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Thoroughly optimistic, A 21st Century Ethical Toolbox, Fifth Edition, invites students to approach ethical issues with a reconstructive intent-to make room for more and better options than the rigid "pro" and "con" positions that have developed around tough problems like abortion, climate change, and racism. Employing an accessible, consistently engaging writing style, Anthony Weston and Bob Fischer cover the skills that are vital to making re...

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Ob im Privatleben, im Beruf, in Politik oder Gesellschaft: Ständig versuchen wir andere durch Argumente zu überzeugen. Aber wie schaffen wir das? Der amerikanische Philosoph und Essayist Anthony Weston hilft uns auf die Sprünge. Er klärt zunächst, was ein gutes und was ein schlechtes Argument ist, und erläutert dann, wie man erfolgreich argumentiert: Wie setzt man Beispiele oder Analogien wirksam ein? Wann sollte man sich auf Autoritäten bezie...

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Thinking Through Questions is an accessible and compact guide to the art of questioning, covering both the use and abuse of questions. Animated by wide-ranging and engaging exercises and examples, the book helps students deepen their understanding of how questions work and what questions do, and builds the skills needed to ask better questions. Cowritten by two of today's leading philosopher-teachers, Thinking Through Questions is specifically...

David Morrow and Anthony Weston build on Weston's acclaimed A Rulebook for Arguments to offer a complete textbook for a course in critical thinking or informal logic. Features of the book include: Homework exercises adapted from a wide range of actual arguments from newspapers, philosophical texts, literature, movies, YouTube videos, and other sources. Practical advice to help students succeed when applying the Rulebook 's rules. Suggestions f...

Scan this book quickly and you will think that philosophy has finally recovered a sense of imagination. Read it carefully - and recognize that every work and every author 'reviewed' here are but mere possibilities (except for one) - and you find yourself in the midst of an extraordinarily imaginative and audacious projection of what philosophy might become. 'Reinventing the culture' in the new Millennium, reinvoking the 'hidden possibilities' ...

From academic writing to personal and public discourse, the need for good arguments and better ways of arguing is greater than ever before. This timely fifth edition of A Rulebook for Arguments sharpens an already-classic text, adding updated examples and a new chapter on public debates that provides rules for the etiquette and ethics of sound public dialogue as well as clear and sound thinking in general.

This book advances another and sharply different model: the Impresario with a Scenario, a teacher who serves as class mobilizer, improviser, and energizer, staging dramatic, often unexpected and self-unfolding learning challenges and adventures with students.

This book advances another and sharply different model: the Impresario with a Scenario, a teacher who serves as class mobilizer, improviser, and energizer, staging dramatic, often unexpected and self-unfolding learning challenges and adventures with students.

From academic writing to personal and public discourse, the need for good arguments and better ways of arguing is greater than ever before. This timely fifth edition of A Rulebook for Arguments sharpens an already-classic text, adding updated examples and a new chapter on public debates that provides rules for the etiquette and ethics of sound public dialogue as well as clear and sound thinking in general.

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This book is a brief introduction or invitation to the rapidly growing field of environmental philosophy or ethics. Each chapter presents the particular view of its author, yet, the chapters are complementary, exploring key topics from several perspectives. A postscript presents a bibliographical guide to each of the chapters as well as practical steps we may take in confronting current and future environmental issues. It is intended for under...

This book offers a uniquely constructive set of tools for engaging complex and controversial ethical problems. Covering such practical methods as diversifying options, lateral thinking, reframing problems, approaching conflicts as creative opportunities, and many others, it shows how to find"room to move" inside even the most challenging ethical problems, and thereby discover new and productive ways to deal with them. The book features numerou...

This unique book is a concise introduction to creativity--the art of expanding possibility. Covering such practical methods as multiplying options, brainstorming, lateral thinking, reframing problems, and many others, it offers provocative and effective methods for constructive and expansivekinds of thinking. These methods are illustrated and reinforced through exercises and applications that range from science and technology to the arts, from...

Automotive transport unavoidably raises safety concerns for drivers, passengers, and indeed, all road users alike. Advancements in vehicle safety technologies have come a long way, and have had a major impact on the reduction of road-related accidents and fatalities. However, as the push towards autonomous vehicle systems gains momentum, assumptions must be avoided about the global application of such technologies. Worldwide, the vast majority...

ELEGANT AND AUDACIOUS POSSIBILITIESTHAT PUSH THE BOUNDARIES OF CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENTALISMWeston's "Mobilizing the Green Imagination" stands to become a critical component of the spectrum of ecological perspectives that signal the next stage of our collaborative evolution. — David McConville, President, The Buckminster Fuller InstituteThe perfect antidote to pessimistic “gloom and doom” scenarios, Mobilizing the Green Imagination invites us ...

A guide to BIG ideas -- to reawakening the radical imagination for social transformation.

In the face of our receding connection to nature and the loss of our direct experience of the world, this book proposes a different kind of environmentalism. It argues that we must restore our link with the 'more-than-human' world, bringing wilderness, animals, and the Earth closer to individuals and into daily life.

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