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Race, Equality, and the Burdens of History
John Arthur philosophically addresses the problems of racism and the legacy of past racial discrimination in the United States. Offering a thorough...
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Narrative and Understanding Persons
The human world is replete with narratives – narratives of our making that are uniquely appreciated by us. Some thinkers have afforded special...
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Justice in Immigration
This book is an interdisciplinary study of the fundamental normative issues underpinning immigration policy. Economists, political scientists and...
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Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought
Ernest Gellner was a unique scholar whose work covered areas as diverse as social anthropology, analytical philosophy, the sociology of the Islamic...
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The Mathematics of Logic
This undergraduate textbook covers the key material for a typical first course in logic, in particular presenting a full mathematical account of the...
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Legal Ethics and Human Dignity
David Luban is one of the world’s leading scholars of legal ethics. In this collection of his most significant papers from the past twenty-five...
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Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought
Ernest Gellner was a unique scholar whose work covered areas as diverse as social anthropology, analytical philosophy, the sociology of the Islamic...
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Explaining Social Behavior
An expanded and revised edition of the author's critically acclaimed volume Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. In twenty-six succinct chapters,...
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Political Constitutionalism
Judicial review by constitutional courts is often presented as a necessary supplement to democracy. This book questions its effectiveness and...
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Markets in Historical Contexts
Markets in Historical Contexts is the result of a dialogue between historians and social scientists thinking about markets in modern society. How...
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Place and Experience
While the sense of place is a familiar theme in poetry and art, philosophers have generally given little or no attention to place and the human...
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Political Constitutionalism
Judicial review by constitutional courts is often presented as a necessary supplement to democracy. This book questions its effectiveness and...
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Condorcet and Modernity
The Marquis de Condorcet was one of the few Enlightenment ideologists to witness the French Revolution and participate as an elected politician at...
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Scepticism or Platonism?
In the first half of the first century BC the Academy of Athens broke up in disarray. From the wreckage of the semi-sceptical school there arose the...
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Objectivity and the Rule of Law
What is objectivity? What is the rule of law? Are the operations of legal systems objective? If so, in what ways and to what degrees are they...
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A Philosophy of Political Myth
In this book, Chiara Bottici argues for a philosophical understanding of political myth. Bottici demonstrates that myth is a process, one of...
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Hormones and Behaviour
Recent advances in non-invasive sampling techniques have led to an increase in the study of hormones and behaviour. Behaviour is complex but can be...
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The Epistemology of the Cyrenaic School
The Cyrenaic school was a fourth-century BC philosophical movement, related both to the Socratic tradition and to Greek Scepticism. In ethics,...
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In Harm’s Way
For several decades the work of Joel Feinberg has been the most influential in legal, political and social philosophy in the English-speaking world....
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Victorian Visions of Global Order
This wide-ranging and original study provides an insight into the climate of political thought during the lifespan of what was, at this time, the...
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Human Development in the Twenty-First Century
How do human beings develop and function in relation to the human and natural world? The science of dynamic systems focuses on connections and...
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Heidegger’s Being and Time
In Being and Time Heidegger gives an account of the distinctive features of human existence, in an attempt to answer the question of the meaning of...
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Complicity
We live in a morally flawed world. Our lives are complicated by what other people do, and by the harms that flow from our social, economic and...
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From Reich to State
Napoleon’s contribution to Germany’s development was immense. Under his hegemony, the millennium-old Holy Roman Empire dissolved, paving the way...
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