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Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority
This book explores how Horace’s poems construct the literary and social authority of their author. Bridging the traditional distinction between...
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In Face of the Facts
Recently there has been a renewed interest in moral inquiry among American scholars in a variety of disciplines. This collection of accessible essays...
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Fighting for Rome
The essays in Fighting for Rome confront the traumatic disjunction between the militarist culture of classical Rome, with its heavy investment in...
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Trust within Reason
Some philosophers hold that trust grows fragile when people become too rational. They advocate a retreat from reason and a return to local,...
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Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians
This book challenges conventional opinion by arguing that slaves and Helots played an important part in classical Greek warfare. Although rival...
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Descartes: The World and Other Writings
Descartes’ The World offers the most comprehensive vision of the nature of the world since Aristotle, and is crucial for an understanding of his...
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Trust within Reason
Some philosophers hold that trust grows fragile when people become too rational. They advocate a retreat from reason and a return to local,...
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Petronius the Poet
The ancient novel, previously relegated to the margins of literary study, has recently taken its place at centre stage. Petronius’ Satyricon, the...
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Descartes: The World and Other Writings
Descartes’ The World offers the most comprehensive vision of the nature of the world since Aristotle, and is crucial for an understanding of his...
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The Subject and the Text
The work of the German philosopher Manfred Frank has profoundly affected the direction of the contemporary debate in many areas of philosophy and...
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Schleiermacher
The founding text of modern hermeneutics. Written by the philosopher and theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher as a method for the interpretation and...
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Language, Thought and Consciousness
Do we think in natural language? Or is language only for communication? Much recent work in philosophy and cognitive science assumes the latter. In...
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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno’s notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome, marked the transition from Renaissance philosophy to the...
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Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals - Series
Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most...
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Samuel Clarke
Samuel Clarke was by far the most gifted and influential Newtonian philosopher of his generation, and A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of...
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Implicature
H. P. Grice virtually discovered the phenomenon of implicature (to denote the implications of an utterance that are not strictly implied by its...
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Contemporary Issues in the Philosophy of Mind
What is the mind? How does it relate to the body and the world? What is consciousness? What is experience? How free are we? Do we have special...
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Language and Thought
What is the place of language in human cognition? Do we sometimes think in natural language? Or is language for purposes of interpersonal...
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Thought and Language
The relationship between thought and language has been of central importance to philosophy ever since Plato characterised thinking as ‘a dialogue...
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The Authority of Reason
This challenging and provocative book argues against much contemporary orthodoxy in philosophy and the social sciences by showing why objectivity in...
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Language and Society
This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Downes’ textbook is an accessible introduction to the social aspects of language and their various...
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Carnap’s Construction of the World
This book is a major contribution to the history of analytic philosophy in general and of logical positivism in particular. It provides the first...
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