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Progressive Secular Society
And Other Essays Relevant to Secularism
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
A progressive secular society is one committed to the widening of scientific knowledge and humane feeling. It regards humanity as part of physical nature and opposes any appeal to supernatural agencies or explanations. In particular, human moral perspectives are human creations and the only basis for...
by J.H. Grainger
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
The 'ideal type' is Max Weber's hypothetical leading democratic politician, whom the author finds realized in Tony Blair. He is a politician emerging from no obvious mould, treading no well-beaten path to high office, and having few affinities of tone, character or style with his predecessors. He...
The Mendacious Colours of Democracy
The Anatomy of Benevolent Lying
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Politics is a noble, but also a dirty, business. To gain election - and retain office - in a democratic system, politicians are frequently compelled to be dishonest. They engage in benevolent lying because obstruction by stupid voters will otherwise stop them advancing the national interest as they see...
by John Papworth
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
The author passionately sets out his argument for radical decentralisation of power as the only answer to the current crises in politics, trade, ecology, and international affairs.
Thought Thinking
The Philosophy of Giovanni Gentile
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
The Italian author Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944) occupied a radical position among philosophers of the first half of the twentieth century. He tried in earnest to revolutionize idealist theory, developing a doctrine that retained the idealist conception of the thinking subject as the centre and source...
by Matthew Colborn
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Paul Feyerabend noted that ‘… the world which we want to explore is a largely unknown entity. We must, therefore, keep our options open and … not restrict ourselves in advance.’ (1975, p. 20). Given that consciousness is poorly understood and vaguely defined, such advice seems sound, but is frequently...
Brainstorming
Views and Interviews on the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Shaun Gallagher is a philosopher of mind who has made it his business to study and meet with leading neuroscientists, including Michael Gazzaniga, Marc Jeannerod and Chris Frith.The result is this unique introduction to the study of the mind, with topics ranging over consciousness, emotion, language,...
Before Consciousness
In Search of the Fundamentals of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Without consciousness we would not have the experientially flavoured world we have, but without the non-conscious we would not have it at all; for we would not be able to breathe, eat, move, walk, feel, mimic, gesture, laugh, etc., and even see, talk, remember, reason, understand, think, imagine, and...
by Henry Haslam
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
The reality and validity of the moral sense - which ordinary people take for granted - took a battering in the last century. Materialist trends in philosophy, decline in religious faith, and a loosening of traditional moral constraints contributed to a shift in public attitudes, with many decent honest...
The Earth Is Our Home
Mary Midgley's Critique and Reconstruction of Evolution and Its Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
This book demonstrates that Mary Midgley's philosophy of evolution points the way towards considering the earth as our only true home, since we are products of this planet and its evolving and complex life along with every other organism. From the knowledge of ourselves as knowing animals with a biological...
by Noel O'Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The continuing growth of worldwide interest in Michael Oakeshott's philosophy and political theory has recently (2016) been marked by the publication of two 'Companion to Oakeshott’ volumes. This event provides a welcome opportunity to explore the reasons for his influence both within the West and...
The Balancing Act
National Identity and Sovereignty for Britain in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
This is a careful examination of the historical formation of Britain and of key moments in its relations with the European powers. The author looks at the governing discourses of politicians, the mass media, and the British people. The rhetoric of sovereignty among political elites and the population...
by David Hay
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Dr Hay is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen. A zoologist by profession, his research has been guided by the hypothesis that religious or spiritual awareness is biologically natural to the human species and has been selected for in the process of organic evolution because...
The "Other" Psychology of Julian Jaynes
Ancient Languages, Sacred Visions, and Forgotten Mentalities
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
In his provocative but critically acclaimed theory about the origin of introspectable mentality, Julian Jaynes argued that until the late second millennium people possessed a different psychology: a "two-chambered" (bicameral) neurocultural arrangement in which a commanding "god"...