Understanding Virtue Ethics is suitable for students taking moral philosophy courses as well as students outside the discipline who encounter virtue-based ethical approaches in professional ethics, b
"Understanding Phenomenology" provides a guide to one of the most important schools of thought in modern philosophy. The book traces phenomenology's historical development, beginning with its founder,
This series provides short, accessible and lively introduction to the major schools, movements and traditions in philosophy and the history of ideas since the beginning of the Enlightenment. All books
Many contemporary Anglo-American philosophers describe themselves as naturalists. But what do they mean by that term? Popular naturalist slogans like, "there is no first philosophy" or "philosophy is
"Understanding German Idealism" provides an accessible introduction to the philosophical movement that emerged in 1781, with the publication of Kant's monumental "Critique of Pure Reason", and ended f
The three great historical philosophers most often associated with rationalism - Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz - opened up ingenious and breathtaking vistas upon the world. Yet their works are so dif
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"Understanding Feminism" provides an accessible guide to one of the most important and contested movements in progressive modern thought. Presenting feminism as a dynamic, multi-faceted and adaptive m
"Understanding Feminism" provides an accessible guide to one of the most important and contested movements in progressive modern thought. Presenting feminism as a dynamic, multi-faceted and adaptive m
? To do philosophy at any sustained level involves an encounter withKant.? This collection from top contributors unpacks his notoriously denseand complex ideas and presents them in a form manageable f
Wittgenstein's complex and demanding work challenges much that is taken for granted in philosophical thinking as well as in the theorizing of art, theology, science, and culture. Each essay in this co
Surveying both historical debates and modern physics, Barry Dainton evaluates the central arguments in a clear and unintimidating way that keeps conceptual issues comprehensible to students with littl
"Indispensible for anyone hoping to tackle modern philosophy of space and time at anything like a well-informed level...It is very difficult to see how the job of introducing time and space to the phi
The three historical philosophers most often associated with rationalism - Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz - opened up ingenious vistas upon the world. This title unlocks their intricate metaphysical s
Michel Foucault: Key Concepts explores Foucault's central ideas, such as disciplinary power, biopower, bodies, spirituality and practices of the self. Each essay focuses on a specific concept, analysi
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Alain Badiou is one of the world’s most influential living philosophers. Few contemporary thinkers display his breadth of argument and reference or his ability to intervene in debates critical
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