There are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and
contentious thinker who has shaped the way we think about mind and language. Now he …

Disillusionment with psychology is leading more and more people to formal philosophy for
clues about how to think about life. But most of us who try to grapple with concepts such as …

'John Searle has a distinctive intellectual style. It combines razor-sharp analysis with a
swaggering chip-on-the-shoulder impudence that many of his opponents might find …

Science and religion, like the lion and the lamb, seldom lie down together. But when a
scientist stumbles upon a plausible unifying principle behind the world's workings-Darwin …

The central problem of theorising agency is how to conceptualise the human agent as
someone who is both partly formed by their sociality, but also has the capacity partly to …

George Herbert Mead is no doubt America's greatest sociological theorist. But Mead's
theories have not been exploited and developed to their full potential. Mead is at his most …

Charles Taylor writes in his preface,'This is a work in philosophical anthropology. That is, it
explores issues of human nature. This is both terribly necessary, and also unbearably …

Is there such a thing as human nature? Here Sean Sayers defends the controversial theory
that human nature is in fact an historical phenomenon. He gives an ambitious and wide …

The author's purpose is to understand the philosophical foundations of Hegel's social theory
by articulating the normative standards at work in his claim that the three central social …

This work remains a pioneer sociological treatise on American culture. By understanding the
individual not as the product of society but as its mirror image, Cooley concludes that the …