Tracing the history on international humanitarian action from its early roots through the birth of the Red Cross to the beginning of the UN, this book examines the challenges humanitarian agencies face, from working alongside armies and terrorists to witnessing genocide. It is suitable for those int[...]

In Neuroscience and Philosophy three prominent philosophers and a leading neuroscientist clash over the conceptual presuppositions of cognitive neuroscience. The book begins with an excerpt from Maxwell Bennett and Peter Hacker's Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell, 2003), which q[...]