Something Desirable

Author : Sherlyn Powell
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595919895

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Something Desirable by Sherlyn Powell Pdf

Adrienne Baxter is a brilliant young architect on the fast track to the top of her field. When Adrienne reunites with Brian Stevens, a college sweetheart, she's ready to begin a new chapter in her life. Brian is steady, dependable, and successful and seems to be everything Adrienne wants and needs. She convinces herself that she and Brian are meant to be together. Then Dexter Hughes walks into her life. Dexter was not supposed to happen! As a strong, independent, and beautiful African American woman, Adrienne becomes uncharacteristically weak and unsure of herself. She can't help but find herself enjoying the attention of both men. Slowly working through her conflicting feelings, Adrienne embarks on a journey of ups and downs, of enchantments and disappointments as she experiences love, excitement, and heartbreak. Her life changes forever as she faces both personal and professional challenges. Adrienne knows she must make a tough decision to move forward with her life. Like Adrienne, you'll be drawn to the endearing qualities of both Brian and Dexter as she is faced with a whole new set of feelings where she must resolve the dichotomies tugging at her heart and soul.

Author : Webster's New World Dictionary,Editors Of Webster's II Dictionaries
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 1552 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0618396012

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Webster's II New College Dictionary by Webster's New World Dictionary,Editors Of Webster's II Dictionaries Pdf

A newly updated edition of the dictionary features more than 200,000 definitions, as well as revised charts and tables, proofreaders' marks, synonym lists, word histories, and context examples.

Author : Jonathan D. Raskin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 1528 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781350331549

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Psychopathology and Mental Distress by Jonathan D. Raskin Pdf

This groundbreaking core textbook offers a comprehensive overview of different approaches to the causes, assessment and treatment of psychological disorders. The book includes important diagnostic frameworks, including the new DSM-5-TR, ICD-11 and PDM, but also widens the scope of coverage beyond mainstream psychiatric models to include psychological, biological, historical, sociocultural and therapeutic approaches. Contemporary and well-balanced, this book provides an even-handed and holistic foundation, allowing students to develop a strong critical mindset while retaining a robust research-driven orientation. This new edition: - features an innovative structure organized by presenting problem, examining each in a broad context of traditional psychiatric and alternative approaches - is grounded in lived experience of disorder: shining a spot-light on service-users through 'Case Examples' scenarios and 'Lived Experience' perspective pieces - Supports student learning and critical thinking through engaging 'Controversial Question' and 'In Depth' features - Features an attractive new layout and plenty of colour illustrations - Is supported by impressive online support features including lecture slides, a test bank, instructor manual, video library, student study questions, self-test quizzes, flashcard activities and more. Now thoroughly updated to include the latest developments in research and clinical practice, along with enhanced in-text and online pedagogy to support instructors and learners, this book is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students on abnormal psychology, psychopathology, mental health or clinical psychology courses.

Author : Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen,Michael J. Zimmerman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402038464

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Recent Work on Intrinsic Value by Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen,Michael J. Zimmerman Pdf

Recent Work on Intrinsic Value brings together for the first time many of the most important and influential writings on the topic of intrinsic value to have appeared in the last half-century. During this period, inquiry into the nature of intrinsic value has intensified to such an extent that at the moment it is one of the hottest topics in the field of theoretical ethics. The contributions to this volume have been selected in such a way that all of the fundamental questions concerning the nature of intrinsic value are treated in depth and from a variety of viewpoints. These questions include how to understand the concept of intrinsic value, what sorts of things can have intrinsic value, and how to compute intrinsic value. The editors have added an introduction that ties these questions together and places the contributions in context, and they have also provided an extensive bibliography. The result is a comprehensive, balanced, and detailed picture of current thinking about intrinsic value, one that provides an indispensable backdrop against which future writings on the topic may be assessed.

