History of Western Philosophy

During the phony war that preceded the invasion of France, between late 1939 and the summer of 1940, the young Jean-Paul Sartre was stationed in hi...

Kant and Applied Ethics makes an important contribution to Kant scholarship, illuminating the vital moral parameters of key ethical debates. Offer...

This book gives a critical assessment of key developments in contemporary French philosophy, highlighting the diverse ways in which recent French t...

Alain Badiou was born in 1937 in Rabat and Jean-Claude Milner in 1941 in Paris. They were both involved in the Red Years at the end of the Sixties ...

Bertrand Russell, the recipient of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature, was one of the most distinguished, influential, and prolific philosophers o...

This volume deals with a number of topics that have not previously been specifically addressed before in a single text. A chapter on Sartre and rel...

Berkeley is popular in the philosophical tradition as the philosopher who denied the existence of matter in favour of spiritual substance. His esse...

Saikat Guha (19742008) wrote prolifically on many topics. Trained as a philosopher and physicist, Guha was interested in topics ranging from sexual...

No philosopher in the second half of the twentieth century or the opening decade of the twenty-first did more to recover the voice of philosophy in...

This volume presents three sets of papers discussing the medieval problem of singular cognition, nominalist epistemology, and the metaphysics of th...

Understanding Kants pre-critical philosophy is central to appreciating his three critiques. Overshadowed by the critiques, the early work stands on...

The philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel is certainly one of the richest and most complex philosophical endeavours in the history of Western thought. Hegelia...

This anthology provides a set of distinctive selections that explore both Western and Eastern views of lying and truthfulness, including selections...