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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 …
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 …
The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility
Understanding the emergence of a scientific culture - one in which cognitive values generally are modelled on, or subordinated to, scientific ones - is one of the foremost …
The Emergence of a Scientific Culture
Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values come to be regarded as the yardstick for all other forms of knowledge? Stephen Gaukroger shows just how bitterly …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Blackwell Guide to Descartes' Meditations
Consisting of twelve newly commissioned essays and enhanced by William Molyneux’s famous early translation of the Meditations, this volume touches on all the major themes of one of …
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 …
Housegroups (Rejacket)
Ideas, resources and encouragement for small-group leaders. Ever since New Testament times small groups of Christians have met to learn, to worship and to grow together. An …
Knowledge in Modern Philosophy
To know epistemology’s history is to know better what contemporary epistemology could be and perhaps should be – and what it need not be and perhaps ought not to be. Knowledge …