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The life and thought of Diogenes the Cynic, an iconoclastic philosopher who pioneered a brash and free-thinking vision of life that inspired the philosophy of Stoicism “A rich, engaging portrait of intellectual fearlessness” (Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer...
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Basic Books
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2025-11-11
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For Bernard Williams, philosophy and history are importantly connected. His work exploits this connection in a number of directions: he believes that philosophy cannot ignore its own history the way science can; that even when engaging with philosophy's history...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-12
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) is famous in mathematics predominantly for his invention of the differential calculus, and in philosophy for his metaphysics of monads and system of pre-established harmony. But at the heart of his thinking in both fields lay his...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-07
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) is famous in mathematics predominantly for his invention of the differential calculus, and in philosophy for his metaphysics of monads and system of pre-established harmony. But at the heart of his thinking in both fields lay his...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-07
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For Bernard Williams, philosophy and history are importantly connected. His work exploits this connection in a number of directions: he believes that philosophy cannot ignore its own history the way science can; that even when engaging with philosophy's history...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-06
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The Clarendon Aristotle Series is designed for both students and professionals. It provides accurate translations of selected Aristotelian texts, accompanied by incisive commentaries that focus on philosophical problems and issues.The volumes in the series have been...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-30
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Why care what Hobbes thought about sex? Contemporary scholars have largely dismissed Hobbes's brief, and somewhat scattered, remarks about gender and sexuality as peripheral to his central concerns. In Hobbes on Sex, the first book-length study of Hobbes's writings on...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-26
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This volume examines the important but, until recently, forgotten work of the British analytic philosopher Margaret Macdonald. Macdonald's career spanned one of the most significant and fascinating periods in the history of analytic philosophy: the pre-war London of...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-26
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We share with the people of the Enlightenment the common experience of profound technical, social, and cultural upheavals. Even back then, many pressing questions of our time were being posed: about the claim to truth in science and politics, about the question of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-09-26
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This book challenges the current consensus about Aristotle’s sources in his account of Thales and the origin of philosophy (Metaphysics A, 983b20– 984a3). The current view is that Aristotle found his information about Thales’ philosophy in an important...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-09-26
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The aim of Kant's Order of Reason is to give an account of Kant's conception of rational agency that clarifies and explains both the scope and nature of such activity, and elucidates the centrality of Kant's account of rational determination for his mature critical...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-17
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As the first monograph to specifically focus on the positive evaluation of belief (doxa) as a crucial concept in Plato’s epistemology, this work contributes significantly to scholarly research by offering a fresh perspective that deepens our understanding of...
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J.B. Metzler
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2025-08-31
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Thus far unpublished even in its original German, Lux intelligibilis. Investigation on the Metaphysics of Light of the Greeks, submitted by Werner Beierwaltes as a doctoral dissertation in 1957, is presented here for the first time in English...
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Springer
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2025-08-28
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This volume examines the important but, until recently, forgotten work of the British analytic philosopher Margaret Macdonald. Macdonald's career spanned one of the most significant and fascinating periods in the history of analytic philosophy: the pre-war London of...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-08-06
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This book presents a collection of essays by prominent young researchers and established scholars on the medieval reception of Aristotle’s Topics in the Latin, Arabic and Hebraic traditions, as well as on its late-ancient sources in Alexander of Aphrodisias and...
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Springer
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2025-07-26
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The Gorgias is one of Plato's most important and interesting dialogues. This book consists of a set of independent but interconnected essays on its philosophical riches. Casey Perin devotes two essays to each of the three major episodes within the dialogue: Socrates'...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-21
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Why care what Hobbes thought about sex? Contemporary scholars have largely dismissed Hobbes's brief, and somewhat scattered, remarks about gender and sexuality as peripheral to his central concerns. In Hobbes on Sex, the first book-length study of Hobbes's writings on...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-16
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The aim of Kant's Order of Reason is to give an account of Kant's conception of rational agency that clarifies and explains both the scope and nature of such activity, and elucidates the centrality of Kant's account of rational determination for his mature critical...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-16
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Oxford Pragmatism uncovers and explores the unrecognized impact of American pragmatism on theOxford linguistic philosophy that thrived from the 1930s to the 1950s, made famous by Gilbert Ryle and J. L Austin. Cheryl Misak argues that Margaret Macdonald, a neglected...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-09
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The Gorgias is one of Plato's most important and interesting dialogues. This book consists of a set of independent but interconnected essays on its philosophical riches. Casey Perin devotes two essays to each of the three major episodes within the dialogue: Socrates'...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-09
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