Britain's most famous mathematician takes us to the edge of knowledge to show us what we cannot know. Is the universe infinite? Do we know what happened before the Big Bang? Where is human consciousness located in the brain? ... Zobraziť viac
Atlantic Books: "'If Hitchens didn't exist, we wouldn't be able to invent him.' Ian McEwan 'Do yourself a favor and skip the... Zobraziť viac
Hitchens, one of our great political pugilists, delivers the best of the recent rash of atheist manifestos. The same contrarian spirit that makes him delightful reading as a political commentator, even (or especially) when he's completely wrong... Zobraziť viac
The Liber Regularum, written by Tyconius in the Fourth Century A.D., was the first system of biblical interpretation proposed by a Latin theologian. Augustine was very interested in this work and included an extraordinary summation of it in his De... Zobraziť viac
Bringing Ritual to Mind explores the psychological foundations of religious ritual systems. Zobraziť viac
Vorobej develops a novel approach to argument interpretation and evaluation that synthesizes subjective concerns about the personal points of view of individual arguers with objective concerns about the structural properties of arguments. One of the... Zobraziť viac
Following an approach that is empirical but not psychological, and dialectical but not dialogical, Maurice Finocchiaro defines concepts such as reasoning, argument, argument analysis, critical reasoning, methodological reflection, judgment, critical... Zobraziť viac
In recent years, the disciplines of biblical studies and systematic theology have grown apart and largely lost the means of effective communication with one another. Unfortunately, this relational disconnect affects more than just these particular... Zobraziť viac
This second volume of a comprehensive edition of logician Godel's works collects together all his publications from 1938 to 1974. Together with Volume I, it makes available for the first time in a single source all of his previously published work. Zobraziť viac
The most striking merits of Guthrie's work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship. Zobraziť viac
In the third book in the trilogy that includes Reduction and Givenness and Being Given. Marion renews his argument for a phenomenology of givenness, with penetrating analyses of the phenomena of event, idol, flesh, and icon. Turning explicitly to... Zobraziť viac
Soames illuminates the notion of truth and the role it plays in ordinary thought and scientific theories. The questions investigated include: "Why do we need a truth predicate at all?", "What theoretical tasks does it allow us to accomplish?" and "How... Zobraziť viac
William G. Lycan offers a fresh approach to the long-running debate among philosophers and logicians about the best way to analyse and understand conditional sentences. Lycan attends not just to the semantics of such sentences, but equally to their... Zobraziť viac
"Insensitive Semantics" is an overview of and contribution to the debates about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication, investigating the effects of context on communicative interaction and, as a corollary, what a... Zobraziť viac
Examines the notion of unconcealment in Heidegger's works, a concept central to his philosophy of truth, language and history. Zobraziť viac
The Shi'is of Iraq provides a comprehensive history of Iraq's majority group and its turbulent relations with the ruling Sunni minority. Yitzhak Nakash challenges the widely held belief that Shi'i society and politics in Iraq are a reflection of... Zobraziť viac
This collection brings together the essays of one of the foremost American philosophers of economics. Zobraziť viac
"A vital read for a nation under Trump."-The Guardian "No single book is as relevant to the present moment."-Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen"One of the defining books of the decade."-Elizabeth Hinton, author of From the War on Poverty to the War on... Zobraziť viac
Fortune favours the bold. All great leaders of history have known this, and were successful because of the risks they dared to take. But today so many of us are paralysed by fear... Zobraziť viac
