The great Victorian critic of art and society, John Ruskin did much to popularize high art and bring it to the masses. A brilliant theorist and practical critic of realism, he also produced the...

Joe Sachs has followed up his brilliant translation of Aristotle's Physics with a new translation of Metaphysics. Sachs's translations bring distinguished new light onto Aristotle's works, which are...

Confronted by challenges from conservative governments and an array of new economic and ideological forces, the once strong labor movement project of social emancipation is today plagued by serious...

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Unravels and assesses Hume's arguments against ethical rationalism, and the different strands in his positive views, in the light of subsequent advances made in moral epistemology.

This collection of twelve papers covers the question of the relation between morality and religion. The contributors include William Frankena, Philip Quinn, Robert Merrihew Adams, Richard Swinburne,...

Incuding new material as well as previously published articles, John Rees here brings his abilities as both a historian of ideas and a political philosopher to bear in this combination of historical...

An examination of the concept of numbers, concentrating mainl on the logicist point of view first clearly expounded by Frege that arithmetic can be 'reduced' to logic.

In this collection of new essays, six philosophers address themselves to the question of what sort of feature this intentional content is. The topics covered in the individual papers are of great...

The cogito ergo sum of Descartes is one of the best-known--and simplest--of all philosophical formulations, but ever since it was first propounded it has defied any formal accounting of its validity...

This book is a systematic study of Descartes' theory of causation and its relation to the medieval and early modern scholastic philosophy that provides its proper historical context. The argument...

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[by] Virginia Held, Kai Nielsen [and] Charles Parsons. Includes Bibliographical References.

Discussed from a modern viewpoint, the author considers Hume's view that justice, property, government, antional and international law, marriage, and perhaps even morality itself are entirely matters...

Keynes's Vision is a readable and thought-provoking essay about the ideas of one of the most influential statesmen of the twentieth century. It shows how John Maynard Keynes formulated a new system...

The authors of this absorbing new book describe the science of gene therapy in terms easily accessible to the non-specialist, and focus on the controversial ethical and public policy issues...

Is there a theory that explains the essence of consciousness? Or is consciousness itself just an illusion? The "last great mystery of science," consciousness was excluded from serious research for...