Kant on history and religion

Imperial paradoxes

At war for sixty years, eighteenth-century Britain and France experienced demographic, social, and economic exchanges despite their imperial rivalry. Paradoxically, this rivalry spurred their participation in scientific and industrial developments. Their shared interest in standards of living and...

Universals

Things are particulars and their qualities are universals, but do universals have an existence that is distinct from that of particular things? And what is their nature if they do? In Universals J.P. Moreland addresses these questions, in particular those issues that have been a crucial part of t...

Central works of philosophy, volume 4

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

Scottish common sense in germany, 1768-1800

Proponents of Scottish common-sense philosophy, especially Thomas Reid, James Oswald, and James Beattie, had a substantial influence on late enlightenment German philosophy. In this illuminating study Manfred Kuehn explores the nature and extent of that influence. He finds that the work of these ...

Northern spirits

Canadians have devoted considerable thought to Hegel - a proposition born out by the work of John Watson, George Grant, and Charles Taylor, three major Canadian political philosophers of the last century. In Northern Spirits, Robert Sibley examines how Watson, Grant, and Taylor found in Hegel the...

Lament for a nation, 40th anniversary edition

The classic masterpiece of political meditation.

Morals and consent

An evolutionary defence of contractarian ethics as applied to social norms.

Modern philosophy

Modern Philosophy takes a fresh look at the common themes that dominate this period as well as obvious differences in the work of its six major philosophers: René Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, G.W. Leibniz, John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume.

John toland

This study is the first sympathetic philosophical treatment in English of the complete works of John Toland (1670-1722). Professor Daniel presents Toland as a champion of religious toleration and civil liberty whose writing is important because it brings

Feminist philosophies of life

Exploring life’s character, sex, and meaning, while calling attention to the most precarious among us.

The philosophy of nietzsche

This fresh introduction to Nietzsche's philosophical work provides students new to Nietzsche with an excellent framework for understanding the central concerns of his philosophical and cultural writings and why Nietzsche's ideas continue to spark controversy in philosophy and in allied disciplines.

How to understand language

Why are philosophers, as opposed to, say, linguists and psychologists, puzzled by language? How should we attempt to shed philosophical light on the phenomenon of language? How to Understand Language frames a discussion in light of these two questions and begins by thinking about the reasons that...

Integrity, second edition

How to restore integrity so that social values can be upheld and family welfare strengthened.

Scepticism

Ever since Descartes identified the first task of philosophy as the defeat of scepticism, the challenge posed by scepticism has remained a central problem for epistemology. Neil Gascoigne introduces the sceptical arguments and methods of the canonical philosophers from Sextus Empiricus's Pyrrhoni...

Humanizing mental illness

Humanizing Mental Illness demonstrates that we need to challenge our explicit and implicit biases and learn to interact with mental illness in more intentional, supportive, and inclusive ways. While most philosophical accounts of the matter are concerned with the question of how much agency a per...

Archives and the event of god

An innovative approach to thinking about religion through post-structuralist concepts.

The recovery of wonder

Environmental degradation. Globalization. The closure of our public life to the transcendent dimensions of human existence. For esteemed philosopher Kenneth Schmitz these are the by-products of modernity and post-modernity. But The Recovery of Wonder is not a denunciation of modern philosophy. In...

David armstrong

David (D.M.) Armstrong is one of Australia's greatest philosophers. His chief philosophical achievement has been the development of a core metaphysical program that covers the topics of universals, laws, modality, and facts - a naturalistic metaphysics, consistent with a scientific view of the na...

Political philosophy

Political Philosophy is a comprehensive introduction to the major topics in political theory. It explores the philosophical traditions that have formed and continue to inform our political judgements about fundamental questions such as why and when we can demand freedom, claim rights, complain wh...

Postmodernism and the ethical subject

The shock of the modern has given way to global and transnational shifts and cultural displacements. What ethical demands have been created by this and what new models of thinking enable us to meet their challenge?

