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Rethinking Durkheim and his Tradition
This book offers a reassessment of the work of Emile Durkheim in the context of a French philosophical tradition that had seriously misinterpreted...
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Socratic Epistemology
Most current work in epistemology deals with the evaluation and justification of information already acquired. In this book, Jaakko Hintikka instead...
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Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity
The technological achievements of the Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate and excite admiration. But what was the place of technology in their...
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Essays on Kant’s Anthropology
Kant’s lectures on anthropology capture him at the height of his intellectual power. They are immensely important for advancing our understanding...
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Human Evolution and Christian Ethics
Can the origins of morality be explained entirely in evolutionary terms? If so, what are the implications for Christian moral theology and ethics? Is...
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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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Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity
The technological achievements of the Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate and excite admiration. But what was the place of technology in their...
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G. E. Moore’s Ethical Theory
This is a comprehensive study of the ethics of G. E. Moore, the most important English-speaking ethicist of the twentieth century. Moore’s ethical...
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Philosophy of Science
This volume is based on the lectures given in The Royal Institute of Philosophy’s annual lecture series in London for 2005–6. In it leading...
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Richard Wollheim on the Art of Painting
Richard Wollheim is one of the dominant figures in the philosophy of art, whose work has shown not only how paintings create their effects but why...
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Trade in Classical Antiquity
Historians have long argued about the place of trade in classical antiquity: was it the life-blood of a complex, Mediterranean-wide economic system,...
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne, the inventor of the essay, has always been acknowledged as a great literary figure but has never been thought of as a...
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What Spacetime Explains
Graham Nerlich is one of the most distinguished of contemporary philosophers of space and time. Eleven of his essays are here brought together in a...
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The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding
Epistemology has for a long time focused on the concept of knowledge and tried to answer questions such as whether knowledge is possible and how much...
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The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism
If there is a movement or school that epitomizes analytic philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century, it is logical empiricism. Logical...
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Trade in Classical Antiquity
Historians have long argued about the place of trade in classical antiquity: was it the life-blood of a complex, Mediterranean-wide economic system,...
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The Divided Self of William James
This book offers a powerful interpretation of the philosophy of William James. It focuses on the multiple directions in which James’s philosophy...
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Morality in a Technological World
The technological advances of contemporary society have outpaced our moral understanding of the problems that they create. How will we deal with...
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The Creation of Art
Although creativity, from Plato onwards, has been recognized as a topic in philosophy, it has been overshadowed by investigations of the meanings and...
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Roman Women
This book examines the daily lives of Roman women by focusing on the mundane and less celebrated aspects of daily life - family and household, work...
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Hegel and Aristotle
Hegel is, arguably, the most difficult of all philosophers. To find a way into his thought interpreters have usually approached him as though he were...
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The Science of the Struggle for Existence
This book is a sustained examination of issues in the philosophy of ecology that have been a source of controversy since the emergence of ecology as...
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Scientific Essentialism
Scientific Essentialism defends the view that the fundamental laws of nature depend on the essential properties of the things on which they are said...
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Popper, Otto Selz and the Rise Of Evolutionary Epistemology
This book is about Karl Popper’s early writings before he began his career as a philosopher. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate that...
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