Surveys category: 1940 books
by Jürgen Habermas
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
In this important new book, Jürgen Habermas takes up certain fundamental questions of philosophy. While much of his recent work has been concerned with issues of morality and law, in this new work Habermas returns to the traditional philosophical questions of truth, objectivity and reality which...
An Awareness of What is Missing
Faith and Reason in a Post-secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
In his recent writings on religion and secularization, Habermas has challenged reason to clarify its relation to religious experience and to engage religions in a constructive dialogue. Given the global challenges facing humanity, nothing is more dangerous than the refusal to communicate that we encounter...
by Stephen Trombley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
A masterly distillation of two-and-a-half millennia of intellectual history, and a readable and entertaining crash course in Western philosophy
Short, sharp, and entertaining, this survey covers the development of all aspects of the
Western philosophical tradition from the ancient Greeks...
The Second Sexism
Discrimination Against Men and Boys
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Does sexism against men exist? What it looks like and why we need to take it seriously
This book draws attention to the "second sexism," where it exists, how it works and what it looks like, and responds to those who would deny that it exists. Challenging conventional ways of thinking,...
On What Matters
Volume Three
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. Parfit develops further his influential treatment of reasons, normativity, the meaning of moral discourse, and the status of morality. He engages with his critics, and shows the way to resolution of their...
by Blair G. Van Dyke, Loyd Isao Ericson
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
This volume in the Perspectives on Mormon Theology series is an exploration of Mormon apologetics—or the defense of faith. Since its very beginning, various Latter-day Saints have sought to utilize evidence and reason to actively promote or defend beliefs and claims within the Mormon tradition....
Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture
Volume III: The Millenarian Turn: Millenarian Contexts of Science, Politics and Everyday Anglo-American Life in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The influence of millenarian thinking upon Cromwell's England is well-known. The cultural and intellectual conceptions of the role of millenarian ideas in the `long' 18th century when, so the `official' story goes, the religious sceptics and deists of Enlightened England effectively tarred such religious...
This Is Ethics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
This is Ethics presents an accessible and engaging introduction to a variety of issues relating to contemporary moral philosophy.
Covers a wide range of topics which are actively debated in contemporary moral philosophy
Addresses the nature of happiness, well-being, and the meaning of life, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
This is the most comprehensive book ever published on philosophical methodology. A team of thirty-eight of the world's leading philosophers present original essays on various aspects of how philosophy should be and is done. The first part is devoted to broad traditions and approaches to philosophical...
Rationis Defensor
Essays in Honour of Colin Cheyne
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Rationis Defensor is to be a volume of previously unpublished essays celebrating the life and work of Colin Cheyne. Colin was until recently Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago, a department that can boast of many famous philosophers among its past and present faculty and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
This unique study brings together for the first time two of the most important philosophers of this century. Never before have these two thinkers been compared - and commentators' opinions on their relationship differ greatly. Are the views of Wittgenstein and Quine on method and the nature of philosophy...
Contentment in Contention
Acceptance versus Aspiration
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Southgate draws on ideas within history, philosophy, literature, psychology, and theology to explore two traditions: contentment with our situation as it is, and the aspiration to transcend it. He discusses the possibility of escape from intellectual constraints, and advocates a positive 'duty of discontent', and its implications.
by E. Halton
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
In 1873, John Stuart Stuart-Glennie elaborated a theory of 'the moral revolution' to characterize the historical shift from roughly 600 BCE in a variety of civilizations, as part of a critical theory of history. This book brings light to the now eclipsed theory and offers new contexts and understandings of the phenomenon.
How Hume and Kant Reconstruct Natural Law
Justifying Strict Objectivity without Debating Moral Realism
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Kenneth R. Westphal presents an original interpretation of Hume's and Kant's moral philosophies, the differences between which are prominent in current philosophical accounts. Westphal argues that focussing on these differences, however, occludes a decisive, shared achievement: a distinctive constructivist...