Surveys category: 1940 books
Plato’s Protagoras
Essays on the Confrontation of Philosophy and Sophistry
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book presents a thorough study and an up to date anthology of Plato’s Protagoras. International authors' papers contribute to the task of understanding how Plato introduced and negotiated a new type of intellectual practice – called philosophy – and the strategies that this involved. They...
Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science
Rationality without Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008
This book seeks to rectify misrepresentations of Popperian thought with a historical approach to Popper’s philosophy, an approach which applies his own mature view, that we gain knowledge through conjectures and refutations, to his own development, by portraying him in his intellectual growth as...
Theology after the Birth of God
Atheist Conceptions in Cognition and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Engaging recent developments within the bio-cultural study of religion, Shults unveils the evolved cognitive and coalitional mechanisms by which god-conceptions are engendered in minds and nurtured in societies. He discovers and attempts to liberate a radically atheist trajectory that has long been suppressed within the discipline of theology.
Hegel's Introduction to the System
Encyclopaedia Phenomenology and Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
As an introduction to his own notoriously complex and challenging philosophy, Hegel recommended the sections on phenomenology and psychology from The Philosophy of Spirit, the third part of his Encyclopaedia of the Philosophic Sciences. These offered the best introduction to his philosophic system,...
by A.P. Martinich
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was the first great English philosopher and one of the most important theorists of human nature and politics in the history of Western thought.
This superlative introduction presents Hobbes' main doctrines and arguments, covering all of Hobbes' philosophy. A.P. Martinich...
Brains and Numbers
Elitism, Comtism, and Democracy in Mid-Victorian England
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
A group of Oxford graduates, influenced by Arnold and later by Comte, formed the core of a generation of academic radicals who attempted to define the role of an educated élite in an emerging industrial mass democracy. This perceptive study of the English academic scene traces the emergence of Comtism...
Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1
The Dawn of Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
This is a major, wide-ranging history of analytic philosophy since 1900, told by one of the tradition's leading contemporary figures. The first volume takes the story from 1900 to mid-century. The second brings the history up to date.
As Scott Soames tells it, the story of analytic philosophy...
Matter and Form
From Natural Science to Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Matter and Form explores the relationship that has long existed between natural science and political philosophy. Plato's Socrates articulates the Ideas or Forms as an account of the ultimate source of causality in the cosmos. Aristotle's natural philosophy had a significant impact on his political...
by Emil Schlagintweit
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Buddhism In Tibet by Emil Schlagintweit
This mid-19th Century work is one of the few public domain descriptions of Tibetan Buddhism we have found. Desipte the sketchy knowledge of Buddhism in Europe at the time, this has a surprising level of detail about the subject, due to the pioneering...
by Miranda Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
The Renaissance Extended Mind explores the parallels and contrasts between current philosophical notions of the mind as extended across brain, body and world, and analogous notions in literary, philosophical, and scientific texts circulating between the fifteenth century and early-seventeenth century.
The Birth of Thought in the Spanish Language
14th century Hebrew-Spanish Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
This book takes readers on a philosophical discovery of a forgotten treasure, one born in the 14th century but which appears to belong to the 21st. It presents a critical, up-to-date analysis of Santob de Carrión, also known as Sem Tob, a writer and thinker whose philosophy arose in the Spain of...
by B. Painter
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
This compact, forcefully argued work calls Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, and the rest of the so-called 'New Atheists' to account for failing to take seriously the historical record to which they so freely appeal when attacking religion. The popularity of such books as Harris's The End...
Against the Modern World
Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2004
The first history of Traditionalism, an important yet surprisingly little-known twentieth-century anti-modern movement. Comprising a number of often secret but sometimes very influential religious groups in the West and in the Islamic world, it affected mainstream and radical politics in Europe and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is the first and arguably most important treatise on ethics in Western philosophy. It remains to this day a compelling reflection on the best sort of human life and continues to inspire contemporary thought and debate. This Cambridge Companion includes twenty essays...