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The Ethical Technologist    by David Tuffley
Price: $12.95 USD. 24870 words. Published by Altiora Publications  on December 29, 2011. .

The Ethical Technologist is an exploration of what it is to be a change agent during this most dynamic period of human history. Ethical conduct in technology development comes down to a simple, two-part proposition; people must be told what the consequences of using a technology will be and give their informed consent, and secondly, that they must not be harmed by using it.
Understanding Habermas: The Ideal Speech Community    by Hercules Bantas
Price: $0.99 USD. 2430 words. Published on February 4, 2012. .

This essay length guide examines Habermas's theory of the Ideal Speech Community, which is a combination of speech act theory and Kantian moral theory. Topics covered include a brief examination of critical theory and its origins, different types of speech acts and the validity claims they make, the world creation criteria that validate speech acts, and the principle of universalisation.
Reality and The Folly of Atheism: The Incompatibility of Truth and Anti-theism    by Michael Robinson
Price: $11.99 USD. 34530 words. Published on June 20, 2012. .

Frequently summoned as justification for atheism and skepticism, modern science actually offers reasons for Christian theism. More than that, without the truth of Christianity, one could not even do science. Robinson challenges the dogmas of atheism, relativism and materialism as he demonstrates that only the existence of God explains reality, including: matter, order, science, design, and ethics.
Epistemología Kantiana    by Adolfo Sagastume
Price: $4.99 USD. 8160 words. Published on June 20, 2012. .

Renato Descartes y David Hume habían iniciado una crítica del conocimiento humano y habían colocado la teoría del conocimiento antes de las investigaciones de orden metafísico. Lo que ellos buscaban era el origen de nuestras ideas. Para Descartes y los racionalistas las ideas eran innatas. Para Hume y los empiristas las ideas eran adquiridas.
Ontologia y Metafisica    by Adolfo Sagastume
Price: $3.99 USD. 20550 words. Published on June 24, 2012. .

La metafisica es la rama de la filosofía que se ocupa de la naturaleza de la realidad última. La metafísica está dividida en ontología, que tiene que ver con la cuestión de cómo muchos tipos fundamentales de entidades componen el universo, y la propia metafísica, que se ocupa de describir los rasgos más generales de la realidad.
Saber y Conocer    by Adolfo Sagastume
Price: $4.99 USD. 72060 words. Published on June 26, 2012. .

Te presento un conjunto muy selecto de pequeños trabajos, tareas y reflexiones en torno a la búsqueda del conocimiento: epistemología, problemas del lenguaje, convencionalismo físico, el lenguaje en foucault, realismo desde el punto de vista de Quintanilla y Ludovico Geymonat, racionalismo y método científico.
Social Truths    by Dan Brook
Price: $1.99 USD. 3620 words. Published on October 5, 2012. .

Social Truths is about better understanding society to better understand ourselves. This book lays out a buffet of sociological nuggets about society, allowing you to take in deep concepts in bite-sized ways that are easily digestible and surprisingly delicious. Bon appetit!
What is Enlightenment? Theories about Knowing Yourself Beneath Your Societal Identity, God and the Unseen Realm From Plato, Isaac Newton, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant    by K.J. Cleveland
Price: $2.99 USD. 13440 words. Published on November 28, 2012. .

Throughout the years many other philosophers and physicists, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein, have repeatedly suggested that to find peace, comfort, passion and happiness, people must look inside and get to know themselves, or their soul. And that within our selves lay limitless knowledge about what we cannot see in the physical world.
Nine Thinkers    by Hercules Bantas
Price: $2.99 USD. 22600 words. Published on December 20, 2012. .

Each chapter in this volume is dedicated to an idea that helped shape our world. It begins with Plato and love, then moves on to look at Aristotle and virtue, Descartes and existence, Kant's concepts and intuitions, Marx and class struggle, Freud and the subconscious, Sartre and existentialism, Rawls and justice as fairness and, finally, Júrgen Habermas and the ideal speech community.
Creative Obsession - Philosophic Life in Broad Daylight    by Viator E. O'Leviter
Price: $1.99 USD. 16070 words. Published on January 19, 2013. .

Creative Obsession is a modern apomary (an amalgam of aphorisms, apothegms and apologues), which depicts “a boiling pot of philosophy” with astonishing succinctness. The fervent protagonist of Creative Obsession is Homer Dogg, “a hardcore traveler, an honest scholar and an infatuated artist.”