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This book outlines and criticises the six main contemporary
arguments for scepticism about the role of human enhancements in
promoting well-being. It also defends important and concrete ways
in which enhancement-permissive policies should be embraced with
the aim of promoting well-being.
Is it good to be proud? We sometimes happily speak of being proud
of our achievements, ethnicities and identities, yet pride is also
often described as the most serious of the seven deadly sins. This
edited collection of original essays examines pride from a variety
of perspectives in philosophy, psychology, sociology and
anthropology. The volume seeks to explore such topics as the nature
of pride, its connection to other human emotions, whether it is a
virtue or vice (or both), and what role it might play in both our
intellectual and moral lives. Containing diverse voices and
viewpoints, this book aims to illuminate the various and complex
dimensions of pride.
'Knowledge-First' constitutes what is widely regarded as one of the
most significant innovations in contemporary epistemology in the
past 25 years. Knowledge-first epistemology is the idea that
knowledge per se should not be analysed in terms of its constituent
parts (e.g., justification, belief), but rather that these and
other notions should be analysed in terms of the concept of
knowledge. This volume features a substantive introduction and 13
original essays from leading and up-and-coming philosophers on the
topic of knowledge-first philosophy. The contributors' essays range
from foundational issues to applications of this project to other
disciplines including the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of
perception, ethics and action theory. Knowledge First: Approaches
in Epistemology and Mind aims to provide a relatively open-ended
forum for creative and original scholarship with the potential to
contribute and advance debates connected with this philosophical
project.
Is it good to be proud? We sometimes happily speak of being proud
of our achievements, ethnicities and identities, yet pride is also
often described as the most serious of the seven deadly sins. This
edited collection of original essays examines pride from a variety
of perspectives in philosophy, psychology, sociology and
anthropology. The volume seeks to explore such topics as the nature
of pride, its connection to other human emotions, whether it is a
virtue or vice (or both), and what role it might play in both our
intellectual and moral lives. Containing diverse voices and
viewpoints, this book aims to illuminate the various and complex
dimensions of pride.
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