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Sensations and Phenomenology / by Chapman, Harmon M. (Harmon Marbold)

Table of Contents: “…Scientific humanism : Kepler and Galileo -- pt. 3. Descartes's direct argument for sensations -- pt. 4. The indirect arguments for sensations -- pt. 5. …”
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Hume's enlightenment tract the unity and purpose of an enquiry concerning human understanding / by Buckle, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Approaching the text -- pt. 2. The argument -- pt. 3. Conclusion.…”
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Unreasonable doubt circumstantial evidence and an ordinary murder in New Haven / by Thompson, Norma, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Two murders, one trial -- The trial -- Deliberation -- My literary jurors -- Final arguments.…”
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Locked in place state-building and late industrialization in India / by Chibber, Vivek, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. The issues and the argument -- pt. 2. Installing the state -- pt. 3. Reproducing the state.…”
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The sanctity of human life by Novak, David, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…On the use of embryonic stem cells -- A Jewish argument for socialized medicine -- Physician-assisted suicide.…”
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Environmental justice creating equality, reclaiming democracy / by Shrader-Frechette, K. S. (Kristin Sharon)

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction 3 -- Environmentalism and Biocentrism 4 -- From Environmentalism to Environmental Justice 5 -- Understanding Environmental Injustice 6 -- Overview of the Book 18 -- 2 Distributive Justice, Participative Justice, and the Principle of Prima Facie Political Equality 23 -- Overview 24 -- The Principle of Prima Facie Political Equality (PPFPE) and Distributive Justice 24 -- The Principle of Prima Facie Political Equality and Participative Justice 27 -- Objections to the Principle of Prima Facie Political Equality 29 -- How Careless Use of Science Can Encourage Environmental Injustice 34 -- Federal versus Local Control of Siting: Balancing Equity and Utility 36 -- A Case Study 41 -- Conclusions 47 -- 3 Appalachians, Access to Land, and Procedural Justice 49 -- Overview 50 -- Setting the Scene for the First Argument: The -- California Farmer 51 -- Another Instance of Environmental Injustice: The Appalachian Farmer 53 -- ProceduralJustice and End-State Principles 55 -- A Procedurally Based Argumentfor Limiting Property Rights in Resources 56 -- Resource Transactions, Voluntariness, and the Lockean Proviso 56 -- Suggestions for Limiting Property Rights in Land 62 -- Objections to the Argument 63 -- A Second Argument for Limiting Property Rights in Resources 64 -- Objections to the Second Argument 65 -- Conclusion 68 -- 4 African Americans, LULUs, and Free Informed Consent 71 -- Reverend Coleman and the South Side 71 -- Overview 74 -- A Case Study: Homer, Louisiana 74 -- The Louisiana Siting Was Not EthicallyJustified 77 -- Objections and Replies: An EnvironmentallyJust Energy Policy 84 -- Objections and Replies: No Economic Need for the Plant 90 -- Postscript 92 -- 5 Equity and Duties to Future Generations: The Case of Yucca Mountain 95 -- Overview 95 -- Prima Facie Arguments for Equal Treatment 96 -- Utilitarian Objections 97 -- Duties to Future Generations 100 -- Consent and Future Persons 105 -- Practical and Legal Considerations Affecting Justice for Future People 113 -- Conclusions 116 -- 6 Native Peoples and the Problem of Paternalism 117 -- Colonialism and the Exploitation of Indigenous People: The Case of Shell Oil 118 -- Overview 121 -- Paternalism, Consent, and Participative Justice 122 -- The Mescalero Apache, Paternalism, and Waste Disposal 124 -- Environmental Justice and the Mescalero 126 -- Geographical Inequality, Distributive Justice, and the Mescalero 128 -- History of the Nuclear Waste Issue 129 -- Science Relevant to Nuclear Waste Problem 131 -- Conclusion 132 -- 7 Risky Occupational Environments, the Double Standard, and Just Compensation 135 -- Overview 136 -- The Double Standard 137 -- Historical Background 138 -- The Theory of the Compensating Wage Differential 139 -- Arguments against the CWD 148 -- A Case Study: Six Hundred Thousand DOE Workers 152 -- Conclusions and Alternatives 161 -- 8 Developing Nations, Equal Protection, and the Limits of Moral Heroism 163 -- Overview 165 -- The Social Progress Argument 166 -- The BloodyLoafArgument 167 -- The Consent Argument and a Moral Response to It 171 -- The Economic-RealityArgument and a Moral Response to It 175 -- Citizens' Responsibilities for Environmental Justice 177 -- Conclusion 182 -- 9 Taking Action: Public Responsibility for Environmental -- Justice 185 -- Overview 185 -- EnvironmentalJustice Advocacy 186 -- The Tilted Playing Field 186 -- Consequentialist Arguments for Environmental Justice Advocacy 195 -- Deontological Arguments for Environmental Justice Advocacy 197 -- Restrictions on Environmental-Justice Advocacy 197 -- Practical Steps: Working with Nongovernmental Organizations 202 -- Conclusion 205.…”
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Polarisation, arrogance, and dogmatism : philosophical perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Lynch -- Reassessing different conceptions of argumentation / Catarina Dutilh Novaes -- Martial metaphors and argumentative virtues and vices / Ian James Kidd -- Arrogance and deep disagreement / Andrew Aberdein -- Closed-mindedness and arrogance / Heather Battaly -- Intellectual trust and the marketplace of ideas / Allan Hazlett -- Is searching the Internet making us intellectually arrogant? …”
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LSAT for dummies / by Hatch, Lisa Zimmer

