Philosophy

The Case for Case Studies

Methods and Applications in International Development Edited by Jennifer Widner Michael Woolcock and Daniel Ortega Nieto

This volume demonstrates how to conduct case study research that is both methodologically rigourous and useful to development policy.

Strategies for Social Inquiry

May 2022 244 x 170 mm c.320pp 9781108447980 Paperback £26.99 / US$34.99 P

Moral Philosophy

Anthony O’Hear Rachael Wiseman

A book creatively engaging with one of the most famous interventions in the world of moral philosophy, by Elizabeth Anscombe.

Talking Philosophy

February 2022 198 x 129 mm c.500pp 9781009111393 Paperback £14.99 / US$19.99 P PHILOSOPHY

Self-Blame and Moral Responsibility

Edited by Andreas Brekke Carlsson

New essays by leading moral philosophers on the nature and ethics of self-blame, and its connections to moral responsibility.

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781009179256 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Aristotle’s Ethics

Nicomachean and Eudemian Themes Paula Gottlieb

Examines Aristotle’s Nicomachean and Eudemian Ethics, with attention to virtues of character and thought and their relation to happiness.

Elements in Ethics

June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108706575 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

The Problem of Blame

Making Sense of Moral Anger Kelly McCormick

Explores the problem of blame in moral philosophy, setting out a new theory of blame, free will, and moral responsibility.

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.256pp 9781108842259 Hardback £74.99 / US$99.99 C

Prioritarianism

Richard J. Arneson

The prioritarian holds that there is greater reason to help people, the worse off they would otherwise be.

Elements in Ethics

June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108730693 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Ethics

Edited by Allen PhillipsGriffiths Foreword by Nikhil Krishnan

Distinguished philosophical writers including R. M. Hare and Bernard Williams address ethical questions and topics, focusing on what morality is.

January 2022 198 x 129 mm c.433pp 9781009107716 Paperback £14.99 / US$19.99 P

The Cambridge Handbook of the Ethics of Ageing

Edited by Christopher Wareham

The first volume of new work dedicated specifically to ageing ethics – wide-ranging, clear, and accessible.

July 2022 9781108817042 Paperback £26.99 / US$32.99 P

Olympe de Gouges

Sandrine Bergès

A philosopher of the French Revolution, Gouges defended women’s rights and abolitionism, and opposed the extremist practices of Robespierre.

Elements on Women in the History of Philosophy

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009010528 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Simone de Beauvoir

Karen Green

Critical account of Beauvoir’s intellectual journey. From student to existentialist collaborator with Sartre, to influential feminist ikon.

Elements on Women in the History of Philosophy

June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009011785 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Mechanisms in Science

Method or Metaphysics? Stavros Ioannidis Stathis Psillos

Questions central tenets of the current philosophical consensus about mechanisms and develops the novel alternative of Methodological Mechanism.

August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.250pp 9781316519905 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Money-Pump Arguments

Johan E. Gustafsson

Expected Utility Theory can be defended by money-pump arguments. These arguments avoid the standard objections to this kind of approach.

Elements in Decision Theory and Philosophy

June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108718950 Paperback c. £15.00 / c. US$20.00 P

Pythagorean Women

Caterina Pellò

Examines the first case of female engagement with Greek philosophy and analyses the first texts ascribed to women philosophers.

Elements on Women in the History of Philosophy

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009011815 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Evolution, Morality and the Fabric of Society

R. Paul Thompson

Derives and justifies moral principles, naturalistically, from evolved human behavioural propensities and cognitive capacities.

Elements in the Philosophy of Biology

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108741705 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Frances Power Cobbe

Alison Stone

Introduces Frances Power Cobbe’s philosophy, her views on moral theory, animal welfare, feminism, religion, the mind, and evolution.

Elements on Women in the History of Philosophy

June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009160971 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Mathematics and Metaphilosophy

Justin Clarke-Doane

This Element discusses the problem of mathematical knowledge and its relevance to other areas of philosophical concern.

Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108995405 Paperback c. £15.00 / c. US$20.00 P

Leo Strauss and Islamic Political Thought

Rasoul Namazi

The first comprehensive discussion of Leo Strauss’s writings on Islamic political thought.

June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.350pp 9781009098700 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Logical Consequence

Gila Sher

An in-depth, accessible, up-todate account and philosophical insight into the semantic, modeltheoretic conception of logical consequence.

Elements in Philosophy and Logic

July 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108986847 Paperback c. £15.00 / c. US$20.00 P

The Politics Of Beauty

A Study Of Kant’s Critique Of Taste Susan Meld Shell

An original account of Kant’s theory of taste, emphasizing his political and moral aims, and resolving some important textual puzzles.

Elements in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

July 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009011808 Paperback c. £15.00 / c. US$20.00 P

Higher-Order Logic and Type Theory

John L. Bell

The Element provides a wideranging, but unified account of higher-order logic and contemporary type theory.

Elements in Philosophy and Logic

March 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108986908 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

The Kantian Federation

Luigi Caranti

A novel reading of Kant’s model for peace revealing the fascinating theoretical tensions that affect it.

Elements in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009016971 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems

Juliette Kennedy

A deep dive into the historical and philosophical background of Gödel’s famed 1931 paper on incompleteness.

Elements in Philosophy and Logic

April 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108986991 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Proofs and Models in Philosophical Logic

Greg Restall

Proofs and models are key tools for analysing clarifying our concepts. Philosophers should learn how to use both.

Elements in Philosophy and Logic

April 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009045384 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Classical First-Order Logic

Stewart Shapiro and Teresa Kouri Kissel

Introduces classical logic, and its alternatives. Other books of its type usually do one or the other, but not both.

Elements in Philosophy and Logic

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108987004 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

The Materiality of the Legal Order

Marco Goldoni

The Element explains why the question of materiality has rarely been treated in philosophy of law, and introduces three attempts at addressing it.

Elements in Philosophy of Law

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009009669 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Mindreading and Social Cognition

Jane Suilin Lavelle

What is mindreading and when do we use it? This Element addresses these questions, challenging foundational assumptions in the literature.

Elements in Philosophy of Mind

February 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108925051 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Sociological Approaches to Theories of Law

Brian Z. Tamanaha

This Element applies insights empirical insights to examine, and enrich, central claims by analytical jurisprudents about the nature of law.

Elements in Philosophy of Law

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009124362 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Normative Reasons

Between Reasoning and Explanation Arturs Logins

Cambridge Studies in Philosophy

The first accessible, detailed overview of the debates about normative reasons, developing a new theory based on whyquestions.

August 2022 9781316513774 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

The Philosophy of Mind

Anthony O’Hear Tim Crane

An influential and important volume which changed understandings of the ways in which philosophy of mind is conceived and understood.

Talking Philosophy

January 2022 198 x 129 mm c.600pp 9781009108638 Paperback £19.99 / US$24.99 P

Metaphysical Realism and Anti-Realism

J. T. M. Miller

Are there any mind-independent objects? And if there are, how can we come to know about their nature?

Elements in Metaphysics

June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009009089 Paperback c. £15.00 / c. US$20.00 P

Mental Illness

Tim Thornton

This Element critically examines recent debates about the reality and nature of mental illness, and the nature of diagnostic categories.

Elements in Philosophy of Mind

June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108925020 Paperback c. £15.00 / c. US$20.00 P

Properties

Anna-Sofia Maurin

(Why) do properties exist? An Element on theory-comparison and theory-choice in a complicated world of metaphilosophical assumptions.

Elements in Metaphysics

June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009009249 Paperback c. £15.00 / c. US$20.00 P

Foundationalism

Richard Fumerton

This Element is an accessible introduction to controversies concerning the structure of knowledge and justification.

