A. John Simmons 
Justification and Legitimacy [PDF ebook] 
Essays on Rights and Obligations

The Case of Speluncean Explorers: Nine New Opinions includes a reprint of Lon Fuller”s classic article and a much-needed revision of and addition to the five opening s originally expressed in the …

Nicol Rae”s engaging account of the Republican revolutionaries” freshman year in Congress persuasively demonstrates that the precepts set forth by Madison in Federalist 10 and 51 are still in force …

This substantially revised second edition of Revelation and Reconciliation, first published by Cambridge University Press in 1995, gives a fresh account of the intellectual breakdown of Christianity …

Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought: Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy argues that organic elements seen as incompatible with rational homo economicus have been left out of, or dow …

Animal Ethics has long been a highly contested area with debates driven by unease about various forms of animal harm, from the use of animals in scientific research to the farming of animals for cons …

This book argues that the philosophical significance of Kant’s aesthetics lies not in its explicit account of beauty but in its implicit account of intentionality. Kant’s account is distinct in that …

Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) was one of the most notorious and pious of Rene Descartes” philosophical followers. A member of The Oratory, a Roman Catholic order founded in 1611 to increase devo …

Examining the legacies of Heidegger, along with Derrida, Levinas and Nietzsche, Rafael Winkler argues that it is not the search for truth or even contradictions that stimulates philosophical thought. …