History of Western Philosophy

Aesthetic experience has had a long and contentious history in the Western intellectual tradition. Following Kant and Hegel, a humans interaction w...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

More than two hundred years after the publication of his seminal The World as Will and Representation, Arthur Schopenhauer's influence is still fel...

On the Nature of Love is a translation of Marsilio Ficinos commentary to Platos Symposium. This edition makes Ficinos Tuscan version available to E...

The political thought of Muslim societies is all too often defined in religious terms, in which the writings of clerics are seen as representative ...

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best scholarly research in this flourishing field. The series covers all aspects of medieval ph...

This volume is a collection of original essays dealing with Cartesian themes and problems, especially as these arise in connection with Cartesian n...

Eternity is a unique kind of existence that is supposed to belong to the most real being or beings. It is an existence that is not shaken by the co...

Julia Annas presents a study of Plato's account of the relation of virtue to law: how it developed from the Republic to the Laws, and how his ideas...

What makes for a philosophical classic? Why do some philosophical works persist over time, while others do not? The philosophical canon and diversi...

The first book-length study of the relationship between science and theater during the long eighteenth century in Britain, The Theater of Experimen...

The Discourse on Metaphysics is one of Leibniz´s fundamental works. Written around January 1686, it is the most accomplished systematic expression ...

Does being virtuous make you happy? In this book, Roger Crisp examines the answers to this ancient question provided by the so-called 'British Mora...

Nietzsche is one of the most subversive thinkers of the western philosophical canon. Yet until recently, his ethics has been sidelined within Anglo...

Paul Rateau traces the genesis and development of G.W. Leibniz's treatment of the problem of evil, from his earliest writings through the Essays on...

Uriah Kriegel presents a rich exploration of the philosophy of the great nineteenth-century thinker Franz Brentano. He locates Brentano at the cros...

W. J. Mander presents a history of metaphysics in nineteenth-century Britain. The story focuses on the elaboration of, and differing reactions to, ...

Nicholas D. Smith presents an original interpretation of the Republic, considering it to be a book about knowledge and education. Over the course o...

Anton Wilhelm Amo (c.1703-after 1752) was the first African philosopher in the modern period to write in the European philosophical tradition and s...

The essays in this volume explore those aspects of Kant's writings which concern issues in the philosophy of mind. These issues are central to any ...