Philosophy

A major addition to the Cambridge Texts series of writings by Thomas Aquinas (1225–74).

August 1781 saw the publication of a manual on fox hunting that would become a classic of its genre.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays demonstrates how the ethical and political problems we are confronted with today have come to focus largely on life.

When a doctor tells you there's a one percent chance that an operation will result in your death, or a scientist claims that his theory is probably true, what exactly does that mean?

The goals of healthcare and health policy, and the health-related dilemmas facing policy makers, professionals, and citizens are extensively analysed and debated in a range of disciplines including public health, sociology, and applied philosophy.

First published in 1999, this is the first scholarly study of the Socialist Medical Association (SMA), an organisation of left-wing medical practitioners founded in 1930 and affiliated to the Labour Party in the following year.

Shows that the writings of Paul Bowles, who is often seen as a literary renegade, owe much to the antinomian American tradition of Emerson and his literary descendants.

In a world dominated by considerations of material and security threats, Japan provides a fascinating case for why, and under what conditions, a state would choose to adopt international norms and laws that are seemingly in direct conflict with its domestic norms.

A companion volume to Moral Judgement from Childhood to Adolescence specially written for teachers and students of education.

It would be differcult to think of any political party whose internal problems have been so publicly scrutinised as have those of the Labour Party in recent years.

This book explores new findings on the long-neglected topic of theory construction and discovery, and challenges the orthodox, current division of scientific development into discrete stages: the stage of generation of new hypotheses; the stage of collection of relevant data; the stage of justification of possible theories; and the final stage of selection from among equally confirmed theories.

In a broad interdisciplinary perspective, established experts and leading young scholars bring together important currents of Hegelianism in Europe from the 19th to the 21st century to trace the political, social and intellectual contexts in which Hegel's philosophy was taken up and inspired very different forms of Hegelianism and Anti-Hegelianism.

Although philosophers have explored memory since antiquity, recent years have seen the birth of philosophy of memory as a distinct field.

This book offers an authoritative analysis of the challenges that have arisen as a result of modern technologies.

This volume examines the evolution of the depictions of black femininity in French visual culture as a prism through which to understand the Global North's destructive relationship with the natural world.

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This highly original book aims to broaden the discussion about risk, the management of risk and regulation, especially in the financial industry.

Humans have engaged in artistic and aesthetic activities since the appearance of our species.

There are many actions that we attribute, at least colloquially, to states.

Our culture entertains a schizophrenic attitude towards human nature.

The experimental and highly regarded Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh University was endowed in the late nineteenth century.

The ethics of human/animal relationships is a growing field of academic research and a topic for public discussion and regulatory interventions from law-makers, governments and private institutions.

Aristotle's Categories can easily seem to be a statement of a naive, pre-philosophical ontology, centered around ordinary items.

This book addresses the meaning of contemporary social democracy and how the centre-left is navigating through its current identity crisis, through a series of cases of social democratic and labour parties across Europe and the Anglosphere.

This volume explores intergenerational trauma among refugee communities displaced throughout the world.

Since the onset of the Global Financial Crisis the ideas of Karl Marx have once again become prominent in social and political thought.

Tanabe Hajime está considerado como la figura más destacada de la filosofía japonesa contemporánea después de Nishida.

Elle est journaliste, historienne, romancière.

This book applies a range of ideas about scientific discovery found in contemporary philosophy of science to psychology and related behavioral sciences.

The source of endless speculation and public curiosity, our scientific quest for the origins of human consciousness has expanded along with the technical capabilities of science itself and remains one of the key topics able to fire public as much as academic interest.

Are our lives meaningful, or meaningless?

This book offers a renewed defense of traditional just war theory and considers its application to certain contemporary cases, particularly in the Middle East.

From the 19th century the philosophy of science has been shaped by a group of influential figures.

What does Heidegger's controversial notion of the Event mean?

The linguistic turn in critical theory has been routinely justified with the claim that Adorno's philosophy is trapped within the limits of consciousness philosophy.

Hobbes on Legal Authority and Political Obligation develops a new interpretation of Hobbes's theory of political obligation.

When it comes to the field of organization and management theory, a philosophical perspective enables us to conduct organizational research imbued with the attitude of 'wonder'; it helps researchers question dominant images of thought underlying mainstream thinking, and provides fresh distinctions that enable the development of new theory.

Originally published in 1950, this book challenged the basis of our beliefs about the relation of life to matter.

Does the world we inhabit offer us hospitality or indifference?

The boundaries of space exploration are being pushed back constantly, but the realm of the partially understood and the totally unknown is as great as ever.

Explores Kant''s philosophy of religion and morality through his Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason.

This book reflects on three broad themes of Confucian-Christian relations to assist in the appreciation of the church's theology of mission.