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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 1993
Few thinkers are more controversial in the history of philosophy than Hegel. He has been dismissed as a charlatan and obscurantist, but also praised as one of the greatest thinkers in modern philosophy. No one interested in philosophy can afford to ignore him. This volume considers all the major aspects...
The American Philosopher
Interviews on the Meaning of Life and Truth
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Over the course of nearly a decade, Phillip McReynolds conducted a series of interviews with prominent American philosophers including, among others, Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, Joseph Margolis, Richard Bernstein, Bruce Wilshire, John Lachs, Richard Shusterman, and Crispin Sartwell. The American...
An Unconventional History of Western Philosophy
Conversations Between Men and Women Philosophers
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
Gender scholarship during the last four decades has shown that the exclusion of women's voices and perspectives has diminished academic disciplines in important ways. Traditional scholarship in philosophy is no different. The 'recovery project' in philosophy is engaged in re-discovering the names,...
The World of the Imagination
Sum and Substance
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
In this book, Eva Brann sets out no less a task than to assess the meaning of imagination in its multifarious expressions throughout western history. The result is one of those rare achievements that will make The World of the Imagination a standard reference.
The Scientists
A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievements of individual scientists, by the bestselling author of In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat
In this ambitious new book, John Gribbin tells the stories of the people...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
This volume offers 11 papers that cover the wide spectrum of influences on Rudolf Carnap’s seminal work, Der Logische Aufbau der Welt (The Logical Structure of the World). Along the way, it covers a host of topics related to this important philosophical work, including logic, theories of order,...
Interactive Wittgenstein
Essays in Memory of Georg Henrik von Wright
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
The philosophical thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein continues to have a profound influence that transcends barriers between philosophical disciplines and reaches beyond philosophy itself. Less than one hundred years after their publication, his early masterpiece 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus' and the...
A History of Women Philosophers
Contemporary Women Philosophers, 1900-Today
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Like their predecessors, and like their male counterparts, most women philosophers of the 20th century have significant expertise in several specialities. Moreover, their work represents the gamut of 20th century philosophy's interests in moral pragmatism, logical positivism, philosophy of mathematics,...
by Michael Ruse
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
A brief, accessible history of the idea of purpose in Western thought, from ancient Greece to the present
Can we live without the idea of purpose? Should we even try to? Kant thought we were stuck with purpose, and even Darwin’s theory of natural selection, which profoundly shook the idea,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
More than five hundred years after Machiavelli wrote The Prince, his landmark treatise on the pragmatic application of power remains a pivot point for debates on political thought. While scholars continue to investigate interpretations of The Prince in different contexts throughout history, from the...
Utopia
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Saint Thomas More’s Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism and serves as a key text in survey courses on Western intellectual history, the Renaissance, political theory, and many other subjects. Preeminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller does justice to the full range of More’s...
by Charles S. Peirce
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Charles S. Peirce in the opinion of many authorities was the most profound and original philosopher that America has produced. A master of exact science, our foremost logician, the founder of pragmatism, Peirce was one of the most remarkable and versatile minds of the 19th century, whose scattered...
Speaking into the Air
A History of the Idea of Communication
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Communication plays a vital and unique role in society-often blamed for problems when it breaks down and at the same time heralded as a panacea for human relations. A sweeping history of communication, Speaking Into the Air illuminates our expectations of communication as both historically specific...
by Brad Inwood
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Stoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that still inspires people in the twenty-first century to re-think and re-organize their lives in order to achieve personal satisfaction. What is the connection between them?...