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Hesiod’s Anvil
This book is about how poets, philosophers, storytellers, and scientists have described motion, beginning with Hesiod, who imagined that the expanse...
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Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor
Sonia Massai’s central claim in this book is that the texts of early printed editions of Renaissance drama, including Shakespeare’s, did not...
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Kant and the Power of Imagination
In this book Jane Kneller focuses on the role of imagination as a creative power in Kant’s aesthetics and in his overall philosophical enterprise....
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Mind and Supermind
Mind and Supermind offers an alternative perspective on the nature of belief and the structure of the human mind. Keith Frankish argues that the...
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Shakespeare Films in the Making
Shakespeare Films in the Making examines the production and reception of five feature-length Shakespeare films from the twentieth century, focusing...
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The Roman Amphitheatre
This is the first book to analyze the evolution of the Roman amphitheatre as an architectural form. Katherine Welch addresses the critical period in...
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An Introduction to Gödel’s Theorems
In 1931, the young Kurt Gödel published his First Incompleteness Theorem, which tells us that, for any sufficiently rich theory of arithmetic, there...
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture
This Companion explores the remarkable variety of forms that Shakespeare’s life and works have taken over the course of four centuries, ranging...
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Unifying Scientific Theories
This book is about the methods used for unifying different scientific theories under one all-embracing theory. The process has characterized much of...
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture
This Companion explores the remarkable variety of forms that Shakespeare’s life and works have taken over the course of four centuries, ranging...
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Making Prehistory
Scientists often make surprising claims about things that no one can observe. In physics, chemistry, and molecular biology, scientists can at least...
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Early Hellenistic Portraiture
Examines the styles and contexts of portrait statues produced during one of the most dynamic eras of Western art, the early Hellenistic age. Often...
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Textual Performances
This important collection brings together leading scholars to examine crucial questions regarding the theory and practice of editing Shakespeare’s...
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Universe or Multiverse?
Recent developments in cosmology and particle physics, such as the string landscape picture, have led to the remarkable realization that our universe...
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Tertullian and the Church
Was Tertullian of Carthage a schismatic? How did he view the Church and its bishops? How did he understand the exercise of authority within the...
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Speech and Performance in Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Plays
David Schalkwyk offers a sustained reading of Shakespeare’s sonnets in relation to his plays. He argues that the language of the sonnets is...
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Representation Reconsidered
Cognitive representation is the single most important explanatory notion in the sciences of the mind and has served as the corner-stone for the...
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The Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean World
The transformation of mathematics from ancient Greece to the medieval Arab-speaking world is here approached by focusing on a single problem proposed...
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Male Friendship in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
Renaissance Humanism developed a fantasy of friendship in which men can be absolutely equal to one another, but Shakespeare and other dramatists...
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Biological Individuality
What makes a biological entity an individual? Jack Wilson shows that past philosophers have failed to explicate the conditions an entity must satisfy...
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Herophilus
Herophilus, a contemporary of Euclid, practiced medicine in Alexandria in the third century B.C., and seems to have been the first Western scientist...
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The Second Part of King Henry IV
Melchiori offers a fresh approach to the text of The Second Part of King Henry IV, which he sees as an unplanned sequel to the First Part, itself a...
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Group Rationality in Scientific Research
Under what conditions is a group of scientists rational? How would rational scientists collectively agree to make their group more effective? What...
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Justice and Generosity
Hegel’s often-echoed verdict on the apolitical character of philosophy in the Hellenistic age is challenged in this collection of essays,...
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