Western Philosophy, from c 1900

Representationalism grasps the meaning and grammar of linguistic expressions in terms of reference; that is, as determined by the respective object...

Representationalism grasps the meaning and grammar of linguistic expressions in terms of reference; that is, as determined by the respective object...

This volume is the first collection of articles dedicated to Ludwig Wittgensteins thoughts on colour, focusing in particular onhis so-called Remark...

This volume brings Cassirers work into the arena of contemporary debates both within and outside of philosophy. All articles offer a fresh and cont...

Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is arguably one of the most influential books of the 20th century. It threw a new light on the workings...

Expanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucaults Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and daily life What migh...

Richard Rorty was a seminal figure in philosophy, transforming the discipline during the last quarter of the 20th century and setting it on a new p...

Working from newly available texts in Heidegger's Complete Works, Krzysztof Ziarek presents Heidegger at his most radical and demonstrates how the ...

For centuries it was believed that all matter was composed of four elements: earth, air, water, and fire in promiscuous combination, bound by love ...

Why bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a metaphysics of happiness, or else it...

First published in 1990 as the second part of volume 50 of Heidegger's Complete Works, Introduction to Philosophy presents Heidegger's final lectur...

Economic inequality is one of the most divisive issues of our time. Yet few would argue that inequality is a greater evil than poverty. The poor su...

The latter half of the nineteenth and the early part of the twentieth century witnessed a remarkable resurgence of interest in Kants philosophy in ...

John Dewey was the most celebrated and publicly engaged American philosopher in the twentieth century. His naturalistic theory of experience genera...

William James (1842-1910) was one of the most original and influential American thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As a professor ...

In this carefully crafted collection of essays, Jewish Thought in Dialogue offers creative interpretations of major Jewish texts and as well as ori...

Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Buber were giant thinkers of the twentieth century who made significant contributions to the understanding of rel...

Best known for his pioneering work in theories of self-organization and complexity, the biophysicist and philosopher Henri Atlan has during the pas...

This is the first biography of the last and greatest British idealist philosopher, R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943), a man who both thought and lived ...