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Offers an account of the central theories and ideas encountered in aesthetics. Suitable for students across the arts and humanities, this book stresses distinctively modern and contemporary problems, including the divergence between theories of aesthetics and theories of art and the problem of media.

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Offers an account of the central theories and ideas encountered in aesthetics. Suitable for students across the arts and humanities, this book stresses distinctively modern and contemporary problems, including the divergence between theories of aesthetics and theories of art and the problem of media.

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Provides an exposition and analysis of the main philosophical theories, ideas and arguments that inform, and are raised by, questions of gender and sexuality. This work explores both early feminist arguments, which stress 'sameness' between sexes in the interests of equality, and later theories, which emphasise difference.

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Summarises the work of key thinkers in the philosophy of law, including Rousseau, Hobbes, Austin, Hegel, Habermas, Mill, Marx, Dworkin, Hart and Rawls. This title provides explication and analysis of central concerns in legal philosophy, covering criminal law, civil law and constitutional law.

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Summarises the work of key thinkers in the philosophy of law, including Rousseau, Hobbes, Austin, Hegel, Habermas, Mill, Marx, Dworkin, Hart and Rawls. This title provides explication and analysis of central concerns in legal philosophy, covering criminal law, civil law and constitutional law.

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Offers an account of the central theories and ideas encountered in political philosophy. This text is structured, covering the discipline's principal ideologies: Statism; Realism; Liberalism; Conservatism; Socialism; Anarchism; and Environmentalism. It also offers a history of political philosophy and the major political philosophers.

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Offers an account of the central theories and ideas encountered in political philosophy. This text is structured, covering the discipline's principal ideologies: Statism; Realism; Liberalism; Conservatism; Socialism; Anarchism; and Environmentalism. It also offers a history of political philosophy and the major political philosophers.

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The philosophy of religion encompasses some of the major complex philosophical questions. Does God exist What is God's nature Why does God allow evil What is a religious experience This work covers the work of major thinkers and outlines the central questions and arguments encountered in studying the philosophy of religion.

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The philosophy of religion encompasses some of the most complex philosophical questions. Does God exist What is God's nature Why does God allow evil What is a religious experience This book covers the work of major thinkers and outlines the central questions and arguments encountered in studying the philosophy of religion.

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Part of the "Key Concepts in Philosophy" series, this book considers such fundamentals as discovery, evidence, verification and falsification, realism and objectivity. It also draws on specific examples from the history of science to further illuminate the philosophical questions addressed.

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Written with the specific needs of students new to the discipline in mind, this book covers the work of key thinkers and outlines the central questions, problems and arguments encountered in studying the philosophy of science. It considers such fundamentals as discovery, evidence, verification and falsification, realism and objectivity.

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Presents an introduction to the central ideas and problems encountered when studying metaphysics. This book illustrates the place of metaphysics in other core areas of philosophy - epistemology; philosophy of language; philosophy of science.