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Hobbes's Behemoth

Religion and Democracy

by Tomaz Mastnak
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012

Hobbes's Behemoth has always been overshadowed by his more famous Leviathan, which is arguably his masterpiece and is one of the greatest works of political philosophy. Behemoth, Hobbes's "booke of the Civill Warr," on the other hand, is most often seen as little more than a history of the English Civil...

What Does It All Mean?

A Humanistic Account of Human Experience

by William A. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013

As a young man Bill Adams travelled the world teaching US citizens abroad on behalf of a large state university on the East Coast. Back home he reflected that if there were answers to the great questions of life, then he’d not found them - not in India, in Europe, in China, or Japan. In time he came...
by Antonio Chella
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

The book is interdisciplinary and focuses on the topic of artificial consciousness: from neuroscience to artificial intelligence, from bioengineering to robotics. It provides an overview on the current state of the art of research in the field of artificial consciousness and includes extended and revised...
by Igor Aleksander
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013

Not consciousness, but knowledge of consciousness: that is what this book communicates in a fascinating way. Consciousness is the thread that links the disappearing gorilla with the octopus suffering from a stomach ache, and the person under anaesthetic with a new born baby. How these are different,...

The Cultural Challenge

A Trilogy by Yannis Andricopoulos

by Yannis Andricopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017

A collection of the three volumes by Yannis Andricopoulos on ancient Greek wisdom applied to modern culture and society, including:- Volume 1: In Bed with Madness- Volume 2: The Greek Inheritance- Volume 3: The Future of the PastIn Bed with MadnessGlobalism endowed us with McDonald's, 'the world's...

A Philosopher and Appeasement

R.G. Collingwood and the Second World War

by Peter Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013

This book is volume one of a two-part series. Taken together, the two volumes of A Philosopher at War examine the political thought of the philosopher and archaeologist, R.G. Collingwood, against the background of the First and Second World Wars. Collingwood served in Admiralty Intelligence during...
by Shaun Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013

A long history of inquiry about human nature and the self stretches from the ancient tradition of Socratic self-knowledge in the context of ethical life to contemporary discussions of brain function in cognitive science. It begins with a conflict among the ancients. On one view, which comes to be represented...
by Peter Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012

This book is volume one of a two-part series (volumes sold separately). Taken together, the two volumes of A Philosopher at War examine the political thought of the philosopher and archaeologist, R.G. Collingwood, against the background of the First and Second World Wars. Collingwood served in Admiralty...

The Athenian Option

Radical Reform for the House of Lords

by Anthony Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017

Before New Labour came to power and when even the prospect of reform of Britain's House of Lords was regarded with scepticism, Anthony Barnett and Peter Carty developed the idea of selecting part of a new upper house by lot: creating a jury or juries, that are representative of the population as a...

Paradigm Shift

How Expert Opinions Keep Changing on Life, the Universe, and Everything

by Martin Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015

Why do giraffes have long necks? It can't really be for reaching tasty leaves since their main food is ground level bushes, tidy though that explanation would be. And how does relativity theory cope with the fact that the observable universe defies prediction by being far too small and anything but homogeneous?...
by Vilhelm Aubert
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011

Lotteries have been used to make all kinds of public decisions ever since the days of Ancient Greece. They can contribute to some of our most important values, such as rationality, justice, and democracy. But until recently, there was no theory to make sense of lotteries and what they can do. The past...

The Party's Over

Blueprint for a Very English Revolution

by Keith Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013

Consider the following paradox: As the leaders of both of the main British political parties subscribed to the neoconservative doctrine on Iraq, everybody else in the birthplace of parliamentary democracy was effectively disenfranchised. Yet one of the rationales supporting the deployment of UK forces...
by Shinichi Nagao
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012

This volume illustrates the way political and social philosophers of 18th-century Scotland tried to answer the following question: 'What is, and what ought to be, the relationship between the modern market and stable, desirable social order?' The essays belong to the second half of the century and...
by Andreas Rahmatian
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017

The judge, jurist and philosopher Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782) was a polymath and one of the principal personalities of the Scottish Enlightenment. As a teacher and mentor of Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, and David Hume to some extent, he published works on law and legal history, moral philosophy,...
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