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Not my favorite book!.......2007-08-07
I found this book to be confusing and hard to decipher at times!! I sometimes had to read the paragraph several times to get it and then I would find later in the book somewhere, what I was confused about was explained somewhat better. This book caused me to waste a lot of time trying figure out things. Perhaps better organization would be helpful. I wouldn't recomend this book.
very introductory.......2007-05-29
Covers the topics very basically. Good for an undergrad class but not anything more.
an introduction to gentics Analyis.......2007-04-14
The first time we recieved this book it was the answers to text questions only. The second time we did not order it but somehow by just looking at the web site it got orderd thus we had to return it cause we had already purchased it somewhere else.
Good.......2005-09-22
It was just as described, and I am happy with the item I got. Thanks a lot!
Ok Genetics Book.......2005-09-06
The questions in the back of each chapter are really helpful. Sometimes the chapter itself is a bit vague. The chapter describing bacteria genetics was done very poorly. Even my TA agreed that the way it's written is hard for beginners to understand.
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This text has two unifying themes: materials balances and environmental ethics. First, the book demonstrates that environmental problems need to be solved using a holistic approach instead of a fragmented, single-pollution or single-medium approach. By using the concepts of materials balances, reactions, and reactors, the authors integrate and unify the presentation of water supply, waste-water treatment, air pollution control, and solid and hazardous waste management. Second, since ethics plays an increasingly important part in the professional lives of engineers, the authors incorporate ethical decision making into the discussions and problems. In many of the problems, students are required not only to solve the technical part, but also to consider the ethical ramifications of solving the technical problems.
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What am I? What is consciousness? What is the difference between past and future? Does the world presuppose a creator? Do we always act out of self-interest? This is a book about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth, goodness, justice. It is for anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how to approach them. Written by the author of the bestselling Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, Think sets out to explain what they are and why they are important. Simon Blackburn begins by putting forward a convincing case for the study of philosophy and goes on to give the reader a sense of how the great historical figures such as Plato, Hume, Kant, and Descartes have approached its central themes. Each chapter explains a major issue, and gives the reader a self-contained guide through the problems that philosophers have studied. The large range of topics covered range from scepticism, the self, mind and body, and freedom to ethics and the arguments surrounding the existence of God. Written in a lively and approachable manner, this book is ideal for all those who want to learn how the basic techniques of thinking shape our existence.
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Compelling? Not really........2007-10-01
I read Think a year or two after completing a degree in philosophy at Durham, and, sadly, I did not find it compelling. It struck me as the work of a sophisticated (I use the word in its Socratic sense) expert who enjoys dazzling us with the grip he has on his subject, rather as Euthyphro tried to dazzle Socrates outside the courthouse on the eve of Socrates' trial.
Blackburn surely wrote it for the A level student who is thinking of reading philosophy at university, but I fear it may put more readers off philosophy than it will inspire to study it.
The book is conventional, middle-of-the-road, politically correct and safe in its approach. No applecarts are upset and the sceptical questions and challenges are the old, old ones we've heard so often before. European philosophy hardly gets a look in. Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida -- none of them are mentioned.
I had the feeling I was tramping over well-trampled ground. The chapters read like university lectures: I did wonder if the whole book had been compiled by cobbling together of the author's well-thumbed lecture notes.
This was probably an easy book to write (-- was it commissioned?) but in spite of its self-congratulatory title (what a mistake for a philosopher to make!), it is not by any stretch of the imagination compelling.
Blackburn was well placed to get Think on the compulsory reading lists of universities across the globe so it will have earned him lots of lovely royalties. But that's hardly the aim of a true philosopher, is it?
Brilliant but flawed.......2006-06-17
Blackburn does a great job of explaining difficult and unintuitive concepts in a common sense way. For example, his arguments about zombies and mutants are a great introduction to the problem of knowing anything outside our own minds, and how that leads to a skepticism of dualism.
The downside is that the book is biased in the tradition towards atheism and empiricism. The biggest source of this bias is ignoring empirical and analytic defenses of the existence of God, such as those of William Lane Craig and Alvin Plantinga. However, I would not let this discourage anyone. Good writing and clear explanations are hard to come by so I would recommend this book. Another excellent but slightly more technical first book in philosophy is 'An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis' by John Hospers. A good followup is the extremely rigorous and thorough (almost to a fault) 'Philosophical Foundations For a Christian Worldview' by JP Moreland. Non-Christians should buy the book just for its strong sections on epistemology and metaphysics. Finally, read 'Modern Philosophy' by Roger Scruton. At that point only the philosophy majors will know more than you.
