St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs
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Values, Education and the Human World
by John Haldane
Part 1 of the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs series
The essays in this book consist of revised versions of Victor Cook Memorial Lectures delivered in the universities of St. Andrews, London, Cambridge, Aberdeen, Oxford, Glasgow and Leeds.
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Philosophy and Its Public Role
by John Arthur
Part 2 of the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs series
This collection of essays brings together moral, social and political philosophers from Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States who explore a wide range of issues under the three headings of Philosophy, Society and Culture; Ethics, Economics and Justice; and Rights, Law and Punishment. The topics discussed range from the public responsibility of intellectuals to the justice of military tribunals, and from posthumous reproduction to the death penalty.
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Human Life, Action and Ethics
Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe
by G. E. M. Anscombe
Part 4 of the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs series
A collection of essays by the celebrated philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. This collection includes papers on human nature and practical philosophy, together with the classic 'Modern Moral Philosophy'
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The Institution of Intellectual Values
Realism and Idealism in Higher Education
by Gordon Graham
Part 5 of the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs series
This is a revised and expanded version of the much praised short book Universities: The Recovery of An Idea. It contains chapters on the history of universities; the value of university education; the nature of research; the management and funding of universities plus additional essays on such subjects as human nature and the study of the humanities, interdisciplinary versus multidisciplinary study, information systems and the concept of a library, the prospects for e-learning, reforming universities, intellectual integrity and the realities of funding, and spiritual values and the knowledge economy.
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Sensibility and Sense
The Aesthetic Transformation of the Human World
by Arnold Berleant
Part 6 of the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs series
Aesthetic sensibility rests on perceptual experience and characterizes not only our experience of the arts but our experience of the world. Sensibility and Sense offers a philosophically comprehensive account of humans' social and cultural embeddedness encountered, recognized, and fulfilled as an aesthetic mode of experience. Extending the range of aesthetic experience from the stone of the earth's surface to the celestial sphere, the book focuses on the aesthetic as a dimension of social experience. The guiding idea of pervasive interconnectedness, both social and environmental, leads to an aesthetic critique of the urban environment, the environment of daily life, and of terrorism, and has profound implications for grounding social and political values. The aesthetic emerges as a powerful critical tool for appraising urban culture and political practice.
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Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Utility
Happiness in Philosophical and Economic Thought
by Anthony Kenny
Part 7 of the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs series
A volume on the nature, ingredients, causes and consequences of human happiness by the father and son team of Anthony and Charles Kenny.
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Distributing Health Care
Principles, Practices and Politics
by Niall MacLean
Part 8 of the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs series
How ought a society to distribute its publicly funded healthcare resources? Few questions are in more urgent need of an answer. This multidisciplinary investigation brings together the insights of philosophy, clinical science, health economics, operational research and public policy analysis.
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The Landscape of Humanity
Art, Culture and Society
by Anthony O'Hear
Part 10 of the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs series
The fourteen essays in this book develop a conception of human culture, which is humane and traditionalist. Focusing particularly on notions of beauty and the aesthetic, it sees within our culture intimations of the transcendent, and in two essays the nature of religion is directly addressed. A number of essays also explore the relation between politics and tradition.
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Subjectivity and Being Somebody
Human Identity and Neuroethics
by Grant Gillett
Part 12 of the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs series
This book uses a neo-Aristotelian framework to examine human subjectivity as an embodied being. It examines the varieties of reductionism that affect philosophical writing about human origins and identity, and explores the nature of rational subjectivity as emergent from our neurobiological constitution. This allows a consideration of the effect of neurological interventions such as psychosurgery, neuroimplantation, and the promise of cyborgs on the image of the human. It then examines multiple personality disorder and its implications for narrative theories of the self, and explores the idea of human spirituality as an essential aspect of embodied human subjectivity.
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Understanding Faith
Religious Belief and Its Place in Society
by Stephen R. L. Clark
Part 13 of the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs series
Militant atheists often mirror the worst kind of ignorance and hostility that they condemn in traditional believers. Writing both as a philosopher and an Anglican Christian, Professor Clark explores this initial perception, considering such topics as the alleged openness of 'scientists' compared with the 'dogmatism' of 'believers'; the difficulty of reading 'scripture' outside 'the community of faith' that has selected and elaborated it; the problems of moral realism (and the problem with abandoning it); why Darwinian and neo-Darwinian Theory has been unpopular with some believers, and what if anything can still be affirmed from it; what can be learnt from modern biology (especially) about our relations with other creatures; the nature of God; the metaphor of 'waking up' as applied to our hopes of heaven; the varieties of possible world orders founded on differing religious schemata (including some atheistical ones); and the place of religion in the State. He concludes, appropriately, with some remarks about the End.
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Profit, Prudence and Virtue
Essays in Ethics, Business and Management
by Samuel Gregg
Part 14 of the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs series
Essays on the ethics of business and management.
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Practical Philosophy
Ethics, Society and Culture
by John Haldane
Part 15 of the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs series
In this wide ranging volume of philosophical essays John Haldane explores some central areas of social life and issues of intense academic and public debate. These include the question of ethical relativism, fundamental issues in bioethics, the nature of individuals in relation to society, the common good, public judgement of prominent individuals, the nature and aims of education, cultural theory and the relation of philosophy to art and architecture.
