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 …

The theme of the gift can be located at the center of current discussions of deconstruction, gender and feminist theory, ethics, philosophy, anthropology, and economics: it is, simply, one of the pri …

Some commentators claim that Anselm’s writings contain a second independent "modal ontological argument" for God’s existence. A. D. Smith contends that although there is a second a priori a …

The Legacy of Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader is a collection of brand new papers by seventeen Marcuse scholars, which provides a comprehensive reassessment of the relevance of Marcuse”s critical …

This is Volume III of ten in a series on Ancient Philosophy. First published in 1939, it looks at Parmenides” ”Way of Truth” and Plato”s ”Parmendies” translated with an Introduction and a runni …

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 …