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Aristotle on Accidental Causation

Huismann, Tyler | University of Oklahoma

This major new study of Aristotle’s natural philosophy connects it to modern theories of causation and provides fresh interpretations of classic issues. Structured around close readings of the Physics and the Metaphysics and informed by contemporary theories of causation, it offers a rich treatment of some of Aristotle’s core texts.

306pp

Nov. 2024 9781009491440 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009491464

Aristotle on the Nature and Causes of Perception

Roreitner, Robert | Charles University, Prague

This book provides a fresh interpretation of Aristotle’s account of perception, refocusing the debate and emphasising what remains philosophically relevant. It will engage experts on Aristotle and help those who work in ancient Philosophy, including advanced students, while inviting contemporary philosophers to engage with Aristotle’s thought.

320pp

Apr. 2025 9781009533812 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009533829

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Aristotle’s On the Soul

A Critical Guide

Cohoe, Caleb

This volume presents thirteen newly-commissioned essays that deepen our understanding of Aristotle’s key concepts, including living, form, reason, and capacity. It will prove invaluable for researchers in ancient Philosophy and the history of science and ideas.

Cambridge Critical Guides

293pp

Apr. 2024 9781108725262 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781108641517

Epicurean Justice

Nature, Agreement, and Virtue

Robitzsch, Jan Maximilian | Universität Greifswald

In this book, the first English-language monograph on the topic, Jan Maximilian Robitzsch draws on a range of sources including papyrological evidence to give a comprehensive account of the theory of justice advanced by the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus and his followers.

210pp

Mar. 2024 9781009429467 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009429436

Medicine and Practical Ethics in Galen

Xenophontos, Sophia | Aristotle University, Thessaloniki Offering the first authoritative analysis of Galen’s psychological and ethical works alongside a large number of technical tracts, both medical and philosophical, this book provides a new framework through which we can comprehend Galen’s role as a practical ethicist - an aspect of his intellectual profile that has been little understood until now.

318pp

Jan. 2024 9781009247801 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009247795

Neoplatonic Pedagogy and the Alcibiades I

Crafting the Contemplative

Ambury, James M. | King’s College, Pennsylvania

Bringing together both works to reveal a common vision of Philosophy as it was understood in the lecture halls of late antiquity, this monograph is the only book-length study exclusively devoted to the reception of the Platonic dialogue Alcibiades I in the commentaries of Proclus (412–485 AD) and Olympiodorus (495–60 AD).

254pp

May 2024 9781009100212 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

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Plato’s Phaedo

Forms, Death, and the Philosophical Life

Ebrey, David | Universitat de Barcelona

This comprehensive book on one of Plato’s most famous dialogues, the Phaedo, carefully reinterprets famous ideas, examines the dialogue’s literary structure, and brings out the interest of its lesser-known parts. Topics include ethics, metaphysics, methodology, natural science, religion, cosmology, and the soul.

360pp

Sep. 2024 9781108790994 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781108787475

Plato’s Gorgias

A Critical Guide

Shaw, J. Clerk | University of Tennessee

This Critical Guide offers detailed analysis of all parts of Plato’s Gorgias, together with diverse perspectives on its advocacy of a philosophical, just life as against a life of rhetoric and injustice.

Cambridge Critical Guides

240pp

May 2024 9781108492218 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781108679176

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Proclus: Commentary on Plato’s ‘Republic’

Baltzly, Dirk | University of Tasmania

The second volume of a three-volume edition presenting the first complete translation of Proclus’ commentary on Plato’s Republic - the only sustained treatment of the dialogue to survive from antiquity. Includes a helpful introduction, interpretive essays, notes and an English-Greek glossary.

Proclus: Commentary on Plato’s Republic 434pp

Apr. 2024 9781316608319 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781316650912

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The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings

Volume 1 God

Radde-Gallwitz, Andrew | University of Notre Dame, Indiana

This first volume in the six-volume series The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings focuses on writings about God’s nature and unity and the meaning of faith. An invaluable resource for students and academic researchers in early Christian studies, history of Christianity, theology, religious studies and late antique Roman history.

The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings 404pp

Sep. 2024 9781107659582 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781107449596

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The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings

Volume 4 Christ: Chalcedon and Beyond

DelCogliano, Mark | University of St Thomas, Minnesota

This volume of the Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings focuses on early Christian reflection on Christ as God incarnate from ca. 450 CE to the eighth century. It will be an invaluable resource for students and researchers in early Christian studies, theology, religious studies and late antique Roman history.

The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings

708pp

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The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings

Volume 2 Practice

Muehlberger, Ellen | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

This book is the second volume in the six-volume series The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings and focuses on the topic of practice. It is an invaluable resource for students and academic researchers of early Christian studies, the history of Christianity, theology, religious studies and late antique Roman history.

The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, 2 352pp

Sep. 2024 9781107655034 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

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The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings

Volume 3 Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy

DelCogliano, Mark | University of St Thomas, Minnesota

This volume of The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings focuses on early Christian reflection on Christ as God incarnate from the first century to ca. 450 CE. It will be an invaluable resource for students and researchers in early Christian studies, theology, religious studies and late antique Roman history.

The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, 3 826pp

Sep. 2024 9781107693326 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

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Sep. 2024 9781009056649 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

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The Life Worth Living in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

Machek, David | Universität Bern, Switzerland

The account of the best life for humans - a happy or flourishing life - was the central theme of ancient ethics. This book explores the lessexamined ancient theme of what constitutes a life worth living, and reconstructs philosophical engagements with that theme from Socrates to Plotinus.

271pp

Jul. 2024 9781009257862 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781009257916

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The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium

Xenophontos, Sophia | University of Glasgow

This collection of new essays offers the first authoritative analysis of the reception of classical Greek ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, and will interest scholars and students in the fields of Philosophy, classics, patristic theology, social and cultural history of the medieval world, and the history of education.

301pp

Apr. 2024 9781108986595 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781108986359

Early modern Philosophy

The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon

Hübner, Karolina | Cornell University, New York

The Lexicon cuts through the daunting profusion of scholarship on Spinoza by supplying compact entries that contextualize Spinoza’s thought, elucidate crucial concepts, and point to the relevant scholarly debates and studies. A vital resource for novices and experts alike seeking to expand their knowledge of Spinoza.

668pp

Dec. 2024 9781108834223 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781108992459

Eighteenth-century Philosophy

Hume’s Essays

A Critical Guide

Skjönsberg, Max | University of Florida

In this volume thirteen essays offer new research on key areas of Hume’s Essays, including political theory, Philosophy, political economy, and aesthetics, providing scholars and students with a wide-ranging, accessible, and in-depth guide to what remains one of the most-read works among Hume’s writings.

Cambridge Critical Guides

302pp

Dec. 2024 9781316517727 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009047227

Intuition in Kant

The Boundlessness of Sense

Smyth, Daniel | Wesleyan University, Connecticut

This is the first monograph on Kant’s theory of intuition to appear in several decades. It will appeal to scholars of Kant, Early modern Philosophy, German Idealism and Romanticism, as well as those with a general interest in the theory of knowledge.

274pp

Mar. 2024 9781009330312 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009330305

Kant and the Supposed Right to Lie

Timmermann, Jens | University of St Andrews, Scotland

Jens Timmermann provides a detailed philosophical, developmental and historical analysis of Immanuel Kant’s 1797 essay ‘On a Supposed Right to Lie from Love of Humanity’, in which Kant argues that it is criminally wrong to lie to protect a friend from being murdered.

Nov. 2024 9781108834216 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

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Kant on Freedom, Nature, and

Judgment

The Territory of the Third Critique

Sweet, Kristi | Texas A & M University

Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment offers an in-depth account of Kant’s critical philosophical system, offering new interpretations of his theory of beauty, genius, art, and organicity. It will be valuable for scholars interested in Kant’s Philosophy, the history of aesthetics, and the history of Philosophy.

232pp

Sep. 2024 9781009005326 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781009036634

Kant on Pleasure and Judgment

A Developmental and Interpretive Account

Rueger, Alexander | University of Alberta

A novel interpretation of the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment, based on an exploration of eighteenthcentury theories of pleasure and a reconstruction of Kant’s own view. Illuminates both the role of pleasure and displeasure in Kant’s thought, and their important connections to the power of judgment.

234pp

Apr. 2024 9781009380348 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009380362

Kant’s Critique of Practical

Reason

Background Source Materials

Walschots, Michael | Martin Luther-Universität HalleWittenberg, Germany

Offers students and scholars of Kant’s Philosophy both new and first-time English translations of eighteenth-century texts that are essential for understanding his ethics in historical context. Includes informative introductory and editorial material indicating how Kant often read and responded to his critics.

Cambridge Philosophical Texts in Context

314pp

Mar. 2024 9781108810487 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

Mar. 2024 9781108479981 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

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Kant’s Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science

A Critical Guide

McNulty, Michael Bennett

While Kant’s Philosophy of science is a growing field of study, his Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science has often been poorly understood. This volume will be an invaluable resource for understanding one of Kant’s most difficult works, and will set the agenda for future scholarship on Kant’s Philosophy of science.

Cambridge Critical Guides

301pp

Apr. 2024 9781108701709 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781108661072

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Property and its Forms in Classical German Philosophy

James, David | University of Warwick

A comprehensive analysis of the theories of property developed by four key figures in classical German Philosophy that explores such central questions as the nature of property, what specific forms of property are justifiable and whether property rights ought to be respected or limited in the name of freedom.

215pp

Sep. 2024 9781009288101 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009288118

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The Origins of Kant’s Aesthetics

Clewis, Robert R. | Gwynedd Mercy University, Pennsylvania

Organized around eight core themes in aesthetics today, this book uncovers the complex development of Kant’s aesthetic theory. It will be useful to advanced students and scholars in fields across the humanities and studies of the arts.

279pp

Sep. 2024 9781009209434 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781009209403

Epistemology and metaphysics

Abstract Objects

Liggins, David | University of Manchester

This Element addresses questions helping newcomers understand what they are concerned about and what are the most influential considerations at work in this area of metaphysics. It also provides advice on which lines of discussion promise to be the most fruitful.

Elements in Metaphysics

68pp

Feb. 2024 9781009241403 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009467858 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009241373

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Causal Powers and the Intentionality

Continuum

Bauer, William A. | North Carolina State University

Why does anything happen? What is the best account of natural necessity? Bauer explores the internal structure of causal powers and the possibility that physical reality and mind are unified through intentionality. Researchers and students of metaphysics, Philosophy of science, and Philosophy of mind will find this book valuable.

248pp

Grounding, Fundamentality and Ultimate Explanations

Bliss, Ricki | Lehigh University, Pennsylvania

This Element shows a long lineage of philosophers concerned with coming to understand what explains everything broadly construed or within a certain domain. Contemporarily some philosophers focus on the notion of fundamentality - that there is something that is without explanation.

Elements in Metaphysics

80pp

Apr. 2024 9781009096379 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Apr. 2024 9781009479394 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009089739

Modal

Naturalism

Science and the Modal Facts

Bryant, Amanda | St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia

The epistemology of modal facts has been a topic of uncertainty and disagreement, with recent literature dominated by rationalist approaches. This Element aims to develop a new approach central to scientific investigation, focusing on modal naturalism, which views science as the primary source of evidence concerning modal facts.

Elements in Metaphysics

75pp

Sep. 2024 9781009214865 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781009214858

Chemistry’s Metaphysics

Seifert, Vanessa A. | University of Athens, Greece

This Element establishes this claim by showing how key metaphysical issues are informed by drawing on chemistry. Five metaphysical topics are investigated, each of which illuminates the novel ways that metaphysics of science can be informed by chemistry. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Elements in Metaphysics

86pp

Jan. 2024 9781009238823 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jan. 2024 9781009467865 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Dec. 2024 9781009351638 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009462563 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Mortal Objects

Identity and Persistence through Life and Death

Luper, Steven | Trinity University, Texas

Steven Luper explores what persons, species, organisms, and material objects are, and what it is to live and persist. After death or extinction, what could something become? Could it persist in another form? This metaphysical study gets to the heart of the deepest questions about the nature of life.

211pp

Apr. 2024 9781108986724 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108981316

Ontological Categories

A Methodological Guide

Perovic, Katarina | University of Iowa

This Element presents an overview of notable approaches to questions on ontology. It introduces and discusses universals, the oldest and most developed ontological categories, and looks at ways in which philosophers might break with tradition and explore some new categories.

Elements in Metaphysics

78pp

Feb. 2024 9781108978255 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009475679 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Personal Ontology

Mystery and Its Consequences

Brenner, Andrew | Hong Kong Baptist University

What are we? Are we, for example, souls, organisms, brains, or something else? This book discusses the main competing accounts of personal ontology that we are either souls, or we are composite physical objects of some sort, and includes a detailed discussion of the metaphysics of several afterlife scenarios.

250pp

Mar. 2024 9781009367073 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009367059

Resistance to Evidence

Simion, Mona | University of Glasgow

Explores the phenomenon of distrusting evidence coming from reliable sources with current examples including climate change and vaccine scepticism. The book argues that evidence resistance relates to a type of cognitive malfunction and distinguishes it from justified evidence rejection occurring in environments polluted with disinformation.

Cambridge Studies in Philosophy

232pp

Feb. 2024 9781009298520 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009298537

Stratified Virtue

Epistemology

A Defence Carter, J. Adam | University of Glasgow

This accessible Element defends version of virtue epistemology shown to have all-things-considered advantages over other views on the market. It introduces and incorporates several theoretical innovations which are aimed at revamping how we think about ‘high-grade’ knowledge, how we attain it, and what it demands of us.

Elements in Epistemology

82pp

Jan. 2024 9781009066198 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jan. 2024 9781009468268 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Teleology

Tugby, Matthew | Durham University

This Element offers a philosophical examination of these phenomena and aims to reinstate teleology as a core part of the metaphysics of science. The Element develops a new theory which grounds many cases of goal-directedness in the metaphysics of powers.

Elements in Metaphysics

75pp

Jun. 2024 9781009257398 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jun. 2024 9781009500326 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009257404

The Attitude of Agnosticism

Archer, Avery | George Washington University, Washington DC

We often describe ourselves as agnostic on a wide range of questions, such as does God exist, is String Theory true, or will the President win re-election? But what does it mean to be agnostic and when is agnosticism justified? This monograph addresses these and related questions.

228pp

Ethics

A Philosopher Looks at Friendship

Chappell, Sophie Grace | The Open University, Milton Keynes While for centuries friendship has fascinated and puzzled philosophers, they haven’t always been able to fit it into their theories. The author explores friendship as something hard to deal with in the neat and tidy ways of philosophical theory — but nevertheless as one of the central goods of human experience.

A Philosopher Looks At 208pp

Jul. 2024 9781009255547 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99

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An Introduction to Ethics

Second edition

Deigh, John | University of Texas, Austin

A clear, comprehensive presentation of the most important theories of Ethics in Western Philosophy, including extensive coverage of John Rawls’s theory. Students will find this book to be a helpful guide to how philosophical inquiry is undertaken as well as to what the major theories of Ethics hold.

Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy

300pp

Mar. 2024 9781009214735 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009214759

Dec. 2024 9781009060967 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

Dec. 2024 9781316512234 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781009058032

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Animal Ethics in the Wild Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature

Faria, Catia | Complutense University of Madrid

Most people believe that we should help others in need. This book argues that we should also help starving, wounded and sick wild animals. It will be of interest to scholars of Philosophy, as well as to a non-specialist audience, including policymakers and members of environmental and animal charities.

232pp

Sep. 2024 9781009113458 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009119948

Ethics and the Environment

An Introduction

Second edition

Jamieson, Dale | New York University

A new edition of a widely used and cited introduction to Ethics and the environment. It relates the field to broader issues of Philosophy and Ethics, and also discusses environmental concepts such as the Anthropocene, and environmental problems such as climate change and conservation.

Cambridge Applied Ethics

240pp

Nov. 2024 9781108994392 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

Nov. 2024 9781108834179 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781108992053

Feminist Ethics

Superson, Anita M. | University of Kentucky

Feminist Ethics provides an overview of feminist contributions to normative Ethics, moral psychology, and metaEthics. It argues that through their criticisms of traditional Ethics and proposals for changes, feminists are advancing ‘robust agency.’

Elements in Ethics

70pp

Mar. 2024 9781108706322 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Mar. 2024 9781009507202 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Of Moral Conduct

A Theory of Obligation, Reasons, and Value

Audi, Robert | University of Notre Dame, Indiana Conduct is determined not just by what we do, but also by why and how we do it. Written by an internationally high-profile philosopher, this is the first full statement of an Ethics of conduct, spanning moral theory, practical Ethics, and theories of obligation and value.

320pp

Feb. 2024 9781009266963 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009266987

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Self-Blame and Moral Responsibility

Carlsson, Andreas Brekke

What is self-blame? Does it have a value? How does it connect to guilt and other emotions? How does it fit into, and with, various theories of moral responsibility? In this volume, leading moral philosophers explore a range of debates about self-blame.

264pp

Apr. 2024 9781009179249 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

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Sidgwick’s Ethics

Skelton, Anthony | University of Western Ontario

This Element critically analyzes Sidgwick’s The Methods of Ethics, focusing on Sidgwick’s moral epistemology, arguments against common-sense morality, utilitarianism, rational egoism, and ‘the dualism of practical reason.’ It provides readers with scholarly debates surrounding the theses, enhancing the appreciation of this masterpiece.

Elements in Ethics

The Ethical Philosophy of Bernard Williams

Thomas, Alan | University of York

This Element surveys the main claims of Bernard Williams’s ethical Philosophy. Topics include ethical scepticism, virtue, reasons for action, the critique of the Morality System, moral realism and the nature of theorising in Ethics.

Elements in Ethics

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781108706421 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009507219 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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The Philosopher’s Guide to Parenthood

Storks, Surrogates, and Stereotypes

Baron, Teresa | University of Nottingham

Our understanding of what it means to be a parent is shaped by our biological, social, legal, and moral concepts of parenthood. This book combines traditional philosophical methods with research in the broader social sciences and humanities to explore the dilemmas which challenge our understanding of parenthood today.

218pp

Dec. 2024 9781108706353 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009517706 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Sep. 2024 9781009299237 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

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The Problem of Blame Making Sense of Moral Anger

McCormick, Kelly | Texas Christian University McCormick explores and analyses the nature of blame itself, what basic desert of blame amounts to, and how this affects our most important and widely accepted philosophical accounts of moral responsibility.

235pp

Apr. 2024 9781108827416 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

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The Underdetermination of Moral Theories

Baumann, Marius | Universität Munchen

The first extended treatment and defence of the idea of moral underdetermination, this book challenges the view of the relationship between the moral traditions and develops a new sceptical argument and a new position in metaEthics. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

246pp

Jan. 2025 9781009492447 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009492454

History of Philosophy

Amalia Holst

Cooper, Andrew | University of Warwick

This Element presents a comprehensive study of Holst’s writings, unearthing their striking contribution to Philosophy’s growing awareness of the social conditions of human freedom. The force of her argument, and the difficulties she encountered, reveal the ambiguous character of the German Enlightenment and prompt us to reconsider it.

Elements on Women in the History of Philosophy

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009161275 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009532679 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Lucrezia Marinella

Deslauriers, Marguerite | McGill University, Montréal

This Element shows Marinella’s argument for the superiority of women over men in every respect: psychologically, physiologically, morally, and intellectually. Her claim of superiority is intended ultimately to justify the possibility of political rule by women.

Elements on Women in the History of Philosophy

82pp

Apr. 2024 9781009014014 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Apr. 2024 9781009479349 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009029162

Legal Philosophy

Content-Independence in Law

Possibility and Potential

Dickson, Julie | University of Oxford

This Element examines the notion of contentindependence and its relevance for understanding various aspects of the character of law. Its task encompasses both inquiry into that which makes law into what it is, and into what law ought to be, which values it ought to serve, and which aspects may facilitate law realising aspects of its potential.

Elements in Philosophy of Law

75pp

The Normativity of Law

Giudice, Michael | York University

This Element aims to survey these views and others, situate them in a broader context of theories about the nature of law, and subsequently suggest a path forward based on the methodological continuity between analytical, evaluative, and empirical approaches to law’s normativity.

Elements in Philosophy of Law

75pp

Jan. 2025 9781009209830 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jan. 2025 9781009571425 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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The Philosophy of Legal Proof

Ross, Lewis | London School of Economics and Political Science

This Element introduces the standards of proof and considers what justifies them, discusses whether we should use different standards in different cases, asks whether trials should end only in binary outcomes or use more precise verdicts, considers whether proof is simply about probability, and examines who should be trusted with deciding trials.

Elements in Philosophy of Law

82pp

Dec. 2024 9781009009751 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009468091 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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The Logic of Precedent

Constraint, Freedom, and Common Law

Reasoning

Horty, John | University of Maryland, College Park

Drawing on recent work in legal theory, AI and law, this book develops a new account of precedential constraint as well as the balance achieved in the common law between constraint and freedom and applies a theory grounded in defeasible logic to legal reasoning and legal decision-making.

292pp

Nov. 2024 9781009356503 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009356480

May 2024 9781009125048 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

May 2024 9781009507394 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009127745

Logic

An Introduction to Classical and Modal Logics

The Outlines of Knowledge

Bjorndahl, Adam | Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania

This lively and accessible textbook provides a comprehensive and unified introduction to classical and modal Logics, treating them with the same level of rigour and detail and showing how they fit together. A fully self-contained learning resource, it will be ideal for upper-level university courses. Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy 260pp

Nov. 2024 9781009450676 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

Nov. 2024 9781009450690 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99

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Free Logic

A Generalization

Frost-Arnold, Greg | Hobart and William Smith Colleges

The Principle of Univocality has two parts: an existence assumption and a uniqueness assumption. The existence assumption holds that every name refers to at least one individual, and the uniqueness assumption states that every name refers to at most one individual. This Element investigates violations of the Principle of Univocality.

Elements in Philosophy and Logic

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009114059 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009517874 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Logic and Information

Mares, Edwin | Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington

This Element looks at two projects that relate Logic and information: the project of using Logic to integrate, manipulate and interpret information and the project of using information to provide interpretations of Logical systems. It also integrates these Logics into contemporary theories of informational updating, probability theory.

Elements in Philosophy and Logic

82pp

Jun. 2024 9781009466738 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jun. 2024 9781009466752 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Meinongianism

Reicher, Maria Elisabeth | RWTH Aachen University

This Element discusses Meinongianism, which asserts the existence and nonexistence of objects. It explores Meinong’s object theory and neoMeinongian reconstructions, focusing on Logical issues, principles, distinctions, interpretations, and neo-Meinongianism and Meinongian Logics from historical and systematic perspectives.

Elements in Philosophy and Logic

75pp

Relevance Logic

Logan, Shay Allen | Kansas State University

This Element aims to dispel misunderstandings on Relevance Logics. It contains the first-ever textbook treatment of quantification in relevance Logics, as well as an overview of the cutting edge on variable sharing results and a guide to further topics in the field.

Elements in Philosophy and Logic

86pp

Apr. 2024 9781009227759 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Apr. 2024 9781009536172 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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The Logic of Entailment and its History

Dec. 2024 9781009181075 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Paradoxes and Inconsistent Mathematics

Weber, Zach | University of Otago, New Zealand

Contradictions arise in the everyday, from the smallest points to the widest boundaries. In this book, Zach Weber uses ‘dialetheic paraconsistency’ –a formal framework where some contradictions can be true without absurdity – as the basis for developing this idea rigorously, from mathematical foundations up.

337pp

Apr. 2024 9781108995009 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

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Propositional Quantifiers

Fritz, Peter | University of Oslo

This Element explains why propositional quantifiers are especially interesting in the context of propositional modal Logics. It surveys the main results on propositionally quantified modal Logics obtained in the literature, presents a number of open questions, and provides examples of applications of such Logics to philosophical problems.

Elements in Philosophy and Logic

118pp

May 2024 9781009177733 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Mares, Edwin | Victoria University of Wellington

This book provides a new philosophical, semantical and historical analysis of and justification for the relevant Logic of entailment. Its fresh and original perspective on the Logic of entailment will be valuable for all who want to know more about the historical and philosophical origins of modern symbolic Logic.

282pp

Feb. 2024 9781009375313 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

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The Logic of Grounding

Correia, Fabrice | University of Geneva

The concept of grounding, a fact obtained through other facts, has been studied in metaphysical theorizing for over two decades. It is considered superior reduction and supervenience in capturing certain phenomena. This Element provides a comprehensive and systematic view of contemporary grounding development.

Elements in Philosophy and Logic

75pp

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The Many Faces of Impossibility

Tanaka, Koji | Australian National University

This Element aims to answer the neglected question of what is characteristically impossible about impossible worlds. It also aims to analyse the main features and utility of impossible worlds and examine how impossible worlds can capture distinctions which are unavailable if we limit ourselves to possible world-based tools. Elements in Philosophy and Logic

64pp

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The Road to Paradox

A Guide to Syntax, Truth and Modality

Halbach, Volker | University of Oxford

This book provides a clear and direct introduction to the theory of paradoxes and the Gödel incompleteness theorems. It will be valuable for students and researchers with a minimal background in Logic and will equip them to understand and discuss a wide variety of topics in philosophical Logic.

418pp

Oct. 2024 9781108841016 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

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Medieval Philosophy

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Aquinas on Efficient Causation and Causal Powers

Frost, Gloria | University of St Thomas, Minnesota

Frost’s analysis of Aquinas’s theories of efficient causation and causal powers is a rich exploration of a central philosophical topic in Medieval Philosophy and beyond. It will be valuable especially for scholars and advanced students working on Aquinas and on Medieval Philosophy.

251pp

Apr. 2024 9781009225380 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

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Boethius’ ‘Consolation of Philosophy’

A Critical Guide

Wiitala, Michael | Cleveland State University

The first collection of philosophical essays devoted to Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy, one of the most widely read and influential texts in medieval Europe. Thirteen essays, reflecting the diverse approaches taken in contemporary scholarship, attend to its literary features and philosophical content, and demonstrate its ongoing vitality.

Cambridge Critical Guides

268pp

May 2024 9781009288224 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009288279

Interpreting Buridan

Critical Essays

Johnston, Spencer | University of Cambridge

A collection of new essays on the influential medieval philosopher John Buridan, written by leading Buridan scholars. The volume places Buridan in his philosophical context and examines his writings on topics including Logic, modal Logic, paradoxes, metaphysics, epistemology, theory of knowledge, moral Philosophy, and natural Philosophy.

264pp

Feb. 2024 9781108834247 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108992497

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Thomas Aquinas on Virtue

Osborne Jr, Thomas M. | University of St Thomas, Houston Thomas Aquinas’s work on moral theory focused on the status and value of the virtues, and the way in which a moral life can be organized around them. This book charts the development of his moral thought in its historical, philosophical, and theoLogical contexts.

243pp

Apr. 2024 9781009054560 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781009053754

Nineteenth-century Philosophy

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Charles Peirce and Modern Science

Short, T. L.

This book interprets Peirce’s writings as informed by the spirit of modern science – systematic inquiry, not system-building – thus mitigating their notorious difficulties. It shows that Peirce’s experimental work expanded empiricism, subverting the fact/value dichotomy. And it describes Peirce’s ironic opposition of modern science to modernity.

291pp

Apr. 2024 9781009223522 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

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Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature

A Critical Guide

Bykova, Marina F. | North Carolina State University

The essays in this volume bring together various perspectives on Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature, emphasizing its functional role within the Encyclopaedia and its importance for understanding the complexity of Hegel’s philosophical project. Together they illuminate the core ideas which form Hegel’s philosophical framework in the realm of nature.

Cambridge Critical Guides

331pp

Dec. 2024 9781316519271 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009023160

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Hegel’s Century

Alienation and Recognition in a Time of Revolution

Stewart, Jon Hegel’s Century explores the development of 19th-century German Philosophy in the wake of Hegel. Jon Stewart shows how Hegel’s concepts of alienation and recognition were appropriated by both the first and the second generation of his students, and demonstrates how these concepts constituted a broader cultural phenomenon.

350pp

Apr. 2024 9781009011549 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781009019828

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Hegel’s Logic and Metaphysics

McNulty, Jacob | University College London

This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel’s Logic, the foundational work of his philosophical system. It relates this work to a perennial problem in the history and Philosophy of Logic: the logocentric predicament. It will be valuable to all students of the History of Philosophy.

286pp

Sep. 2024 9781009068284 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

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Kierkegaard’s The Sickness Unto Death

A Critical Guide

Hanson, Jeffrey | Harvard University, Massachusetts

Despite the importance of The Sickness unto Death to Kierkegaard scholarship, it has been somewhat overlooked. This book applies diverse approaches to the work, explaining complex issues in clear language. It will be required reading for those interested in Kierkegaard as well as existentialism, religious Philosophy, and moral psychology.

Cambridge Critical Guides

280pp

Apr. 2024 9781108793308 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

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Nietzsche on Conflict, Struggle and War

Pearson, James S. | University of Tartu, Estonia

This book provides a clear analysis of Nietzsche’s controversial endorsement of conflict, struggle and war. It also elucidates many of his defining theories, including the will to power, the overman, and the eternal return.

Modern European Philosophy

311pp

Apr. 2024 9781009015776 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

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Nietzsche’s ‘Thus

Spoke Zarathustra’

A Critical Guide

Ansell-Pearson, Keith | University of Warwick Nietzsche regarded Thus Spoke Zarathustra as his most important philosophical contribution. It is also the only place where he elaborates his concepts of the superhuman and the eternal recurrence of the same. In this Critical Guide, an international group of distinguished scholars analyze the philosophical ideas in this famous book.

Cambridge Critical Guides

292pp

Apr. 2024 9781108796484 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

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Recognition and the Self in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit

Brownlee, Timothy L. | Xavier University, Ohio Hegel’s Phenomenology is famed for its account of the problem of recognition; this book presents a novel interpretation of Hegel’s work focusing on the themes of recognition and the self. It will be important for scholars and students of Hegel, German idealism, and philosophical questions around recognition.

