Product Description: Today, when systematic philosophy - and reason itself - are challenged both outside of and within philosophy, is it still possible to do metaphysics? This volume provides a broad perspective on contemporary approaches to the nature and the fundamental questions of metaphysics...read more

Product Description: Examining the phenomenon of the ‘migration’ of philosophical texts and traditions between cultures.

Product Description: With glaciers melting, oceans growing more acidic, species dying out, and catastrophic events like Hurricane Katrina ever more probable, strong steps must be taken now to slow global warming. Further warming threatens entire regional economies and the well being of whole populations, and in this century alone, it could create a global cataclysm...read more

Product Description: Does science pose a challenge to religion and religious belief? This question has been a matter of long-standing debate - and it continues to concern not only scholars in philosophy, theology, and the sciences, but also those involved in public educational policy...read more

Product Description: This work provides critical introductions to, and extensive annotations on, a number of the essays, many previously unpublished, of South African philosopher Arthur Ritchie Lord. The editors have compiled writings that show the extent of Lord's interests and present some of his original ideas on political philosophy, aesthetics, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of history...read more

The British idealists of the late 19th and early 20th century are best known for their contributions to metaphysics, logic, and political philosophy. This volume shows that they also made important contributions to social and public policy, social and moral philosophy and moral education.

Idealism and Rights discusses the theory of rights of the British idealist political philosopher, Bernard Bosanquet. Bosanquet's political philosophy, like that of the British idealists in general, has long been subject to misunderstanding and prejudice. Yet its practical influence, in Great Britain and its empire from the late nineteenth until the mid-twentieth centuries, was profound. The author argues that Bosanquet's account of rights provides a serious response to the utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill and to the natural rights-based political philosophy of Herbert Spencer. A complete statement of Bosanquet's account requires an elaboration of his 'metaphysical theory of the nature of social reality.' This volume therefore presents Bosanquet's work in relation to his contemporaries, and shows how it depends on new understandings of such notions as the individual, the general will, the 'best life, and the state.

Product Description: The philosophy of history is an area of interest not only to philosophers, but to historians and to social scientists. It has been of central importance in continental European philosophy since the late 18th century, and for the past half-century has had a significant place in Anglo-American philosophy...read more

Product Description: As one of the leading figures of the idealist movement, Bernard Bosanquet (1848-1923) made major contributions to philosophy and had a significant role in the formation of British social policy. This set contains previously uncollected articles and essays that were first published in little known journals or magazines...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Idealism, Metaphysics and Community examines the place of idealism in contemporary philosophy, and its relation to problems of metaphysics, political thought, and the study of the history of philosophy. Drawing together contributions from philosophers from several distinct traditions, this book presents a range of perspectives - revealing areas of agreement and disagreement, addressing topics of contemporary discussion, and providing new insights into philosophical idealism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

(view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

(view table of contents)

Product Description: Given the challenge of anti-realism, anti-foundationalism, and post-modernism, is rational argument concerning religious belief still possible? This collection provides a broad range of perspective on the contemporary discussion of the place of argument in philosophical discussion on God and, more generally on religious belief...read more

Product Description: "Professor Sweet's many fine papers on Bosanquet, and his excellent evaluation of Bosanquet's political philosophy, have established him as the leading authoirty on Bosanquet, and he was the ideal choice as editor for this collection...read more

Discusses the technology and economics of commerical nuclear reactors, effects of radiation, catastrophic reactor accidents and their effect on the future of nuclear power plants, the arms race and 'Star Wars.'