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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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A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism
Scientific realism is the view that our best scientific theories give approximately true descriptions of both observable and unobservable aspects of...
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The Physical Basis of Predication
In this book about metaphysics the author defends a realistic view of universals, characterizing the notion of universal by considering language and...
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Roman Religion
Examining sites that are familiar to many modern tourists, Valerie Warrior avoids imposing a modern perspective on the topic by using the testimony...
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The Logic of Concept Expansion
The operation of developing a concept is a common procedure in mathematics and in natural science, but has traditionally seemed much less possible to...
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The Correspondence Theory of Truth
This work presents a version of the correspondence theory of truth based on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and Russell’s theory of truth and discusses...
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Roman Religion
Examining sites that are familiar to many modern tourists, Valerie Warrior avoids imposing a modern perspective on the topic by using the testimony...
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Descartes’ Cogito
Perhaps the most famous proposition in the history of philosophy is Descartes’ cogito ‘I think, therefore I am’. Husain Sarkar claims in this...
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The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought
In this book Ron Amundson examines two hundred years of scientific views on the evolution-development relationship from the perspective of...
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Dependence Logic
Dependence is a common phenomenon, wherever one looks: ecological systems, astronomy, human history, stock markets - but what is the logic of...
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Kant on Representation and Objectivity
This book is a study of the second-edition version of the "Transcendental Deduction" (the so-called "B-Deduction"), which is one...
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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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Appearances of the Good
"We desire all and only those things we conceive to be good; we avoid what we conceive to be bad." This slogan was once the standard view...
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Shakespeare and the Nobility
Shakespeare and the Nobility examines, for the first time, how Shakespeare was influenced by the descendants of the aristocratic characters in his...
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The Young Karl Marx
The Young Karl Marx is an innovative and important new study of Marx’s early writings. These writings provide the fascinating spectacle of a...
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Physical Causation
This is a clear account of causation based firmly in contemporary science. Dowe discusses in a systematic way, a positive account of causation: the...
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Uneasy Virtue
The predominant view of moral virtue can be traced back to Aristotle. He believed that moral virtue must involve intellectual excellence. To have...
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Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing
What do we mean when we speak of the late style of a given writer, artist or composer? And what exactly do we mean by \'late Shakespeare\'? Gordon...
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Information and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes
This book is intended to help transform epistemology - the traditional study of knowledge - into a rigorous discipline by removing conceptual...
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Practical Rules
Rules proliferate; some are kept with a bureaucratic stringency bordering on the absurd, while others are manipulated and ignored in ways that injure...
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Shakespeare in Print
Shakespeare in Print is a comprehensive account of Shakespeare publishing and an indispensable research resource. Andrew Murphy sets out the history...
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