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books by Stuart Rachels

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Polygraph 18: Biopolitics, Narrative, Temporality
Sarah Clift, Merav Amir, ...

Polygraph: An International Journal of Culture and Politics, 2007

Polygraph 18: Biopolitics, Narrative, Temporality This issue of Polygraph takes up the recent theories of Foucault, Deleuze, Agamben, and Hardt & Negri about the contemporary reformation of political forces around the issue of life. While these thinkers all present different pictures of what biopolitics might mean for the present, they are united in identifying life as a locus of political power and site of political struggle. Polygraph ...

The Truth about the World: Basic Readings in Philosophy
James Rachels, Stuart Rachels

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2007

This collection of essays addresses some of the most important issues in philosophy, involving God, the mind, freedom, knowledge, and ethics. It can accompany James and Stuart Rachels' introductory text, Problems from Philosophy , or it can stand alone with great effectiveness. The Truth About the World and Problems from Philosophy are James Rachels? last contributions to philosophy, and each book has now been revised by his son, Stuart. In ...

Days of Grass
Hugh B. Cave, Ann Pinchot, ...

Channel Press, 1965

Stories from the Christian Herald.

Obstetric Anaesthesia (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Anaesthesia)

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

This handbook covers all aspects of obstetric anaesthesia the trainee anaesthetist will encounter when on the labour ward, and its accessible style makes it essential reading for other members of the labour ward team. Broken down into topics, with bullet points, boxes and quick-reference clinical information throughout, this is an invaluable text for anyone involved in this challenging subspecialty area. In addition to conventional chapters ...

The Elements of Moral Philosophy

31 reviews
James Rachels, Stuart Rachels

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2006

Asking All The Right Questions
"The Elements of Moral Philosophy" is a fabulous, non-technical introduction to ethics. The writing is clear and historically informed, the main schools of thought are covered, and Rachels doesn't pretend that he's found all the answers to very difficult questions. I can't think of a better book for a college student who is new to philosophical ethics and wants to get a feel for how ...

Currents Journal
Rachel Stuart

Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2003

Problems from Philosophy

1 review
James Rachels, Stuart Rachels

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2008

An excellent introduction to philosophy
After reading T.Z. Lavine's _From Socrates to Sartre_, I stumbled upon Rachels' _Problems from Philosophy_. While Lavine's book is a great history of philosophy, Rachels covers what philosophy IS. The book broadly discusses the major fields of philosophy: free will vs. determinism (exploring the question "is there such a thing as free will?" - the answer may surprise you), the nature of evil ...

The Right Thing To Do: Basic Readings in Moral Philosophy

7 reviews
James Rachels, Stuart Rachels

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2006

Insensitive and biased, or brilliant?
Natalia's response makes one wonder whether she herself was perhaps among the unfortunate babies born without a brain. Yes, if there were no other human beings in the world other than this one brainless baby, maybe I would keep the brainless baby around to help comfort me by reminding me of the lost human species. However, in fact there are lots of other human beings, most of whom have brains, so ...

Why Do I Eat? (Aladdin Basics)
Rachel Wright

Aladdin Paperbacks, 1992

Describes how different kinds of food provide needed nutritional fuel for the human body and how the process of digestion works.

The Legacy of Socrates
James/ Rachels, Stuart (EDT) Rachels

Columbia Univ Pr, 2007

The Legacy of Socrates: Essays in Moral Philosophy
James Rachels

Columbia University Press, 2006

James Rachels's philosophical writings address key questions of contemporary life and the classic dilemmas of moral philosophy. A leading figure in the development of applied ethics, James Rachels became an influential and sometimes controversial thinker on issues concerning animal rights, euthanasia, bioethics, and moral objectivity. This final collection of James Rachels's work brings together fourteen essays that best summarize Rachels's ...

Chick Sticks: Sticker-A-Day 2005 Calendar

Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2004

Case studies and codes of ethics: the relevance of the ACS experience to ALIA.(Australian Computer Society ...
Stuart Ferguson, Rachel Salmond, ...

Thomson Gale, 2005

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