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The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics
Making Sense of Things
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
This book is concerned with the history of metaphysics since Descartes. Taking as its definition of metaphysics 'the most general attempt to make sense of things', it charts the evolution of this enterprise through various competing conceptions of its possibility, scope, and limits. The book is divided...
by Rosalind Carey, John Ongley
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Academic philosopher, logician, public intellectual, educator, political activist, and freethinker, Bertrand Russell was and remains a colossus. No other single philosopher in the last 200 years can be said to have created so much and influenced so many. His Principia Mathematica, written with A....
The Making of Jewish Revolutionaries in the Pale of Settlement
Community and Identity during the Russian Revolution and its Immediate Aftermath, 1905–07
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
This book examines the emotional aspects of revolutionary experience during a critical turning point in both Russian and Jewish history - the 1905 revolution. Shtakser argues that radicalization involved an emotional transformation, which enabled many young revolutionaries to develop an activist attitude towards reality.
by Francis Bacon
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Francis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning (1605) is considered the first major philosophical book written in English. In it, Bacon is concerned with scientific learning: the current state of knowledge, obstacles to its progress, and his own plans for revitalization of schools and universities....
Chomsky
Language, Mind and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Noam Chomsky has made major contributions to three fields: political history and analysis, linguistics, and the philosophies of mind, language, and human nature. In this thoroughly revised and updated volume, James McGilvray provides a critical introduction to Chomsky's work in these three key areas...
Hume's 'A Treatise of Human Nature'
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2009
David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40) presents the most important account of skepticism in the history of modern philosophy. In this lucid and thorough introduction to the work, John P. Wright examines the development of Hume's ideas in the Treatise, their relation to eighteenth-century...
The Nineteenth Century
Routledge History of Philosophy Volume 7
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2016
This volume covers many of the most important philosophers and movements of the nineteenth century, including utilitarianism, positivism and pragmatism.
by Philip Stokes
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.' - Aristotle Philosophy showcases the major philosophers of the western tradition. Written with the general reader in mind, it provides an ideal introduction to their ideas and the effect those ideas have had on...
If A, Then B
How the World Discovered Logic
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
While logical principles seem timeless, placeless, and eternal, their discovery is a story of personal accidents, political tragedies, and broad social change. If A, Then B begins with logic's emergence twenty-three centuries ago and tracks its expansion as a discipline ever since. It explores where...
Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution
From Copernicus to Newton
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
With unprecedented current coverage of the profound changes in the nature and practice of science in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, this comprehensive reference work addresses the individuals, ideas, and institutions that defined culture in the age when the modern perception of nature,...
by Alain De Botton
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Anyone who’s ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor’s Lexus had better read Alain de Botton’s irresistibly clear-headed new book, immediately. For in its pages, a master explicator of our civilization and its discontents turns his attention to the insatiable quest for...
Ethics 101
From Altruism and Utilitarianism to Bioethics and Political Ethics, an Exploration of the Concepts of Right and Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Explore the mysteries of morality and the concept of right and wrong with this accessible, engaging guide featuring basic facts along with an overview of modern-day issues ranging from business ethics and bioethics to political and social ethics.
Ethics 101 offers an exciting look into the...
The Philosophy Of Praxis
Marx, Lukács And The Frankfurt School
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Philosophy of Praxis examines the work of four Marxist thinkers, the early Marx and Lukács, and the Frankfurt School philosophers Adorno and Marcuse. The book holds that fundamental philosophical problems are in reality social problems, abstractly conceived. This argument has two implications: on...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1992
This is one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date surveys of the philosophy of Sartre, by some of the foremost interpreters in the United States and Europe. The essays are both expository and original, and cover Sartre's writings on ontology, phenomenology, psychology, ethics, and aesthetics, as...