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PHILOSOPHY

'Yo!' and 'Lo!': The Pragmatic Topography of the Space of Reasons: Rebecca Kukla; Mark Lance; Much of twentieth-century philosophy was organized around the “linguistic turn,” in which metaphysical and epistemological issues were approached through an analysis of language. This book demonstrates that non-declarative speech acts—including vocative hails (“Yo!”) and calls to shared attention (“Lo!”)—are as fundamental to the possibility and structure of meaningful language as are declaratives.; Hardcover 2009

Achieving Our Country: Richard Rorty; Must the sins of America's past poison its hope for the future? Lately the American Left, withdrawing into the ivied halls of academe to rue the nation's shame, has answered yes in both word and deed. In Achieving Our Country, one of America's foremost philosophers challenges this lost generation of the Left to understand the role it might play in the great tradition of democratic intellectual labor that started with writers like Walt Whitman and John Dewey.; Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 1999

Adorno: Martin Jay; Adorno (1903-1969) was a leading figure in the Frankfurt School and one of this century's most demanding intellectuals. Jay examines the major aspects of Adorno's thought--his philosophy, his social theory, and his view of modern culture and aesthetic theory--and presents his theories in understandable form while remaining true to their unresolved tensions.; Hardcover 1984 / Paperback

The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas: Umberto Eco; Hugh Bredin, Translator; The well-known Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco discloses for the first time to English-speaking readers the unsuspected richness, breadth, complexity, and originality of the aesthetic theories advanced by the influential medieval thinker Thomas Aquinas, heretofore known principally as a scholastic theologian.; Paperback 1988

The Affirmation of Life: Bernard Reginster; While most recent studies of Nietzsche's works have lost sight of the fundamental question of the meaning of a life characterized by inescapable suffering, Bernard Reginster's book The Affirmation of Life brings it sharply into focus. Reginster identifies overcoming nihilism as a central objective of Nietzsche's philosophical project, and shows how this concern systematically animates all of his main ideas.; Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

All or Nothing: Paul W. Franks; In this work, the first overview of German Idealism that is both conceptual and methodological, Paul W. Franks offers a philosophical reconstruction that is true to the movement's own times and resources and, at the same time, deeply relevant to contemporary thought. The result is a characterization of German Idealism that reveals its sources as well as its pertinence--and its challenge--to contemporary philosophical naturalism.; Hardcover 2005

The Anatomy of Antiliberalism: Stephen Holmes; How has liberalism, the grand democratic ideal, come to be a dirty word? This book shows us what antiliberalism means in the modern world--where it comes from, whom it serves, and why it speaks with such a forceful, if ever changing, voice.; Hardcover 1993 / Paperback

Ancilla to Pre-Socratic Philosophers: Kathleen Freeman; This book is a complete translation of the fragments of the pre-Socratic philosophers given in the fifth edition of Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker.; Paperback

Arguing the Just War in Islam: John Kelsay; Jihad, with its many terrifying associations, is a term widely used today, though its meaning is poorly grasped. Kelsay's timely and important work focuses on jihad of the sword in Islamic thought, history, and culture. Making use of original sources, Kelsay delves into the tradition of shari'a--Islamic jurisprudence and reasoning--and shows how it defines jihad as the Islamic analogue of the Western "just" war.; Hardcover 2007

Aristotle and the Renaissance: Charles B. Schmitt; Hardcover 1983

Art and the Christian Intelligence in St. Augustine: Robert J. O'Connell; Although it is widely acknowledged that St. Augustine was a consummate artist as well as a great philosopher, and that he was deeply concerned with art, beauty and human values, relatively little attention has been paid to his theory of aesthetics. Now a distinguished Augustine scholar turns to this important subject and offers a book that is at once engaging, comprehensive and complete.; Hardcover 1978

The Art of Plato: R. B. Rutherford; This book is not a study of Plato's philosophy, but a contribution to the literary interpretation of the dialogues, through analysis of their formal structure, characterization, language, and imagery. Among the dialogues considered in these interrelated essays are some of Plato's most admired and influential works, including Gorgias, the Symposium, the Republic and Phaedrus.; Hardcover 1998

Articulating Reasons: Robert B. Brandom; Robert Brandom is one of the most original philosophers of our day, whose book Making It Explicit covered and extended a vast range of topics in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language--the very core of analytic philosophy. This new work provides an approachable introduction to the complex system that Making It Explicit mapped out. A tour of the earlier book's large ideas and relevant details, Articulating Reasons offers an easy entry into the ideas of the most important single development in the field in recent decades.; Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001

Belief and Resistance: Barbara H. Smith; What happens to law, science, and the pursuit of social justice when the ideas of truth, reason and objectivity are rejected? This question is at the heart of the controversies between traditionalists and "postmodernists." Barbara Herrnstein Smith here examines the debate across a wide range of disciplines and through important and ongoing controversies.; Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997

Benjamin's -abilities: Samuel Weber; In this book, Weber, a leading theorist on literature and media, reveals a new and productive aspect of Benjamin’s thought by focusing the critical suffix “-ability” that Benjamin so tellingly deploys in his work. The result is an illuminating perspective on Benjamin’s thought by way of his language—and one of the most penetrating and comprehensive accounts of Benjamin’s work ever written.; Hardcover 2008

Beyond Moral Judgment: Alice Crary; This study claims that even the most perceptive views on moral thought offer no more than partial clarity, owing to an overly narrow focus on moral judgment. Crary argues that language is a moral acquisition and that any stretch of thought, whether or not it uses moral concepts, expresses the moral outlook encoded in a person's modes of speech. Drawing on diverse philosophical texts and examples from literature and feminist theory, she poses a powerful case for transforming our understanding of moral reflection and ethical concern.; Hardcover 2007

Beyond Optimizing: Michael Slote; Beyond Optimizing argues that our ordinary understanding of practical reason is more complex than this, and also that optimizing/maximizing views are inadequately supported by the considerations typically offered in their favor. Slote argues that common sense recognizes that one can reach a point where "enough is enough," be satisfied with what one has, and, hence, rationally decline an optimizing alternative.; Hardcover 1989

The Bhagavad Gita: Translated by Franklin Edgerton; Hardcover 1972 / Paperback

Bigger than Chaos: Michael Strevens; Many complex systems--from immensely complicated ecosystems to minute assemblages of molecules--surprise us with their simple behavior. Consider, for instance, the snowflake, in which a great number of water molecules arrange themselves in patterns with six-way symmetry. How is it that molecules moving seemingly at random become organized according to the simple, six-fold rule? How do the comings, goings, meetings, and eatings of individual animals add up to the simple dynamics of ecosystem populations? More generally, how does complex and seemingly capricious microbehavior generate stable, predictable macrobehavior? In this book, Michael Strevens aims to explain how simplicity can coexist with, indeed be caused by, the tangled interconnections between a complex system's many parts.; Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2006

The Case against Perfection: Michael J. Sandel; Genetic breakthroughs present us with a promise but also with a predicament: is it wrong to re-engineer our nature? Sandel explores this and other moral quandaries surrounding the quest to perfect ourselves and our children. He concludes that the pursuit of perfection is flawed for reasons that go beyond safety and fairness. The drive to enhance human nature through genetic technologies is objectionable because it represents a bid for mastery that fails to appreciate human achievements.; Hardcover 2007

Cities of Words: Stanley Cavell; This book--which presents a course of lectures Cavell presented several times toward the end of his teaching career at Harvard--links masterpieces of moral philosophy and classic Hollywood comedies to fashion a new way of looking at our lives and learning to live with ourselves.; Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005

Citizens and Citoyens: Mark Hulliung; Hulliung argues that the standard American account of a continuous Jacobin republican tradition--"illiberal to the core"--is fatally misleading. In reality it was the nineteenth-century French liberals who undermined the cause of liberalism, and it was French republicans who eventually saved liberal ideals.; Hardcover 2002

