THE METAPHYSICS OF TECHNOLOGY
I met David Skribina at the 80th birthday celebrations for Henryk Skolimowski in Poland - they had been colleagues together in the philosophy department at…… Read More »
Category: Philosophy
This volume brings together seven essays discussing aspects of time in the history of philosophy, going back to Plato, Plotinus and Augustine through to Spinoza,…… Read More »
The Soul of the World
This beautifully written book, based on the Stanton Lectures delivered in Cambridge, asks what is left of our spiritual and aesthetic aspirations in the light…… Read More »
COLLECTED ESSAYS ON PHILOSOPHERS
I still remember my sense of intellectual excitement when I first read The Outsider in my last year at St Andrews (my daughter Charlotte is…… Read More »
Philosophy of Nature
This philosophical treatise challenges the view that any form of manipulation of nature is equivalent to any other form rather than reflecting on how we…… Read More »
Emotion and Imagination
This book is more slanted towards moral psychology rather than the nature of emotions as such, arguing for the close connection between emotion and imagination,…… Read More »
Emotion
This introductory text gives readers a very good overview of academic work on emotion with vivid illustrations that can help readers relate the content to…… Read More »
In the Absence of Human Beauty
Subtitled 'philosophical fragments' – an apt description of the episodic and at times gnomic content - this book sounds rather like Wittgenstein in opening with…… Read More »
The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death
This volume covers a wide range of themes about the metaphysics of life and death, the significance of life and death and the ethics of…… Read More »
Philosophers of our Times
This collection of 18 lectures is drawn from the Annual Lecture series of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and features many famous names in the…… Read More »