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

Translated by Hugh Bredin

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

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 1983

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

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 1972

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

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

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

Edited by Samuel Freeman

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

Edited by Charles Hartshorne

Edited by Paul Weiss

Hardcover 1932

Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes III and IV, Exact Logic (Published Papers) and The Simplest Mathematics

Charles Sanders Peirce

Edited by Charles Hartshorne

Edited by Paul Weiss

Hardcover 1933

Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes V and VI, Pragmatism and Pragmaticism and Scientific Metaphysics

Charles Sanders Peirce

Edited by Charles Hartshorne

Edited by Paul Weiss

Hardcover 1935

Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes VII and VIII, Science and Philosophy and Reviews, Correspondence and Bibliography

Charles Sanders Peirce

Edited by Arthur W. Burks

Hardcover 1958

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 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

Depth

Michael Strevens

Strevens proposes a novel theory of scientific explanation and understanding that overhauls 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

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

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

Paperback 1980 / Hardcover 1980

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

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

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

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

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 / Paperback 2009

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 1986

The Ethics of Authenticity

Charles Taylor

Everywhere we hear talk of decline, of a world that was better once, maybe fifty years ago, maybe centuries ago, but certainly before modernity drew us along its dubious path. While some lament the slide of Western culture into relativism and nihilism and others celebrate the trend as a liberating sort of progress, Charles Taylor calls on us to face the moral and political crises of our time, and to make the most of modernity's challenges.

Hardcover 1992

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

Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, Fourth Edition

Nelson Goodman

Hilary Putnam

Hardcover 1983 / Paperback 1983

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

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 1993

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

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

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 a Logical Point of View

W. V. Quine

Hardcover 1961 / Paperback 1980

German Idealism

Frederick C. Beiser

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2008

The Great Chain of Being

Arthur O. Lovejoy

From later antiquity down to the close of the eighteenth century, most philosophers and men of science and, indeed, most educated men, accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of the world. In this volume, which embodies the William James lectures for 1933, Professor Lovejoy copiously illustrates the influence of this conception as a whole, and of the ideas out of which it was compounded, upon the imagination and feelings as expressed in literature.

Paperback 1936

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

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

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

Paperback 1975 / Hardcover

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

Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Practical Reason

Edited by Ruth Chang

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 1995 / 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

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

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 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

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

Making Meaning

David Bordwell

David Bordwell's new book is at once a history of film criticism, an analysis of how critics interpret film, and a proposal for an alternative program for film studies. It is an anatomy of film criticism meant to reset the agenda for film scholarship.

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

Mathematical Logic, Revised Edition

W. V. Quine

Paperback 1981

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

Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France

Robert Darnton

Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician, arrived in Paris and began to promulgate a somewhat exotic theory of healing that almost immediately seized the imagination of the general populace. Robert Darnton, in his lively study of mesmerism and its relation to eighteenth-century radical political thought and popular scientific notions, provides a useful contribution to the study of popular culture and the manner in which ideas are diffused down through various social levels.

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 1982

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 1993

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

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

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

Naming and Necessity

Saul A. Kripke

Hardcover 1980 / Paperback 1982

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

The Navya-Nyaya Doctrine of Negation

Bimal Krishnal Matilal

Hardcover 1968

Nietzsche

Alexander Nehamas

Hardcover 1985 / Paperback 1987

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

Of Mind and Other Matters displays perhaps more vividly than any one of Nelson Goodman's previous books both the remarkable diversity of his concerns and the essential unity of his thought. As a whole the volume will serve as a concise introduction to Goodman's thought for general readers, and will develop its more recent unfoldings for those philosophers and others who have grown wiser with his books over the years.

Paperback 1987

On Law and Justice

Paul A. Freund

Hardcover 1968

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 Dummett

When contrasted with "Continental" philosophy, analytical philosophy is often called "Anglo-American." Michael Dummett argues that this is a misnomer: "Anglo-Austrian" would be a more accurate label, for analytical philosophy arose in the same milieu as the principal rival school of phenomenology. By re-examining the similar origins of the two traditions, we can come to understand why they later diverged so widely, and thus take the first step toward reconciliation.

Paperback 1996 / Hardcover

Pascal

Robert J. Nelson

The life of the paradoxical seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician is examined here along three axes--psychological, theological, and linguistic--to present the first rounded portrayal of the querulous, intense, ever-committed Pascal. In drawing this portrait, the author restores Pascal to the general reader after twenty years of scholarship that has embroiled this historic thinker in academic quarrels. Through the scrutiny of Pascal's biography and analysis of the entire body of his writing, Nelson reveals Pascal the man, the scientist, the theologian, and the literary genius.

