Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy [EPUB ebook] 
With Selections from the Objections and Replies

Why should we be tolerant? What does it mean to ‘live and let live’? What ought to be tolerated and what not? Up-and-coming author, Catriona Mc Kinnon presents a comprehensive, yet accessible introdu …

First published in 1934. Unlike previous translations, this translation of Lao Tzu”s Tao Tê Ching is based not on the medieval commentaries but on a close study of the whole of early Chinese literat …

Why are people so interested in what they and others throw away? This book shows how this interest in what we discard is far from new – it is integral to how we make, build and describe our lived env …

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 …

This is Volume XI of twenty-two in a collection on 20th Century Philosophy. Originally published in 1994, this volume of the Muirhead library of philosophy in the author’s words attempts not what is …

It is commonly known that Nietzsche is one of Plato”s primary philosophical antagonists, yet there is no full-length treatment in English of their ideas in dialogue and debate. Plato and Nietzsche i …

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 …

Drawing on a diverse array of thinkers from Plato to Kierkegaard, On the Internet is one of the first books to bring philosophical insight to the debate on how far the internet can and cannot take us …

Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks are one of the most important and original sources of modern political philosophy but the Prison Notebooks present great difficulties to the reader. Not originally intended …

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. For Hannah Arendt, friendship had political relevance and importa …