Antonio Marques & Nuno Venturinha 
Wittgenstein on Forms of Life and the Nature of Experience [PDF ebook] 

Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression addresses the impact of social conditions, especially subordinating conditions, on personal autonomy. The essays in this volume are concerned with the philosop …

This book bears witness to the current reawakening of interest in Reid»s philosophy. It first examines Reid»s negative attack on the Way of Ideas, and finds him to be a devastating critic of his pr …

Stakeholder value, corporate social responsibility and sustainability: Are these, and similar, concepts sufficiently clear for fruitful research in business ethics? What is the benchmark to prove the …

The Gadamer Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Hans-Georg Gadamer. Meticulously researched and extensively cross-referenced, this unique book covers all his major work …

The late John Rawls was one of the most inspiring, provocative and influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. In this collection a panel of distinguished political philosophers crit …

This volume presents a theoretical framework for understanding consciousness and learning. Drawing on work in cognitive psychology and philosophy, this framework begins with the observation that to b …

The tea ceremony and the martial arts are intimately linked in the popular and historical imagination with Zen Buddhism, and Japanese culture. They are commonly interpreted as religio-aesthetic pursu …

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 …

First published in 2002. This is Volume VIII of seventeen in the Library of Philosophy series on Metaphysics. Written in 1967, this study is the author’s views on Bradley»s ideas of the intuitive an …

Virtue ethics has emerged as a distinct field within moral theory — whether as an alternative account of right action or as a conception of normativity which departs entirely from the obligatoriness …