Hardcover 1982

The Passion of Michel Foucault

James Miller

Based on extensive new research and a bold interpretation of the man and his texts, The Passion of Michel Foucault is a startling look at one of this century's most influential philosophers. It chronicles every stage of Foucault's personal and professional odyssey, from his early interest in dreams to his final preoccupation with sexuality and the nature of personal identity.

Paperback 2000

Philosophical Arguments

Charles Taylor

The essays in this collection reflect most of the concerns with which Charles Taylor has been involved throughout his career--language, ideas of the self, political participation, the nature of modernity. His intellectual range is extraordinary, as is his ability to clarify what is at stake in difficult philosophical disputes. Taylor's analyses of liberal democracy, welfare economics, and multiculturalism have real political significance.

Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1997

Philosophical Explanations

Robert Nozick

In this highly original work, Robert Nozick develops new views on philosophy's central topics and weaves them into a unified philosophical perspective. It is many years since a major work in English has ranged so widely over philosophy's fundamental concerns: the identity of the self, knowledge and skepticism, free will, the question of why there is something rather than nothing, the foundations of ethics, the meaning of life.

Hardcover 1981 / Paperback 1983

Philosophical Writing

John J. Richetti

Hardcover 1983

Philosophy and the Young Child

Gareth Matthews

This book presents striking evidence that young children naturally engage in a brand of thought that is genuinely philosophical. In a series of exquisite examples that could only have been gathered by a professional philosopher with an extraordinary respect for young minds, Matthews demonstrates that children have a capacity for puzzlement and mental play that leads them to tackle many of the classic problems of knowledge, value and existence that have traditionally formed the core of philosophical thought.

Hardcover 1980 / Paperback

Philosophy in a New Key

Susanne K. Langer

Modern theories of meaning usually culminate in a critique of science. Philosophy in a New Key presents a study of human intelligence beginning with a semantic theory and leading into a critique of music.

Hardcover 1957 / Paperback 1957

Philosophy of Spinoza

Harry Austryn Wolfson

Paperback

The Philosophy of the Church Fathers

Harry Austryn Wolfson

Harry Austryn Wolfson, world-renowned scholar and most lucid of scholarly writers, here presents in ordered detail his long-awaited study of the philosophic principles I and reasoning by which the Fathers of the Church sought to explain the mysteries of the Trinity and the Incarnation.

Hardcover 1970

The Philosophy of the Kalam

Harry Austryn Wolfson

In this long-awaited volume, on which he worked for twenty years, Mr. Wolfson describes the body of doctrine known as the Kalam. Kalam, an Arabic term meaning "speech" and hence "discussion," was applied to early attempts in Islam to adduce philosophic proofs for religious beliefs. It later came to designate a system of religious philosophy which reached its highest point in the eleventh century; the masters of Kalam, known as Mutakallimun, were in many respects the Muslim equivalent of the Christian Church Fathers. Mr. Wolfson studies the Kalam systematically, unfolding its philosophic origins and implications and observing its repercussions in other religions.

Hardcover 1976

Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow

Stanley Cavell

Seeking for philosophy the same spirit and assurance conveyed by an artist like Fred Astaire, Cavell presents essays that explore the meaning of grace and gesture in film and on stage, in language and in life. The theme of aesthetic judgment, viewed in the light of "passionate utterance," is everywhere evident in Cavell's effort to provoke a renaissance in American thought. Critical to such a rebirth is a recognition of the centrality of the "ordinary" to American life.

Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2006

A Pitch of Philosophy

Stanley Cavell

This book is an invitation to the life of philosophy in the United States, as Emerson once lived it and as Stanley Cavell now lives it--in all its topographical ambiguity.

Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1996

A Pluralistic Universe

William James

Fredson Bowers, Textual Editor

Ignas K. Skrupskelis, Associate Editor

Foreword by Richard J. Bernstein

Hardcover 1977

Practical Induction

Elijah Millgram

Practical reasoning is not just a matter of determining how to get what you want, but of working out what to want in the first place. In Practical Induction Elijah Millgram argues that experience plays a central role in this process of deciding what is or is not important or worth pursuing. He takes aim at instrumentalism, a view predominant among philosophers today, which holds that the goals of practical reasoning are basic in the sense that they are given by desires that are not themselves the product of practical reasoning. The view Millgram defends is "practical induction,"a method of reasoning from experience similar to theoretical induction.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999

Pragmatism and The Meaning of Truth

William James

Introduction by A.J. Ayer

Pragmatism is the most famous single work of American philosophy. Its sequel, The Meaning of Truth, is its imperative and inevitable companion. The definitive texts of both works are here available for the first time in one volume, with an introduction by the distinguished contemporary philosopher A. J. Ayer.

