Philosophy Books

New and Published Books

1. Bioethics: The Basics

   By Alastair Campbell

   Series: The Basics

   Bioethics: The Basics is an introduction to the foundational principles, theories and issues in the study of medical and biological ethics. Readers are introduced to bioethics from the ground up before being invited to consider some of the most controversial but important questions facing us today....

   Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. Education, Experience and Existence

   Engaging Dewey, Peirce and Heidegger

   By John Quay

   Series: New Directions in the Philosophy of Education

   Education, Experience and Existence proposes a new way of understanding education that delves beneath the conflict, confusion and compromise that characterize its long history. At the heart of this new understanding is what John Dewey strove to expound: a coherent theory of experience. Dewey’s...

   Published May 16th 2013 by Routledge
3. British Empirical Philosophers (Routledge Revivals)

   Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Reid and J. S. Mill. [An anthology.]

   Edited by A J Ayer, Donald Winch

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1952, British Empirical Philosophers is a comprehensive picture of one of the most important movements in the history of philosophic thought. In his introduction, Professor A. J. Ayer distinguishes the main problems of empiricism and gives a critical account of the ways in...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Puzzle of Existence

   Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

   Edited by Tyron Goldschmidt

   Series: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics

   This groundbreaking volume investigates the most fundamental question of all: Why is there something rather than nothing? The question is explored from diverse and radical perspectives: religious, naturalistic, platonistic and skeptical. Does science answer the question? Or does theology? Does...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. The German Mittelweg

   Garden Theory and Philosophy in the Time of Kant

   By Michael G. Lee

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   In the 1790s, a close-knit group of German philosophers published several garden theory texts. These works are unique in that a close-knit group of philosophers had never before--and has not since--produced so many works on the topic of garden design. In essence, this cohort sought to imbue...

   Published May 13th 2013 by Routledge
6. Knowledge, Virtue, and Action

   Putting Epistemic Virtues to Work

   Edited by Tim Henning, David P. Schweikard

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   This volume brings together recent work by leading and up-and-coming philosophers on the topic of virtue epistemology. The prospects of virtue-theoretic analyses of knowledge depend crucially on our ability to give some independent account of what epistemic virtues are and what they are for. The...

   Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
7. Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers

   By Stuart Sim

   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   Postmodernism is an important part of the cultural landscape which continues to evolve, yet the ideas and theories surrounding the subject can be diverse and difficult to understand. Fifty Postmodern Thinkers critically examines the work of fifty of the most important theorists within the...

   Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
8. Ethics and the Laws of War

   The Moral Justification of Legal Norms

   By Antony Lamb

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   This book is an examination of the permissions, prohibitions and obligations found in just war theory, and the moral grounds for laws concerning war. Pronouncing an action or course of actions to be prohibited, permitted or obligatory by just war theory does not thereby establish the moral grounds...

   Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
9. Using Critical Research for Educational and Social Change

   Edited by Tricia Kress

   This volume features the works of scholar-practitioners who embrace critical pedagogy and critical research as praxis in qualitative research about education. The authors take an explicit stance toward social justice through education, and they use critical research as a vehicle toward that end.&...

   Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
10. The History of Economic Thought

    A Reader; Second Edition

    Edited by Steven G. Medema, Warren J. Samuels

    A From the ancients to the moderns, questions of economic theory and policy have been an important part of intellectual and public debate, engaging the attention of some of history’s greatest minds. This book brings together readings from more than two thousand years of writings on economic...

    Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge