John Wilson 
Thinking with Concepts [EPUB ebook] 

First published in 2002. Written in 1959, this volume looks at the philosophical problems of perception, that arise mainly because our traditional common-sense notions clash with the factual evidence …

This is the first book to take nursing ethics beyond stock ”moral concepts” to a critical examination of the fundamental assumptions underlying the very nature of nursing. It takes as its point of …

An excellent and entertaining essayist, Laski’s volume deals with the issues of politics and law in Europe and American during the 1920s and 30s. It is unified by the concpetion of democracy as a soc …

A study of the increasingly precarious relationship between humans and nature, this book seeks to go beyond work already contributed to the environmental movement. It does so by highlighting the impo …

Regional Perspectives in Bioethics’ illustrates the ways in which the national and international political landscape encompasses persons from diverse and often fragmented moral communities with widel …

First published in 1987. By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of the world”s most distinguished philosophers. Unavailable for many years, Scepticism and Naturalis …

Sri Aurobindo was an Indian nationalist, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet. This book is an enquiry into the integral philosophy of Aurobindo and its contemporary relevance. It offers a reading of Au …

In this invaluable book, Tim Lewens shows in a clear and accessible manner how important Darwin is for philosophy and how his work has shaped and challenged the very nature of the subject. Beginning …

At least since plato and Aristotle, thinkers have pondered the relationship between philosophical arguments and the ‘sophistical’ arguments offered by the Sophists — who were the first professional …

A `slippery slope” argument in medical ethics is one that opposes itself to a new proposal on the grounds that it is not per se intolerable but will lead to a situation that is. Lamb evaluates such …