Nico Stehr 
Information, Power, and Democracy [EPUB ebook] 
Liberty is a Daughter of Knowledge

Between 2000 and 2005, colour revolutions swept away authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes in Serbia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. Yet, after these initial successes, attempts to replicate …

‘Brilliant, eye-opening, and absolutely inspiring – and a riveting read.’ Cass Sunstein, author of How Change Happens and co-author of Nudge What is the secret to humanity’s evolutionary succes …

Why It’s OK to Own a Gun explores the right to self-defense, but also looks beyond it to what gun ownership fundamentally means in American life. Guns can provide a source of meaning that doesn’t dep …

This is the first English translation of Condillac”s most influential works: the Essay on the Origins of Human Knowledge (1746) and Course for Study of Instruction of the Prince of Parma (1772). The …

This book reconsiders the nature of positivist philosophy in social science theory based on classical and medieval thought in what later became ‘Europe.’ It argues that social theory is being held ba …

Utilitarianism – a philosophy based on the principle of the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people – has been hugely influential over the past two centuries. Beyond ethics or morality, …

A New Philosophy of Social Conflict joins in the contemporary conflict resolution and transitional justice debates by contributing a Deleuze-Guattarian reading of the post-genocide justice and …

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 …

A clear, original and systematic introduction to philosophy of science which examines the theories of Popper, Lakatos, Kuhn and Feyerabend before proposing a new, temperate rationalist …