Though Provoking But No Skeleton.......2005-10-09
My book club and I all agreed that this book left much to be desired as a survey of Western Philosophy. I had hoped for a better skeleton to hang the fabric of Philosophy upon. However, one cannot go through such a survey without being stimulated to think deep thoughts - 'Do I see red the same way you see red?' - and so forth.
The author did refer to previous philosophers as he progressed in the book, however, It just didn't hang together.
A Sometimes Compelling Intro to Philosophy.......2005-05-18
Simon Blackburn's text _Think_ presents itself as a "compelling introduction to philosophy." Indeed, at times, it lives up to its billing. However, there are some parts of Blackburn's intro text that are less than compelling and hardly convincing. Blackburn's book contains eight chapters, brief endnotes, a somewhat brief bibliography and it includes an index. The book itself is easy to read, if one has a background in philosophy. And it is hard to put down at times. However, there are two reasons why I give Blackburn's book 4 stars instead of 5 stars. First, Blackburn's tendential atheism manifests itself throughout the work. Maybe it would not be such a problem, if he didn't generally present non-rigorous arguments for theistic arguments and supply seemingly formidable arguments for the atheistic Weltanschauung. Many of Blackburn's arguments can probably be refuted by a skilled undergraduate college student, much less by the likes of Alvin Plantinga or William Lane Craig, to mention only two thinkers who specialize in theistic argumentation. For instance, Blackburn attempts to make a case (in an intro philosophy text!) for compatibilistic free will without invoking or interacting with some of the best work that has been done on free will and compatibility/incompatibility. No reference is made to works by Peter van Inwagen or some of the Reformed epistemologists. And it seems that he presents a false dilemma vis-a-vis free will and compatibilism as he tilts the scales in favor of the latter. See pages 96-97. Nevertheless, Blackburn's book does make you think, even if you vehemently disagree with him. Nevertheless, the second problem that I have with his book is the concluding chapter. Here, the professor seems to meander, wander, go off-track, asseverates without any logical backing, pontificates and frankly ends his book with a "pop" instead of a "bang." Still, all in all, _Think_ is worth reading if you're interested in debates concerning free will, evil, God's existence or the nature of knowledge (i.e. epistemology). I just wish that Blackburn had been a little fairer to those who disagree with his theoretical outlook.
Thinking is not as easy as it once was.......2002-12-03
Blackburn has written this book as a defense of philosophy as a practical tool for making sense of the world in which we live. To be perfectly frank making sense of the world is a relatively difficult task.
Rather than discuss the history of philosophy Mr. Blackburn turns his attention to the topics of philosophy: Does free exist, is there a god, how do we know what we know.
Over its two thousand year-history, the philosophical tradition hasn't come a long way toward answering these big questions. What it has done, however, is give thinkers methods for revealing obvious fallacies in a whole range of arguments.
"Think" is designed to give the general reader access to some of the methods and ideas developed by thinkers from Descartes onward. What the book does not do is give the reader any prefabricated answers to these Big questions. Mr. Blackburn is less interested in giving us the answers than he is in showing us how to approach the questions. Although he occasionally offers his own opinion, he is careful to show that there is no easy way to access philosophical truth.
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In Race: A Philosophical Introduction, Paul C. Taylor provides an accessible guide to a well-travelled but still-mysterious area of the contemporary social landscape. Blending metaphysics and social philosophy, analytic philosophy and pragmatic philosophy of experience, Taylor outlines the main features and implications of race-thinking, while engaging the ideas of such important figures as Linda Alcoff, K. Anthony Appiah, W.E.B. Du Bois, Howard Winant, and Naomi Zack. The result is the first philosophical introduction to the field of race theory and to a non-biological and situational notion of race.The book unfolds in a sequence of five chapters, each devoted to one of the following questions: What is race-thinking? Don 't we know better than to talk about race now? Are there any races? What is it like to have a racial identity? And how important, ethically, is colorblindness? On the way to answering these questions, Race takes up topics like mixed-race identity, white supremacy, the relationship between the race concept and other social identity categories, and the impact of race-thinking on our erotic and romantic lives. Race is suitable for the educated general reader as well as for students and scholars in ethnic studies, philosophy, sociology, and other related fields.
