By Abraham Edel (NHC Fellow, 1978–79) The problem created by diverse and competing modes of conceptual analysis that have been employed in the social disciplines is the topic of this first volume of the Science, Ideology, and Value series. How such conflicts are to be interpreted is the main philosophical task of this book. The introductory essay … Continued
By Abraham Edel (NHC Fellow, 1978–79) The great twentieth-century dichotomy that has pervaded moral philosophy and value theory on the one hand and social science and social theory on the other, concerns this volume. Part one approaches this dichotomy between fact (knowledge/science) and value (worth/morality) from different angles. It opens with a general study of … Continued
By Daniel Conway (NHC Fellow, 2006–07) Nietzsche is one of the most important and widely read philosophers of all time and his On the Genealogy of Morals is one of the most frequently studied of all his works-a key text in the study of moral philosophy. In Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals": A Reader's Guide, Daniel Conway explains … Continued
By Bernard Reginster (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) Among all the great thinkers of the past two hundred years, Nietzsche continues to occupy a special place—not only for a broad range of academics but also for members of a wider public, who find some of their most pressing existential concerns addressed in his works. Central among these … Continued
Edited by Tom Regan (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) The issues of animal rights and the use of animals in scientific experimentation are fraught with controversy. In an effort to define the bases of such strong emotional response towards an ethical issue, this book presents the teachings of the major religions of the world concerning animals and, … Continued
Edited by Tom Regan (NHC Fellow, 1984–85)
By W. D. Falk (NHC Fellow, 1979–80)
By Andrew Delbanco (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1990–91; 2002–03) In a spiritual biography of America, Delbanco shows how writers of the past 3 centuries have depicted evil and how they have tried to defy and subdue it. He shows the strategies by which writers such as Cotton Mather, Jefferson and Lincoln, Emerson and Melville, Thoreau and … Continued
By Pavlos Kontos (NHC Fellow, 2017–18) This book offers a new account of Aristotle’s practical philosophy. Pavlos Kontos argues that Aristotle does not restrict practical reason to its action-guiding and motivational role; rather, practical reason remains practical in the full sense of the term even when its exercise does not immediately concern the guidance of … Continued
Edited by Tom Regan (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) and Donald VanDeVeer These lively essays explore the controversial field of biomedical ethics and cover such issues as abortion, euthanasia, the treatment of incompetents, ethics in nursing, and the value of life.