Topics in philosophy

Saul Kripke has been a major influence on analytic philosophy and allied fields for a half-century and more.

ETHICS FOR RASCALS spotlights the romantic adventures, provocative ethics, and playful philosophy of the prince of storytellers, Robert Louis Stevenson, quixotic wanderer and prototype for Sir James M.

Since 9/11 politicians, preachers, conservatives and the media are all speaking about evil.

Who would have thought that late conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia would write a judicial opinion severely debilitating the free exercise of religion and democrats like Chuck Schumer and Ted Kennedy would come to the rescue?

Paradoxes are arguments that lead from apparently true premises, via apparently uncontroversial reasoning, to a false or even contradictory conclusion.

A detailed discussion and rejection of the view that there is more than one correct logic.

The book's title Knowing Why They Lied; Apologetics for Dummies is intended to convey that the average churchgoing Christian might benefit by a handy evangelism tool that anyone, Christian or non, can evaluate, share, or use.

Lets face it.

A practical guidebook for ordinary people who want to create a new society now-by a community organizer and expert in transformative change.

A history of the world’s first democracy from its beginnings in Athens circa fifth century B.

At the center of all John Howard Yoder's thought is the scriptural witness, and at the center of the scriptural witness is Christ, the one who ';came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near' (Eph.

This second volume of a new three-part series of Antonio Negri's work is focussed on the consequences of the rapid process of deindustrialisation that has occurred across the West in recent years.

The essays in Ways of Seeing, Ways of Speaking: The Integration of Rhetoric and Vision in Constructing the Real explore the intersections among image, word, and visual habits in shaping realities and subjectivities.

How does religious fundamentalism operate in modern global society?

"e;The Philosophical Imaginary teaches us how to read philosophy afresh.

A motto guiding Gregory L.

The future of Europe and the role it will play in the 21st century are among the most important political questions of our time.

In this book Irving Zeitlin re-examines the work of this important philosopher and considers how we should assess Nietzsche's claims today.

In most academic and non-academic circles throughout history, the world and its operation have been viewed in terms of cause and effect.

Recent developments in biotechnology and genetic research are raising complex ethical questions concerning the legitimate scope and limits of genetic intervention.

En réaction à la crise de 2008, une forte contestation des normes financières dites « modernes » est apparue chez toutes les parties prenantes du système économique conduisant à un diagnostic pessimiste sur la pertinence et la qualité du dispositif de normes installé dans le milieu des années 1990.

Each of us, right now, is having a unique conscious experience.

Where does perversion begin?

The field of rhetoric and composition has, at last, received a long-lost message delivered in the form of Victor J.

This book offers a clear and highly readable introduction to the ethical and social-political philosophy of John Stuart Mill.

An abridged edition of the insightful work praised as "e;an impressive contribution both to the history of ideas and to political philosophy"e; (Alasdair MacIntyre, author of After Virtue).

In this important new book, the leading philosopher Fran ois Laruelle examines the role of intellectuals in our societies today, specifically with regards to criminal justice.

Christianity arrived early in Egypt, brought according to tradition by Saint Mark the Evangelist, who became the first patriarch of Alexandria.

Given the history of concepts like meaning, time, language, and discourse, any serious attempt to understand them must be interdisciplinary; so MEANING, LANGUAGE, AND TIME draws on a wide range of important work in the history of philosophy, rhetoric, and composition.

I have the highest regard and utmost respect for those people who devote their lives to helping, loving, caring for, and supporting others as a life's work!

The past four decades have seen an increasing number of discussions by philosophers, environmentalists, scientists, politicians, and lay persons on the environmental damage done to the earth by human beings.

Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress.

This book thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space.

What is the relationship between persons and things?

This book is not a critique of digital ethics but rather a hack.

An intimate portrait of the daily realities of life in contemporary JerusalemThere is no escaping the Jerusalem of the religious imagination.

Is contemporary continental philosophy making a break with Kant?

In this major new work, Bernstein explores the ethical and political dimensions of the modernity/post-modernity debate.

What is free will?

This most thorough and contemporary examination of the religious features of the UK state and its monarchy argues that the long reign of Elizabeth has led to a widespread lack of awareness of the centuries old religious features of the state that are revealed at the accession and coronation of a new monarch.

Everything in their respective positions divides them: Alain Badiou is the thinker of a revitalized communism and Alain Finkielkraut the mournful observer of the loss of values.

This most thorough and contemporary examination of the religious features of the UK state and its monarchy argues that the long reign of Elizabeth has led to a widespread lack of awareness of the centuries old religious features of the state that are revealed at the accession and coronation of a new monarch.