242pp

Schopenhauer’s Politics

Norberg, Jakob | Duke University, North Carolina By reconstructing and contextualizing Schopenhauer’s key political ideas, this book challenges the common view that Schopenhauer is an apolitical philosopher. Schopenhauer believed that politics could help mitigate conflict and make existence more bearable, but never heal a fundamentally imperfect world.

Modern European Philosophy

287pp

Nov. 2024 9781009491549 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

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Schopenhauer’s ‘The World as Will and Representation’

A Critical Guide

Norman, Judith | 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.

Cambridge Critical Guides

294pp

Sep. 2024 9781108725705 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

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Philosophy (general)

A Philosophy of Need

Reader, Soran | University of Durham Appeals to need abound in everyday discussion. People make claims about their own needs all the time, in a way that suggests these should have moral force. This volume offers a fine introduction to an important concept in day-to-day life. A new Foreword explains the book’s continuing significance and relevance.

Talking Philosophy

402pp

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Abductive Reasoning in Science

Dellsén, Finnur | University of Iceland, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, and Universitetet i Oslo

This Element gives an opinionated overview of both accounts of abductive reasoning that have been proposed and the problems that have motivated them. It evaluates these accounts towards a systematic view of the nature and purpose of abductive reasoning in science. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Elements in the Philosophy of Science

82pp

Oct. 2024 9781009353182 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Animal Models of Human Disease

Green, Sara | University of Copenhagen

This Element explores the multifaceted roles animal models fulfil in translational research and how the boundaries between humans and animals are negotiated in this process. It examines the prospects of replacing animal models with animalfree methods and demonstrates why animal modeling should be of interest to researchers.

Elements in the Philosophy of Biology

90pp

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BioLogical Organization

Bich, Leonardo | University of the Basque Country

The philosophical and theoretical approach discussed in this Element explains the properties of bioLogical systems by appealing to their organization. It addresses classic and modern issues in the Philosophy of biology, revises the conceptual foundations, and offers an updated version. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in the Philosophy of Biology

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009393966 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Controlled Experiments

Schickore, Jutta | Indiana University

Control is crucial in scientific experimentation, especially in life sciences due to the complexity of living things. This Element discusses controlled experimentation’s material-technical and conceptual aspects, including controlling for background factors. Understanding controlled experimentation requires considering the design phase.

Elements in the Philosophy of Biology

75pp

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Disagreement

Machuca, Diego E. | National Council for Scientific and Technical Research

This Element examines types of disagreementmotivated skepticism in ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of religion, and general epistemology. It favors suspension of judgment as the appropriate response to the realization of disagreement.

Personal information and self-trust can rarely function as symmetry breakers in favor of one’s views.

Elements in Epistemology

75pp

Foundations of General Relativity

Fletcher, Samuel C. | University of Minnesota

In this Element, the author offers a comprehensive interpretation of general relativity, describing its potential reality, internal structure, and differences from previous theories. The aim is to shape research agendas for physics philosophers, graduate students, and academics. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in the Philosophy of Physics

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009517782 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Foundations of Statistical Mechanics

Frigg, Roman | London School of Economics and Political Science

In this Element, the authors investigate the philosophical and foundational issues that arise in statistical mechanics . They introduce the theoretical approaches in SM, Boltzmannian SM and Gibbsian SM, and discuss how they conceptualise equilibrium and explain the approach to it. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in the Philosophy of Physics

84pp

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From Randomness and Entropy to the Arrow of Time

Zuchowski, Lena | University of Bristol

The Element reconstructs, analyses and compares different derivational routes to a grounding of the Arrow of Time in entropy. It demonstrates that it is unlikely that high entropy states will coincide with visible disorder, thus disputing any link between the Arrow of Time and visible disorder.

Elements in the Philosophy of Physics

82pp

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Mar. 2024 9781009217309 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Inclusive Fitness and Kin Selection

Rubin, Hannah | University of Missouri, Columbia

The bioLogical world is full of phenomena that seem to run counter to Darwin’s insight that natural selection can lead to the appearance of design. This Element covers the shared foundations of evolutionary explanations for several seemingly puzzling phenomena, focusing on the concepts of inclusive fitness and kin selection.

Elements in the Philosophy of Biology

86pp

Apr. 2024 9781009011488 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Introducing the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice

Carter, Jessica | Aarhus Universitet, Denmark

The Element introduces the Philosophy of mathematical practice, which takes mathematical practice and contrasts it with mathematical Philosophy, a term traced back to Bertrand Russell’s scientific Philosophy. It discusses mathematical structuralism and visual thinking, focusing on methodoLogical aspects and historical and contemporary examples.

Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009074780 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Iterative Conceptions of Set

Barton, Neil | Universitetet i Oslo

This Element will examine possibilities for articulating this solution. The author hopes to make some of the underlying mathematical and philosophical ideas behind tricky bits of the Philosophy of set theory clear for philosophers.

Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics

104pp

Jun. 2024 9781009227261 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Kant on Self-Control

Vujošević, Marijana | Universiteit Leiden and Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands

This Element considers Kant’s conception of self-control and the role it plays in his moral Philosophy, proposing a view which explains why self-control is central to Kant’s conception of virtue and sheds new light on his discussions of moral strength and moral weakness.

Elements in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

72pp

Jun. 2024 9781108813761 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Knowing What It Is Like

Cath, Yuri | La Trobe University

This Element explores the concept of ‘what it is like’ knowledge, addressing the tension between having a corresponding experience and knowing an answer to the ‘what it is like’ question. It explains debates and conflicts in attitudes toward sharing this knowledge through testimony, literature, theories, and simulations.

Elements in Epistemology

75pp

Knowledge and God

Benton, Matthew A. | Seattle Pacific University

This Element examines a main theme in religious epistemology, namely, the possibility of knowledge of God. This Element surveys beliefs about the existence and nature of God, and interpersonal epistemology, and what it might take to know God relationally, the contours of which are significant for many theistic traditions.

Elements in Epistemology

76pp

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Laws of Physics

Chen, Eddy Keming | University of California, San Diego

This Element provides a philosophical introduction to laws of physics. They are connected to ontology, possibility, explanation, induction, counterfactuals, time, determinism, and fundamentality. Simplicity, exactness, and objectivity are discussed to see whether and how they may be associated with laws of physics.

Elements in the Philosophy of Physics

96pp

Jun. 2024 9781009012720 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Logical Empiricism as Scientific Philosophy

Richardson, Alan W. | University of British Columbia

This Element argues that while Logical empiricism was committed to empiricism and did become tied to the trajectory of analytic Philosophy, neither empiricism nor Logical analysis per se was the deepest philosophical commitment of Logical empiricism.

Elements in the Philosophy of Science

80pp

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Mathematical Pluralism

Priest, Graham | City University of New York

This Element provides an introduction to the position of mathematical pluralism that it is the view that there is an irreducible plurality of pure mathematical structures, each with their own internal Logics; and that qua pure mathematical structures they are all equally legitimate.

Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics

82pp

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Mathematical Rigour and Informal Proof

Stanley Tanswell, Fenner | Loughborough University

This Element surveys some of the main options in the literature: the standard view that rigour is Logical, the models of proofs as arguments and dialogues, the recipe model of proofs as guiding actions and activities, and the idea of mathematical rigour as an intellectual virtue.

Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics

90pp

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Metaphysics and the Sciences

Morganti, Matteo | Roma Tre University, Italy

This Element presents and critically examines the relationship between metaphysics and the sciences. Section 1 provides a brief introduction. Section 2 addresses methodoLogical issues. Section 3 describe the milder forms of naturalism about metaphysics. Section 4 reflects on pressing open problems in scientifically oriented metaphysics.

Elements in Metaphysics

78pp

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Metaphysics of Causation

Kistler, Max | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

This Element accounts for causation in terms of 1)regularities and laws of nature, 2) conditional probabilities and Bayes nets, 3) necessitation between universals and causal powers, 4) counterfactual dependence, 5) interventions and causal models, and 6) processes and mechanisms. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in Metaphysics

75pp

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Number Concepts

An Interdisciplinary Inquiry

Samuels, Richard | Ohio State University

This Element aims to review and critically assess research on number-concepts within developmental psychology and cognitive science, in a manner that is helpful to researchers within both Philosophy and the relevant sciences.

Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics

100pp

Feb. 2024 9781009055536 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Opinion Pooling

Elkin, Lee | Erasmus University Rotterdam

This Element survey explores linear, multiplicative, and imprecise probability pooling options. It assesses these based on axiomatic approaches and epistemic and practical goals. It connects opinion pooling to philosophical issues in social epistemology and the Philosophy of action. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in Decision Theory and Philosophy

75pp

Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review

Levy, Neil | Macquarie University, Sydney

This Element examines some of the concerns on peer review that it no longer is fit to ensure that published work meets high standards of rigor and interest. It uses evidence that critics of peer review sometimes cite to show its failures. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in Epistemology

74pp

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Preference Change

Strohmaier, David | University of Cambridge

In recent years, decision theory has increasingly acknowledged the reality of preference change throughout life. This Element provides an accessible introduction and new contributions to the debates on preference change.

Elements in Decision Theory and Philosophy

96pp

Feb. 2024 9781009181853 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Rationality and Time Bias

Podgorski, Abelard | National University of Singapore

This Element is an opinionated, non-technical guided tour through the main philosophical issues about the relevance of the temporal location of our experiences to our desires and our choices, and the major arguments for and against different kinds of so-called time bias, highlighting the difficulty in justifying these tendencies.

Elements in Decision Theory and Philosophy

75pp

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eISBN 9781009315203

Nov. 2024 9781009216937 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Science and the Public

Potochnik, Angela | University of Cincinnati

This Element explores the relationship between science and the public with resources from Philosophy of science. It covers science’s relationship to the public, public trust in science, science denial, expanded participation in science, and science’s obligation to the public.

Elements in the Philosophy of Science

84pp

Apr. 2024 9781009048828 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Scientific Models and Decision Making

Winsberg, Eric | University of Cambridge and University of South Florida

This Element introduces the philosophical literature on models, with an emphasis on normative considerations relevant to models for decisionmaking. It establishes the need for strategies to manage value judgments in modelling, including the potential for public participation in the process.

Elements in the Philosophy of Science

82pp

Feb. 2024 9781009014328 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Slime Mould and Philosophy

Sims, Matthew | Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Physarum polycephalum, a unicellular organism has gained attention as a model for studying cognitive abilities in organisms lacking nervous systems. This Element aims to demonstrate how Physarum can enrich the Philosophy of biology by challenging conventional bioLogical theories and refining key concepts through its behaviors and capabilities.

Elements in the Philosophy of Biology

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009488617 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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The Measurement of Subjective Probability

Elliott, Edward J. R. | University of Leeds

This Element discusses the main approaches to the measurement of belief. Epistemic approaches explain the measurement of belief by appeal to relations between belief states themselves, whereas decision-theoretic approaches appeal to relations between beliefs and desires in the production of choice and preference.

Elements in Decision Theory and Philosophy

90pp

May 2024 9781009401326 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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The Mereology of Classes

Uzquiano, Gabriel | University of Southern California

Mereology is the theory of the relation of part to whole, and we will ask how that relation applies to classes. This Element considers two main perspectives on the mereology of classes on which classes are indeed composed of further parts. One of the purposes of this work is to explain what is at stake with each choice.

Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics

80pp

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eISBN 9781009092241

The Skeptic and the Veridicalist

On the Difference Between Knowing What There Is and Knowing What Things Are Avnur, Yuval | Scripps College

This Element explores skepticism about the external world by considering an essential anti-skeptical strategy. The strategy is to posit a metaphysical view of external objects nullifying standard skeptical scenarios. Skepticism of objects reveals the nature of the problem and solution.

Elements in Epistemology

62pp

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Transcendental Epistemology

Cheng, Tony | National Chengchi University

This Element takes up the challenge of elucidating the nature of transcendental arguments, embedded in the wider context of transcendental epistemology. It is argued that the key premise “transcendental conditional” is synthetic, necessary, and a posteriori.

Elements in Epistemology

80pp

Feb. 2024 9781009243827 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Wittgenstein and Ethics

Christensen, Anne-Marie Søndergaard | University of Southern Denmark

This element investigates Ludwig Wittgenstein’s engagement with Ethics in both early and later thinking. Starting from the remarks on Ethics in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and the framing of these remarks, it presents two influential approaches to Tractarian Ethics.

Elements in the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein

78pp

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Wittgenstein and Russell

Shieh, Sanford | Wesleyan University, Connecticut

This Element provides clear and concise explanations of Wittgenstein’s early criticisms of Russell’s theory of judgment, which led to central features of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. It provides unfamiliar students with these issues an accurate and straightforward introduction. For specialists, it outlines some significant recent research.

Elements in the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein

106pp

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Wittgenstein on Knowledge and Certainty

Moyal-Sharrock, Danièle | University of Hertfordshire

This Element explores Wittgenstein’s On Certainty, a groundbreaking discussion on knowledge and certainty. It discusses interpretative readings, including non-propositional and propositional interpretations, and examines the work of prominent figures in epistemology.

Elements in the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein

75pp

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Wittgenstein on Music

Guter, Eran | The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College

In this Element, the author set out to answer a twofold question concerning the importance of music to Wittgenstein’s philosophical progression and the otherness of this sort of philosophical importance vis-à-vis Philosophy of music as practiced today in the analytic tradition.

Elements in the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein

86pp

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Wittgenstein on Realism and Idealism

Cerbone, David R. | West Virginia University

This Element concerns Wittgenstein’s evolving attitude toward the opposition between realism and idealism in Philosophy. Wittgenstein can be understood as rejecting both positions, while nonetheless seeing insights in each position worth retaining. Wittgenstein was insistent on seeing language and thought as worldly phenomena.

Elements in the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein

80pp

Feb. 2024 9781108827027 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009475631 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Words and Worlds

New Directions in the Philosophy of Language Volume 95

Baggini, Julian | The Royal Institute of Philosophy

The papers in this volume exemplify new directions taken in the Philosophy of language, addressing topics such as joint deliberation, slurs and self-making. They also offer a new take on the problem of aboutness and show how ancient Chinese Philosophy challenges assumptions about language and its Philosophy.

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements

208pp

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Cavell’s Must We Mean

What We Say? at 50

Chase, Greg | College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts Cavell’s Must We Mean What We Say? revolutionized Philosophy of ordinary language, aesthetics, Ethics, Wittgenstein, Austin, literature, and modernism. These accessible and penetrating essays by distinguished scholars explain how to enter into the sound, the content, and the lasting significance of this distinctively American philosophical voice.

Cambridge Philosophical Anniversaries

259pp

Apr. 2024 9781009096546 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781009099714

Jun. 2024 9781009544320 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 39.00

eISBN 9781009544344

Philosophy of mind and language

Animal Minds

Halina, Marta | University of Cambridge

This Element shows how researchers address the question that has received much attention in the field of comparative cognition: ‘Do animals reason about unobservable variables like force and mental states?’ It argues that studies on animal minds would benefit from drawing more heavily on neuroscience and biology.

