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Bioethics: Books

E-Books

The Library's collection of e-books is growing all the time.

Benefits of e-books include:

  • Instant/any time access
  • They can be downloaded (for a specified period of time) or read online
  • The entire text is searchable and 'sticky notes' can be added
  • A percentage of the publication can be printed/saved
  • The e-book URL is permanent so you go back to a publication instantly

Search Library Search | Ketu, then filter by Ebooks; or use databases like Books@OVID for titles.

NCBI Bookshelf - freely available collection of electronic books, reports, databases, and other scholarly literature in biology, medicine, healthcare and the life sciences.

Book selection

A sample from the thousands of titles available:

Standford Encycopedia of Philosophy

Constantly evolving and being updated, entries in this encyclopedia are maintained by experts in their field.

http://plato.stanford.edu/

  • TruthThis link opens in a new windowJun 27, 2025
    [Revised entry by Michael Glanzberg on June 27, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Truth is one of the central subjects in philosophy. It is also one of the largest. Truth has been a topic of discussion in its own right for thousands of years. Moreover, a huge variety of issues in philosophy relate to truth, either by relying on theses about truth, or implying theses about truth. It would be impossible to survey all there is to say about truth in...
  • Epistemic Foundations of Game TheoryThis link opens in a new windowJun 27, 2025
    [Revised entry by Eric Pacuit and Olivier Roy on June 27, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html, supplement.html] Non-cooperative game theory studies how individual players, or agents, make decisions in situations involving strategic interaction. In these situations, each player's outcome depends not only on their own choices but also on the choices of the other players (see Ross 1997 [2024] for an overview). Epistemic game theory investigates how assumptions about the players' beliefs and rationality influence their choices in strategic situations. This entry begins by discussing the role of uncertainty in strategic situations. It then introduces...

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