In this book Keith Graham examines the philosophical assumptions behind the ideas of group membership and loyalty. Drawing out the significance of social context, he challenges individualist ...more on ebook "Practical Reasoning in a Social Wor..."

John Rist surveys the history of ethics from Plato to the present and offers a vigorous defence of an ethical theory based on a revised version of Platonic realism. In a wide-ranging discuss ...more on ebook "Real Ethics..."

Margaret Cavendish's 1668 edition of Observations upon experimental Philosophy, presented here in its first modern edition, holds a unique position in early modern philosophy. Cavendish reje ...more on ebook "Margaret Cavendish: Observations up..."

In this book, which thoroughly revises and greatly expands his classic work Sameness and Substance (1980), David Wiggins retrieves and refurbishes in the light of twentieth-century logic and ...more on ebook "Sameness and Substance Renewed..."

The book is a contribution to the study of values, as they affect both our personal and our public life. It defends the view that values are necessarily universal, on the ground that that is ...more on ebook "Value, Respect, and Attachment..."

Clearly and simply written, this book provides the first consistent sociological reading of Wittgenstein's work for many years. ...more on ebook "Wittgenstein, Rules and Institution..."

This major study of Kant provides a detailed examination of the development and function of the doctrine of transcendental illusion in his theoretical philosophy. The author shows that a the ...more on ebook "Kant's Doctrine of Transcendental I..."

It is hard to overestimate the importance of the work of Augustine of Hippo, both in his own period and in the subsequent history of Western philosophy. Until the thirteenth century, when he ...more on ebook "Cambridge Companion to Augustine..."

Substance: Its Nature and existence investigates the very nature and existence of individual substances, including both livi ...more on ebook "Substance..."

This book addresses one of the fundamental topics in philosophy: the relation between appearance and reality. John Yolton draws on a rich combination of historical and contemporary material, ...more on ebook "Realism and Appearances..."