Patterson Susan Patterson 
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How a Wittgensteinian Perspective on Metaphor-Making Reveals the Theo-logic of Reality

In Plato’s Laws is the earliest surviving fully developed cosmological argument. His influence on the philosophy of religion is wide ranging and this book examines both that and the influence of reli …

Debates in Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses provides an in-depth, engaging introduction to important issues in modern philosophy.  It presents 13 key interpretive …

This study of Weber”s sociology, written by an eminent authority, is a clear and illuminating discussion of the most important elements of Weber”s thinking. The book concentrates on four main eleme …

Science is popularly understood as being an ideal of impartial algorithmic objectivity that provides us with a realistic description of the world down to the last detail. The essays collected in this …

Death and Philosophy considers these questions with different perspectives varying from the existentialist – deriving from Camus, Heidegger or Sartre, to the English speaking analytic tradition of Be …

Liberal Utilitarianism and Applied Ethics explores the foundations of early utilitarianism and, at the same time, the theoretical bases of social ethics and policy in modern Western welfare states. M …

Much has been written about the interpretation of Plato in the last thirty years. Once interpreted as a revolutionary of the left, and a prophet of Socialism, he has lately been interpreted as a revo …

What are the psychological problems caused by modernization? How can we minimize its negative effects? Modernization has brought many material benefits to us, yet we are constantly told how unhappy w …

Mortal Thought seeks to illustrate the artistic and philosophical contexts for Hölderlin”s poetic thought and to trace his profound impact upon subsequent philosophy, most notably Nietzsche, the Fra …

What is sport? Why does sport matter? How can we use philosophy to understand what sport means today? This engaging and highly original introduction to the philosophy of sport uses dialogue – a form …