Philosophy

​Evolutionäre Ethik zielt darauf ab, moralisches Verhalten beim Menschen vor dem Hintergrund seiner evolutionären Disposition zu verstehen und zu beurteilen.

The communitarian critic of liberalism argues that the socio-political context is fundamental to any understanding of the individual as such.

Lazare Carnot was the unique example in the history of science of someone who inadvertently owed the scientific recognition he eventually achieved to earlier political prominence.

Argues that satisfactory theories of objectivity must include the robust account of experience found in classical pragmatism.

Were the most serious philosophers of the millennium 200 A.

A Metaphysics for Freedom argues that agency itself-and not merely the special, distinctively human variety of it-is incompatible with determinism.

From the perspective of a number of different social science disciplines, this book explores the ways in which the election of politicians can be made more fair and credible by adopting a human rights approach to elections.

To enact the book's central theme of automation and human agency, the author designed a Bot trained on her book to support dialogue with the content and facilitate discussions.

Encyclopaedia Of Gods And Goddesses Is A Vast Collection And Compilation Of Authoritative Information On Gods And Goddesses Worshipped In All Religions Of The World.

This book examines how civil society actors operate under authoritarian constraints, and examines how this is linked to regime change.

Unfreezing Music Education argues that discussing the conflicting meanings of music should occupy a more central role in formal music education and music teacher preparation programs than is currently the case.

Ethics is Nicolai Hartmann's magnum opus on moral philosophy.

This book demonstrates the importance and potential role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in foreseeing and curbing future global pandemics.

In 1989, the International Labor Organization stated that all indigenous peoples living in the postcolonial world were entitled to the right to prior consultation, over activities that could potentially impact their territories and traditional livelihoods.

Chance ordained that Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was not only a philosopher, playwright and writer, but also a salonnier.

Imagining Alternative Worlds explores how the far right employs fictionality as a powerful political tool in the 21st century.

A textbook, with exercises, on modal logic for readers already acquainted with the elements of formal logic.

Inspired by Michel Foucault's The Order of Things, this book tells a story about epochal change in the modern world.

A new history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines.

First published in 1950, this is a late work by Charles Baudouin, world-famous French psychologist, and takes its title from the opening chapter which examines the transformation of the myth of Progress, characteristic of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, into the myth of Modernity, characteristic of the time of writing.

For over a decade, the world has experienced an accelerating erosion of a language that took hundreds of years to emerge.

This book, an essential tool for anyone studying the state of feminist thought in particular or ethical theory in general, shows the outlines of an ethic of care in the distinctive practices of African American communities and considers how the values of care and justice can be reformulated.

Over recent years, the psychology of concepts has been rejuvenated by new work on prototypes, inventive ideas on causal cognition, the development of neo-empiricist theories of concepts, and the inputs of the budding neuropsychology of concepts.

Ethics Out of Economics is the collected essays of John Broome on economics and ethical theory.

This book provides a fresh reading of Aquinas' metaphysics in the light of insights from the works of Frege.

This book is the second volume in the definitive anthology of early Christian texts, focusing on practice.

Putting on the Dog explores the age-old relationship between humans and animals, providing fascinating details about the historic use of animals as clothing.

This volume addresses the question of 'identity' in East-Central Europe.

These essays from one of our most stimulating thinkers showcase Tallis's infectious fascination, indeed intoxication, with the infinite complexity of human lives and the human condition.

This book explores forgiveness as a philosophical matter.

This book is an original discussion of key problems in moral theory.

Since the death of Jacques Lacan, Jean Laplanche is now considered to be one of the worlds foremost psychoanalytic thinkers.

This book is intended as a philosophical introduction to geo-ontologies, in response to their increasing diffusion within the contemporary debate, where philosophy plays a fundamental, though still unexplored, role.

In Climate Obstruction: How Denial, Delay and Inaction are Heating the Planet, Kristoffer Ekberg, Bernhard Forchtner, Martin Hultman and Kirsti Jylha bring together crucial insights from environmental history, sociology, media and communication studies and psychology to help us understand why we are failing to take necessary measures to avert the unfolding climate crisis.

Current patterns of global economic activity are not only unsustainable, but unethical - this claim is central to Materialist Ethics and Life-Value.

Unleash positive thinking and productive imagination, and flip negative thoughts and behaviors into a lifetime to improve every aspect of your life—each morning, one day at a time.

This book introduces the special dynamics of women and their close relationships with the gift in both past and contemporary religious settings.

Originally published in 1951, Homo Faber is an examination of the scientific outlook on human mental evolution through the lens of parapsychology.

Duncan Pritchard offers students not only a new exploration of topics central to current epistemological debate, but also a new way of doing epistemology.