Author: Jonathan Baron
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: deciding, thinking
Number of Pages: 600
Published: 2007-10-22
List price: $41.99
ISBN-10: 0521680433
ISBN-13: 9780521680431

Beginning with its first edition and through subsequent editions, Thinking and Deciding has established itself as the required text and important reference work for students and scholars of human cognition and rationality. In this, the fourth edition, Jonathan Baron retains the comprehensive attention to the key questions addressed in the previous editions - How should we think? What, if anything, keeps us from thinking that way? How can we improve our thinking and decision making? - and his expanded treatment of topics such as risk, utilitarianism, Baye’s theorem, and moral thinking. Wi

Author: Jonathan Baro
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: deciding, thinking
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2000-12-28
List price: $48.99
ISBN-10: 0521659728
ISBN-13: 9780521659727

Thinking and Deciding has established itself as a required text and important reference work for students and scholars of human cognition and rationality. In this, the third edition, Jonathan Baron delves further into many of the key questions addressed in the previous editions. Baron has also revised or expanded his treatment of topics such as risk, utilitarianism, Baye’s theorem, and moral thinking.Book DescriptionThinking and Deciding has established itself as a required text and important reference work for students and scholars of human cognition and rationality. In this, the third

Author: Bernard Gert
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: deciding, morality, common
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-08-19
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0195173716
ISBN-13: 9780195173710

Moral problems do not always come in the form of great social controversies. More often, the moral decisions we make are made quietly, constantly, and within the context of everyday activities and quotidian dilemmas. Indeed, these smaller decisions are based on a moral foundation that few of us ever stop to think about but which guides our every action.Here distinguished philosopher Bernard Gert presents a clear and concise introduction to what he calls "common morality" -- the moral system that most thoughtful people implicitly use when making everyday, common sense moral decisions and judgme

Author: Curtis Hutson
Publisher: Sword of the Lord
Keywords: christian, things, questionable, deciding
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2000-08
List price: $0.50
ISBN-10: 0873981669
ISBN-13: 9780873981668

Author: Colin Shaw
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: ethics, usa, media, decency, watch, taste, deciding
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1999-06-10
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0198159366
ISBN-13: 9780198159360

This book considers the different constraints (in the law, cultural customs, and self-regulation) affecting broadcasters on both sides of the Atlantic and the means by which they have responded to them. The book describes, with examples, the operations of compliance regulations and standard controls. It also explores the moral basis and history of such regulation as it has until now been applied to major issues of taste and decency.

Author: Drew Westen
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Keywords: fate, nation, deciding, emotion, brain, role, political
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2007-06-25
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1586484257
ISBN-13: 9781586484255

This groundbreaking investigation by a renowned psychologist and neuroscientist proves it: We vote with our hearts, not our minds. Drew Westen, a Professor of Psychology at Emory University, is the lead investigator on a team of neuroscientists who have been studying how the brain processes political information. For two decades he has been advancing a theory of the mind that differs substantially from the more "dispassionate" visions held by most cognitive psychologists, political scientists, and economists. In this book he shows, through a bravura tour of American political l

Author: Renee R. Anspach
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: care, nursery, intensive, choices, lives, fateful, deciding
Number of Pages: 303
Published: 1997-12-05
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520212134
ISBN-13: 9780520212138

In this powerful and probing look at the reality of everyday choices in neonatal intensive care units, Renée Anspach explores the life-and-death dilemmas that have fueled national debate. Using case studies taken during sixteen months of extensive interviewing and observation, Anspach examines the roles of parents, doctors, nurses, and bioethicists in deciding whether critically ill newborns--be they premature, terminally ill, or severely malformed--should be saved by medical technology, or at least kept alive a little longer.