Philosophy

Four major puzzles of consciousness philosophical materialism must confront after rejecting the phenomenal concept strategy.

A study of the emergence in post-Kantian continental philosophy of a focus on the lived experience of temporality.

Shakespeare's Villains is a close reading of Shakespeare's plays to investigate the nature of evil.

Over the last decades, nanoscience and nanotechnology has been ascribed the potential to contribute beneficial applications in fields such as medicine, cosmetics, or environmental remediation.

The concept of community is one of the most frequently used and abused of recent philosophical or socio-political concepts.

Adventures in Marxist Theory provides an introduction and overview of Marxian theory to demonstrate its contemporary relevance to social and political theory and a range of disciplines from philosophy to economics in both the humanities and the social sciences.

This volume serves as an essential resource for advanced graduate students, early-career faculty, and anyone seeking a deeper, more dynamic understanding of the philosophical and theoretical foundations of qualitative research in education.

Freud, the Contemporary Super-ego, and Western Morality traces the origins of the relationship between the morality of the super-ego and the destructive impulse of the death drive in the liberal democracies of the 21st century.

This book reevaluates the 'consensus' liberal view on minority cultural rights from a new, empirically informed perspective to argue that its justificatory machinery is not very persuasive, and that the normative goals of the view caninstead be efficaciously reached from within the classic liberal framework of equal, universal rights.

This book is a posthumous tribute to bisexual philosopher, theologian, AIDS-activist and educator, Shaykh Dr.

By what aesthetic practice might post-politics be disrupted?

Save Lives or Save the Rhetoric?

Thinking about Morality addresses the processes behind how we resolve moral issues and the factors that can impact that such as differing values and cultures.

The essays in this volume on the subject of equality are the work of scholars at Bard College and West Point.

Plato uses a logic without defining or naming it, somewhat as verbs are used in daily life without saying "e;verbs"e; or defining them.

Shakespeare's Villains is a close reading of Shakespeare's plays to investigate the nature of evil.

In Reimagining Life, Raihan Kadri presents a pioneering critical history of the epistemological and theoretical origins of the Surrealist movement and its subsequent legacy.

At heart, suicide is a subversive act: the assertion of individual will against public authority.

Freud, the Contemporary Super-ego, and Western Morality traces the origins of the relationship between the morality of the super-ego and the destructive impulse of the death drive in the liberal democracies of the 21st century.

'Utterly inspiring and empowering' Jennie Godfrey'Ten shades of extraordinary' Rosie WalshI was fifty-five when I finally stopped pretending.

Towards the end of his life, Cicero turned away from his oratorical and political career and looked instead to matters of philosophy and religion.

Introspection is fundamental and seemingly indispensable to understanding the conscious human mind.

William James's strong beliefs in a pragmatic theory of truth - that truth is only as relevant as its effect on us - lead to these absorbing essays on fact and belief.

This book brings together Vilem Flusser and intellectual Jewish history of the second half of the twentieth century.

'Over a hundred years ago, the German poet Heine warned the French not to underestimate the power of ideas: philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilisation' - Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty, 1958.

This book explores the ethical dimensions of nature conservation, discussing how we value the natural world and how it can be protected in a complex context where many ethically significant interests must be carefully weighed and balanced.

'The artist is certainly the child of his age, but all the worse for him if he is at the same time its pupil, even worse its minion.

In this book, Lawrence Sklar demonstrates the interdependence of science and philosophy by examining a number of crucial problems on the nature of space and time-problems that require for their resolution the resources of philosophy and of physics.

This book brings together Vilem Flusser and intellectual Jewish history of the second half of the twentieth century.

One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture’s value Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human.

Examining a series of provocative paradoxes about consciousness, choice, ethics, and other topics, Good and Real tries to reconcile a purely mechanical view of the universe with key aspects of our subjective impressions of our own existence.

Examining anthropocentric assumptions and arguments in care ethics literature, this book argues that caring for plants represents a moral obligation and vital relationship between human carers and plant cared-fors.

Cultivating Epistemic Justice in Music Education helps music educators understand how to support minoritized populations in their capacities as knowers.

Four major puzzles of consciousness philosophical materialism must confront after rejecting the phenomenal concept strategy.

A study of the emergence in post-Kantian continental philosophy of a focus on the lived experience of temporality.

The author of the classic philosophical treatment of love reflects on the trajectory, over decades, of his thoughts on love and other topics.

A philosopher subjects the claims of evolutionary psychology to the evidential and methodological requirements of evolutionary biology, concluding that evolutionary psychology''s explanations amount to speculation disguised as results.

This pioneering volume makes a vital intervention to the growing movement of decolonising conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches in social sciences.

No one has done more to deepen our appreciation of eighteenth-century British philosophy than Kenneth P.

Examining anthropocentric assumptions and arguments in care ethics literature, this book argues that caring for plants represents a moral obligation and vital relationship between human carers and plant cared-fors.

This book will benefit readers by revealing how urban existence is a multifaceted affair that, once examined, will forever change the way they think about their place in the city and what it means to live in one.

This book argues that legal punishment is almost never morally justified.

A Common Sky: Philosophy and the Literary Imagination explores the unsettling yet compelling fear of solipsism-the idea that the external world may not exist beyond the confines of individual perception.

"e;The chief business of twentieth-century philosophy"e; is "e;to reckon with twentieth-century history,"e; claimed R.

Essays on the Moral Concepts compiles a collection of his most significant contributions to ethical theory, many of which were previously scattered in academic journals.

In his most recent book, Ermanno Bencivenga offers a stylistically and conceptually exciting investigation of the nature of language, mind, and personhood and the many ways the three connect.

Ethical Idealism: An Inquiry into the Nature and Function of Ideals explores the role of ideals in guiding human thought and action.

In his most recent book, Ermanno Bencivenga offers a stylistically and conceptually exciting investigation of the nature of language, mind, and personhood and the many ways the three connect.

In this significant addition to moral theory, George W.