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David Phillips aims in Sidgwickian Ethics to do something that has (surprisingly) not been done before: to interpret and evaluate the central argument of the Methods of Ethics, in a way that brings out the important conceptual and historical connections between Sidgwick's views and contemporary moral philosophy....

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Cook exposes how Wittgenstein's philosophical views have been misunderstood, including the failure to recognize the reductionist character of Wittgenstein's work. He also shows how both Wittgenstein's defenders and detractors have failed to recognize the merits of linguistic philosophy when it is freed from the influence of Wittgenstein and G.E....

Analysing the transformation in beliefs and practices relating to black beauty in the 1960s and pre-Civil Rights Movement and later black beauty pageants,    Ain't I A Beauty Queen? goes into beauty parlours, late-night political meetings, and college campus organisations to study how black women were symbols and participants in the reshaping of...

Central banks have over the past few years devoted considerable resource to the        study of the economics of payments. In parallel, this field has begun to establish        itself as a new subject for scholarly research, drawing in academic students and        researchers. To date, however, there has been little attempt to draw together...