Topics in philosophy

This book is a part of ICL new book series "e;ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction"e; founded in 2019.

Defends Kuhn''s evolutionary social epistemology and examines new directions in Kuhn''s view on social constructionism and the sociology of science.

Perhaps one of the most striking characteristics of later medieval philosophy and science is the remarkable unity with which the different fields of investigation were articulated to each other, in particular with respect to the methodology used.

Feminist Philosophy: An Introduction provides a comprehensive coverage of the core elements of feminist philosophy in the analytical tradition.

Anthropocentrism in philosophy is deeply paradoxical.

The concept of the subject remains one of the most important and debated notions in social theory and philosophy.

Life on earth is wildly diverse, but the future of that diversity is now in question.

Human Rights: An Introduction is an important text that provides a comprehensive overview of human rights and related issues from a social science perspective.

This book sheds new light on the life and the influence of one of the most significant critical thinkers in psychology of the last century, Theodore R.

Recent work at the intersection of moral philosophy and the philosophy of psychology has dealt mostly with Aristotelian virtue ethics.

At the core of this book lies a form of virtue theory based on emotions.

The philosopher Michel de Montaigne said that facing our mortality is the only way to learn the 'art of living'.

Iago's 'I am not what I am' epitomises how Shakespeare's work is rich in philosophy, from issues of deception and moral deviance to those concerning the complex nature of the self, the notions of being and identity, and the possibility or impossibility of self-knowledge and knowledge of others.

The most comprehensive coverage of the core content Being Human, this course book will help learners grasp complex philosophical ideas and develop the crucial thinking skills.

While the philosophical study of mind has always required philosophers to attend to the scientific developments of their day, from the twentieth century onwards it has been especially influenced and informed by psychology, neuroscience, and computer science.

Mindmatics invites readers into a captivating exploration where the boundaries between mind and mathematics dissolve.

Although Hegel considered Science of Logic essential to his philosophy, it has received scant commentary compared with the other three books he published in his lifetime.

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9/11 and the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have left many people baffled and concerned.

Considers whether and how constitutions have affirmed women''s equal citizenship status, from the birth of constitutionalism to the present.

Articulating a thought can be astoundingly easy.

It is generally accepted in legal and bioethical discourse that the patient has a right to self-determination.

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In a world of ever-increasing medical technology, a study of the need for wisdom, truth, and public moral argumentIn this provocative and interdisciplinary work, Michael J.

In this original study, Rachel Coventry expands Heidegger's philosophy of art to include his ontological account of poetry and technology.

The aim of this book is to assess the moral permissibility of corporal punishment and to enquire into whether or not it ought to be legally prohibited.

This volume provides Dilthey's most mature and best formulation of his Critique of Historical Reason.

This collection brings together for the first time a set of researchers whose research methodologies centre on Bourdieu's concept of habitus.

Western philosophical orthodoxy places many aspects of other people's lives outside the scope of our knowledge.

This collection of essays by philosophers who are also fans does a deep probe of the Sopranos, analyzing the adventures and personalities of Tony, Carmella, Livia, and the rest of television's most irresistible mafia family for their metaphysical, epistemological, value theory, eastern philosophical, and contemporary postmodern possibilities.

As citizens, we hold certain truths to be self-evident: that the rights to own land, marry, inherit property, and especially to assume birthright citizenship should be guaranteed by the state.

This book offers an answer to the question: who ought to do what, and for whom, if global justice is to progress?

Metaphysics the philosophical study of the nature of reality is a dynamic sub-field which encompasses many of the most fundamental and elusive questions in contemporary analytic philosophy.

Kazuo Ishiguro and Ethics addresses the philosophical issues that lie at the heart of Ishiguro's fiction, shedding light on the moral condition of his characters - their sense of responsibility and pride in service, their attempts at self-determination and the value they assign to loyalty, love and friendship.

Chantal Mouffe has transformed the contemporary understanding of politics through her re-reading of political theory inspired by anti-foundationalist philosophy-based on Saussure's linguistics, Freud's psychoanalysis and Derrida's deconstruction.

Examining Georges Canguilhem's enduring attention to the problem of error, from his early writings to Michel Foucault's first major responses to his work, this pathbreaking book shows that the historian of science was also a centrally important philosopher in postwar France.

How can an infinite number of sentences be generated from one human mind?

This book explores the transformation of ideas of the material in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century musical composition.

This volume examines the ontology of music groups.

The Victorian period in Britain was an "e;age of reform.

This book looks at contemporary political violence, in the form of jihadism, through the lens of a philosophical polemic between Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon: intellectual representatives of the global north and global south.

In Seeing Ourselves, philosopher and neuroscientist Raymond Tallis brings together the preoccupations of some fifty years of writing and thinking about the overwhelming mystery of ordinary human life, and goes in search of what kind of beings we are, and where we might find meaning in our lives.

Through the 'dark night of the soul' to the depiction of the erotically-charged union of the soul and God, the poetry and prose works of the Spanish friar John of the Cross (1542-1591) offer a striking account of the transformation of the individual in the course of the Christian life.