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Scepticism in recent and current philosophy represents a certain threat or challenge in the theory of knowledge. What is that threat? How se...

Is it ever possible to think about the world with complete detachment? I shall argue in Chapter Four that it is. Before that, I want to use...

Ludwig Wittgenstein is, no doubt, one of the most original and independent philosophers of the twentieth century. Yet even he developed his ...

Among contemporary philosophers there is a growing interest in recounting the history of philosophy in the twentieth century. The essays in ...

My main aim in this book is rather a modest one; it is to argue that a belief in God is reasonable. It is modest in the sense that I shall n...

The essays that make up this volume - with only a few exceptions - offer readings of philosophical texts that depart, sometimes radically, ...

There probably is no scientifically appropriate class of things referred to by our term emotion . Such disparate phenomena—fear, guilt, sha...