Civilization and Enlightenment: Albert M. Craig; The idea that society progresses through stages of development, from savagery to civilization, arose in eighteenth-century Europe. Craig traces how Fukuzawa Yukichi, deeply influenced by the Scottish Enlightenment, “translated” the idea for Japanese society, both enriching and challenging the concept.; Hardcover 2009

The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays: Hilary Putnam; If philosophy has any business in the world, it is the clarification of our thinking and the clearing away of ideas that cloud the mind. In this book, one of the world's preeminent philosophers takes issue with an idea that has found an all-too-prominent place in popular culture and philosophical thought: the idea that while factual claims can be rationally established or refuted, claims about value are wholly subjective, not capable of being rationally argued for or against.; Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004

Collected Papers: John Rawls; Samuel Freeman, Editor; Before and after writing his great treatises--A Theory of Justice (1971) and Political Liberalism (1993)--Rawls produced a steady stream of essays. Some of these essays articulate views of justice and liberalism distinct from those found in the two books. They are important in and of themselves because of the deep issues about the nature of justice, moral reasoning, and liberalism they raise as well as for the light they shed on the evolution of Rawls's views. Some of the articles tackle issues not addressed in either book.; Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001

Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes I and II, Principles of Philosophy and Elements of Logic: Charles Sanders Peirce; Charles Hartshorne, Editor; Paul Weiss, Editor; Hardcover 1932

Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes III and IV, Exact Logic (Published Papers) and The Simplest Mathematics: Charles Sanders Peirce; Charles Hartshorne, Editor; Paul Weiss, Editor; Hardcover 1933

Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes V and VI, Pragmatism and Pragmaticism and Scientific Metaphysics: Charles Sanders Peirce; Charles Hartshorne, Editor; Paul Weiss, Editor; Hardcover 1935

Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes VII and VIII, Science and Philosophy and Reviews, Correspondence and Bibliography: Charles Sanders Peirce; Arthur W. Burks, Editor; Hardcover 1958

The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VI, The Conduct of Life: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Introduction by Barbara L. Packer; Notes by Joseph Slater; Text Established by Douglas Emory Wilson; The essays in this book, first published in 1860, were developed from a series of lectures on "The Conduct of Life" delivered by Emerson during the early 1850s. The published essays show Emerson's interest in many practical aspects of human life, and reflect his increasing involvement in politics--chiefly in the antislavery movement--during the decade before the Civil War. This edition is based on Emerson's holograph manuscripts and published sources, and incorporates Emerson's later corrections and revisions.; Hardcover 2004

Commentaries on Plato, Volume 1, Phaedrus and Ion: Marsilio Ficino; Edited and translated by Michael J. B. Allen; Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This volume contains Ficino’s extended analysis and commentary on the Phaedrus.; Hardcover 2008

Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist and Other Essays: W. V. Quine; Edited by Dagfinn Follesdal; Edited by Douglas Boynton Quine; In the twenty years between his last collection of essays and his death in 2000, Quine continued his work and occasionally modified his position on central philosophical issues. This volume collects the main essays from this last, productive period of Quine’s prodigious career.; Hardcover 2008

Conflict of Interest in American Public Life: Andrew Stark; Ranging over a wide array of cases, Andrew Stark draws on legal, moral, and political thought--as well as the rhetoric of officeholders and the commentary of journalists--to analyze several decades of debate over conflict of interest in American public life. He offers new ways of interpreting the controversies about conflict of interest, explains their prominence in American political combat, and suggests how we might make them less venomous and intractable.; Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2003

Confusion: Joseph L. Camp; Everyone has mistaken one thing for another, such as a stranger for an acquaintance. To the extent that philosophers have addressed this issue at all, they take it for granted that confusion is a kind of ambiguity. Camp rejects this notion; his fundamental claim is that confusion is not a mental state. He proposes a novel characterization of confusion, and then demonstrates its fruitfulness with several applications in the history of philosophy and the history of science.; Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004

The Consolation of Philosophy: Boethius; Translated by David R. Slavitt; Introduction by Seth Lerer; Composed while its author was imprisoned, this book remains one of Western literature’s most eloquent meditations on the transitory nature of earthly belongings, and the superiority of things of the mind. Slavitt’s translation captures the energy and passion of the original. And in an introduction intended for the general reader, Seth Lerer places Boethius’s life and achievement in context.; Hardcover 2008

Contingencies of Value: Barbara H. Smith; While revisionists are perplexed by questions of value, critical theory--haunted by the heresy of relativism--remains captive to classical formulas. Barbara Herrnstein Smith's book confronts the conceptual problems and sociopolitical conflicts at the heart of these issues and raises their discussion to a new level of sophistication. Polemical without being rancorous, Contingencies of Value mounts a powerful critique of traditional conceptions of value, taste, judgment, and justification.; Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1991

The Conversion of Imagination: Matthew W. Maguire; In a bold reinterpretation of a crucial development in modern European intellectual history, Matthew W. Maguire uncovers a history of French thought that casts the imagination as a dominant faculty in our experience of the world. Original and thought-provoking, The Conversion of Imagination will interest a range of readers across intellectual history, political theory, literary and cultural studies, and the history of religious thought.; Hardcover 2006

The Course of Recognition: Paul Ricoeur; Translated by David Pellauer; Recognition, though it figures profoundly in our understanding of objects and persons, identity and ideas, has never before been the subject of a single, sustained philosophical inquiry. This work, by one of contemporary philosophy's most distinguished voices, pursues recognition through its various philosophical guises and meanings and, through the "course of recognition," seeks to develop nothing less than a proper hermeneutics of mutual recognition.; Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007

Crescas' Critique of Aristotle: Harry Austryn Wolfson; Hardcover 1971

Culture and Equality: Brian Barry; Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002

Dante: John Freccero; Editor and with an introduction by Rachel Jacoff; Freccero enables us to see the Divine Comedy for the bold, poetic experiment that it is. Too many critics have domesticated Dante by separating his theology from his poetics. Freccero argues that to fail to see the convergence of the letter and the spirit, the pilgrim and the poet, is to fail to understand Dante's poetics of conversion.; Hardcover 1986 / Paperback

Darwin Machines and the Nature of Knowledge: Henry Plotkin; Bringing together evolutionary biology, psychology, and philosophy, Henry Plotkin presents a new science of knowledge that traces an unbreakable link between instinct and our ability to know. Since our ability to know our world depends primarily on what we call intelligence, intelligence must be understood as an extension of instinct. The capacity for knowledge is deeply rooted in our biology and, in a special sense, is shared by all living things.; Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1997

Death and Character: Annette C. Baier; Baier goes beyond her earlier work on David Hume to reflect on a topic that links his philosophy to questions of immediate relevance—in particular, questions about what character is and how it shapes our lives. Her reading radically revises the received interpretation of Hume’s epistemology and, in particular, philosophy of mind.; Hardcover 2008

The Death of Socrates: Emily Wilson; Socrates's death in 399 BCE has figured largely in our world ever since, shaping how we think about heroism and celebrity, religion and family life, state control and individual freedom, the distance of intellectual life from daily activity--many of the key coordinates of Western culture. In this book, Wilson analyzes the enormous and enduring power the trial and death of Socrates has exerted over the Western imagination.; Hardcover 2007

The Decent Society: Avishai Margalit; Naomi Goldblum, Translator; How to be decent, how to build a decent society, emerges out of Margalit's analysis of the corrosive functioning of humiliation in its many forms. This is a deeply felt book that springs from Margalit's experience at the borderlands of conflicts between Eastern Europeans and Westerners, between Palestinians and Israelis.; Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998

Defenders of the Text: Anthony Grafton; This book traces the relationship between humanism and science from the mid-fifteenth century to the beginning of the modern period and demonstrates that humanism was neither a simple nor an impractical enterprise, but worked hand-in-hand with science in developing modern learning.; Hardcover 1991 / Paperback

