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Mortal Subjects
Wiley 2013; US$ 26.95This wide ranging and challenging book explores the relationship between subjectivity and mortality as it is understood by a number of twentieth-century French philosophers including Sartre, Lacan, Levinas and Derrida. Making intricate and sometimes unexpected connections, Christina Howells draws together the work of prominent thinkers from the fields... more...
The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas
Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 27.00Etienne Gilson explains the foundations of St. Thomas Aquinas's thoughts and Christian philosophy. Gilson is also the author of History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages. more...
Philosophy of Miracles
Continuum International Publishing 2007; US$ 31.95Philosophers who wish to argue for the rationality of belief in God frequently employ a 'god-of-the-gaps' strategy. This strategy consists in trying to find a phenomenon that cannot be explained by natural science, and insisting that it can be explained only by reference to the activity of God. Philosophical discussion of miracles usually revolves... more...
Early Wittgenstein on Religion
Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 35.95Many have observed how Wittgenstein's later philosophy illuminates the philosophy of religion. Rarely, however, have they paid attention to his early philosophy. Those who have argued that Wittgenstein refuted his early positions in his later work. This book proves otherwise. The proof is found in the answer to an important, but largely ignored,... more...
God, the Best, and Evil
OUP Oxford 2008; US$ 69.99God, the Best, and Evil is an original treatment of some longstanding problems about God and his actions towards human beings. First, Bruce Langtry explores some implications of divine omnipotence, omniscience, and perfect goodness for God's providence. In particular, he investigates whether God is in some sense a maximizer. Second, he assesses... more...
Faith and Place
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 109.99Faith and Place takes knowledge of place as a basis for thinking about the relationship between religious belief and our embodied life.Recent epistemology of religion has appealed to various secular analogues for religious belief - especially analogues drawn from sense perception and scientific theory construction. These approaches tend to overlook... more...
Understand Philosophy
Hodder & Stoughton 2010; US$ 20.83This book is the essential introduction to the history of Western thought. Covering all the key thinkers, both ancient and modern, and all the major branches of philosophy, it will give you new insights about the world we live in. Packed full of examples and clear explanations, and with key terms defined and explained, it is ideal whether you are... more...
The Existence of God
Clarendon Press 2004; US$ 38.99Richard Swinburne presents a substantially rewritten and updated edition of his most celebrated book. No other work has made a more powerful case for the probability of the existence of God. Swinburne argues compellingly that the existence of the universe, its law-governed nature and fine-tuning, human consciousness and moral awareness, and evidence... more...
Understand Philosophy
Hodder & Stoughton 2010; Not AvailableThis book is the essential introduction to the history of Western thought. Covering all the key thinkers, both ancient and modern, and all the major branches of philosophy, it will give you new insights about the world we live in. Packed full of examples and clear explanations, and with key terms defined and explained, it is ideal whether you are... more...
The Nature of the Gods
Penguin Books Ltd 2004; Not AvailableTowards the end of his life, Cicero turned away from his oratorical and political career and looked instead to matters of philosophy and religion. The dialogue The Nature of the Gods both explores his own views on these subjects, as a monotheist and member of the Academic School, and considers the opinion of other philosophical schools of the Hellenistic... more...









