A logician’s code of conduct

Arguing for logic as a tool we can use for fairness instead of reinforcing injustice and exclusion, A Logician’s Code of Conduct reimagines logic as flexible, creating spaces of inquiry neutral in content and equitable in participation.

Once upon a time in the west

Western civilization is over. So begins Jan Zwicky’s trenchant exploration of the roots of global cultural and ecological collapse. Once Upon a Time in the West documents how a narrow epistemological style has left us blind to critical features of reality, and how the terrifying consequences of t...

Evolutionary intuitionism

It seems impossible that organisms selected to maximize their genetic legacy could also be moral agents in a world in which taking risks for strangers is sometimes morally laudable. Brian Zamulinski argues that it is possible if morality is an evolutionary by-product rather than an adaptation.

Cause for thought

An innovative exploration of causal agency as it functions in physical, biological, psychological, and cosmological domains.

Making sense of myth

For Luc Brisson, one of the great living Plato scholars, myth is a key factor in what it means to be human – a condition of life for all. Making Sense of Myth offers a series of conversations with Brisson on life, myth, and Plato.

Aesthetic dilemmas

Hugo von Hofmannsthal is frequently portrayed as an aloof writer, out of step with modern sensibilities. Aesthetic Dilemmas re-evaluates his place in twentieth-century European Modernism by arguing that his work is not escapist but instead engages the consciousness of readers through dynamic enco...

Bird on an ethics wire

An exploration of the urgent need to rebalance individuals' unfettered freedom to choose, especially regarding birth and death.

The science of culture and the phenomenology of styles

How science and art have influenced each other throughout the ages.

Reimagining love

Reimagining Love offers a meditation on the ethical and existential significance of this elusive concept. Informed by philosophy and literature, it presents an original argument for understanding love as a spiritual practice.

Liberalism in time

Drawing on a range of thinkers from John Locke to John Rawls, Liberalism in Time contributes to current debates within and about liberal politics and shows how liberal patterns of thought have been characterized by temporal paradoxes throughout history.

The age of secularization

A thought-provoking collection of essays and lectures by one of the most perceptive Italian cultural critics of the twentieth century.

Might nature be canadian?

How Canada is leading the way in mutual accommodation on the world stage.

Shattering silos

Is truth politically impotent? Are politics inherently false? Is the search for truth still relevant when political leaders blithely reject facts in the public domain? Interweaving epistemology, social criticism, and political thought, this book provides a path-breaking response to these question...

The suicide of the revolution

First published in Italian in 1978, The Suicide of the Revolution argues that Giovanni Gentile’s nineteenth-century critique of Marxism had a foundational influence on the thinking of Antonio Gramsci and other anti-fascists.

The enigma of perception

An innovative exploration of how we acquire knowledge and the principle on which that theory depends.

Wish i were here

An urgent, timely, and political analysis of the boredom that dominates our everyday immersion in distracting technologies.

Life embodied

A compelling tour through the scientific, philosophical, and cultural meanings of vital force in Spanish modernity.

Civic freedom in an age of diversity

James Tully is one of the most influential political philosophers at work today. Offering a wide-ranging critical discussion of his work by leading scholars from various fields of study, Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity provides a rich perspective on the full extent of Tully’s contribution.

Ecological nation

Canada faces two existential threats: runaway climate change and the rising global tide of right-authoritarian imperialism. The inextricable relationship between the two highlights the need to safeguard Canada’s environmental and political sovereignty, requiring bold vision and sacrifice to build...

Uttering the unutterable

Uttering the Unutterable explores how we use literature as an honorific term to describe texts that are so overpowering that the encounter with meaning exceeds the capacities of ordinary language. Through a new reading of Aristotelian philosophy, Groarke identifies an experience of transcendence ...

Network democracy

A unique hybrid of ancient and contemporary conservative thought that offers a radical challenge to Western liberalism.

The jena system, 1804-5

Translated into English for the first time in this edition, The Jena System, 1804-5: Logic and Metaphysics is an essential text in the study of the development of Hegel's thought. It is the climax of Hegel's efforts to construct a neutral theory of the categories of finite cognition ("logic") as ...

Reasonable self-esteem

In this fascinating look at the philosophy of self-esteem, Richard Keshen develops and defends the idea of reasonable self-esteem -- a concept based on an ideal of reasonableness -- and argues that individuals who think of themselves in terms of this paradigm will lead happier and more fulfilling...

