(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Feb-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226849140)
A new history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines. We imagine that we are both in control of and controlled by our bodies—autonomous and yet automatic. This entanglement, according to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198940432)
Many philosophers have been gravitating to Iris Murdochs philosophical work in recent years, turning to her ideas and attempting to make use of them in their thinking. Mason suggests that Murdoch is a more original and ambitious thinker than has yet...Loe edasi...
This Element explores Jacques Derridas concept of hauntology and its connection to experimental music. Focusing on the 1960s, it examines how composers like John Cage and Luigi Nono used records and tape in composition. The Element delves into lo...Loe edasi...
Fascinating, insightful, lucidly and entertainingly written A. C. GRAYLING, author of The History of Philosophy Extraordinary, eye-opening, startlingly original CASS R. SUNSTEIN, co-author of Nudge Filled with insigh...Loe edasi...
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Begin Again, a politically astute, lyrical meditation on how ordinary people can shake off their reliance on a small group of professional politicians and assume responsibility for...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674298859)
Harvey C. Mansfield traces the birth of modern political philosophy to Machiavelli’s brief on behalf of rational control of human affairs, which became the basis of liberalism. But Rousseau, Kant, Marx, and Hegel all issued challenges, and finally Ni...Loe edasi...
This Element offers the first comprehensive study of Hegels views on European colonialism. It shows that Hegels accounts of issues like freedom, personhood and the dialectic of lordship and bondage are deeply entangled with his disturbing views on...Loe edasi...
Employs a contemporary medical perspective to explore ancient ideas about the workings of the body, the soul and the mind which underpin the notion of consciousness challenging, thereby, some established ideas about mental illness in antiquity. All...Loe edasi...
A sustained study of Harriet Jacobss as a political philosopher, casting her as major theorist of nature of slavery. Bringing Jacobs into dialogue with Frederick Douglass, the author argues that Jacobss emphasis on sexual abuse and the importance...Loe edasi...
This Element provides a systematic introduction to the multifaceted world of nonmonotonic logics. It explains three central methodologies: formal argumentation, consistent accumulation, and semantic methods. It also reveals connections between the t...Loe edasi...
This book is designed not just for economists but also for students, researchers, and professionals interested in economics as well as in animals and their welfare. It serves as both an introduction and an in-depth exploration of the economics of an...Loe edasi...
This Element describes the development of a Theory of Mind in infancy and early childhood. It reviews the proximal and distal cognitive and social determinants that facilitate early Theory of Mind development. It presents an overview of the main the...Loe edasi...
Like its prequel, this book examines the nature/nurture debate in language, while also asking how language came to be part of our human nature in the course of evolution. Considering the multidisciplinary context of these debates, this book is ess...Loe edasi...
A Seminary Co-op Notable Book“What makes Brown’s book especially well worth reading is her impressive ability to show how key themes in Weber’s scholarship—including his emphasis on the defining characteristics of modernity . . ....Loe edasi...
This Element argues that Kants practical philosophy offers a systematic basis for understanding corporations. It shows their promise and dangers. Corporations bridge the central distinctions of his practical philosophy: ethics versus right, public...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009543873)
Stephen Darwalls philosophical history of ethics is a benchmark contribution to the history of ideas. It offers illuminating new perspectives on the founding members of the continental tradition Fichte, Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche re...Loe edasi...
The Element presents an account of theory-choice in logic, logical predictivism, motivated by actual logical practice, which suggests that the mechanisms of theory-choice in logic are not that different to those in the recognised sciences. This titl...Loe edasi...
Evolutionary theory has found its way into a diversity of fields outside biological sciences. This Element examines how crossovers of evolutionary theory from biology into other fields occur, and how such fields can be considered evolutionary fields...Loe edasi...