Elements in Philosophy of Mind

78pp

Apr. 2024 9781009113465 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Bayesian Models of the Mind

Rescorla, Michael | University of California, Los Angeles

Bayesian decision theory is a mathematical framework used by cognitive scientists to model reasoning and decision-making under uncertain conditions. It has been used to describe the human mind, revealing mental processes like perception, motor control, and navigation. This Element provides an introduction to Bayesian cognitive science.

Elements in Philosophy of Mind

75pp

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Cognitive Ontology

Taxonomic Practices in the Mind-Brain Sciences

Khalidi, Muhammad Ali | City University of New York

Cognitive scientists aim to understand the ways in which psychoLogical functions relate to brain structures. This book examines taxonomic practices in cognitive science and proposes a new understanding of the nature of cognitive categories, and a novel account of the ways in which cognitive constructs relate to neural constructs.

295pp

Nov. 2024 9781108958295 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Sep. 2024 9781009223621 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

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Human Reasoning

Over, David E | University of Durham

This Element is on new developments in the psychology of reasoning that raise or address philosophical questions. It discusses a new Bayesian paradigm that views ordinary human reasoning as mostly inferring probabilistic conclusions from degrees of beliefs. It also covers new formulations of dual-process theories of the mind.

Elements in Philosophy of Mind

82pp

Jun. 2024 9781009495318 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jun. 2024 9781009495363 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Kripke’s Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language at 40

Verheggen, Claudine | York University, Toronto

A major reassessment, by leading philosophers of language and mind, of one of the most celebrated and influential books of the past forty years, Saul Kripke’s Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language. The volume demonstrates that many of the issues first introduced by Kripke, both exegetical and philosophical, remain urgent and unsettled.

Cambridge Philosophical Anniversaries

288pp

Feb. 2024 9781009098212 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009099103

Neurolaw

Caruso, Gregg D. | SUNY Corning

This Element addresses the potential contributions of neuroscience, and the brain sciences more generally, to criminal justice decision-making and policy. It distinguishes between three different areas and domains of investigation in neurolaw: assessment, intervention, and revision.

Elements in Philosophy of Mind

88pp

Mar. 2024 9781009271158 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness

Mørch, Hedda Hassel | Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences

This Element will introduce the main nonphysicalist theories of consciousness and explain the most important arguments for them, and consider how they each respond to the scientific and other arguments in support of physicalism. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in Philosophy of Mind

88pp

Feb. 2024 9781009317337 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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eISBN 9781009317344

Personal Identity and the Self

Madden, Rory | University College London

This Element raises the questions What are we? What owns our thoughts and experiences? Are we anything at all? addressing the ‘no-bearer’ theory of experience and the ‘no-self’ contention. It discusses the classic challenge to animalism and thinking parts problem. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in Philosophy of Mind

75pp

Philosophy of science

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A Logical Foundation for Potentialist Set Theory

Berry, Sharon

Berry discusses motivations for, and alternatives to, the Potentialist approach to set theory, providing a new and more intuitive justification for the standard axioms of set theory. This book will interest students and scholars of the Philosophy of set theory, modal Logic, and the role of mathematics in the sciences.

248pp

Apr. 2024 9781108994880 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

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An Introduction to the Philosophy of science

Second edition

Staley, Kent W. | St Louis University, Missouri

Guiding readers through the central philosophical debates within the Philosophy of science, this thoroughly updated second edition includes topics such as scientific rationality, objectivity, and progress; the philosophical importance of scientific models; and the impact of feminist ideas on our understanding of science.

Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy

418pp

Nov. 2024 9781009570510 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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eISBN 9781009570497

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Qualitative Consciousness

Themes from the Philosophy of David Rosenthal

Weisberg, Josh | University of Houston

This collection investigates themes from the Philosophy of the influential philosopher of mind

David Rosenthal, focusing on key ideas in the study of qualitative consciousness, conscious experience marked by sensory qualities like felt pain or the experienced colors of a sunset. The essays elaborate, criticize, and refine Rosenthal’s views.

319pp

Apr. 2024 9781108738132 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781108768085

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Cultural Selection

Lewens, Tim | University of Cambridge

This Element argues that cultural selection is not necessary for the explanation of cultural adaptation; it shows how to build hybrid explanations that draw on aspects of cultural selection and cultural attraction theory; it shows how cultural reproduction makes problems for highly formalised approaches to cultural selection. Elements in the Philosophy of Biology

75pp

Jun. 2024 9781009539098 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Evolution and Development

Conceptual Issues

Love, Alan C. | University of Minnesota

A philosophical exploration of the interdisciplinary nature of evo-devo and its concepts, including conserved mechanisms, deep homology, and evolutionary novelty. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in the Philosophy of Biology

98pp

Mar. 2024 9781108727525 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Feminist Philosophy of science

Bueter, Anke | Aarhus Universitet, Denmark

This Element argues that diversity is needed both in terms of social locations and of values, to overcome former biases and blind spots. Diversity as such is insufficient. To reap its epistemic benefits, diversity needs to be institutionalised in a way that counters various forms of epistemic injustice.

Elements in the Philosophy of science

84pp

Jun. 2024 9781108958349 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions at 60

Wray, K. Brad | Aarhus Universitet, Denmark

Since its first edition in 1962, Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions has sold more than one million copies and continues to be read and studied today. This volume of new essays offers a way into Kuhn’s Philosophy and demonstrates the continuing relevance of Kuhn’s ideas for our understanding of science.

Cambridge Philosophical Anniversaries

326pp

Philosophy of Physical Magnitudes

Martens, Niels C. M. | Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands

Dimensional quantities such as length, mass and charge, i.e., numbers combined with a conventional unit, are essential components of theories in the sciences. This Element illustrates questions about them by imagining how one would convey the meaning of a kilogram to aliens if one were only allowed to communicate via Morse code. Elements in the Philosophy of Physics

58pp

Apr. 2024 9781009233682 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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NEW IN PAPERBACK Mechanisms

in Science Method or Metaphysics?

Ioannidis, Stavros | University of Athens, Greece

The current philosophical consensus is that science searches for mechanisms. This book re-evaluates central features of this consensus arguing that ‘mechanism’ as used in scientific practice is a methodoLogical concept, which implies no deep metaphysical commitments.

289pp

Apr. 2024 9781009011495 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

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Numerical Cognition and the Epistemology of Arithmetic

Pantsar, Markus | Aachen University of Technology

Arithmetic is one of the foundations of our educational systems, but what exactly is it?

This book provides a philosophical account of arithmetical knowledge that is based on the stateof-the-art empirical studies of numerical cognition. It explains how humans have developed arithmetic from humble origins to its modern status.

266pp

Science, Medicine, and the Aims of Inquiry

A Philosophical Analysis

Varga, Somogy | Aarhus Universitet, Denmark

Amid criticism of medicine’s scientific rigor and patient care, this book offers a philosophical examination of the nature and aims of medicine, and new perspectives on how these challenges can be addressed. It offers input for rethinking the agenda of medical research, healthcare delivery, and the education of healthcare personnel.

244pp

Mar. 2024 9781009468886 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009468862

May 2024 9781009450010 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

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The Constitution of Science

Mantzavinos, C. | University of Athens, Greece

How can science be protected, by whom and at what level? Mantzavinos introduces the idea of a ‘Constitution of Science’ as a vital means to channel the scientific process effectively. Will appeal to audiences who have concerns about the long-lasting attacks on science.

215pp

Nov. 2024 9781009509176 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Nov. 2024 9781009509183 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

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The Euclidean Programme

Paseau, A. C. | University of Oxford

This Element shows that Euclidean Programme (EP) embodies a traditional sort of epistemoLogical foundationalism about mathematics. This Element is devoted to an examination of the EP. The authors propose a rational reconstruction of the EP’s key principles, superior to the axiomatic method. Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics

82pp 6 b/w illus.

Feb. 2024 9781009221986 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory

Concepts, Inferences, and Probabilities

Sober, Elliott | University of Wisconsin, Madison Fitness, natural selection, common ancestry, mutation, chance, taxonomy, and adaptation are central concepts in Darwin’s theory of evolution, and in the 20th and 21st century theories that grew out of it. This book uses ideas about probability to discuss philosophical questions that these concepts raise.

308pp

Philosophy texts

Kant on Rational Sympathy

Vilhauer, Benjamin | City University of New York, City College and Graduate Center

This Element explains Kant’s distinction between rational sympathy and natural sympathy. In rational sympathy, we freely use the imagination to step into others’ first-person perspectives and associate imagined intuitional contents with the concepts others use to communicate their feelings. This prompts feelings in us that are like their feelings.

Feb. 2024 9781009376013 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 26.99

Feb. 2024 9781009376051 Hardback GBP 65.00 / USD 85.00

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The Philosophy of Symmetry

Yii Wye Teh, Nicholas Joshua | University of Notre Dame

This Element introduces the Philosophy of physical symmetry. It stresses both the continuity with historically important themes such as the Relativity Principle, as well as novel insights earned by working with contemporary media such as the covariant phase space and derived critical locus formalisms.

Elements in the Philosophy of Physics

86pp

Jun. 2024 9781009005043 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jun. 2024 9781009507301 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009008600

The Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge

Consensus, Controversy, and Coproduction

Miller, Boaz | Zefat Academic College

This Element explores the social dimensions of scientific knowledge, focusing on its social nature, its development, and its real-world application. It explores the conditions for consensus in a scientific community, how to handle scientific dissent, and how epistemic and social elements mutually interact to coproduce scientific knowledge.

Elements in the Philosophy of science

75pp

Elements in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009371179 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009486606 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009371193

Kant on the History and Development of Practical Reason

Lenczewska, Olga | University of North Carolina, Wilmington and University of Warsaw

This Element explores Kant’s history of human reason, focusing on his teleoLogical vision of rational capacities’ development from emergence to Enlightenment. The author aims to connect Kant’s speculative account of rationality’s beginning to his theory of human progress, elucidating his hopes for future progress.

Nov. 2024 9781108706711 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009507233 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781108588782

Philosophy of social science

Karl Popper

O’Hear, Anthony | University of Buckingham

Sir Karl Popper was a major thinker of the twentieth century. The several chapters in this classic volume focus on many key elements of Popper’s thought and Philosophy, which remain deeply relevant today. This important book constitutes an essential introduction to some the most esteemed philosophical writing of our times.

Talking Philosophy

462pp

Elements in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant 75pp

Jan. 2025 9781009216784 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Thomas Aquinas: Questions on the Passions

Summa Theologiae 1a2ae 22-48

Miner, Robert | Providence College, Rhode Island

Thomas Aquinas’s Questions on the passions form part of the Summa Theologiae, Aquinas’s best-known work; this first standalone edition elucidates the work’s historical and philosophical significance. This book is for students of Ethics, philosophical psychology, and the history of emotions.

312pp

May 2024 9781009230094 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.99

eISBN 9781009230100

Oct. 2024 9781009450348 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009450379

Political Philosophy

Glory, Humiliation, and the Drive to War

Eisikovits, Nir | University of Massachusetts, Boston If wars are so bad, why do we keep fighting? Drawing on Philosophy, psychology, history, and literature to explain how political leaders exploit old resentments and injuries to fuel new conflicts, this book argues that feelings of political humiliation and promises of glory are central in the drive to war.

213pp

Nov. 2024 9781316515716 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009026451

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Homer and the Tradition of Political Philosophy

Encounters with Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche

Ahrensdorf, Peter J. | Davidson College, North Carolina

This book demonstrates the crucial role played by Homer as a philosophic thinker in the thought of Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche concerning the relation among politics, religion, and Philosophy and in their debates concerning human nature, morality, the proper education for human excellence, and the best way of life.

333pp

Aug. 2024 9781107561977 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781316417591

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Public Reason and Diversity

Reinterpretations of Liberalism

Gaus, Gerald

Gerald Gaus developed a pioneering defence of the liberal order based on its unique capacity to handle diversity and disagreement. This book brings together his most seminal and creative essays in a single volume for the first time. It will interest readers in Political Philosophy, political science, and economics.

282pp

Apr. 2024 9781009068307 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781009067867

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The Police and the State Security, Social Cooperation, and the Public Good

del Pozo, Brandon | Brown University, Rhode Island

As the United States faces a crisis in policing amidst rising levels of violence, a political philosopher with over two decades of experience working as a New York City police officer and Vermont chief of police sets out a much-needed account of what policing means for our turbulent democracy.

260pp

Twentieth-century Philosophy

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Cassirer and Heidegger in Davos

The Philosophical Arguments

Truwant, Simon | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

The 1929 debate between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger in Davos is considered one of the most important intellectual debates of the twentieth century and a founding moment of continental Philosophy. This is the first comprehensive philosophical analysis of the content and arguments of this fascinating and often misunderstood debate.

274pp

Apr. 2024 9781009011440 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781009019569

Contemporary Pagan Philosophy

Steinhart, Eric | William Paterson University

One of the most remarkable features of the current religious landscape in the West is the emergence of new Pagan religions. Here the author will use techniques from recent analytic Philosophy of religion to try to clarify and understand the major themes in contemporary Paganisms. Elements in Global Philosophy of Religion

75pp

Jan. 2025 9781009452380 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jan. 2025 9781009452359 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Heidegger and Kierkegaard

Aug. 2024 9781009215459 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

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Renaissance Philosophy

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Philosophy and the Language

of the People

The Claims of Common Speech from Petrarch to Locke Nauta, Lodi | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands

Which language should we use in Philosophy: technical or common language? Medieval philosophers and Renaissance humanists differed widely on this matter. This book shows how an appeal to common language by humanists and philosophers such as Hobbes and Locke led to a democratization of language and knowledge.

281pp

Apr. 2024 9781108994118 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108991476

Pattison, George | St Andrew’s and Copenhagen Universities

After setting out the context of Heidegger’s reception of the Danish thinker and examining his likely knowledge of his writings, this Element examines key Kierkegaardian concepts that are explicitly present in Being and Time, including existence, ‘idle talk’ (Gerede), anxiety, the moment of vision, repetition, and the significance of death.

Elements in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009417471 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Heidegger on Being Affected

Withy, Katherine | Georgetown University, Washington DC

This Element explores how being finding allows things to matter to us in attunements such as fear and hope by allowing those things to show up as benefits or detriments to our pursuits and so to put those pursuits at stake.

Elements in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger 70pp

Jun. 2024 9781009504096 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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Heidegger

on Eastern/ Asian Thought

Ma, Lin | Renmin University of China, Beijing

This Element elucidates the metamorphoses of Heidegger’s comportment toward Eastern/Asian thought from the 1910s to the 1960s. With a holistic view to all kinds of ‘East’, it considers how Heidegger’s diversified ‘dialogues’ with the East are embedded in the course of his Denkweg in different phases.

Elements in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger

92pp

Oct. 2024 9781009536691 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Oct. 2024 9781009536738 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Heidegger on Logic

Casati, Filippo | Lehigh University, Pennsylvania

Every philosophy is a celebration of the fact that being can be thought, that the world around us yields to concepts that join together into arguments which can lead us to new thoughts and new ways of thinking. Heidegger’s great talent was to never lose his philosophical wonder at philosophy, to never stop thinking about thinking.

