Books in the Key Concepts in Philosophy series

Summarises the work of key thinkers in the philosophy of law, including Rousseau, Hobbes, Austin, Hegel, Habermas, Mill, Marx, Dworkin, Hart and Rawls. This title provides explication and analysis of central concerns in legal philosophy, covering criminal law, civil law and constitutional law.

The philosophy of religion encompasses some of the most complex philosophical questions. Does God exist? What is God's nature? Why does God allow evil? What is a religious experience? This book covers the work of major thinkers and outlines the central questions and arguments encountered in studying the philosophy of religion.

Offers an account of the central theories and ideas encountered in political philosophy. This text is structured, covering the discipline's principal ideologies: Statism; Realism; Liberalism; Conservatism; Socialism; Anarchism; and Environmentalism. It also offers a history of political philosophy and the major political philosophers.

Part of the "Key Concepts in Philosophy" series, this book considers such fundamentals as discovery, evidence, verification and falsification, realism and objectivity. It also draws on specific examples from the history of science to further illuminate the philosophical questions addressed.

Offers an account of the central theories and ideas encountered in aesthetics. Suitable for students across the arts and humanities, this book stresses distinctively modern and contemporary problems, including the divergence between theories of aesthetics and theories of art and the problem of media.

Provides an exposition and analysis of the main philosophical theories, ideas and arguments that inform, and are raised by, questions of gender and sexuality. This work explores both early feminist arguments, which stress 'sameness' between sexes in the interests of equality, and later theories, which emphasise difference.