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Rationality and Moral Theory

How Intimacy Generates Reasons

By Diane Jeske

This book provides answers to both normative and metaethical questions in a way that shows the interconnection of both types of questions, and also shows…

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June 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99036-3 (Routledge)

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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Rorty and the Mirror of Nature

By James Tartaglia

Richard Rorty is one of the most influential, controversial and widely-read philosophers of the twentieth century. In this GuideBook to Philosophy and the Mirror of

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2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-38331-8 (Routledge)

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Darwin

By Tim Lewens

In this invaluable book, Tim Lewens shows in a clear and accessible manner how important Darwin is for philosophy and how his work has shaped…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34638-2 (Routledge)

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On the Human Condition

By Dominique Janicaud

The potential to clone, augment, and repair human beings is pushing the very concept of the human to its limit. Fantasies and metaphors of a…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32796-1 (Routledge)

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The Essential Mary Midgley

Edited by David Midgley

Feared and admired in equal measure, Mary Midgley has carefully yet profoundly challenged many of the scientific and moral orthodoxies of the twentieth century. The

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34642-9 (Routledge)

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On Humanism

By Richard Norman

humanism /'hju:meniz(e)m/ n. an outlook or system of thought concerned with human rather than divine or supernatural matters.

Albert Einstein, Isaac Asimov, E.M.…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30523-5 (Routledge)

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Mill on Civilization and Barbarism

By Michael Levin

John Stuart Mill's best-known work is On Liberty (1859). In it he declared that Western society was in danger of coming to a standstill. To…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-8476-5 (Routledge)

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The Philosopher's Dog

By Raimond Gaita

In this lyrical and beautifully written book, Raimond Gaita tells inspirational, poignant, sometimes funny but never sentimental stories of the dogs, cats and cockatoos that…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33287-3 (Routledge)

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Heart and Mind

The Varieties of Moral Experience

By Mary Midgley

Throughout our lives we are making moral choices. Some decisions simply direct our everyday comings and goings; others affect our individual destinies. How do we…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30449-8 (Routledge)

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Humor

By Simon Critchley

Humor is een fascinerend, prachtig geschreven en komisch boek over wat homor ons kan vertellen over onze menselijke natuur.

Van de oudheid tot aan…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30656-0 (Routledge)

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