Author : G. F. Schueler
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262193558

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Desire by G. F. Schueler Pdf

Does action always arise out of desire? G.F. Schueler examines this hotly debated topic in philosophy of action and moral philosophy, arguing that once two senses of "desire" are distinguished -- roughly, genuine desires and pro attitudes -- apparently plausible explanations of action in terms of the agent's desires can be seen to be mistaken. Desire probes a fundamental issue in philosophy of mind, the nature of desires and how, if at all, they motivate and justify our actions. At least since Hume argued that reason "is and of right ought to be the slave of the passions," many philosophers have held that desires play an essential role both in practical reason and in the explanation of intentional action. G.F. Schueler looks at contemporary accounts of both roles in various belief-desire models of reasons and explanation and argues that the usual belief-desire accounts need to be replaced. Schueler contends that the plausibility of the standard belief-desire accounts rests largely on a failure to distinguish "desires proper," like a craving for sushi, from so-called "pro attitudes," which may take the form of beliefs and other cognitive states as well as desires proper. Schueler's "deliberative model" of practical reasoning suggests a different view of the place of desire in practical reason and the explanation of action. He holds that we can arrive at an intention to act by weighing the relevant considerations and that these may not include desires proper at all. A Bradford Book

Author : Karl H. Potter
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8120803108

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The Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies by Karl H. Potter Pdf

This volume summarizes what we know of early Advaita Vedanta upto the Samkara's pupils, Suresvara, Padmapada, Totaka and Hanstamalaka. An analytical introduction by the editor introduces the reader to the concepts utilized by Gaudapada, Samkaracarya and mandana Misra in expounding and defending the Advaita view. This is followed by summaries of all the authentic Advaita works of these authors, together with those of Suresvara and Padmapada as well as a number of other works which have been attributed to samkara, Totaka and Hastamalaka. This volume is divided into two parts and is enriched with an elaborate introduction discussing briefly the history of the school, its theories of value, language and relations and its metaphysics and epistemology. Contents Preface, Part one: Introduction to the philosophy of advaita vedanta, PART Two: Summaries of Works, Notes, Index.

Author : Averroes,Richard C. Taylor
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 1217 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300116687

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Long Commentary on the De Anima of Aristotle by Averroes,Richard C. Taylor Pdf

"This is a translation of [F. Stuart] Crawford's edition of the medieval Latin text presumed to have been rendered from Arabic into Latin by Michael Scot perhaps around 1220"--P. cvii.

Author : Richard Kraut
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691225128

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Aristotle on the Human Good by Richard Kraut Pdf

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, which equates the ultimate end of human life with happiness (eudaimonia), is thought by many readers to argue that this highest goal consists in the largest possible aggregate of intrinsic goods. Richard Kraut proposes instead that Aristotle identifies happiness with only one type of good: excellent activity of the rational soul. In defense of this reading, Kraut discusses Aristotle's attempt to organize all human goods into a single structure, so that each subordinate end is desirable for the sake of some higher goal. This book also emphasizes the philosopher's hierarchy of natural kinds, in which every type of creature achieves its good by imitating divine life. As Kraut argues, Aristotle's belief that thinking is the sole activity of the gods leads him to an intellectualist conception of the ethical virtues. Aristotle values these traits because, by subordinating emotion to reason, they enhance our ability to lead a life devoted to philosophy or politics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Drug abuse counseling
ISBN : UOM:39015014648813

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Training of Trainers: Participant manual by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher Shields,Robert Pasnau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199301256

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The Philosophy of Aquinas by Christopher Shields,Robert Pasnau Pdf

This new and updated edition of Christopher Shields and Robert Pasnau's The Philosophy of Aquinas introduces the Aquinas' overarching explanatory framework in order to provide the necessary background to his philosophical investigations across a wide range of areas: rational theology, metaphysics, philosophy of human nature, philosophy of mind, and ethical and political theory. Although not intended to provide a comprehensive evaluation of all aspects of Aquinas' far-reaching writings, the volume presents a systematic introduction to the principal areas of his philosophy and attends no less to Aquinas' methods and argumentative strategies than to his ultimate conclusions. The authors have updated the second edition in light of recent scholarship on Aquinas, while streamlining and refining their presentation of the key elements of Aquinas' philosophy.

