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The autobiography of philosophy : Rousseau's The reveries of the solitary walker
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ISBN: 0847692272 0847692264 Year: 1999 Publisher: Lanham, MD New York Oxford Rowman & Littlefield

Justice in the shadow of death : rethinking capital and lesser punishments
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ISBN: 0847682692 0847682706 Year: 1996 Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,

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Thinking like a engineer : Studies in the ethics of a profession
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ISBN: 0195120515 9786610470501 0195353056 128047050X 058524569X 9780585245690 Year: 1998 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] : Oxford University Press,

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Offers both an exploration of engineering ethics and a philosophical analysis of engineering as a profession. After putting engineering in historical perspective, the book turns to the Challenger disaster to consider the complex relationship between engineering ideals and practice.

Profession, code and ethics
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ISBN: 0754605507 Year: 2002 Publisher: Aldershot Ashgate

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To make the punishment fit the crime : essays in the theory of criminal justice.
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ISBN: 0813314348 Year: 1992 Publisher: Boulder Westview

The geometry and topology of coxeter groups
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ISBN: 9780691131382 0691131384 1283851288 1400845947 9781400845941 9781283851282 Year: 2008 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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The Geometry and Topology of Coxeter Groups is a comprehensive and authoritative treatment of Coxeter groups from the viewpoint of geometric group theory. Groups generated by reflections are ubiquitous in mathematics, and there are classical examples of reflection groups in spherical, Euclidean, and hyperbolic geometry. Any Coxeter group can be realized as a group generated by reflection on a certain contractible cell complex, and this complex is the principal subject of this book. The book explains a theorem of Moussong that demonstrates that a polyhedral metric on this cell complex is nonpositively curved, meaning that Coxeter groups are "CAT(0) groups." The book describes the reflection group trick, one of the most potent sources of examples of aspherical manifolds. And the book discusses many important topics in geometric group theory and topology, including Hopf's theory of ends; contractible manifolds and homology spheres; the Poincaré Conjecture; and Gromov's theory of CAT(0) spaces and groups. Finally, the book examines connections between Coxeter groups and some of topology's most famous open problems concerning aspherical manifolds, such as the Euler Characteristic Conjecture and the Borel and Singer conjectures.


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Ancient tragedy and the origins of modern science
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ISBN: 0585200548 9780585200545 Year: 1988 Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press,

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Ethics and the university
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ISBN: 1134677502 1280330775 0203029887 0203159810 9780203159811 9780203029886 9780415180979 041518097X 9780415180986 0415180988 041518097X 0415180988 9781134677450 9781134677498 9781134677504 1134677499 Year: 1999 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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Ethics and the University brings together two closely related topics, the practice of ethics in the university (""academic ethics"") and the teaching of practical or applied ethics in the university. This volume is divided into four parts: * A survey of practical ethics, offering an explanation of its recent emergence as a university subject, situating that subject into a wider social and historical context and identifying some problems that the subject generates for universities * An examination of research ethics, including the problem of plagiarism * A discussion of

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