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Gerhard Richter and the Technological Condition of Painting

Studies the impact of science and technology on the painting of Gerhard Richter Aline Guillermet uncovers Richter's appropriation of scie...

Epistemology with a Broad and Long View

Epistemology with a Broad and Long View is an original and provocative challenge to standard epistemologies which assume that the reasona...

Nietzsche and Kant as Thinkers of Antagonism - Towards a Philosophy of Conflict

The question of antagonism, struggle and dissensus, and their place, limits and value for democracy, has divided deliberative from agonis...

False Prophets of Economics Imperialism - The Limits of Mathematical Market Models

In this deeply researched and wide-ranging intellectual history, Matthew Watson exposes the essential flaw in the claims of economics imp...

Justice and the Human Genome Project

"In my view, [Murphy] has written the most incisive general critical essay on the Human Genome Project yet to appear."--Troy Duster, Dire...

The Dog Who Followed the Moon

Ethics and Situational Crime Prevention

This book addresses the ethics of situational crime prevention (SCP). It seeks not only to analyse specific SCP strategies, but to demons...

Procreative Responsibility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies

This book rethinks procreative responsibility considering the continuous development of assisted reproductive technologies. It presents a...

A New Approach to Addiction and Choice - Akrasia and the Nature of Free Will

Through a lively discussion of the key scientific and philosophical issues surrounding addiction, this book is valuable for students in p...

Human Enhancement Technologies and Healthcare Policy

This book presents the definition, theory, scope, and main challenges of human enhancement (HE) from a health policy and healthcare syste...

Literature and Ecotheology - From Chaos to Cosmos

This book challenges us in a time of climate crisis to find more common ground between the dual projects of ecocriticism and ecotheology....

Transparent Logics. Small Differences with Huge Consequences

The book presents Transparent Intensional Logic in several of its latest realisations in such a way that it makes a case for the system a...

Ethics and the Environment - An Introduction

"A new edition of a widely used and cited introduction to ethics and the environment. It relates the field to broader issues of philosoph...

Metaphysical Hermeneutics

If in its simplest form, hermeneutics is a quest for understanding, then part of that quest will always include striving to understand be...

A Wandering Dance Through the Philosophy of Graham Parkes - Comparative Perspectives on Art and Nature

Inspired by the philosopher Graham Parkes, this collection provides a distinctive study of aesthetics and the climate crisis. Engaging wi...

Big Panda and Tiny Dragon Weekly Planner Notepad

Find your own moments of calm in this busy world with this 52-page weekly planner notepad featuring stunning quotes and illustrations fro...

Applied Linguistics in the Indonesian Context - Society, Culture and Language

This open access edited volume presents a series of studies utilizing a variety of linguistic research techniques to investigate areas of...

Poetry and Power of Judgment - The Aesthetic Unity of Chinese Classical Poetry

This book examines Chinese traditional poetry with an emphasis on the sources of pleasure in creating and enjoying classical Chinese poem...

Philosophy and Art in Southeast Asia - A Novel Approach to Aesthetics

Guiding you through the topics that shape aesthetics and the philosophy of art, this introduction explores the truth, meaning, taste, aes...

At the Vanishing Point in History - Critical Perspectives on the Russia-Ukraine War

Putin's war has meant the return of the Russian intelligentsia-a concept that was all but dead in the first decade of the 2000s. At the V...

Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century

This volume depicts methods and concepts of calculated ethics and mathematized moral life at main universities in Europe of the late Midd...

The Postmodernists - An Introduction

What is postmodern--postmodernism as philosophy--and what should we think of it? The first eight chapters of Julian Young's new book exam...

The Fundamentals of Reasons

The Fundamentals of Reasons offers a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of reasons. The authors explore the twin roles of reaso...

The Complex Tapestry of Free Will - A Philosophical Odyssey

Robert Kane is one of the most prominent contributors to debates on free will over the last 50 years. Here he discusses the evolution of ...

Defending Materialism - The Uneasy History of the Atom in Science and Philosophy

Nobody doubted that atoms were real once atomic energy was developed, but in the early 20th-century and before their existence was widely...

The Heart and Its Attitudes

Stephen Darwall explores a subject neglected by analytic philosophers: matters of the heart. He shows how the ways in which we humans ach...

Big Panda and Tiny Dragon Hardcover Journal

Settle into a peaceful respite from the busy world with this hardcover ruled journal filled with uplifting quotes and illustrations from ...

The Origins of Consciousness - Thoughts of the Crooked-Headed Fly

The Origins of Consciousness challenges the dominant view that consciousness is an emergent property of the complex human brain.

Imagination and Experience - Philosophical Explorations

This volume brings together two philosophical research areas that have been subject to increased attention: work regarding the unique cha...

What is this thing called Philosophy of Language?

Thoroughly revised throughout and includes a new chapter on Chomsky's theory of grammar. The concluding chapter on modern directions in p...

