Published to widespread acclaim between 1980 and 1996, the monumental four- volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations has become the definitive reference work on Wittgenstein's masterpiece. This revised edition of Volume I,... Zobraziť viac
"The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory" is a handy guide to the state of play in contemporary philosophy of law and legal theory. Comprises 23 essays critical essays on the central themes and issues of the philosophy of law... Zobraziť viac
This interdisciplinary collection of essays demonstrates how the ethical and political problems we are confronted with today have come to focus largely on life. The contributors to this volume define and assess the specific meaning of life itself. It... Zobraziť viac
Since the 1980s, concerns have been voiced about the ways in which new biomedical technologies allow the human body to be used for profit. Wilkinson explores the philosophical and practical implications of practices such as surrogacy and organ... Zobraziť viac
This handbook brings together the most current and hotly debated topics in studies about images today. In the first part, the book gives readers an historical overview and basic diacronical explanation of the term image, including the ways it has been... Zobraziť viac
Journalism Ethics is the first volume to combine a practitioner focus and a theoretical focus in the analysis of the ethical problems that journalists face today. The 18 new essays collected here examine the goals and purposes of journalism, provide a... Zobraziť viac
Literature provides us with insights into the ways emotions are produced, experienced and enacted in human social life. Hogan's study explores emotions in the context of current neurobiological, psychological and sociological research. In each case, he... Zobraziť viac
At the intersection of epistemology, metaphilosophy, and philosophy of science, this exciting new book examines the epistemic limits of empirical science. It makes a unique contribution to research on epistemological naturalism in Quine's tradition by... Zobraziť viac
With All Your Mind makes a compelling case for the value of thinking deeply about education in America from a historically orthodox and broadly ecumenical Christian point of view. Few people dispute that education in America is in a state of crisis.... Zobraziť viac
The expanded new edition of one of the most influential and controversial books about the nature of philosophy published in the past several decades... Zobraziť viac
The topic of this book is material objects. Like most interesting concepts, the concept of a material object is one without precise boundaries. A thing is a material object if it occupies space and endures through time and can move about in space (... Zobraziť viac
This volume of Ned Block's writings collects his papers on consciousness, functionalism, and representationism. A number of these papers treat the significance of the multiple realizability of mental states for the mind-body problem--a theme that has... Zobraziť viac
This 2004 book presents a strong defense of the common sense tradition, the view that we may take as data for philosophical inquiry many of the things we ordinarily think we know. It discusses the main features of that tradition as expounded by Thomas... Zobraziť viac
This Reader provides a radical new perspective on the work of France's leading living social theorist Pierre Bourdieu, presenting arguments for reading Bourdieu as a philosopher.This volume aims to promote a fruitful dialogue between Bourdieu and... Zobraziť viac
Backed by current debate and new perspectives, this volume provides comprehensive coverage of his significant contributions. Zobraziť viac
Describes the exceptional wealth of missionary archives and the major contributions they can make not only to the study of the processes of Christian evangelism and Western imperialism but also their value in documenting and analysing the nature of... Zobraziť viac
The third volume of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek thought, entitled The Fifth-Century Enlightenment, deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates, the key figures in the dramatic and fundamental shift of philosophical interest from... Zobraziť viac
This handbook showcases current research and thinking in the sociology of religion. Zobraziť viac
John Bowker offers a major contribution to debates about the value of death and its place in both Western and Eastern religions. By indicating how value can be maintained at the limit of life, without a search for illusory compensation in an afterlife... Zobraziť viac
