Ideas That Matter

  • Ideas That Matter: The Concepts That Shape the 21st Century
    By A. C. Grayling

    ... J.S., 101 Things You Don't Know About Science and No One Else Does Either (Houghton Mifflin, 1998) scientific revolutions Hacking, I. (ed.), Scientific Revolutions (Oxford University Press, 1981) Henry, J., The Scientific Revolution ...

  • Ideas That Matter: Democracy, Justice, Rights
    By Debra Satz, Annabelle Lever

    The contributors offer novel perspectives on pressing issues of public policy from accountability for sexual violence to exploitation in international trade. The volume is organized around three central ideas.

  • Ideas that Matter: A Personal Guide for the 21st Century
    By A. C. Grayling

    PHILOSOPHY. AUSTRALIAN. 'Ideas are the cogs that drive history, and understanding them is half way to being aboard that powerful juggernaut rather than under its wheels'. This is a book...

  • Ideas that Matter: The Worlds of Jane Jacobs
    By Max Allen

    Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) is history's most celebrated urban critic. In addition to her classic, Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jacobs authored another half dozen influential books on urban...

  • Ideas that Matter: Democracy, Justice, Rights
    By Debra Satz, Annabelle Lever

    In this text, leading philosophers take up three ideas that are prominent in the work of Joshua Cohen. The first idea relates to reinvigorating democracy-improving collective decision-making by free and equal citizens.

  • Ideas That Matter: Democracy, Justice, Rights
    By Debra Satz, Annabelle Lever

    ... the strains of commitment in seeking social justice. How so? Rawls says the strains of commitment involve the desire to act in accord with what justice requires and the expectation that others do likewise. Among the challenges that face the ...