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Human Nature and Historical Knowledge
This book presents a study of the nature and conditions of historical knowledge, conducted through a study of the relevant theories of Hume, Hegel...
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Apuleius: Cupid and Psyche
Apuleius’ story of Cupid and Psyche, the relationship of the human Soul with divine Love, is one of the great allegories of world literature. It...
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The Decipherment of Linear B
The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most...
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The Structure of Emotions
The Structure of Emotions argues that emotion concepts should have a much more important role in the social and behavioural sciences than they now...
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Céline: Journey to the End of the Night
This textbook series is ambitious in scope. It provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity...
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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism
Surveying the beginnings of critical consciousness in Greece and proceeding to the writings of Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic and...
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Natural Agency
From a moral point of view we think of ourselves as capable of responsible actions. From a scientific point of view we think of ourselves as animals...
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Propositional Attitudes
This book makes a stimulating contribution to the philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. It begins with a spirited defence of the view that...
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A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility
David Armstrong’s book is a contribution to the philosophical discussion about possible worlds. Taking Wittgenstein’s Tractatus as his point of...
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The Empire of Chance
The Empire of Chance tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life over the last three...
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The Mundane Matter of the Mental Language
Christopher Maloney offers an explanation of the fundamental nature of thought. He posits the idea that thinking involves the processing of mental...
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Demystifying Mentalities
If faraway peoples have different ideas from our own, is this because they have different mentalities? Did our remote ancestors lack logic? The...
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The Chain of Change
The Chain of Change is a philosophical commentary devoted to Aristotle’s Physics VII, in which Aristotle argues for the existence of a first,...
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Experiment, Right or Wrong
In Experiment, Right or Wrong, Allan Franklin continues his investigation of the history and philosophy of experiment presented in his previous book,...
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The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
This is one of the most important books on quantum mechanics to have appeared in recent years. It offers a dramatically new interpretation that...
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The Neglect of Experiment
What role have experiments played, and should they play, in physics? How does one come to believe rationally in experimental results? The Neglect of...
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Comparative Criticism
This volume explores a theme that has become central in our time, as the death of God is widely seen to be succeeded by ‘the death of Man’. Our...
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Forgiveness and Mercy
This book focuses on the degree to which certain moral and legal doctrines are rooted in specific passions that are then institutionalized in the...
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