Social and political philosophy

This book examines the conception of the person at work in John Rawls's writings from Theory of Justice to Justice as Fairness: A Restatement.

This book considers the question: to what extent does it make sense to qualify technical artefacts as moral entities?

The present anthology, edited by Marcel Herbst, is partially based on a conference, held in 2009, to reflect on the legacy of Ben-David, and contains a selection of substantially revised papers, plus four contributions specifically written for this volume.

This book addresses the Confucian philosophy of common good and deals with the comparative philosophy on eastern and western understandings of common good.

Assembling an unprecedented range of considered responses to the noted contributions to philosophy made by Marcelo Dascal, this collection comprises the work of his many friends, colleagues and former students.

This volume explores timely topics in contemporary political and social debates, including: the new atheisms, the debate between Habermas and the Pope on the fate of modernity, and the impact of new scientific developments on traditional religions.

This anthology illustrates how law and economics is developing in Europe and what opportunities and problems - both in general and specific legal fields - are associated with this approach within the legal traditions of European countries.

This book addresses some of the key questions that scientists have been asking themselves for centuries: what is knowledge?

The contributions gathered in this volume present the state of the art in key areas of current social ontology.

This volume offers a unique commentary on the diverse ways that educational inquiry is conceived, designed and critiqued.

This book offers an original account of a distinctly republican theory of social and global justice.

This book examines the notion of children having full citizenship.

Schutzian Phenomenology and Hermeneutic Traditions links Alfred Schutz to the larger hermeneutic tradition in Continental thought, illuminating the deep affinity between Schutzian phenomenology and hermeneutics.

Spheres of Global Justice analyzes six of the most important and controversial spheres of global justice, each concerning a specific global social good.

This specially selected collection of landmark work from the Journal of Happiness Studies maps the current contours, and the likely future direction, of research in a field with a fast-rising profile.

Introducing an alternative philosophical foundation to the study of economics, this book explains and adopts the perspective of the Italian philosopher Antonio Rosmini (1797-1855), whose interpretation of economic action was fundamentally at odds with the prevailing and all-conquering utilitarianism of modernity.

What are the moral obligations of participants and bystanders during-and in the wake of -a conflict?

The present volume containing the dissertation of Dorion Cairns is the first part of a comprehensive edition of the philosophical papers of one of the foremost disseminators and interpreters of Husserlian phenomenology in North-America.

The economic impact of the U.

If, as John Rawls famously suggests, justice is the first virtue of social institutions, how are we to understand the institution of contract law?

This book proposes a philosophy of care in a global age.

Han Fei, who died in 233 BC, was one of the primary philosophers of China's classical era, a reputation still intact despite recent neglect.

These chapters on 'Responsible Leadership' represent the latest thinking on a topic of increasing relevance in a connected world.

This volume, the third in this Springer series, contains selected papers from the four workshops organized by the ESF Research Networking Programme "e;The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective"e; (PSE) in 2010: Pluralism in the Foundations of Statistics Points of Contact between the Philosophy of Physics and the Philosophy of Biology The Debate on Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences Historical Debates about Logic, Probability and StatisticsThe volume is accordingly divided in four sections, each of them containing papers coming from the workshop focussing on one of these themes.

The key question for the history of universal human rights is why it took so long for them to become established as law.

This book presents a unique collection of the most relevant perspectives in contemporary human rights philosophy.

The interaction between corporations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has become an important topic in the debate about corporate social responsibility (CSR).

Karl Jaspers, who died in 1969, had a profound impact on 20th-century theology and philosophy.

This volume contains outstanding studies by some of the best scholars in ancient Greek Philosophy on key topics in Socratic, Platonic, and Aristotelian thought.

20th century technologies like cars, the Internet, and the contraceptive pill have altered our actions, changed our perceptions and influenced our moral ideas, for better and worse.

This book shows how phenomenology of the social sciences differs from positivistic approaches, and presents Schutz's theory of relevances--a key feature of his own phenomenology of the social world.

Critical Communities and Aesthetic Practices brings together eminent international philosophers to discuss the inter-dependence of critical communities and aesthetic practices.

The central question in legal philosophy is the relationship between law and morality.

The book presents an interdisciplinary collection of analyses that discuss the impact of market economy on our culture in the post-Berlin Wall era.

This volume, the second in the Springer series Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, contains selected papers from the workshops organised by the ESF Research Networking Programme PSE (The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective) in 2009.

Realism in Action is a selection of essays written by leading representatives in the fields of action theory and philosophy of mind, philosophy of the social sciences and especially the nature of social action, and of epistemology and philosophy of science.

The view that persons are entitled to respect because of their moral agency is commonplace in contemporary moral theory.

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For 15 years, Henri Bergson, the most important French philosopher of the early 20th-century, taught at the Coll ge de France.

'A splendid work of art, In Defence of the Ordinary returns drama, pleasure and awakening to everyday life in the tradition of cultural critics like Ashis Nandy and Umberto Eco The book is one of a kind.

This book draws upon Vygotsky's idea of perezhivanie, emotions and imagination, and introduces the concepts of subjective sense and subjective configuration.

A panoramic book by a leading moral philosopher with significant things to say about developments in modern moral philosophy.

Decolonizing Theory: Thinking across Traditions aims at disentangling theory from its exclusively Western provenance, drawing insights and concepts from other thought traditions, connecting to what it argues is a new global moment in the reconstitution of theory.

The Communist Manifesto is a 1848 political manifesto by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that laid out the programme of the Communist League.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity .

Decolonizing Theory: Thinking across Traditions aims at disentangling theory from its exclusively Western provenance, drawing insights and concepts from other thought traditions, connecting to what it argues is a new global moment in the reconstitution of theory.

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Political editor Priya Sahgal profiles fourteen Gen-Next political leaders under the age of fifty-five.