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Alhacen's Theory of Visual Perception (First Three Books of Alhacen's De Aspectibus), Volume Two - English Translation (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society)

A. Mark Smith

Alhacen's Theory of Visual Perception (First Three Books of Alhacen's De Aspectibus), Volume Two - English Translation (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society)...

Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment

Robert Brandom

Review Making It Explicit has already developed a justified reputation as a major contribution to the philosophy of langu...

Early Philosophical Shiism: The Ismaʿili Neoplatonism of Abū Yaʿqūb al-Sijistānī

Paul E. Walker

Book Description This is the first book-length study of the ideas and teachings of the leading tenth-century Ismaili theo...

Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche and Dostoevsky

John Carroll

Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche and Dostoevsky...

The Nihilistic Egoist: Max Stirner

R. W. K. Paterson

The Nihilistic Egoist: Max Stirner...

Aristotle and Other Platonists

Lloyd P. Gerson

From the Back Cover "This wide-ranging and deeply learned book casts a challengingly heterodox, and often convincing, lig...

Buddha in the palm of your hand

Donna Holm, Ösel Tendzin

About the Author Ösel Tendzin (1943–1990) was the Vajra Regent and a main student of Chögyam Trungpa. ...

Groundwork of Philosophy of Religion

David A. Pailin

Groundwork of Philosophy of Religion...

Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science (Contemporary Debates in Philosophy)

Robert J. Stainton

Review "Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science is an excellent introduction to debates in the philosophy of cognitive ...

Quantifiers, Questions and Quantum Physics: Essays on the Philosophy of Jaakko Hintikka

Daniel Kolak, John Symons

From the Back Cover Jaakko Hintikka is one of the most creative figures in contemporary philosophy. He has made significa...

The Act of Creation (Arkana)

Arthur Koestler

The Act of Creation (Arkana)...

Die Runen der Erde. Die letzte Chronik von Thomas Covenant Band 1

Stephen R. Donaldson

Die Runen der Erde. Die letzte Chronik von Thomas Covenant Band 1...

Der Ring der Kraft. Die Chroniken von Thomas Covenant 6

Stephen R. Donaldson

Der Ring der Kraft. Die Chroniken von Thomas Covenant 6...

Elementargrammatik mit Rechtschreibung und Zeichensetzung

Gerhard Schoebe

Elementargrammatik mit Rechtschreibung und Zeichensetzung...

The Trinitarian Axiom of Karl Rahner: The Economic Trinity Is the Immanent Trinity and Vice Versa

Dennis W. Jowers

Review "... no previous author has identified [Rahner's anti-propositionalism] so sharply nor traced its implications for...

Wege der Wissenschaft: Einführung in die Wissenschaftstheorie

Alan F. Chalmers

Review Aus den Rezensionen zur 6. Auflage: "… Dieser überaus erfolgreichen Darstellung von Wissenschaf...

Quantifying Music: The Science of Music at the First Stage of Scientific Revolution 1580-1650 (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science)

H.F. Cohen

Review `Quantifying Music appears to represent a high level of scholarship. THe author used entirely original sources an...

Demanding the Impossible?: Human Nature and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Social Anarchism (Anarchist Studies)

David Morland

Demanding the Impossible?: Human Nature and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Social Anarchism (Anarchist Studies)...

Knowledge

Keith Lehrer

Knowledge...

Perception and the Physical World: Psychological and Philosophical Issues in Perception

Dieter Heyer, Rainer Mausfeld

From the Back Cover How can we conceive of the relation between the available sensory input and our perceptual achievemen...

The Logical Foundations of Cognition

Gonzalo E. Reyes, John Macnamara

About the Author John Macnamara, Professor of Psychology, McGill University. Gonzalo E. Reyes, Professor of Mathematics,...

Autonomous Agents: From Self-Control to Autonomy

Alfred R. Mele

Review "Mele's presentation is philosophically rigorous yet accessible to the non-philosopher. The author demonstrates an...

The Discovery of the Mind in Greek Philosophy and Literature

Bruno Snell

Language Notes Text: English, German (translation) ...