Democracy's Discontent: Michael J. Sandel; In a searching account of current controversies over morality in politics, Michael Sandel discovers that we suffer from an impoverished vision of citizenship and community. Democracy's Discontent provides a new interpretation of the American political and constitutional tradition that offers hope of rejuvenating our civic life.; Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998

Depth: Michael Strevens; Strevens proposes a theory of scientific explanation and understanding that revises and augments the familiar causal approach to explanation. The result is an account of explanation that has especially significant consequences for the higher-level sciences: biology, psychology, economics, and other social sciences.; Hardcover 2009

Derrida: Christopher Norris; Norris demonstrates that Derrida's texts should be understood as belonging more to philosophy than to literature. He explains the significance of Derrida's writing on texts in the Western philosophical tradition, from Plato to Kant, liegel, and tiusserl, placing him squarely within that tradition. He also discusses some of the reasons for the massive institutional resistance that has so far prevented philosophers from engaging seriously with Derrida's work.; Paperback

Descartes's Concept of Mind: Lilli Alanen; This is the first book to give an analysis of Descartes's pivotal concept that deals with all the functions of the mind, cognitive as well as volitional, theoretical as well as practical and moral. By drawing out the historical antecedents and the intellectual evolution of Descartes's thinking about the mind, the book shows how his emphasis on the embodiment of the mind has implications far more complex and interesting than the usual dualist account suggests.; Hardcover 2003

Development As a Human Right: A Nobel Book; Edited by Bård A. Andreassen; Edited by Stephen P. Marks; Foreword by Louise Arbour; Drawing on the papers presented at the Nobel Symposium on The Right to Development and Human Rights in Development, this book contains chapters on the conceptual underpinnings of development as a human right, the national dimensions of this right, and the role of international institutions. The contributors explore the meaning and practical implications of human rights-based approaches to economic development and ask what this relationship may add to our understanding and thinking about human and global development.; Paperback 2007

The Development of Florentine Humanist Historiography in the Fifteenth Century: Donald J. Wilcox; Hardcover 1969

The Disorder of Political Inquiry: Keith Topper; Engaging the work of thinkers such as Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor, Pierre Bourdieu, Roy Bhaskar, and Hannah Arendt, as well as recent literature in political science and the history and philosophy of science, Topper proposes a pluralist, normative, and broadly pragmatist conception of political inquiry, one that is analytically rigorous yet alive to the notorious vagaries, idiosyncrasies, and messy uncertainties of political life.; Hardcover 2005

The Disorder of Things: John Dupré; With this manifesto, John Dupré systematically attacks the ideal of scientific unity by showing how its underlying assumptions are at odds with the central conclusions of science itself.; Paperback / Hardcover

Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers?: Zygmunt Bauman; Bauman urges us to think in new ways about a newly flexible, newly challenging modern world. In an era of routine travel, where most people circulate widely, the inherited beliefs that aid our thinking about the world have become an obstacle. He challenges members of the “knowledge class” to overcome their estrangement from the rest of society.; Hardcover 2008

The Dynamics of Rational Deliberation: Brian Skyrms; Brian Skyrms constructs a theory of "dynamic deliberation" and uses it to investigate rational decisionmaking in cases of strategic interaction. This illuminating book will be of great interest to all those in many disciplines who use decision theory and game theory to study human behavior and thought. The author provides many clarifying illustrations and a handy appendix called "Deliberational Dynamics on Your Personal Computer."; Hardcover 1990

Elementary Logic: W. V. Quine; Hardcover 1980 / Paperback

The Elements of Moral Science: Francis Wayland; Francis Wayland's The Elements of Moral Science, first published in 1835, was one of the most widely used and influential American textbooks of the nineteenth century. Direct and simple in its presentation, the book was more a didactic manual than a philosophic discussion of ethical problems. This text reproduces the 1837 revision of The Elements of Moral Science.; Hardcover 1963

Empire: Michael Hardt; Antonio Negri; Imperialism as we knew it may be no more, but Empire is alive and well. It is, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri demonstrate in this bold work, the new political order of globalization. Their book shows how this emerging Empire is fundamentally different from the imperialism of European dominance and capitalist expansion in previous eras. Rather, today's Empire draws on elements of U.S. constitutionalism, with its tradition of hybrid identities and expanding frontiers. More than analysis, Empire is also an unabashedly utopian work of political philosophy.; Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001

Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind: Wilfrid Sellars; Richard Rorty; Study Guide by Robert B. Brandom; The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind helped bring about a sea change in analytic philosophy. This publication makes comprehensible a difficult but important figure in this movement.; Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997

The Engaged Intellect: John McDowell; This book collects important essays of John McDowell. Each involves a sustained engagement with the views of an important philosopher and is characterized by a modesty that is partly temperamental and partly methodological.; Hardcover 2009

Enlightenment, Revolution, and Romanticism: Frederick C. Beiser; Hardcover

Epistemology and Cognition: Alvin I. Goldman; Whatever the target of our effort to know--whether we probe the origin of the cosmos, the fabric of man-made symbols and culture, or simply the layout of our immediate environment--all knowledge is grounded in natural cognitive capacities. Against the traditional view, Alvin Goldman argues that logic, probability theory, and linguistic analysis cannot by themselves delineate principles of rationality or justified belief. The mind's operations must be taken into account.; Hardcover 1986 / Paperback

Equality of Opportunity: John E. Roemer; John Roemer argues that there is a "before" and an "after" in the notion of equality of opportunity: before the competition starts, opportunities must be equalized, by social intervention if need be; but after it begins, individuals are on their own. The different views of equal opportunity should be judged according to where they place the starting gate which separates "before" from "after." Roemer works out in a precise way how to determine the location of the starting gate in the different views.; Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000

Essays in Philosophy: William James; Edited by Frederick Burkhardt; Edited by Fredson Bowers; Edited by Ignas K. Skrupskelis; Introduction by John J. McDermott; Essays in Philosophy brings together twenty-one essays, reviews, and occasional pieces published by James between 1876 and 1910. They range in subject from a concern with the teaching of philosophy and appraisals of philosophers to analyses of important problems. Whether he is writing an article for the Nation of a definition of "Experience" for Baldwin's Dictionary or "The Mad Absolute" for the Journal of Philosophy, James is always unmistakably himself, and always readable.; Hardcover 1978

Essays in Psychical Research: William James; Introduction by Robert A. McDermott; The more than fifty articles, essays, and reviews in this volume, collected here for the first time, were published by William James over a span of some twenty-five years. The record of a sustained interest in phenomena of a highly controversial nature, they make it amply clear that James's work in psychical research was not an eccentric hobby but a serious and sympathetic concern. Robert A. McDermott, in his Introduction, discusses the relation of these essays to James's other work in philosophy, psychology, and religion.; Hardcover 1986

Essays in Radical Empiricism: William James; Edited by Fredson Bowers; Edited by Ignas K. Skrupskelis; Introduction by John J. McDermott; Hardcover 1976

Essays in Religion and Morality: William James; Introduction by John J. McDermott; Hardcover 1982

Ethical Formation: Sabina Lovibond; Lovibond invites her readers to see how the "practical reason view of ethics" can survive challenges from within philosophy and from the antirationalist postmodern critique of reason. At the heart of her argument is the Aristotelian idea of the formation of character through upbringing; these ancient ideas can be made contemporary if one understands them in a naturalized way.; Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004

Ethics: David Wiggins; Almost every thoughtful person wonders at some time why morality says what it says and how, if at all, it speaks to us. David Wiggins's work is an introduction to ethics that presupposes nothing more than the reader's willingness to read philosophical proposals closely and literally, giving readers the resources to arrive at their own viewpoint of why and how ethics matters.; Hardcover 2006

Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy: Bernard Williams; In this book Bernard Williams delivers a sustained indictment of moral theory from Kant onward. His goal is nothing less than to reorient ethics toward the individual. He deals with the most thorny questions in contemporary philosophy and offers new ideas about issues such as relativism, objectivity, and the possibility of ethical knowledge.; Hardcover 1985 / Paperback

The Ethics of Authenticity: Charles Taylor; Hardcover

The Ethics of Memory: Avishai Margalit; Margalit's work offers a philosophy for our time, when, in the wake of overwhelming atrocities, memory can seem more crippling than liberating, a force more for revenge than for reconciliation. Morally powerful, deeply learned, and elegantly written, The Ethics of Memory draws on the resources of millennia of Western philosophy and religion to provide us with healing ideas that will engage all of us who care about the nature of our relations to others.; Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004

Ethics without Ontology: Hilary Putnam; In this brief book one of the most distinguished living American philosophers takes up the question of whether ethical judgments can properly be considered objective--a question that has vexed philosophers over the past century. Reviewing what he deems the disastrous consequences of ontology's influence on analytic philosophy--in particular, the contortions it imposes upon debates about the objective of ethical judgments--Putnam proposes abandoning the very idea of ontology.; Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005

Experiments in Ethics: Kwame Anthony Appiah; Appiah explores how the new empirical moral psychology relates to the age-old project of philosophical ethics. In this study, he urges that the relation between empirical research and morality, now so often antagonistic, should be seen in terms of dialogue, not contest. And he shows how experimental philosophy, far from being something new, is actually as old as philosophy itself.; Hardcover 2008

Expression and the Inner: David H. Finkelstein; At least since Descartes, philosophers have been interested in the special knowledge or authority that we exhibit when we speak about our own thoughts, attitudes, and feelings. This book contends that even the best work in contemporary philosophy of mind fails to account for this sort of knowledge or authority because it does not pay the right sort of attention to the notion of expression. What's at stake is not only how to understand self-knowledge and first-person authority, but also what it is that distinguishes conscious from unconscious psychological states, what the mental life of a nonlinguistic animal has in common with our sort of mental life, and how to think about Wittgenstein's legacy to the philosophy of mind.; Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2008

Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, Fourth Edition: Nelson Goodman; Hilary Putnam; Hardcover 1983 / Paperback

Fairness versus Welfare: Louis Kaplow; Steven Shavell; By what criteria should public policy be evaluated? Fairness and justice? Or the welfare of individuals? Debate over this fundamental question has spanned the ages. Fairness versus Welfare poses a bold challenge to contemporary moral philosophy by showing that most moral principles conflict more sharply with welfare than is generally recognized. Fairness versus Welfare has profound implications for the theory and practice of policy analysis and has already generated considerable debate in academia.; Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2006

Fanon's Dialectic of Experience: Ato Sekyi-Otu; A Caribbean psychiatrist trained in France after World War II and an eloquent observer of the effects of French colonialism on its subjects, Frantz Fanon was a controversial figure. By recognizing the centrality of experience to Fanon's work, Sekyi-Otu enables readers to comprehend this much misunderstood figure within the tradition of political philosophy.; Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997

The Fate of Reason: Frederick C. Beiser; Thanks to Beiser, we can newly appreciate the influence of Kant's critics on the development of his philosophy. Beiser brings the controversies, and the personalities who engaged in them, to life and tells a story that has uncanny parallels with the debates of the present.; Hardcover 1987 / Paperback

Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Michele M. Moody-Adams; The persistence of deep moral disagreements has created widespread skepticism about the objectivity of morality. Moral relativism, moral pessimism, and the denigration of ethics in comparison with science are the results. Michele Moody-Adams scrutinizes the anthropological evidence commonly used to support moral relativism, and finds that the internal complexity of cultures will always thwart efforts to confine moral judgments to a single culture.; Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 2002

Finding a Replacement for the Soul: Brett Bourbon; Bourbon asserts that our complex and variable relation with language defines a domain of meaning and being that is misconstrued and missed in philosophy, in literary studies, and in our ordinary understanding of what we are and how things make sense. Accordingly, his book seeks to demonstrate how the study of literature gives us the means to understand this relationship.; Hardcover 2004

Five Mountains: Martin Collcutt; Hardcover 1981 / Paperback

Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory: Frederick Neuhouser; Frederick Neuhouser's task is to understand the conceptions of freedom on which Hegel's social theory rests and to show how they ground his arguments in defense of the modern social world. In doing so, the author focuses on Hegel's most important and least understood contribution to social philosophy, the idea of "social freedom." In addressing these concepts, the book aims not only to interpret Hegel correctly but also to demonstrate the richness and power that his vision of the rational social order possesses.; Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2003

François Poulain de la Barre and the Invention of Modern Equality: Siep Stuurman; This groundbreaking work is the first comprehensive study of Poulain, a dropout from theology studies at the Sorbonne who embraced the philosophy of Descartes, became convinced of the injustice and absurdity of the subjection of women, and assembled an entirely original social philosophy. His writings challenging male supremacy and advocating gender and racial equality are the most radically egalitarian texts to appear in Europe before the French Revolution.; Hardcover 2004

Frege: Michael Dummett; No one has figured more prominently in the study of German philosopher Gottlob Frege than Michael Dummett. This highly acclaimed book is a major contribution to the philosophy of language as well as a systematic interpretation of Frege, indisputably the father of analytic philosophy. Frege: Philosophy of Language remains indispensable for an understanding of contemporary philosophy. Harvard University Press is pleased to reissue this classic book in paperback.; Paperback

Frege: Michael Dummett; Frege (1848-1925) was a logician, mathematician, and philosopher whose work had enormous impact on Bertrand Russell and later on the young Ludwig Wittgenstein, making him one of the central influences on twentieth-century Anglo-American philosophy; he is considered the founder of analytic philosophy. His philosophy of mathematics contains deep insights and remains a useful and necessary point of departure for anyone seriously studying or working in the field.; Hardcover 1991 / Paperback

Frege's Logic: Danielle Macbeth; For many philosophers, modern philosophy begins in 1879 with the publication of Frege's Begriffsschrift, in which Frege presents the first truly modern logic in his symbolic language, Begriffsschrift, or concept-script. Macbeth's book, the first full-length study of this language, offers a highly original new reading of Frege's logic based directly on Frege's own two-dimensional notation and his various writings about logic.; Hardcover 2005

Frege's Philosophy of Mathematics: Edited and with an Introduction by William Demopoulos; This collection of essays addresses three main developments in recent work on Frege's philosophy of mathematics: the emerging interest in the intellectual background to his logicism; the rediscovery of Frege's theorem; and the reevaluation of the mathematical content of The Basic Laws of Arithmetic.; Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1997

Friends of Interpretable Objects: Miguel Tamen; Tamen's concern is to show how inanimate objects take on life through their interpretation--notably, in our own culture, as they are collected and housed in museums. It is his claim that an object becomes interpretable only in the context of a "society of friends." Thus, he suggests, our inveterate tendency as human beings to interpret the phenomenal world gives objects not only a life but also a society.; Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2004

From Frege to Gödel: Jean van Heijenoort; Gathered together in this book are the fundamental texts of the great classical period in modern logic. A complete translation of Gottlob Frege's Begriffsschrift--which opened a great epoch in the history of logic by fully presenting propositional calculus and quantification theory--begins the volume. The texts that follow depict the emergence of set theory and foundations of mathematics, two new fields on the borders of logic, mathematics, and philosophy. Essays trace the trends that led to Principia mathematica, the appearance of modern paradoxes, and topics including proof theory, the theory of types, axiomatic set theory, and Löwenheim's theorem. The volume concludes with papers by Herbrand and by Gödel, including the latter's famous incompleteness paper.; Paperback 2002

From Stimulus to Science: W. V. Quine; W. V. Quine has produced a sharp, sprightly book that encapsulates the whole of his philosophical enterprise, including his thinking on all the key components of his epistemological stance--especially the value of logic and mathematics.; Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1998