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Race wrapped up in Confusion.......2006-02-16
This book is subtitled "A Philosophical Introduction", leading one to believe that you wouldn't have to be a philosopher to understand what the man is saying. Blantant lie. The book was completely confusing and needlessly verbose. The author once used degrading in a sentence, and then defined "degrade" and how he meant it to be used in the next sentence. He eithers thinks his readers incredibly stupid, or just feels the need to throw out definitions every chapter. Surrounding the needless definitions are complex philosophical arguments that take hours to break down and understand, this book is not an introduction to anything. If you want to learn about race-thinking or the different arguments about the meaning of race, this is not the book for you.
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Human Nature After Darwin is an original investigation of the implications of Darwinism for our understanding of ourselves and our situation. It casts new light on current Darwinian controversies, and in doing so provides an introduction to philosophical reasoning and a range of philosophical problems. Janet Radcliffe Richards claims that many current battles about Darwinism, in particular about evolutionary psychology and religion, are based on mistaken assumptions about the implications of the rival views. Her analysis of these implications provides a much-needed guide to the fundamentals of Darwinism and the so-called Darwin-wars, as well as providing a set of philosophical techniques relevant to wide areas of moral and political debate. It also raises philosophical problems of knowledge and certainly, free will and responsibility, altruism, the status of ethics, and the relevance of Darwinism to questions of ethics, politics and religion. The lucid presentation makes the book an ideal introduction to both philosophy and Darwinism, as well as a substantive contribution to topics of intense current controversy. It will be of interest to students of philosophy, science and the social sciences, and critical thinking.
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An excellent introduction.......2005-08-02
This book is an excellent introduction to current Darwinian thinking about human nature. As the book discusses the implications of accepting Darwinism it does not put forward an awovedly materialist view backed by arguments, but the author's stance on this issue is nevertheless unequivocal.
The style is admirably clear, and the general claim that in most cases, the often supposed differences between non-Darwinian and Darwinian lines of thinking are only apparent ones is convincing.
However, there are some passages which I disagree with.
1. The distinction between the formal validity of conditionals and the existence of a causal or explanatory relation between the antecedent and the consequent is blurred. Radcliffe writes:
"finding out the truth of the conditional is not a matter of finding out whether the antecedent is true... or whether the the consequent is true. Even if you proved conclusively that either of those was true or false, you would still have no evidence at all for the truth of the conditional... In fact, even if you proved both antecedent and consequent true, or both false, or the consequent true and the antecedent false, that would still have no bearing on the truth of the conditional. In all these cases, the conditional could be either true or false...
This is because a conditional is a statement which is not about the truth of any individual proposition, but a particular connection between the two."(p. 92)
For someone trained in formal logic this should seem puzzling. Formally, the truth table of the conditional does determine when it is false, namely when the antecedent is true and the consequent is false. It may be debated whether this extensional truth table really captures the meaning of natural language conditional statements (many say it gives absurd results in some important cases), but it cannot be denied that it goes some way to achieve that. To consider conditionals as expressing a connection between the two contained propositions is to treat them intensionally, i. e. in a way in which their truth does not depend on their constituent propositions. This distinction is an important one, and it should have been indicated clearly in the text.
2. The discussion of the Divine Command view of ethics is simplistic in one respect. Radcliffe says if you think that the problem of Evil needs to be answered, you cannot consistently accept the Divine Command View, as it considers goodness as dependent on the will of God, moreover, it says that whatever God willed must be good. Thus if God willed that suffering be present in the world, this must be a good thing, too.
I think this line of argument would reduce the DC view to absurdity, and Radcliffe unjustly mocks it by saying "[if the DCV were true]we could just say 'War is a good thing after all'."
Of course, one could obviously point out in defence of the DCV that you need not forego it in order to see a real problem in the existence of Evil. One could deny that God willed the suffering (maybe other people did, or Satan in the case of natural disasters) and hold on to the DCV, and/or work out a theodicy in which all sufferings are eventually justified by some greater good, so one can keep the DCV consistently again.
