Western Philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900

Philosophy begins with wonder, according to Plato and Aristotle. Yet Plato and Aristotle did not expand a great deal on what precisely wonder is. D...

Paul L. Holmer (1916-2004) was one of the most significant American students of Kierkegaard of his generation. Although written in the 1950s and 19...

How is it possible to arrive at valid conclusions about a mind-independent world through reflection on the necessary conditions of experience and i...

Are human beings purely material creatures, or is there something else to them, an immaterial part that does some (or all) of the thinking, and mig...

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...

When for the first time I saw the evening rise with its red and gray softened in the Naples sky, Nietzsche wrote, it was like a shiver, as though p...

Giambattista Vico (16681744) is best remembered for his major work, the New Science (Scienza nuova), in which he sets forth the principles of human...

This title introduces students to the context, key themes and influence of Schopenhauer's major work, a key text in 19th Century German thought. Sc...

This title presents an introduction to the influence of Kant's though on theology and the response from theology. The philosophy of Kant is widely ...

This title presents an introduction to the influence of Kant's though on theology and the response from theology. The philosophy of Kant is widely ...

This title introduces students to the life, work and ideas of Gottfried Leibniz, taking the reader new to the subject through the key themes of his...

This title presents a new introduction to Mill, guiding the student through the key concepts of his work by examining the overall development of hi...

This book presents a new introduction to Hume, guiding the student through the key concepts of Hume's work by examining the overall development of ...

Though few might think to connect the two figures, Ralph Waldo Emerson was an important influence on Friedrich Nietzsche. Specifically, Emerson pla...

Ruth Boeker offers a new perspective on Locke's account of persons and personal identity by considering it within the context of his broader philos...

This illustrated edition of Walden features 66 photographs by Herbert W. Gleason, one of the great American landscape photographers of the nineteen...

A provocative reassessment of Heideggers critique of German Idealism from one of the traditions foremost interpreters. Heidegger claimed that Weste...

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? Wh...

Telling the story of three overlooked revolutionary thinkers, Liberty in Their Names explores the lives and works of Olympe de Gouges, Sophie de Gr...