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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
This book discusses the political philosophy of Paul Ricoeur. More precisely, it offers a sustained engagement with Ricoeur’s political thought in a way that demonstrates both the significance of the political in his own thinking throughout his career, and how Ricoeur’s understanding of the political...
Gabriel Marcel and American Philosophy
The Religious Dimension of Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Gabriel Marcel and American Philosophy: The Religious Dimension of Experience examines the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel and its relationship to key figures in classical American Philosophy, in particular Josiah Royce, William Ernest Hocking, and Henry Bugbee. Few scholars have taken sufficient note...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
This book discusses Collingwood's conception of the role and character of philosophical analysis. It explores questions, such as, is there anything distinctive about the activity of philosophizing? If so, what distinguishes philosophy from other forms of inquiry? What is the relation between philosophy...
Inroads
Paths in Ancient and Modern Western Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
This unique introduction to philosophy is designed as a companion volume to a number of classic philosophical texts widely used in first- and upper-year philosophy courses. While remaining clear and readable, Inroads provides detailed analyses of fundamental issues in metaphysics and morals: the...
Descriptive Ethics
What does Moral Philosophy Know about Morality?
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
This book is an investigation into the descriptive task of moral philosophy. Nora Hämäläinen explores the challenge of providing rich and accurate pictures of the moral conditions, values, virtues, and norms under which people live and have lived, along with relevant knowledge about the human animal...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
A founder of modern analytic philosophy and one of the most important logicians of the twentieth century, Bertrand Russell has influenced generations of philosophers. The Bloomsbury Companion to Bertrand Russell explores this influence in detail and responds to renewed interest in Russell's philosophical...
Ethics Beyond the Limits
New Essays on Bernard Williams’ Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Bernard Williams’ Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is widely regarded as one of the most important works of moral philosophy in the last fifty years. Williams’s powerful sceptical critique of the "morality system" sent shockwaves through philosophy, the implications of which are still...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2019
Wang Guangyi, one of the stars of the new wave of Chinese art, has artistically addressed major philosophical trends in Western philosophy while drawing on Taoism, Marxism and Maoism. By bringing together a team of experts in the philosophy of art to discuss his work, The Philosophy and Art of Wang...
THE WILL TO POWER (Modern Philosophy Series)
Including Autobiographical Work "Ecce Homo” & Personal Letters
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
"How does one become stronger? By deciding slowly; and by holding firmly to the decision once it is made. Everything else follows of itself.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power This carefully crafted collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents....
Liberty and the Pursuit of Knowledge
Charles Renouvier's Political Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
French philosopher Charles Renouvier played an influential role in reviving philosophy in France after it was proscribed during the Second Empire. Drawn to the ideals of the French Revolution, Renouvier came to recognize that the free will and civil liberties he supported were essential to the pursuit...
Recent Themes in the Philosophy of Science
Scientific Realism and Commonsense
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and social studies of science. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science aims to provide a distinctive publication outlet for their work. Each volume comprises a group of thematically-connected...
Logic from Kant to Russell
Laying the Foundations for Analytic Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The scope and method of logic as we know it today eminently reflect the ground-breaking developments of set theory and the logical foundations of mathematics at the turn of the 20th century. Unfortunately, little effort has been made to understand the idiosyncrasies of the philosophical context that...
Examined Life
Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
Philosophy reconnects with daily life in these conversations with eight renowned thinkers—the uncut interviews from the documentary film Examined Life.
Astra Taylor’s documentary film Examined Life took philosophy out of the academy and into the streets, reminding us that great ideas are...
William Desmond’s Philosophy between Metaphysics, Religion, Ethics, and Aesthetics
Thinking Metaxologically
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
This volume collects seventeen new essays by well-established and junior scholars on the philosophical relevance of metaxological philosophy and its main proponent, William Desmond. The volume mines metaxological thought for its salience in contemporary discussions in Continental philosophy, specifically...