Philosophy

Revisiting the Rule of Law

Kristen Rundle

The Element offers a roadmap to theoretical writing on the rule of law that signals to new directions of thought.

Elements in Philosophy of Law

January 2023 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009009676 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P

Defining Knowledge

Method and Metaphysics Stephen Hetherington

This Element asks whether modalized epistemology can succeed, in order to gain insight into knowing’s essence.

Elements in Epistemology

November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009095136 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P

Susan Stebbing

Frederique Janssen-Lauret

This Element provides an overview of the contributions of Susan Stebbing, the UK’s first female professor of Philosophy.

Elements on Women in the History of Philosophy

December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009013031 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P

Ethics and Business

An Introduction

Second edition

Kevin Gibson

This updated introduction offers clear, accessible analysis of the important and complex ethical issues facing business in the contemporary world.

Cambridge Applied Ethics

January 2023 244 x 170 mm c.298pp 9781009096898 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 P

The Classical–Quantum Correspondence

Benjamin H. Feintzeig

This Element provides an entry point for philosophical engagement with quantization and the classical limit.

Elements in the Philosophy of Physics

December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009044318 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P

Recognition and the Self in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit

Timothy L. Brownlee

Articulates the connections between the distinctive conceptions of recognition and the self that emerge over the course of Hegel’s Phenomenology.

December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.240pp 9781009098236 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Coherentism

Erik J. Olsson

This Element introduces the main ideas and problems of coherentism, and reassesses the debate about the proper definition of coherence.

Elements in Epistemology

September 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009055123 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P

Truthmaking

Jamin Asay

This Element explores the metaphysical enterprise of truthmaking, which studies how truth depends upon ontology.

Elements in Metaphysics

December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009112031 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P

Higher-Order Evidence and Calibrationism

Ru Ye

The Element talks about the literature on the higher-order evidence debate and a new position to respond to that evidence.

Elements in Epistemology

February 2023 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009124195 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P

The Origins of Kant’s Aesthetics

Robert R. Clewis

Organized around eight themes that are relevant to aesthetic theory, this book examines the sources and development of Kant’s aesthetics.

December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.288pp 9781009209427 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Wisdom

A Skill Theory Cheng-hung Tsai

The Element demonstrates how far a skill model of wisdom can go with respect to explaining various aspects of wisdom.

Elements in Epistemology

January 2023 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009222891 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P

Cognitive Ontology

Taxonomic Practices in the Mind-Brain Sciences Muhammad Ali Khalidi

This book examines taxonomic practices in cognitive science and uncovers crosscutting relationships among categories in psychology and neuroscience.

January 2023 229 x 152 mm c.220pp 9781009223669 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

An Introduction to Mesoamerican Philosophy

Alexus McLeod

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to the philosophical traditions of the precolonial Mesoamerican peoples, including the Maya, Aztecs, and Mixtecs.

Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy

April 2023 244 x 170 mm c.280pp 9781009218733 Paperback £19.99 / US$29.99 P

The Life Worth Living in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

David Machek

Offers a fresh narrative of ancient ethics that does justice to neglected perspectives on the value of human life.

December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.260pp 9781009257879 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Moral Responsibility Reconsidered

Gregg D. Caruso Derk Pereboom

Provides a summary of the arguments against basic desert moral responsibility and the practical implications of adopting such skepticism.

Elements in Ethics

December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009219754 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P

Wittgenstein on Religious Belief

Genia Schönbaumsfeld

Addresses key questions, including: is it possible to demonstrate that God exists? What is the meaning of Religious Language?

Elements in the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein

February 2023 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009276054 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P

Property and its Forms in Classical German Philosophy

David James

The first comprehensive analysis of the key theories of property developed by the major figures in classical German philosophy.

January 2023 229 x 152 mm c.214pp 9781009288149 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

The Philosopher’s Guide to Parenthood

Storks, Surrogates, and Stereotypes Teresa Baron

The Philosopher’s Guide to Parenthood

Storks, Surrogates, and Stereotypes Teresa Baron

Examines and deconstructs the highly interrelated biological, social, legal and moral concepts and practices that make up parenthood today.

January 2023 229 x 152 mm c.218pp 9781009299244 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C

Plato Was Not a Mathematical Platonist

Elaine Landry

This Element shows that Plato was not a mathematical Platonist, and kept a clear distinction between mathematical and metaphysical realism.

Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics

January 2023 229 x 152 mm c.62pp 9781009313780 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P

Mathematical Anti-Realism and Modal Nothingism

Mark Balaguer

This Element solves the problem of modal truthmaking for mathematical anti-realists by providing a novel view of modal truth.

Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics

January 2023 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009346016 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Logic

Edited by Luca Castagnoli Paolo Fait

A state-of-the-art overview of ancient logic for students and scholars, with in-depth analyses of its central themes.

Cambridge Companions to Philosophy

October 2022 228 x 152 mm 320pp 9781107656772 Paperback £26.99 / US$34.99 P

German Philosophy and the First World War

Nicolas de Warren

A powerful exploration of how the First World War – ‘the war to end all wars’ – transformed German philosophy.

March 2023 229 x 152 mm c.382pp 9781108423496 Hardback £30.00 / US$39.99 P

Values and Virtues for a Challenging World

Volume 92

Edited by Anneli Jefferson Orestis Palermos Jonathan Webber

This volume aims to begin a conversation about how to foster better reasoning about new challenges.

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements

December 2022 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781009345262 Paperback £23.99 / US$39.00 C

Plato’s Phaedo

Forms, Death, and the Philosophical Life David Ebrey

A comprehensive book on Plato’s Phaedo that reinterprets many famous Platonic ideas, in part by situating them in their context.

November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781108479943 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Aristotle on Happiness, Virtue, and Wisdom

Bryan C. Reece

A unique and compelling solution to a widely discussed problem for Aristotle’s ethics: determining what kind of activity happiness is.

October 2022 229 x 152 mm c.240pp 9781108486736 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Bargaining Theory

Peter Vanderschraaf

This Element is a self-contained overview of the parts of the bargaining theory that are most important in social philosophy.

Elements in Decision Theory and Philosophy

February 2023 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108706681 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P

The Philosophical Project of Carnap and Quine

Edited by Sean Morris

This book reassesses Carnap and Quine by presenting them as sharing philosophical motivations despite their notable differences.

December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.288pp 9781108494243 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Evolutionary Game Theory

J. McKenzie Alexander

This Element models the dynamics of boundedly rational agents in strategic settings, showing how behaviours emerge, change, and stabilise.

Elements in Decision Theory and Philosophy

February 2023 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108713474 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P

A History of Western Philosophy of Music

James O. Young

This book is a comprehensive, accessible survey of Western philosophy of music from Pythagoras to the present.

January 2023 228 x 152 mm c.500pp 9781108497848 Hardback £89.99 / US$115.00 R

How to End a War

Essays on Justice, Peace, and Repair Edited by Graham Parsons Mark Wilson

Treats the challenges of moving from a state of war to post-war as central to military ethics, strategy, and law.

March 2023 229 x 152 mm c.207pp 9781108834285 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C

Deontology

Piers Rawling

This Element explores one of the major ethical theories, deontology, and the challenges its chief rival, consequentialism, poses to it.

Elements in Ethics

February 2023 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108706520 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P

Idealizations in Physics

Elay Shech

This Element explores questions concerning idealizations in physics and discusses their implications.

Elements in the Philosophy of Physics

December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108925044 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P