This Element examines the many facets of ethical realism and the issues at stake in metaethical debates about it—both between realism and non-realist alternatives, and between different versions of realism itself. Starting with a minimal core characterization of ethical realism focused on claims about meaning and truth, we go on to develop a narrower and more theoretically usef...(展开全部)

“A picture held us captive,” writes Wittgenstein in the Philosophical Investigations, describing the powerful image of mind that underlies the modern epistemological tradition from Descartes onward. Retrieving Realism offers a radical critique of the Cartesian epistemic picture that has captivated philosophy for too long and restores a realist view affirming our direct access t...(展开全部)

Mark Fisher is highly respected both as a music writer and a theorist. He writes regularly for The Wire, frieze, New Statesman, and Sight & Sound. He is a Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths, University Of London, and maintains one of the most successful weblogs on cultural theory, k-punk (http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org)

What does it mean to be a realist about science if one takes seriously the view that scientific knowledge is always perspectival, namely historically and culturally situated? In Perspectival Realism, Michela Massimi explores how scientific knowledge grows and evolves thanks to a plurality of epistemic communities occupying a number of scientific perspectives. The result is a ph...(展开全部)

What does it mean to be a realist about science if one takes seriously the view that scientific knowledge is always perspectival, namely historically and culturally situated? In Perspectival Realism, Michela Massimi explores how scientific knowledge grows and evolves thanks to a plurality of epistemic communities occupying a number of scientific perspectives. The result is a ph...(展开全部)

Principles of right and wrong guide the lives of almost all human beings, but we often see them as external to ourselves, outside our own control. In a revolutionary approach to the problems of moral philosophy, Philip Kitcher makes a provocative proposal: Instead of conceiving ethical commands as divine revelations or as the discoveries of brilliant thinkers, we should see our...(展开全部)

Principles of right and wrong guide the lives of almost all human beings, but we often see them as external to ourselves, outside our own control. In a revolutionary approach to the problems of moral philosophy, Philip Kitcher makes a provocative proposal: Instead of conceiving ethical commands as divine revelations or as the discoveries of brilliant thinkers, we should see our...(展开全部)

艾伦•伍德，斯坦福大学荣休教授，现为印第安纳大学哲学系 Ruth Norman Halls讲座教授，国际著名德国古典哲学研究专家，剑桥版康德全集主编，除了将康德的主要作品翻译成英文之外，还撰写了大量的康德研究作品，其中代表性著作主要有五部：《康德的道德宗教》、《康德的理性神学》、《康德的伦理思想》、《康德式伦理学》、《康德》。在康德研究之外，伍德教授还对于马克思、黑格尔与费希特的实践哲学进行了深入研究，先后出版了《马克思》、《黑格尔的伦理思想》和《费希特的伦理思想》。在这些作品中，《康德的伦理思想》（1999）、《黑格尔的伦理思想》（1990）与《费希特的伦理思想》（2016）构成了他的德国古典哲学伦理思想的三部曲，也是其迄今为止40余年的创作生涯中，具有代表性的作品。 商务印书馆出版了他的早期代表著作《康德的理性神学》（邱文元译，商务印书馆，201...(展开全部)

This is a major new study of Kant's ethics that will transform the way students and scholars approach the subject in future. Allen Wood argues that Kant's ethical vision is grounded in the idea of the dignity of the rational nature of every human being. Undergoing both natural competitiveness and social antagonism the human species, according to Kant, develops the rational capa...(展开全部)

Will meat eaters get into heaven? Do trees have rights? Is it ever right to 'design' a baby? From overcrowded lifeboats to the censor's pen, Martin Cohen's stimulating and amusing dilemmas will have you scratching your head and laughing out loud in equal measure. Whatever your background, there is a dilemma for you. There are the DIY babies and the breeding experiements from...(展开全部)