Donald davidson

An in-depth examination of Donald Davidson's work.

The form of politics

A study of Aristotle’s and Plato’s interpretations of friendship and their significance for political life.

Phenomenal consciousness

How can the fine-grained phenomenology of conscious experience arise from neural processes in the brain? How does a set of action potentials (nerve impulses) become like the feeling of pain in one's experience? Contemporary neuroscience is teaching us that our mental states correlate with neural ...

Knowledge

What is it about knowledge that makes us value it more highly than mere true belief? This question lies at the heart of epistemology and has challenged philosophers ever since it was first posed by Plato. By examining the historical and contemporary answers, Michael Welbourne provides an excellen...

Herder on nationality, humanity, and history

The core of J.G. Herder's philosophy of nationalism lies in the conviction that human creativity must be embedded in the particular culture of a communal language. While he acknowledged that this cultural particular must be integrated into a more universal humanity, he insisted that each culture ...

David lewis

A seminal introduction to the greatest metaphysician since Leibniz.

Canadian idealism and the philosophy of freedom

An intriguing work that considers the shared tradition of Canadian political philosophy.

The philosophy of wine

Can a wine really be feminine, profound, or pretentious? Is Château L'Eglise Clinet 1989 really a better wine than Château Belair 1989? Does a sommelier's judgment have any objective validity or is everyone's palette different and the advice of a critic therefore irrelevant? Is a great wine a wor...

War as paradox

The origin and continued importance of dialectical war theory in the works of Clausewitz and Hegel.

Ontology

This introduction to ontology - the philosophical study of what exists and what it means for something to exist - will provide students of metaphysics with a comprehensive account of the central ideas at the heart of the subject of being.

How to be a green liberal

An insightful look at how liberalism can embrace a non-anthropocentric view of nature.

The experience of meaning

A provocative exploration of the experience of meaning, and a clarion call for its recovery in contemporary culture.

Rights and reason

In Rights and Reason Jonathan Gorman sets discussion of the "rights debate" within a wide-ranging philosophical framework, drawing on positions in epistemology, metaphysics, and a theory of human nature.

Philosophy of language, second edition

Alexander Miller's accessible survey shows that philosophy of language is at the centre of the energetic philosophical activity of this century. By interweaving the historical development of the subject with a thematic overview of radically different approaches to theories of meaning he gives rea...

Weakening philosophy

Gianni Vattimo is one of the world's most important philosophers, yet he has received scant attention in the English-speaking world. The essays in Weakening Philosophy, from leading figures such as Umberto Eco and Charles Taylor, introduce his ideas to a wider audience.

Philosophy, neuroscience, and consciousness

Explaining consciousness is one of the last great unanswered scientific and philosophical problems. Immediately known, familiar and obvious, consciousness is also baffling, opaque, and strange. How and when did we become conscious? What exactly is consciousness? A gift from God? Some kind of emer...

Jean-luc nancy and the future of philosophy

The first introduction to the work of contemporary French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy.

Mind and body

In Mind and Body Robert Kirk offers an introduction to the complex tangle of questions and puzzles roughly labelled the mind-body problem.

Michael walzer on war and justice

This is a book about justice: the justice of a nation's major institutions and the justice of the interaction of nations on the world stage. Michael Walzer, one of North America's most prominent social critics, has written acclaimed works about the morality of warfare, the distribution of health ...

The philosophy of heidegger

In The Philosophy of Heidegger, Michael Watts provides an overview of Heidegger's thoughts that is suitable for both beginning and advanced students. Free from jargon and the standard idioms of academic philosophical writing, Watts uses several illustrations and concrete examples to introduce key...

Empty revelations

A rich and engaging investigation into the nature of literary fiction.

The philosophy of habermas

A comprehensive introduction to the thought of Jürgen Habermas.

Paradox

An in-depth examination of paradoxes and the philosophical issues they raise.

