Topics in philosophy

Philosophers and social scientists share a common goal: to explore fundamental truths about ourselves and the nature of the world in which we live.

Architecture for a Free Subjectivity reformulates the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's model of subjectivity for architecture, by surveying the prolific effects of architectural encounter, and the spaces that figure in them.

This book analyzes the ethics of men buying and selling sex to one another.

Female Ex-Combatants, Empowerment, and Reintegration investigates the role of United Nations-led Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) programs in undermining female ex-combatants' empowerment.

Culture and Cultural Entities provides an original philosophical analysis of the nature and explanation of cultural phenomena, with special attention to ontology and methodology.

John McDowell is one of the most widely read philosophers in recent years.

Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) remains one of the most enigmatic works of twentieth century thought.

Why Can't We All Just Get Along is part-memoir, part-polemic about the state of public discourse in Britain and the world today.

Writing across the disciplines of sociology, literature, film, anthropology, and museology, the contributors examine the way in which radical postmodern shifts around knowledge and value have mobilized new relations between ourselves and others and transformed a range of cultural practices.

As the foundation of our rationality, logic has traditionally been considered fixed, stable and constant.

The limit of language is one of the most pervasive notions found in Wittgenstein's work, both in his early Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and his later writings.

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This book provides a three-part investigation into identity construction.

Vom Bürger ist unter Hobbes' Werken dasjenige mit der größten Wirkung auf die Rechts- und Staatsphilosophie der Neuzeit.

Previously unpublished writings from one of the most important political philosophers of recent timesG.

Intimate access to the mind of Francis Fukuyama and his reflections on world politics, his life and career, and the evolution of his thoughtIn his 1992 best-selling book The End of History and the Last Man, American political scientist Francis Fukuyama argued that the dominance of liberal democracy marked the end of humanitys political and ideological development.

This classic collection of essays, first published in 1968, has had an enduring impact on academic and public debates about criminal responsibility and criminal punishment.

Although rule breaking in Harry Potter is sometimes dismissed as a distraction from Harry's fight against Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter and Resistance makes the case that it is central to the battle against evil.

By re-examining Nietzsche's notion of the eternal-feminine and his views on women and feminism, this volume offers new perspectives on some of his key ideas.

This third edition of Arguing About Political Philosophy is the most complete, up-to-date, and interdisciplinary anthology of its kind.

Discusses constructivist responses to fundamental issues such as why be moral, why be rational, and why be an agent.

Peirce's Speculative Grammar: Logic as Semiotics offers a comprehensive, philologically accurate, and exegetically ambitious developmental account of Peirce's theory of speculative grammar.

This volume explores the ethical and philosophical paradigms presented by most of the influential Matriarchs of the Circle of African Women Theologians.

This anthology makes many key eighteenth-century texts on the Sublime readily available for the first time.

Friedrich Hayek was the 20th century's most significant free market theorist.

Against standard approaches to evolution and ethics, this book develops the idea that moral values may find their origin in regularly recurring features in the cooperative environments of species of organisms that are social and intelligent.

The first comprehensive exploration of the nature and value of understanding, addressing burgeoning debates in epistemology and philosophy of science.

Calls for redress of historical wrongs regularly make headlines around the world.

Throughout Europe, stateless nationalist and regionalist parties have moved from 'niche' actors in party systems to mainstream political players.

A religion professor elucidates the theory of the multiverse, its history, and its reception in science, philosophy, religion, and literature.

In this work, Chomsky explores the West's uses and abuses of the principle of "e;human intervention.

A comprehensive defense of the principle of double effect and the importance of intentions for normative ethics.

This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the potential conflict between a government's duty to protect children and a parent(s)' right to raise children in a manner they see fit.

As a parent, you want your children to grow up to become self-motivated, financially savvy, contributing members of society who maintain a deeply satisfying adult life.

When "e;revolution"e; becomes a recurring theme in mainstream culture, where do we look for the tools for a critical engagement with the present?

This book describes a ubiquitous and potent emotion that has only rarely and recently been studied in any systematic manner.

The leader's portrait, produced in a variety of media (statues, coins, billboards, posters, stamps), is a key instrument of propaganda in totalitarian regimes, but increasingly also dominates political communication in democratic countries as a result of the personalization and spectacularization of campaigning.

Aimed firmly at the student reader, this handbook offers an overview of the full range of the history of France, from the origins of the concept of post-Roman "e;Francia,"e; through the emergence of a consolidated French monarchy and the development of both nation-state and global empire into the modern era, forward to the current complexities of a modern republic integrated into the European Union and struggling with the global legacies of its past.

Exploring the five elements of cooking and eating: Taste, Flavour (smell), Texture (touch and sound), Temperature (touch) and Appearance, this book explains how these elements work together and how best to use them to produce simple, delicious dishes.

Questions about truth and questions about reality are intimately connected.

Short case studies, based on real stories from the health care arena, ensure that each chapter of this book is rooted in descriptions of nursing practise that are grounded, salient narratives of nursing care.

Moral Motivation presents a history of the concept of moral motivation.

Since the publication of Carl Hempel and Paul Oppenheim's ground-breaking work "e;Studies in the Logic of Explanation,"e; the theory of explanation has remained a major topic in the philosophy of science.

Traditional philosophical discussions of knowledge have focused on the epistemic status of full beliefs.

This serves as a handbook to guide us through the thickets of the sacred, the secular, religion and politics, by charting the supernatural as a natural defining feature of religion.

The roots of conservative Christian skepticism of international politics run deep.