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The Foundations of Deliberative Democracy

The Foundations of Deliberative Democracy

The key element of deliberation in politics is that it is not just power that counts, but good arguments too. This book combines the normative controversies in the philosophical literature on deliberation with empirical research on deliberation in... Zobraziť viac

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Moral Action and Christian Ethics

Moral Action and Christian Ethics

A highly sophisticated account of moral reasoning, developed out of the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Zobraziť viac

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Mindreading

Mindreading

The everyday capacity to understand the mind, or 'mindreading', plays an enormous role in our ordinary lives. Shaun Nichols and Stephen Stich provide a detailed and integrated account of the intricate web of mental components underlying this... Zobraziť viac

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Geschichte des mittelalterlichen Christentums

Geschichte des mittelalterlichen Christentums

Volker Leppin, (2012)

Rund hundert Jahre nach dem großen Überblick von Albert Hauck erscheint wieder eine Darstellung des mittelalterlichen Christentums aus der Feder eines evangelischen Kirchenhistorikers. Das kirchliche Geschehen wird darin, mit einem besonderen Blick auf... Zobraziť viac

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Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics

Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics

Argues against the conceptions of individual autonomy which are widely relied on in bioethics. Zobraziť viac

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The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies

Biblical studies is a highly technical and diverse field. This authoritative and state-of-the-art survey of original research will therefore be invaluable to scholars and students who need to command linguistic, historical, literary, and philosophical... Zobraziť viac

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Rorty, Religion, and Metaphysics

Rorty, Religion, and Metaphysics

Believing that humanity would be better off if it simply dropped its traditional religious and metaphysical beliefs, Richard Rorty proposes an alternative approach, drawn from the American pragmatist tradition, where things get their significance... Zobraziť viac

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Conceivability and Possibility

Conceivability and Possibility

The capacity to represent things to ourselves as possible plays a crucial role both in everyday thinking and in philosophical reasoning; this volume offers much-needed philosophical illumination of conceivability, possibility, and the relations between... Zobraziť viac

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Debates Moral Theory

Debates Moral Theory

"Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory "features pairs of newly commissioned essays by some of the leading theorists working in the field today. Brings together fresh debates on the most controversial issues in moral theory Questions include: Are moral... Zobraziť viac

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The Quest for Reality

The Quest for Reality

We say "the grass is green" or "lemons are yellow" to state what everyone knows. But are the things we see around us really colored, or do they only look that way because of the effects of light rays on our eyes and brains? Is color somehow "unreal" or... Zobraziť viac

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Islamic Biomedical Ethics

Islamic Biomedical Ethics

In this pioneering work, Abdulaziz Sachedina - a scholar with life-long academic training in Islamic law - relates classic Muslim religious values to the new ethical challenges that arise from medical research and practice. Zobraziť viac

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The Birth of Bioethics

The Birth of Bioethics

This book is the first broad history of the growing field of bioethics. Covering the period 1947-1987, it examines the origin and evolution of the debates over human experimentation, genetic engineering, organ transplantation, termination of life-... Zobraziť viac

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From an Ontological Point of View

From an Ontological Point of View

From an Ontological Point of View is a highly original and accessible exploration of fundamental questions about what there is. John Heil discusses such issues as whether the world includes levels of reality; the nature of objects and properties; the... Zobraziť viac

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Ibn al-¿Arab¿'s Barzakh

Ibn al-¿Arab¿'s Barzakh

This book explores how Iban al-'Arabi (1165-1240) used the concept of barzakh (the Limit) to deal with the philosophical problem of the relationship between God and the world, a major concept disputed in ancient and medieval Islamic thought. The term... Zobraziť viac

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Governmentality

Governmentality

Examining questions of statehood, biopolitics, sovereignty, neoliberal reason and the economy, Governmentality explores the advantages and limitations of adopting Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality as an analytical framework. Contributors... Zobraziť viac

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Contextualism in Philosophy

Contextualism in Philosophy

In epistemology and in philosophy of language there is fierce debate about the role of context in knowledge, understanding, and meaning. Many contemporary epistemologists take seriously the thesis that epistemic vocabulary is context-sensitive. This... Zobraziť viac

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Spirituality in Mental Health Care

Spirituality in Mental Health Care

This book will enable carers to incorporate spirituality effectively into their caring strategies. Using an evidence-based, interdisciplinary approach, the author explores the therapeutic significance of spirituality for clients in a number of... Zobraziť viac

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The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism

The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism

If there is a movement or school that epitomizes analytic philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century, it is logical empiricism. Logical empiricists created a scientifically and technically informed philosophy of science, established mathematical... Zobraziť viac

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The Possibility of Knowledge

The Possibility of Knowledge

How is knowledge of the external world possible? How is knowledge of other minds possible? How is a priori knowledge possible? These are all examples of how-possible questions in epistemology. In this highly original book Quassim Cassam explains how... Zobraziť viac

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The Zen Monastic Experience

The Zen Monastic Experience

Robert Buswell, a Buddhist scholar who spent five years as a Zen monk in Korea, draws on personal experience in this insightful account of day-to-day Zen monastic practice. In discussing the activities of the postulants, the meditation monks, the... Zobraziť viac

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