288pp

Apr. 2024 9781108798792 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781108869188

Heidegger on Poetic Thinking

Bambach, Charles | University of Texas at Dallas

This Element places Heidegger’s poetic thinking in conversation with Sophocles and Hölderlin to situate his critique of global technology and instrumental thinking in the postwar years. It also offers a critique of Heidegger’s efforts to arrogate poetic thinking to his own aim of a destinal form of German national self-assertion through poetry.

Elements in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger 75pp

Heidegger’s Being and Time

A Critical Guide

Wendland, Aaron James | King’s College London Heidegger’s Being and Time is widely regarded as his most important work and it has profoundly influenced Twentieth-century Philosophy. This Critical Guide examines Being and Time through the lens of phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, metaphysics, epistemology, and feminist Philosophy.

Cambridge Critical Guides

319pp

Nov. 2024 9781009570558 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009570572 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009570565

Heidegger on Religion

Crowe, Benjamin D. | Boston University

Throughout his career, Heidegger explored the religious sides of life in ways that had far-reaching impacts on the thought of his contemporaries and successors. This study examines three important stops along Heidegger’s ways of thinking about religion as the risky performance of life in new spaces of possibility.

Elements in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009459815 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009459785 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009459761

Heidegger on Thinking

Braver, Lee | University of South Florida

Every philosophy is a celebration of the fact that being can be thought, that the world around us yields to concepts that join together into arguments which can lead us to new thoughts and new ways of thinking. Heidegger’s great talent was to never lose his philosophical wonder at philosophy, to never stop thinking about thinking.

Elements in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger

Dec. 2024 9781009466943 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009466950 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009466929

Apr. 2025 9781108496001 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781108865579

Heidegger’s Concept of Science

Goldberg, Paul

This Element argues that Heidegger’s concept of science has two core features. Heidegger critiques a security-oriented concept of science, meanwhile advancing an access-oriented concept of science.

Elements in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009523530 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009523554 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009523523

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Heidegger’s

Social Ontology

The Phenomenology of Self, World, and Others

Knudsen, Nicolai K. | Aarhus Universitet, Denmark

This book offers a comprehensive account of Martin Heidegger’s social Philosophy. It reconstructs Heidegger’s accounts of social cognition, collective intentionality, and social normativity, while also reassessing the significance of his existentialist account of authenticity and his affiliation with Nazism.

Modern European Philosophy

294pp

Apr. 2024 9781009114011 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781009122672

Interpreting Carnap

Critical Essays

Richardson, Alan | University of British Columbia, Vancouver

A comprehensive, systematic, and historical collection of essays on Rudolf Carnap’s Philosophy and legacy, written by leading international experts. This volume provides a redressing of Carnap’s place in the history of analytic Philosophy, through his approach to metaphysics, values, politics, epistemology and Philosophy of science.

324pp

Feb. 2024 9781009098205 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009099080

Interpreting R. G. Collingwood

Critical Essays

Collins, David | Churchill College, Cambridge

Offering a comprehensive overview of R. G. Collingwood’s contributions to several areas of Philosophy, this volume spans the wide range of his interests, including metaphysics, epistemology, Philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and Political Philosophy. It will stimulate further examination of Collingwood and his legacy.

300pp

Nov. 2024 9781009337052 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009337021

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Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy

A New Reading of Six Thinkers

Somers-Hall, Henry | Royal Holloway, University of London

Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy develops a series of new readings of key figures in the French tradition that together constitute a new reading of the tradition itself. Written in an accessible style, it will be of interest to both students and established scholars.

Modern European Philosophy

276pp

Apr. 2024 9781009048637 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781009047920

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Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception On the Body Informed

Mooney, Timothy D. | University College Dublin

This in-depth introduction to Merleau-Ponty’s greatest work provides a clear and compelling exposition of his theory of the body schema, of our expressive bodies and of our projective being in the world. This book will be valuable for all those interested in the Philosophy and phenomenology of the body.

Modern European Philosophy

271pp

Apr. 2024 9781009223393 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781009223416

Nietzsche on the Eternal Recurrence

Sinhababu, Neil | National University of Singapore

The idea of the eternal recurrence is that we will live the exact same lives again an infinite number of times. Nietzsche appreciates that this would multiply the value of a single life by infinity, justifying intense emotional responses.

Elements in the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

75pp

Jan. 2025 9781009443210 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jan. 2025 9781009517478 Hardback USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009443180

Nietzsche on Virtue

Alfano, Mark | Macquarie University, Sydney

This Element argues for an interpretation of Nietzsche on virtue according to which he believes that because different people have different constellations of instincts and other drives, he recommends different virtues as fitting and conducive to flourishing for different types of people.

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009417372 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009517386 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009417402

Nietzsche’s Revaluation of All Values

Brobjer, Thomas H. | Uppsala University

Why is Nietzsche’s thought and Philosophy still regarded as relevant today? There are a large number of possible answers to a question like this, but one of the most important and persuasive is that Nietzsche questioned and discussed the nature, character and value of our values.

Elements in the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

75pp

Jan. 2025 9781009421638 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jan. 2025 9781009539470 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009421652

Otto Neurath in Britain

Burke, Christopher | University of Reading

This comprehensive and accessible account of Otto Neurath’s time in British exile during World War II provides a detailed consideration and a new understanding of Neurath’s work in fields as diverse as filmmaking, Philosophy and economics, and chronicles his enthusiastic adaptation to British life.

350pp

Nov. 2024 9781009376297 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009376280

Rethinking Death in and after Heidegger

Thomson, Iain D. | University of New Mexico

A powerful and illuminating re-examination of Heidegger’s understanding of existential death and its enduring importance for Philosophy and life, this book explains the pivotal role which death plays in Being and Time, in the development of Heidegger’s mature thinking, in the post-Heideggerian continental tradition, and beyond.

394pp

Dec. 2024 9781009480086 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009480048

The African Mood Perspective on God and the Problem of Evil

Agada, Ada | Federal University Otuoke

This Element concisely and critically explores the African limited God perspective that denies that the categories of omnipotence, omniscience, and omnibenevolence are applicable to the God of African Traditional Religion (ATR).

Elements in Global Philosophy of Religion

75pp

Jan. 2025 9781009452687 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jan. 2025 9781009452663 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009452694

Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

A Critical Guide

Zalabardo, José L. | University College London

Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, the only book-length work to have been published during his lifetime, continues to generate interest and scholarly debate. This volume of new essays showcases contemporary ideas on how to interpret the Tractatus and throws new light on some of its most challenging passages.

Cambridge Critical Guides

246pp

Mar. 2024 9781316512548 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009067690

Religion

Biblical studies - New Testament

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Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation

Roasting Rome

Emanuel, Sarah | Colby College, Maine

Will appeal to those interested in the book of Revelation, humor and the Bible, the Jewishness of the New Testament, and contemporary and critical approaches to the New Testament. This book positions Revelation within an ancient Jewish context and demonstrates the ways in which the author used humor as a means of resisting Roman power.

246pp

Sep. 2024 9781108721738 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781108634250

Jesus and the Visibility of God

Sight and Belief in the Fourth Gospel

Irwin, Luke | Covenant University, Georgia

Although scholars have debated the link between empirical senses and belief in the Gospel of John, few have queried their own presuppositions about the invisibility of God. In this study, Luke Irwin establishes the value of God’s physical incarnation for belief, arguing that the theoLogical nature of belief derives from a God who makes himself physically visible in the world

Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, 185

266pp

Jan. 2025 9781009477048 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009477055

Luke’s Unique Parables

Genesis Narratives and Interpretations of Jesus Carmichael, Calum | Cornell University, New York Calum Carmichael presents a new perspective on how parables unique to Luke’s Gospel were composed. Providing literary and linguistic analyses, he demonstrates how Luke, like many of his contemporaries, absorbed the narrative legacy of the Hebrew Bible and used it to express ideas about Jesus.

203pp

Feb. 2025 9781009577885 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009577878

NEW IN PAPERBACK Mesopotamian

Civilization

and the Origins of the New Testament

Baker, Robin

Redefines conceptions of the New Testament’s origins by illuminating the East’s contribution to the formation of early Christology. This book provides a missing link between scholarship on the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East and scholarship on the New Testament and early Christianity.

504pp

Sep. 2024 9781009102018 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009106634

Paul and Judaism at the End of History

Novenson, Matthew V. | Princeton TheoLogical Seminary, New Jersey

Aimed at scholars and students in New Testament studies, Jewish studies, religious studies, and Christian theology, this book reconsiders the letters of Paul in relation to both Judaism and Christianity, showing how Paul’s belief in the imminent end of the world relates in complicated ways to each Religion.

324pp

Oct. 2024 9781316519844 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009019354

Paul and Secular Singleness in 1 Corinthians 7

Danylak, Barry N. | SEE International

Unlocks the ascetic conundrum in Paul’s discussion of singleness in 1 Corinthians 7 leveraging material sources and Epicureanism. This book offers a fresh understanding of singleness in Paul’s day that clarifies his argument and portrays a picture of Paul’s audience that resonates with our modern world.

Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series

364pp

Apr. 2024 9781009373883 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009373838

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Sarcasm in Paul’s Letters

Pawlak, Matthew | Luxembourg School of Religion & Society

This book is the first treatment of sarcasm in New Testament studies. A direct contribution to work on Paul, and with interdisciplinary case studies on the Septuagint and Lucian, anyone working with ancient Greek texts containing irony-whether in theology, religious studies, Old Testament, classics, or humour studies-will need to cite this book.

Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series

292pp

Aug. 2024 9781009271905 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009271929

The Author in Early Christian Literature

Bonar, Chance E. | Tufts University

This Element explores how early Christian writers began to care deeply about ‘correct’ attribution of both Christian and non-Christian literature for their own apologetic purposes, as well as how scholars have overlooked the function that orthonymity plays in some early Christian texts.

Elements in Early Christian Literature

75pp

Jan. 2025 9781009481403 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jan. 2025 9781009481380 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009481397

The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Narrative

Bodner, Keith | Crandall University, Canada

This Companion offers an overview and introduction to an exciting field within literary interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures and New Testament. Designed for use in undergraduate and graduate courses, this book will serve as an excellent resource for instructors and students interested in understanding and interpreting biblical narrative.

Cambridge Companions to Religion

348pp

Jun. 2025 9781108810289 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Jun. 2025 9781108841290 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00

eISBN 9781108888882

The Letters of Paul

in

their Roman Literary Context

Reassessing Apostolic Authorship

Livesey, Nina E. | University of Oklahoma

This study argues that the seven letters of Paul, widely assumed as authentic, should be reclassified as pseudonymous. Nina E. Livesey suggests that authors of Pauline letters exploited the letter genre for its rhetorical benefits to promote disciplinary teachings, and dates the letters’ emergence to the mid-second century.

364pp

The Making of the Synoptic Gospels

Exploring the Ancient Sources

Rainbow, Paul A. | Sioux Falls Seminary, South Dakota

Why are the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke so similar, yet different? Paul A. Rainbow challenges theories that the evangelists modified each other’s work, offering a nuanced hypothesis of a proto-gospel, which the three evangelists independently translated into Greek from Hebrew and enriched with oral testimonies and written fragments.

300pp

Nov. 2024 9781009485371 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009485401

The Nag Hammadi Codices and their Ancient Readers

Exploring Textual Materiality and Reading Practice

Linjamaa, Paul | Lunds Universitet, Sweden

Since their discovery in 1945, the Nag Hammadi Codices have generated scholarly debate as to their date and function. This study analyses the palaeography and codicology of the manuscripts, focusing on paratextual elements and scribal features. Linjamaa explores how Pachomian monks used the texts for spiritual development and pedagogical practices.

280pp

Dec. 2024 9781009487054 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009487061

The Life of Jesus in the Writings of Origen of Alexandria

Johnson, Samuel B. | Mount St. Mary’s Seminary & School of Theology, Ohio

This study demonstrates that Origen of Alexandria believed the Gospel writers themselves were figurative readers of the life of Jesus. Origen thus found no contradiction between discerning the truth of the Christian Gospels and facing the critical challenges of their literary form and formation.

221pp

Jan. 2024 9781009441469 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009441483

The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus

Bockmuehl, Markus | University of Oxford

The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus serves as the most up to date guide for understanding Jesus’ multifaceted legacy, enduring impact over time and space, and relevance in today’s world. Integrating textual, historical, theoLogical, and cultural perspectives, this book offers a fresh overview of Jesus’ significance in contemporary global contexts.

Cambridge Companions to Religion

430pp

May 2025 9781009465601 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009465571

Nov. 2024 9781009232999 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99

Nov. 2024 9781009233026 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009233002

Biblical studies - Old Testament, Hebrew Bible

NEW IN PAPERBACK Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible

From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor Feder, Yitzhaq | University of Haifa, Israel

This book analyses the biblical notions of purity and pollution as they relate to the body. It integrates psychoLogical and anthropoLogical insights to explain their implications for understanding infectious disease, sexuality, diet, souls and morality in ancient Israel.

335pp

Jul. 2024 9781009045650 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009042642

The

Bible’s First Kings

Uncovering the Story of Saul, David, and Solomon Faust, Avraham | Bar Ilan University, Israel

This book argues that the Jewish kingdom of the Bible was real, as were its first three kings, Saul, David, and Solomon – even if the biblical stories distort their actions to glorify them. Combining fresh archaeoLogical evidence with astute readings of key texts, the authors offer a compelling reconstruction of this fascinating ancient polity.

350pp

Dec. 2024 9781009526333 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 49.99

eISBN 9781009526364

The Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible

Wells, Bruce | University of Texas, Austin

This book is for students, scholars, and general readers who are interested in the legal texts and ideas of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). The book explains the nature and history of biblical law, the legal significance of its rules, and its influence on early Judaism and Christianity.

Cambridge Companions to Religion

408pp

Apr. 2024 9781108725668 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Apr. 2024 9781108493888 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00

eISBN 9781108636322

The

Cambridge Companion to the Book of Isaiah

Hays, Christopher B. | Fuller TheoLogical Seminary, California

The Cambridge Companion to Isaiah is aimed at students, teachers, and interested readers of all kinds who would like an up-to-date and reliable guide to the book of Isaiah. It includes diverse perspectives from leading scholars all over the world, and a wide range of methodoLogical approaches.

Cambridge Companions to Religion

400pp

The Feminized Hero in Second Temple Judaism

Wills, Lawrence M. | Boston University School of Theology

The turbulent Second Temple period produced searching biblical texts whose protagonist were more everyday figures who expressed their moral uncertainties more vocally. In this volume, Larry Wills offers a deep interrogation of these stories, uncovering the psychoLogical aspects of Jewish identity, moral life, and decisions that they explore.

173pp

Nov. 2024 9781009487160 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009487146

The Theology of the Book of Samuel

Goldingay, John | Fuller TheoLogical Seminary, California

The Old Testament book of Samuel is an intriguing narrative that offers an account of the origin of the monarchy in Israel. This book explores the theoLogical ideas in the narratives about Samuel, Saul, and David. This book uncovers key ideas about God’s involvement in the lives of people, and their involvement with him through prayer and worship.