Schiller, hegel, and marx

Schiller, Hegel and Marx looked back to ancient Greek culture, viewing it as the historical embodiment of certain ideals central to aesthetic theory. This volume investigates their viewpoints and how they use Greek culture as an ideal model for remaking t

Perception

Debate about the nature of perceptual knowledge and the objects of perception runs through the history of philosophy, making perception one of the central topics in the philosophical tradition. Barry Maund's account of the major issues in the philosophy of perception highlights the importance of ...

Environmental philosophy

As anxiety about environmental change and its effects grows, we need to understand both the scientific processes and the ethical and aesthetic judgments involved in deciding which changes we should welcome and promote and which we should try to avoid. In Environmental Philosophy Christopher Belsh...

Kierkegaard's livingroom

In Kierkegaard's Livingroom David Mercer weaves his way through the Philosophical Fragments, bringing the reader a new understanding of Kierkegaard's work. Placing the Philosophical Fragments in the context of Kierkegaard's others works, Mercer's commentary shows how literary style and character ...

To will one thing

The democracy of suffering

A philosopher's passionate intervention into the meaning of life, and the future of civilization, in the face of catastrophic climate change.

Greek scepticism

The idea that Western philosophy is a footnote to Plato is simplistic and inaccurate. Much of modern and contemporary epistemology owes a debt not so much to Platonism or Aristotelianism as to their antithesis: scepticism. Recent discussions in the history of philosophy have sparked a great deal ...

Being and its surroundings

Gianni Vattimo, one of Europe's foremost contemporary philosophers and most famously associated with the concept of weak thought, explores theoretical and practical issues flowing from his fundamental rejection of the traditional Western understanding of Being as an absolute, unchanging, and tran...

Problems of cartesianism

The typical Cartesian collection contains papers which treat the problems arising out of Descartes's philosophy as though they and it appeared for the first time in a recent journal. The approach of this collection is quite different. The eight contributo

Claude buffier and thomas reid

All too often it is said that common-sense philosophers faIl to justify their appeal to common sense as a philosophical standard, and that they merely repeat one another in the glorification of philosophical trivialities. This book challenges these and ot

Dialectic of love

Unravelling the contradictions and complexities of Friedrich Schiller's labyrinthine thought, David Pugh illuminates the inner dynamics of these writings and places them within a wider philosophical and cultural context. Modern discussions tend to focus o

The vitality of contradiction

How the fundamental tensions of social and political life teach us to be free.

Finding freedom

Scholars generally think that Hegel's philosophy is conservative and reactionary with regard to women's rights and as a result dismiss his philosophical account of the relationship between family and the political community as irrelevant. Sara MacDonald argues that in fact the logic of Hegel's th...

Philosophy and personal relations

Form and transformation

Plotinus, the father of Neoplatonism, lived in Rome during the third century AD. For many scholars -- not only classicists and philosophers but medievalists, renaissance specialists, Islamists, theologians, and students of religion -- he remains a figure

Kierkegaard

Science and social context

The first major product of agricultural biotechnology was recombinant bovine growth hormone (rbGH, also know as rbST), a drug produced by Monsanto to increase milk production in cows. Following worldwide debate about its safety, it was approved in the United States in 1993 but rejected in Canada ...

From personal duties towards personal rights

Focusing on the concepts of popular consent, representation, limit, and resistance to tyranny as essential features of modern theories of parliamentary democracy, Monahan shows a continuity in use of these concepts across the alleged divide between the Mi

Causation and explanation

Stathis Psillos divides his account into three sections: causation, laws of nature, and explanation. He begins the causation section with Hume's classic "reductive" account and then focuses on the subsequent division between Humean and non-Humean accounts, examining topics such as regularities an...

The notion of tolerance and human rights

Former colleagues of distinguished philosopher Raymond Klibansky examine tolerance from a number of perspectives, including historical roots in Bayle and Locke, the plea for tolerance in literature and poetry, as well as judicial, cultural and societal aspects.

Truth

After a brief presentation of the classical conceptions of truth - correspondence, coherence, verificationist, and pragmatist theories - the book focuses on the debate between those who favour "substantive" conceptions of this classical kind and those who advocate so-called "minimalist" and "defl...

Orthodoxy and enlightenment

Employing an interdisciplinary approach that gives equal consideration to Campbell's secular and religious writings, Jeffrey Suderman argues that Campbell used the critical tools of the Enlightenment to defend an orthodox Christian faith. This conclusion

Space, time and einstein

Cryptomimesis

In the last thirty years the living-dead, the revenant, the phantom, and the crypt have appeared with increasing frequency in Jacques Derrida's writings and, for the most part, have gone unaddressed. In Cryptomimesis Jodey Castricano examines the intersection between Derrida's writing and the Got...

