Oxford University Press

Spinoza rejects fundamental tenets of received morality, including the notions of Providence and free will. Yet he retains rich theories of the good, virtue, perection, and freedom. Building interconnected readings of Spinoza's accounts of imagination and desire, Michael LeBuffe defends a comprehensive interpretation of Spinoza's enlightened vision...

This book presents a new conceptualization of quantum mechanics, using quaternions instead of complex numbers. The author gives a systematic treatment of quaternionic quantum mechanics paralleling the standard textbook treatment of complex quantum mechanics....

In this book, Richard Fenn looks at the way in which we experience time in secular societies. In Fenn's view, secularization is virtually synonymous with individualism. Although it is often the Church that decries modern individualism, he says, it is in fact the Church that created it, by its demystification of the universe, its insistence on...

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The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health PolicyIn bioethics, discussions of justice have tended to focus on questions of fairness in access to health care: is there a right to medical treatment, and how should priorities be set when medical resources are scarce. But health care is only one of many factors that determine the extent to which...

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