Ben Eggleston & Dale E. Miller 
Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism [PDF ebook] 

First published in 2002. This is Volume I of seventeen in the Philosophy of Mind and Psychology series. Written in 1939, this is volume II of the Nature of Thought and includes the movement of reflec …

Why are small states statistically more likely to have a democratic political system? By addressing this question from a qualitative and comparative methodological angle, this book analyses the effec …

This book, originally published in 1952, unfinished and perhaps imperfect, is the last book of one of the most acute political thinkers of the twentieth century. Laski’s earlier optimism about a swin …

In this volume, Geoffrey Madell develops a revised account of the self, making a compelling case for why the ‘simple’ or ‘anti-criterial’ view of personal identity warrants a robust defense. Madell c …

‘Understanding Phenomenology’ provides a guide to one of the most important schools of thought in modern philosophy. The book traces phenomenology”s historical development, beginning with its founde …

In Complexity and Postmodernism, Paul Cilliers explores the idea of complexity in the light of contemporary perspectives from philosophy and science. Cilliers offers us a unique approach to understan …

Traditional aesthetics is often associated with the appreciation of art, Allen Carlson shows how much of our aesthetic experience does not encompass art but nature, in our response to sunsets, mounta …

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 perspective. …

Thinking Matter is an original and provocative look at the nature of consciousness. While many contemporary philosophers have downplayed the significance of the body and subscribed to a brain/body du …

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 …