Jean Hampton 
Intrinsic Worth of Persons [PDF ebook] 
Contractarianism in Moral and Political Philosophy

Although Christians have well-developed responses to other religions, the counterpart scholarship from Buddhists has thus far lagged behind. Breaking new ground, Buddhist Inclusivism analyzes the cur …

Originally published in 1999, Wittgenstein: Making Sense of Other Minds explores human relations and the issues raised by one immensely influential response to the problems generated by the claims ab …

Originally published in 1967. Representing the viewpoints of philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, physicists, psychoanalysts, parapsychologists, psychiatrists and biologists, this volume dis …

In almost every liberal democratic society, an issue that is a topic of constant and passionate public discussion is how much that country’s ministers, legislators, senior civil servants, and senior …

The book is intended as a reader-friendly introduction to issues in the philosophy of mind, including mental–physical causal interaction, computational models of thought, the relation minds bear to b …

Humans have always faced the threat of extinction. This book takes a broad perspective of the ‘ extreme” conditions of human existence and survival to examine how extremes have forced humans t …

After tracing the history of psychology at Iowa, the contributors reflect on the institution”s leadership role in the development of the discipline, describe its long tradition of significant theore …

In this new study, Cristina Chimisso explores the work of the French Philosopher of Science, Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) by situating it within French cultural life of the first half of the century. …

With a thorough examination of ancient views of literary and artistic realism, allegory and symbolism, The Poetics of Phantasia brings together a study of the ways in which the concept of imagination …

This introduction to the study of politics explores the multiple meanings of ‘governance’ as well as the several senses of what it means to be a ‘subject.’ It takes the reader on a journey through an …