Old Testament Theology

260pp

Nov. 2024 9781108456784 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Nov. 2024 9781108471862 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781108692809

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The Death Wish in the Hebrew Bible

Rhetorical Strategies for Survival

Levinson, Hanne Løland | University of Minnesota

The first book to explore the texts in the Hebrew Bible in which a character expresses a wish to die. The death wish is a powerful rhetorical strategy that provides an unrecognized source of empowerment for characters. Written to engage the general reader and students in Religion and biblical studies.

Society for Old Testament Study Monographs

195pp

Feb. 2024 9781108986540 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108986182

May 2024 9781009519731 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

May 2024 9781009519748 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00

eISBN 9781009519762

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The Theology of the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah

Nam, Roger S. | Emory University, Atlanta

Roger Nam offers a compelling argument in this volume regarding the theology of Ezra-Nehemiah: that the Judeans’ return migration, which extended over several generations, had a totalizing effect on the people. Nam explores the book’s prominent theoLogical themes, such as trauma, power, and identity, which take on a nuanced expression in diaspora.

Old Testament Theology

276pp

Nov. 2024 9781108438193 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Nov. 2024 9781108423625 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00

eISBN 9781108529044

The Wilderness Narratives in the Hebrew Bible

Religion, Politics, and Biblical Interpretation

Erisman, Angela Roskop

Angela Erisman offers a new way to think about the Pentateuch/Torah and its relationship to history in this book. She explores creative transformations of genre and offers groundbreaking readings of key episodes in the wilderness narratives. She provides new insights about the nature of the exodus, the identity of Moses, and his death.

300pp

Dec. 2024 9781108499750 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00

eISBN 9781108589826

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Why the Bible Began

An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins

Wright, Jacob L. | Emory University, Atlanta

Demonstrating how the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible represents the first, and one of the most elaborate, projects of ‘peoplehood,’ Wright tells the dramatic story of the Bible’s origins in relation to 1)a longstanding political division between North and South (Israel and Judah) and 2) the traumatic experience of defeat.

Dec. 2024 9781108796682 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.95

eISBN 9781108859240

Wine, Soil, and Salvation in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament

Scarlata, Mark | St Mellitus College, London

Mark Scarlata provides a biblical theology of wine in this volume through exploration of texts in the Hebrew Bible, later Jewish writings, and the New Testament. He shows how wine is intimately connected to soil, humanity, and harmony between humans and the natural world.

261pp

Conversion and the Contest of Creeds in Early Medieval Christianity

Szada, Marta | Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland

This study offers new perspectives on early medieval Christianity, exploring how interplays between religious diversity and politics shaped post-Roman Europe. Interrogating the ecclesiastical competition between Nicene and Homoian factions, Marta Szada examines religious dissent and the actions of Christians in successor kingdoms.

376pp

Nov. 2024 9781009551113 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009551151

Buddhism, Eastern Religions

Guru Nanak’s Transcendent Aesthetics

Singh, Nikky-Guninder Kaur | Colby College, Maine

In this immersive, engaging study of the poetic aesthetics of the first Sikh Guru, Nikky Singh explores his 974 hymns spread across the 1,430 pages of the Guru Granth Sahib. Offering authoritative analysis of Guru Nanak’s foundational compositions, the author reveals a consummate lyrical art seamlessly merged with metaphysical content.

300pp

Jun. 2024 9781009426442 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00

eISBN 9781009426435

Rebuilding St. Paul’s Outside the Walls

Architecture and the Catholic Revival in the 19th Century

Wittman, Richard | University of California, Santa Barbara Proposing a new prehistory of the great Catholic revival after 1850, this book traces the reconstruction the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls within the context of the Church’s struggle to adapt to a radically changing world.

448pp

Nov. 2024 9781009562539 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009562560

Church history

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Christianity and the Contest for Manhood in Late Antiquity

The Cappadocian Fathers and the Rhetoric of Masculinity

Howard, Nathan D.

By exploring gender and identity in fourth-century Cappadocia, where bishops used a rhetoric of contest to align with classical Greek masculinity, this book contributes to discussions about how gender, identity formation, and materiality shaped episcopal office and theology in late antiquity.

356pp

Sep. 2024 9781009088305 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009090827

Jan. 2024 9781009414524 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009414548

The Cambridge History of the Papacy

Volume 1 The Two Swords

Rollo-Koster, Joëlle | University of Rhode Island Throughout its history, the papacy has engaged with the world. Volume 1 addresses how the papacy became an institution, and how it distinguished itself from other powers, both secular and religious. It explores the papacy’s navigation, negotiation, and re-negotiation, initially of its role amid changing socio-political ideas and practices.

828pp

Mar. 2025 9781108485234 Hardback GBP 130.00 / USD 180.00

eISBN 9781108750608

The Cambridge History of the Papacy

Volume 2 The Governance of the Church

Rollo-Koster, Joëlle | University of Rhode Island Addressing the history of the papacy in the longue durée, it highlights developments and the differences between the first and second millennium of the papacy. It engages with the centrality of the popes within the Catholic Church and the claim of papal authority as it was exercised through the institution’s various governing instruments.

800pp

Mar. 2025 9781108493826 Hardback GBP 130.00 / USD 180.00

eISBN 9781108663410

The Cambridge History of the Papacy

Volume 3 Civil Society

Rollo-Koster, Joëlle | University of Rhode Island

Volume 3 frames questions around the papacy’s cultural influence, focusing on the influence that successive popes have had on a broad range of social and cultural developments in global societies. The topics covered reflect the vast scope of papal influence on everything from contestation of gender norms to questions of papal fashion.

802pp

Mar. 2025 9781108493772 Hardback GBP 130.00 / USD 180.00

eISBN 9781108662994

The Cambridge History of the Papacy 3 Hardback Book Set

Rollo-Koster, Joëlle | University of Rhode Island

The papacy is commonly referred to as the world’s oldest surviving institution and its capacity for survival and residual strength have fascinated historians. This Cambridge History explores how and why the papacy has endured across the centuries. It examines its role as an instrument of authority, governance, and social and cultural influence.

2400pp

Mar. 2025 9781108680950 Multiple copy pack GBP

The Church, Hypocrisy and Dissimulation

Volume 60

Cubitt, Catherine

This volume offers fascinating insights into the understudied question of the role of hypocrisy in the Church, a theme that touches upon tensions at the heart of Christian teaching and experience: the distance between ideal and lived practice, and conflicts between sincerity of faith and the demands of society and the state.

Studies in Church history

565pp

Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses

Magic, Aesthetics,

and Justice

Nasrallah, Laura Salah | Yale University, Connecticut

Ancient Christians lived in a world of ‘magic.’ They and others-particularly those of low status-used curses as ritual objects to seek justice from gods and other beings. These curses, and invective against them, reveal the complexity of ancient Mediterranean Religions and their aesthetics: their use of materiality, poetics, song, and incantation.

358pp

Aug. 2024 9781009567176 Hardback GBP 65.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781009567138

History of Religion

A Documentary History of Jewish–Christian Relations

From Antiquity to the Present Day

Kessler, Edward | University of Cambridge Jews and Christians have interacted for two millennia, yet there is no comprehensive, global study of their shared history. Comprising a broad collection of over 200 primary documents and commentaries, this book offers a chronoLogical and thematic approach to developments in the history of Jewish–Christian relations worldwide.

618pp

Oct. 2024 9781009292160 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009292146

Jun. 2024 9781009405737 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009405782

Anticultism in France

Scientology, Religious Freedom, and the Future of New and Minority Religions

Westbrook, Donald A. | San Jose State University

This Element introduces readers to the problem of anticultism and antireligious movements in France. It offers an overview of anticultism in France, discusses the case of American-born Church of Scientolog, and concludes with reflections on the future of new and minority Religions in France.

Elements in New Religious Movements

84pp

Jun. 2024 9781009551809 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jun. 2024 9781009551854 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009551816

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Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris

Preaching, Prologues, and Biblical Commentary

Smith, Randall B. | University of St Thomas, Houston Employing an in-depth study of the prologues and preaching skills of Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure, this book will spur a fundamental reconsideration of the scholastic culture of the High Middle Ages and of the educational culture that informed their impressive body of work whose influence is still widespread today.

462pp

Sep. 2024 9781108789356 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781108893084

Black Hebrew Israelites

Miller, Michael T.

This Element provides a general overview of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, its diverse history/ies, ideologies, and practices. It shows how different factions and trends have taken the forefront at different periods over its 140-year history.

Elements in New Religious Movements

82pp

Mar. 2024 9781009400084 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Mar. 2024 9781009486989 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009400107

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British Christians and the Third Reich

Church, State, and the Judgement of Nations

Chandler, Andrew

A new approach that places the history of Nazism in a bold international perspective, revealing the moral arguments and debates which it provoked, and the dilemmas faced by British Christians. This volume shows how British men and women intervened, protested, and campaigned against Hitler’s regime, while supporting its victims.

432pp

Sep. 2024 9781107569645 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 34.00

eISBN 9781316415993

Children in New Religious Movements

Nilsson, Sanja | Dalarna University

This Element examines several aspects of children growing up in new Religions. It focuses on child upbringing, the function of children in the groups, and parental perspectives and styles. It also considers issues of physical and emotional abuse, state interventions, and the impact of second- and third generations of children in new Religions.

Elements in New Religious Movements

75pp

Fieldwork in New Religious Movements

Chryssides, George D. | York St John University

This Element discusses issues that fieldwork involves based on the author’s decades of experience in fieldwork, as well as studies by other scholars. These will be of interest both to field researchers and to those who read about the fieldwork of others.

Elements in New Religious Movements

84pp

Feb. 2024 9781009278737 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009478694 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009278713

Mar. 2025 9781009065962 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Mar. 2025 9781009565127 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009067263

Communal Societies and New

Religious

Movements

Coulthard, Cheryl

This Element corrects the misperception of communal societies by exploring the synergy between new religious movements and communal living, including the benefits and challenges that grow out of this connection. It also analyzes why these groups have tended to experience conflicts with mainstream society.

Elements in New Religious Movements

60pp

Feb. 2024 9781009357388 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009454216 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009357357

Constructing Religious Martyrdom

A Cross-Cultural Study

Soboslai, John | Montclair State University, New Jersey

This diverse study offers insights into practices of martyrdom within specific socio-political contexts.

Analyzing martyrdom through political theology, John Soboslai examines self-sacrifice in four religious traditions during social and political crises, from second century Christianity in Asia Minor to 21st century Tibetan Buddhism.

458pp

Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran

A Socio-Legal Analysis

Adeliyan Tous, Sajjad | Independent scholar

This Element offers a theoretically informed examination of the manner in which Religion, especially newer religious and spiritual movements, are managed by law and legal mechanisms in the authoritarian theocracy of Iran. It highlights how these phenomena have been affected by the intersection of law, politics, and Shiʿi theology.

Elements in New Religious Movements

80pp

Jun. 2024 9781009460071 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jun. 2024 9781009460118 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009460095

Mormonism

Bowman, Matthew | Claremont Graduate University

This Element explores the Mormon denominations, like the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and various sects of Mormon fundamentalism. Mormonism emerged during the Second Great Awakening and has adapted to American culture, focusing on integration with the Protestant majority or highlighting sectarian distinctiveness. Elements in New Religious Movements

Jun. 2024 9781009483001 Hardback GBP 115.00 / USD 150.00

eISBN 9781009482998

Nov. 2024 9781009537698 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009537674 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009537650

Noah and the Flood in Western Thought

Almond, Philip C | University of Queensland

While revealing Noah as a pivotal figure in the history of Western religious thinking, Philip Almond demonstrates how the flood story also had a very significant and forgotten role in the development of secular thought, even as it is now a powerful lightning rod for gathering climatic and environmental anxieties.

407pp

Apr. 2025 9781009557221 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 44.99

eISBN 9781009557252

Satanism

Laycock, Joseph P. | Texas State University, San Marcos

This Element provides a concise overview of Satanism from its origins in early modern Europe through the present. It covers legends of the black mass, hell-fire clubs, the Romantic Satanism, nineteenth-century occultists, and contemporary Satanic Panic from the 1980s through QAnon.

Elements in New Religious Movements

84pp

Mar. 2024 9781009060295 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Mar. 2024 9781009479370 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99 eISBN 9781009057349

Some New World

Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age

Harrison, Peter | University of Queensland

What was believable in one era is no longer acceptable in another. What one culture finds utterly incredible elsewhere becomes an article of faith. This disjuncture forms the basis of Peter Harrison’s masterful, expansive intervention in intellectual history, as he challenges misconceptions about modernity in relation to supernaturalism and belief.

488pp

Apr. 2024 9781009477222 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781009477215

The New Witches of the West Tradition, Liberation, and Power

Doyle White, Ethan | Independent Researcher

This Element explores why the image of the witch so appealing to numerous people living in modern Western countries, examining how witchcraft offers people a connection to the past, a vehicle for liberation, and a means of empowering themselves in an often-troubling world.

Elements in New Religious Movements

80pp

Feb. 2024 9781009472821 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009472838 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009472852

The Production of Entheogenic Communities in the United States

Stoddard, Brad | McDaniel College

This Element offers a historical and critical analysis of entheogenic communities. It examines the production of entheogenic groups and considers the impact of historical factors. This Element recognizes that these communities are culturally conditioned, socially constructed, and historically contingent.

Elements in New Religious Movements

75pp

Jun. 2024 9781009429405 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jun. 2024 9781009517409 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009429412

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The Dominicans in the British Isles and Beyond

A New History of the English Province of the Friars Preachers

Finn, Richard | Blackfriars, Oxford

Eight centuries have passed since the Dominicans first arrived in England. This book tells their fascinating story. It discusses their role in the medieval British Church; their fate after the Reformation; their eventual re-establishment in Britain; their expansion into the Caribbean and South Africa; and their adaptation after Vatican II.

424pp 20 b/w illus.

Jul. 2024 9781009164313 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009164320

The New Age Movement

Løøv, Margrethe | NLA University college, Oslo

This Element introduces New Age Religion, a loosely cohesive conglomerate of different spiritual currents with no common founder, leader, institution, dogma, or scripture. This Element emphasizes both the unity and diversity of the New Age.

Elements in New Religious Movements

70pp

Oct. 2024 9781009060998 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Oct. 2024 9781009495097 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009058155

The Sacred Force of Star Wars Jedi

Bainbridge, William Sims

This Element examines the vast community of fans and gamers, who have turned Star Wars into a paraReligion. The Element shows the genetic connections between Star Wars and its predecessors in science fiction. Star Wars remains culturally and economically significant as we approach completion of its first half-century.

Elements in New Religious Movements

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009512169 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009512213 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009512206

The Temple of Our Soul

Bilingual Edition with Introduction and Translation

Anonymous

This bilingual edition offers the first English translation of The Temple of our Soul, one of the most attractive spiritual texts of the late Middle Ages and early modern period. This edition includes an introduction that provides insights into the text’s key themes and the social context in which it was written.