3. There is another argument in the chapter that I disagree with and which I consider the weakest one of the book. It is about the inconsistency of moral relativism. R. says that relativism in its familiar formulations is incoherent, because "it specifies that no principle should be given precedence over others, but in doing so it gives itself precedence; it says that you should not impose your principles on others, but in doing so attempts to impose itself on the holders of other views, and displace theirs."
I have two objections:
a) relativism as a practical guide may be incoherent, but people often act incoherently, as witnessed by the problem of the weakness of will. In itself, there is nothing problematic with that: if all values are subjective, then perhaps there is no other possible way for us to think and act.
b) In addition to the pratical level, there is the meta-level of justification where moral relativism may well win the day. This issue is independent of whether relativism as a practical view is incoherent or not. Furthermore, I find R.'s claim that we can conduct a 'secular moral enquiry' to discover moral truth by using our reason entirely unconvincing. The proposed means, intuitive reasoning, can only work provided there is something objective to be ascertained. However, R. does not in the least argue that there must be objective moral truths: it is one thing to claim that the existence of objective moral standards does not presuppose the existence of God (I agree on this point), and another to substantiate the claim that there are objective moral standards in the first place. Of course, we could see this argument as one working out an implication of Darwinism (i. e. as arguing for the possibilty of a Darwinist ethics) and not as one for such a substantive claim. But in the light of everthing else R. says about morality, especially in the last chapter where she claims that there ARE some real differences between accepting the Darwininan and the non-Darwinian view (plus materialism), (notably concerning survival of death and the prearranged moral order of the universe), what she had said about objective moral truth beforehand does seem very curious. She concludes the first-mentioned chapter by saying 'there is no reason to think that if materialism is true we must be unable to reason morally'. Well, that may be so, but provided that moral reasoning is done by reflective persons, it may easily lead to its own demise, too, or at least we cannot exclude this possibility a priori.
In my view, if you accept the Darwininan view, the only available choice is moral nihilism, or perhaps a version of an "error theory" of morality.
Despite the above critical remarks, in my overall assessment this is a superb book which everyone interested in evolutionary thinking should read. I hope I have not misrepresented the author's arguments in my criticism of them. I would appreciate if you shared your comments with me.
extremely disappointed in Janet Radcliffe Richards.......2004-05-14
I am a huge fan of Radcliffe Richards book "The Skeptical Feminist" which is an excellent presentation of logical arguments for feminism.
So I was extremely disappointed that Radcliffe Richards has joined the forces of Darwinian reductionism and evolutionary psychology. She claims she is simply presenting non-partisan logical arguments for Darwinian theories for our sober consideration, but her own biases come through fairly often - and she thanks a leading proponent of evolutionary psychology, Helena Cronin, in the front of the book.
Cronin wrote a paper "The Evolved Family" (available online) and in this paper she argues (based not on empirical evidence but rather on 'Darwinian logic') that since women as a group have evolved to value men almost exclusively for their income; and to prefer to spend time with their children to spending time at work, there should be a two-tiered system of employment - one for men and one for women - an official mommy track:
"Rather than taking male standards as the universal measure, or expecting both sexes to adopt androgynous working 'roles', the government should design family-friendly employment practices that reflect the different preferences of women and men."
She does not differentiate between mothers and childless women when discussing feminine preferences, so you can't tell if the Cronin plan calls for all women to be pushed into the mommy track, or just all fertile women or just women with children. And she doesn't bother to suggest a system in which a woman might plead for a special dispensation to join the male work force - perhaps the Queen could grant titles of 'honorary male.'
And it's striking how Radcliffe Richards chides those opposed to Darwinian reductionism for emotion-ridden criticisms of her side, when Cronin never mentions feminists without expressing biting contempt.
I can't believe Radcliffe Richards would countenance this radical right-wing social philosopher. Perhaps she became more conservative over the years. Feminism has lost a valuable friend.
Socrates on evolutionary ethics.......2002-05-25
If you have any interest in the ethical or political implications of evolutionary theory, read this book.
If you ever wished you could spend a week with Socrates, discussing a topic of contemporary interest, read this book.
If you have ever, are now, or intend in the future to write or talk about about evolutionary ethics, and you have not read this book, please quit wasting my time!
