An Introduction which provides a clear, concise overview of Mohist thought and guidelines for getting started with the text.
Informed by recent philosophical research, the translation is compact ... 続きを読む
Well-being, happiness and quality of life are now established objects of social and medical research. Does this science produce knowledge that is properly about well-being? What sort of well-being? Th ... 続きを読む
Insults are part of the fabric of daily life. But why do we insult each other? Why do insults cause us such pain? Can we do anything to prevent or lessen this pain? Most importantly, how can we overco ... 続きを読む
This book offers a new perspective on the professional world of higher education. Using social practice theory, it presents a practice sensibility rooted in concepts which illuminate teaching and lear ... 続きを読む
The notion of a propositional content plays a central role in contemporary philosophy of language. Propositional content makes up both the meaning of sentences and the content of propositional attitud ... 続きを読む
Participation in religious liturgies and rituals is a pervasive and remarkably complex form of human activity. This book opens with a discussion of the nature of liturgical activity and then explores ... 続きを読む
Eric Schliesser's Adam Smith is the product of the author's two decades' reflection on the great Scottish Enlightenment. This book treats Adam Smith as a systematic philosopher. Smith was a giant of t ... 続きを読む
Winner of the American Society for Aesthetics 2018 OUTSTANDING MONOGRAPH PRIZE
A fascinating investigation of the importance of aesthetics in our everyday lives
Major new work fro ... 続きを読む
In these eleven essays Dominic McIver Lopes proposes a methodology especially suited to aesthetics, where problems in philosophy are addressed principally by examining how aesthetic phenomena are unde ... 続きを読む
No part of philosophy is as disconnected from its history as is epistemology. After Certainty offers a reconstruction of that history, understood as a series of changing expectations about the cogniti ... 続きを読む
