Ryan Patrick Hanley 
Love’s Enlightenment [PDF ebook] 
Rethinking Charity in Modernity

Reason and Ethics defends the theoretical claim that all values are subjective and the practical claim that human affairs can be conducted fruitfully in full awareness of this. Joel Marks goes beyond …

Merleau-Ponty and the Paradoxes of Expression offers a comprehensive reading of the philosophical work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a central figure in 20th-century continental philosophy. By establishi …

In attempting to conceptualize feminine subjectivity beyond the familiar paradigm of dualism and within the parameters of ethics, this study examines the political and intellectual identity of contem …

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 …

First published in 2000. This is Volume VI of six in the Library of Philosophy series on the Philosophy of Science. Written in 1929, using the initial ideas of A.N. Whitehead, this book on Biological …

Prisons and imprisonment have become a commonplace topic in popular culture as the setting and rationale for fiction and documentaries and most people seem to have a clear notion of what it is like i …

Lambert Wiesing“s The Philosophy of Perception challenges current theories of perception. Instead of attempting to understand how a subject perceives the world, Wiesing starts by taking perception t …

A right to equality and non-discrimination is widely seen as fundamental in democratic legal systems. But failure to identify the human interest that equality aims to uphold reinforces the argument o …

Hegel“s critique of Early German Romanticism and its theory of irony resonates to the core of his own philosophy in the same way that Plato“s polemics with the Sophists have repercussions that go t …

Immanuel Kant“s Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is a seminal text in modern philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of religion. It is a complex and challenging work, which students and …