From a Logical Point of View: W. V. Quine; Hardcover 1961 / Paperback

Frontiers of Justice: Martha C. Nussbaum; Theories of social justice, addressing the world and its problems, must respond to the real and changing dilemmas of the day. A brilliant work of practical philosophy, Frontiers of Justice is dedicated to this proposition. Taking up three urgent problems of social justice--those with physical and mental disabilities, all citizens of the world, and nonhuman animals--neglected by current theories and thus harder to tackle in practical terms and everyday life, Martha Nussbaum seeks a theory of social justice that can guide us to a richer, more responsive approach to social cooperation.; Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2007

German Idealism: Frederick C. Beiser; Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2008

The Great Chain of Being: Arthur O. Lovejoy; Paperback

The Greek Concept of Justice: Eric Havelock; Eric Havelock presents a challenging account of the development of the idea of justice in early Greece, and particularly of the way justice changed as Greek oral tradition gradually gave way to the written word in a literate society.; Hardcover 1978

The Greek Pursuit of Knowledge: Edited by Jacques Brunschwig; Edited by Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd; Translated by Catherine Porter; Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In this volume drawn from the reference work Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge, major scholars take up basic topics in philosophy and science, offering an account of the extraordinary explosion of desire for knowledge in the classical Greek world.; Paperback 2003

A Guide to Greek Thought: Edited by Jacques Brunschwig; Edited by Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd; Catherine Porter, Translated under the direction of; The philosophers, historians, and scientists of ancient Greece inaugurated and nourished the tradition of Western thought. This volume, drawn from the reference work Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge, gives fresh insight into the originality of major figures and the legacy of important currents of thought.; Paperback 2003

A Hacker Manifesto: McKenzie Wark; Drawing in equal measure on Debord and Deleuze, A Hacker Manifesto offers a systematic restatement of Marxist thought for the age of cyberspace and globalization. In the widespread revolt against commodified information, Wark sees a utopian promise, beyond the property form, and a new progressive class, the hacker class, who voice a shared interest in a new information commons.; Hardcover 2004

Having Thought: John Haugeland; The unifying theme of these thirteen essays is understanding. In the first group of essays John Haugeland addresses mind and intelligence. Intelligibility comes to the fore in a set of "metaphysical" pieces on analog and digital systems and supervenience. In the third set of papers Haugeland elaborates and then undermines a battery of common presuppositions about the foundational notions of intentionality and representation. Finally, the fourth and most recent group of essays confronts the essential character of understanding in relation to what is understood.; Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000

Having the World in View: John McDowell; McDowell builds on his much discussed Mind and World. He argues that the roots of some problems plaguing contemporary philosophy can be found in issues that were first discerned by Kant, and that the best way to get a handle on them is to follow those issues as they are reshaped in the writings of Hegel and Sellars. This new book will be a decisive further step toward healing the divisions in contemporary philosophy.; Hardcover 2009

Hegel and Skepticism: Michael N. Forster; Forster demonstrates that Hegel did not in fact ignore epistemology, but on the contrary he fought a tireless and subtle campaign to defeat the threat of skepticism. Forster's work should dispel once and for all the view that Hegel was naive or careless in epistemological matters. Along the way, Forster makes much that has hither to remained obscure in Hegel's texts intelligible for the first time.; Hardcover 1989

Heidegger's Crisis: Hans Sluga; This book shows not only how the Nazis exploited philosophical ideas and used philosophers to gain public acceptance, but also how German philosophers played into the hands of the Nazis.; Paperback / Hardcover

Historical Ontology: Ian Hacking; With the unusual clarity, distinctive and engaging style, and penetrating insight that have drawn such a wide range of readers to his work, Hacking here offers his reflections on the philosophical uses of history. The focus of this volume, which collects both recent and now-classic essays, is the historical emergence of concepts and objects, through new uses of words and sentences in specific settings, and new patterns or styles of reasoning within those sentences.; Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004

The History of Imperial China: Endymion Wilkinson; This is the most comprehensive introduction in English to Sinelogical methods and traditional Chinese historical writing. The time span ranges from earliest times to 1911, with special emphasis on the years between the third century B.C. and the eighteenth century. The author includes introductions to major reference works and biographical information, and explanations of such matters as converting traditional dates. In addition to standard histories, the survey covers biographical writing, historical and administrative geography, works on statecraft, archival sources, and Confucian, Buddhist, and Taoist writings.; Paperback

How to Do Things with Words: J. L. Austin; Edited by J. O. Urmson; Edited by Marina Sbisà; John L. Austin was one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century. The William James Lectures presented Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts on a wide variety of philosophical problems. These talks became the classic How to Do Things with Words; Hardcover / Paperback

How to Do Things with Words: J. L. Austin; Edited by J. O. Urmson; Edited by Marina Sbisà; John L. Austin was one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century. The William James Lectures presented Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts on a wide variety of philosophical problems. These talks became the classic How to Do Things with Words; Hardcover / Paperback

The Humanist-Scholastic Debate in the Renaissance and the Reformation: Erika Rummel; In the last half of the fifteenth century, the classic Platonic debate over the respective merits of rhetoric and philosophy was replayed in the debate between humanists and scholastics over philology and dialectic. The intense dispute between representatives of the two camps fueled many of the most important intellectual developments of the Renaissance and Reformation.; Paperback 1998 / Hardcover

Ideas Across Cultures: Paul A. Cohen, Editor; Merle Goldman, Editor; Hardcover 1990

If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich?: G. A. Cohen; Focusing on Marxism and Rawlsian liberalism, G. A. Cohen argues that egalitarian justice is not only a matter of rules that define the structure of society, but also a matter of personal attitude and choice. Personal attitude and choice are, moreover, the stuff of which social structure itself is made. Those truths have not informed political philosophy as much as they should, and Cohen's focus on them brings political philosophy closer to moral philosophy, and to the Judeo-Christian ethical tradition, than it has recently been.; Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001

Il Moro: Ellis Heywood; In Il Moro Heywood constructs a presumably imaginary debate about the nature of true happiness between his great-uncle Sir Thomas More and six of More's friends. Heywood's principal intention in composing this dialogue about happiness seems to have been to provide posterity with a loving memorial of one of England's greatest humanists.; Hardcover 1978

Illustrations on the Moral Sense: Francis Hutcheson; The writings of Francis Hutcheson played a central role in the development of British moral philosophy in the eighteenth century. His Illustrations on the Moral Sense is significant not only historically but also for its exploration of problems of concern in contemporary ethics. Yet except for brief selections it has not appeared in print since the eighteenth century. This edition of Illustrations on the Moral Sense again makes available Hutcheson's contributions to normative ethics and metaethics, thus making possible a more accurate evaluation of his significance in the history of ethics.; Hardcover 1971

In Praise of Athletic Beauty: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht; A book that looks beyond the usual explanations of why sports fascinates, In Praise of Athletic Beauty also strives for a language that can frame the pleasure we take in watching athletic events. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht argues that the fascination with watching sports is probably the most popular and potent contemporary form of aesthetic experience. Exploring athletic beauty, this book makes us understand the widespread passion sport inspires as an untamed form of aesthetic fascination.; Hardcover 2006

In a Dark Time: Robert Jay Lifton, Editor; Nicholas Humphrey, Editor; This is an anthology for the nuclear age, created by two psychologists who have ordered their material so that the successive selections reflect and comment on one another, compelling the reader to think about the insanity of war. This book draws on thoughts and writings from more than two millennia: poets from Sappho to Robert Lowell, dreamers from Saint John the Divine to Martin Luther King, Jr., statesmen from Seneca to Winston Churchill, soldiers, churchmen, writers, leaders.; Hardcover 1984 / Paperback

