(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...
Logical pluralism is the view that there is more than one correct logic. This view emerged in a dialectical context in which certain laws of logic were hotly debated by philosophers. According to the pluralist, some rival logics are both correct in...Loe edasi...
This Element explores Wittgensteins critique of private language in the Philosophical Investigations, which presents a series of arguments, suggestions, questions, examples and thought-experiments whose purpose is to undermine the temptation to thi...Loe edasi...
Discusses the central role of models within evolutionary biology, offering an accessible introduction and synthesis of literature in both evolutionary biology and philosophy of models. It highlights how evolutionary biology and philosophy of biology...Loe edasi...
Cosmology and astrophysics provide a unique resource for philosophers of science. This Cambridge Element surveys the existing literature, identifies areas for future research, and highlights how philosophy of cosmology and astrophysics have implicat...Loe edasi...
Integrating Converging Evidence in Behavioral Sciences presents a fresh approach to understanding the landscape of scientific research, particularly within the behavioral sciences.By examining the needs for consistency and coherence...Loe edasi...
Platos Charmides is a rich mix of provocative drama and intricate argument. This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of its disparate elements. Paying close attention to its complex structure, and to the methodology of reading Plato, Raphael...Loe edasi...
This book attempts to situate Platos ethics within his profoundly revisionist metaphysics. It aims to show why Plato makes the keystone of his metaphysical system a normative principle, the Idea of the Good. In doing this, we can see how Platos me...Loe edasi...
This Element explores Kierkegaards Two Ages, his literary review of a contemporary novella, situating it in the context of his other writings from the same period of his life and his cultural/political context. It investigates his reviews analysis...Loe edasi...
From an archaic, unfamiliar and Greek-sounding disease described by the Hippocratics, phrenitis, to meningitis, stress syndrome and delirium: this book takes the reader on a journey through key phases of Western ideas about human physiology and me...Loe edasi...
The goal of human life, according to Plato, Aristotle, and the Bible, is to become as much like god as possible. This book, written in vivid and lucid English, illuminates Greek philosophy by showing how it grows out of ancient Greek religion and ho...Loe edasi...
This Element mentions that the traditional view, non-traditional view, and non-traditional approaches of self-deception are problematic. Self-deception is never accidental or a mistake. Self-deceivers need not benefit from deception, and they need n...Loe edasi...
What are we? Are we, for example, souls, organisms, brains, or something else? This book discusses the main competing accounts of personal ontology that we are either souls, or we are composite physical objects of some sort, and includes a detailed...Loe edasi...
This Element examines the roles and activities of women and their contributions to the Platonic tradition from Platos time, fourth century BCE, through to the sixth century CE. The existing evidence allows us to glimpse a wider pattern of female ph...Loe edasi...
This Element analyzes Kants metaphysics and epistemology of the exact science of nature. It explains his theory of true motion and ontology of matter. In addition, it reconstructs the patterns of evidential reasoning behind Kants foundational doctr...Loe edasi...
This Element explains how various Hindu texts, traditions, and figures have understood the philosophical nuances of karma and rebirth. The Elements primary argumentative aim is to defend the rationality of accepting the truth of karma and rebirth t...Loe edasi...
A lucid guide to humankinds greatest thinkers, from Aristotle to Peter Singer “A primer in human existence: philosophy has rarely seemed so lucid, so important, so worth doing and so easy to enter into. . . . A wonderful introduct...Loe edasi...
Published as Ready, Set, Slow in the United States In the face of burnout, lack of passion and endless to-do lists, what if to achieve more you need to do less? In this accessible guide, Lee Holden shares The Slow Method, princi...Loe edasi...
Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsigs unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme of Pirsigs thought: “Quality”...Loe edasi...
Bergson is rightly considered the philosopher of duration. Has this theory, however, been sufficiently elucidated? Bergson is rightly considered the philosopher of duration. Has this theory, however, been sufficiently elucidated? Is there a d...Loe edasi...
A guiding light amid the worlds chaos and a manual for rejecting materialism, in the form of writings by Japanese Buddhist monksThese simple, inspiring writings by three medieval Buddhist monks offer peace and wisdom amid the worlds...Loe edasi...
The sequel to the global bestseller The Courage To Be Disliked, the Japanese phenomenon in applying twentieth-century psychology to contemporary dilemmas continues with life-changing advice on finding happiness....Loe edasi...
Many consider the nature of human consciousness to be one of the last great unsolved mysteries. Why should the light turn on, so to speak, in human beings at all And how is the electrical storm of neurons under our skull connected wit...Loe edasi...
The Japanese phenomenon that teaches us the simple yet profound lessons required to liberate our real selves and find lasting happiness....Loe edasi...
Almost without anybody noticing, a new cultural paradigm has come center stage, displacing an exhausted and increasingly marginalised postmodernism. Dr. Alan Kirby calls this cultural paradigm digimodernism, a name compri...Loe edasi...
In both a philosophical and a practical work, Clausewitz defines the essential nature of war, debates the qualities of a great commander, assesses the relative strengths of defensive and offensive war, and - in highly controversial passages - consid...Loe edasi...
Offers an imaginative perspective on Aristotelian logic, presenting an exploration of nature, society, and man in light of commonplace events and reexamining concepts of body, mind, change, cause, part, whole, one, and many...Loe edasi...
