Conceivability
Title | Conceivability PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Katkin |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2019-06-25 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1501142372 |
The “Jason Bourne of fertility” (The New York Times Book Review) presents a personal and deeply informative account of one woman’s journey through the global fertility industry. On paper, conception may seem like a simple biological process, yet this is often hardly the case. While many would like to have children, the road toward conceiving and maintaining a pregnancy can be unexpectedly rocky and winding. Lawyer Elizabeth Katkin never imagined her quest for children would ultimately involve seven miscarriages, eight fresh IVF cycles, two frozen IVF attempts, five natural pregnancies, four IVF pregnancies, ten doctors, six countries, two potential surrogates, nine years, and roughly $200,000. Despite her three Ivy League degrees and wealth of resources, Katkin found she was woefully undereducated when it came to understanding and confronting her own difficulties having children. After being told by four doctors she should give up, but without an explanation as to what exactly was going wrong with her body, Katkin decided to look for answers herself. The global investigation that followed revealed that approaches to the fertility process taken in many foreign countries are vastly different than those in the US and UK. In Conceivability, Elizabeth Katkin, now a mother of two, exposes eye-opening information about the medical, financial, legal, scientific, emotional, and ethical issues at stake. “A well-researched, informative, and positive account of a very long journey to motherhood” (Kirkus Reviews), Conceivability sheds light on the often murky and baffling world of conception science. Her book is an invaluable and inspiring text that will be a boon to others navigating the deep and “choppy waters” of fertility treatment (Publishers Weekly), and her chronicle of one of the most difficult, painful, rewarding, and loving journeys a woman can take is as informative as it is poignant.
Conceivability and Possibility
Title | Conceivability and Possibility PDF eBook |
Author | Tamar Szabo Gendler |
Publisher | Clarendon Press |
Pages | 522 |
Release | 2002-07-25 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0191591866 |
Conceivability and Possibility
Title | Conceivability and Possibility PDF eBook |
Author | Tamar Gendler |
Publisher | Oxford University Press on Demand |
Pages | 507 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780198250906 |
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Thoughts
Title | Thoughts PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Yablo |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2008-11-27 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199266468 |
In these twelve essays Stephen Yablo presents a modern-day examination of Cartesian themes in the metaphysics of mind, including mental/physical dualism, the possibility of disembodied existence, conceivability as a guide to possibility, the nature of solipsistic content, and how the mind affects the course of physical events.
Philosophy without Intuitions
Title | Philosophy without Intuitions PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Cappelen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2012-03-15 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0191631248 |
The claim that contemporary analytic philosophers rely extensively on intuitions as evidence is almost universally accepted in current meta-philosophical debates and it figures prominently in our self-understanding as analytic philosophers. No matter what area you happen to work in and what views you happen to hold in those areas, you are likely to think that philosophizing requires constructing cases and making intuitive judgments about those cases. This assumption also underlines the entire experimental philosophy movement: only if philosophers rely on intuitions as evidence are data about non-philosophers' intuitions of any interest to us. Our alleged reliance on the intuitive makes many philosophers who don't work on meta-philosophy concerned about their own discipline: they are unsure what intuitions are and whether they can carry the evidential weight we allegedly assign to them. The goal of this book is to argue that this concern is unwarranted since the claim is false: it is not true that philosophers rely extensively (or even a little bit) on intuitions as evidence. At worst, analytic philosophers are guilty of engaging in somewhat irresponsible use of 'intuition'-vocabulary. While this irresponsibility has had little effect on first order philosophy, it has fundamentally misled meta-philosophers: it has encouraged meta-philosophical pseudo-problems and misleading pictures of what philosophy is.
New Perspectives on Type Identity
Title | New Perspectives on Type Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Simone Gozzano |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2012-03-08 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1107377722 |
The type identity theory, according to which types of mental state are identical to types of physical state, fell out of favour for some years but is now being considered with renewed interest. Many philosophers are critically re-examining the arguments which were marshalled against it, finding in the type identity theory both resources to strengthen a comprehensive, physicalistic metaphysics and a useful tool in understanding the relationship between developments in psychology and new results in neuroscience. This volume brings together leading philosophers of mind, whose essays challenge in new ways the standard objections to type identity theory, such as the multiple realizability objection and the modal argument. Other essays show how cognitive science and neuroscience are lending new support to type identity theory and still others provide, extend and improve traditional arguments concerning the theory's explanatory power.
The Fiction of Evil
Title | The Fiction of Evil PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Brian Barry |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2016-10-04 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1317594789 |
What makes someone an evil person? How are evil people different from merely bad people? Do evil people really exist? Can we make sense of evil people if we mythologize them? Do evil people take pleasure in the suffering of others? Can evil people be redeemed? Peter Brian Barry answers these questions by examining a wide range of works from renowned authors, including works of literature by Kazuo Ishiguro, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Oscar Wilde alongside classic works of philosophy by Nietzsche and Aristotle. By considering great texts from literature and philosophy, Barry examines whether evil is merely a fiction. The Fiction of Evil explores how the study of literature can contribute to the study of metaphysics and ethics and it is essential reading for those studying the concept of evil or philosophy of literature at undergraduate level.