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Finding Consciousness: The Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law of Severe Brain Damage

Product Description: Modern medicine enables us to keep many people alive after they have suffered severe brain damage and show no reliable outward signs of consciousness. Many such patients are misdiagnosed as being in a permanent vegetative state when they are actually in a minimally conscious state...read more

By Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (editor)

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9780190280307 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, February 10, 2016), cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Modern medicine enables us to keep many people alive after they have suffered severe brain damage and show no reliable outward signs of consciousness.

Moral Psychology: Free Will and Moral Responsibility

By Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780262026680 | Bradford Books, February 21, 2014, cover price $70.00

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9780262525473 | Bradford Books, February 21, 2014, cover price $37.00

Memory and Law

By Lynn Nadel (editor) and Walter P. Sinnott-armstrong (editor)

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9780199920754 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, July 10, 2012), cover price $95.00

Morality Without God

Product Description: Some argue that atheism must be false, since without God, no values are possible, and thus everything is permitted. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong argues that God is not only not essential to morality, but that our moral behavior should be utterly independent of religion...read more

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9780195337631, titled "Morality Without God?" | Oxford Univ Pr, July 2, 2009, cover price $33.95

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9780199841356, titled "Morality Without God?" | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 2011), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Some argue that atheism must be false, since without God, no values are possible, and thus everything is permitted.

Understanding Arguments: An Introduction to Informal Logic

Product Description: CENGAGE ADVANTAGE BOOKS: UNDERSTANDING ARGUMENTS, CONCISE EDITION, 1E uses everyday life experiences to teach the basics of informal logic. By taking out the non-essential instruction, this edition hones in on the "argument construction" involved in day-to-day life, and how to do it better...read more

By Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

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9781285197395 | 9 con stu edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, January 1, 2014), cover price $55.95 | About this edition: CENGAGE ADVANTAGE BOOKS: UNDERSTANDING ARGUMENTS, CONCISE EDITION, 1E uses everyday life experiences to teach the basics of informal logic.

9780495603955 | 8 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, February 16, 2009), cover price $133.95

Modality, Morality, and Belief: Essays in Honor of Ruth Barcan Marcus

Product Description: Modality, morality and belief are among the most controversial topics in philosophy today, and few philosophers have shaped these debates as deeply as Ruth Barcan Marcus. Inspired by her work, a distinguished group of philosophers explore these issues, refine and sharpen arguments and develop new positions on such topics as possible worlds, moral dilemmas, essentialism, and the explanation of actions by beliefs...read more

By Nicholas Asher (editor), Diana Raffman (editor) and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (editor)

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9780521440820 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $99.99

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9780521100571, titled "Modality, Morality and Belief: Essays in Honor of Ruth Barcan Marcus" | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 29, 2009), cover price $44.99 | also contains Modality, Morality, and Belief: Essays in Honor of Ruth Barcan Marcus | About this edition: Modality, morality and belief are among the most controversial topics in philosophy today, and few philosophers have shaped these debates as deeply as Ruth Barcan Marcus.

Moral Psychology: The Neuroscience of Morality : Emotion, Brain Disorders, and Development

Product Description: For much of the twentieth century, philosophy and science went their separate ways. In moral philosophy, fear of the so-called naturalistic fallacy kept moral philosophers from incorporating developments in biology and psychology...read more

By Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (editor)

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9780262693554 | Mit Pr, January 31, 2008, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: For much of the twentieth century, philosophy and science went their separate ways.

Moral Psychology: The Neuroscience of Morality: Emotion, Brain Disorders, and Development

By Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (editor)

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9780262195645 | 1 edition (Mit Pr, January 31, 2008), cover price $13.75

Moral Psychology: The Cognitive Science of Morality: Intuition and Diversity

By Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (editor)

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9780262195690 | 1 edition (Bradford Books, January 31, 2008), cover price $60.00

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9780262693578 | Bradford Books, January 31, 2008, cover price $38.00

Moral Psychology: The Evolution of Morality: Adaptations and Innateness

By Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (editor)

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9780262195614 | Bradford Books, October 31, 2007, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: For much of the twentieth century, philosophy and science went their separate ways.

