Philosophy

Key Philosophers in Conversation

von Andrew Pyle

Key Philosophers in Conversation is a fascinating collection of interviews presenting the ideas of some of the worlds leading contemporary philosophers. Each interview features a discussion with a key philosopher...

Is Nature Evil? Religion Science and Value

von Willem B. Drees

Can nature be evil, or ugly, or wrong? Can we apply moral value to nature?

From a compellingly original premise, under the auspices of major thinkers including Mary Midgley, Philip Hefner, Arnold Benz and Keith...

Nietzsche and Modern German Thought

von Keith Ansell-Pearson

Nietzsche is no longer a marginal figure in the study of philosophy. This collection of specially commissioned essays reflects the emergence of a serious interest amongst philosophers, sociologists and political...

Judging Lyotard

von Andrew Benjamin

The work of Jean-Francois Lyotard signals the return of judgement to the centre of philosophical concerns. This collection of papers is the first devoted to his work and provides an estimation and critique of...

Shadow of Spirit: Postmodernism and Religion

von Philippa Berry & Andrew Wernick

By illuminating the striking affinity between the most innovative aspects of postmodern thought and religious mystical discourse, Shadow of Spirit challenges the long established assumption that western thought...

Feminism and the Mastery of Nature

von Val Plumwood

Two of the most important political movements of the late twentieth century are those of environmentalism and feminism. In this book, Val Plumwood argues that feminist theory has an important opportunity to...

Anti-libertarianism: Markets, philosophy and myth

von Alan Haworth

Free marketeers claim that theirs is the only economic mechanism which respects and furthers human freedom. Socialism, they say, has been thoroughly discredited. Most libertarians treat the state in anything...

Genetic Counselling: Practice and Principles

von Angus Clarke

Contributions to this study are drawn both from health professionals engaged in genetic counselling and from observers and critics with backgrounds in law, philosophy, biology, and the social sciences. This...

Ethics, Reproduction and Genetic Control

von Ruth Chadwick

In this revised edition with a new preface from the editor, leading scientists explain the nature and goals of `test tube' reproduction and genetic engineering, and their eugenic implications. In contrast to...

Knowing the Difference: Feminist Perspectives in Epistemology

von Kathleen Lennon & Margaret Whitford

Including contributions from an international list of renowned authors, this text seeks to address the controversial issue of difference in feminist philosophy, using approaches from both analytic and continental...

Ethics & Biotechnology

von Anthony Dyson & John Harris

The development of biotechnology has produced nothing short of a revolution, both in our capacity to manipulate living things from single plant cells to human nature itself, but also to manufacture brand new...

Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint

von Franz Brentano

Franz Brentano's classic study Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint was the most important of Brentano's works to be published in his lifetime.

A new introduction by Peter Simons places Brentano's work in...

State Punishment

von Nicola Lacey

Nicola Lacey presents a new approach to the question of the moral justification of punishment by the State. She focuses on the theory of punishments in context of other political questions, such as the nature...

Using Sartre: An Analytical Introduction to Early Sartrean Themes

von Gregory McCulloch

Using Sartre is an introduction to the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre, but it is not an ordinary introduction. It both promotes Sartrean views and adopts a consistently analytical approach to him. Concentrating...

Heidegger's Hidden Sources: East-Asian Influences on his Work

von Reinhard May

Heidegger's Hidden Sources documents for the first time Heidegger's remarkable debt to East Asian philosophy. In this groundbreaking study, Reinhard May shows conclusively that Martin Heidegger borrowed some...

Santayana

von T.L.S. Sprigge

This classic study of Santayana was the first book to appear in the Arguments of the Philosophers series. Growing interest in the work of this important American philosopher has prompted this new edition of...

Reason, Truth and Self: The Postmodern Reconditioned

von Michael Luntley

Michael Luntley provides a lively introduction to the debate over postmodernism. Sympathisers of the postmodernist critique of absolute knowledge have jetisoned concepts of reason,t ruth and self; this abandonment...

Receptions of Descartes: Cartesianism and Anti-Cartesianism in Early Modern Europe

von Tad M. Schmaltz

Receptions of Descartes is a collection of work by an international group of authors that focuses on the various ways in which Descartes was interpreted, defended and criticized in early modern Europe. The book...

Evolution, Rationality and Cognition: A Cognitive Science for the Twenty-First Century

von Antonio Zilhao

Evolutionary thinking has expanded in the last decades, spreading from its traditional stronghold - the explanation of speciation and adaptation in biology - to new domains. Fascinating pieces of work, the essays...

On Creativity

von David Bohm

Creativity is fundamental to human experience. In On Creativity David Bohm, the world-renowned scientist, investigates the phenomenon from all sides: not only the creativity of invention and of imagination but...