Overlooked.......2002-01-15
The publishers seem to have misunderstood (or at any rate, underrated) this superb book, which would profit from exposure to a wider audience. It's as if someone in a suit smelled a whiff of the lamp around here and exiled it to the ghetto of academic writing. This is a pity, but it is perhaps in part understandable. The nominal topic is "evolution," but the real subject is the activity of clear thinking. More directly -- no one excels Janet Radcliffe Richards in demonstrating how to use the tools of philosophy in the analysis or understanding of every day problems. There is an audience for this sort of thing. The publisher seems not to have found it and both auther and audience (saying nothing of the publisher) are the losers.
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Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy: An Introduction (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)
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Requiem for Nature
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This book explores the epistemological and ethical issues at the foundations of environmental philosophy, emphasizing the conservation of biodiversity. Sahota Sarkar criticizes previous attempts to attribute intrinsic value to nature and defends an anthropocentric position on biodiversity conservation based on an untraditional concept of transformative value. Unlike other studies in the field of environmental philosophy, this book is as much concerned with epistemological issues as with environmental ethics. It covers a broad range of topics, including problems of explanation and prediction in traditional ecology and how individual-based models and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology is transforming ecology. Introducing a brief history of conservation biology, Sarkar analyzes the new consensus framework for conservation planning through adaptive management. He concludes with a discussion of the future directions for theoretical research in conservation biology and environmental philosophy.
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MA thesis.......2006-11-05
I am doing MA -thesis over biodiversity at Joensuu university in Finland
That book is very important to me, thank you!
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While the American legal system has played an important role in shaping the field of bioethics, Law and Bioethics is the first book on the subject designed to be accessible to readers with little or no legal background. Detailing how the legal analysis of an issue in bioethics often differs from the "ethical" analysis, the book covers such topics as abortion, surrogacy, cloning, informed consent, maplractice, refusal of care, and organ transplantation.
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An Excellent Text for Adoption in a Bioethics Course.......2003-09-16
I adopted this text in a graduate-level bioethics course for dual-degree medical students to introduce students to the leading legal cases that have proved so influential in the field of bioethics. (I used this text to supplement more philosophical-ethical-type readings.) At the end of the semester I was surprised by the number of glowing comments I received from students about this text. The text is structured along the lines of a law school case book. Most of the classic cases in bioethics are represented, as well as leading cases of relevance to medical practitioners. The author's introductory comments to each topic situate the cases in their historical, social, political, or legal contexts. I particularly found the notes and questions following each case to be extremely helpful and illuminating, and would often use these to orient and focus class discussions. Academics interested in adopting this text will be interested to know that the author provides, free of charge, an invaluable Teaching Manual to supplement this text (the author's email address is provided in the introduction). This text would be an excellent choice for adoption in graduate-level bioethics courses aimed at medical students, or as a text for a bioethics or health law course in law schools. It would also be suitable for an upper level undergraduate bioethics course in philosophy departments. Finally, this text would also be accessible to the intelligent reader with a general interest in some of the most interesting bioethical issues facing the medical and legal professions today, or to anyone interested in understanding the ways in which courts have addressed these issues. No technical medical or legal knowledge is presupposed by this text.
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The Animal Ethics Reader
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Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, David DeGrazia explores the implications for how we should treat animals in connection with our diet, zoos, and research. Animal Rights distinguishes itself by combining intellectual rigour with accessibility, offering a distinct moral voice with a non-polemical tone.
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Not readable - font too small.......2007-05-12
I returned this book because I could not read the tiny-tiny print (about 8 point Arial). The content of the book may be good but it requires very strong eyes to read it.
Animal Activists.......2004-05-03
Animal Activists may be interested int he following link:
http://www.peta2.com/ot/o-madetour.asp
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Introduction to Engineering Ethics provides the background for discussion of the basic issues in engineering ethics. Emphasis is given to the moral problems engineers face in the corporate setting. It places those issues within a philosophical framework, and it seems to exhibit both their social importance and their intellectual challenge. The primary goal is to stimulate critical and responsible reflection on moral issues surrounding engineering practice and to provide the conceptual tools necessary for pursuing those issues.
As per new ABET 2000 guidelines, more and more introductory engineering courses cover engineering ethics as part of their instruction. Students preparing to function within the engineering profession need to be introduced to the basic issues in engineering ethics. This book places those issues within a wider philosophical framework than has been customary in the past and aims to stimulate critical and responsible reflection on the moral issues surrounding engineering practice and to provide the conceptual tools necessary for pursuing those issues.
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