Questions of miracle

This collection of essays explores new avenues in the ongoing debate on miracles and sheds light on various theological and philosophical issues. Presented as a dialogue between Robert Larmer and other leading philosophers in the field, all sides of the issues are provocatively explored.

Moral reasoning in a pluralistic world

Bringing abstract moral theory to bear on the diversity of cultures and outlooks fundamental to today’s world.

A sceptical guide to meaning and rules

Kusch argues that the apparent simplicity of Kripke's text is deceptive and that a fresh reading gives Kripke's overall argument a new strength.

Bernard williams

From his earliest work - on personal identity - to his last - on the value of truthfulness - Bernard Williams' ideas and arguments have been sometimes controversial, often influential, and always worth studying. Mark Jenkins provides a comprehensive account of Williams' many significant contribut...

Water into wine?

Two possible or actual occurrence of miracles has been vigorously debated since the concept was first introduced. In Water into Wine? Robert Larmer re-examines significant issues in this cross-disciplinary debate and attacks two basic assumptions governing it.

Rights

Sojourns in the new world

This collection of essays represents a reflective inquiry into the way in which our world is set apart from its past, its present defined and its destiny shaped by technology. The contributors tackle the subject from different perspectives within the fields of philosophy and politics.

The end of ethics in a technological society

A critical assessment of the failure of liberal ethics to meet the challenges posed by techno-science.

The irony of theology and the nature of religious thought

Donald Wiebe critically examines the pervasive assumption that theology is a form of religious thought that is both compatible with and supportive of religious faith. The irony, he argues, is that theology is in fact detrimental to religion and the religious way of life.

Ideas, concepts, and reality

An original exploration of the distinction between subjective ideas and objective concepts.

Studies in christian existentialism

Jena romanticism and its appropriation of jakob böhme

Interest in German Romanticism has been revitalized in recent years by new post-structural, interdisciplinary, and intertextual perspectives. However until now this renewed interest has not led to a re-examination of Jakob Böhme's formative influence on

The origins of walter rauschenbusch's social ethics

Walter Rauschenbusch is known as the father of the Social Concern movement in America. Traditionally, the source of his social ethic has been seen to lie in the single motif of liberalism. Donovan Smucker provides a new perspective, arguing that Rauschenbusch's social ethic was based on not one b...

The philosophy of sartre

As a playwright, novelist, political theorist, literary critic, and philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre (1905- 1980) remains an iconic figure. This book examines his philosophical ideas and methods.

Enlightenment and community

In an age when it has become fashionable to dismiss the Enlightenment as a sinister movement based on instrumental rationality, Benjamin Redekop delves deeper to understand the movement on its own terms. In Enlightenment and Community he shows that the E

A disciplined intelligence

This highly original contribution to Canadian intellectual history examines the course of critical inquiry and its relationship to the assertion of moral authority in English-Canadian thought during the Victorian era.

The philosophy of husserl

As the founding father of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl has been hugely influential in the development of contemporary continental philosophy. In The Philosophy of Husserl, Burt Hopkins shows that the unity of Husserl's philosophical entreprise is found in its investigation of the origns of cogni...

The philosophy of nature

In this general summation of the theory Brian Ellis, at the forefront of developing the new essentialism, introduces students and generalists to an emerging metaphysical perspective that provides a comprehensive new philosophy of nature.

The career of toleration

John Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration is one of the canonical English-language texts in the history of the idea of toleration. Its publication in 1689 sparked a heated debate with Anglican cleric Jonas Proast, and in recent years the Locke-Proast cont

Henri bergson and british modernism

Mary Ann Gillies shows that French philosopher Henri Bergson played a central role in the development of British literary modernism. While Bergson's influence on modernism has long been debated, this is the first thorough, current examination of the ways in which his ideas are manifest in British...

John rawls

Cosmopolitanism

Death

Central works of philosophy, volume 3

A primer on the core texts of the Western philosophical canon aimed at undergraduate students and general readers.

The philosophy of merleau-ponty

An introduction to the life and thought of one of the most important French thinkers of the twentieth-century.

Wilfrid sellars

An impressive exploration of the complexity and range of the work of one of the central philosophical figures of the twentieth century.

An enlightenment tory in victorian scotland

An Enlightenment Tory in Victorian Scotland is a political and intellectual biography of Sir Archibald Alison (1792-1867), historian, social critic, criminal lawyer, and sheriff of Lanarkshire. The first author to examine the full range of Alison's writin

Freedom, equality, community

Accounts of the work of six significant figures in Canadian political thought are used to examine key intellectual debates, including the national unity issue and Canada's relationship with the United States. James Bickerton, Stephen Brooks, and Alain Gagnon analyse the work and influence of Geor...

