- 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
- 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
- The Development of Florentine Humanist Historiography in the Fifteenth Century
- Donald J. Wilcox
- Hardcover 1969
- 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
- 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
- Return to Reason
- Stephen Toulmin
- Stephen Toulmin argues that the potential for reason to improve our lives has been hampered by a serious imbalance in our pursuit of knowledge. The centuries-old dominance of rationality has diminished the value of reasonableness. Toulmin issues a powerful call to redress the balance between rationality and reasonableness.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003
- Rewiewing Liberty
- Joan S. Bennett
- Hardcover 1988