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A Very Short IntroductionIs our sexuality a product of our genes, or of society, culture, and politics? How have views of sexual norms changed over time? And how have feminism, religion, and HIV/AIDS affected our attitudes to sex? This Very Short Introduction examines these questions and many more, exploring what shapes our sexuality, and how our...

Jerry Fodor presents a new development of his famous Language of Thought hypothesis, the idea that thinking is couched in a symbolic system realized in the brain; since the 1970s this has been at the centre of debate about how the mind works. No one who studies the mind can ignore Fodor's views, expressed in his coruscating and provocative style....

Thomas Jefferson designed his own tombstone, describing himself simply as "e;Author of the Declaration of Independence and of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia."e; It is in this simple epitaph that R.B. Bernstein finds the key to this enigmatic Founder--not as a great political figure, but...

G. E. Moore's 1912 work    Ethics has tended to be overshadowed by his famous earlier work    Principia Ethica. However, its detailed discussions of utilitarianism, free will, and the objectivity of moral judgements find no real counterpart in     Principia, while its account of right and wrong and of the nature of intrinsic value deepen our...

A Very Short IntroductionWhat do anarchists want? Can anarchy ever function effectively as a political force? Is anarchism more 'organized' and 'reasonable' than is currently perceived? Colin Ward explains what anarchism means and who anarchists are in this illuminating and accessible introduction to the subject....