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Xuedou's 100 Odes to Old Cases is recognized as the seminal discourse in Chan Buddhism. In this volume, Steven Heine offers a much-needed translation of this pivotal work along with extensive background and commentary. Meer
Until recently, Baruch Spinoza's standing in Anglophone studies of philosophy has only seemed to confirm Heinrich Jacobi's assessment of him as "a dead dog." However, an exuberant outburst of scholarship on Spinoza has of late come to dominate work on early modern philosophy… Meer
This edited volume explores the ethical issues involved with work in animal shelters. In the first half of the book, the contributors, in consultation with animal shelter staff, explore the ethical dilemmas that often arise in animal shelter work… Meer
Through deep explorations of nationalism and consumer culture, The Uses of Idolatry presents a sympathetic but critical account of how and why we sacrifice ourselves and others to gods of our own design. Meer
It can be easy to feel overwhelmed by politics. Rather than getting caught up in the swirl of day-to-day politics, Peter Allen suggests that we return to the fundamentals and cultivate a set of tools and perspectives to help us interpret events… Meer
This second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Plato includes updates to many of the original chapters, as well as new chapters from six leading scholars of ancient philosophy: Hugh Benson on the Apology, Crito, and Euthyphro; James Warren on the Protagoras and Gorgias; Lindsay Judson on the Meno… Meer
The Oxford Handbook of Freedom presents the first wide-ranging analysis of freedom in all its dimensions: legal, cultural, religious, economic, political, and psychological. It includes 28 new essays by well-regarded philosophers, historians, and political theorists. Meer
Economy of Traces delivers an analysis of the implications of traceability for the many accounts we live by. Issues about why we trace, what we trace, and how we trace have become critical, and the book draws upon thinking in accounting, philosophy, and sociology to understand the different facets… Meer
Drawing on new data from 100 recent elections, post-election surveys, and original experimental evidence, Alessandro Nai and Jürgen Maier provide the first large-scale comparative investigation into the "darker" sides of human personality in politicians… Meer
This volume brings together essential essays by an important but neglected thinker in early twentieth-century German philosophy, Edith Landmann-Kalischer. As the first English translation of her writings, this volume represents a landmark step in the effort to restore to its rightful place her… Meer
Susan Stebbing: Analysis, Common Sense, and Public Philosophy is the first edited volume, comprised of eleven historical essays, dedicated exclusively to Susan Stebbing, a long neglected female figure in the male-dominated tradition of analytic philosophy and Britain's first female Professor of… Meer
How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? Edward Craig discusses some of the key questions philosophy engages with. He explores important themes in ethics, knowledge, and the self, alongside a new chapter for this edition on free will, discussing determinism and indeterminism in the… Meer
What's Wrong with Rights? argues that contemporary rights-talk obscures the importance civic virtue, military effectiveness and the democratic law legitimacy. It draws upon legal and moral philosophy, moral theology, and court judgments… Meer
What is going on when we are consciously aware of a visual scene, or hear sounds, or otherwise enjoy sensory experience? David Papineau argues controversially for a purely qualitative account: conscious sensory experiences are intrinsic states with no essential connection to external circumstances… Meer
Plato and Aristotle used moral philosophy to influence the way people actually live. Focusing on the Republic and the Nicomachean Ethics, this book examines how far they thought it could succeed in this. Meer
W.V. Quine, a champion of philosophical naturalism and pioneer of mathematical logic, was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. This volume provides a full picture of the development of Quine's views on structure and how it permeates and shapes his attitude to a range of… Meer
What are the arts? What functions do the arts serve in human life? This book presents the first fully integrated cognitive account of the arts that unites visual art, theatre, literature, dance, and music into a single framework, with supporting discussions about creativity and aesthetics. Meer
Beyond Chance and Credence introduces a new way of thinking of probabilities in science that combines physical and epistemic considerations. Myrvold shows that conceiving of probabilities in this way solves puzzles associated with the use of probability and statistical mechanics. Meer
This book brings together fourteen essays by Christopher Janaway on the philosophy of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. They illuminate central philosophical issues in the work of these thinkers - the death of God, the meaning of existence, suffering, compassion, the will, Christian values, the… Meer
Democracies in America collects twenty-five essays from a diverse group of contributors, each centred around a keyword from the language we use to discuss democracy. The relationship between "America" and "democracy" is examined from multi-disciplinary angles and at different moments in 19th century… Meer
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