In the Space of Reasons: Wilfrid Sellars; Edited by Kevin Scharp; Edited by Robert B. Brandom; Sellars (1912-1989) was, in the opinion of many, the most important American philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century. This collection, coedited by Sellars's chief interpreter and intellectual heir, should do much to elucidate and clearly establish the significance of this difficult thinker's vision for contemporary philosophy. The volume presents the most readable of Sellars's essays in a sequence that illuminates the meaning at the heart of his work.; Hardcover 2007

Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Practical Reason: Ruth Chang, Editor; Can quite different values be rationally weighed against one another? Can the value of one thing always be ranked as greater than, equal to, or less than the value of something else? If the answer to these questions is no, then in what areas do we find commensurability and comparability unavailable? And what are the implications for moral and legal decision making? In this book, some of the sharpest minds in philosophy struggle with these questions.; Paperback 1998 / Hardcover 1998

Inequality Reexamined: Amartya Sen; In this deft analysis, Amartya Sen argues that the dictum "all men are created equal" serves largely to deflect attention from the fact that we differ in age, gender, talents, physical abilities as well as in material advantages and social background. He argues for concentrating on higher and more basic values: individual capabilities and freedom to achieve objectives.; Paperback / Hardcover

Innocence and Experience: Stuart Hampshire; Human beings have lived by very different conceptions of the good life. In this book, Stuart Hampshire argues that no individual and no modern society can avoid conflicts between incompatible moral interests. Combining intellectual rigor with imaginative power, in Innocence and Experience Stuart Hampshire vividly illuminates the tensions between justice and other sources of value in society and in the life of the individual.; Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1991

Intention: G. E. M. Anscombe; Intention is one of the masterworks of twentieth-century philosophy in English. First published in 1957, it has acquired the status of a modern philosophical classic. The book attempts to show in detail that the natural and widely accepted picture of what we mean by an intention gives rise to insoluble problems and must be abandoned. This is a welcome reprint of a book that continues to grow in importance.; Paperback 2000

The Interpretation of Frege's Philosophy: Michael Dummett; The philosophy of Gottlob Frege is the starting point for the entire modern analytical movement; it profoundly influenced Russell, Wittgenstein, and Quine. Michael Dummett here expands upon his interpretation of Frege, and answers criticisms and objections that have been raised.; Paperback

Invariances: Robert Nozick; Recent scientific advances have placed many traditional philosophical concepts under great stress. In this pathbreaking book, the eminent philosopher Robert Nozick rethinks and transforms the concepts of truth, objectivity, necessity, contingency, consciousness, and ethics. Using an original method, he presents bold new philosophical theories that take account of scientific advances in physics, evolutionary biology, economics, and cognitive neuroscience, and casts current cultural controversies (such as whether all truth is relative and whether ethics is objective) in a wholly new light.; Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003

Inventions of Difference: Rodolphe Gasché; Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1998

J. J. Rousseau: An Afterlife of Words: Eli Friedlander; Friedlander's book provides an afterlife for the Reveries in modern philosophy. It constitutes an alternative to the analytic tradition's revival of Rousseau, primarily through Rawls's influential vision of the social contract. It also counters the fate of Rousseau's writings in the continental tradition, determined by and large by Derrida's deconstruction.; Hardcover 2004

Jealousy of Trade: Istvan Hont; This collection explores eighteenth-century theories of international market competition that continue to be relevant for the twenty-first century. "Jealousy of trade" refers to a particular conjunction between politics and the economy that emerged when success in international trade became a matter of the military and political survival of nations. Today, it would be called "economic nationalism," and in this book Hont connects the commercial politics of nationalism and globalization in the eighteenth century to theories of commercial society and Enlightenment ideas of the economic limits of politics.; Hardcover 2005

Judging Under Uncertainty: Adrian Vermeule; In this book, Adrian Vermeule shows that any approach to legal interpretation rests on institutional and empirical premises about the capacities of judges and the systemic effects of their rulings. He argues that legal interpretation is above all an exercise in decisionmaking under severe empirical uncertainty. In view of their limited information and competence, judges should adopt a restrictive, unambitious set of tools for interpreting statutory and constitutional provisions.; Hardcover 2006

Just Work: Russell Muirhead; This elegant essay on the justice of work focuses on the fit between who we are and the kind of work we do. Muirhead shows how the common hope for work that fulfills us involves more than personal interest; it also points to larger understandings of a just society. We are defined in part by the jobs we hold, and Muirhead has something important to say about the partial satisfactions of the working life, and the increasingly urgent need to balance the claims of work against those of family and community.; Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2007

Justice as Fairness: John Rawls; Erin Kelly, Editor; This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard University in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his treatise Political Liberalism (1993).; Paperback 2001 / Hardcover 2001

Justice, Luck, and Knowledge: S. L. Hurley; Key contemporary discussions of distributive justice have formulated egalitarian approaches in terms of responsibility. But this approach, Hurley contends, has ignored the way our understanding of responsibility constrains the roles it can actually play within distributive justice. While responsibility might help specify what to distribute, it cannot tell us how to distribute; thus, Hurley argues, responsibility cannot tell us to distribute in an egalitarian pattern in particular. It can, however, play other important roles in a theory of justice, in relation to incentive-seeking behavior and well-being.; Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

Kant and the Exact Sciences: Michael Friedman; Kant sought throughout his life to provide a philosophy adequate to the sciences of his time--especially Euclidean geometry and Newtonian physics. In this new book, Michael Friedman argues that Kant's continuing efforts to find a metaphysics that could provide a foundation for the sciences is of the utmost importance in understanding the development of his philosophical thought.; Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1998

The Law of Peoples: John Rawls; The Law of Peoples extends the idea of a social contract to the Society of Peoples and lays out the general principles that can and should be accepted as the standard for regulating a society's behavior toward another. In particular, it draws a crucial distinction between basic human rights and the rights of each citizen of a liberal constitutional democracy. Rawls explores the terms under which such a society may appropriately wage war against an "outlaw society," and discusses the moral grounds for rendering assistance to non-liberal societies burdened by unfavorable political and economic conditions.; Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001

Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy: Richard A. Posner; Richard Posner argues for a conception of the liberal state based on pragmatic theories of government. He views the actions of elected officials as guided by interests rather than by reason and the decisions of judges by discretion rather than by rules. He emphasizes the institutional and material, rather than moral and deliberative, factors in democratic decision making. Posner argues that democracy is best viewed as a competition for power by means of regular elections. Citizens should not be expected to play a significant role in making complex public policy regarding, say, taxes or missile defense.; Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy: John Rawls; Barbara Herman, Editor; The premier political philosopher of his day, John Rawls, in three decades of teaching at Harvard, has had a profound influence on the development of philosophical ethics. This book brings together the lectures that inspired a generation of students--and a regeneration of moral philosophy. It invites readers to learn from the most noted exemplars of modern moral philosophy with the inspired guidance of one of contemporary philosophy's most noteworthy practitioners and teachers.; Paperback 2000 / Hardcover 2000

Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy: John Rawls; Edited by Samuel Freeman; This last book by the late John Rawls offers readers an account of the liberal political tradition. Constantly revised and refined over three decades, Rawls's lectures on various historical figures reflect his developing and changing views on the history of liberalism and democracy. With its clear and careful analyses of the doctrine of the social contract, utilitarianism, and socialism, this volume has a critical place in the traditions it expounds.; Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2008

Leibniz’ "Universal Jurisprudence: Patrick Riley; Although Leibniz is universally regarded as the greatest German philosopher before Kant, his work as a political and moral philosopher is almost entirely neglected in the English-speaking world. Patrick Riley recovers this crucial part of Leibniz' thought and activity.; Hardcover 1996

Lessons of the Masters: George Steiner; When we talk about education today, we tend to avoid the rhetoric of "mastery," with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones. But the charged personal encounter between master and disciple is precisely what interests Steiner in this book, a sustained reflection on the infinitely complex and subtle interplay of power, trust, and passions in the most profound sorts of pedagogy.; Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

