Imprint Academic imprint: 246 books
The Institution of Intellectual Values
Realism and Idealism in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
This is a revised and expanded version of the much praised short book Universities: The Recovery of An Idea. It contains chapters on the history of universities; the value of university education; the nature of research; the management and funding of universities plus additional essays on such subjects...
by Corey Abel
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This volume brings together a diverse range of perspectives reflecting the international appeal and multi-disciplinary interest that Oakeshott now attracts. The essays offer a variety of approaches to Oakeshott's thought - testament to the abiding depth, originality, suggestiveness and complexity of...
by Hayden Ramsay
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
This addition to the St Andrews Studies series contains a wide-ranging collection of essays on all aspects of moral philosophy and its impact upon public life in the twent-first century. The book brings together ethicists from a variety of traditions interested in moral truth and its relation to religious...
Understanding Teaching and Learning
Classic Texts on Education by Augustine, Aquinas, Newman and Mill
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Generous selections from these four seminal texts on the theory and practice of education have never before appeared together in a single volume. The Introductions that precede the texts provide brief biographical sketches of each author, situating him within his broader historical, cultural and intellectual...
Speciesism, Painism and Happiness
A Morality for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Richard Ryder created the term speciesism in early 1970 and shared the idea with Peter Singer, who popularised it in his classic work Animal Liberation (1975). A key figure in the modern animal rights revival Ryder appeared on the first-ever televised discussion of animal rights (The Lion's Share, Scottish...
The Representational and the Presentational
An Essay on Cognition and the Study of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
In this wide-ranging book the author presents his critique of the contemporary portrayal of cognition, an analysis of the conceptual foundations of cognitive science and a proposal for a new concept of the mind. Shanon argues that the representational account is seriously lacking and that far from serving...
Darwinian Conservatism
A Disputed Question
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
A reprint of Larry Arnhart's essay Darwinian Conservatism with comment and criticism from a variety of contributors.
Michael Oakeshott on Hobbes
A Study in the Renewal of Philosophical Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Michael Oakeshott is widely recognised to be one of the most original political philosophers of the twentieth century. He also developed a very influential interpretation of the ideas of the great seventeenth century philosopher Thomas Hobbes. While many commentators have noted the importance of Hobbes...
by John Ziman
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
These days, science is everywhere. It pervades our whole society. Sometimes it is just a clutter of commonplace frivolities, like new fashion fabrics. Sometimes it miraculously preserves our life, like penicillin. Sometimes, like climate change, it looms over us as a portent of doom: sometimes it promises...
Amputated Souls
The Psychiatric Assault on Liberty 1935-2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Amputated Souls explores the subject of psychiatry and psychiatric practices and the assault upon human rights and human freedom constituted by these practices, tracing the history of lobotomy, ECT and antipsychotic drugs, and their use, from 1935 to the present day.
Nelson, Hitler and Diana
Studies in Trauma and Celebrity
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Clinical psychologist Richard Ryder approaches three iconic celebrities - Horatio Nelson, Adolph Hitler, and Diana Princess of Wales - as though they were his patients and presents a short psycho-biography of each. Beneath their obvious differences he finds striking similarities in their backgrounds...
A Hospitable Universe
Addressing Ethical and Spiritual Concerns in Light of Recent Scientific Discoveries
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
This book argues that new developments in the sciences, in particular twentieth-century physics and twenty-first-century biology, suggest revising several pessimistic outlooks for the development of a scientific understanding of the relationship of humans with the universe - in particular, implications...
At Our Wits' End
Why We're Becoming Less Intelligent and What it Means for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
We are becoming less intelligent. This is the shocking yet fascinating message of At Our Wits' End. The authors take us on a journey through the growing body of evidence that we are significantly less intelligent now than we were a hundred years ago. The research proving this is, at once, profoundly...
How Good an Historian Shall I Be?
R.G. Collingwood, the Historical Imagination and Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
R.G. Collingwood’s name is familiar to historians and history educators around the world. Few, however, have charted the depths of his reflections on what it means to be educated in history. In this book Marnie Hughes-Warrington begins with the facet of Collingwood’s work best known to teachers—re-enactment—and...