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The Meanings of Death
In The Meanings of Death, John Bowker offers a major contribution to debates about the value of death and its place in both Western and Eastern...
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Life and Death
How should modern medicine’s dramatic new powers to sustain life be employed? How should limited resources be used to extend and improve the...
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Frames of Deceit
Frames of Deceit is a philosophical investigation of the nature of trust in public and private life. It examines how trust originates, how it is...
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Passions and Perceptions
The philosophers of the Hellenistic schools in ancient Greece and Rome (Epicureans, Stoics, Sceptics, Academics, Cyrenaics) made important...
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Essays on Philosophy and Economic Methodology
This collection brings together the essays of one of the foremost American philosophers of economics. Cumulatively they offer fresh perspectives on...
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Formal Semantics
This book provides a clear and accessible introduction to formal, and especially Montague, semantics within a linguistic framework. It presupposes no...
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Common Sense, Science and Scepticism
Can we know anything for certain? Dogmatists think we can, sceptics think we cannot, and epistemology is the great debate between them. Some...
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Formal Semantics
This book provides a clear and accessible introduction to formal, and especially Montague, semantics within a linguistic framework. It presupposes no...
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Agents and Lives
Agents and Lives offers a new and important rethinking of the traditional humanist view of literature. That tradition’s valuation of literature for...
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Rethinking Religion
This book is an ambitious attempt to develop a cognitive approach to religion. Focusing particularly on ritual action, it borrows analytical methods...
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The Search for a Naturalistic World View
Abner Shimony is one of the most eminent of present-day philosophers of science, whose work has exerted a profound influence in both the philosophy...
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The Search for a Naturalistic World View
Abner Shimony is one of the most eminent of present-day philosophers of science, whose work has exerted a profound influence in both the philosophy...
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The Search for a Naturalistic World View
Abner Shimony is one of the most eminent of present-day philosophers of science, whose work has exerted a profound influence in both the philosophy...
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The Celtic Languages
This volume describes the six modern Celtic languages. Four of these, Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Breton, are living community...
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Modern Arabic Literature
This volume of the Cambridge History of Arabic Literature provides an authoritative, comprehensive critical survey of creative writing in Arabic from...
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Political Writings
This book places Spencer’s famous argument for political individualism in his The Man versus the State alongside his early The Proper Sphere of...
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The Preconditions of Socialism
This is the first complete new translation of Bernstein’s famous and influential work. It will provide students with an accurate and unabridged...
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Pre-Revolutionary Writings
This is the first collection of the writings of Edmund Burke which precede Reflections on the Revolution in France, and the first to do justice to...
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Political Writings
Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) was arguably one of the most important and interesting English theorists to focus on the issue of political liberty...
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Defensor minor and De translatione imperii
This volume makes available for the first time in English the writings about the Holy Roman Empire by Marsiglio of Padua (c.1275–1342), one of the...
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The Dutch Revolt
This is a major English-language edition of five central texts in the history of the political thought of the Dutch Revolt. Published between 1570...
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The Dutch Revolt
This is a major English-language edition of five central texts in the history of the political thought of the Dutch Revolt. Published between 1570...
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New Essays on Rabbit Run
Still John Updike’s most popular and critically acclaimed novel, Rabbit Run introduced the character of Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom, one of those...
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