller ...
    Series Book 240 - Occasional Papers
    The analysis of currency and maturity mismatches in sectoral balance sheets has increasingly become a regular element in the IMF’s tool kit for surveillance in emerging market countries. This paper describes this so-called balance sheet approach and shows how it can be applied to detect vulnerabilities and shape policy advice. It also provides a broad-brushed overview of how balance sheet ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    by Thomas Nagel ...
    Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way: We can think about the world in terms that transcend our own experience or interest, and consider the world from a vantage point that is, in Nagel's words, "nowhere in particular". At the same time, each of us is a particular person in a particular place, each with his own "personal" view of the world, a view that we can ... Read more

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  • How Physics Makes Us Free

    by J. T. Ismael ...
    In 1687 Isaac Newton ushered in a new scientific era in which laws of nature could be used to predict the movements of matter with almost perfect precision. Newton's physics also posed a profound challenge to our self-understanding, however, for the very same laws that keep airplanes in the air and rivers flowing downhill tell us that it is in principle possible to predict what each of us will do ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Freedom and Neurobiology

    Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power

    by John Searle ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy
    Our self-conception derives mostly from our own experience. We believe ourselves to be conscious, rational, social, ethical, language-using, political agents who possess free will. Yet we know we exist in a universe that consists of mindless, meaningless, unfree, nonrational, brute physical particles. How can we resolve the conflict between these two visions?In Freedom and Neurobiology, the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Morality for Humans

    Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science

    by Mark Johnson ...
    "A welcome renewal and defense of John Dewey's ethical naturalism, which Johnson claims is the only morality 'fit for actual human beings.'" — Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsWhat is the difference between right and wrong? This is no easy question to answer, yet we constantly try to make it so, frequently appealing to absolutes, whether drawn from God, universal reason, or societal authority. ... Read more

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  • The Democracy of Objects

    by Levi R. Bryant ...
    Since Kant, philosophy has been obsessed with epistemological questions pertaining to the relationship between mind and world and human access to objects. In The Democracy of Objects, Bryant proposes that we break with this tradition and once again initiate the project of ontology as first philosophy. Drawing on the object-oriented ontology of Graham Harman, as well as the thought of Roy Bhaskar, ... Read more

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