Elements in Epistemology

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009013949 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Kant’s Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science

A Critical Guide Michael Bennett McNulty

New essays on Kant’s complex work, considering its place in his oeuvre and in the history of science.

Cambridge Critical Guides

August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781108476898 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

The Epistemic Consequences of Paradox

Bryan Frances

Analyzing paradoxes proves interesting results regarding philosophical progress, agreement, knockdown arguments, belief, the status of metaphysics, and common sense.

Elements in Epistemology

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009055963 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Schopenhauer’s ‘The World as Will and Representation’

A Critical Guide Judith Norman Alistair Welchman

Presents a variety of scholarship on Schopenhauer’s monumental text, placing it among the canonical works of nineteenthcentury philosophy.

Cambridge Critical Guides

December 2021 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781108477543 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas

Edited by Eleonore Stump and Thomas Joseph White

A detailed, historically informed examination of the major areas of Aquinas’s thought, for both scholars and students.

Cambridge Companions to Philosophy

August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.400pp 9781009044332 Paperback c. £27.99 / c. US$36.99 P

Nietzsche’s ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’

A Critical Guide Keith Ansell-Pearson Paul S. Loeb

Leading scholars discuss the ideas in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, showing why it is one of Nietzsche’s most important philosophical works.

Cambridge Critical Guides

June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781108490849 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Thomas Aquinas on Virtue

Thomas M. Osborne Jr

A comprehensive account of Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of virtue, for scholars in ethics, medieval philosophy, and theology.

July 2022 229 x 152 mm c.250pp 9781316511749 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Kierkegaard’s The Sickness Unto Death

A Critical Guide Jeffrey Hanson Sharon Krishek

Presents new approaches to one of Kierkegaard’s most important texts, shedding light on themes such as selfhood, despair, and sin.

Cambridge Critical Guides

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 9781108835374 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Nietzsche on Conflict, Struggle and War

James S. Pearson

Provides a clear analysis of Nietzsche’s controversial endorsement of conflict, struggle and war.

Modern European Philosophy

October 2021 229 x 152 mm c.290pp 9781316516546 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

The Cambridge Companion to Plato

Second edition

David Ebrey Richard Kraut

A rich and wide-ranging Companion to Plato’s philosophy that is accessible to students while of equal interest to scholars.

Cambridge Companions to Philosophy

April 2022 229 x 152 mm c.520pp 9781108457262 Paperback £26.99 / US$32.99 P

Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy

A New Reading of Six Thinkers Henry Somers-Hall

Develops new readings of key figures in the French tradition that together constitute a new reading of the tradition itself.

Modern European Philosophy

November 2021 229 x 152 mm c.270pp 9781316517901 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus

Edited by Lloyd Gerson and James Wilberding

A new Companion offering student-friendly essays on this major figure in the Platonic tradition and in Greek philosophy.

Cambridge Companions to Philosophy

July 2022 229 x 152 mm c.400pp 9781108726238 Paperback £26.99 / US$34.99 P

Cassirer and Heidegger in Davos

The Philosophical Arguments Simon Truwant

The first comprehensive philosophical analysis of the ‘Davos debate’ between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger.

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.288pp 9781316519882 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Values in Science

Kevin C. Elliott

Clarifies how to distinguish appropriate and inappropriate influences of values on science – urgently needed in today’s polarised world.

Elements in the Philosophy of Science

July 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009055635 Paperback c. £15.00 / c. US$20.00 P

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Logic

Luca Castagnoli Paolo Fait

A state-of-the-art overview of ancient logic for students and scholars, with in-depth analyses of its central themes.

Cambridge Companions to Philosophy

August 2022 228 x 152 mm 320pp 9781107656772 Paperback £26.99 / US$34.99 P

Death and Meaning

Volume 90

Edited by Michael Hauskeller

This collection of papers aims to increase our understanding of meaning in life in relation to death.

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements

February 2022 229 x 152 mm 322pp 9781009187862 Paperback £23.99 / US$39.00 C