John Laird: 11 books
by John Laird
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
First published in 1935, this book compares and examines what John Laird termed the ‘three most important notions in ethical science’: the concepts of virtue, duty and well-being. Laird poses the question of whether any one of these three concepts is capable of being the foundation of ethics and...
Theism and Cosmology
Being the First Series of a Course of Gifford Lectures on the General Subject of Metaphysics and Theism given in the University of Glasgow in 1939
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Theism is one of the major types of metaphysics and cosmology is the general theory of the whole wide world. Must the world have an over-worldly source, or any source? Would "space" crumble unless God perpetually sustained it by his brooding omnipresence? Is all power, properly understood,...
by John Laird
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
The essence of Hume’s eighteenth-century philosophy was that all the sciences were ‘dependent on the science of man’, and that the foundations of any such science need to rest on experience and observation. This title, first published in 1932, examines in detail how Hume interpreted ‘the science...
Mind and Deity
Being the Second Series of a Course of Gifford Lectures on the General Subject of Metaphysics and Theism given in the University of Glasgow in 1940
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Complementary to Theism and Cosmology, this book begins with a discussion of philosophical and theological idea-ism, and our common beliefs concerning nature, man, and God. It is principally concerned with idealism - the place of ideals in reality rather than with the place of ideas. It discusses...
On Human Freedom
Being the Forwood Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion given in the University of Liverpool in November, 1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
In the author’s opinion there are three primary conceptions of human freedom - non-coercion, autonomy and indeterminism. He presents his thoughts to define, compare, distinguish and correlate these, not merely with regard to the freedom of the human will, but also and more generally with regard...
by John Laird
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
First published in 1926, this study addresses the theory of morality using four overarching approaches: analytical, psychological, theoretical, and finally, philosophical. Within these methodologies, chapters explore such areas as the character of moral enquiry, the knowledge of good and evil, freedom...
by John Joseph Adams, David J. Schow, Laird Barron
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
This month, we have original fiction from Sam J. Miller ("57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry...
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 81 (June 2019)
Nightmare Magazine, #81
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
One of the things we believe here at NIGHTMARE is that stories have a tremendous power. They...
Seize the Night
New Tales of Vampiric Terror
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
A blockbuster anthology of original, blood-curdling vampire fiction from New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors, including Charlaine Harris, whose novels were adapted into HBO’s hit show True Blood, and Scott Smith, publishing his first work since The Ruins.
Before being transformed...
by Kaaron Warren, Jeffrey Ford, Catherine MacLeod
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
From Ellen Datlow, award-winning and genre-shaping editor of more than fifty anthologies, and twenty of horror’s established masters and rising stars, comes an all-original look into the beautiful, terrible, tragic, and terrifying.
Wander through visions of the most terrible of angels, the...
The Bioregional Imagination
Literature, Ecology, and Place
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Bioregionalism is an innovative way of thinking about place and planet from an ecological perspective. Although bioregional ideas occur regularly in ecocritical writing, until now no systematic effort has been made to outline the principles of bioregional literary criticism and to use it as a way...