Philosophy of Language

Chicago Catholics and the Struggles within Their Church..

Chicago Catholics and the Struggles within Their Church..

This book, first published in 1987, investigates what distinguishes human behaviour that is action (praxis) from the part that is not. The distinction was drawn by Socrates, but key elements became obscured in modern philosophy.This study recovers those elements, and analyses them in terms of a defe..

Social choice and decision-making are key topics in economic theory and Robert Urquhart delves into the world of philosophy in this superb new book...

Christian Doctrine from the Bible to the Present..

Christian Doctrine from the Bible to the Present..

Citizen Machiavelli..

This book, originally published in 1963 provides a sample of the criticisms of philosophers on the course of linguistic philosophy. A chronological ordr is followed, with work ranging from that of traditionalist thinkers to second thoughts about linguistic philosophy on the part of writers who have ..

This book argues that individualism is far from being dead. Machan does not reject the social nature of the human being, but he also finds that every human being is a self-directed agent who is responsible for what he or she does...

Classical Liberalism and the Jewish Tradition..

The incongruence if not antagonism between modern liberalism and the Jewish sense of the world has been most notably articulated by Lionel Trilling. Certainly the imaginative limitations and intellectual smugness he discerned in his own ideological party found a parallel, in his view, in the embrace..

In recent years in the "West," scholars have attempted to unravel old constructs of interpretation and understanding, using the discipline of hermeneutics, or the scientific study of textual interpretation. Borrowed from students of the ever growing body of biblical interpretive literature that orig..