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Philosophy (general
A Critical Guide Judith Norman | Trinity University, Texas These essays showcase the incomparable contribution and enduring relevance of Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation to fields as diverse as metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, religion, science, and feminism. The volume will be valuable for both students and advanced scholars in philosophy and German studies.
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Cambridge Critical Guides
300pp Sep. 2022 9781108477543 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108763813
A History of Western Philosophy of Music
James O. Young | University of Victoria, British Columbia This book is a comprehensive, accessible survey of Western philosophy of music from Pythagoras to the present. Five chapters survey philosophy of music in the ancient, medieval, early modern, modern and contemporary periods. It will be valuable for undergraduate and advanced students, and scholars, in philosophy and musicology.
500pp Nov. 2022 9781108497848 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115.00 eISBN 9781108654777
A Philosophers’ Manifesto
Ideas and Arguments to Change the World Volume 91 Julian Baggini | Royal Institute of Philosophy, London In A Philosophers’ Manifesto leading philosophers from around the world present the case for a new policy or law they think will make an improvement in the world. This collection presents arguments for new approaches to social and political issues, showing how philosophy can be of real, practical benefit, especially in these fractious times.
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements
300pp May. 2022 9781009272667 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 39.00 eISBN 9781009272674
Commitment and Resoluteness in Rational Choice
Chrisoula Andreou | University of Utah Drawing and building on the existing literature, this Element explores the interesting and challenging philosophical terrain where issues regarding cooperation, commitment, and control (particularly self-control) intersect.
Elements in Decision Theory and Philosophy
75pp Mar. 2022 9781009211574 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009211536
Death and Meaning
Volume 90 Michael Hauskeller This collection of papers aims to increase our understanding of what meaning in life is, in what way, if any, mortality can be said to be detrimental to a life’s meaningfulness, and in what way death and mortality can be said to be requisites or at least constituents of a meaningful life.
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements
322pp Feb. 2022 9781009187862 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 39.00 eISBN 9781009187855
Emergence and Reduction in Physics
Patricia Palacios | University of Salzburg This Element offers an overview of some of the most important debates in philosophy and physics around the topics of emergence and reduction and proposes a compatibilist view of emergence and reduction.
Elements in the Philosophy of Physics
75pp Oct. 2022 9781108814065 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108901017
Philosophy of Developmental Biology
Marcel Weber Taking a causal perspective, this Element examines to what extent and how developmental biology, having turned molecular about four decades ago, has been able to meet the vitalist challenge. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
75pp Apr. 2022 9781009184151 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 Apr. 2022 9781108949354 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108954181
Philosophy of Neuroscience
William Bechtel | University of California, San Diego This Element provides a comprehensive introduction to philosophy of neuroscience. It covers such topics as how neuroscientists procure knowledge, including not just research techniques but the use of various model organisms.
Elements in Philosophy of Mind
75pp Mar. 2022 9781108931502 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108946964
Structure and Equivalence
Neil Dewar | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen This Element explores what it means for two theories in physics to be equivalent (or inequivalent), and what lessons can be drawn about their structure as a result. It does so through a twofold approach.
Elements in the Philosophy of Physics
75pp Mar. 2022 9781108823760 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108914581
