The issue of belief constituting knowledge depends on questions of internal and external standards for justifying said beliefs. The explanations offered by modal epistemologists such as Fred Dretske a
Dorato (U. of Rome) finds the universe to be orderly, defined by laws of nature which are immutable and essential not only to the workings of our world but our understanding of it. However, he also fi
Moyle (philosophy, U. of Essex-Colchester) elucidates the gift-exchange between Being and thinking of the human being that lies at the heart of German philosopher Martin Heidegger's (1889-1976) later
John Rawls's pioneering work of political philosophy A Theory of Justice has had far reaching influence on modern liberal political philosophy. Rawls' sprinciples of justice as fairness: the principle
Pendlebury alleges that abstraction and rationalization have had a strong and malign influence on normative moral philosophy in the 20th century. Criticizing writers such as Hare, Rawls and Scanlon fo
The connections between death, contemplation and the contemplative life have been a recurrent theme in the canons of both western and eastern philosophical thought. This book examines the classical so
Examining the political theory of anarchism from a philosophical and historical perspective, Paul McLaughlin relates anarchism to the fundamental ethical and political problem of authority. The book p
Protagoras was an important Greek thinker of the fifth century BC, the most famous of the so called Sophists, though most of what we know of him and his thought comes to us mainly through the dialogue
Using phenomenology to uncover the implicit logic in personal love, sexual love, and hatred, Peter Hadreas provides new insights into the uniqueness of the beloved and offers fresh explanations for so
Examining the tensions between Hume's skepticism and his ambition of discovering Newtonian laws of human nature, this book seeks to make sense of the numerous conflicts and paradoxes centering on Hume
Living Without Domination defends the bold claim that humans can organise themselves to live peacefully and prosperously together in an anarchist utopia. Clark refutes errors about what anarchism is,
From Concept to Objectivity uncovers the nature and authority of conceptual determination by critically thinking through neglected arguments in Hegel’s Science of Logic pivotal for understanding reaso
Examining Julia Kristeva's contention that contemporary Western society is witnessing a crisis of subjectivity due to the failure of the paternal function, Gambaudo places Kristeva's thesis within the
In his treatise On the Soul , Aristotle examines questions of whether the intellect can apprehend itself in the same manner it apprehends other objects of intellection. According to Crystal (Louisiana
Relativism is but one way, and not the best, to interpret Kuhn, claims Hung (philosophy, U. of Waikato, New Zealand). He explicates and develops the paradigm view of science that Thomas Kuhn loosed up
The libertarianism critiqued in this work is a right-based political morality that "proceeds from a set of moral rights grounded on liberty to the justification of the non-interventive state and the m
