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PaperbackEngels9781107568518
16-6-2016
Theories of distributive justice tend to focus on the issue of what constitutes a fair division of 'external' goods and opportunities; things like wealth and income, opportunities for education and basic liberties and rights. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781107583504
15-10-2015
Kant was one of the inventors of anthropology, and his lectures on anthropology were the most popular and among the most frequently given of his lecture courses. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781107584808
3-1-2019
What is the nature of truth? Blake E. Hestir offers an investigation into Plato's developing metaphysical views, and examines Plato's conception of being, meaning, and truth in the Sophist, as well as passages from several other later dialogues including the Cratylus, Parmenides, and Theaetetus, where Plato begins to focus more directly on semantics rather than only on metaphysical and epistemological puzzles. Meer
GebondenEngels9781107189218
25-1-2018
Major shifts in the field of model theory in the twentieth century have seen the development of new tools, methods, and motivations for mathematicians and philosophers. Meer
GebondenEngels9781041037774
1-5-2025
Mental Health and Hindu Psychology (1952) presents an analysis of the inseparable duality of psychology and religion in Hinduism. Written by a scholar of classical religion as well as contemporary psychiatry, psychology and sociology, this volume presents the contributions of Hindu psychologists. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781041038320
24-10-2025
This book investigates how artificial intelligence, neurotechnology, and synthetic biology are dismantling the legal foundations of personhood. Meer
GebondenEngels9781107035614
25-4-2013
The problem of whether we should love ourselves - and if so how - has particular resonance within Christian thought and is an important yet underinvestigated theme in the writings of Søren Kierkegaard. Meer
GebondenEngels9781107036314
23-4-2015
This is the first book devoted to an examination of Kant's lectures on ethics, which provide a unique and revealing perspective on the development of his views. Meer
GebondenEngels9781107036543
25-7-2013
Adorno notoriously asserted that there is no 'right' life in our current social world. This assertion has contributed to the widespread perception that his philosophy has no practical import or coherent ethics, and he is often accused of being too negative. Meer
GebondenEngels9781107036598
23-1-2014
Some of our earliest experiences of the conclusive force of an argument come from school mathematics: faced with a mathematical proof, we cannot deny the conclusion once the premises have been accepted. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781108796484
11-4-2024
Nietzsche regarded Thus Spoke Zarathustra as his most important philosophical contribution. It is also the only place where he elaborates his concepts of the superhuman and the eternal recurrence of the same. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781108796835
1-5-2025
This book defends logical monism, provides a detailed analysis of different possible formulations of logical pluralism, and offers an original account of the plurality of correct logics that incorporates the benefits of both pluralist and monist approaches to logical consequence. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781108796859
19-10-2023
The Classical Greek sophists – Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Hippias, and Antiphon, among others – are some of the most important figures in the flourishing of linguistic, historical, and philosophical reflection at the time of Socrates. Meer
GebondenEngels9781107037861
4-12-2014
Over the last two decades there has been an increasing interest in the influence of medieval Jewish thought upon Spinoza's philosophy. The essays in this volume, by Spinoza specialists and leading scholars in the field of medieval Jewish philosophy, consider the various dimensions of the rich, important, but vastly under-studied relationship between Spinoza and earlier Jewish thinkers. Meer
GebondenEngels9781107037878
17-10-2013
The relationship between mind and matter, mental states and physical states, has occupied the attention of philosophers for thousands of years. Richard Fumerton's primary concern is the knowledge argument for dualism - an argument that proceeds from the idea that we can know truths about our existence and our mental states without knowing any truths about the physical world. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781107625266
10-4-2014
The problem of the nature of being was central to ancient and medieval philosophy, and continues to be relevant today. In this collection of thirteen recent essays, Peter van Inwagen applies the techniques of analytical philosophy to a wide variety of problems in ontology and meta-ontology. Meer
GebondenEngels9781108476003
19-11-2020
Common-sense philosophy is important because it maintains that we can know many things about the world, about ourselves, about morality, and even about things of a metaphysical nature. Meer
GebondenEngels9781108476898
11-8-2022
In his Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (1786), Kant accounts for the possibility of an acting-at-a-distance gravitational force, demonstrates the infinite divisibility of matter, and derives analogues to Newtonian laws of motion. Meer
GebondenEngels9781108477284
4-11-2021
In On the Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin put forward his theory of natural selection. Conventionally, Darwin's argument for this theory has been understood as based on an analogy with artificial selection. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781107629899
6-3-2014
In this book, S. A. Lloyd provides a radical interpretation of Hobbes' laws of nature, revealing them to be not egoistic precepts of personal prudence but rather moral instructions for obtaining the common good. Meer