Rotters and Squatters continues the warts-and-all story of Australia from 1820 to 1850. This period saw new colonies founded and squatters spreading into new areas and taking the best land…

Using examples from literature, film and current events as well as traditional philosophical literature, this text raises questions about responsibility in political, environmental, legal, medical, corporate and military justice matters.

This collection of essays, inspired by the author’s experience teaching ethics to Marine and Navy chaplains during the Iraq War, examines the moral, psychological and philosophical dilemmas posed by war…

Understanding politics in America is important for every citizen and resident. Knowing how politics works must be shared in words clear enough to be fully understood around kitchen tables all…

The essays in this volume explore emotions from a variety of perspectives, ranging from Aristotelian views of the passions to the new findings of cognitive science, and from such diverse…

From time to time, analytic philosophers, some very distinguished, have produced fine work on literature and the arts. But these areas remain underexplored in the analytic tradition. This volume highlights…

This collection of essays focuses on a current issue of central important in contemporary philosophy, the relationship between philosophy and empirical studies.

The Concept of Evil is dedicated to the analysis of the concept of evil. The term evil is used widely in ordinary language and yet philosophers have disagreed on what…