W. Doerr & W. Jacob 
Recht und Ethik in der Medizin [PDF ebook] 

Do we really have freedom to act, or are we slaves to our genes, environment or culture? Regular TPM columnist Mathew Iredale gets to grips with one of the most intractable issues in philosophy: the …

Many philosophers believe that the traditional problem of our knowledge of the external world was dissolved by Wittgestein and others. They argue that it was not really a problem – just a linguistic …

Approaching the central themes of Spinoza”s thought from both a historical and analytical perspective, this book examines the logical-metaphysical core of Spinoza”s philosophy, its epistemology and …

This collection of essays highlights ethical issues in social work which are often overlooked as well as recurring clashes that influence how they play out, for example among different values and rel …

Due to his theory of ”immaterialism” and Schopenhauer”s regard of him as the ”father of idealism”, George Berkeley (1685-1753) is one of the most important thinkers of the Early Modern period. T …

Even those who take themselves to be breaking from tradition-from the metaphysical tradition of philosophy, from grand narratives, neoliberalism or Eurocentrism-can remain blindly attached to them. A …

‘What is the pervasive character of the world? The answer is force. But, as Heidegger asks next: ”What is force?” Connors sets out to answer this question, tracing a genealogy of the idea of force …

Defending pacifism against the charge that it is naïvely utopian, Transformative Pacifism offers a critical theory of the existing world order, and points in the direction of concrete ethical and pol …

The beginning of psychological aesthetics is normally traced back to the publication of Gustav Theodor Fechner”s seminal book ‘Vorschule der Aesthetik’ in 1876. Following in the footsteps of this ri …

Working Aesthetics is about the relationship between art and work under contemporary capitalism. Whilst labour used to be regarded as an unattractive subject for art, the proximity of work to everyda …