This companion to the study of one of the great works of Western philosophy--David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1748)--provides a general overview of the Enquiry, especially for those approaching it for the first time, and sets it in the context of Hume's philosophical work as a whole. The eminent contributors to the volume cover a broad range of topics: meaning, induction, skepticism, belief, personal identity, causation, fr...
What explains our ability to refer to the objects we perceive? John Cambell argues that our capacity for reference is explained by our capacity to attend selectively to the objects of which we are aware, that this capacity for conscious attention to a perceived object is what provides us withour knowledge of reference. When someone makes a reference to a perceived object, your knowledge of which thing they are talking about is constituted by y...
This is the only book devoted entirely to The Metaphysics of Morals. Seventeen essays by leading contemporary Kant scholars cover such topics as Kant's views on rights, punishment, contract, practical reasoning, revolution, freedom, virtue, legislation, happiness, moral judgement, love, respect, duties to oneself, and motivation.
This is a bibliography of all significant work charting the importation of English into European languages. The book is divided by language, with each entry accompanied by a critical description of its contents. This will be an indispensable research machine for scholars and others interested in this fascinating aspect of recent linguistic change.
Gregory VII ranks among the very greatest popes of all time, and as an outstanding figure of European and even world history. The letters in his Register, of which this is the first complete modern translation, shed penetrating light on his personality, purposes, and actions, and especially on his often dramatic dealings with the kings and kingdoms of Europe in the late eleventh century.
This volume concentrates on the international banking revolution of the 1960's and includes a new and important outlook on the groundwork for financial globalization, based on historical perspectives. The four major issues addressed in this book are the revival of London as a strong and competitive world financial center, emergence of Euro-banking as a new benchmark of growth for credit institutions, growing competition between American financ...
Classical views of European integration have been shaken by the evolution of the past decade. It has become clear that the traditional division of tasks between the European Union and its Member States, and between the various European institutions no longer provides a valid description of European policy-making. As the EU has become a major actor in the field of risk regulation, new institutional and other actors such as scientific experts an...
In this detailed study of literary culture in the inter-war period, Jason Harding examines the standing of T. S. Eliot's journal the Criterion in relation to other literary periodicals and, beyond that, to the larger cultural networks of the time. Through his examination of insufficiently known archive material and interviews with living witnesses to the period, Harding significantly alters our understanding of the journal and of Eliot's role ...
Alan Bailey offers a clear and vigorous exposition and defence of the philosophy of Sextus Empiricus, one of the most influential of ancient thinkers, the father of philosophical scepticism. The subsequent sceptical tradition in philosophy has not done justice to Sextus: his views stand up today as remarkably insightful, offering a fruitful way to approach issues of knowledge, understanding, belief, and rationality. Bailey's refreshing present...
This is an account of the phonology and morphology of modern spoken Arabic, the first to be published in any language and based largely on the author's research. Dr. Watson's approach is theoretically innovative and aware, but accessible to Arabic language specialists outside linguistics. Broad in coverage, this is an important and pioneering book.
Clean Solvents: Alternative Media for Chemical Reactions and Processing focuses on the use of clean solvents for chemical processes, with an emphasis on chemical reactions, in a single comprehensive volume. Previous books on the subject have focused on applications of specific solvents.