- Ethics
- Almost every thoughtful person wonders at some time why morality says what it says and how, if at all, it speaks to us. David Wiggins's work is an introduction to ethics that presupposes nothing more than the reader's willingness to read philosophical proposals closely and literally, giving readers the resources to arrive at their own viewpoint of why and how ethics matters.
- Paperback September 2009
- The Self Awakened
- In this long-awaited work of general philosophy, Roberto Mangabeira Unger proposes a radical reorientation of established ideas about nature, mind, society, politics, and religion. The Self Awakened mobilizes the resources of several philosophical traditions, and develops the unrecognized revolutionary implications of the most influential of these traditions today--pragmatism. Avoiding technical jargon and needless complication, this book makes a case for philosophy as the supreme activity of the intellect at war, insisting on its power to deal with what matters most.
- Paperback September 2009
- Depth
- Strevens proposes a novel theory of scientific explanation and understanding that overhauls and augments the familiar causal approach to explanation. The result is an account of explanation that has especially significant consequences for the higher-level sciences: biology, psychology, economics, and other social sciences.
- Hardcover January 2009
- Truth and Predication
- Anchored in classical philosophy, Truth and Predication nonetheless makes telling use of the work of a great number of modern philosophers from Tarski and Dewey to Quine and Rorty. Representing the very best of Western thought, it reopens the most difficult and pressing of ancient philosophical problems, and reveals them to be very much of our day.
- Paperback December 2008
See also: All Books in PHILOSOPHY.