A revised edition of the best-selling dictionary of philosophy, now with recommended web links. Contains over 3,000 entries, including biographies of nearly 500 philosophers. A wide-ranging and authoritative source of reference for students, teachers and an excellent introduction to philosophy for the general reader.

Presenting an introduction to ethics, this work tackles the moral questions surrounding birth, death, happiness, desire, and freedom. It also shows us how we should think about the meaning of life, and how we should mistrust the soundbite-sized absolutes that often dominate moral debates.

Why I am not a Christian is considered one of the most blasphemous philosophical documents ever written, and at a time when we have faith schools and wars over religious beliefs, its message today couldn't be more relevant.

This is a text about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth, goodness, justice. It is for anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how to approach them. Think sets out to explain what they are and why they are important.

Cambridge philosophy professor Simon Blackburn answers the key questions in philosophy - and provides easy-to-understand and enlightening answers.

This work confronts seven different objections to our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures, and charts a course through the philosophical quicksands that often engulf us. In a godless world, has science unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and aggressive?

David Hume is generally recognized as the United Kingdom's greatest philosopher, as well as a notable historian and essayist, and a central figure of the Enlightenment. This book describes how Hume can be placed as one of the earliest, and most successful, evolutionary psychologists.

Written by the author of the bestselling Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy , this book explains the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth, goodness, justice. It is intended for those who think there are big questions lurking out there, but does not know how to approach them.

Tells about truth, and the enemies of truth, and the wars that are fought between them. This guide looks at relativism and absolutism, toleration and belief, objectivity and knowledge, science and pseudo-science, and the moral and political implications, as well as the nuances, of all these.

The author posits a philosophy of human motivation and morality in which he maintains that we cannot get clear about ethics until we get clear about human nature. He seeks the answers in an exploration of guilt, shame and other moral emotions, and draws on game theory and cognitive science

Written by one of the eminent living philosophers, this work aims to rescue lust from the denunciations of old men of the deserts, to deliver it from the pallid and envious confessor and the stocks and pillories of the Puritans, to drag it from the category of sin to that of virtue.

The aim of this volume is to rescue lust 'from the denunciations of old men of the deserts, to deliver it from the pallid and envious confessor and the stocks and pillories of the Puritans, to drag it from the category of sin to that of virtue'.

Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who has ever lived and the Republic , composed in Athens in about 375BC, is widely regarded as his most famous dialogue. This book explains the judicial, moral and political ideas in the Republic and examines its influence on the modern world.

Deals with anatomy at MRCS level with over 200 questions grouped by anatomical region, each with five true/false parts. This title comes in a portable, user-friendly paperback format with answer sections clearly marked to help determine weak areas of knowledge and reinforce learning.

This volume collects together the author's pioneering essays on quasi-realism , a philosophical position he first introduced in 1980 which has become a distinctive and much discussed option in metaphysics and ethics.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the major philosophical theories attempting to explain the workings of language.

This volume is designed to set out some of the central issues in the theory of truth. It begins with writings by William James, Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell, and continues with the classical discussions from the middle of the century (including Wittgenstein, Quine and Austin), ending with a selection of contemporary contributions.

A volume of studies in philosophical logic by a group of younger philosophers in the UK.

An original study of the philosophical problems associated with inductive reasoning.