Liberalism with Honor: Sharon R. Krause; Hardcover 2002

Life and Action: Michael Thompson; Any sound practical philosophy must be clear on practical concepts—concepts, in particular, of life, action, and practice. This clarity is Thompson’s aim in his ambitious work. In Thompson’s view, failure to comprehend the structures of thought and judgment expressed in these concepts has disfigured modern moral philosophy, rendering it incapable of addressing the larger questions that should be its focus.; Hardcover 2008

Logic, Logic, and Logic: George Boolos; Introduction and Afterword by Richard Jeffrey; John P. Burgess, Volume editor; George Boolos was one of the most prominent and influential logician-philosophers of recent times. This collection, nearly all chosen by Boolos himself shortly before his death, includes thirty papers on set theory, second-order logic, and plural quantifiers; on Frege, Dedekind, Cantor, and Russell; and on miscellaneous topics in logic and proof theory, including three papers on various aspects of the Gödel theorems.; Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 1999

The Logical Basis of Metaphysics: Michael Dummett; Michael Dummett's new book is the greatly expanded and recently revised version of his distinguished William James Lectures, delivered in 1976. Dummett regards the construction of a satisfactory theory of meaning as the most pressing task of contemporary analytical philosophy. He believes that the successful completion of this difficult assignment will lead to a resolution of problems before which philosophy has been stalled, in some instances for centuries.; Hardcover 1991 / Paperback

Loneliness as a Way of Life: Thomas Dumm; “What does it mean to be lonely?” Dumm asks. His inquiry, documented in this book, takes us beyond social circumstances and into the deeper forces that shape our very existence as modern individuals. The modern individual, Dumm suggests, is fundamentally a lonely self. This book challenges us, not to overcome our loneliness, but to learn how to re-inhabit it in a better way.; Hardcover 2008

Lost Soul: John Makeham; Since the mid-1980s, Taiwan and mainland China have witnessed a sustained resurgence of academic and intellectual interest in ruxue—“Confucianism”—variously conceived as a form of culture, an ideology, a system of learning, and a tradition of normative values. This study aims to show how ruxue has been conceived in order to assess the achievements of this enterprise.; Hardcover 2008

Love's Confusions: C. D. C. Reeve; Ranging from Plato to writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Proust, Forster, Beckett, Huxley, Lawrence, and Larkin, Reeve brings the vast resources of Western literature and philosophy to bear on the question of love. Looking at love in light of the classical world and Christianity, and in its complex relationship with pornography, violence, sadomasochism, fantasy, sentimentality, and jealousy, Reeve invites us to think more broadly about love, and to find the confusions that inevitably result to be creative rather than disturbing.; Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007

Maimonides after 800 Years: Edited by Jay M. Harris; Moses Maimonides was the most significant Jewish thinker, jurist, and doctor of the Middle Ages, and author of a monumental code of Jewish law, and the most influential and controversial work of Jewish philosophy. The essays in this volume were written to mark the 800th anniversary of Maimonides' death in 1204. Written by the leading scholars in the field, they cover all aspects of Maimonides' work and influence.; Hardcover 2008

Making Good: Wendy Fischman; Becca Solomon; Deborah Greenspan; Howard Gardner; Making Good explores the choices confronting young workers who join the ranks of three dynamic professions--journalism, science, and acting--and looks at how the novices navigate moral dilemmas posed by a demanding, frequently lonely, professional life. It offers extensive insights into how young workers view their respective domains, the nature of their ambitions, the sacrifices they are willing to make, and the lines they are prepared to cross.; Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005

Making Meaning: David Bordwell; Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1991

Making it Explicit: Robert B. Brandom; Making It Explicit is an investigation into the nature of language. Where accounts of the relation between language and mind have traditionally rested on the concept of representation, this book sets out an alternate approach based on inference, and on a conception of certain kinds of implicit assessment that become explicit in language. It is the first attempt to work out in detail a theory that renders linguistic meaning in terms of use.; Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1998

Manuscript Essays and Notes: William James; Introduction by Ignas K. Skrupkelis; When William James died in 1910 he left a large body of manuscript material that has never appeared in print. The most important of these manuscripts are those of the years 1903 and 1904 called "The Many and the One." The manuscripts in the rest of the volume contain James's reflections over a period of forty years in the form of drafts, memoranda, and notebook entries. The diverse subjects are arranged under the headings of Philosophy, Psychology, Aesthetics, Ethics, and Religion. Of special interest are the early notes in which James began to work out his own philosophical point of view.; Hardcover 1988

Manuscript Lectures: William James; Introduction by Ignas K. Skrupskelis; This final volume of The Works of William James provides a full record of James's teaching career at Harvard from 1872 to 1907. It includes extensive working notes for lectures in more than twenty courses. Because his teaching was so closely involved with the development of his thought, this material adds a new dimension to our understanding of his philosophy.; Hardcover 1988

Martin Heidegger: Rüdiger Safranski; Ewald Osers, Translator; One of the century's greatest philosophers, without whom there would be no Sartre, no Foucault, no Frankfurt School, Martin Heidegger was also a man of great failures and flaws, a Faustus who made a pact with the devil of his time, Adolf Hitler. The story of Heidegger's life and philosophy, a quintessentially German story in which good and evil, brilliance and blindness are inextricably entwined and the passions and disasters of a whole century come into play, is told in this brilliant biography.; Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 1999

Mathematical Logic, Revised Edition: W. V. Quine; Paperback

A Matter of Principle: Ronald Dworkin; This is a book about the interplay of urgent political issues and hotly debated questions of moral philosophy. The controversies it joins are old; but history has given them fresh shape. With forceful style, Ronald Dworkin addresses questions about the Anglo-American legal system as protector of individual rights and as machinery for furthering the common good. Dworkin helps us thread our way through many timely issues such as the rights and privileges of the press under the First Amendment.; Hardcover 1985 / Paperback

The Meaning of Stoicism: Ludwig Edelstein; "Despite their individual differences, the Stoic dissenters remained Stoics. That which they had in common, that which made them Stoics, is what I understand as the meaning of Stoicism." Thus delimiting his framework, Ludwig Edelstein attempts to define Stoicism by grasping the elusive common element that bound together the various factions within the ethical system.; Hardcover 1966

The Meaning of Truth: William James; Edited by Fredson Bowers; Ignas K. Skrupskelis, Associate Editor; Introduction by H.S. Thayer; Hardcover 1975

Meaning, Knowledge, and Reality: John McDowell; This is the second volume of John McDowell's selected papers. These nineteen essays collectively report on McDowell's involvement, over more than twenty years, with questions about the interface between the philosophies of language and mind and with issues in general epistemology. Throughout McDowell focuses on questions to do with content.; Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2001

Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France: Robert Darnton; Hardcover 1968 / Paperback

Metamorphosis: Harold Skulsky; Fusing the methods of comparative literature, intellectual history, and philosophical analysis, Skulsky explores a motif that has fascinated storytellers since antiquity: the miraculous transformation of a character into a plant, an animal, or a different human being. The thesis of the study is that the fantasy of metamorphosis challenges the narrator and his audience to confront certain basic anxieties about the human condition.; Hardcover 1981

Methods of Logic: W. V. Quine; Paperback

Mimesis as Make-Believe: Kendall L. Walton; Representations--in visual arts and fiction--play an important part in our lives and culture. Walton presents here a theory of the nature of representation which illuminates its many varieties and goes a long way toward explaining its importance. Walton's theory also provides solutions to thorny philosophical problems concerning the existence of fictitious beings. Throughout, his analysis is illustrated by a rich array of examples drawn from literature, painting, sculpture, theater, and film.; Hardcover 1990 / Paperback

The Mind and Its Depths: Richard Wollheim; This book brings together Wollheim's broad and abiding concerns to illuminate human thought at its furthest reaches of introspection and expression. Interweaving philosophy, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics, these essays reveal the critical connections between ideas and disciplines too often regarded as separate and distinct.; Paperback / Hardcover

