History of Ideas

In the 21st century knowledge-centered approaches have become increasingly popular in analytic epistemology. Rather than trying to account for know...

Steven Nadler presents a biographical and philosophical study of Louis de La Forge (1632-1666), a medical doctor who was an extremely important, bu...

French philosophy is an internationally celebrated national philosophical tradition, and this Oxford Handbook offers a comprehensive approach to it...

Three early modern philosophers - Spinoza, Leibniz and Hume - understood that minds necessarily involve ideas and patterns of thinking that are not...

Femxphotographers.orgs second publication Mind Over Matter focuses inward. Womens bodies are frequently sexualized while their minds are vilified a...

Gideon Baker provides a gripping genealogy of Western philosophy as a history of questioning. From Socrates to Judith Butler, he reveals the ancien...

This text explores the inner workings of the 'Cliveden Set'. Analysing the political tactics used by the group, this book carefully unpicks the str...

Walter Pater and Persons investigates the vital concept of the Person in the work of Walter Pater, a major influence on late nineteenth- and early ...

Beginning with Sir William Hamilton's revitalisation of philosophy in Scotland in the 1830s, Gordon Graham takes up the theme of George Davie's The...

Provocative and engagingThe array of urgent questions and crises facing our democracy makes one miss Richard Rortys voice: insistent, relentlessly ...

Arguing for the necessity of taking arts contribution to contemporary realism seriously, this edited collection intervenes in contemporary debates ...

Though Descartes never wrote a book specifically devoted to moral philosophy, his thought on ethical matters can be found throughout his correspond...

What is thinking? What does it feel like? What is it good for? Andrea Gadberry looks for answers to these questions in the philosophy of René Desca...