Philosophy category: 55395 books
by Michael Della Rocca
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Until recently, Spinoza's standing in Anglophone studies of philosophy has been relatively low and has only seemed to confirm Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi's assessment of him as "a dead dog." However, an exuberant outburst of excellent scholarship on Spinoza has of late come to dominate work on early...
by Herman Cappelen, Josh Dever
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
It is a fundamental feature of language that words refer to things. Much attention has been devoted to the nature of reference, both in philosophy and in linguistics. Puzzles of Reference is the first book to give a comprehensive accessible survey of the fascinating work on this topic from the 1970s...
The Epistemic Life of Groups
Essays in the Epistemology of Collectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Social epistemology has been flourishing in recent years, expanding and making connections with political philosophy, virtue epistemology, philosophy of science, and feminist philosophy. The philosophy of the social world too is flourishing, with burgeoning work in the metaphysics of the social world,...
by Ruth Ronen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Closely examining Jacques Lacan's unique mode of engagement with philosophy, Lacan with the Philosophers sheds new light on the interdisciplinary relations between philosophy and psychoanalysis. While highlighting the philosophies fundamental to the study of Lacan’s psychanalysis, Ruth Ronen reveals...
Beyond Reduction
Philosophy of Mind and Post-Reductionist Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Contemporary philosophers of mind tend to assume that the world of nature can be reduced to basic physics. Yet there are features of the mind consciousness, intentionality, normativity that do not seem to be reducible to physics or neuroscience. This explanatory gap between mind and brain has thus...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Public policy debates often turn on how to get things done once we know our policy objectives. But how do we make appropriate progress when people disagree about what those objectives might be? In this volume, a team of world-renowned scholars introduce and explore the power of philosophy as a tool...
History, Philosophy and Science Teaching
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This anthology opens new perspectives in the domain of history, philosophy, and science teaching research. Its four sections are: first, science, culture and education; second, the teaching and learning of science; third, curriculum development and justification; and fourth, indoctrination.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
The Bloomsbury Companion to Political Philosophy is the definitive guide to contemporary political philosophy. The book covers all the most pressing and important themes and categories in the field - areas that have continued to attract interest historically as well as topics that have emerged more...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
This edited volume explores the different and seminal ways colours matter to philosophy. Each chapter provides an insightful analysis of one or more cases in which colours raise philosophical problems in different areas and periods of philosophy.
This historically informed discussion examines...
Leibniz on Individuals and Individuation
The Persistence of Premodern Ideas in Modern Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Leibniz's earliest philosophy and its importance for his mature philosophy have not been examined in detail, particularly in the level of detail that one can achieve by placing Leibniz's philosophy in the context of the sources for two of the most basic concerns of his philosophical career: his metaphysics...
Peirce’s Twenty-Eight Classes of Signs and the Philosophy of Representation
Rhetoric, Interpretation and Hexadic Semiosis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The major principles and systems of C. S. Peirce's ground-breaking theory of signs and signification are now generally well known. Less well known, however, is the fact that Peirce initially conceived these systems within a 'Philosophy of Representation', his latter-day version of the traditional...
A Metaphysics for the Mob
The Philosophy of George Berkeley
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2007
George Berkeley notoriously claimed that his immaterialist metaphysics was not only consistent with common sense but that it was also integral to its defense. Roberts argues that understanding the basic connection between Berkeley's philosophy and common sense requires that we develop a better understanding...
Dialectic and Difference
Dialectical Critical Realism and the Grounds of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Dialectic and Difference is the first systematic exploration of Roy Bhaskar’s dialectical philosophy and its implications for ethics and justice.
That philosophy has three aims: a dialecticisation of original critical realism, a ‘critical realisation’ of dialectic, and a metacritique...
A Discourse on African Philosophy
A New Perspective on Ubuntu and Transitional Justice in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Many have argued that ubuntu was a formative influence on the post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), South Africa’s famous transitional justice mechanism. A Discourse on African Philosophy: A New Perspective on Ubuntu and Transitional Justice in South Africa challenges and contextualizes...