Evidence and Evolution

• Elliot Sober
• How should the concept of evidence be understood? And how does the concept of evidence apply to the controversy about creationism as well as to work in evolutionary biology about natural selection and common ancestry?

The Problem of Punishment

• David Boonin
• This book argues that improved body consciousness can relieve these problems and enhance one’s knowledge, performance, and pleasure. The body is our basic medium of perception and action, but focused attention to its feelings and movements has long been criticized as a damaging distraction that also ethically corrupts through self-absorption.

What is Analytic Philosophy?

• Hans-Johann Glock
• Analytic philosophy is roughly a hundred years old, and it is now the dominant force within Western philosophy. Interest in its historical development is increasing, but there has hitherto been no sustained attempt to elucidate what it currently amounts to, and how it differs from so-called ‘continental’ philosophy.

Aggression and Crimes Against Peace

Larry May

In this volume, the third in his trilogy on the philosophical and legal aspects of war and conflict, Larry May locates a normative grounding for the crime of aggression—the only one of the three crimes charged at Nuremberg that is not currently being prosecuted—that is similar to that for crimes against humanity and war crimes.

War

Essays n Political Philosophy

• Edited by Larry May
• War has been a key topic of speculation and theorizing ever since the invention of philosophy in classical antiquity. This anthology brings together the work of distinguished contemporary political philosophers and theorists who address the leading normative and conceptual issues concerning war.

Ethics and the Environment

An Introduction

What is the environment, and how does it figure in an ethical life? This book is an introduction to the philosophical issues involved in this important question, focusing primarily on ethics but also encompassing questions in aesthetics and political philosophy.

An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic

From If to Is

Graham Priest

This revised and considerably expanded 2nd edition brings together a wide range of topics, including modal, tense, conditional, intuitionist, many-valued, paraconsistent, relevant, and fuzzy logics

An Introduction to Africana Philosophy

• Lewis R. Gordon
• Tn this undergraduate textbook Lewis R. Gordon offers the first comprehensive treatment of Africana philosophy, beginning with the emergence of an Africana (i.e. African diasporic) consciousness in the Afro-Arabic world of the Middle Ages.

Darwinism and its Discontents

Michael Ruse

This book presents an ardent defence of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution against its many critics by one of the leading experts on this subject.

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Informal Logic

A Pragmatic Approach

• Informal Logic is an introductory guidebook to the basic principles of constructing sound arguments and criticizing bad ones.