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This lucid survey takes readers on a thought-provoking tour through the life and work of Augustine. Explores new insights into one of antiqu…

Socrates presents a compelling case for some life-changing conclusions that follow from a close reading of Socrates' arguments. Offers a hig…

What do you find more trustworthy, experts or numbers, personal 'know-how' or 'objective facts'? Can science claim special authority based o…

Ethics: The Basics provides beginning students with a solid grounding in basic ethical principles, theories and traditions, as well as a set…

Convention was immediately recognized as a major contribution to the subject and its significance has remained undiminished since its first …

Michael Dummett stands out among his generation as the only British philosopher of language to rival in stature the Americans, Davidson and …

This new book offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to Frege's remarkable philosophical work, examining the main areas of his w…

A thorough and accessible introduction to Maimonides, arguably one of the most important Jewish philosophers of all time. This work incorpor…

Counterfactuals is David Lewis' forceful presentation of and sustained argument for a particular view about propositions which express contr…

This volume makes available in English for the first time Adorno's lectures on metaphysics. It provides a unique introduction not only to me…

This innovative volume presents an insightful philosophical portrait of the life and work of Arthur Schopenhauer. Focuses on the concept of …

In this important study, Michael Luntley offers a compelling reading of Wittgenstein’s account of meaning and intentionality, based upon a u…

A bold and insightful departure from related texts, Descartes goes beyond the categorical associations placed on the philosopher’s ideas, an…

Jean-François Lyotard was one of the most influential European thinkers in recent decades. He was a leading participant in debates about pos…

This revised edition of Sir Anthony Kenny’s classic work on Wittgenstein contains a new introduction which covers developments in Wittgenste…

The future of Europe and the role it will play in the 21st century are among the most important political questions of our time. The optimis…

Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge was published in March 1969; Discipline and Punish in February 1975. Although only six years …

In this engaging new book, Katrin Flikschuh offers an accessible introduction to divergent conceptions of freedom in contemporary liberal po…

This volume makes a challenging critique of the idea of Cosmopolis – that is, the idea of world or 'global' government. In recent years this…

Sovereignty is at the very centre of the political and legal arrangements of the modern world. The idea originated in the controversies and …