Topics in philosophy

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

In order to preserve contemporary understandings of the sciences, many figures of the Divine Action Project (DAP) held that God could never violate or suspend a law of nature, causing the marginalization of miracles from scholarly theology-science dialogue.

The first edition, published by Acumen in 2000, became a prescribed textbook on modal logic courses.

The concept of democratic freedom refers to more than the kind of freedom embodied by political institutions and procedures.

Arthur Pap's work played an important role in the development of the analytic tradition.

James Elkins's How to Use Your Eyes invites us to look at--and maybe to see for the first time--the world around us, with breathtaking results.

This Handbook offers students and more advanced readers a valuable resource for understanding linguistic reference; the relation between an expression (word, phrase, sentence) and what that expression is about.

This book proposes, from a civil perspective -such as that developed by Stefano Zamagni- and a cordial perspective -such as that developed by Adela Cortina-, orientations to design an economy in tune with what the historical moment demands.

Scholarly debate on the subject of global justice has been overwhelmingly focused so far on the socio-economic aspects of justice.

This highly original collection of essays contributes to a critique of the common understanding of modernity as an enlightened project that provides rational grounds for orientation in all aspects and dimensions of the world.

This book offers an extensive historical, philosophical and ethical discussion on the role of autonomous technologies, and their influence on human identity.

Vernünftigerweise tut man das, was die besten Folgen hat.

Ever struggled to write a critical essay?

The Art Experience: An Introduction to Philosophy and the Arts takes readers on an engaging and accessible journey that explores a series of fundamental questions about the nature of art and aesthetic value.

Since the latter half of the 20th century, committed art has been associated with conceptual, critical and activist practices.

Every modern democratic state imprisons thousands of offenders every year, depriving them of their liberty, causing them a great deal of psychological and sometimes physical harm.

Limited force is different than war: different in scope, strategic purpose, and ethical permissions and restraints.

This title was first published in 2001: This book examines the liberal-communitarian debate from a new perspective.

The book offers a comprehensive overview of the key terms, concepts, thinkers and major works in the history of this key area of philosophical thought.

This is a translation of Mehdi Hairi Yazdi's ?

The Aesthetics and Ethics of Copying responds to the rapidly changing attitudes towards the use of another's ideas, styles, and artworks.

John Maynard Keynes wrote to his grandchildren more than fifty years ago about their economic possibilities, and thus about our own: "e;I see us free, there- fore, to return to some of the most sure and certain principles of religion and traditional virtue - that avarice is a vice, that the exaction of usury is a misde- meanour.

This book provides a comprehensive view of the aesthetic realm, placing the various major artforms within the setting of nature and the built environment as they arise within the field of experience.

This book offers a unique insight into the role of human rights lawyers in Chinese law and politics.

What does it mean to be responsible for our actions?

Nations and Nationalism in World History challenges the commonly accepted understanding of nations as being exclusively modern and European in origin by drawing attention to evidence that indicates that nations are found in antiquity and the Middle Ages, and throughout the world.

Philosophies of Difference engages with the concept of difference in relation to a number of fundamental philosophical and political problems.

This book develops and applies a unified interpretation of John Rawls' theory of justice as fairness in order to clarify the account of citizenship that Rawls relies upon, and the kind of educational policies that the state can legitimately pursue to promote social justice.

This book offers a philosophical analysis of the environmental crisis in the Indian Sundarbans, drawing upon phenomenological narratives.

This book analyzes the philosophical origins of dualism in portraiture in Western culture during the Classical period, through to contemporary modes of portraiture.

This book focuses upon significant aspects of Stalinism as a system in the USSR.

The thirteen essays in this volume explore for the first time the possible skeptical implications of disagreement in different areas and from different perspectives, with an emphasis in the current debate about the epistemic significance of disagreement.

Despite the increasing number of gamers worldwide, the moral classification of computer gaming marks an as yet unsolved riddle of philosophical ethics.

This book addresses the need for maturational growth in undergraduate and entry-level graduate students as a foundation for professional and civic development.

Originally published in 1991, the essays in this volume are written by philosophers who were convinced that Wittgenstein's investigations in philosophical psychology were of direct relevance to current experimental psychology at the time.

In Moody Minds Distempered philosopher Jennifer Radden assembles several decades of her research on melancholy and depression.

Was genau ist eine Handlung?

Eine Definition von mystischer Erfahrung bildet den Angelpunkt dieser Studie, die das kontemplative Gebet des Centering Prayer von Thomas Keating OCSO kritisch würdigt und weiterentwickelt.

Imagine you are sitting at Starbuck glancing at the blue coffee mug in front of you.

Following the break-up of the Soviet Union, Marx was regarded as a thinker doomed to oblivion about whom everything had already been said and written.

Christine Ferguson's timely study is the first comprehensive examination of the importance of language in forming a crucial nexus among popular fiction, biology, and philology at the Victorian fin-de-siecle.

In the last few years, anarchism has been rediscovered as a transnational, cosmopolitan and multifaceted movement.