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Reading Bernard Williams

Edited by Daniel Callcut

When Bernard Williams died in 2003, the Times newspaper hailed him ‘as the greatest moral philosopher of his generation’. This outstanding collection of specially commissioned...

November 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77190-0 (Routledge)

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Nihilism

By Bulent Diken

Most significant problems of contemporary life have their origins in nihilism and its paradoxical logic, which is simultaneously destructive to and constitutive of society. Yet,...

November 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45218-2 (Routledge)

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Building Out into the Dark

Theory and Observation in Science and Psychoanalysis

By Robert A. Caper

In this book, Robert Caper provides the reader with an introduction to psychoanalysis focusing explicitly on whether psychoanalysis is part of the sciences, and if...

November 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46681-3 (Routledge)

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Arguing About Knowledge

Edited by Duncan Pritchard, Ram Neta

What is knowledge? What are the sources of knowledge? What is the value of knowledge? What can we know?

Arguing About Knowledge offers a fresh and...

December 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44839-0 (Routledge)

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A Theory of Race

By Joshua Glasgow

Social commentators have long asked whether racial categories should be conserved or eliminated from our practices, discourse, institutions, and perhaps even private thoughts. In A...

December 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99073-8 (Routledge)

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Philosophy Through Video Games

By Jon Cogburn, Mark Silcox

How can Wii Sports teach us about metaphysics?

Can playing World of Warcraft lead to greater self-consciousness?

How can we learn about aesthetics, ethics and divine attributes...

December 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-98858-2 (Routledge)

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Arguing About Law

Edited by Aileen Kavanagh, John Oberdiek

Arguing about Law introduces philosophy of law in an accessible and engaging way. The reader covers a wide range of topics, from general jurisprudence, law,...

December 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46242-6 (Routledge)

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Feminist Philosophy

A CONTEMPORARY INTRODUCTION

By Professor Lorraine Code

January 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26657-4 (Routledge)

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Arguing About Metaphysics

Edited by Michael Rea

Arguing about Metaphysics is a wide-ranging anthology that introduces students to one of the most fundamental areas of philosophy. It covers core topics in metaphysics...

January 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95826-4 (Routledge)

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Arguing About Political Philosophy

Edited by Matt Zwolinski

Arguing About Political Philosophy is an engaging survey of political philosophy perfect for beginning and advanced undergraduates. Selections cover classic philosophical sources such as Rousseau...

January 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99079-0 (Routledge)

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Arguing About Religion

Edited by Kevin Timpe

Arguing about Religion is an ideal collection for students interested in contemporary philosophy of religion and related disciplines. This volume brings together primary readings from...

January 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-98862-9 (Routledge)

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Philosophy of Education

The Essential Texts

Edited by Steven M. Cahn

Philosophy of education is a study both of the aims of education and the most appropriate means of achieving those aims. Any student of philosophy...

January 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99440-8 (Routledge)

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Beyond Postmodernism

New Dimensions in Clinical Theory and Practice

Edited by Roger Frie, Donna Orange

Beyond Postmodernism identifies ways in which psychoanalysis has moved beyond the postmodern debate and discusses how this can be applied to contemporary practice.

Roger Frie and...

January 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46688-2 (Routledge)

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Science For Humanism

The Recovery of Human Agency

By Charles R. Varela

In the 18th century, the pre-modern Judeo-Greco-Christian problem of freedom and determinism is transformed by Kant into the modern problem of the freedom of human...

January 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48520-3 (Routledge)

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Introducing Philosophy of Religion

By Chad Meister

Does God exist? What about evil and suffering? How does faith relate to science? Is there life after death? These questions fascinate everyone and lie...

February 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40327-6 (Routledge)

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Movement and Experimentation in Young Children's Learning

Deleuze and Guattari in Early Childhood Education

By Liselott Mariett Olsson

In contemporary educational contexts young children and learning are tamed, predicted, supervised, controlled and evaluated according to predetermined standards. Contesting such intense governing of the...

February 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46867-1 (Routledge)

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History of Madness

By Michel Foucault Edited by Jean Khalfa

When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la Folie à l'âge Classique, few had heard of a...

March 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47726-0 (Routledge)

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Understanding Consciousness

By Max Velmans

Understanding Consciousness, 2nd Edition provides a unique survey and evaluation of consciousness studies, along with an original analysis of consciousness that combines scientific findings, philosophy...

March 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42516-2 (Routledge)

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Foucault's Law

By Ben Golder, Peter Fitzpatrick

Foucault’s Law is the first book in almost fifteen years to address the question of Foucault’s position on law. Many readings of Foucault’s conception of...

March 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42454-7 (Routledge-Cavendish)

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Fiction and Fictionalism

By Mark Sainsbury

We pretend that there are people like Sherlock Holmes even though such people do not exist. Are fictional entities genuine entities? Or are there merely...

April 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77435-2 (Routledge)

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