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Combining the study of animal minds, artificial minds, and human evolution, this book examine the advances made by comparative psychologists in explaining the intelligent behavior of primates, the design of artificial autonomous systems, and the...

Hegel is most famous for his view that conflicts between contrary positions are necessarily resolved. Whereas this optimism, inherent in modernity as such, has been challenged from Kierkegaard onward, many critics have misconstrued Hegel's own intentions...

In recent years ideas about therapy have found their way increasingly into educational practice: there is Circle Time in the elementary school and a new emphasis on self-esteem, there is assertiveness training and stress management for adults, and the...

Animals, Equality and Democracy examines the structure of animal protection legislation and finds that it is deeply inequitable, with a tendency to favor those animals the community is most likely to see and engage with. Siobhan O'Sullivan argues that...

Should scientists believe everything they say? Or would a more cautious attitude be preferable? On the one hand, the undisputed success of our contemporary scientific theories gives us good reasons to suppose that they are largely true; yet on the other...

This bookranges from refugee camps in Palestine to halting sites of the Irish Travellers and elsewhere in search of a new politics practiced through performance. Written through the intersection of performance and philosophy, the book refutes...

Acknowledgements Sigla Introduction PART I: STRUCTURES OF SUBJECTIVITY The Interesting and the Interested: Stages on a Concept's Way The Structure of Consciousness Consciousness as Interest The Ontology of the Self PART II: MORAL VISION Imagination and...

Acknowledgements Getting It Together Essential Tensions The Facilitative Possibilities The Consistent Pattern Motivating Diversity A Culture of Enquiry The Division of Labor in Communities of Enquiry Some Communities of Enquiry Naturalizing the Essential...

Throughout history, humans have raised and confined animals for food, clothing and research, trained animals for entertainment, fought animals for sport, bought and sold animals for profit, and lived with animals for companionship. The law under the...

Using leadership to generate greater innovation, connectivity, and organizational transformation is crucial for success in this challenging era. The authors present here a new approach to leadership based on findings from complexity science. Integrating...

This collection of essays by some of today's most interesting young professional philosophers covers the full range of work in ethics. It highlights research topics of particular concern and offers a crucial guide to the development of the discipline...

In this major new work by one of the leading writers on Utopian Studies, Ruth Levitas argues that a prospective future of ecological and economic crises poses a challenge to the utopian imaginary, to conceive a better world and alternative future. Utopia...

Taking a fresh approach to Byron, this book argues that he should be understood as a poet whose major works develop a carefully reasoned philosophy. Situating him with reference to the thought of the period, it argues for Byron as an active thinker,...

The author presents a new philosophical theory according to which we need intuitions and emotions in order to have objective moral knowledge, which is called affectual intuitionism. Affectual Intuitionism combines ethical intuitionism with a cognitive...

This volume contains a set of state-of-the-art essays by younger philosophers on various topics in the philosophy of action. Some of the essays are about the metaphysics of action and agency; some consider the nature of autonomy and free agency; some...

New Waves in Philosophy of Science captures the diverse array of issues in the rapidly developing area of philosophy of science by bringing together a pool of talented young philosophers from across the globe to debate the field and show where it's...

Metaphysics covers a rather broad area of philosophy, and one which addresses some fundamental questions about existence. This timely volume picks out both controversial and unusual views amongst some bright young metaphysicians who are daring to...

In this book, a group of innovative young philosophers working in philosophy of language present an invigorating examination of some of the seminal issues in the field.

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Reid's Moral Philosophy; S.Roeser PART I: REID'S MORAL EPISTEMOLOGY Reid, the Moral Faculty, and First Principles; K.Lehrer Reid on Natural Signs, Taste and Moral Perception; E.Kroeker Thomas Reid on...

This edited collection of exceptional quality essays by international Wittgenstein scholars explores and critiques an area of Wittgenstein's work that is highly significant to contemporary debate in philosophy of language.

The human body is not simply a physical, anatomical, or physiological object; in an important sense we are our bodies. In this collection, Sartre scholars and others engage with the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre's brilliant but neglected...

The Frontiers of Democracy offers a comprehensive examination of restrictions on the vote in democracies today. For the first time, the reasons for excluding people (prisoners, children, intellectually disabled, non-citizens) from the suffrage in...

Introduction The Economic Approach to Reconstructing the Bible The Eden Story and Dilemma Analysis: A Paradise Lost On the Genesis of the Wealth of Nations On the Exodus of the Wealth of Nations Economic and Non-Economic Interpretations of God in the Old...

How much can morality demand of well-off Westerners as a response to the plight of the poor and starving in the rest of the world? What does the answer tell us about the nature of morality? The cutting edge of this contemporary ethical debate is...

This collection explores the controversial and perhaps even abject idea that evils, large and small, human and natural, may have a central positive function to play in our lives. Religious thinkers from the Christian tradition have been concerned with...

Series Editor's Preface Introduction Gillian Rose, Philosopher of Law On Dualism On Traditionalism On Quietism Metaphysics of Law Phenomenology of Law After Transcendence Index

This book guides the making of ethical decisions in research. It supports thinking through ethical dilemmas that arise while research is being planned, conducted and reported. It offers checklists to facilitate ethical review and is illustrated by real...

This collection of essays showcases recent work on Hume and the Is/Ought question. There are four distinct attempts to redefine and prove Hume's No-Ought-From-Is thesis in such a way as to evade the famous counterexamples of A.N. Prior. The rival...

Pragmatist philosopher William James has long been deemed a dubious guide to ethical reasoning. William James and the Quest for an Ethical Republic overturns such thinking, demonstrating the consistency and coherence of James's efforts to develop a...

Theolegal democracy defines a political system that allows public officials to use theology in its democratic process to shape law without instituting an official state religion. In Whose God Rules?, preeminent scholars debate the theolegal theory, which...

The concept of the "generation" is a popular staple in the media, from the "Greatest Generation" of US World War II veterans to the contemporary "Millennial" generation. Yet there has been remarkably little recent scholarly treatment of the concept,...

In this book, Weikart helps unlock the mystery of Hitler's evil by vividly demonstrating the surprising conclusion that Hitler's immorality flowed from a coherent ethic. Hitler was inspired by evolutionary ethics to pursue the utopian project of...

Political theory is approached as species of political and social science but more broadly as a form of interpretive or metapractical inquiry. Much of the emphasis is on the relationship between philosophy and social science and on the dilemmas that...

There are 84 million members of the Millennial Generation. Scholars agree that they are far more engaged politically and have far more progressive views on race, class, gender, and sexual orientation issues than Generation Xers or Baby Boomers.While they...

Currently, the neurosciences challenge the concept of will to be scientifically untenable, specifying that it is our brain rather than our "self" that decides what we want to do. At the same time, we seem to be confronted with increasing possibilities...

This lucid and original work argues for a new style of political leadership, one which pays deliberate and sophisticated attention to the emotional dynamics of the public. In exploring this basic idea of 'emotional governance', Barry Richards also...

Wilhelm Hennis has been a leading critic of German political life and thought for the last fifty years. In this selection from his writings on government, constitutionality, and legitimacy he shows how the postwar reconstruction of democratic politics in...

Preface Introduction PART I: SCIENTIFIC REALISM The Present State of the Scientific Realism Debate Scientific Realism and Metaphysics Thinking About the Ultimate Argument for Realism Against Neo-Instrumentalism Tracking the Real: Through Thick and Thin...