The promotion of human rights, the punishment of crimes against humanity, the use of force with respect to humanitarian intervention: these are some of the complex issues facing governments ...more on ebook "Ethics and Foreign Policy..."

The reputation and influence of emmanuel Levinas (1906-96) have grown powerfully in recent years. Well known in France in his lifetime, he has since his death become widely regarded as a maj ...more on ebook "Ethics, Exegesis and Philosophy..."

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit has attracted much attention recently from philosophers, but none of the existing english-language books on the text addresses one of the most difficult quest ...more on ebook "Hegel, Literature, and the Problem ..."

The formal systems of logic have ordinarily been regarded as independent of biology, but recent developments in evolutionary theory suggest that biology and logic may be intimately interrela ...more on ebook "The Evolution of Reason..."

The two great philosophical figures at the culminating point of the enlightenment are Thomas Reid in Scotland and Immanuel Kant in Germany. Reid was by far the most influential across europe ...more on ebook "Thomas Reid and the Story of Episte..."

The concern of this work is with developing an alternative to standard categories in theology and philosophy, especially in terms of how they deal with nature. Avoiding the polemics of much ...more on ebook "A Semiotic Theory of Theology and P..."

How can phenomenal consciousness exist as an integral part of a physical universe? How can the technicolour phenomenology of our inner lives be created out of the complex neural activities o ...more on ebook "Phenomenal Consciousness..."

Wittgenstein and Quine ...more on ebook "Wittgenstein and Quine..."

Anton Bruckner's eighth Symphony (1890), one of the last of the great Romantic symphonies, is a grandly complex masterpiece. Its critical reception has been fascinatingly contentious. Its mu ...more on ebook "Bruckner: Symphony No. 8..."

This ambitious study argues that our modern conception of the aesthetic sphere emerged during the era of British and German Romanticism from conflicts between competing models of the liberal ...more on ebook "Romanticism, Aesthetics, and Nation..."