Author: Stan Van Hooft
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: understanding, thought, modern, ethics, virtue, movements
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1844650456
ISBN-13: 9781844650453

Virtue ethics focuses upon the ’character’ of moral agents more than upon the moral status of their actions or of the consequences of those actions. Aristotle’s ethical theory is the major inspiration for the current revival of interest in virtue ethics, outlining how practical problems of moral complexity can be approached from a virtue perspective. The issue has been intrinsic to the history of philosophy, particularly through the work of Hume, Kant, and Nietzsche, and remains of central importance to contemporary philosophers such as Ricoeur and Levinas. After presenting a

Author: Rod Girle
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: philosophy, logics, modal
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2010-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0773536531
ISBN-13: 9780773536531

In Part 1 the reader is introduced to some standard systems of modal logic and encouraged through a series of exercises to become proficient in manipulating these logics. The emphasis is on possible world semantics for modal logics and the semantic emphasis is carried into the formal method, Jeffrey-style truth-trees. Standard truth-trees are extended in a simple and transparent way to take possible worlds into account. Part 2 systematically explores the applications of modal logic to philosophical issues such as truth, time, processes, knowledge and belief, obligation and permission. Acces

Author: Curtis Cook
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: referendum, canada, predicament, constitutional
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1994-06
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0773512020
ISBN-13: 9780773512023

This collection of essays by prominent Canadian political scientists and philosophers examines why the Charlottetown Accord failed to resolve Canada’s constitutional problems and explains the design and fate of the Accord as reflected in the theories and political forces that framed it. Canada’s fifth effort at "mega-constitutional politics" was a period of popular discussion and leadership negotiation, that ran from the defeat in 1990 of the Meech Lake Accord through to the Charlottetown Accord and the referendum of 26 October 1992. "Constitutional Predicament" explores the refere

Author: Judith Stamps
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: modernity, unthinking
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2001-08
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0773522433
ISBN-13: 9780773522435

Author: Trudy Govier
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: communities, human, social
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1997-10
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0773516808
ISBN-13: 9780773516809

Many sociologists have maintained that trust is the glue of social life. Trudy Govier confirms this view in a sustained discussion of the concept and contexts of trust, showing that trust is more significant and more prevalent than is usually assumed. She argues that social bonding is built on trust and maintains that trust is essential if we are to live ethically, responsibly, and well. Social Trust and Human Communities will be of great interest to students and scholars in the areas of applied ethics, social theory, and politics.

Author: Stanley Frost
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: vol, learning, advancement, university, mcgill
Number of Pages: 2
Published: 1984-08
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0773504222
ISBN-13: 9780773504226

The appointment of John William Dawson as principal in 1855 brought modern ideas of education to Montreal, and he imparted to the emerging institution his own deeep commitment to science. The Molson Hall in 1862, the first Medical School on campus in 1872, the Redpath Museum in 1882, the Macdonald Physics Building, the Redpath Library, and the Macdonald-Workman Engineering Building, all in 1893 were the major external evidences of the great intellectual advances that had been made. Equally, the admission of women students in 1884 marked the immense social developments in Montreal society. An e

Authors:Hugh M. French, Olav Slaymaker,
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: canadian, series, geography, geographers, association, environments, canada, cold
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 1997-05
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0773516360
ISBN-13: 9780773516366

A collection of scientific essays about the physical nature of Canada’s coldness. They focus on the distinctive attributes of Canada’s cold environments, their temporal and spatial variability, and the constraints that coldness places on human activity. This text is aimed at environmental scientists at all levels who need informed overviews of the substantive findings on a range of cold-related topics.