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Understanding Teaching and Learning
Classic Texts on Education by Augustine, Aquinas, Newman and Mill
by T. Brian Mooney
Part 16 of the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs series
Generous selections from these four seminal texts on the theory and practice of education have never before appeared together in a single volume. The Introductions that precede the texts provide brief biographical sketches of each author, situating him within his broader historical, cultural and intellectual context. The editors also provide a brief outline of key themes that emerge within the selection as a helpful guide to the reader. The final chapter engages the reflections of the classic authors with contemporary issues and challenges in the philosophy and practice of education.
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Truth and Faith in Ethics
by Raimond Gaita
Part 17 of the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs series
This addition to the St Andrews Studies series contains a wide-ranging collection of essays on all aspects of moral philosophy and its impact upon public life in the twent-first century. The book brings together ethicists from a variety of traditions interested in moral truth and its relation to religious faith. A key theme is interaction between major Catholic thinkers with philosophers from non-religious traditions. Topics include reason and religion, natural law, God and morality, anti-consequentialism, rights and virtues.
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From Plato to Wittgenstein
Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe
by G. E. M. Anscombe
Part 18 of the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs series
In 2005 St Andrews Studies published a volume of essays by Anscombe entitled Human Life, Action and Ethics, followed in 2008 by a second with the title Faith in a Hard Ground. Both books were highly praised. This third volume brings essays on the thought of historical philosophers in which Anscombe engages directly with their ideas and arguments. Many are published here for the first time and the collection provides further testimony to Anscombe's insight and intellectual imagination.
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Natural Law, Economics and the Common Good
Perspectives from Natural Law
by Harold James
Part 19 of the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs series
In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008 and ongoing debt-related troubles there have been widespread calls to put banking and economic activity on a secure ethical foundation, either by regulation or through voluntary reform. In this volume a distinguished set of authors explore various economic, philosophical, and ethical ideas from historical, contemporary, and future-looking perspectives. At the core are two related ideas much mentioned but far more rarely examined: the idea of natural law and that of the common good.
In these essays the foundations and meaning of these notions are carefully studied and put to work in examining the nature and scope of ethics in relation to global economics.
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The Philosophy of Punishment
by Anthony Ellis
Part 20 of the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs series
The series, St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Life originates in the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, University of St Andrews and is under the general editorship of John Haldane. The series includes monographs, collections of essays and occasional anthologies of source material representing study in those areas of philosophy most relevant to topics of public importance, with the aim of advancing the contribution of philosophy in the discussion of these topics. In this volume, the author sets aside the usual division between theories of punishment that do or do not focus on retribution. In its place, he proposes and explores the distinction between internalist and externalist theories. The final chapter discusses the deterrent value of punishment.
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Social Radicalism and Liberal Education
by Lindsay Paterson
Part 21 of the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs series
Liberal education used to command wide political support. Radicals disagreed with conservatives on whether the best culture could be appreciated by everyone, and they disagreed, too, on whether the barriers to understanding it were mainly social and economic, but there was no dispute that any worthwhile education ought to hand on the best that has been thought and said. That consensus has vanished since the 1960s. The book examines why social radicals supported liberal education, why they have moved away from it, and what the implications are for the future of an intellectually stimulating and culturally literate education.
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Logic, Truth and Meaning
Writings By G.e.m. Anscombe
by Mary Geach
Part 22 of the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs series
This fourth and final volume of writings by Elizabeth Anscombe reprints her Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus, together with a number of later essays on thought and language in which she explores issues of reason, representation, truth and existence. As with previous volumes this gathers hitherto inaccessible publications and previously unpublished texts. Singly and collectively the four volumes provide for a broader and deeper understanding of the thought of one of the twentieth century's most important anglophone philosophers.
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The Moral Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe
by Luke Gormally
Part 23 of the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs series
Elizabeth Anscombe's 1958 essay 'Modern Moral Philosophy' contributed to the transformation of the subject from the late 1960's, reversing the trend to assume that there is no intrinsic connection between facts, values, and reasons for action; and directing attention towards the category of virtues. Her later ethical writings were focused on particular ideas and issues such as those of conscience, double-effect, murder, and sexual ethics. In this collection of new essays deriving from a conference held in Oxford these and other aspects of her moral philosophy are examined. Anyone interested in Anscombe's work all want to read this volume.
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The Life and Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe
by John Haldane
Part 25 of the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs series
This volume in the St Andrews series contains a collection of essays from leading authors regarding the work of Elizabeth Anscombe, in particular issues in mind and metaphysics, and can be considered a partner work to 2016's The Moral Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe (also published by Imprint Academic Ltd.).
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Faith in a Hard Ground
Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics by G.E.M. Anscombe
by G.E.M. Anscombe
Part of the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs series
Elizabeth Anscombe's forthright philosophy speaks directly to many religious and ethical issues of current concern. This collection of her essays forms a companion volume to the critically acclaimed Human Life, Action and Ethics, published in 2005.
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Art, Morality and Human Nature
Writings by Richard W. Beardsmore
by John Haldane
Part of the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs series
This collection brings together the text of the monograph Art and Morality by the philosopher Richard Beardsmore along with fourteen other essays (both published and previously unpublished) in which he explores further some of the themes of his seminal book. With the revival of interest among philosophers and others in the relationships between art and morality, the publication of this material is especially timely. Beardsmore's original contribution first introduced the principal terminology in which discussions have been expressed and many of the later essays showed the influence of Wittgenstein. The publication of this anthology of his writings on these themes has been welcomed by others writing on the same or related themes.
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