Central works of philosophy, volume 1

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

Unthinking modernity

In Unthinking Modernity Judith Stamps reinterprets the communications theory of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan as a Canadian variant of the critical theory associated with the early Frankfurt school. Stamps argues that Innis and McLuhan used their studies of media to develop a critique of the ...

The philosophy of kierkegaard

The author confronts Kierkegaard's "anti-philosophical" reputation and shows that he greatly influenced twentieth-century Continental philosophers and theologians.

Externalism

An examination of the view that mental states and processes are essentially dependent on the world for their nature and contents.

Action

Global journalism ethics

An argument for a new system of ethics in journalism that will take into account its global reach and impact.

Critical reflection

An introductory textbook on critical thinking full of real-life examples and exercises from contemporary sources.

Reason and self-enactment in history and politics

F.M. Barnard goes beyond the seventeenth-century understanding of the social contract by making national self-enactment contingent on public reasons for individual liberty within civic mutuality. He examines the possibilities and limits for a self-enacting, principled politics, acknowledging reas...

The philosophy of gesture

A revolutionary pragmatist account of creativity and synthetic reasoning that relies upon gesture, an action that carries on meaning.

The philosophy of derrida

Thomas nagel

Looking for philosophy

The new rationalism

An engaging and timely rediscovery of an ethic grounded in compassion.

Descartes and the enlightenment

Peter Schouls examines the role played by the concepts of freedom, mastery, and progress in Descartes' writings, arguing that these ideas express a vital and fundamental feature of Descartes' thought. These theories also occupy a central position in the thought of the Enlightenment. Since the mor...

The philosophy of hegel

The experience of beauty

An original answer to a question of permanent interest: the place of beauty in our lives.

This great national object

In This Great National Object, Roberta Styran and Robert Taylor - the unparalleled experts on the subject - recount the story of the canals, with particular emphasis on the experiences of the engineers, contractors, and labourers who built the inland waterways between 1824 and 1889.

An aristotelian account of induction

Through a study of argument, science, art, and human intelligence, Louis Groarke explores and builds on a line of Aristotelian thought that traces the origins of logic and knowledge to a mental creativity that is able to leap to insightful and truthful conclusions on the basis of restricted evide...

Modal logics and philosophy, second edition

The first text to combine a clear introduction to formal modal logic with a rigorous presentation of its uses as a tool for philosophical analysis.

Time and philosophy

In Time and Philosophy, John McCumber presents a detailed survey of continental thought through a historical account of its key texts. The common theme taken up in each text is how philosophical thought should respond to time.

Film, theory, and philosophy

An invaluable collection of major thinkers for students and teachers of film and philosophy.

Moralism

In Moralism: A Study of a Vice, Craig Taylor delves into one of the most overlooked ethical concerns of our time: the vice of moralism, or the distortion of moral thought, reflection, and judgment. This flawed tendency in human nature is pervasive on all levels of society, and affects people from...

The metaphysics of scientific realism

A defining work on the scientific chacterization of reality.

The new pragmatism

A brilliant overview of the development of a key philosophical movement.

The philosophy of agamben

Materialist ethics and life-value

A timely re-thinking of "the good life" that reveals its grounds in human life-requirements and identifies key social threats to happiness.

Critical humanism and the politics of difference

The most influential theories of oppression have argued that belief in the existence of a shared human essence or nature is ultimately responsible for the injustices suffered by women, First Nations peoples, blacks, gays and lesbians, and colonised people and have insisted that struggles against ...

The social history of ideas in quebec, 1760-1896

The first synthesis of the history of ideas over a century in Quebec.

Life embodied

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

Realism and anti-realism

An introduction to realism and anti-realism - a major subject in contemporary metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language.