Table of Contents: “…Logical reasoning: Picking apart an argument -- part IV. Reading comprehension: read 'em but don't weep -- part V. …”
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Limited Force and the Fight for the Just War Tradition / by Braun, Christian Nikolaus

Table of Contents: “…-- Aquinas on the Authority to Wage War -- Aquinas on Just Cause and Right Intention -- The Cases : Targeted Killing -- Targeted Killing : Casuistical Investigation and General Argument -- The Cases : Limited Strikes to Enforce International Norms -- Limited Strikes : Casuistical Investigation and General Argument.…”
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Limited Force and the Fight for the Just War Tradition / by Braun, Christian Nikolaus

Table of Contents: “…-- Aquinas on the Authority to Wage War -- Aquinas on Just Cause and Right Intention -- The Cases : Targeted Killing -- Targeted Killing : Casuistical Investigation and General Argument -- The Cases : Limited Strikes to Enforce International Norms -- Limited Strikes : Casuistical Investigation and General Argument.…”
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Counted righteous in Christ : should we abandon the imputation of Christ's righteousness? / by Piper, John, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Full outline of the argument -- The setting in family, church, culture, and nations -- The contemporary challenge -- An exegetical response to the challenge -- Conclusion.…”

Reconciling our aims in search of bases for ethics / by Gibbard, Allan

Table of Contents: “…Insight, consistency, and plans for living -- Living together : economic and moral argument -- Common goals and the ideal social contract.…”
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Defending qualitative research : design, analysis and textualization / by Cardano, Mario

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Truth, etc six lectures on ancient logic / by Barnes, Jonathan, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Truth -- Predicates and subjects -- What is a connector? -- Forms of argument -- The science of logic -- When is a syllogism not a syllogism?…”
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The enigmatic reality of time Aristotle, Plotinus, and today / by Wagner, Michael F., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…-- Eleaticism, temporality, and time -- The makings of a temporal universe -- Pastness and futurity -- Synchronicity and asynchronicity -- Temporal pace and measurement -- Presentness, or the present -- Aristotle's real account of time -- Parmenidean time and the impossible now -- Cosmic motion and the speed of time -- Time as the motion of the cosmos -- Time as the cosmos itself -- Time as motion and all change -- Temporal cognition and the return of the now -- Real temporality in an Aristotelian world -- Does Aristotle refute eleaticism? -- Bisection argument I -- Bisection argument II -- Bisection argument III -- Plotinus' vitalistic Platonism and the real origins of time -- Temporality, eternality, and Plotinus' new Platonism -- Plotinus' critique of Aristotelian motion -- Indefinite temporality and the measure of motion -- Plotinus' neoplatonic account of time.…”
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Greening EU competition law and policy by Kingston, Suzanne, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…The rise of the market in EU environmental policy; 3. A legal systematic argument; 4. A governance argument; 5. An economic argument; Part II. …”
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Evaluation foundations revisited : cultivating a life of the mind for practice / by Schwandt, Thomas A.

Table of Contents: “…Variability in evaluation practice -- Evaluation theory and practice -- Values and valuing -- Reasoning, evidence, and argument -- Politics and policymaking -- Use -- Professionalism and professionalization.…”

Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill on sexual equality historical, methodological and philosophical issues / by Guillin, Vincent

Table of Contents: “…: Comte, Mill, and the sociological argument against sexual equality -- The ethological fiasco : the methodological shortcomings of the Millian science of the formation of character -- How to discover one's nature : Mill's argument for emancipation in the Subjection of women -- Conclusion.…”
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Free speech and hate speech in the United States : the limits of toleration / by Demaske, Chris, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Response -- First Amendment Theories : Arguments and Counter Arguments -- Social Justice, Recognition Theory, and A New Legal Landscape -- From R.A.V. v. …”
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An old creed for the new South proslavery ideology and historiography, 1865-1918 / by Smith, John David, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. The old arguments anew : proslavery and antislavery ideology in the postwar mind. -- pt. 2. …”
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