Hardcover 1978 / Paperback 1978

Prejudices

Robert Nisbet

Paperback

The Presbyterian Churches and the Federal Union, 1861-1869

Lewis G. Vander Velde

Hardcover 1932

A Progress of Sentiments

Annette C. Baier

Annette Baler's aim is to make sense of David Hume's Treatise as a whole. Hume's family motto, which appears on his bookplate, was "True to the End." Baier argues that it is not until the end of the Treatise that we get his full story about "truth and falsehood, reason and folly." By the end, we can see the cause to which Hume has been true throughout the work.

Paperback 1991 / Hardcover 1991

The Psychoanalytic Mind

Marcia Cavell

Cavell elaborates the view, traceable from Wittgenstein to Davidson, that there is no thought, and thus no meaning, without language, and shows how this concurs with psychoanalytic theory and practice.

Paperback 1996 / Hardcover

Psychology of Reasoning

P. Wason

At the core of the Psychology of Reasoning is a vigorous discussion that incorporates various illustrations--some of them humorous, all of them fascinating--of the use of reason under a wide variety of different conditions. Particular emphasis is placed on the difficulties involved in dealing with negatively marked information that must be combined and used with other information for reaching conclusions. Thorough treatment is given as well to the search for plausible contexts that will render anomalous or ambiguous statements "sensible."

Hardcover 1972 / Paperback

Pursuit of Truth

W. V. Quine

Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1992

Quiddities

W. V. Quine

Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1989

Quintessence

W. V. Quine

Edited by Roger F. Gibson

Quintessence for the first time collects Quine's classic essays in one volume, offering a much-needed introduction to his general philosophy. The selections take up analyticity and reductionism; the indeterminacy of translation of theoretical sentences and the inscrutability of reference; ontology; naturalized epistemology; philosophy of mind; and extensionalism. Representative of Quine at his best, these readings are fundamental not only to an appreciation of the philosopher and his work, but also to an understanding of the philosophical tradition that he so materially advanced.

Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2008

Radical Hope

Jonathan Lear

Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, said, "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened." In Jonathan Lear's view, Plenty Coups' story raises a profound ethical question that transcends his time and challenges us all: how should one face the possibility that one's culture might collapse? Radical Hope is a deeply moving, philosophical inquiry into a peculiar vulnerability that goes to the heart of the human condition.

Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

Rails to Infinity

Crispin Wright

Hardcover 2001

Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings

William C. Wimsatt

Analytic philosophers once pantomimed physics, trying to understand the world by breaking it down. Thinkers from the Darwinian sciences now pose alternatives to this simplistic reductionism. In a tour of essays spanning thirty years, Wimsatt argues that scientists seek to atomize phenomena only when necessary to understand how entities, events, and processes articulate at different levels. This book offers a philosophy for error-prone humans trying to understand messy systems in the real world.

Hardcover 2007

Realism with a Human Face

Hilary Putnam

Edited and Introduced by James Conant

Paperback 1992

The Realm of Rights

Judith Jarvis Thomson

Paperback 1992 / Hardcover

Reasoning and the Logic of Things

Charles Sanders Peirce

Edited by Kenneth Ketner

Introduction by Hilary Putnam

Paperback

Renewing Philosophy

Hilary Putnam

Putnam, one of America's most distinguished philosophers, surveys an astonishingly wide range of issues and proposes a new, clear-cut approach to philosophical questions--a renewal of philosophy. His discussion of topics from artificial intelligence to natural selection.

Paperback 1995 / Hardcover

Repercussions of the Kalam in Jewish Philosophy

Harry Austryn Wolfson

Hardcover 1979

Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments

R. Jay Wallace

R. Jay Wallace advances a powerful and sustained argument against the common view that accountability requires freedom of will. Instead, he maintains, the fairness of holding people responsible depends on their rational competence: the power to grasp moral reasons and to control their behavior accordingly.

Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1998

Right and Wrong

Charles Fried

Hardcover 1978 / Paperback

Rights, Restitution, and Risk

Judith Jarvis Thomson

Edited by William Parent

Hardcover 1986 / Paperback

Rule-Following and Realism

Gary Ebbs

Through detailed criticism of standard interpretations of some of the key arguments in analytical philosophy over the last sixty years, Gary Ebbs arrives at a new conception of the task of the philosophy of language. Reexamining and extending influential arguments by Saul Kripke, W. V. Quine, Rudolf Carnap, Hilary Putnam, and Tyler Burge, Ebbs presents systematic redescriptions of our linguistic practices.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 2001

Saving the Differences

Crispin Wright

Crispin Wright's Truth and Objectivity brought about a far-reaching reorientation of the metaphysical debates concerning realism and truth. The essays in this companion volume prefigure, elaborate, or defend the proposals put forward in that landmark work. The collection includes the Gareth Evans memorial lecture in which the program of Truth and Objectivity was first announced, as well as all of Wright's published reactions to the extensive commentary his study provoked; it presents substantial new developments and applications of the pluralistic outlook on the realism debates proposed in Truth and Objectivity, and further pursues its distinctive minimalist conceptions of truth and of truth-aptitude.

Hardcover 2003

The Schoolhome

Jane Martin

Drawing selectively from reform movements of the past and relating them to the unique needs of today's parents and children, Jane Martin presents a philosophy of education that is responsive to America's changed and changing realities.

Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1995

Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy

Rüdiger Safranski

Translated by Ewald Osers

This richly detailed biography of a key figure in nineteenth-century philosophy pays equal attention to the life and the work of Schopenhauer. Safranski places this visionary skeptic in the context of philosophical predecessors and contemporaries such as Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, and explores the sources of his profound alienation from their "secularized religion of reason."

Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1991

Selected Logic Papers, Enlarged Edition

W. V. Quine

Selected Logic Papers, long out of print and now reissued with eight additional essays, includes much of the author's important work on mathematical logic and the philosophy of mathematics from the past sixty years.

Hardcover 1995 / Paperback

The Self Awakened

Roberto Mangabeira Unger

In this long-awaited work of general philosophy, Roberto Mangabeira Unger proposes a radical reorientation of established ideas about nature, mind, society, politics, and religion. The Self Awakened mobilizes the resources of several philosophical traditions, and develops the unrecognized revolutionary implications of the most influential of these traditions today--pragmatism. Avoiding technical jargon and needless complication, this book makes a case for philosophy as the supreme activity of the intellect at war, insisting on its power to deal with what matters most.

Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2009

Simple Mindedness

Jennifer Hornsby

Jennifer Hornsby offers here detailed discussions of ontology, human agency, and everyday psychological explanation. In her distinctive view of questions about "the mind's place in nature" she argues for a particular position in philosophy of mind: naive naturalism.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 2001

The Social Construction of What?

Ian Hacking

Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Ian Hacking's book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality. Especially troublesome in this dispute is the status of the natural sciences, and this is where Hacking finds some of his most telling cases, from the conflict between biological and social approaches to mental illness to vying accounts of current research in sedimentary geology.

Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2000

Socratic Puzzles

Robert Nozick

One of the foremost philosophers of our time, Robert Nozick continues the Socratic tradition of investigation. This volume, which illustrates the originality, force, and scope of his work, is also an example of Nozick's trademark blending of extraordinary analytical rigor with intellectual playfulness. As such, Socratic Puzzles testifies to the great pleasure that both doing and reading philosophy can be.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999

Some Problems of Philosophy

William James

Foreword by Frederick Burkhardt

Introduction by Peter H. Hare

Some Problems of Philosophy, William James's last book, was published after his death in 1910. For years he had talked of rounding out his philosophical work with a treatise on metaphysics. Characteristically, he chose to do so in the form of an introduction to the problems of philosophy, because writing for beginners would force him to be nontechnical and readable. The result is that, although this is James's most systematic and abstract work, it has all the lucidity of his other, more popular writings. Step by step the reader is introduced, through analysis of the fundamental problems of Being, the relation of thoughts to things, novelty, causation, and the Infinite, to the original philosophical synthesis that James called radical empiricism.This is the seventh volume to be published in The Works of William James, an authoritative edition sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies.

