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  • Practices of Truth in Philosophy

    Historical and Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Pietro Gori, Lorenzo Serini ...
    This volume provides a geographically and historically diverse overview of philosophical traditions that establish a deep connection between truth and practice, or even see truth itself as a kind of practice.Under the label “practices of truth” are subsumed disparate approaches that can be fruitfully brought together to explore the intersections between truth and practice in philosophy as well as ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Mary B. Hesse (1924–2016): Metaphors, Models, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge

    Edited by Pietro Gori ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume explores the work of Mary B. Hesse (1924–2016), a pivotal figure in twentieth-century philosophy of science. At a time when the foundations of an integrated approach to the history and philosophy of science were being established, Hesse, as a female philosopher, offered a distinctive and influential contribution grounded in a post-empiricist understanding of the natural sciences. ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • The Moral Basis of Anarchism

    by Pietro Gori ...
    In this 1904 pamphlet, italian anarchist composer and poet, Pietro Gori considers the moral and ethical evolution of human society from its origins to the present day. Gori challenges the bourgeois media's negative representation of anarchism as synonymous with disorder and violence:  i.e., propaganda by authoritarian institutions and bourgeois vested interest groups intended to demonise ... Read more

    $2.68 USD

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    A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

    by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann ...
    A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced "a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally" (George Simpson, American Sociological Review ).In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and ... Read more

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  • Mind and Cosmos:Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

    Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Mathematics

    A Contemporary Introduction to the World of Proofs and Pictures

    by James Robert Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    In his long-awaited new edition of Philosophy of Mathematics, James Robert Brown tackles important new as well as enduring questions in the mathematical sciences. Can pictures go beyond being merely suggestive and actually prove anything? Are mathematical results certain? Are experiments of any real value?This clear and engaging book takes a unique approach, encompassing non-standard topics such ... Read more

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  • Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism

    by Richard Rorty ...
    The last book by the eminent American philosopher and public intellectual Richard Rorty, providing the definitive statement of his mature philosophical and political views.Richard Rorty’s Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism is a last statement by one of America’s foremost philosophers. Here Rorty offers his culminating thoughts on the influential version of pragmatism he began to articulate ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Natural Law

    The Scientific Ways of Treating Natural Law, Its Place in Moral Philosophy, and Its Relation to the Positive Sciences of Law

    by G. W. F. Hegel, John R. Silber ...
    Translated by T. M. Knox ...
    One of the central problems in the history of moral and political philosophy since antiquity has been to explain how human society and its civil institutions came into being. In attempting to solve this problem philosophers developed the idea of natural law, which for many centuries was used to describe the system of fundamental, rational principles presumed universally to govern human behavior in ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Is Consciousness Everywhere?

    Essays on Panpsychism

    by Philip Goff ...
    This volume, originally a special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, uses the recent writings of Philip Goff as a jumping-off point for discussions of panpsychism — the idea that consciousness is a fundamental and pervasive aspect of our universe that cannot be understood in other, more basic, terms. The contributors to this book explore various issues of panpsychism from the ... Read more

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  • Hegel and the Infinite

    Religion, Politics, and Dialectic

    Edited by Slavoj Žižek, Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Catherine Malabou, Antonio Negri, John D. Caputo, Bruno Bosteels, Mark C. Taylor, and Slavoj Zizek join seven others—including William Desmond, Katrin Pahl, Adrian Johnston, Edith Wyschogrod, and Thomas A. Lewis—to apply Hegel's thought to twenty-first-century philosophy, politics, and religion. Doing away with claims that the evolution of thought and history is at an end, these thinkers safeguard ... Read more

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  • The Mind-Body Problem

    by Jonathan Westphal ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    An introduction to the mind–body problem, covering all the proposed solutions and offering a powerful new one.Philosophers from Descartes to Kripke have struggled with the glittering prize of modern and contemporary philosophy: the mind-body problem. The brain is physical. If the mind is physical, we cannot see how. If we cannot see how the mind is physical, we cannot see how it can interact with ... Read more

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  • Hegel on Self-Consciousness

    Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit

    by Robert B. Pippin ...
    Series series Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
    In the most influential chapter of his most important philosophical work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel makes the central and disarming assertions that "self-consciousness is desire itself" and that it attains its "satisfaction" only in another self-consciousness. Hegel on Self-Consciousness presents a groundbreaking new interpretation of these revolutionary claims, tracing their roots to ... Read more

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