Terrorism, Torture, Genocide

Claudia Card

This stimulating and often provocative book contends that understanding the evils in terrorism, torture and genocide enables us to recognise similar evils in everyday life: daily life under oppressive regimes and in racist environments; violence against women, including in the home; violence and executions in prisons; hate crimes; and violence against animals.

Edited and translated by Oleg V. Bychkov , Anne Sheppard

A detailed introduction traces the development of classical aesthetics from its roots in Platonism and Aristotelianism to its ultimate form in late Antiquity.

Religious and Secular Perspectives

Edited by William A. Galston , Peter H. Hoffenberg

This multiauthored book explores how many influential ethical traditions – secular and religious, Western and non-Western – wrestle with the moral dimensions of poverty and the needs of the poor.

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Dirk Johnson

In this study, Dirk Johnson challenges that assumption and takes seriously Nietzsche's own explicitly stated "anti-Darwinism." His book will appeal to all who are interested in the philosophy of Nietzsche and its cultural context.

Molly Cochran

This Companion examine the wide range of Dewey's thought and provide a critical evaluation of his philosophy and its lasting influence, both elsewhere in philosophy and on other disciplines.

Edited by Tom Ricketts , Michael Potter

Written in a clear and comprehensive manner to ensure accessibility for upper level undergraduates and graduates. The chapters are written by acknowledged experts in the field and discusses most aspects of Frege's philosophical writings, clearly showing a firm basis for research.

A German-English edition

Edited by Jens Timmermann

This volume contains the first facing-page German-English edition of Kant's Groundwork. It will be the edition of choice for any student or scholar who is not content with reading this central contribution to modern moral philosophy through the veil of English translation.

Daniel E. Lee , Elizabeth J. Lee

Human Rights and the Ethics of Globalization provides a balanced, thoughtful discussion of the globalization of the economy and the ethical considerations inherent in the many changes it has prompted.

Robert Kane

This book defends new ethical foundations rooted in the classical conception of the search for wisdom. It offers solutions to the ethical challenges posed by modernity and value relativism and develops a novel ethical view that differs from all standard categories of normative ethical theory.

Benjamin Rutter

Rutter's important study reconstructs Hegel's view not only of modern art but of modern life and will appeal to philosophers, literary theorists, and art historians alike.

Defying the Leviathan

Susanne Sreedhar

In this book, Susanne Sreedhar develops a novel interpretation of Hobbes's theory of political obligation and explores important cases where Hobbes claims that subjects have a right to disobey and resist state power, even when their lives are not directly threatened. Her book will appeal to all who are interested in the nature and limits of political authority, the right of self-defense, the right of revolution, and the modern origins of these issues.

An Introduction

Richard G. Stevens

This book by Richard G. Stevens is a comprehensive introduction to the nature of political philosophy. It offers definitions of philosophy and politics, showing the tension between the two and the origin of political philosophy as a means of resolution of that tension.

A Philosophical Analysis

Richard A. Richards

This book surveys the history of thinking about species from Aristotle to modern systematics in order to understand the origin of the problem, and advocates a solution based on the idea of the division of conceptual labor, whereby species concepts function in different ways – theoretically and operationally. This important addition to the current debate will be essential for philosophers and historians of science, and for biologists.

Edited by Richard Vernon

This edition, which includes a new translation of the original Letter, by Michael Silverthorne, enables readers to assess John Locke's theory of toleration by studying both his classic work and essential extracts from the later Letters.

W. D. Hart

The Evolution of Logic examines the relations between logic and philosophy over the last 150 years. This book aims to make four of them (consistency and independence of the continuum hypothesis, Post's problem, and Morley's theorem) more accessible to philosophers, making available the tools necessary for modern scholars of philosophy to renew a productive dialogue between logic and philosophy.