Hardcover 1979

Sources of the Self

Charles Taylor

In this inquiry into the sources of modern selfhood, Charles Taylor shows that the modern turn inward is not disastrous but is in fact the result of our long efforts to define and reach the good. At the heart of this definition he finds what he calls the affirmation of ordinary life, a value that has decisively if not completely replaced an older conception of reason as connected to a hierarchy based on birth and wealth. In telling the story of a revolution whose proponents have been Augustine, Montaigne, Luther, and a host of others, Taylor's goal is in part to make sure we do not lose sight of their goal and endanger all that has been achieved. Sources of the Self provides a decisive defense of the modern order and a sharp rebuff to its critics.

Paperback 1992

The Structure and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

R.I.G. Hughes

R.I.G Hughes offers the first detailed and accessible analysis of the Hilbert-space models used in quantum theory and explains why they are so successful. He goes on to show how the very suitability of Hilbert spaces for modeling the quantum world gives rise to deep problems of interpretation and makes suggestions about how they can be overcome.

Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1992

The Structure of Empirical Knowledge

Laurence BonJour

Paperback 1988

Studies in the Way of Words

Paul Grice

Paul Grice provided philosophy with crucial ideas. His account of speakermeaning is the standard that others use to define their own minor divergences or future elaborations. His metaphysical defense of absolute values is considered the beginning of a new phase in philosophy. Throughout this volume Grice has carefully arranged and framed the sequence of essays to emphasize not a certain set of ideas but a habit of mind, a style of philosophizing. It is a vital book for all who are interested in Anglo-American philosophy.

Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1991

Taking Rights Seriously

Ronald Dworkin

What is law? What is it for? How should judges decide novel cases when the statutes and earlier decisions provide no clear answer? Do judges make up new law in such cases, or is there some higher law in which they discover the correct answer? Must everyone always obey the law? If not, when is a citizen morally free to disobey?

Hardcover 1977 / Paperback 1978

Theories and Things

W. V. Quine

Paperback

The Theory of Epistemic Rationality

Richard Foley

Hardcover 1987

Toward a Feminist Theory of the State

Catharine A. MacKinnon

Toward a Feminist Theory of the State presents Catharine MacKinnon's powerful analysis of politics, sexuality, and the law from the perspective of women. Using the debate over Marxism and feminism as a point of departure, MacKinnon develops a theory of gender centered on sexual subordination and applies it to the state. The result is an informed and compelling critique of inequality and a transformative vision of a direction for social change.

Paperback 1991 / Hardcover

The Transcendentalists

Perry Miller

Paperback

The Transfiguration of the Commonplace

Arthur C. Danto

Paperback 1983

Truth and Objectivity

Crispin Wright

Crispin Wright offers an original perspective on the place of "realism" in philosophical inquiry. He proposes a radically new framework for discussing the claims of the realists and the anti-realists.

Hardcover 1993 / Paperback

Truth and Other Enigmas

Michael Dummett

This collection of Michael Dummett's philosophical essays, spanning more than twenty years, ranges in topic from time to the philosophy of mathematics, but is unified by a steady philosophical outlook. The essays are, in one way or another, informed by Dummett's concern with metaphysical questions and his belief that the correct approach to them is via the theory of meaning.

Paperback 1978 / Hardcover 1978

Truth and Predication

Donald Davidson

Edited by Kevin Sharpe

Anchored in classical philosophy, Truth and Predication nonetheless makes telling use of the work of a great number of modern philosophers from Tarski and Dewey to Quine and Rorty. Representing the very best of Western thought, it reopens the most difficult and pressing of ancient philosophical problems, and reveals them to be very much of our day.

Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2008

Truth in Philosophy

Barry Allen

The goal of philosophers is truth, but for a century or more they have been bothered by Nietzsche's question, "What is the good of truth?" Barry Allen shows what truth has come to mean in the philosophical tradition, what is wrong with many of the ways of conceiving truth, and why philosophers refuse to confront squarely the question of the value of truth.

Hardcover 1993 / Paperback 1995

The Two Faces of Justice

Jiwei Ci

In this book, Jiwei Ci explores the dual nature of justice, in an attempt to make unitary sense of key features of justice reflected in its close relation to resentment, punishment, and forgiveness. He probes the human psychology of justice to understand what motivates moral agents who seek to behave justly, and why their desire to be just is as precarious as it is uplifting. The Two Faces of Justice can also be read as a remarkably discerning contribution to the Western discourse on justice.

Hardcover 2006

Typography

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

Edited by Christopher Fynsk

Jacques Derrida

The relationships between philosophy and aesthetics and between philosophy and politics are especially pressing issues today. Those who explore these themes will applaud the publication--for the first time in English--of this important collection, one that reveals the scope and force of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's reflections on mimesis, subjectivity, and representation in philosophical thought.