Stability and Justification in Hume's Treatise

Louis E. Loeb

About the Author Louis Loeb is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His publicatio...

Quei temerari sulle macchine volanti. Piccola storia del volo e dei suoi avventurosi interpreti

Paolo Magionami

From the Back Cover Il volume ripercorre la storia del volo, soffermandosi sui personaggi che ne hanno caratterizzato le ...

Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake

Northrop Frye

Review A magnificent, extraordinary book. . . . Several great poets have written of Blake, but this book is the first to ...

The Philosophy of the Limit

Drucilla Cornell

Review This book is a major intellectual event. Nothing is more necessary and timely today than thinking through the poss...

Eurocentrism, Second Edition

Samir Amin

Review This book is a provocative and compelling critical account of the historical, ideological, political, and economic...

Starting with Wittgenstein

Chon Tejedor

About the Author Chon Tejedor is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, UK. > ...

Wittgenstein: A Guide for the Perplexed

Mark Addis

Review 'I have read the manuscript with increasing admiration. I think this a very successful attempt to provide a concis...

Criticism and Truth

Roland Barthes

From Library Journal Written in 1966 in response to an attack on Barthes's Sur Racine , this polemic answers many of the ...

Starting with Descartes

C. G. Prado

Review "Prado skillfully weaves together virtually the entire Western philosophical tradition, while illuminating Descart...

Duns Scotus and the Problem of Universals

Todd Bates

About the Author Todd Bates is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Bethune Cookman Univer...

Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge

Karl Popper, Gerard Radnitzky, W. W. Bartley

Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge...

Introducing Nietzsche

Laurence Gane

Review "'Introducing is a miracle of modern publishing... buy one now.' Don Patterson, Guardian" --This text refers to ...

Introducing Critical Theory

Borin Van Loon, Stuart Sim

About the Author Borin Van Loon has worked on numerous Introducing titles. He is a freelance illustrator, surrealist pain...

Introducing Baudrillard

Chris Horrocks

About the Author Christopher Horrocks is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Design at Kingston University. His previous bo...

Spinoza and the Stoics: Power, Politics and the Passions

Firmin Debrabander

Review Mentioned in The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 23 2007, volume LIII, No. 29. "Although the link between Spi...

Deleuze and the Political

Paul Patton

Review 'An impressive achievement. Paul Patton provides a meticulous account of the French philosopher and some time coll...

The philosophy of medicine: framing the field

H. Tristram Engelhardt

The philosophy of medicine: framing the field...

How to Be an Existentialist or How to Get Real, Get a Grip and Stop Making Excuses

Gary Cox

Review 'Think of it as a serious self-help book for the perplexed ... an absorbing book ... I found it a stimulating read...

Religion and violence: philosophical perspectives from Kant to Derrida

Hent De Vries

Review One cannot but be impressed by the acumen and erudition of Hent de Vries' Religion and Violence, which is a very fi...

Hegel and Theology

Martin J. De Nys

About the Author Martin J. De Nys is Associate Professor of Philosophy at George Mason University, Virginia, U.S.A. He re...

Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text

Daniel W. Smith, Charles J. Stivale, Eugene W. Holland

About the Author Eugene W. Holland is Professor of French and Comparative Studies at Ohio State University, USA. His prev...

Sartre's Phenomenology

David Reisman

Review "enormously though-provoking...I am certain that this book will, and should, provoke a good deal of discussion amo...

Crescas' Critique of Aristotle: Problems of Aristotle's Physics in Jewish and Arabic Philosophy (Harvard Semitic Series)

Harry Austryn Wolfson

Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: Hebrew About the Author Harry Austryn Wolfson was ...

The Letters of David Hume: Volume 2

J. Y. T. Greig

About the Author John Young Thomson Greig was a British literary scholar and award-winning biographer. He was born in Man...

The Letters of David Hume: Volume 1

J. Y. T. Greig

About the Author John Young Thomson Greig was a British literary scholar and award-winning biographer. He was born in Man...

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