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For close to forty years now T.M. Scanlon has been one of the most important contributors to moral and political philosophy in the Anglo-American world. Through both his writing and his teaching, he has played a central role in shaping the questions with...

Steven Nadler presents a collection of essays on the problem of causation in seventeenth-century philosophy. Occasionalism is the doctrine, held by a number of early modern Cartesian thinkers, that created substances are devoid of any true causal powers,...

According to the libertarian position on free will, people sometimes exercise free will, but this freedom is incompatible with the truth of causal determinism. Frequently maligned within the history of philosophy, this view has recently gained...

This book offers a reassessment of the work of Emile Durkheim in the context of a French philosophical tradition that had seriously misinterpreted Kant by interpreting his theory of the categories as psychological faculties. Durkheim's sociological...

"Time and Transcendence" provides a new theory of secularization in the Catholic context, a new interpretation of the origins of modern historical science, and a new reading of Heidegger's theories of time and history. The author shows how a...

This is an important collection of essays examining the intersections between Deleuzian philosophy and the arts. "Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text" focuses on the intersection between Deleuzian philosophy and the arts. Deleuze combined...

This volume comprises a new critical edition of Vico's original Latin text and a faithful translation of this early work on metaphysics. Robert Miner's introduction offers valuable guidance in understanding this challenging text and assessing its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738806686Author Donald W Miller, Jr.Format HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 513g

Giordano Bruno's Cabala del cavallo pegaseo (The Cabala of Pegasus) grew out of the great Italian philosopher's experiences lecturing and debating at Oxford in early 1584. Having received a cold reception there because of his viewpoints, Bruno went on in...

Through a series of close readings of most of Rousseau's major writings, this book provides a new interpretation of the eighteenth-century philosopher's sexual politics. The text argues that Rousseau's writings provide a critique of not only normative...

This book provides the first sustained attempt to extract from Kant's writings on biology, anthropology and history an account of the human sciences, their underlying unity, their presuppositions as well as their methodology; that is to say, Kant's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972477208Author Kenneth BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Parlor PressPublisher Parlor PressWeight(grams) 506g

"Beyond Good and Evil" contains Nietzsche's mature philosophy of the free spirit. Although it is one of his most widely read texts, it is a notoriously difficult piece of philosophical writing. The authors demonstrate in clear and precise terms...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871699350Author Fellow Isaiah BerlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint American Philosophical SocietyPublisher American Philosophical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674365070Author Hans SlugaFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 156g

Even if [Bentham and Coleridge] had had no great influence they would still have been the classical examples they are of two great opposing types of mind. . . . And as we follow Mill's analysis, exposition and evaluation of this pair of opposites we are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974853420Author Michael AnkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Atropos PressPublisher Atropos PressWeight(grams) 162g

In response to the question "What is art?", today's arts establishment has a simple answer: "anything" is art if a reputed artist or expert says it is. Many people are sceptical about the alleged new art forms that have proliferated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972079549Author Stephen BlahaFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Pingree-Hill PublishingPublisher Pingree-Hill PublishingWeight(grams) 507g

This volume of translations unites three shorter works by Arthur Schopenhauer that expand on themes from his book The World as Will and Representation. In On the Fourfold Root he takes the principle of sufficient reason, which states that nothing is...

Jurgen Habermas is one of the most important contemporary philosophers and theorists of society. The author of over forty works, including the seminal Theory of Communicative Action, his work has ranged across critical theory, epistemology, ethics,...

The philosophy of Spinoza is increasingly recognised as holding a position of crucial importance and influence in early modern thought, and in previous years has been the focus of a rich and growing body of scholarship. In this volume of essays, leading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674430242Author LeRoy E LoemkerFormat HardbackPage Count 329Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 640g

This book offers a sustained re-evaluation of the most central and perplexing themes of Leibniz's metaphysics. In contrast to traditional assessments that view the metaphysics in terms of its place among post-Cartesian theories of the world, Jan Cover...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900588754Author Whitall N. PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Sophia Perennis et UniversalisPublisher Sophia Perennis et UniversalisWeight(grams)...

For the first time in English the world community of scholars is systematically assembling and presenting the results of recent research in the vast literature of Soren Kierkegaard. Based on the definitive English edition of Kierkegaard's works by...

This 2001 book is a comprehensive study of the ethics of G. E. Moore, the most important English-speaking ethicist of the twentieth century. Moore's ethical project, set out in his seminal text Principia Ethica, is to preserve common moral insight from...

In Kant and the Demands of Self-Consciousness, Pierre Keller examines Kant's theory of self-consciousness and argues that it succeeds in explaining how both subjective and objective experience are possible. Previous interpretations of Kant's theory have...

Hume's discussion of the idea of space in his Treatise on Human Nature is fundamental to an understanding of his treatment of such central issues as the existence of external objects, the unity of the self, the relation between certainty and belief, and...

This is the first book-length study of Descartes's metaphysics to place it in its immediate historical context, the Late Scholastic philosophy of thinkers such as Suarez against which Descartes reacted. Jorge Secada views Cartesian philosophy as an...

Rene Descartes is arguably the most important seventeenth-century thinker and the father of modern philosophy. His seminal works are widely studied by students of philosophy. Yet his unique method and its divergence from the method of his scholastic...

This is a guide to the thought and ideas of Gottlob Frege, one of the most important but also perplexing figures in the history of analytic philosophy. Gottlob Frege is regarded as one of the founders of modern logic and analytic philosophy, indeed as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013288517Author Nicholas MaxwellFormat HardbackPage Count 390Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

For the first time in English the world community of scholars is systematically assembling and presenting the results of recent research in the vast literature of Soren Kierkegaard. Based on the definitive English edition of Kierkegaard's works by...

This volume collects the best and most influential essays that Stephen Stich has published in the last 40 years on topics in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language. They discuss a wide range of topics including grammar, innateness,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401068349Author Ls HeatherlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 567g

There is a general sense that the philosophy of Descartes was a dominant force in early modern thought. Since the work in the nineteenth century of French historians of Cartesian philosophy, however, there has been no fully contextualized comparative...

Oxford University Press is proud to present the second volume in a new annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of philosophy. Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth...

This is the ideal companion to study of this most influential and challenging of texts. Ludwig Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations" is a hugely important piece of philosophical writing, one frequently encountered by students of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674183445Author Professor of History Mark HulliungFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University...