Books written by Tom Sorell
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The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes
297-8 ) . I quote from the reprinted version . 11 Schaffer 1988 , 297-8 . 12 Schaffer writes that " The provisional basis of Hobbes's causal stories but the latter infallible . " ( Lev . ch 104 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO HOBBES.
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Descartes: A Very Short Introduction
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Emergencies and Politics: A Sober Hobbesian Approach
Although liberalism with Hobbesian security permits one jurisdiction to engage in humanitarian intervention in another, it does so only if domestic security requires or permits, and so there is a sense in which the detachment required ...
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Insiders and Outsiders in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
To the extent it has a distinctive method that is actually followed by Hobbes, and I think this is to a small extent, that method is not the one that Hobbes advertises as governing, say, physics. His political philosophy, in short, ...
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Descartes
Descartes
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Descartes' Meditations: Background Source Materials
Texts translated from the French and Latin serve to illustrate the context of the writing of Descartes' Meditations.
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Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy
In this book, ten distinguished historians of philosophy, mostly trained in the analytic tradition, explore the tensions between, and the possibilities of reconciling, analytic philosophy and history of philosophy.
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Microfinance, Rights and Global Justice
microcredit is not necessarily an effective or morally proportionate way of alleviating extreme poverty; and human rights duty-bearers recognized by international human rights law and emerging policy do not include most existing ...
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Microfinance, Rights and Global Justice
Exploring how far microfinance can or should be situated within broader concerns about justice, this volume sheds light on ethical issues that have so far received little systematic attention, and it advances discussion on new human rights, ...
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Business Ethics After the Global Financial Crisis: Lessons from The Crash
Integrity, virtue and the financial crisis. In S. Gregg & J. Stoner (Eds.), Profit, prudence and virtue: Essays in ethics, business and management (St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs) (pp. 195–210).
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The Rise of Modern Philosophy: The Tension Between the New and Traditional Philosophies from Machiavelli to Leibniz
Were Bacon and Descartes untainted by scholastic influences? The theme of this book is that the new and traditional philosophies have much more in common than the orthodox account suggests.
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Insiders and Outsiders in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
... within the history of learning. Such an interpretation of the temple and the reason/revelation question echoed that ... outsider status in the temple mirrored their outsider status within a certain Reformed understanding of the history ...
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Descartes: A Very Short Introduction
ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly.