Peter Machamer 
Cambridge Companion to Galileo [EPUB ebook] 

Work on the norms of belief in epistemology regularly starts with two touchstone essays: W.K. Clifford”s ‘The Ethics of Belief’ and William James”s ‘The Will to Believe.’ Discussing the central the …

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 …

Prisons and imprisonment have become a commonplace topic in popular culture as the setting and rationale for fiction and documentaries and most people seem to have a clear notion of what it is like i …

If you keep removing single grains of sand from a heap, when is it no longer a heap? From discussions of the heap paradox in classical Greece, to modern formal approaches like fuzzy logic, Timothy Wi …

Offers an original and timely contribution to the nuclear ethics debate Examines the moral dilemmas of state and non-state actor nuclear proliferation Will be of much interest to students of nuclear …

Heidegger and the Emergence of the Question of Being offers a new, updated and comprehensive introduction to Heidegger”s development and his early confrontation with philosophical tradition, theolog …

A high school drop-out who served in the American army and then managed to slip into Oxford on the G.I. bill, Frank Cioffi gained a considerable public reputation in Freudian and Wittgensteinian circ …

Critically but sympathetically interrogating Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s analysis of the logic of sovereign power, this volume draws attention to the multiple zones of exclusion in and thro …

First Published in 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical intro …

This new book takes a literary approach in its study of Sayyid Qutb, one of the most significant political thinkers for contemporary Islamists and who has greatly influenced the likes of Osama Bin La …