316pp

May 2024 9781009299114 Hardback GBP 130.00 / USD 175.00

eISBN 9781009299091

Who Is a True Christian?

Contesting

Religious Identity in American Culture

Congdon, David W. | University Press of Kansas

Part intellectual history and part nuanced argument for change, this book explores how and why the question of what defines Christianity has become so vexing over the past century, and how believers could think differently about it in the future.

404pp

Feb. 2024 9781009428996 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009429047

Islam

Feminist Theology and Social Justice in Islam

A Study on the Sermon of Fatima

Dhala, Mahjabeen | Graduate TheoLogical Union, Berkeley

Islamic Law in Context

A Primary Source Reader

Anchassi, Omar | Universität Bern, Switzerland

This book gathers 30 texts from across the Muslims world, exemplifying the diversity of Islamic legal thought and practice. It introduces a variety of types of legal literature any researcher in Islamic Law will need to use in order to gain a rounded picture of the historical and societal context of Islamic legal thought and practice.

504pp

Appealing to individuals interested in the role of women in Islamic theology and their potential for empowering marginalized communities, this volume offers a nuanced perspective on Muslim women’s agency and contributions within their cultures and societies, and further demonstrates the intersection of Religion, gender studies, and social justice.

224pp

Feb. 2024 9781009423045 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

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Islam and Environmental Ethics

Gada, Muhammad Yaseen | Central University of Kashmir

This Element explores environmental Ethics in Islam. Its core argument is that Islamic culture and civilization are rich in environmental concerns; Islam has unique considerations and directions about what sort of human-nature relationship there should be.

Elements in Islam and Science

92pp

May 2024 9781009308243 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

May 2024 9781009494557 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Islam, Causality, and Science

Perspectives on Reconciliation of Islamic Tradition and Modern Science

Koca, Özgür | Bayan Islamic Graduate School

This Element examines accounts of causality by Muslim theologians, philosophers, and mystics, including Mu’tazilite, Islamic occasionalist, and Islamic participatory accounts. It explores viable options for understanding divine causality without undermining scientific methodology, and whether they can reconcile religious and scientific claims.

Elements in Islam and Science

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009489263 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009489256 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Nov. 2024 9781009013680 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

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Salafism and Traditionalism

Scholarly Authority in Modern Islam

Hamdeh, Emad

This book highlights the heated debates between Muslim scholars in the Modern Muslim world, especially between Salafis and Traditionalists. It covers the emergence of modern reform movements, the role of print and the internet, Islamic education, the production of scholarly authority, and the different approaches to Islamic scripture and law.

239pp

Jan. 2024 9781108706902 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781108756594

The Cambridge Companion to Women and Islam

Bano, Masooda | University of Oxford

This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of a timely topic that encompasses the fields of Islamic feminist scholarship, anthropology, history, and sociology. It offers a detailed analysis of debates on gender and Islam, highlighting the Logic of classical reasoning, while emphasizing alternative readings proposed by Islamic feminists.

Cambridge Companions to Religion

350pp

Apr. 2025 9781009206563 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99

Apr. 2025 9781009206716 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009206587

Judaism

Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity

Gross, Simcha | University of Pennsylvania

Offers a radically new account that advances the modern scholarly understanding of Babylonian Jewish history and society, and of Sasanian rule. Building upon recent developments in the study of the Sasanian Empire, the book offers a more direct model of Sasanian rule, within and against which Jews invariably positioned and defined themselves.

360pp

Apr. 2024 9781009280525 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009280549

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The Book of Ecclesiastes ( Qohelet ) and the Path to Joyous Living

Perry, T. A. | Boston College, Massachusetts

This is the first full-length study of Ecclesiastes using methods of philosophical exegesis, specifically those of the modern French philosophers Levinas and Blanchot. T. A. Perry breaks down Ecclesiastes’ motto ‘all is vanity’ and returns ‘vanity’ to its original concrete meaning of ‘breath’, the breath of life.

278pp

Feb. 2024 9781107458444 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781316104491

The Evolution of Jewish Monotheism

‘God is One,’ From Antiquity to Modernity

Grossberg, David Michael | Cornell University, New York

This innovative history demonstrates the remarkable diversity encompassed by the deceptively simple Jewish statement of faith, ‘God is one’. Grossberg shows how this diversity is unified in a continuous striving for knowledge of God that has been at the heart of Judaism from its earliest beginnings.

391pp

Embodiment, Dependence, and God

Timpe, Kevin | Calvin University, Michigan

This Element explores the importance of reflection on bodies for Philosophy and theology. It begins with a consideration of why certain forms of idealization are problematic. Careful reflection raises questions related to community and interdependence. It shows the diversity of human embodiment and the nature of human dependence.

Elements in the Problems of God

75pp

Jan. 2025 9781009569194 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009569224

Philosophy of Religion

C.S. Lewis and the Problem of God

Werther, David | University of Wisconsin, Madison

This Element provides an understanding of C.S. Lewis’s vocation, which is essential for reading his works well, as is knowing his philosophical journey and reoccurring experiences of ‘Joy.’ His account of ‘mere Christianity’ shows the centrality of selfdetermination, an emphasis on Christ’s human nature, and a relativizing of atonement theories.

Elements in the Problems of God

76pp

May 2024 9781009283243 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

May 2024 9781009500395 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on the One God

Budziszewski, J. | University of Texas, Austin

Thomas Aquinas is one of the two or three greatest thinkers in history. The book about the existence and nature of God is not just for scholars, but also for undergraduates, graduates, and anyone interested in God, God’s relation to mankind, Ethics, or the history of thought on these subjects.

468pp

Nov. 2024 9781009536240 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00

eISBN 9781009536288

Nov. 2024 9781009270076 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009500401 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99 eISBN 9781009270052

Exploring Religious Pluralism

From Mystical Theology to the Science-Theology Dialogue

Knight, Christopher C. | University of Cambridge

How can we more deeply understand religious pluralism? In this study, Christopher C. Knight suggests that current explorations of the subject may be supplemented by combining new thinking about divine action with the kind of ‘mystical theology’ that sees doctrinal statements as aids to contemplation rather than philosophical truth claims.

242pp

Mar. 2024 9781009450263 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009450249

God and Astrobiology

Playford, Richard | Leeds Trinity University

This Element offers a wide-ranging introduction to the multifarious ‘problems of God and astrobiology’, real and perceived. It covers major topics within Christian theology (e.g., creation, incarnation, salvation), as well as issues specific to Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism.

Elements in the Problems of God

74pp

Feb. 2024 9781009296144 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009478656 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009296175

God and Happiness

Shea, Matthew | Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio

This Element explores the connection between God and happiness, with happiness understood as a life of well-being or flourishing that goes well for the one living it. The central topics it covers are the nature of happiness, the content of happiness, the structure of happiness, and the possibility of happiness.

Elements in the Problems of God

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009270205 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009517164 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009270182

God and the Problem of Epistemic Defeaters

Thurow, Joshua | University of Texas, San Antonio

This Element categorizes the many defeaters of belief in God into four classes: rebutting, undercutting, base defeaters, and competence defeaters. General defeaters of theistic belief are examined: the superfluity argument, the problem of unpossessed evidence, various forms of debunking arguments, and a cumulative case competence defeater.

Elements in the Problems of God

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009270625 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009539029 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009270649

God and the Problem of Evidential Ambiguity

Baker-Hytch, Max | University of Oxford

The Element offers a general account of what evidential ambiguity consists in and uses it to try to make sense of the idea that our world is religiously how we ought to investigate the nature of ultimate reality and whether evidential ambiguity is itself a significant piece of evidence in the quest.

Elements in the Problems of God

80pp

Jesus and the Genome

The Intersection of Christology and Biology

Peterson, Michael L. | Asbury TheoLogical Seminary, Kentucky

Is a coherent worldview that embraces both classical Christology and modern evolutionary biology possible? This volume explores this fundamental question through an engaged inquiry into key topics, such as the Incarnation, the process of evolution, and the meaning of life. It offers important perspectives on the worldview of evolutionary naturalism

300pp

May 2024 9781009269872 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

May 2024 9781009462341 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009269841

God and Value Judgments

Kinghorn, Kevin | Asbury TheoLogical Seminary

This Element surveys leading accounts of what value judgments are exactly. It then explores the particular values we are apparently sensitive to when making two judgments endemic to human life: about what makes a life good.

Elements in the Problems of God

72pp

Feb. 2024 9781009296090 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009475846 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009296137

God, Religious Extremism and Violence

Rowley, Matthew | Fairfield University, Connecticut

This Element explores the vexed issue of violence done in the name of God, looking at the topic through the lens of peace and conflict studies, religious studies and historical studies. It aims to foster a deeper and more nuanced understanding of Religion so that readers can better respond to a world filled with violence.

Elements in the Problems of God

88pp

Nov. 2024 9781009268622 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 30.99

Nov. 2024 9781009268615 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 95.00

eISBN 9781009268585

Participation in the Divine

A Philosophical History, From Antiquity to the Modern Era

Hedley, Douglas | University of Cambridge

The concept of participation in a transcendent domain of existence is central to the Platonic and the Judaeo-Christian traditions. The essays in this volume analyse and explore this key concept in the history of Western thought, providing a rigorous and accessible account of participation from antiquity to the modern era.

Cambridge Studies in Religion and Platonism

398pp

Mar. 2024 9781009272308 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Mar. 2024 9781009494427 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009272315

Nov. 2024 9781009439985 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009440028

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Pragmatist Truth in the Post-Truth Age

Sincerity, Normativity, and Humanism

Pihlström, Sami | University of Helsinki Philosophical pragmatists are sometimes blamed for providing the theoretical basis for the worrying trend towards ‘post-truth’ thinking. In this book, Sami Pihlström develops a pragmatist account of truth and truth-seeking based on the ideas of William James which gives space for a sincere search for truth.

255pp

Apr. 2024 9781009048347 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.88

eISBN 9781009047142

Qoheleth and the Philosophy of Value

Peterson, Jesse M. | George Fox University

The book of Ecclesiastes is the Bible’s problem child. Its probing doubts, dark ruminations, selfreflexive dialogues, and unflinching observations have puzzled and fascinated readers. This study offers a coherent portrait of the book and its author, the early Jewish sage known as Qoheleth, examining both through a philosophical lens.

322pp

Nov. 2024 9781009513258 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009513227

Religious Experience

Implications for What Is Real

Wiebe, Phillip H. | Trinity Western University, British Columbia

This book examines religious, spiritual, and mystical experiences, assessing in what ways these experiences seemingly implicate a spiritual order. The scope of religious experience is surveyed and different kinds of evidence are considered that might give rise to a belief in spiritual phenomena such as spirits and an afterlife.

Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society

200pp

Jan. 2025 9781108438292 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Jan. 2025 9781108423717 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00

eISBN 9781108529228

Religious Trauma

Panchuk, Michelle | Murray State University

This Element explores religious trauma and its impact on relating to God and engaging in spiritual practice. It provides a history of psychoLogical trauma, explores first-person narratives of survivors, and social epistemology, and discusses the problem of evil, divine hiddenness, and religious experience from the perspective of religious trauma.

Elements in the Problems of God

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009269674 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009539012 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009269643

Spiritual Life

McGhee, Michael | University of Liverpool

The reissue with a new Foreword of classic volume setting a fresh agenda for Philosophy of Religion. The book contains chapters by some of the foremost thinkers in the field, including Rowan Williams, Janet Soskice, Fergus Kerr, Stephen Clark and Paul Williams, who offers a comparative piece on Tibetan Buddhism.

Talking Philosophy

438pp

Apr. 2024 9781009230216 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.99

eISBN 9781009230230

The Cambridge Platonists and Early modern Philosophy

Inventing the Philosophy of Religion

Kaldas, Samuel M. | The University of Sydney and The University of Notre Dame Australia

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The Divine Goodness of Jesus Impact and Response

Moser, Paul

Explores the distinctiveness of Jesus’ role as God’s filial inquirer of those who inquire of him, while clarifying a method of inquiry regarding Jesus, in terms of best explanation regarding his experiential impact and his audience’s response, which values the roles of history and moral experience in inquiry about him.

265pp

Jan. 2024 9781009013642 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009031707

The Philosophy of Worship

Divine and Human Aspects

Segal, Aaron | Hebrew University of Jerusalem

This is the first volume to explore the Philosophy of worship. It considers the metaphysical, ethical, and psychoLogical issues associated with worship, among them: What, if anything, is the point of worship? What, if anything, makes a being worthy of worship? Can worship hold value for atheists? What, if anything, might be wrong with idolatry?

350pp

Dec. 2024 9781009460941 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00

eISBN 9781009460927

The Problem of Animal Pain

Campbell, Victoria | Global Methodist Church

In this Element, atheists cite animal pain as compelling evidence against the existence of the loving God portrayed in the Judeo-Christian Bible. This Element engages the scientific literature in order to evaluate the validity of those claims and offers a theodicy of God’s providential care for animals through natural pain mitigating processes.

Elements in the Problems of God

86pp

Feb. 2024 9781009270670 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009478663 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009270717

The seventeenth-century philosophers known as the Cambridge Platonists were recognised in their time as some of England’s most influential and controversial philosophers. In this study, Samuel M. Kaldas explores the intellectual contributions of the group, which serve as the foundation for the modern field of Philosophy of Religion.

Cambridge Studies in Religion and Platonism

330pp

May 2024 9781009426916 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009426930

The Problem of Divine Action in the World

Archer, Joel | Duke University

This Element discusses the nature of divine action, with a specific focus on miracles or ‘special’ divine acts. After addressing the various objections, the author examines the function of miracles as ‘signs’ in the New Testament.

Elements in the Problems of God

78pp

Feb. 2024 9781009270335 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009475853 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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The Problem of God in David Hume

Kraal, Anders | University of British Columbia, Vancouver

In this Element, the authors examine David Hume, a critic in support of traditional Christian theism in Western Philosophy, his chief objections to the cosmoLogical argument, the design argument, and the argument from miracles, along with some main responses to these objections.

Elements in the Problems of God

62pp

Jan. 2024 9781009270267 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jan. 2024 9781009494465 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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The Problem of God in Jewish Thought

Gellman, Jerome | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

This Element follows selected views in Rabbinic Literature, Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Jewish mystical thought, the Hasidic movement, modern Jewish theology, response to the Holocaust, and Jewish feminist theology. In the history of Jewish thought, there was a tendency to identify closely with the God of compassion.

Elements in the Problems of God

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009267106 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009565158 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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The Trinity

Williams, Scott M. | University of North Carolina

This Element explores the philosophical and theoLogical issues surrounding the Trinity, including hermeneutical and Logical problems, personal pronouns, monarchy, equality, and the Greek vs. Latin filioque debate. It introduces Conciliar Trinitarianism, a response to the fundamental Logical question, and compares it with other Trinity models.

