Philosophy

This leading anthology contains legal cases and essays written by the finest scholars in legal philosophy, representing all major points of view on central ...

A Rulebook For Arguments Is A Succinct Introduction To The Art Of Writing And Assessing Arguments, Organized Around Specific Rules, Each Illustrated And Exp...

Margaret Pabst Battin has established a reputation as one of the top philosophers working in bioethics today. This work is a sequel to Battin's 1994 volume...

With great spiritual insight and unparalleled scholarship, Dr. Taitetsu Unno—the foremost authority in the United States on Shin or Pure Land Buddhism—int...

The Life, Times, And Work Of Herbert Marcuse, One Of The 20th Century's Most Remarkable Cultural Figures-- Assimilation & Catastrophe -- The Sorrows Of ...

Every day bioethical conflicts arise in Canadian hospitals and courtrooms; they are debated in newspaper columns and argued in private. This updated edition...

ONE BIBLE, MANY ANSWERS In God's Problem the New York Times bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus challenges the contradictory biblical explanations for ...

In This Book, The Author (a Distinguished Political Philosopher) Argues That The Social/political Crisis Of 20th-century America Is Really An Intellectual C...

greek Tragedies, Volume Iii Contains Aeschylus’s 'the Eumenides,' Translated By Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles’s 'philoctetes,' Translated By Davi...

Based on scientific research, this groundbreaking study from the frontiers of psychology and medicine offers startling new insight into the healing powers...

What existed before the Universe was created? Where does self-worth come from? Do the ends always justify the means?The Philosophy Book answers the most pr...

For more than seven centuries the Mumonkan has been used in Zen monasteries to train monks and to encourage the religious development of lay Buddhists. It...

Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant of the immune system. The truth is: love heals. Miracles happen to exceptional patients every day—patien...

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Awakening Upon Dying, with introductory commentary by Dzogchen Buddhist master Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, is a new translation of ...

Research Regarding The Significance And Consequence Of Anthropogenic Transformations Of The Earth’s Land, Oceans, Biosphere And Climate Have Demonstrated ...

This Book Presents The Attempts Of Contemporary Psychologists Whose Field Of Expertise Is The Study Of Love And Close Relationships To Discover Just What Lo...

A Critique Of The White American Class Structure Argues That The Paths Of Social Mobility That Once Advanced The Nation Are Now Serving To Further Isolate A...

From the international bestselling author of The Architecture of Happiness and How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this lyrical, erudite look at our world...

Explores A New Phase Of Human Evolution That Reflects A Growing Understanding About Authentic, Spiritual Power Based On Cooperative Beliefs And A Reverence ...

Political consultant Doug Schoen has been the power-behind-the-throne to Presidents, Prime Ministers and even a politician-priest whose brother was a mafia ...

Thomas Hobbes' timeless account of the human condition, first developed in The Elements of Law (1640), which comprises Human Nature and De Corpore Politico,...

Publisher's Description: Religious Diversity Exists Whenever Seemingly Sincere, Knowledgeable Individuals Hold Incompatible Beliefs On The Same Religious Is...

A Preeminent Scientist Asserts The Irrationality Of Belief In God And The Grievous Harm Religion Has Inflicted On Society From The Crusades To 9/11. He Crit...

Jarvis Jay Masters Has Taken An Extraordinary Journey Of Faith. Strangely Enough, His Moment Of Enlightenment Came Behind The Bars Of San Quentin's Death Ro...

Stop curating! And think what curating is all about. This book starts from this simple premise: thinking the activity of curating. To do that, it distinguis...

The idea that prompted the conferenee for which many of these papers were written, and that inspired this book, is stated in the Editorial Introduction repr...

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"This book is a virtual case study in the application of hermeneutical principles to illuminate philosophical texts. The book contains translations of eight...

Following on from Roy Bhaskar‘s first two books, A Realist Theory of Science and The Possibility of Naturalism , Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation...

warrior Of The Light: A Manual Is An Inspirational Companion To the Alchemist, An International Bestseller That Has Beguiled Millions Of Readers Around The...

In This Comprehensive New Study Of Human Free Agency, Laura Waddell Ekstrom Critically Surveys Contemporary Philosophical Literature And Provides A Novel Ac...

This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of Worl...

A hundred years after William James delivered the celebrated lectures that became The Varieties of Religious Experience, one of the foremost thinkers in the...

in This Book A Distinguished Philosopher Offers A Comprehensive Interpretation Of Plato’s Most Controversial Dialogue. Treating The republic as A Unity An...

everything We Do Relies On Causation. We Eat And Drink Because This Causes Us To Stay Alive. Courts Tell Us Who Causes Crimes, Criminology Tell Us What Ca...

Combining Readings With Canadian Case-law, This Collection Introduces Students To The Principles Of Social And Political Thought And Their Relevance To Cont...

Philosophers on Education provides the most comprehensive history of philosphers' views and impacts on the direction of education, from Plato to Dewey. As ...

This latest addition to the Oxford Readings in Philosophy series covers a topic which is one of the focal points of much of the current work in moral and po...

This volume is divided into four main areas of philosophy: logic, epistemology (theory of knowledge); philosophy of mind; and ethics. Each chapter within t...

Michael G. Titelbaum Presents A New Bayesian Framework For Modeling Rational Degrees Of Belief, Called The Certainty-loss Framework. Subjective Bayesianism ...

Some of the chief goals of science - understanding, explanation, prediction, and application in new technologies - can only be conducted with any purpose if...