Agency and Self Awareness In recent years there has been much psychological and neurological work purporting to show that consciousness and self-awareness play no role in causing actions, and indeed to demonstrate that free …
Properties Oxford Readings in The essays in this topical collection provide a thorough discussion of that question. Drawn mostly from contemporary philosophy, the collection nevertheless begins a bit further back: with Gottlob …
Causation and Laws of Some philosophers think physical explanations stand on their own: what happens, happens because things have the properties they do. Others think that any such explanation is incomplete: what happens …
Practical Philosophy Ethics Society In this wide ranging volume of philosophical essays John Haldane explores some central areas of social life and issues of intense academic and public debate. These include the question of ethical …
Dissent and Philosophy in Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages offers scholars of Dante’s Divine Comedy an integral understanding of the political, philosophical, and religious context of the medieval masterwork. Penned …
Levinas and Kierkegaard in To those familiar with Merold Westphal’s work, this book will be eminently unsurprising. Yet again, Westphal gives us a rigorous, erudite, rich, and candid study. That he deploys his scholarly …
Philosophy and Revolutions in This ground-breaking book explores the issues raised in the modern fields of genetic research and biotechnology. The author primarily examines these from an ontological rather than an …
Medical Ethics Jones and A collection of readings on topics such as abortion, organ transplantation, and HIV. Valuable for practitioners, and students of medical ethics. …
New Waves in Philosophy In this book, thirteen promising young researchers write on what they take to be the right philosophical account of mathematics and discuss where the philosophy of mathematics ought to be going. New …
Tao of the Tao Michael LaFargue says the Tao Te Ching is the former even though it’s often treated as the latter.According to LaFargue (my paraphrase), there are two ways to read the Tao Te Ching, just as there …