Elements in the Problems of God

75pp

Religion (general)

African Philosophy of Religion and Western Monotheism

Lougheed, Kirk | LCC International University/University of Pretoria

This Element focuses on drawing attention to African Traditional Religion a major world Religion that has been much neglected by scholars around the globe, particularly those working in the West or Northern Hemisphere. Elements in Religion and Monotheism

78pp

Nov. 2024 9781009293112 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009565189 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Theosis and Religion

Participation in Divine Life in the Eastern and Western Traditions

Russell, Norman | University of Oxford

Theosis, originally a Greek term for Christian divinisation or deification, has become a vogue word in modern theology. Norman Russell’s innovative study is the first to offer a coherent narrative of how the concept of theosis developed in both its Eastern and Western versions, from Byzantium to the modern age.

Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society

250pp

Mar. 2024 9781108406338 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Mar. 2024 9781108418683 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00

eISBN 9781108290852

Ways of Living Religion

Philosophical Investigations into Religious Experience

Gschwandtner, Christina M. | Fordham University, New York Ways of Living Religion provides a philosophical analysis of different types of religious experience, focusing on the lived experience of Religion rather than mere statements of belief or doctrine.

Christina M. Gschwandtner distinguishes between experiences by examining their defining features, showing their continuity with human experience.

372pp

Mar. 2024 9781009476782 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009476812

Mar. 2024 9781009524896 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Mar. 2024 9781009524933 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Amulets in Magical Practice

Johnston, Jay | University of Sydney

This Element takes as its remit the production and use of amulets. The focus will be on amulets with no, or minimal, textual content like those comprising found stone, semi-precious gem and/or animal body parts.

Elements in Magic

80pp

Apr. 2024 9781108948791 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Apr. 2024 9781009517799 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781108953412

Emotions and Monotheism

Corrigan, John | Florida State University

This Element explains the dynamism, fluidity, and ambiguity in emotional experience, alongside continuities, and facilitates analysis of how that feeling has animated religious life in monotheistic traditions. It illustrates affect, emotion, and mixed emotions with respect to the similarities and differences among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Elements in Religion and Monotheism

76pp

May 2024 9781108970488 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

May 2024 9781009479332 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Jewish Concepts of Divine Oneness

A Comparative Introduction

Jindo, Job Y. | Academy for Jewish Religion and New York University

This Element provides a comprehensive overview of Jewish perspectives on God’s oneness, dividing the history into four phases: biblical, rabbinic, medieval, and modern. It presents diverse models for understanding divine oneness, revealing various polemical discourses within the Jewish tradition. No prior knowledge is required. Elements in Religion and Monotheism

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781108925037 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009495189 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Jewish Monotheism and Slavery

Hezser, Catherine | School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

This Element examines the use of slavery metaphors in ancient Judaism and Christianity in the context of the social reality of slavery, modern abolitionism, and historical-critical approaches to the ancient texts.

Elements in Religion and Monotheism

72pp

Mar. 2024 9781009260503 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Mar. 2024 9781009500333 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009260497

Jews, Christians, and the Discourse on Images before Iconoclasm

Sivertsev, Alexei M. | DePaul University, Chicago Explores the rise of image as a rhetorical category in Jewish and Christian literature originating between the sixth and eighth centuries. This book demonstrates how Jewish texts serve as an important witness to the formation of image discourse and associated practices of image veneration.

294pp

Feb. 2024 9781009424530 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

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Monotheism & Paradise

Gilson, Caitlin Smith | University of Holy Cross

This Element explores Greek views of the afterlife, contrasting them with Christian beliefs of Paradise in the Resurrected state. It explores the relationship between Monotheism and Paradise, the difficulty of immortality, and the weak theology of a transcendent God.

Elements in Religion and Monotheism

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009496209 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009496230 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Monotheism and Divine Aggression

Cornell, Collin | Fuller TheoLogical Seminary, California

This Element proposes the causal connection between monotheism and divine aggression. In three case studies, it showcases ways that literarily treating one god alone as god amplifies divine destructiveness. It also attends to the literary contexts and counterbalances within which the Hebrew Bible imagines divine aggression.

Elements in Religion and Monotheism

74pp

Feb. 2024 9781009065894 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009454421 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Monotheism and Fundamentalism

Prevalence, Potential, and Resilience

Peels, Rik | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

This Element explores the relation between monotheism and fundamentalism through various insights. It also considers whether monotheism has resources that can be employed in mitigating the consequences of or even altogether preventing fundamentalism. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in Religion and Monotheism

84pp

May 2024 9781009309646 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

May 2024 9781009500487 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009309653

Monotheism and Peacebuilding

Brewer, John D | Queen’s University Belfast, Stellenbosch University, and Warwick University

This Element explores the paradox of monotheism, focusing on the Abrahamic faiths of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. It highlights the potential for conflict and violence. It explores the limitations of monotheistic peacebuilding, highlighting that it often relies on inter-faith dialogue, which may not be sufficient.

Elements in Religion and Monotheism

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009342698 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009509671 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Monotheism

and Pluralism

Mikva, Rachel S. | Chicago TheoLogical Seminary

This Element explores historical foundations and contemporary paradigms for pluralism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Recognizing that there are other ways to interpret the traditions, it excavates the space for theoLogical parity.

Elements in Religion and Monotheism

82pp

Apr. 2024 9781009273381 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Apr. 2024 9781009500463 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Monotheism and Religious Experience

Webb, Mark Owen | Texas Tech University

This Element shows Monotheistic traditions often involve individuals reporting special experiences justifying their beliefs, requiring a deep understanding of religious experiences, monotheistic claims, and their implications for both the experiencer and the recipient.

Elements in Religion and Monotheism

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781108958028 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009547772 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781108955317

New Religious Movements and Comparative Religion

Hammer, Olav | University of Southern Denmark

This Element provides an introduction to a number of less frequently explored approaches based upon the comparative study of Religions. The reason for the fundamental similarity between older and newer Religions is briefly explored.

Elements in New Religious Movements

80pp

Feb. 2024 9781009014595 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009500746 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Open Theism

Rhoda, Alan R. | Christian TheoLogical Seminary

This Element shows Open theism is a monotheist model of God where the future is objectively open-ended, not just from the finite perspective of creation, but from God’s perspective as well. It shows by defining open theism, developing arguments, and responding to objections. Elements in Religion and Monotheism

76pp

Mar. 2024 9781009349383 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Mar. 2024 9781009494816 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009349390

Staging Witchcraft Before the Law

Scepticism, Performance as Proof, and Law as Magic in Early Modern Witch Trials

Peters, Julie Stone | Columbia University, New York and Queen Mary University of London

Early modern witch-hunting faced skepticism and evidentiary barriers, making it difficult to convict witches. Judges and accusers used performance staging to overcome these barriers. This Element examines two cases to illustrate ways evidentiary staging can signify in law. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in Magic

Nov. 2024 9781009469715 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009469708 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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The Abrahamic Vernacular

Wollenberg, Rebecca Scharbach | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

The exclusive nature of Abrahamic monotheisms is seen through religious wars, polemics, and social exclusion. However, despite communal rivalry, Jews, Christians, and Muslim practitioners keep turning to each other to enrich ritual practices. This Element proposes that there are deeper forms of entanglement at work in these historical moments.

Elements in Religion and Monotheism

76pp

Apr. 2024 9781009286756 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Apr. 2024 9781009517171 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009286787

The Politics of Monotheism

Bergem, Ragnar M. | MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society

The Element explores the political implications of monotheism. It traces the Enlightenment origins of contemporary debates about monotheism, highlighting a deeper Western ambivalence towards Religion. It suggests that understanding monotheism’s political significance requires considering various truth representations in monotheistic traditions.

Elements in Religion and Monotheism

75pp

Religious Ethics

Beyond Civility in Social Conflict

Dialogue, Critique, and Religious Ethics

Johnson, Russell P. | University of Chicago Johnson’s book was written for four audiences: people worried about polarization, activists who want an effective model for political advocacy, readers interested in nonviolence, and Christian theologians. Written in a scholarly but engaging style, it points to a way beyond the impasses of ongoing debate about civility and protest.

New Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought

360pp

Jun. 2024 9781009427210 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009427227

Gender and Christian Ethics

Thatcher, Adrian | University of Exeter

This book is for students of theology, Christian Ethics, and religious and gender studies; and everyone longing for the full acceptance of women and LGBTIQ people in the churches and beyond. It exposes the roots of prejudice against women and sexual minorities, and offers constructive proposals for gender justice.

New Studies in Christian Ethics

243pp

Jan. 2024 9781108813235 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781108884204

Human Perfection, Transfiguration and Christian Ethics

Gill, Robin | University of Kent, Canterbury

Many would agree that human perfection is unattainable. Yet depictions of human perfection are widespread. Examining both secular culture and the New Testament, Robin Gill explores this paradox. Gill argues that Synoptic accounts of the Transfiguration offer a Christian understanding of perfection with important implications for social Ethics.

New Studies in Christian Ethics

262pp

Dec. 2024 9781009349284 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009509749 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009349260

May 2024 9781009476744 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009476775

On Helping One’s Neighbor

Severe Poverty and the Religious Ethics of Obligation

Ranganathan, Bharat | University of Nebraska, Omaha Drawing creatively upon Religious Ethics and moral and Political Philosophy, Ranganathan argues here that affluent people have demanding and immediate obligations, through institutional reform and interpersonal giving, to assist severely impoverished people. An essential book for scholars of Religion, Ethics, developmental studies, and theology.

New Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought

232pp

Mar. 2024 9781009428217 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009428231

The Cambridge Companion to Religion and Artificial Intelligence

Singler, Beth | Universität Zürich

This Cambridge Companion covers the field of Religion and AI comprehensively and provides an authoritative guide to the field. It introduces readers to topics on which there is already a good amount of literature, such as transhumanism, as well as new and emerging fields such as computer simulations of Religion.

Cambridge Companions to Religion

338pp

Nov. 2024 9781009013659 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 30.99

Nov. 2024 9781316516034 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 95.00

eISBN 9781009031721

Theology

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Aspects of Truth

A New Religious Metaphysics

Pickstock, Catherine | University of Cambridge

This bold new work offers a discussion of the topic of truth from simultaneously philosophical and theoLogical perspectives. It argues for the value of a metaphysical approach to truth. This approach defends the notion that truth cannot be separated from what the author calls ‘the reality of the thinking soul’.

343pp

Sep. 2024 9781108794480 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781108885614

NEW IN PAPERBACK Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine

Exploring the Implications of Life in the Universe

Davison, Andrew | University of Cambridge

The universe turns out to be full of habitable planets. In this book, both the theoLogical expert and the general reader (with theoLogical bearings) are taken on the journey of thinking about how Christian Theology should respond. Returning to Earth at the end, we find our understanding of existing themes stretched and enriched.

Current Issues in Theology

421pp

Aug. 2024 9781009303163 Paperback GBP 20.99 / USD 27.99

eISBN 9781009303187

Bonaventure’s ‘Journey of the Soul into God’

Context and Commentary

Smith, Randall | University of St. Thomas, Houston Saint Bonaventure’s Journey of the Soul into God is one of the most important works in the Christian mystical tradition. In this volume, Randall Smith provides the first comprehensive commentary in English of Bonaventure’s classic text. He situates the work within its historical, intellectual, and cultural contexts.

450pp

Constructing an Incarnational Theology

A Christocentric View of God’s Purpose

Wells, Samuel | King’s College London

Why did Jesus come? The traditional argument is that he came to redeem us from sin and destroy death, and thus reverse the fall. In this book, Samuel Wells argues that Jesus came not to reverse the fall but to fulfil God’s desire to be with us, which was the reason for creation and is God’s ultimate purpose beyond this world.

325pp

Nov. 2024 9781009492706 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009492669

Human

Salvation in

Early Christianity

Exploring the Theology of Physicalist Soteriology

Scully, Ellen | Seton Hall University, New Jersey

Ellen Scully presents the first historical study of Early Christian Theology regarding physicalist soteriology, a Logic by which Christ’s incarnation has universal effects independent of individual belief or consent. She offers an overview of the historical rise and fall of their theoLogical Logic of physicalist soteriology.

368pp

Jan. 2025 9781009525336 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009525343

Isaiah 40–66

Heffelfinger, Katie

Aimed at interested non-specialists and clergy, this text delights in Isaiah 40–66’s poetic brilliance, exploring its poetic features and encounters with diverse voices, including the Divine Voice, Servant, and Zion. Bridging the Horizons sections connect Isaiah’s lyric to issues including migration, fear, poetic formation and divided society.

New Cambridge Bible Commentary

398pp

May 2024 9781316617304 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

May 2024 9781107166059 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781316694336

Karl Barth on Religion A Critique

Ward, Keith | University of Oxford

In this study, Keith Ward offers a detailed critique of Barth’s views on Religion and revelation as articulated in Church Dogmatics. Against Barth’s definition of Religions as self-centred, wilful, and arbitrary human constructions, Ward offers a defence of world Religions as a God-inspired search for and insight into spiritual truth.

Nov. 2024 9781009525220 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 160.00

eISBN 9781009525183

204pp

Nov. 2024 9781009555418 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 30.99

Nov. 2024 9781009555432 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 95.00

eISBN 9781009555456

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Sacred Modes of Being in a Postsecular World

Hass, Andrew W. | University of Stirling

How do we talk meaningfully about sacrality in contexts where conventional religious engagement has so often lost its power? This important interdisciplinary volume teaches us that the idea of the sacred takes on new potency when fully engaged with the creativity that happens across Religion, literature, Philosophy and the arts.

267pp

Sep. 2024 9781009048644 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009047944

Salvation in the Block Universe

Time, Tillich, and Transformation

Qureshi-Hurst, Emily | University of Oxford

Bringing together Philosophy, Religion, and science, this study questions if personal salvation is possible without the reality of change. Emily Qureshi-Hurst focuses on salvation in the block universe, using Paul Tillich’s method of correlation to explore a methodology that makes connections between science and Religion possible and desirable.

319pp

Theology and the Mythic Sensibility

Human Myth-Making and Divine Creativity

Shamel, Andrew | Lincoln College, Oxford Theology and the Mythic Sensibility will be attractive to anyone with an interest in stories and how they reveal the world to be full of meaning. It will be of particular interest to theologians, clergy, and anyone curious about what Christian Theology can tell us about both popular culture and fantasy literature.

232pp

Nov. 2024 9781009494748 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009494731

The TheoLogical Imagination

Perception and Interpretation in Life, Art, and Faith

Wolfe, Judith | University of St. Andrews

Judith Wolfe’s remarkable book shows that Christian Theology offers a potent way of imagining the world even as it challenges that same capacity to imagine. In revealing the significance of ambiguity, and of unseen depths and the incomplete – the author characterizes faith as trust in a God beyond all imagination.

Current Issues in Theology

208pp

Nov. 2024 9781009519861 Hardback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781009519847

The Theology of the Books of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah

Timmer, Daniel C. | Puritan Reformed TheoLogical Seminary, Grand Rapids and Faculté de théologie évangélique, Montreal

The books of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah address problems in and around ancient Judah in ways that are as incisive and critical as they are optimistic and constructive. Daniel C. Timmer’s study situates these books in their social and political contexts, examining their unique Theology and later cultural reception.

Old Testament Theology

306pp

Apr. 2024 9781108468695 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Apr. 2024 9781108475594 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 100.00

eISBN 9781108651943

Nov. 2024 9781009542609 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009542593

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