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Series surveys science from flint tools to the theory of relativity.

"Metaphysics is one of the traditional four main branches of philosophy, alongside ethics, logic and epistemology. It is also an area that continues to attract and hold a fascination for many people yet it is associated with being complex and abstract. For some it is associated with the mystical or religious. For others it is known through the metaphysical poets who talk of love and spirituality. This Very Short Introduction goes right to the heart...

In this new collection of incisive essays, Robinson returns to the themes which have preoccupied her work: the role of faith in modern life, the inadequacy of fact, the contradictions inherent in human nature.

McDermott's reflections take him from a general overview of philosophy in Western culture to Emerson and James' thought in particular. He considers aspects of the American experience--change, pluralism, interrelatedness--as well as the aesthetics of city life, education, and cultural literacy. Whether he writes about education, architecture, or the soul's struggle with inevitable death, McDermott believes that philosophical thinking, when done in...

George Yancy brings together a group of thinkers who address the problematic issue of whiteness as a category requiring serious analysis. The text bringsa critique and philosophically sophisticated perspective to a central issue of contemporary society.

This volume is a widely-read book of political philosophy and ethics. Arguing for a principled reconciliation of liberty and equality, it attempts to solve the problem of distributive justice (this concerns what is considered to be socially just with respect to the allocation of goods in a society). The resultant theory is known as "Justice as Fairness", from which the author derives his two famous principles of justice. The first of these two principles...

On Race and Philosophy is a collection of essays written and published across the last twenty years, which focus on matters of race, philosophy, and social and political life in the West, in particular in the US. These important writings trace the author's continuing efforts not only to confront racism, especially within philosophy, but, more importantly, to work out viable conceptions of raciality and ethnicity that are empirically sound while avoiding...