Philosophy category: 55395 books
by Bertrand Russell
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
In his controversial book An Outline of Philosophy, first published in 1927, Bertrand Russell argues that humanity demands consideration solely as the instrument by which we acquire knowledge of the universe. From our inner-world to the outer-world, from our physical world to the universe, his argument...
Great Philosophers Volume Two
Science and Philosophy, The Preservation of Youth, and Understanding History
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Three essential philosophers on the nature of reality, the health of the human body, and the meaning of history.
Science and Philosophy: An essential introduction to Alfred North Whitehead’s life and philosophy. From personal reflections to his groundbreaking essay “Process and Reality”...
by Bertrand Russell
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy has been a seminal work for more than nine decades. It gives the general background necessary for any serious discussion on the foundational crisis of mathematics in the beginning of the twentieth century.
Requiring neither prior knowledge of mathematics...
by Voltaire, Thomas Kiernan
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Have you ever wondered how different worldviews have shaped history? How dominant religious or political groups have changed the way past events have been interpreted, written, and recorded? Voltaire, the greatest philosophical mind to come out of the Enlightenment, has tackled these very questions...
by Yu-lan Fung
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The classic chronicle of Chinese philosophical thought from the third millennium to the 20th century.
From the sage-kings of ancient China to the 1911 overthrow of the oldest monarchical system in the world, Chinese philosophy has evolved and influenced schools of thought around the world....
Disputers of the Tao
Philosophical Argument in Ancient China
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
"A history of Chinese philosophy in the so-called Axial Period (the period of classical Greek and Indian philosophy), during which time China evolved the characteristic ways of thought that sustained both its empire and its culture for over 2000 years. It is comprehensive, lucid, almost simple...
Understanding Asian Philosophy
Ethics in the Analects, Zhuangzi, Dhammapada and the Bhagavad Gita
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Understanding Asian Philosophy introduces the four major Asian traditions through their key texts and thinkers: the Analects of Confucius, the Daoist text Zhuangzi, the early Buddhist Suttas, and the Bhagavad Gita. Approached through the central issue of ethical development, this engaging introduction...
by François Jullien
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2016
Living holds us between two places. It expresses what is most elementary—to be alive—and the absoluteness of our aspiration—finally living! But could we desire anything other than to live? In The Philosophy of Living, François Jullien meditates on Far Eastern thought and philosophy to analyze...
by Tim Bayne
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
What is the philosophy of religion? How can we distinguish it from theology on the one hand and the psychology/sociology of religious belief on the other? What does it mean to describe God as 'eternal'? And should religious people want there to be good arguments for the existence of God, or is religious...
All Thoughts Are Equal
Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
All Thoughts Are Equal is both an introduction to the work of French philosopher François Laruelle and an exercise in nonhuman thinking. For Laruelle, standard forms of philosophy continue to dominate our models of what counts as exemplary thought and knowledge. By contrast, what Laruelle calls his...
Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy
Lovecraft and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
As Hölderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarmé to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers. Lovecraft was one of the brightest stars of the horror and science fiction magazines, but died in poverty and relative obscurity in the 1930s. In 2005 he was finally...
Finding Ourselves at the Movies
Philosophy for a New Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Academic philosophy may have lost its audience, but the traditional subjects of philosophy—love, death, justice, knowledge, and faith—remain as compelling as ever. To reach a new generation, Paul W. Kahn argues that philosophy must take up these fundamental concerns as we find them in contemporary...
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2008
When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror...
Narrative Naturalism
An Alternative Framework for Philosophy of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Narrative Naturalism: An Alternative Framework for Philosophy of Mind provides an original framework for a non-reductive approach to mind and philosophical psychology. Jessica Wahman challenges the reductive (i.e., mechanistic and physicalist) assumptions that render the mind-body problem intractable,...