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Objectivity: A Very Short Introduction
- Is objectivity possible? - Can there be objectivity in matters of morals, or tastes? - What would a truly objective account of the world be like? - Is everything subjective, or …
French Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
French culture is unique in that philosophy has played a significant role from the early-modern period onwards, intimately associated with political, religious, and literary …
The Failures of Philosophy
The first book to address the historical failures of philosophy—and what we can learn from themPhilosophers are generally unaware of the failures of philosophy, recognizing only …
Civilization and the Culture of Science
How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did cognitive values--and subsequently moral, political, and social ones--come to be modelled around …
First Steps
So you've become a Christian. Fantastic It's the most important commitment you could ever make. You're a new person, with tremendous potential. But now there are changes to …
Descartes’ Treatise on Man and its Reception
This edited volume features 20 essays written by leading scholars that provide a detailed examination of L’Homme by René Descartes. It explores the way in which this work developed …
Being Baptised
It Makes Sense
Uses of Antiquity
The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively earl- though not always under that name - in the …
Natural and the Human
Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the …
The Soft Underbelly of Reason
This book provides a valuable understanding on the different views of the passions in the Seventeenth Century. The contributors show that fundamental questions about the nature of …
Discover Acts
Follow the story of the dynamic growth of the early church. Meet the cast of characters with their strengths, faults and failings just like ours. Always God’s power shines …