Writing Philosophy Papers

This Sixth Edition of Writing Philosophy Papers updates and expands one of the most popular guides to philosophical writing assignments f...

Virtue Ethics and the Environment

This book addresses one of today's most burning issues, the environmental crisis, offering an insight into the problem from the perspecti...

A Companion to Atheism and Philosophy

Byung-Chul Han - A Critical Introduction

Byung-Chul Han is one of the most important living philosophers, renowned for his critiques of the digital age. In response to the idea t...

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Justice and East Asian Philosophy

Breaking out of the dominance of Anglo-American scholarship, this volume centralises East Asian philosophical traditions to explore cross...

New Directions in the Russellian Theory of Time - Metaphysical and Ontological Issues

The main debates in the philosophy of time have centred on whether A-theory, with events ordered by pastness, presentness and futurity, o...

Law Is a Moral Practice

What is law, and why does it matter? Scott Hershovitz says that law is a moral practice-a tool for adjusting our moral relations. This cl...

Maimon's Essay on a New Logic or Theory of Thinking - A Translation and Commentary

The Essay on a New Logic or Theory of Thinking, originally published in Berlin in 1794, was Salomon Maimon's hard-won success after a lif...

Very Practical Ethics - Engaging Everyday Moral Questions

In Very Practical Ethics David Benatar discusses some of the moral problems that ordinary people face in their everyday lives. These are ...

The Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy

France is famous for philosophy: this Handbook explores the riches and interest of this great intellectual tradition since 1800. Speciall...

What to Save and Why - Identity, Authenticity, and the Ethics of Conservation

What does a sanctuary for Hawaiian crows have in common with a troop of robots programmed to perform the M¿ori haka, or recreations of Wo...

Kant and the Feeling of Life - Beauty and Nature in the Critique of Judgment

Collects together for the first time essays devoted to a detailed historical and systematic discussion of the topic of life in Kant's work.

The Joy of Consent - A Philosophy of Good Sex

In the #MeToo age, US debate over licit sex has split into two camps: one insists that consent solves the problem of sexual coercion, whi...

Traditionalism - The Radical Project for Restoring Sacred Order

The definitive guide to Traditionalism: the world's least-known major philosophy, but one that is essential for understanding our past, p...

Ethics in the Real World - 90 Essays on Things That Matter - A Fully Updated and Expanded Edition

"In this book of brief essays, he applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abo...

Animal Liberation Now

Now fully rewritten and entirely updated to reflect the pressing problems of today, Animal Liberation Now presents the definitive case fo...

The Metaphysics of Bohmian Mechanics - A Comprehensive Guide to the Different Interpretations of Bohmian Ontology

The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive guide to the metaphysics of Bohmian mechanics. Bohmian mechanics is a quantum theory t...

Nietzsche¿s Philosophy of Nature and Cosmology - Second Edition

Nietzsche¿s doctrine of the "eternal recurrence of the same"¿the conception that the universe of events repeats itself in the same sequen...

Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Epicurean Tradition

The homogeneity of the Epicurean Garden and the unchangeability of the texts of Epicurus has traditionally been interpreted as a form of ...

Ethical Decision-Making

Ethical decision-making challenges us every day - be it in our private or professional lives, be it on an organizational or institutional...

Animal Liberation Now

Now fully rewritten and entirely updated to reflect the pressing problems of today, Animal Liberation Now presents the definitive case fo...

Ten Ways to Weave the World - Matter, Mind, and God, Volume 2

In this sequel to Outgrowing Materialism, Thompson explores five conceptual ""Worlds"" that preceded the dualist v. materialist divide an...

Human All-Too-Human - Part I, Volume Six

Nietzsche's essay, Richard Wagner in Bayreuth, appeared in 1876, and his next publication was his present work, which was issued in 1878....

Frege: Aufsätze zur Logik und Sprachphilosophie

Gottlob Frege (1848-1925), begründete nicht nur die moderne Logik, sondern auch die Sprachphilosophie. Er erweiterte die funktionale Anal...

Rethinking Responsibility

This volume examines the concept of responsibility amidst current societal challenges that require its rethinking. Assigning responsibili...

Galen and the Early Moderns

This book explores the presence of Galen of Pergamon (129 ¿ c. 216 AD) in early modern philosophy, science, and medicine. After a short r...

Senicide and Old Age Killing - An Overdue Discourse

Raimund Pousset gives in this essential a concise account of senicide, the modern form of cultural killing of the elderly. He sheds light...

The Special Liveliness of Hooks in Popular Music and Beyond

This book illuminates the aesthetically underrated meaningfulness of particular elements in works of art and aesthetic experiences genera...

Lived-Body Experiences in Virtual Reality - A Phenomenology of the Virtual Body

What is it like to perceive a virtual object through the sensed presence of a virtual body? How do subject-object relations occur and can...

Aristotle - The Complete Works

In "Aristotle: The Complete Works", the timeless relevance of Aristotle's ideas becomes clear. His relentless pursuit of knowledge, his k...