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Charles Taliaferro, a leading philosopher of religion, presents several fictional dialogues among characters with contrasting views on the existence of God, including theism, atheism, skepticism, and other nuanced arguments about the nature of God. In a series of five inspired...

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Presents traditional arguments for the existence of God, expressing the belief that religion is founded on ignorance and irrational fears. This book offers a case against orthodox Christian theological thinking and the 'deism' of the time, which pointed to the wonders of creation as conclusive evidence of God's Design.

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Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), a key figure in post-structuralism, was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. In this book, Deleuze examines his philosophical pluralism in a series of discussions with Claire Parnet. He describes his own philosophical background, relationships, and some of the central themes of his work.

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What is truth, goodness, or beauty Can we really define these concepts without the idea of a frame of reference In the newest addition to the New Dialogues in Philosophy series, Michael Krausz presents fictional dialogues between four former classmates who hold significantly...

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One in the series New Dialogues in Philosophy, edited by the author himself, Dale Jacquette presents a fictional dialogue over a three-day period on the ethical complexities of capital punishment. Jacquette moves his readers from outlining basic issues in matters of life and d...

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This dictionary provides, through alphabetically arranged entries, brief overviews of the tenets, philosophers, and writers of existentialism.

This reference book is intended as a tool to provide students and scholars with concise information on particular existentialist thinkers, writers, terms, and ideas.

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This biographical dictionary of Irish philosophers is a by-product of a series of larger biographical dictionaries of British philosophers published in recent years by Thoemmes Press.

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Spanning 15 centuries of Irish thought, from the Irish Augustine in the 7th century, to Iris Murdoch and JO Wisdom in the 20th, this dictionary chronicles over 180 individuals who have contributed to Irish philosophical thought. It includes figures from historiography, psychology, theology, politics, literature, mathematics and the sciences.

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A study of scientific naturalism in the Enlightenment. In tracing the materialism of Diderot, La Mettrie, Buffon, and D'Holbach to its sources, it offers a fresh appraisal of the total influence of Descartes on the Enlightenment. Originally published in 1953. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make av

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Because of its fragmentary, evolving, exploratory, and dialectical character, Diderot's thought has continuously resisted overall synthesis. In the ideas of "order" and "disorder," ideas important in all of eighteenth-century thought, Lester G. Crocker finds the key to an outline of a structure that leads to a genuine synthesis of Diderot's writing

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Offers insight into Immanuel Kant's notion of radical evil. This book explores this neglected existential side of Kant's work. It presents radical evil as vacillating between tragic and freedom, at the threshold of humanity. It offers an account of what is widely considered to be an intricate yet urgent problem of philosophy.

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Putting the New Materialist figure of diffraction to use in a set of readings in which cultural texts are materially read against their contents and their themes, against their readers or against other texts this volume proposes a critical intervention into the practice of reading itself.

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Introduces "digital poetics" as a theoretical framework for integrating ethics into the development, use, and regulation of digital technologies, and for addressing the unprecedented ethical challenges of our digital age.

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In this work, Carol V.A. Quinn considers survivors arguments in the debate concerning the ethics of using Nazi medical data, showing what it would mean to take their claims seriously. Her approach is interdisciplinary, incorporating philosophy, psychology, trauma research, survivors testimony, Holocaust poetry, literature, and the Hebrew Bible.

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This volume provides a unique overview and analysis of the philosophy and thought of Wilhelm Dilthey, and examines his writings in terms of their contemporary relevance.