John case and aristotelianism in renaissance england

This perceptive study of John Case, teacher of philosophy at Oxford from the mid-1560s until his death in 1600 and author of expositions of Aristotle which became standard textbooks of the time, focuses on his intellectual and cultural milieu and reveals

Beyond liberty and property

Professor Gunn presents a fresh, revealing picture of the public mind in Britain, from the Glorious Revolution to the First Reform Act, showing how British people of the eighteenth century came to a new understanding of politics. Departing form the usual

The absolute violation

State torture has found an increasing number of defenders in law, philosophy, and public policy. Their defences often ignore the empirical literature on torture and thus misunderstand its nature and the damage it does, as well as accepting the illusory benefits it promises.

Nietzsche's justice

An exploration of Nietzsche's ideas of justice by one of his leading modern exponents.

God

Questions of God's existence have exercised philosophers since antiquity. Are there adequate reasons to think that God exists? And, if God exists, what is God like? In this book Jay Wood provides a sustained and fresh examination of these central questions.

Robert brandom

Embodiment and the meaning of life

A brazen defence of the good of human limitations in the face of naive technological optimism.

The ancient mythology of modern science

Examining the nature of myth-making and its surprising appearance in popular science writing.

An exceptional dialogue, 1925–1948

In 1925 the Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev formed a friendship with the French philosopher Jacques Maritain. Their endeavours shaped the European philosophical world by promoting the essential dignity and rights of human beings. An Exceptional Dialogue, 1925–1948 translates their correspond...

The crisis of modernity

A selection of essays on modernity and secularization by one of the most distinguished Italian thinkers of the mid-twentieth century.

Art, education, and cultural renewal

A call for solidarity and renewal in the arts and the academy.

Beyond tragedy and eternal peace

As a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and scholar of Latin and Greek, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. This book provides an overview of his legacy, highlighting the synergy between his critique of metaph...

Dawn of a new feeling

Dawn of a New Feeling acknowledges that computers have become a formidable tool for creating art but contends that virtual reality is not conducive to meditations on the aesthetic object. Virtual or augmented reality, Raffaele Milani argues, is illusory and prevents the viewer from feeling a genu...

Minor ethics

Minor Ethics takes up a range of canonical ethical questions and thinks through concrete ethical problems relating to drug addiction, environmental responsibility, xenophobia, trauma, refugees, political parties, and cultural difference. The responses to these concerns demonstrate the minoritaria...

Singular creatures

In Singular Creatures Mark Kingwell plumbs the depths of cultural and political meaning in the apparent transition to posthuman life. Can humans and their own creations co-exist in a cyberflesh world, or is a struggle for superiority inevitable? Singular Creatures is an attempt at sketching the f...

Grace and philosophy

A case for the reinstatement in philosophy of astonished wonder about life, and the poetic and artistic expressions of such wonder.

In praise of natural philosophy

Science and philosophy need to be put together to recreate natural philosophy in order to serve the best interests of humanity.

Struggles for self-rule

Drawing on case studies in Italian history, Struggles for Self-Rule asks, do the centralizing tendencies of modern politics sap the self-organizing powers of individuals and communities, and what, if anything, can be done about it?

Language ethics

An innovative interdisciplinary approach to the political ethics of linguistic diversity.

Reasonable self-esteem, second edition

A philosophical investigation of the moral ideal of reasonable self-esteem.

Our fundamental problem

How can the world we live in and see, touch, hear, and smell, the world of living things, people, consciousness, free will, meaning, and value - how can all of this exist and flourish embedded as it is in the physical universe, made up of nothing but physical entities such as electrons and quarks...

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 main philosophical writings and the novel allwill

This scholarly edition is the first extensive English translation of Jacobi's major literary and philosophical classics. A key but somewhat eclipsed figure in the German Enlightenment, Jacobi had an enormous impact on philosophical thought in the later pa

Interpreting modernity

There are few philosophical questions to which Charles Taylor has not devoted his attention. His work has made powerful contributions to our understanding of action, language, and mind, and he has had a lasting impact on our understanding of the way in which the social sciences should be practise...

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...

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 ...