Mind and World: John McDowell; Modern philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In Mind and World, one of the most distinguished philosophers writing today offers his diagnosis of this difficulty and points to a cure.; Paperback 1996 / Hardcover

Mind in Life: Evan Thompson; How is life related to the mind? Thompson explores this so-called explanatory gap between biological life and consciousness, drawing on sources as diverse as molecular biology, evolutionary theory, artificial life, complex systems theory, neuroscience, psychology, Continental Phenomenology, and analytic philosophy. Ultimately he shows that mind and life are more continuous than previously accepted, and that current explanations do not adequately address the myriad facets of the biology and phenomenology of mind.; Hardcover 2007

Mind, Value, and Reality: John McDowell; This volume collects some of John McDowell's most influential papers of the last two decades. These essays deal with several themes including the interpretation of Aristotle and Plato's ethical writings, questions in moral philosophy that arise from reflection on the Greek tradition, Wittengensteinian ideas about reason in action, and issues central to the philosophy of mind.; Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2001

Minds, Brains and Science: John Searle; Minds, Brains and Science takes up just the problems that perplex people, and it does what good philosophy always does: it dispels the illusion caused by the specious collision of truths. How do we reconcile common sense and science? Searle argues vigorously that the truths of common sense and the truths of science are both right and that the only question is how to fit them together.; Paperback 1986

Mindsight: Colin McGinn; The guiding thread of this book is the distinction McGinn draws between perception and imagination. McGinn shows what the differences are, arguing that imagination is a sui generis mental faculty. He goes on to discuss the nature of dreaming and madness and investigates the role of imagination in logical reasoning, belief formation, and the comprehension of meaning. His overall claim is that imagination pervades our mental life, obeys its own distinctive principles, and merits much more attention.; Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006

The Modern Self in the Labyrinth: Eyal Chowers; This book explores the distinct historical-political imagination of the self in the twentieth century and advances two arguments. First, it suggests that we should read the history of modern political philosophy afresh in light of a theme that emerges in the late eighteenth century: the rift between self and social institutions. Second, it argues that this rift was reformulated in the twentieth century in a manner that contrasts with the optimism of nineteenth-century thinkers regarding its resolution. It proposes a new political imagination of the twentieth century found in the works of Weber, Freud, and Foucault, and characterizes it as one of "entrapment."; Hardcover 2004

Moral Dimensions: T. M. Scanlon; Scanlon reframes current philosophical debates as he explores the moral permissibility of an action. Blame, he argues, is a response to the meaning of an action rather than its permissibility. This analysis leads to a novel account of the conditions of moral responsibility and to important conclusions about the ethics of blame.; Hardcover 2009

Moral Literacy: Barbara Herman; Distinguished moral philosopher Herman draws on Kant to address timeless issues in ethical theory as well as issues arising from current moral questions, such as affirmative action and the moral costs of reparative justice. Challenging various Kantian orthodoxies, Herman offers a view of moral competency as a complex achievement, governed by rational norms and dependent on supportive social conditions.; Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2008

Moral Prejudices: Annette C. Baier; Annette Baier delivers an appeal for our fundamental moral notions to be governed not by rules and codes but by trust: a moral prejudice. Along the way, she gives us the best feminist philosophy there is.; Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1995

Moralia, XVI: Plutarch; Compiled by Edward N. O'Neil; Plutarch's Moralia, Moral Essays reflecting his philosophy about living a good life, is a treasury of information concerning Greco-Roman society, traditions, ideals, ethics, and religion. But access to the riches of this collection of over seventy essays has long been hindered by lack of any comprehensive index. This problem has at last been solved: the Loeb Classical Library's edition of the Moralia is now brought to completion with an analytical Index volume.; Hardcover 2004

The Naked Gaze: Carlos Rojas; This volume focuses on tropes of visuality and gender to reflect on shifting understandings of the significance of Chineseness, modernity, and Chinese modernity. Through detailed readings of narrative works by eight authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the study identifies three distinct constellations of visual concerns corresponding to the late imperial, mid-twentieth century, and contemporary periods, respectively.; Hardcover 2008

Naming and Necessity: Saul A. Kripke; Hardcover 1980 / Paperback

Narrative Ethics: Adam Newton; In the wake of deconstruction and various forms of criticism focusing on difference, Adam Newton makes a compelling case for understanding narrative as ethics. Assuming an intrinsic and necessary connection between the two, Newton explores the ethical consequences of telling stories and fictionalizing character, and the reciprocal claims binding teller, listener, witness, and reader in the process.; Paperback 1997 / Hardcover

Naturalism in Question: Mario De Caro, Editor; David Macarthur, Editor; Today the majority of philosophers in the English-speaking world adhere to the "naturalist" credos that philosophy is continuous with science, and that the natural sciences provide a complete account of all that exists--whether human or nonhuman. However, there is a growing skepticism about the adequacy of this complacent orthodoxy. This volume presents a group of leading thinkers who criticize scientific naturalism not in the name of some form of supernaturalism, but in order to defend a more inclusive or liberal naturalism.; Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2008

The Navya-Nyaya Doctrine of Negation: Bimal Krishnal Matilal; Hardcover 1968

New Perspectives on Plato, Modern and Ancient: Julia Annas, Editor; Christopher J. Rowe, Editor; In recent years, scholars have looked more closely at the philosophical importance of the imaginative and literary aspects of Plato's writing, and have begun to appreciate the methods of the ancient philosophers and commentators who studied Plato and their attitudes to Plato's appropriation of Socrates. This study brings together leading philosophical and literary scholars who investigate these new-old approaches and their significance in distancing us from the standard ways of reading Plato.; Hardcover 2003

Nietzsche: Peter Berkowitz; Nietzsche has come to be revered by postmodern thinkers as one of their founding fathers, a prophet of human liberation who broke radically with traditional forms of morality and philosophy. Peter Berkowitz challenges this new orthodoxy, asserting that it produces a one-dimensional picture of Nietzsche's philosophical explorations and passes by much of what is provocative and problematic in his thought.; Paperback 1996 / Hardcover

Nietzsche: Alexander Nehamas; Hardcover 1985 / Paperback

Objectivity, Invariance, and Convention: Talal A. Debs; Michael L. G. Redhead; Offering a new appraisal of symmetry in modern physics, employing detailed case studies from relativity theory and quantum mechanics, Objectivity, Invariance, and Convention contends that the physical sciences, though dependent on convention, may produce objective representations of reality.; Hardcover 2007

Of Mind and Other Matters: Nelson Goodman; Paperback

On Law and Justice: Paul A. Freund; Hardcover 1968

On Voluntary Servitude: Michael Rosen; Michael Rosen diagnoses the underlying question to which the theory of ideology was meant to provide the answer: "Why do people accept forms of political domination which it is against their interests to accept?" This book provides a historical and critical analysis of that answer.; Hardcover 1996

Open Minded: Jonathan Lear; Freud is discredited, so we don't have to think about the darker strains of unconscious motivation anymore. We know what moves our political leaders, so we don't have to look too closely at their thinking either. In fact, everywhere we look in contemporary culture, knowingness has taken the place of thought. This book is a spirited assault on that deadening trend, especially as it affects our deepest attempts to understand the human psyche--in philosophy and psychoanalysis. It explodes the widespread notion that we already know the problems and proper methods in these fields and so no longer need to ask crucial questions about the structure of human subjectivity.; Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 1999

Ordinary Vices: Judith N. Shklar; Shklar draws from a brilliant array of writers--Moliere and Dickens on hypocrisy, Jane Austen on snobbery, Shakespeare and Montesquieu on misanthropy, Hawthorne and Nietzsche on cruelty, Conrad and Faulkner on betrayal--to reveal the nature and effects of the vices.; Hardcover 1984 / Paperback 1985

Origins of Analytical Philosophy: Michael Dum

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