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Political Philosophy versus History?
Contextualism and Real Politics in Contemporary Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Is the way in which political philosophy is conducted today too ahistorical? Does such ahistoricism render political philosophy too abstract? Is political philosophy thus incapable of dealing with the realities of political life? This volume brings together some of the world's leading political philosophers...
French Philosophy and Social Theory
A Perspective for Ethics and Philosophy of Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
This book demonstrates how the conceptual resources of contemporary French philosophy from the early 20thCentury to the present day can be applied to give us new perspectives on business ethics and the ethics of organizations. In providing an overview of possible applications, the book covers a wide...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
This volume documents the 16th Münster Lectures in Philosophy and examines five themes that are prominent in the work of philosopher and political theorist Philip Pettit. These themes are: Epistemology and Semantics, Philosophy of Mind, Consequentialism, Group Agency, and Republicanism.
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by Steven French
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Science has made a huge impact on human society over hundred years, but how does it work? How do scientists do the things they do? How do they come up with the theories? How do they test them? How do they use these theories to explain phenomena? How do they draw conclusions from them about how the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This collection of essays is an exercise in comparative philosophy of religion that explores the different ways in which humans express the inexpressible. It brings together scholars of over a dozen religious, literary, and artistic traditions, as part of The Comparison Project's 2013-15 lecture and...
New Perspectives in Philosophy of Education
Ethics, Politics and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
New Perspectives in Philosophy of Education seeks to build a bridge between philosophical reflection and socio-political action by developing a range of critical discussions in the areas of ethics, politics and religion. This volume brings together established authorities and a new generation of scholars...
Philosophy of Race
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018
Philosophy of Race: An Introduction provides plainly written access to a new subfield that has been in the background of philosophy since Plato and Aristotle. Part I provides an overview of ideas of race and ethnicity in the philosophical canon, egalitarian traditions, race in biology, and race in...
Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Religion
The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, Volume 5
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The twentieth century saw religion challenged by the rise of science and secularism, a confrontation which resulted in an astonishingly diverse range of philosophical views about religion and religious belief. Many of the major philosophers of the twentieth century - James, Bergson, Russell, Wittgenstein,...
Freedom and Rationality
Essays in Honor of John Watkins From his Colleagues and Friends
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
x philosophy when he inaugurated a debate about the principle of methodologi cal individualism, a debate which continues to this day, and which has inspired a literature as great as any in contemporary philosophy. Few collections of material in the general area of philosophy of social science would...
Seeing Dark Things
The Philosophy of Shadows
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
If a spinning disk casts a round shadow does this shadow also spin? When you experience the total blackness of a cave, are you seeing in the dark? Or are you merely failing to see anything (just like your blind companion)? Seeing Dark Things uses visual riddles to explore our ability to see things...
Prelude to Philosophy
An Introduction for Christians
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
"The unexamined life is not worth living," according to Socrates, but pursuing the examined life strikes many as daunting, unappealing and even unnecessary. Is philosophy important? Why do I need philosophy if I have the Bible? Aren't philosophers simply engaged in meaningless disputes that...
by Sebastian Gertz
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
The three ancient philosophical introductions translated in this volume flesh out our picture of what it would have been like to sit in a first-year Philosophy course in ancient Alexandria.
Ammonius (AD 445-517/26) set up a new teaching programme in Alexandria with up to six introductions to...
Sophistry and Political Philosophy
Protagoras' Challenge to Socrates
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
One of the central challenges to contemporary political philosophy is the apparent impossibility of arriving at any commonly agreed upon “truths.” As Nietzsche observed in his Will to Power, the currents of relativism that have come to characterize modern thought can be said to have been born...
by S.T. Padgett
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A. PURPOSE AND PLAN William Temple was trained as a philosopher and lectured on phi losophy at Oxford (1904), but his concern for labor, education, journalism, and the Church of England led him away from philosophy as a profession. Enthroned in 1942 as Archbishop of Canterbury, Temple persisted...