History of Western Philosophy

Aristotle is famous for thinking that all our knowledge comes from perception. But it's not immediately clear what this view is meant to entail. It...

Andy Clark is a leading philosopher of cognitive science, whose work has had an extraordinary impact throughout philosophy, psychology, neuroscienc...

Die Geschichte des modernen deutschen Dramas beginnt mit Lessing. Gleichwohl gilt er als Autor, der an einer Schwelle steht: Er bereitet den Klassi...

Sextus Empiricus was the voice of ancient Greek skepticism for posterity. His writings contain the most subtle and detailed versions of the ancient...

This open-access book offers a clear and thorough exploration of Asia's history from an international relations perspective. The book investigates ...

In Nietzsche and the Shadow of God (Nietzsche et lombre de Dieu), his study of Nietzsches integral philosophical corpus, Franck revisits the fundam...

Romantic love is a defining phenomenon in human existence, and an object of heightened interest for literature, art, popular culture, and psycholog...

Most of us are far from perfect in virtue. But even those who come far closer to perfect virtue than most of us--people like Mother Theresa, Martin...

Joseph Butler's The Analogy of Religion (1736) is an important work in terms of its historical influence and its contemporary relevance. In it, B...

Nietzsche's impact on the world of culture, philosophy, and the arts is uncontested, but his political thought remains mired in controversy. By pla...

Although Erasmus is now accepted as a harbinger of liberal trends in mainstream Christian theology, the radical - even subversive - aspects of his ...

This book argues that Aristotle's aporia on time in the Physics figures both as an aporia in the subjective sense of a mental state of perplexity a...

This book offers the first thorough-going account of the covert manuscript dissemination of a pivotal text in the history of early modern philosoph...

This book provides a critical and innovative reassessment of contemporary debate on the human-animal relationship. Starting with a critique of the ...

A compelling account of the continuing legacy of Greek writers and thinkers in the age of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of...

A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next What comes after extinction? Including both prominent and unusual voices in curre...

Why did Greek tragedy and the tragic come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity? And how has this belief affected modern understandin...

The second volume in a landmark commentary on an important and influential work of ancient philosophyThis is the second volume of a groundbreaking ...

In Plato's Socrates on Socrates: Socratic Self-Disclosure and the Public Practice of Philosophy, Anne-Marie Schultz analyzes the philosophical and ...

Over the past few years, scientists and philosophers have discussed the concept of gesture as promising to overcome hyper-intellectualist conceptio...