Philosophy
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Research Ethics
Medicine in the twenty-first century is increasingly reliant on research to guarantee the safety and efficacy of medical interventions. As a result, the need to...
April 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47297-5 (Routledge)
Hume, Reason and Morality
A Legacy of Contradiction
Covering an important theme in Humean studies, this book focuses on Hume's hugely influential attempt in book three of his Treatise of Human Nature to...
March 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47267-8 (Routledge)
The Political Theory of John Gray
John Gray is one of today’s most brilliant, bestselling and controversial political thinkers. This new collection examines him from a variety of stimulating angles.
This...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46366-9 (Routledge)
Critical Realism, Post-positivism and the Possibility of Knowledge
Groff defends 'realism about causality' through close discussions of Kant, Hilary Putnam, Brian Ellis and Charles Taylor, among others. In so doing she affirms critical...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46435-2 (Routledge)
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Marxism and Human Nature
Is there such a thing as human nature? Here Sean Sayers defends the controversial theory that human nature is in fact an historical phenomenon. He...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44902-1 (Routledge)
Realism Discourse and Deconstruction
This collection reflects the growing interest realist critics have shown towards forms of discourse theory and deconstruction. The diverse range of contributions address such issues...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43686-1 (Routledge)
Defending Objectivity
Essays in Honour of Andrew Collier
Andrew Collier is the boldest defender of objectivity - in science, knowledge, thought, action, politics, morality and religion. In this tribute and acknowledgement of the...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43459-1 (Routledge)
John Stuart Mill
First published in 1976, this volume offers a significant new interpretation of Mill's political thought, Mill's ambivalent attitude to democracy is carefully examined. The implications...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43681-6 (Routledge)
The Devil in Modern Philosophy
The essays in this volume gather together Gellner's thinking on the connection between philosophy and life and they approach the topic from a number of...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43460-7 (Routledge)
Bentham's Theory of Fictions
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43452-2 (Routledge)
In Defence of Objectivity
This volume addresses the interlocking themes of realism, objectivity, existentialism and (eco-socialist) politics, based on critical realism. However, it moves beyond the purely scientific orientation...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43669-4 (Routledge)
Christianity and Marxism
A Philosophical Contribution to their Reconciliation
Andrew Collier analyses recent cooperation between Christianity and Marxism after earlier years of antagonism. He first discusses the nature of Christianity and Marxism and their...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43456-0 (Routledge)
Wittgenstein and Levinas
Ethical and Religious Thought
Wittgenstein and Levinas examines the oft-neglected relationship between the philosophies of two of the most important and notoriously difficult thinkers of the twentieth century. By...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42593-3 (Routledge)
Wittgenstein and the Human Form of Life
Wittgenstein's later writings generate a great deal of controversy and debate, as do the implications of his ideas for such topics as consciousness, knowledge, language...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40813-4 (Routledge)
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Logic, Form and Grammar
The notion of logical form and its applications are at the heart of some of the classical problems in philosophical logic and are the focus...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40808-0 (Routledge)
Laws in Nature
Mumford outlines a major new theory of natural laws. His book begins with the question of whether there are any genuinely law-like phenomena in nature....2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40782-3 (Routledge)
Kierkegaard and Philosophy
Selected Essays
Kierkegaard and Philosophy makes many of the most important papers on Kierkegaard available in one place for the first time. These seventeen essays, written over...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40827-1 (Routledge)
Frank Ramsey
Truth and Success
Despite his tragic death at the age of 26, Frank Ramsey (1903 - 1930) remains one of the most intriguing minds of the twentieth century....2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40828-8 (Routledge)
Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts
This is the first full exploration of the implications of Wittgenstein's philosophy for understanding the arts and cultural criticism. These original essays by philosophers and...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40825-7 (Routledge)
Classical Utilitarianism from Hume to Mill
This book presents a new interpretation of the principle of utility in moral and political theory based on the writings of the classical utilitarians from...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40846-2 (Routledge)
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Justifying Emotions
Pride and Jealousy
The two central emotions of pride and jealousy have long been held to have no role in moral judgements, and have been a source of...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40847-9 (Routledge)
Wittgenstein's Remarks on the Foundations of AI
Wittgenstein's Remarks on the Foundations of AI is a valuable contribution to the study of Wittgenstein's theories and his controversial attack on artifical intelligence, which...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40857-8 (Routledge)
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The Philosophy of John Locke
New Perspectives
This collection of new essays on John Locke's philosophy provides the most up-to-date entrée into the exciting developments taking place in the study of one...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40826-4 (Routledge)
Hilary Putnam
Pragmatism and Realism
One of the most influential contemporary philosophers, Hilary Putnam's involvement in philosophy spans philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, ontology and epistemology and logic.This specially...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40843-1 (Routledge)
Grammar in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy
This book is a systematic and historical exploration of the philosophical significance of grammar. In the first half of the twentieth century, and in particular...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40845-5 (Routledge)
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History of the Mind-Body Problem
History of the Mind-Body Problem is a collection of new essays by leading contributors on the various concerns that have given rise to and informed...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40831-8 (Routledge)
Thomas Reid and Scepticism
His Reliabilist Response
This book bears witness to the current reawakening of interest in Reid's philosophy. It first examines Reid's negative attack on the Way of Ideas, and...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40833-2 (Routledge)
Karl Jaspers
Politics and Metaphysics
This book sets out a new reading of the much-neglected philosophy of Karl Jaspers. By questioning the common perception of Jaspers either as a proponent...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40835-6 (Routledge)
Descriptive Psychology
Franz Brentano (1838-1917) is a key figure in the development of Twentieth Century thought. It was his work that set Husserl on to the...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40801-1 (Routledge)
Humes Philosophy Of The Self
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-24802-0 (Routledge)
Buddhist Phenomenology
A Philosophical Investigation of Yogacara Buddhism and the Ch'eng Wei-shih Lun
A richly complex study of the Yogacara tradition of Buddhism, divided into five parts: the first on Buddhism and phenomenology, the second on the four...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40610-9 (Routledge)
The Price of Doubt
The Price of Doubt is an important contribution to the problem of scepticism. It offers a new standard for the appraisal of philosophical arguments. Nicholas...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40809-7 (Routledge)
Approaches to Wittgenstein
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40816-5 (Routledge)
Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences
This volume focuses on key conceptual issues in the social sciences, such as Winch's idea of a social science, structuralism, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard, and the...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43454-6 (Routledge)
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Cause and Chance
Causation in an Indeterministic World
Philosophers have long been fascinated by the connection between cause and effect: are 'causes' things we can experience, or are they concepts provided by our...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40848-6 (Routledge)
Foundations of Mathematics and other Logical Essays
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40852-3 (Routledge)
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Donald Davidson
Truth, Meaning and Knowledge
Donald Davidson has made enormous contributions to the philosophy of action, epistemology, semantics and philosophy of mind and today is recognized as one of the...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40836-3 (Routledge)
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