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Philosophical Foundations of Economic Reality - Anthropological, Ethical and Metaphysical

The dominant paradigm of the economy is based on homo economicus and its positivist, mechanistic, and utilitarian approach. This leads to...

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Scientific Modeling

An outstanding reference source to this fast-growing area and is the first volume of its kind. Essential reading for students and scholar...

Heidegger's Metaphysics - The Overturning of 'Being and Time'

"Heidegger and Metaphysics explores how Heidegger continued the project of Being and Time, developing a new kind of metaphysics through a...

Law, Animals and Toxicity Testing - The Case of the Laboratory Mouse

Drawing on our growing knowledge of animal cognition, this book provides a critical analysis of the use of animals in the legal regime an...

Stones and Lives - The Ethics of Protecting Heritage in War

Frowe and Matravers argue that the value of protecting heritage in war needs to be balanced against the need to safeguard other goods, in...

Putting Knowledge to Work - New Directions for Knowledge-First Epistemology

In the 21st century knowledge-centered approaches, which take knowledge as the starting-point for elucidation of other epistemic notions ...

Foucault's Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman's Somaesthetics - Ethics, Politics, and the Art of Living

"This volume provides the first critical comparison of Michel Foucault's aesthetics of existence and Richard Shusterman's somaesthetics. ...

Hume and Contemporary Epistemology

This book demonstrates Hume's relevance to contemporary debates in epistemology. It covers issues related to knowledge, belief, inquiry a...

Spinoza, Metaphysics, and the Possibility of Salvation - The Finite in the Infinite

This book offers a novel interpretation of Spinoza's basic metaphysics of God, body, and mind. It considers the fundamental question of h...

Intentionality Deconstructed - An Anti-Realist Theory

Intentionality Deconstructed argues for the view that no concrete entity - mental, linguistic, or any other - can possess intentional con...

Beyond Marginality - Constructing a Self in the Twilight of Western Culture

Beyond Marginality: Constructing a Self in the Twilight of Western Culture explores the phenomenon of the marginal self using the anthrop...

Groups as Epistemic and Moral Agents

Jessica Brown examines groups both as epistemic and as moral agents, offering original accounts of group evidence, group belief, group ju...

Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy - Volume 5

The new interdisciplinary field of experimental philosophy has emerged as the methods of psychological science have been brought to bear ...

Philosophy of Plant Cognition - Interdisciplinary Perspectives

This volume features new research about the philosophy of plant intelligence and plant cognition, one of the most intriguing and complex ...

Understanding and Conscious Experience - Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives

This volume explores how understanding relates to conscious experience. In doing so, it builds bridges between different philosophical di...

CONJUGIAL LOVE

Written in 1768, presents the nature of masculine and feminine qualities, their divine origin, their correspondence, and the dynamics of ...

Being Philosophical - An Introduction to Philosophy and Its Methods

Being Philosophical guides readers through the perplexing initial moments of meeting philosophy by taking them inside philosophical think...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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.

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...

An Introduction to Western Philosophy

The age of reason

An introduction to Zen buddhism

Philosophy in the twentieth century I-IV.

Philosophy of the ancients

Nietzsche

The central questions of philosophy

The age of reason (17th century philosophers)

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The english philosophers from Bacon to Hill