Books in the Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements series

What is the importance of the notion 'human being'? The contributors to this collection have radically different approaches, some accepting and others denying its validity for a proper understanding of what a person is and for our ethical thought about each other. Contributors on both sides of the divide eloquently defend their views in ways that stand in sharp contrast to some current work in moral philosophy and philosophy of mind. Epistemological and theological issues are also raised in the provocative and wide-ranging discussions stimulated by the volume's theme.

This volume offers a lively and accessible guide to some of the major issues current in French philosophy today and to some of the figures who are or have been influential in shaping its development. The collection is unusual and interesting in bringing together a range of contributors from both Britain and France, and is intended not only for professional philosophers but also for those with a more general interest in the French intellectual scene.

An alternative agenda for the philosophy of religion emerges from this interdisciplinary collection. Going outside the traditional concerns of natural theology, the distinguished contributors to this volume explore such topics as the nature of selfhood and its images in the ancient, the medieval and the modern world; the role of philosophy as a route to wisdom; non-conceptual awareness; and the nature of love and its relation to attention. Discussion focuses on the figures of Plato and Augustine, William James and the Absolute Idealist F. H. Bradley, Kierkegaard and Heidegger, as well as leading figures of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

In this volume leading international environmental philosophers further the debate about the value of nature, the concept of the environment, and the metaphysical, ethical, social and international implications of these concepts. Philosophers have to some extent neglected the study of nature and the natural environment, and this collection not only provides a long-overdue contribution to that study, but also points to inadequacies of much contemporary ethical and political theory. For environmentalists who are not philosophers, it will stimulate reflection on their own concepts and principles.

In A Philosophers' Manifesto leading philosophers from around the world present the case for a new policy or law they think will make an improvement in the world. This collection presents arguments for new approaches to social and political issues, showing how philosophy can be of real, practical benefit, especially in these fractious times.

This volume presents cutting edge research by many of the leading researchers in the field of religious epistemology, a field that has seen major development in recent years. All of the papers included in this volume aim to be accessible to the interested layperson.

This volume contains notable essays on philosophy of action based on the Royal Institute of Philosophy lecture series. A wide range of topics relating to action are covered, including the nature of action and issues related to virtue, ethics, freedom and responsibility.

History of Philosophy: Twentieth-Century Perspectives is based on the Royal Institute of Philosophy's annual lecture series for 2014-15. A group of eminent scholars consider important figures in the history of philosophy from Plato to Wittgenstein. The volume is essential reading for all those interested in the history of philosophy.

This volume contains papers based on the lectures given by leading figures in current philosophy of mind as part of the Royal Institute of Philosophy's London Lecture series for 2013-14. The collection explores a wide range of issues, including consciousness, the self and the nature of the human person.

Philosophy and Sport brings together the lectures given in the Royal Institute of Philosophy's annual lecture series for 2012-13. In the Olympic year, it seemed fitting to consider some of the many ethical questions raised by sport, and to bring together contributors from both philosophical and sporting worlds.

What is consciousness? By bringing together leading historians of philosophy and contemporary philosophers of mind to re-examine a broad range of inherited views, this new collection of essays addresses this and related questions from both a systematic and a theoretical perspective and seeks to create fruitful lines of future inquiry.

In this volume distinguished aestheticians consider the ways in which painting, sculpture, music, poetry and the cinema approach their subject matter and add to our aesthetic understanding. The volume contains discussions of artistic value, truth, performance and fakes which will be of interest both to aestheticians and philosophers more generally.

This collection of essays, originating in a conference at the Leeds Art Gallery in 2012, reviews the role of empirical enquiry in philosophical aesthetics. Contributions address aesthetic testimony, the processing and appreciation of poetry, creativity, musical cognition, the aesthetics of disgust and evolutionary constraints on art appreciation.

The papers in this 1982 volume deal with Marx's ideas and the varying constructions put on them by later Marxists. Based on a lecture series, they examine Marxist views of the nature of philosophy, history and historical explanation, the role and importance of politics, and literature and ethics.

