'Philosophy'

© 2007 Jason Glynos and David Howarth. All rights reserved. This book proposes a novel approach to practising social and political analysis based on the role of logics. The authors articulate a distinctive perspective on social science explanation ...

© Michael Halewood 2011. This book outlines A.N. Whitehead’s philosophy of process and uses it to re-orient a range of topics within social theory, namely: The relation of language and the body; sexual difference and conceptions of nature; the ...

© Cambridge University Press, 2009 and Wayne M. Martin 2005. Wayne Martin traces attempts to develop theories of judgment in British Empiricism, the logical tradition stemming from Kant, nineteenth-century psychologism, recent experimental ...

This book uncovers and explores the constant tension between the historical and the transcendental that lies at the heart of Michel Foucault's work. In the process, it also assesses the philosophical foundations of his thought by examining his ...

A collection of short essays and reflections on poetry from the acclaimed British poet Glyn Maxwell. These essays illustrates Maxwell?s poetic philosophy, that the greatest verse arises from a harmony of mind and body, and that poetic forms ...

According to some social theorists, we are ?at the end of the social?. This book argues that such pronouncements may be premature, as we need to reengage with what sociologists have previously meant by ?the social?. ?Rethinking the Social? is the ...

This book radically counters the optimism sparked by Competence Based Education and Training, an educational philosophy that has re-emerged in Schooling, Vocational and Higher Education in the last decade. CBET supposedly offers a new type of ...

Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance today has become a highly influential topic in its own right, commanding growing attention across the natural and social sciences where a wide range of scholars have begun to explore the social ...

Can members of democratic societies reach agreement about a political conception of justice despite the fact that our religious and secular views are mutually incompatible? What shall we make of this doctrinal pluralism? Do we have reasons to expect ...

The current volume represents an exciting collection of essays critically examining the relation between modern science and Lacanian psychoanalysis in approaching the question of mental suffering. Lacan & Science also tackles more widely the role ...