Paul Kurtz 
Forbidden Fruit 
The Ethics of Secularism

Written by Jewish and Christian educators for use by college and adult learners, this volume explores eight basic questions that lie at the core of both traditions and that can serve as a bridge for …

Democracy in Theory and Practice presents an authoritative overview of democratic theory today. Its distinctive approach links theory to practice, emphasizing the wide variety of institutions and pro …

Moral Rights and Their Grounds offers a novel theory of rights based on two distinct views. The first—the value view of rights—argues that for a person to have a right is to be valuable in a certain …

This book offers transdisciplinary scholarship which challenges the agendas of and markers around traditional social scientific fields.　 It builds on the belief that the study of major issues in th …

This book analyses Brexit in the larger context of the crisis in liberal democracies and the continuing rise of ”nationalism”. With electoral verdicts favouring right-wing populists across the worl …

The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals^ is one of the most important works of moral philosophy ever written, and Kant”s most widely read work. It attempts to demonstrate that morality has its …

Why trust science? Why should science have more authority than ‘other ways of knowing?’ Is science merely a social construct? Or even worse: a tool of oppression? This book boldly takes on these and …

This book provides a philosophical analysis of the notion of selfhood that underlies identity politics. It offers a unique theory of the self that combines previous scholarly work on recognition and …

Global Heating and the Australian Far Right examines the environmental politics of far-right actors and movements in Australia, exploring their broader political context and responses to climate chan …

This book is the first-ever collection dedicated to the guise of the good in early modern and later Western philosophy. It spans three centuries from Thomas Hobbes to Henry Sidgwick and features orig …