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2991. Proof and Knowledge in Mathematics

      Edited by Michael Detlefsen

      These questions arise from any attempt to discover an epistemology for mathematics. This collection of essays considers various questions concerning the nature of justification in mathematics and possible sources of that justification. Among these are the question of whether mathematical...

      Published January 1st 1992 by Routledge
2992. The Limits of Medical Paternalism

      By Heta Häyry

      Series: Social Ethics and Policy

      The Limits of Medical Paternalism defines and morally assesses paternalistic interventions, especially in the context of modern medicine and health care, particular emphasis is given to the analysis of the conceptual background of the paternalism issue. In this book an anti-paternalistic view is...

      Published December 11th 1991 by Routledge
2993. Imagination

      A Study in the History of Ideas

      By John Cocking

      Edited by Penelope Murray

      An exploration of the history of imagination from antiquity to the Renaissance. The shifting definitions of imagination and its ambiguous relations with memory and reason are synthesised within an historical context....

      Published December 11th 1991 by Routledge
2994. Protecting the Vulnerable

      Autonomy and Consent in Health Care

      Edited by Margaret Brazier, Mary Lobjoit

      Series: Social Ethics and Policy

      The right of adults with sound mind to consent to treatment or risk their own health for the benefit of the community in a clinical trial is unequivocally recognised by the law. But what about those vulnerable by virtue of their age, nature or position in society? Experts from the fields of...

      Published December 11th 1991 by Routledge
2995. Later Medieval Philosophy

      By John Marenbon

      An introduction to philosophy in the Latin West (1150-1350) combines an historical approach with philosophical analysis of thirteenth and fourteenth-century writing in terms comprehensible to the modern reader....

      Published December 11th 1991 by Routledge
2996. Metaphysics of Consciousness

      By William Seager

      Series: Philosophical Issues in Science

      Metaphysics of Consciousness opens with a development of the physicalist outlook that denies the need for any explanation of the mental. This "inexplicability" is demonstrated not to be sufficient as refutation of physicalism. However, the inescapable particularity of modes of consciousness...

      Published December 4th 1991 by Routledge
2997. George Berkeley

      Critical Assessments

      Edited by Walter E. Creery

      Series: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers

      This work is a comprehensive collection of the critical works on George Berkeley in the past thirty years. The eighty six articles will be an essential reference tool to all scholars of Berkeley...

      Published December 4th 1991 by Routledge
2998. Equity and Choice

      An Essay in Economics and Applied Philosophy

      By Julian Le Grand

      Offering a new answer to an age-old problem: the meaning of a just or equitable distribution of resources, Julian Le Grand examines the principal interpretations of equity used by economists and political philosophers. He argues that none captures the essence of the term as well as an alternative...

      Published December 4th 1991 by Routledge
2999. Intimations of Postmodernity

      By Zygmunt Bauman

      This thoughtful and illuminating book provides a major statement on the meaning and importance of postmodernity....

      Published December 4th 1991 by Routledge
3000. Rene Descartes

      Critical Assessments

      Edited by Georges J.D. Moyal

      Series: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers

      A collection of the most significant contributions to Cartesian scholarship. Nearly 120 articles are brought together on Cartesian method, epistemology, metaphysics and Descartes' contributions to mathematics and science...

      Published November 13th 1991 by Routledge