Author : A. W. Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192699213

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The Human A Priori by A. W. Moore Pdf

The Human A Priori is a collection of essays by A.W. Moore, one of them previously unpublished and the rest all revised. These essays are all concerned, more or less directly, with something ineliminably anthropocentric in our systematic pursuit of a priori sense-making. Part I deals with the nature, scope, and limits of a priori sense-making in general. Parts II, III, and IV deal with what are often thought to be the three great exemplars of the systematic pursuit of such sense-making: philosophy in the case of Part II, ethics in the case of Part III, and mathematics in the case of Part IV. Much of the attention throughout is devoted to the work of other philosophers: Kant and Wittgenstein feature prominently, and five of the essays take the form of reviews or critical notices of recent work in philosophy. But the interest in never purely exegetical. One of the lessons that emerges from the essays, either in opposition to the views of these other philosophers or by invocation of their views, is that we humans achieve nothing of real significance in philosophy, ethics, or mathematics except from a human point of view, and hence that all three of these pursuits can be said to betoken what may reasonably be called 'the human a priori'.

Author : Gilbert Harman
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191519352

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Explaining Value by Gilbert Harman Pdf

Explaining Value is a selection of the best of Gilbert Harman's shorter writings in moral philosophy. The thirteen essays, originally published between 1967 and 1999, are divided into four sections, which focus in turn on moral relativism, values and valuing, character traits and virtue ethics, and ways of explaining aspects of morality. An indication of the breadth of interest of the book can be given by mentioning a few of the compelling questions which Harman discusses: What accounts for the existence of basic moral disagreements? Why do most people think it is worse to injure someone than to fail to save them from injury? Why do many people think it is morally permissible to treat animals in ways we would not treat people? What is it to value something and what is it to value something intrinsically? How much of morality can or should be explained in terms of human flourishing, or the possession of virtuous character traits? How do people come to be moral? Harman's distinctive approach to moral philosophy has provoked much interest; this volume offers a fascinating conspectus of his most important work in the area.

Author : Amy M. Briesch,Robert J. Volpe,Randy G. Floyd
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781462533558

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School-Based Observation by Amy M. Briesch,Robert J. Volpe,Randy G. Floyd Pdf

Widely used to assess social–emotional and behavioral referral concerns in grades PreK–12, systematic direct observation is an essential skill for school psychologists and other educators. This accessible book helps practitioners conduct reliable, accurate observations using the best available tools. Chapters present effective coding systems for assessing student classroom behavior, the classroom environment, behavior in non-classroom settings, and behavior in a functional assessment context; also provided are guidelines for developing new codes when an appropriate one does not already exist. Procedures for summarizing, graphing, and interpreting data for different assessment purposes are detailed. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 13 reproducible coding forms. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.

Author : Thomas Ploug
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789048123704

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Ethics in Cyberspace by Thomas Ploug Pdf

Over the last few decades information and communication technology has come to play an increasingly prominent role in our dealings with other people. Computers, in particular, have made available a host of new ways of interacting, which we have increasingly made use of. In the wake of this development a number of ethical questions have been raised and debated. Ethics in Cyberspace focuses on the consequences for ethical agency of mediating interaction by means of computers, seeking to clarify how the conditions of certain kinds of interaction in cyberspace (for example, in chat-rooms and virtual worlds) differ from the conditions of interaction face-to-face and how these differences may come to affect the behaviour of interacting agents in terms of ethics.

Author : Thomas Pink
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192508058

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Self-Determination by Thomas Pink Pdf

Thomas Pink offers a new approach to the problem of free will. Do we have control of how we act, so that we are free to act in more than one way, and does it matter to morality whether we do? Pink argues that what matters to morality is not in fact the freedom to do otherwise, but something more primitive - a basic capacity or power to determine for ourselves what we do. This capacity might or might not take the form of a freedom to act in more than one way, and it might or might not be compatible with causal determinism. What really matters to morality is that it is we who determine what we do. What we do must not simply be a function of powers or capacities for which we are not responsible, or a matter of mere chance. At the heart of moral responsibility is a distinctive form of power that is quite unlike ordinary causation - a power by which we determine outcomes in a way quite differently from the way ordinary causes determine outcomes. Pink examines how this power is involved in action, and how the nature of action permits the operation of such a power to determine it.