Philosophy

Rethinking Pragmatism: From William James to Contemporary Philosophy

by Robert Schwartz

Rethinking Pragmatism explores the work of the American Pragmatists, particularly James and Dewey, challenging entrenched views of their positions on truth, meaning, instrumentalism, realism, pluralism and religious...

The Philosopher's Handbook: Essential Readings from Plato to Kant

by Stanley Rosen

An ideal introduction for the casual reader and a beneficial reference for the student, The Philosopher's Handbook features the writings of some of the world's most influential philosophers. Based on the premise...

What Is Enlightenment?: Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions

by James Schmidt

This collection contains the first English translations of a group of important eighteenth-century German essays that address the question, "What is Enlightenment?" The book also includes newly translated and...

Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

by Allan Lokos

"As founder and guiding teacher of the Community Meditation Center in New York, Allan Lokos has an arsenal of tools for coping with stressful situations." - Rachel Lee Harris, New York Times

To survive the roller-coaster...

What Is Meaning?

by Scott Soames

The tradition descending from Frege and Russell has typically treated theories of meaning either as theories of meanings (propositions expressed), or as theories of truth conditions. However, propositions of...

Conservative Reductionism

by Michael Esfeld & Christian Sachse

Conservative Reductionism sets out a new theory of the relationship between physics and the special sciences within the framework of functionalism. It argues that it is wrong-headed to conceive an opposition...

Civil Society in Liberal Democracy

by Mark Jensen

In this contribution to contemporary political philosophy, Jensen aims to develop a model of civil society for deliberative democracy. In the course of developing the model, he also provides a thorough account...

A Cup of Comfort Stories for Courage

by Colleen Sell

In A Cup of Comfort Stories for Courage, you'll find the heroines and heroes who have transformed the lives of everyone who knows them. These three stories will kindle your spirit and offer you hope whenever...

Feelings

by Stephen Frosh

Everyone talks about their feelings, but what exactly are they? What are the distinguishing features of feelings, and how do they differ from emotions and affects? How do our feelings influence the kinds of...

The Ethics of Forgiveness

by Christel Fricke

We are often pressed to forgive or in need of forgiveness: Wrongdoing is common. Even after a perpetrator has been taken to court and punished, forgiveness still has a role to play. How should a victim and a...

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music

by Theodore Gracyk & Andrew Kania

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music. Over fifty entries by an international...

Iris Murdoch, Gender and Philosophy

by Sabina Lovibond

Iris Murdoch was one of the best-known philosophers and novelists of the post-war period. In this book, Sabina Lovibond explores the tangled issue of Murdoch's stance towards gender and feminism, drawing upon...

On Shame

by Michael Morgan

Shame is one of a family of self-conscious emotions that includes embarrassment, guilt, disgrace, and humiliation. On Shame examines this emotion psychologically and philosophically, in order to show how it...

The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World

by Daniel J. Boorstin

Throughout history, from the time of Socrates to our own modern age, the human race has sought the answers to fundamental questions of life: Who are we?  Why are we here?

In his previous national bestsellers,...

Semantic Externalism

by Jesper Kallestrup

Semantic externalism is the view that the meanings of referring terms, and the contents of beliefs that are expressed by those terms, are not fully determined by factors internal to the speaker but are instead...

Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy

by Bernard Williams

With a new foreword by Jonathan Lear

'Remarkably lively and enjoyable...It is a very rich book, containing excellent descriptions of a variety of moral theories, and innumerable and often witty observations...

The Existence of God

by Yujin Nagasawa

Does God exist? What are the various arguments that seek to prove the existence of God? Can atheists refute these arguments? The Existence of God: A Philosophical Introduction assesses classical and contemporary...

Wittgenstein (Rp)

by William Child

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is considered by most philosophers - even those who do not share his views - to be the most influential philosopher of the 20^th century. His contributions to the philosophy of...

Derrida for Architects

by Richard Coyne

Looking afresh at the implications of Jacques Derrida's thinking for architecture, this book simplifies his ideas in a clear, concise way. Derrida's treatment of key philosophical texts has been labelled as...

Ethics and Public Policy

by Jonathan Wolff

Train crashes cause, on average, a handful of deaths each year in the UK. Technologies exist that would save the lives of some of those who die. Yet these technical innovations would cost hundreds of millions...