Patterson Susan Patterson 
Word , Words, and World [PDF ebook] 
How a Wittgensteinian Perspective on Metaphor-Making Reveals the Theo-logic of Reality

Modern liberalism begins in the forgetting of the English Revolution. Anatomy of Failure seeks to right that wrong by exploring the concept of political action, playing its history against its philos …

Robert Beckford explores the dialogue between two central institutions in African Caribbean life: the church and the dancehall. He highlights how Dub – one of the central features of dancehall cultur …

First published in English in 1935, this is a vital and stimulating critical appraisal of contemporary thought in the post-World War One era. Written by a selection of leading Marxist thinkers includ …

Though often invoked by pro-life supporters, Thomas Aquinas in fact held that human life begins after conception, not at the moment of union. But in following the twists and turns of Aquinas thinking …

Blaise Pascal began as a mathematical prodigy, developed into a physicist and inventor, and had become by the end of his life in 1662 a profound religious thinker. As a philosopher, he was most convi …

This book analyzes whether the ‘new debate on genetics’ owes a debt to eugenic practices by welfare democracies of 1930s and 1940s. More specifically, the question is whether precisely the same ‘euge …

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 is one of the most highly ratified human rights treaties in the world, with 192 states currently signed up to it. Article Twelve is funda …

The aim of this series is to make available texts and collections of essays on major moral issues. The present volume is a collection that focuses exclusively on diverse moral issues connected with t …

Dewey”s students at Columbia saw him as ‘an Aristotelian more Aristotelian than Aristotle himself.’ However, until now, there has been little consideration of the influence Greek thought had on the …

Work on the norms of belief in epistemology regularly starts with two touchstone essays: W.K. Clifford”s ‘The Ethics of Belief’ and William James”s ‘The Will to Believe.’ Discussing the central the …