The Last judgement

Abstract This book makes explicit the methodology used by experienced psychiatrists in making treatment decisions about individual patients. Traditionally such clini...

Two crucial epistemological issues that preoccupied Newman were the conditions under which Christian belief can be considered rational and the intellectual contours of forming a co...

This chapter criticizes two disagreement arguments for pessimism. The first, due to David Chalmers, asserts on empirical grounds that there is no large collective convergence to, o...

This introduction explains how the development of early analytic philosophy was interwoven with scepticism about the particular–universal distinction, that the failure of Kant’s ef...

The nostalgia for the Catholic past comes full circle in Chapter 14 in an assessment of clerical ghost stories with their interest in ecclesiastical architecture, fittings, and tex...

The chapter collects and discusses the historical information provided by Herodotus about Egypt between the Persian conquest and his own time. Egypt attracts more post-conquest att...

In this chapter, the passages that sound positive towards the nations in the book of Isaiah outside of chs 13-23 are surveyed and discussed in the order of their presumed date of c...