Hardcover 1989

Understanding the Infinite

Shaughan Lavine

How can the infinite, a subject so remote from our finite experience, be an everyday tool for the working mathematician? Blending history, philosophy, mathematics, and logic, Shaughan Lavine answers this question with exceptional clarity. Making use of the mathematical work of Jan Mycielski, he demonstrates that knowledge of the infinite is possible, even according to strict standards that require some intuitive basis for knowledge.

Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1998

Understanding the Sick and the Healthy

Franz Rosenzweig

Translated by Nahum Glatzer

Franz Rosenzweig, one of the century's great Jewish thinkers, wrote his gem of a book in 1921 as a more accessible précis of his famous Star of Redemption. An elegant introduction to Rosenzweig's "new thinking," Understanding the Sick and the Healthy was written for a lay audience and takes the form of an ironic narrative about convalescence. With superb simplicity and beauty, it puts forth an important critique of the nineteenth-century German Idealist philosophical tradition and expresses a powerful vision of Jewish religion.

Paperback 1999

The Unity of Reason

Dieter Henrich

Edited and with an introduction by Richard Velkley

Hardcover

Utilitarian Confucianism

Hoyt Cleveland Tillman

Hardcover 1982

Utopian Thought in the Western World

Frank E. Manuel

Fritzie P. Manuel

The authors have structured five centuries of utopian invention by identifying successive constellations, groups of thinkers joined by common social and moral concerns. Within this framework they analyze individual writings, in the context of the author's life and of the socio-economic, religious, and political exigencies of his time.

Hardcover 1979 / Paperback 1982

Value in Ethics and Economics

Elizabeth Anderson

Elizabeth Anderson offers a new theory of value and rationality that rejects cost-benefit analysis in our social lives and in our ethical theories. This account of the plurality of values thus offers a new approach, beyond welfare economics and traditional theories of justice, for assessing the ethical limitations of the market.

Hardcover 1993 / Paperback 1995

Varieties of Moral Personality

Owen Flanagan

Owen Flanagan argues in this book for a more psychologically realistic ethical reflection and spells out the ways in which psychology can enrich moral philosophy.

Hardcover 1991 / Paperback

Varieties of Religion Today

Charles Taylor

A hundred years after William James delivered the celebrated lectures that became The Varieties of Religious Experience, one of the foremost thinkers in the English-speaking world returns to the questions posed in James's masterpiece to clarify the circumstances and conditions of religion in our day. An elegant mix of the philosophy and sociology of religion, Charles Taylor's powerful book maintains a clear perspective on James's work in its historical and cultural contexts, while casting a new and revealing light upon the present.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2003

Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2, 1927-1934

Walter Benjamin

Series edited by Michael W. Jennings

This volume brings together previously untranslated writings on major figures such as Brecht, Valéry and Gide, and on subjects ranging from film, radio, and the novel to memory, kitsch, and the theory of language. We find the manifoldly inquisitive Benjamin musing on the new modes of perception opened tip by techniques of photographic enlargement and cinematic montage, on the life and work of & Goethe at Weimar, on the fascination of old toys and the mysteries of food, and on the allegorical significance of Mickey Mouse.

Hardcover 1999

Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 3, 1935-1938

Walter Benjamin

Edited by Howard Eiland

Edited by Michael W. Jennings

Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie--such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930s. This volume, the third in a four-volume set, offers twenty-seven brilliant pieces, nineteen of which have never before been translated.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2006

The Will to Believe

William James

Edited by Frederick Burkhardt

Edited by Fredson Bowers

Edited by Ignas K. Skrupskelis

Introduction by Edward H. Madden

Hardcover 1979

Wise Choices, Apt Feelings

Allan Gibbard

Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1992

Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language

Saul A. Kripke

In this book Saul Kripke brings his powerful philosophical intelligence to bear on Wittgenstein's analysis of the notion of following a rule.

Hardcover 1982 / Paperback 1984

Words and Life

Hilary Putnam

James Conant

Words and Life offers a sweeping account of the sources of several of the central problems of philosophy, past and present. A unifying theme of the volume is that reductionism, scientism, and old-style disenchanted naturalism tend to be obstacles to philosophical progress. The sweep of the problems considered here comprehends all the fundamental areas of contemporary analytic philosophy.

Paperback 1995 / Hardcover