Professor of Philosophy David Owens's Books

Beginning with a brief biography and concluding with an appraisal of Aristotelianism today, Shields assesses the whole of Aristotle?s philosophy, revealing how his powerful conception of human nature shaped much of his thinking.

On his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was heralded by the New York Times as one of the world's most influential contemporary thinkers. Controversial on the left and the right for his critiques of objectivity and political radicalism, Rorty experienced a renown denied to all but a handful of living philosophers. In this masterly biography, Neil...

The last two decades have seen the remarkable rise to dominance of human-centred understandings of the world. Indeed, it is now rare to read any analysis of insecurity, conflict or development which does not discuss the need to 'empower' or 'capacity-build' local individuals or communities. In this path-breaking book, Chandler presents a radical challenge to such approaches, arguing that the solutions to the world's problems are now not perceived to lie within external structures of economic, political and social relations, but instead with individuals and groups who are often seen to be the most marginal and powerless. This fundamental change has gone hand-in-hand with the shift from state-based to society-based understandings of the world. Chandler provocatively argues that human-centred approaches have limited rather than expanded the transformative possibilities available to us, and if real change is to be achieved - both at a local and a global level - then a radical re-think in Western thought is required.

This collection of 15 essays by the influential American philosopher David Lewis is divided into three groups: ontology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.

Book's by Professor of Philosophy David Owens

Aristotle

Aristotle

Richard Rorty

Richard Rorty

Freedom vs Necessity in International Relations

Freedom vs Necessity in International Relations

Philosophical Papers

Philosophical Papers

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