Philosophy

Syrians crossing the Mediterranean in ramshackle boats bound for Europe; Sudanese refugees, their belongings on their backs, fleeing overland into neighboring countries; children separated from their parents at the US/Mexico border--these are the images that the Global Refugee Crisis conjures to many.

The question of to what extent, manifestations of religious beliefs should be permitted in the European public sphere has become a salient and controversial topic in recent years.

Recovering Bookchinholds social ecologist Murray Bookchin's ideas and legacy alive.

Qu'est-ce qu'un juriste de gauche sous la République de Weimar ?

Challenges theological models of divine action that locate God''s activity in human mind.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City is an outstanding reference source to this exciting subject and the first collection of its kind.

In the endless debate about the Two Cultures no book until this attempted to provide a selection of scientific writing on specific themes to stimulate students of arts subjects into discussion and writing about the nature of science and its relationship with the rest of life.

This volume examines the concept of falsification as a central notion of semantic theories and its effects on logical laws.

This book addresses the issue of agency in relation to child marriage.

This book comprehensively investigates the position of China's working class between the 1980s and 2010s and considers the consequences of economic reforms in historical perspective.

The book sets an ambitious goal.

The Evolution of Socialist Feminism from Eleanor Marx to AOC traces the intersection of feminism and socialism as it has played out in the socialist movements arising in Europe and North America in the nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries.

Creolizing Critical Theory highlights the Caribbean as a philosophical site from which, for centuries and until today, theorists have articulated pressing critiques of capitalism and colonialism.

Seven Ways of Knowing is an examination of what we mean when we say we know something, and the extent and sureness of this knowledge.

A comprehensive and scholarly exploration of the personal and philosophical origins of Andre Gorz's work, this book includes a unique analysis of his early untranslated texts, as well as critical discussion of his relationship to the work of Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Marx and Habermas.

Can we talk meaningfully about God?

Popper's Open Society After Fifty Years presents a coherent survey of the reception and influence of Karl Popper's masterpiece The Open Society and its Enemies over the fifty years since its publication in 1945, as well as applying some of its principles to the context of modern Eastern Europe.

This book addresses translingual identities through an innovative multimodal analysis of the language learning histories of a class of advanced learners of English in Japan who grew up between two or more languages.

In Ethics as First Philosophy, Adrian P.

This book is a greatly supplemented translation from Portuguese, originally published in 2015.

Was ist Wahnsinn und was ist Kunst?

This book engages with the question of making sense of seeing in today's technologically dominated world.

What is the difference between civil and uncivil disobedience?

Presuming readers start with no background in philosophy, this enhanced introduction to bioethics first provides balanced, philosophically based coverage of moral reasoning, moral theories, and the law.

An engaging look at the philosophical underpinnings of Earth's Mightiest Heroes Avengers assemble!

In the distant future an enemy of Mankind is destroying space colonies, causing human expansion among the stars to come to a halt.

New edition of a key work in the development of Aristotle''s theory of reproduction.

A pocket Discworld quote book.

This book concentrates upon how economic rationalities have been embedded into particular historical practices, cultures, and moral systems.

This textbook introduces students to the various arguments for and against the prohibition of recreational drugs.

For decades, framing an issue as a 'human rights' issue carried certain power and effect in politics and international relations, one that has been challenged by the recent rise of populist political forces.

Hermann Lotze was a key figure in the philosophy of the second half of the 19th century, influencing practically all leading philosophical schools of the late 19th and the early 20th century: (i) the neo-Kantians; (ii) Brentano and his school of descriptive psychology; (iii) the British idealists; (iv) Husserl's phenomenology; (v) Dilthey's philosophy of life; (vi) Frege's new logic; (vii) the early Cambridge analytic philosophy; (viii) William James's pragmatism.

This book introduces an important group of logics that have come to be known under the umbrella term 'susbstructural'.

The first full-length treatment of Ibn Gabirol''s philosophy in English, providing a new approach to the philosophy of the Fons Vitae.

Through cross-disciplinary explorations of and engagements with nature as a forming part of architecture, this volume sheds light on the concepts of both nature and architecture.

This book theorizes a philosophical framework for educational policy and practice in the southern Philippines where decades of religious and political conflict between a minority Muslim community and the Philippine state has plagued the educational and economic development of the region.

Cheating and deception are terms often used but rarely defined.

A leading figure in cultural studies worldwide, Nestor Garcia Canclini is a Latin American thinker who has consistently sought to understand the impact of globalization on the relations between Latin America, Europe, and the United States, and among Latin American countries.

With a combined focus on social democrats in Northern and Southern Europe, this book crucially broadens our understanding of the transformation of European social democracy from the mid-1970s to the early-1990s.

This is Volume VII of eight in a series on the Philosophy of Mind and Language.

Bernard Williams' Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is widely regarded as one of the most important works of moral philosophy in the last fifty years.

In Malicious Deceivers, Ioana B.

In this book, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship-a relationship just as significant as, yet somehow different from, kinship and love.

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