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An Approach to Political Philosophy
An Approach to Political Philosophy: Locke in Context brings together Professor Tully’s most important and innovative statements on Locke in a... Les mer
Philosophy and Government 1572–1651
Philosophy and Government is a major new contribution to our understanding of European political theory which will challenge the perspectives in... Les mer
An Approach to Political Philosophy
An Approach to Political Philosophy: Locke in Context brings together Professor Tully’s most important and innovative statements on Locke in a... Les mer
Plausible Worlds
Possibilities haunt history. The force of our explanations of events turns on the alternative possibilities these explanations suggest. It is these... Les mer
Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain
This collection of essays, all by pre-eminent exponents of the history of political thought, explores the political ideologies of early modern... Les mer
The Psychology of Crime
What is criminal behaviour? How is it identified? What is the role of the police and the courts? What is the evidence for hopes of controlling and... Les mer
Universality and the Liar
This book is about one of the most baffling of all paradoxes – the famous Liar paradox. Suppose we say: ‘We are lying now’. Then if we are... Les mer
Machiavelli and Republicanism
Now in paperback, this highly acclaimed volume brings together some of the world’s foremost historians of ideas to consider Machiavelli’s... Les mer
The Feminine Principle in the Sikh Vision of the Transcendent )
This work is a critical analysis of Sikh literature from a feminist perspective. It begins with Guru Nanak’s vision of Transcendent Reality and... Les mer
Morality
Bernard Williams’s remarkable essay on morality confronts the problems of writing moral philosophy, and offers a stimulating alternative to more... Les mer
Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum
The Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum is an international project with the objective of publishing all known Etruscan mirrors. The Cambridge volume is the... Les mer
The Two Cultures
The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures - the arts or... Les mer
The Model of Love
Religious believers understand the meaning of their lives and of the world in terms of the way these are related to God. The conceptual models... Les mer
On the Nature and Existence of God
There has been in recent years a plethora of defences of theism from analytical philosophers: Richard Gale’s important book is a critical response... Les mer
The One, the Three and the Many
This study offers a theological analysis of, and response to, the modern world, and is at once a theology of culture and of creation. In the first... Les mer
Ontology, Causality, and Mind
D. M. Armstrong is an eminent Australian philosopher whose work over many years has dealt with such subjects as: the nature of possibility, concepts... Les mer
In Breaking of Bread
For many years, the Roman Catholic Church has used the term ‘transubstantiation’ to express the presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Of late,... Les mer
The Physical Basis of Predication
In this book about metaphysics the author defends a realistic view of universals, characterizing the notion of universal by considering language and... Les mer
The Epistemology of Religious Experience
This book addresses fundamental questions in the philosophy of religion. Can religious experience provide evidence for religious belief? If so, how?... Les mer
The Professionalization of Psychology in Nazi Germany
It has been widely believed that psychology in Germany, faced with political antipathy and mass emigration of its leading minds, withered under... Les mer
The Fine Art of Repetition
Peter Kivy is the author of many books on the history of art and, in particular, the aesthetics of music. This collection of essays spans a period of... Les mer
Explanation and Value in the Arts
Explanation and Value in the Arts offers penetrating studies by art historians, literary theorists and philosophers, of issues central to explaining... Les mer
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... Les mer
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... Les mer