History of Western Philosophy

The texts in these four volumes deal with the history and philosophy of mathematics and its applications. The first three volumes are devoted to th...

Wissenschaftliche Mathematik ist eine der wichtigsten Kulturleistungen des antiken Griechenland. Doch wann und wo genau hatte sie ihren Ursprung? D...

First published posthumously in 1782 from an unfinished manuscript, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker continues Rousseau's exploration of the sou...

A translation based on the Latin text of the Leonine edition.The Quaestiones Disputatae de Veritate constitutes Aquinas's most extended treatment o...

This volume is an impressive tour de force. It is state-of-the-art Aristotle: it employs the most recent philological, philosophical, and logical a...

First published in French in 1907, Henri Bergsons Lévolution créatrice is a scintillating and radical work by one of the great French philosophers ...

This book provides a critical edition as well as a French translation of the Doubts About Galen, a polemical treatise written by Ab Bakr al-Rz, one...

Die antike Philosophie bietet eine differenzierte Diskussion zu akteurs- und handlungstheoretischen Fragen. Die deutschen und englischen Beiträge d...

Die Epitome physica des Nikephoros Blemmydes (1197 nach 1269) gilt als eines der meistverbreiteten Lehrbücher aristotelischer Naturphilosophie in ...

Even those already familiar with Aristotle may be surprised to learn that discussions of theological topics can be found in so many of his works. R...

Das Speculum universale des Radulfus Ardens gilt als der umfangreichste Entwurf einer theologischen Ethik im 12. Jahrhundert. Es bietet eine integr...

Welche Rolle spielt die allegorische Exegese der drei Theologen Homer, Hesiod und Orpheus für die philosophische Systematik des spätantiken Neuplat...

This study contains the first collection of preserved fragments, in Greek and Arabic, of the peripatetic philosopher Boethus of Sidon (first centur...

Across several texts, Epicurus memorably and accessibly summarizes his doctrines. This study systematically analyzes Epicurus acts of summary, ther...

Who is Theophrastus, and why should we care?Once, he was the equal of Plato and Aristotle. Together he and Aristotle invented science. Alone he inv...

A radical shift took place in medieval Europe that still shapes contemporary intellectual life: freeing themselves from the fixed beliefs of the pa...

The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader brings together seminal texts from antiquity to the end of the nineteenth century and makes them ac...

Machiavelli on War offers a comprehensive interpretation of the philosopher-historian's treatment of war throughout his writings, from poems and me...

Philosophers have long distinguished between appearance and reality, and the opposition between a supposedly deceptive surface and a more profound ...

Philosophers have long distinguished between appearance and reality, and the opposition between a supposedly deceptive surface and a more profound ...

When Seneca the Younger turned his back on politics, having previously advised the increasingly volatile Emperor Nero, he became one of Rome's most...

Richard M. Weaver (1910-1963) was one of the leading figures in the post-World War II development of an intellectual, self-conscious conservatism. ...