Peter Railton 
Facts, Values, and Norms [PDF ebook] 
Essays toward a Morality of Consequence

What makes individuals what they are? How should they judge their social and political interaction with the world? What makes them authentic or inauthentic? This original and provocative study explor …

Can the intellect or the intellectual faculty be its own object of thought, or can it not think or apprehend itself? This book explores the ancient treatments of the question of self-intellection – a …

The Limits of Reason in Hobbes»s Commonwealth explores Hobbes»s attempt to construct a political philosophy of enduring peace on the foundation of the rational individual.  Hobbes»s rational …

The Ethics is one of the undisputed masterworks of early modern philosophy. In this single volume Spinoza offers the reader an unorthodox account of God, a novel version of the mind-body relation, a …

This book provides the first comprehensive and critical examination of Mäki’s realist philosophy of economics. …

Includes summary but substantial accounts of the thought of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Marcel, Heidegger and Sartre, and a concluding essay that attempts to interpret the whole Existentialist m …

Bogue provides a systematic overview and introduction to Deleuze»s writings on music and painting, and an assessment of their position within his aesthetics as a whole. Deleuze on Music, Painting an …

Foundationalism is the view that philosophical propositions are of two kinds, those which need supporting evidence, and those which in themselves provide the evidence which renders them irrefutable. …

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 …

Logical methods are used in all area of philosophy. By introducing and advancing central to topics in the discipline, The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophical Logic emphasizes the crucial role logic …