This 1990 collection explores one recurrent theme connecting philosophy and politics: the relation between the nature of man and the structure of society. It does so by concentrating on the topical issue of the market economy as an attempt to resolve the clash between individual autonomy and collective action.

The journal is concerned with the study of philosophy in all its branches: logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, social and political philosophy and the philosophies of religion, science, history, language, mind and education. The journal is not committed to any particular school or method and contributors are expected to avoid needless technicality.

Addressing the concept of philosophy as therapeia, this collection of essays by leading scholars provides a new reading of the history of philosophy, contradicting those who have wanted to maintain that philosophy is a peculiarly European cultural product, and instead affirming its identity as a global intellectual practice.

Philosophy asks questions about all areas of experience, but what about philosophy itself? In 2007-8, The Royal Institute of Philosophy, in its annual lecture series, asked distinguished philosophers to reflect on the nature, scope and possibility of philosophy. Contributors include Peter van Inwagen, Stephen Clark, John Cottingham, P. M. S. Hacker and Stephen Mullhall.

Based on the London Lecture Series of the Royal Institute of Philosophy for 2006-7, this collection brings together essays from leading figures in a rapidly developing field of philosophy. Contributors include: Alvin Goldman, Timothy Williamson, Duncan Pritchard, Miranda Fricker, Scott Sturgeon, Jose Zalabardo, and Quassin Casay.

This collection of essays from the Royal Institute of Philosophy show the connections and interrelations between the analytic and hermeneutic strains in German philosophy since Kant, showing how similar themes and concerns are found in most of the major German thinkers despite differences of style and treatment.

This collection of essays by fifteen distinguished philosophers, several of whom have been closely associated with Karl Popper and his work, provides a timely assessment of Popper's fundamental contributions to philosophical thought. It offers the specialist and the general reader alike fresh insights into the life and work of one of the twentieth century's most original thinkers.

This volume contains essays based on The Royal Institute of Philosophy's 2008-9 lecture series covering topics including natural theology, miracles, Darwinism, spirituality, sacrifice and the sacred, the Incarnation and religion and pluralism. Vigorously argued, the essays will undoubtedly take debates in these areas forward in a constructive way.

What is it for an object to persist through time? What is the relation between an object and its parts? Do we need an ontology of truth-makers? These questions reflect the central concerns of contemporary metaphysics and are the focus of the essays published within this volume.

There has been an increasing interest in Kant and philosophy of science in the past twenty years. Through reconstructing Kantian legacies in the development of nineteenth and twentieth century physics and mathematics, this volume explores what relevance Kant's philosophy has in current debates in philosophy of science, mathematics and physics.

What is the relationship between phenomenology and naturalism? Can phenomenology be naturalised and ought it to be? Is naturalism fundamentally unable to accommodate phenomenological insights? This cutting-edge collection of essays contains brilliant contributions from phenomenologists across the world. The volume presents a wide range of fascinating answers to these questions.

This collection of essays from the Royal Institute of Philosophy, first published in 2007, looks at a wide range of topics, ranging from issues such as terrorism, egalitarianism and the just war to the political philosophy of Edmund Burke, philosophical liberalism and the current state of utilitarianism in political thought.

What is the mind? How does it relate to the body and the world? What is consciousness? What is experience? How free are we? Do we have special insights into ourselves? This collection brings together leading figures in the philosophy of mind from Britain and the US, who lay out their thoughts on key issues in an accessible way.

The concept of action now occupies a central place in ethics, metaphysics and jurisprudence. This collection of original essays by leading philosophers covers the entire range of the philosophy of action, including the nature of actions themselves and the place of the concept of action in criminal law.

Can you be rational about human life without being scientific? Is historical understanding different from scientific understanding? Do psychology, religion and aesthetics have their own forms of rationality? The essays in this 1997 collection address topics that are of crucial importance to the lives of us all.

This collection brings together a wide variety of contributors with different backgrounds and distinctive skills to explore the implications of plurality with regard to religion, morality and philosophy itself. The essays consider also how we should respond at the social and political levels to the claims of the pluralist.