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Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy
In a powerful and original contribution to the history of ideas, Hannah Dawson explores the intense preoccupation with language in early-modern...
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Philosophy and Biodiversity
This important collection focuses on the nature and importance of biodiversity. The concept is clarified and its intrinsic and instrumental value are...
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Theories of Vagueness
Most expressions in natural language are vague. But what is the best semantic treatment of terms like ‘heap’, ‘red’ and ‘child’? And what...
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Representing Shakespearean Tragedy
Reiko Oya explores theatrical expressions of Shakespearean tragedy in Georgian London and the relations between the representative players of the...
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Aristotle on Truth
Aristotle’s theory of truth, which has been the most influential account of the concept of truth from Antiquity onwards, spans several areas of...
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What Functions Explain
This book offers an examination of functional explanation as it is used in biology and the social sciences, and focuses on the kinds of philosophical...
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The Cambridge Companion to Atheism
In this volume, eighteen of the world’s leading scholars present original essays on various aspects of atheism: its history, both ancient and...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s History Plays
Shakespeare’s history plays, as fresh today as when they were written, are based upon the assumption that time is not simply a destroyer but a...
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Locke’s Philosophy of Language
This book examines John Locke’s claims about the nature and workings of language. Walter Ott proposes an interpretation of Locke’s thesis in...
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The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy
The question of whether biologists should continue to use the Linnaean hierarchy has been a hotly debated issue. Invented before the introduction of...
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The Cambridge Companion to Atheism
In this volume, eighteen of the world’s leading scholars present original essays on various aspects of atheism: its history, both ancient and...
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The First Quarto of King Richard III
Shakespeare’s Richard III presents difficult textual problems. There are 2,000 verbal differences between the text of the first quarto (1597) and...
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Hegel’s Critique of Metaphysics
Hegel’s Science of Logic has received less attention than his Phenomenology of Spirit, but Hegel himself took it to be his highest philosophical...
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Free Logic: Selected Essays
Free logic is an important field of philosophical logic that first appeared in the 1950s. J. Karel Lambert was one of its founders and coined the...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s History Plays
Shakespeare’s history plays, as fresh today as when they were written, are based upon the assumption that time is not simply a destroyer but a...
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Peirce’s Theory of Signs
In this book, T. L. Short corrects widespread misconceptions of Peirce’s theory of signs and demonstrates its relevance to contemporary analytic...
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Darwinism\'s Struggle for Survival
In Darwinism’s Struggle for Survival Jean Gayon offers a philosophical interpretation of the history of theoretical Darwinism. He begins by...
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First Part of King Henry IV
This updated edition offers a strongly theatrical perspective on the origins of Shakespeare’s First Part of King Henry IV and the history of its...
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The Cambridge Companion to Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding
First published in 1689, John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding is widely recognised as among the greatest works in the history of...
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The Nature of Consciousness
In The Nature of Consciousness, Mark Rowlands develops an innovative account of the nature of phenomenal consciousness, one that has significant...
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First Part of King Henry IV
This updated edition offers a strongly theatrical perspective on the origins of Shakespeare’s First Part of King Henry IV and the history of its...
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The Cambridge Companion to Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding
First published in 1689, John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding is widely recognised as among the greatest works in the history of...
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A Physicalist Manifesto
A Physicalist Manifesto is a full treatment of the comprehensive physicalist view that, in some important sense, everything is physical. Andrew...
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Shakespeare and Childhood
This collection offers the first definitive study of a surprisingly underdeveloped area of scholarly investigation, namely the relationship between...
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