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9780262693547 | Bradford Books, October 31, 2007, cover price $38.00

Moral Skepticims

Product Description: Sinnott-Armstrong here provides an extensive survey of the difficult subject of moral beliefs. He covers theories that grapple with questions of morality such as naturalism, normativism, intuitionism, and coherentism. He then defends his own theory that he calls "moderate moral skepticism," which is that moral beliefs can be justified, but not extremely justified...read more

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9780195342062 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 19, 2007, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Sinnott-Armstrong here provides an extensive survey of the difficult subject of moral beliefs.

Perspectives on Climate Change: Science, Economics, Politics, Ethics

Product Description: The problems in climate change are sufficiently complex that they cannot be handled adequately within the framework of any single discipline. This work emphasises the close-knit relationship between science, economics, politics, and moral reasoning in framing and responding to this emerging environmental issue...read more

By Richard B. Howarth (editor) and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (editor)

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9780762312719 | Jai, March 20, 2006, cover price $133.99 | About this edition: The problems in climate change are sufficiently complex that they cannot be handled adequately within the framework of any single discipline.

Moral Skepticisms

Product Description: All contentious moral issues--from gay marriage to abortion and affirmative action--raise difficult questions about the justification of moral beliefs. How can we be justified in holding on to our own moral beliefs while recognizing that other intelligent people feel quite differently and that many moral beliefs are distorted by self-interest and by corrupt cultures? Even when almost everyone agrees--e...read more

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9780195187724 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 26, 2006, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: All contentious moral issues--from gay marriage to abortion and affirmative action--raise difficult questions about the justification of moral beliefs.

Pyrrhonian Skepticism

By Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (editor)

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9780195169720 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, July 22, 2004, cover price $61.00

God?: A Debate Between a Christian and an Atheist

By William Lane Craig and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

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9780195165999 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 16, 2003, cover price $25.00

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9780195166002, titled "God: A Debate Between a Christian and an Atheist" | Oxford Univ Pr, February 12, 2004, cover price $24.95

Rationality, Rules, and Ideals: Critical Essays on Bernard Gert's Moral Theory

Product Description: Bernard Gert's moral theory is among the clearest and most comprehensive on the contemporary scene. It touches on elements of the dominant ethical orientations―-utilitarianism, Kantianism, contractionism, and virtue ethics―without fitting neatly into any of those categories...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Robert Audi (editor) and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780742513167 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, November 1, 2002, cover price $111.00

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9780742513174 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, January 1, 2003, cover price $53.00 | About this edition: Bernard Gert's moral theory is among the clearest and most comprehensive on the contemporary scene.

Moral Knowledge?: New Readings in Moral Epistemology

Product Description: In Moral Knowledge?: New Readings in Moral Epistemology, editors Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Mark Timmons bring together eleven newly written essays by distinguished moral philosophers exploring the nature and possibility of moral knowledge...read more

By Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (editor) and Mark Timmons

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9780195089899 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 1, 1996, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In Moral Knowledge?

Contemporary Perspectives on Constitutional Interpretation

Product Description: Current controversies over abortion, affirmative action, school prayer, hate speech, and other issues have sparked considerable public debate about how the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted. Such controversies, along with the changing composition of an often deeply divided Supreme Court, have led to a resurgence of interest in theories of constitutional interpretation...read more

By Susan J. Brison (editor) and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (editor)

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9780813383941 | Westview Pr, October 7, 1993, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Current controversies over abortion, affirmative action, school prayer, hate speech, and other issues have sparked considerable public debate about how the U.

Moral Dilemmas

Product Description: Unresolvable moral dilemmas seem to be common in everyday life as well as in classical and contemporary literature, but the dominant traditions of moral philosophy deny that such dilemmas are even possible. In this book, the author argues that unresolvable moral dilemmas are both possible and actual...read more

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9780631157083 | Blackwell Pub, July 1, 1988, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: Unresolvable moral dilemmas seem to be common in everyday life as well as in classical and contemporary literature, but the dominant traditions of moral philosophy deny that such dilemmas are even possible.

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