The philosophy of gadamer

The ideas of German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer have had considerable influence both in their own right, as the leading modern exposition of philosophical hermeneutics, and in interpreting the works of others, especially Heidegger, Hegel, and Plato. Jean Grondin provides an authoritative and c...

Meaning

An insightful look at the philosophy of language.

Rule-following and meaning

A selection of readings on a central topic in contemporary philosophy of language, mind, and metaphysics.

An examination of the philosophy of bacon

An Examination of the Philosophy of Bacon is one of Joseph de Maistre's most original and important works. Best known for his defence of throne and altar and for his critique of the political and religious thought of the Enlightenment, Maistre also addressed more fundamental philosophical issues....

Art's emotions

How is that artistic works have the power to move the human heart? Why does Manet's Woman with a Parrot evoke reverie, and an Edward Elgar cello concerto, nostalgia? What is the value of such experiences? Art's Emotions is a reflective, thought-provoking exploration of the significance that exper...

Modality

This introduction emphasizes the metaphysics of modality

Philosophy of music

What makes some music a work of art - what we hear, the performance, or something we invent or discover?

Against rousseau

A fierce opponent of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Joseph de Maistre was a widely read critic of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Against Rousseau provides the English-speaking reader with a rare first-hand view of the intellectual world of the early counter-revolution.

Inauthentic culture and its philosophical critics

Despite the pervasive feeling that much of the culture of Western democracies has increasingly become inauthentic or phoney, contemporary cultural critics and observers have paid little attention to the traditional philosophical criticism of inauthentic culture that began with Socrates, Aristopha...

The philosophy of schopenhauer

A comprehensive introduction that makes even the most difficult of Schopenhauer's ideas accessible without sacrificing any of their complexity.

Analytic versus continental

A clarifying examination of the differences and similarities between two philosophical schools.

Sophocles' use of psychological terminology

This masterly study examines Sophocles' use of six key psychic terms, analysing how he refers to these terms as sources of thought, emotion, and will. A meticulous synthesis of existing scholarship and philological inquiry, it compares Sophocles' use of language with that of earlier and contempor...

Informal logic

In this insightful critique of informal logic and critical thinking strategies and techniques, Wayne Grennan examines argument evaluation techniques currently used in both formal and informal logic texts and, finding them lacking, proposes a new system of evaluation.

Dilemmas of trust

Every human relationship, whether between lovers, friends, family members, or colleagues, involves trust or distrust. When we trust, we take for granted that others are not out to harm us; we relax and feel safe. When we distrust, we are fearful; we withdraw and try to protect ourselves. In Dilem...

Relativism

Relativism lies at the very heart of philosophy since there can be little point to debates in other philosophical areas if the issues surrounding relativism are not resolved. This book offers a systematic discussion of a variety of different relativist positions that are often grouped together un...

Idealism

The rediscovery of Idealism is an unmistakable feature of contemporary philosophy. Heavily criticised by the dominant philosophies of the twentieth century, it is being reconsidered in the twenty-first as a rich and untapped resource for contemporary philosophical arguments and concepts. Idealism...

Joseph de maistre's life, thought, and influence

In Joseph de Maistre's Life, Thought, and Influence leading Maistre scholars offer interpretations of his thought and make available in English recent French scholarship on his life and work. They provide a portrait of Maistre as a significant thinker in numerous fields, upsetting the image of hi...

Améliorer le leadership dans les services de santé au canada

How to train senior managers to make better use of evidence to transform health care.

Central works of philosophy, volume 2

A primer on the core texts of the Western philosophical canon for undergraduate students and general readers.

Central works of philosophy, volume 5

Ranging over 2,500 years of philosophical writing, this five-volume collection of essays is an unrivalled companion to the study and reading of philosophy. Central Works of Philosophy provides both an overview of particular works and clear and authoritative expositions of their central ideas, giv...

Karl polanyi on ethics and economics

Breaking new ground in Polanyi scholarship, Gregory Baum explores the relation between ethics, culture, and economics in Karl Polanyi's writings. He identifies and analyses key concepts of Polanyi's thought and shows how they apply to the contemporary debate on ethics and economics.

Possible worlds

Ever since Kripke and others developed a semantic interpretation for modal logic, "possible worlds" has become a much debated issue in contemporary metaphysics.

Christian attitudes towards the state of israel

When the United Nations debated the future of the Mandate of Palestine in 1947, world opinion was powerfully affected by news of the Holocaust and the plight of Jewish refugees. This momentary humanitarian advantage aided Christian Zionists in mobilizing