Penn State University Press: 456 books
A Cultivated Reason
An Essay on Hume and Humeanism
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 1999
As Plato’s tripartite division of the soul, Descartes’s criterion of clear and distinct ideas, and Kant’s notion of the categorical imperative attest, philosophy has traditionally been wedded to rationalism and its “intellectualist” view of persons. In this book Christopher Williams seeks...
Morality and Our Complicated Form of Life
Feminist Wittgensteinian Metaethics
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Moral philosophy, like much of philosophy generally, has been bedeviled by an obsession with seeking secure epistemological foundations and with dichotomies between mind and body, fact and value, subjectivity and objectivity, nature and normativity. These are still alive today in the realism-versus-antirealism...
Empowerment and Interconnectivity
Toward a Feminist History of Utilitarian Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Feminist history of philosophy has successfully focused thus far on canon revision, canon critique, and the recovery of neglected or forgotten women philosophers. However, the methodology remains underexplored, and it seems timely to ask larger questions about how the history of philosophy is to be...
American Immigration After 1996
The Shifting Ground of Political Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Few topics generate as much heated public debate in the United States today as immigration across our southern border. Two positions have been staked out, one favoring the expansion of guest-worker programs and focusing on the economic benefits of immigration, and the other proposing greater physical...
by John M. Warner
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
In this volume, John Warner grapples with one of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s chief preoccupations: the problem of self-interest implicit in all social relationships. Not only did Rousseau never solve this problem, Warner argues, but he also believed it was fundamentally unsolvable—that social relationships...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes features the work of feminist scholars who are centrally engaged with Hobbes’s ideas and texts and who view Hobbes as an important touchstone in modern political thought. Bringing together scholars from the disciplines of philosophy, history, political theory,...
Rhetoric’s Pragmatism
Essays in Rhetorical Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
For over thirty years, Steven Mailloux has championed and advanced the field of rhetorical hermeneutics, a historically and theoretically informed approach to textual interpretation. This volume collects fourteen of his most recent influential essays on the methodology, plus an interview.
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Liberty, Property, and Privacy
Toward a Jurisprudence of Substantive Due Process
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 1996
In this book, Edward Keynes examines the fundamental-rights philosophy and jurisprudence that affords constitutional protection to unenumerated liberty, property, and privacy rights. He is critical of the failure of the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt a coherent theory for identifying which rights are...
Democracy Without Decency
Good Citizenship and the War on Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
The conservative attacks on the welfare system in the United States over the past several decades have put liberal defenders of poverty relief and social insurance programs on the defensive. In this no-holds-barred look at the reality of American social policy since World War II, William Epstein argues...
by Joel Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Democracy has always been an especially volatile form of government, and efforts to create it in places like Iraq need to take into account the historical conditions for its success and sustainability. In this book, Joel Horowitz examines its first appearance in a country that appeared to satisfy...
Women of the Right
Comparisons and Interplay Across Borders
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
In Women of the Right, Kathleen M. Blee and Sandra McGee Deutsch bring together a groundbreaking collection of essays examining women in right-wing politics across the world, from the early twentieth-century white Afrikaner movement in South Africa to the supporters of Sarah Palin today. The volume...
by Mark Peceny
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1999
No country has worked harder to coerce others to adopt liberal institutions than the United States. This book examines the promotion of democracy during U.S. military interventions in the twentieth century, showing it to be one of the central ways in which the United States attempts to reconcile the...
The Nature and Pace of Change in American Indian Cultures
Pennsylvania, 4000 to 3000 BP
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Three thousand to four thousand years ago, the Native Americans of the mid-Atlantic region experienced a groundswell of cultural innovation. This remarkable era, known as the Transitional period, saw the advent of broad-bladed bifaces, cache blades, ceramics, steatite bowls, and sustained trade, among...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Growing numbers of scholars, practitioners, politicians, and citizens recognize the value of deliberative civic engagement processes that enable citizens and governments to come together in public spaces and engage in constructive dialogue, informed discussion, and decisive deliberation. This book...