Problems of Philosophy
About the Book Series
This series addresses the central problems of philosophy. Each book gives a fresh account of a particular theme by offering two perspectives on the subject: the historical context and the author's own distinct and original contribution.
The books are written to be accessible to students of philosophy and related disciplines, while taking the debate to a new level.
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Logic and Language: Indian Philosophy
1st Edition
Edited
By Roy W. Perrett
December 27, 2000
First published in 2001. The five volumes of this series collect together some of the most significant modern contributions to the study of Indian philosophy. Volume 2: Logic and Philosophy of Language is concerned with those parts of Indian pramd-a theory that Western philosophers would count as ...
Free Speech
1st Edition
By Alan Haworth
October 01, 1998
Free Speech is a philosophical treatment of a topic which is of immense importance to all of us.Writing with great clarity, wit, and genuine concern, Alan Haworth situates the main arguments for free speech by tracing their relationship to contemporary debates in politics and political philosophy, ...
Time
1st Edition
By Phillip Turetzky
June 24, 1998
Time offers a comprehensive history of the philosophy of time in western philosophy from the Greeks through to the twentieth century.In the first half of the book, Philip Turetzky explores theories in ancient and modern philosophy chronologically: from Aristotle to Nietzsche. In the latter half, ...
The Moral Self
1st Edition
By Pauline Chazan
May 14, 1998
The Moral Self addresses the question of how morality enters into our lives. Pauline Chazan draws upon psychology, r ral philosophy and literary interpretation to rebut the view that morality's role is to limit desire and control self-love. Perserving the ancients' connection between what is good ...
Social Reality
1st Edition
By Finn Collin
May 23, 1997
Social reality is currently a hotly debated topic not only in social science, but also in philosophy and the other humanities. Finn Collin, in this concise guide, asks if social reality is created by the way social agents conceive of it? Is there a difference between the kind of existence ...
Substance: Its Nature and Existence
1st Edition
By Joshua Hoffman, Gary Rosenkrantz
February 12, 1997
Substance has been a leading idea in the history of Western philosophy. Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz explain the nature and existence of individual substances, including both living things and inanimate objects. Specifically written for students new to this important and often complex ...
Utilitarianism
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Scarre
June 26, 1996
Surveying the historical development and the present condition of utilitarian ethics, Geoffrey Scarre examines the major philosophers from Lao Tzu in the fifth century BC to Richard Hare in the twentieth. Utilitarianism traces the 'doctrine of utility' from the moralists of the ancient world, ...
Vagueness
1st Edition
By Timothy Williamson
May 07, 1996
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 Williamson traces the history of the problem of vagueness. He argues that standard logic and formal ...
Democracy
1st Edition
By Ross Harrison
December 21, 1995
Democracy surrounds us like the air we breath, and is normally taken very much for granted. Across the world democracy has become accepted as an unquestionably good thing. Yet upon further examination the merits of democracy are both paradoxical and problematic, and the treasured values of liberty ...
The Mind and its World
1st Edition
By Gregory McCulloch
June 13, 1995
First published in 1995. Since Descartes, the mind has been thought to be `in the head', separable from the world and even from the body it inhabits. Gregory McCulloch, in The MInd and its World, considers the latest debates in philosophy and cognitive science about whether the thinking subject ...
The Nature of God: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
1st Edition
By Gerard Hughes
March 27, 1995
In The Nature of God, Gerard Hughes takes the central attributes ascribed to God, such as Existence, Simplicity, Omniscience, Omnipotence and Goodness and gives them a historical and analytical background. Incorporating texts by Aquinas, Ockham, Molina, Descartes, Hume and Kant, he aims to give the...
Explaining Explanation
1st Edition
By David-Hillel Ruben
December 03, 1992
This book introduces readers to the topic of explanation. The insights of Plato, Aristotle, J.S. Mill and Carl Hempel are examined, and are used to argue against the view that explanation is merely a problem for the philosophy of science. Having established its importance for understanding ...