The twentieth century was one of the most significant and exciting periods ever witnessed in philosophy, characterised by intellectual change and development on a massive scale. The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy is an outstanding and authoritative survey and assessment of the century as a whole. Twenty-two chapters written…
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Josiah Royce (1855-1916), one of the outstanding classical American philosophers, is regarded by many as the foremost American idealist. A transitional book in the development of Royce’s thought, The Philosophy of Loyalty is a key to understanding his influence on the development of pragmatism. Royce’s basic argument is clear. Individual…
Biomedical ethics is a burgeoning academic field with complex and far-reaching consequences. Whereas in Western secular bioethics this subject falls within larger ethical theories and applications (utilitarianism, deontology, teleology, and the like), Islamic biomedical ethics has yet to find its natural academic home in Islamic studies. In this pioneering work,…