Books published by Imprint Academic

This book argues that Collingwood's philosophy is best understood as a diagnosis of and response to a crisis of Western civilisation. He is demonstrated to be working in the traditions of Romanticism and 'historicism'.

The reality and validity of the moral sense - which ordinary people take for granted - took a battering in the last century. Haslam shows how important the moral sense is to the human personality and exposes the weakness in much current thinking that suggests otherwise.

Could a machine have an immaterial mind? The author argues that true conscious machines can be built, but rejects artificial intelligence and classical neural networks in favour of the emulation of the cognitive processes of the brain-the flow of inner speech, inner imagery and emotions.

The first volume in this series (The View from Within) was a study of first-person approaches to the study of consciousness. Second-person 'I-You' relations are central to human life yet have been neglected in consciousness research. This book puts that right.

This work is designed to encourage cognitive scientists to take more account of the subject's unique perspective.

This volume presents a collection of essays by the celebrated philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. This collection includes papers on human nature and practical philosophy, together with the classic 'Modern Moral Philosophy'.

Jo Richardson explores the extent to which modes of discourse reflect antipathy towards gypsies and travellers, and control and shape the treatment of this minority group by the rest of society. The focus is housing policy, but her discussion has a wide application.

New Labour would like to portray 1997 as a new beginning for public policy, but Peter King argues that we now have, in housing and in other areas of public policy, a consensus based on Thatcherite reforms.

This is a different kind of book about psychedelics. Rather than describing psychedelic experiences, it presents four future-oriented ideas 'coming over the psychedelic horizon', which illustrate the potential benefits of psychedelics for humanity.

A lively and sharp critique of the role of the referendum in modern British politics.

Introspective evidence is still treated with great suspicion in cognitive science. This work is designed to encourage cognitive scientists to take more account of the subject''s unique perspective.

The Liberty Option advances the idea that for compelling moral as well as practical reasons it is the free society -- with the rule of law founded on the principles of private property rights, its complete respect for individual sovereignty and properly limited legal authorities -- not one or another version of statism that serves justice best, is most prosperous and encourages the greatest measure of individual virtue on the part of the citizenry. The work shows why this is so and lays out some of the most crucial implications of the idea. While the book presents a principled approach to politics, it is firmly grounded in the best and most up to date understanding of human community life and history as well as many of its complications, challenges, adversities and prospects.

'Therapy may be mad,' declares Rob Weatherill in this outspoken volume. This book aims to refute the fashion for a return to a pre-Cartesian ideal of harmony and integration.

Much of the scholarly attention attracted by Michael Oakeshott''s writings has focused upon his philosophical characterisation of the relations that constitute moral association in the modern world. A less noticed, but equally significant, aspect of OakeshottΓÇÖs moral philosophy is his account of the type of person (or persona) required to enter into and enjoy moral association. OakeshottΓÇÖs best known characterisation of the persona best suited to moral association occurs in his identification of a ''morality of the individualΓÇÖ. The book argues that OakeshottΓÇÖs characterisations of religious and poetic experience provide a more detailed account of the type of persona that emerged in response to what it perceived as an invitation to participate in moral association in the modern world.

The central concern of this book is to demonstrate how Puritanism was a theme which ran through all Green's biography and political philosophy.

Drawing on a wide range of approaches - from phenomenology to meditation - THE VIEW FROM WITHIN examines the possibility of a disciplined approach to the study of subjective states. The focus is on the practical issues involved.

The State of the Nations is the first publication of a major research programme into devolution in the United Kingdom, published on behalf of the Constitution Unit at University College London.

This book throws down a challenge to religious studies, offering a multidisciplinary approach - including developmental psychology, neuropsychology, philosophy of mind, and anthropology.

In this short but authoritative book, the nature and purpose of the European Constitution are explained by someone involved in its preparation.

This book is the fifth, and final, volume in the State of the Nations yearbook series on devolution in the UK. It explores the future of devolution, by examining the new political dynamics devolution has put into play.

Law making is a primary function of government, and how well the three devolved UK legislatures exercise this function will be a crucial test of the whole devolution project. This book provides the first systematic study and authoritative data to start that assessment.

This book is about the virtues and social justice of random distribution. This revised second edition includes a new introduction.

In this book Marnie Hughes-Warrington begins with the facet of Collingwood's work best known to teachers - re-enactment - and locates it in historically-informed discussions on empathy, imagination and history education.

This brings together moral, social and political philosophers from Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States who explore a wide range of issues under the three headings of Philosophy, Society and Culture; Ethics, Economics and Justice; and Rights, Law and Punishment.

Traditional cognitive science is Cartesian in the sense that it takes as fundamental the distinction between the mental and the physical, the mind and the world. The authors depart radically from this model.

To what extent can the current discussion of consciousness in mainstream cognitive science and analytical philosophy of mind profit from insights drawn from the investigations of subjectivity found in the Kantian and post-Kantian tradition (Kant, Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard) as well as in the phenomenological and hermeneutical tradition?