De vrije markt is inmiddels overal en haar rol in onze samenleving en persoonlijke leven lijkt groter dan ooit. De voordelen daarvan zijn moeilijk te overschatten: we zijn rijker en hebben meer individuele vrijheid dan ooit tevoren. Tegelijkertijd lijkt er op veel vlakken iets uit de hand te lopen. Ongelijkheid neemt toe, veel mensen raken psychologisch in de problemen en er dreigt een ecologische crisis. En dan is er nog een coronavirus dat onze economie aan een stresstest onderwerpt. Volgen...

Michael Beaney introduces analytic philosophy by exploring some of the key ideas of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Susan Stebbing. He also considers how analytic philosophy has developed and spread to become the dominant philosophical tradition across the world.

This is a book about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth, goodness, justice. It is for anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how to approach them. Think sets out to explain what they are and why they are important.

Simon Blackburn begins by putting forward a convincing case for the study of philosophy and goes on to give the reader a sense of how the great historical figures such as Descartes, Hume, Kant, and Wittgenstein ha...

The emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences, as revealed through images in scientific atlases-a story of how lofty epistemic ideals fuse with workaday practices.

This Very Short Introduction to hermeneutics demonstrates the central role of interpretation in our daily lives. By considering the historic developments in hermeneutic theory as well as its contemporary relevance, Zimmermann explains how humans continue to draw knowledge from the world around them.