Philosophy and Religion

Examines how law regulates religion and explores the influence of world religions on the legal systems in Asia.

While dominant narratives emphasize war''s destructive effects, this book demonstrates how war can open up unexpected opportunities for women''s political mobilization.

This book explores the history and halakhah of conversion in context of the visions, beliefs and prejudices that may have shaped them.

Comprehensive account of Melissus of Samos and his contribution to the philosophy of monism in early Greek thinking.

Explores Cicero, Apuleius, Calcidius, and Augustine as interpreters of Plato''s Timaeus in the context of the Roman philosophical tradition.

Details the current state of scholarly debate on crucial elements of Hobbesian political philosophy and presents innovative and original arguments.

Global Gifts considers the role that the circulation of material culture played in the establishment of early modern global diplomacy.

Using a series of case-studies from across European philosophical traditions, this book traces the influence of Neoplatonism over the centuries.

Re-evaluates Peirce''s metaphysics, exploring his views on pragmatism, reality, truth, and the mind''s relation to the external world.

Provides a spirited defence of anti-realism in philosophy of science.

A theory of religious freedom for the modern era that uses natural law from ancient Greek, Jewish, Christian and Islamic sources.

Focusing on Greece and Babylonia, this book provides a new, cross-cultural approach to the intellectual history of the Hellenistic world.

Argues that laywomen''s interactions with gendered theology, Catholic rituals, and church institutions significantly shaped colonial Mexico''s religious culture.

Comprehensive and in-depth study of this important text, the first book of Aristotle''s foundational treatise on natural philosophy.

Martin Luther was the subject of a religious controversy that never really came to an end.

Explores imagination and human rationality in a crucial period of philosophy, from hermeneutics and transcendental logic to ethics and aesthetics.

Becoming Arab explores how a long history of inter-Asian interaction fared in the face of nineteenth-century racial categorisation and control.

This book provides a solution to one of the Bible''s notorious cruxes, the identity of the speaking ''I'' of Romans 7.

Recounts the modern transformation of model theory and its effects on the philosophy of mathematics and mathematical practice.

This book discusses how attention relates to the self, perception, knowledge, consciousness, action, and responsibility.

Re-evaluates the political integration and Christianization of Saxony following its violent conquest (772–804) by Charlemagne.

The first book-length analysis of how the Bolsheviks responded to antisemitism during the Russian Revolution.

Marshalling previously untapped Christian materials, Bar-Asher Siegal offers radically new insights into Talmudic stories about Scriptural debates with Christian heretics.

Economists, philosophers, and policy experts from the Global North and South advance the conversation on the ethical dimensions of agency and democracy in development.

Redefines the role assigned education in the history of monasticism, by re-situating monasticism in the history of education.

Revisits central texts and themes in ancient philosophy in order to throw fresh light on some familiar passages and debates.

Considers how to implement children''s rights in the twenty-first century through a child rights-based approach to sustainable development.

The first collection of essays on Aristotle''s philosophy of human nature, covering the metaphysical, biological and ethical works.

These specially commissioned essays by prominent lawyers and philosophers analyse a range of approaches to legal authority beyond the state.

Re-examines Aristophanes'' engagement with Greek religion by studying his dramatization of traditional stories of religious experiences.

Beyond mere emotivism, a self-organizational enactivism grounded in an exploratory drive, or SEEKING system, suggests a truth-functional yet hermeneutical moral psychology.

Combining scholarship across psychology, philosophy and cognate fields, Natsoulas highlights surprising connections between the works of leading theorists of consciousness.

Discover the Power of Questioning to Transform Your Beliefs and DecisionsHave you ever wondered if doubt could be your greatest ally?

Explores gender and identity in fourth-century Cappadocia, where bishops used a rhetoric of contest to align with classical Greek masculinity.

Shows that Homer was a philosophic thinker who played a crucial role in the thought of Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche.

Generation and Corruption II, a foundational text, develops Aristotle''s theory of the elements, essential for his natural philosophy.

Argues that Peirce wrote philosophy as a scientist, expanded empiricism, and conceived of science as responsible for its own philosophy.

An in-depth introduction to Merleau-Ponty''s greatest work that foregrounds his theory of our projectively embodied being in the world.

This book reconstructs and analyses Aquinas''s theories of efficient causation and causal powers.

The first full-length study to uncover the profound impact of early modern musical culture on George Herbert''s religious verse.

Offers an innovative reappraisal of the impact of Late Ottoman Turkish scholars on modern Islamic thought.

The first book to show how Cicero invented the idea of ''the will of the people'' and its ramifications today.

This volume offers the most important essays of the leading liberal theorist Gerald Gaus.

Demonstrates the vibrancy of an Early Modern Muslim society through a study of the natural sciences in seventeenth-century Morocco.

Beaudry shows how the social contract fails to take account of the moral status of people with severe intellectual disabilities.

Develops a framework to explain shifts in judicial assertiveness towards militaries, using Pakistan as an illuminating case study.

The first systematic analysis and explanation of the political success of the Israeli settler movement based on a novel theoretical framework and rich empirical analysis.

Argues that Aristotle provides an account of the interdependence of feeling, desire, and thought that is sui generis.

Introduces an original approach to foundations of mathematics, departing from Gödel and Tarski and spanning many different areas of logic.

Argues that Greek thinkers engaged with linguistic concepts developed by Mesopotamian scribes in a process leading to new discoveries.