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A development in Wittgenstein Studies has been the advancement of a therapeutic reading of the Tractatus. This book offers an extended application of this reading of Wittgenstein, encompassing Wittgenstein's later work too, to examine the implications of Wittgenstein's work as a whole upon the domains of literature, psychopathology, and time.

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This is a new collection of previously published papers by one of the leading experts on the superstar of Irish Philosophy, George Berkeley (1685-1753).

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A collection of papers by one of the leading experts on the superstar of Irish Philosophy, George Berkeley (1685-1753). It includes an essay that examines a range of Berkeley's achievement, looking at his classic works of 1709-1713, "Alciphron" (1732) and his final book, the enigmaic "Siris" (1744).

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Tackles some of the problems in Berkeley's philosophy by providing a fresh interpretation of Berkeley's core ontological doctrines and their relationship to his views about self-consciousness. This work examines that Berkeley is led to adopt a model of self-consciousness because he rejects basic metaphysics of many of his predecessors.

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Bertrand Russell was not only one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century, he was also a humanitarian and activist who fought for many moral, social, and political causes. This book brings a new dimension to our understanding of Russell's life, his activism, and his contribution to moral philosophy.

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Examines Russell's work, particularly from 1900 to 1950, and exposes a repeated emphasis on, and turn to, linguistic considerations. This book considers how 'linguistics' and 'philosophy' were struggling in the twentieth century to define themselves and to create appropriate contemporary disciplines.

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This process reveals those characteristics of mechanical explanations that make them superior to elemental theories of chemical explanation, characteristics that have become an enduring feature of the scientific enterprise.

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This important new monograph presents a non-sceptical outlook on Hume's Treatise by analysing the hitherto neglected role of the belief in other minds.

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A monograph that presents a non-sceptical outlook on David Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature" by analysing the hitherto neglected role of the belief in other minds. It considers the problem of other minds as a special problem within the debate about scepticism. It focuses on Hume's discussion of sympathy.

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John Austin was a towering presence in nineteenth-century English jurisprudence. He lived at the centre of the utilitarian movement in London during the 1820s and 1830s, and became its leading philosopher of law after Bentham's death (1832).

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Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903-1930), Cambridge mathematician and philosopher, was one of the most brilliant people of his generation. He lived in an extraordinarily stimulating milieu, surrounded by figures such as Russell, Whitehead, Keynes, Moore, and Wittgenstein.

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Francis Bacon is considered the 'father' of modern experimental science. This book speaks up for Bacon, and focuses on Bacon's "Novum Organum, The Advancement of Learning and De Augmentis", in order to discern the theoretical nature of his programme for the 'renovation' of the natural sciences.

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An important new monograph that re-examines Hobbes's political writings in the context of the rest of his corpus and the work of his contemporaries.

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A monograph that examines Hobbes' political writings in the context of the rest of his corpus and the work of his contemporaries. It considers what it is that makes the study of Hobbes so compelling. It shows the relevance of Hobbes to contemporary debates around the radically democratic potential of the 'multitude'.

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A thorough and innovative study of Hume's philosophy of religion, a topic central to his whole philosophical project.

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David Hume, one of the most influential philosophers to have written in the English language, is widely known as a skeptic and an empiricist. This book studies Hume's philosophy of religion, a topic central to his whole philosophical project.

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Presents an original reading of David Hume's text, "A Treatise of Human Nature", and political writings published after it, articulating a view of his theory of human nature in society and his political philosophy. This book explores hitherto neglected social contexts within which Hume's ideas were conceived.

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Presents an interpretation of David Hume's account of what a 'cause' is. This book emphasises on the connections between Hume's theories of cause, space and time, morals, and aesthetics. It presents an argument that Hume's causal theory is best understood as 'quasi-realist', an intermediate position between realism and anti-realism.

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Presents an interpretation of David Hume's account of what a 'cause' is. This book emphasises on the connections between Hume's theories of cause, space and time, morals, and aesthetics. It presents an argument that Hume's causal theory is best understood as 'quasi-realist', an intermediate position between realism and anti-realism.

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Showing the inseparability of the British idealists' social and political radicalism from the inherent logic of idealism, this book makes extensive use of previously unpublished British idealist manuscripts.

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Shows the inseparability of the British idealists' social and political radicalism from the inherent logic of idealism. This book grounds a critique of abstract rationalism as an alienating and potentially totalitarian method of designing social and economic institutions. It makes use of certain British idealist manuscripts.

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Offers an appreciation of Iris Murdoch's philosophy, focusing the importance of images and the imagination for her thought. This book examines how literature and imagination enabled Murdoch to form a philosophical response to the decline of religion. It also reconsiders various contemporary assumptions about what philosophy is and does.

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Draws upon the tradition of 'Philosophical Romanticism' to account for Murdoch's enigmatical quality and her embrace of paradoxical truths. This study analyses Murdoch's version of Kant's Copernican Revolution, the centrality of learning and the sublime to her redemptive vision, and her understanding of philosophy, imagination, freedom, and art.

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One of the influential debates in John Locke's work is the problem of personal identity over time. This problem is that of how a person at one time is the same person later in time, and so can be held responsible for past actions. This title offers an emphasis on Locke's theological commitments, and those of Rene Descartes and Thomas Hobbes.