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Swift’s Politics
Modern scholarship has represented Jonathan Swift as both an Old Whig and a non-Jacobite Tory. Ian Higgins’ contextual reassessment of Swift’s...
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The Cambridge Companion to Keynes
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) was the most important economist of the twentieth century. He was also a philosopher who wrote on ethics and the...
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Scientific Method in Ptolemy’s Harmonics
The science called harmonics was one of the major intellectual enterprises of Greek antiquity. Ptolemy’s treatise seeks to invest it with new...
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Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in France, 1760–1820
In this discerning study of sentimental discourse of the late eighteenth century, David J. Denby sheds new light on Enlightenment thought and...
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Rousseau: The Sentiment of Existence
Rousseau is often portrayed as an educational and social reformer whose aim was to increase individual freedom. In this volume David Gauthier...
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The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy
In this volume Smith examines the early modern science of generation, which included the study of animal conception, heredity, and fetal development....
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Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton
The figure of the puritan has long been conceived as dour and repressive in character, an image which has been central to ways of reading sixteenth-...
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The Cambridge Companion to Keynes
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) was the most important economist of the twentieth century. He was also a philosopher who wrote on ethics and the...
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Reasoning in Biological Discoveries
Reasoning in Biological Discoveries brings together a series of essays which focus on one of the most heavily debated topics of scientific discovery...
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Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body
Anna Krugovoy Silver examines the ways nineteenth-century British writers used physical states of the female body - hunger, appetite, fat and...
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Rousseau: The Sentiment of Existence
Rousseau is often portrayed as an educational and social reformer whose aim was to increase individual freedom. In this volume David Gauthier...
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Defending Einstein
Hans Reichenbach, a philosopher of science who was one of five students in Einstein’s first seminar on the general theory of relativity, became...
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The English Fable
Between 1651 and 1740 hundreds of fables, fable collections, and biographies of the ancient Greek slave Aesop were published in England. In The...
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The Household as the Foundation of Aristotle’s Polis
Among ancient writers Aristotle offers the most profound analysis of the ancient Greek household and its relationship to the state. The household was...
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Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology
How can the discoveries made in the biological sciences play a role in a discussion on the foundation of ethics? This book responds to this question...
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Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature
Although fairies are now banished to the realm of childhood, these diminutive figures were central to the work of many Victorian painters, novelists,...
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The Tasks of Philosophy: Selected Essays
How should we respond when some of our basic beliefs are put into question? What makes a human body distinctively human? Why is truth an important...
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The Emergence of Probability
Historical records show that there was no real concept of probability in Europe before the mid-seventeenth century, although the use of dice and...
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Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust
This book addresses the issues of collecting, consuming, classifying and describing the curiosities, antiques and objets d’art that proliferated in...
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The Tasks of Philosophy: Selected Essays
How should we respond when some of our basic beliefs are put into question? What makes a human body distinctively human? Why is truth an important...
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The Emergence of Probability
Historical records show that there was no real concept of probability in Europe before the mid-seventeenth century, although the use of dice and...
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Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature
This book confronts a significant paradox in the development of literary realism: the very novels that present themselves as purveyors and celebrants...
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Kierkegaard and Socrates
This volume is a study of the relationship between philosophy and faith in Søren Kierkegaard’s Philosophical Fragments. It is also the first book...
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The Cognitive Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions became the most widely read book about science in the twentieth century. His terms ‘paradigm’...
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