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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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Writing and European Thought 1600–1830
Writing and European Thought 1600–1830 argues for the central importance of writing to conceptions of language, technological progress, and Western...
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Shakespeare and Theatrical Patronage in Early Modern England
During the past quarter of a century, the study of patronage-theatre relations in early modern England has developed considerably. This, however, is...
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The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy
The philosophy of Immanuel Kant is the watershed of modern thought, which irrevocably changed the landscape of the field and prepared the way for all...
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The Design Inference
The design inference uncovers intelligent causes by isolating their key trademark: specified events of small probability. Just about anything that...
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Aestheticism and Sexual Parody 1840–1940
This original and provocative study discusses the work of a number of authors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in order to argue that...
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Shakespeare’s Victorian Stage
This book explores the revivals of Shakespeare’s history plays during the Victorian period, as staged by the famous actor-manager Charles Kean....
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The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy
The philosophy of Immanuel Kant is the watershed of modern thought, which irrevocably changed the landscape of the field and prepared the way for all...
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Is Nature Enough?
Is nature all there is? John Haught examines this question and in doing so addresses a fundamental issue in the dialogue of science with religion....
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Epicurus and Democritean Ethics
The Epicurean philosophical system has enjoyed much scrutiny, but the question of its philosophical ancestry remains largely neglected. It has often...
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Jane Austen and the Theatre
Jane Austen was fascinated by theatre from her childhood. As an adult she went to the theatre whenever opportunity arose. Scenes in her novels often...
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Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Empire
During the nineteenth century the performance of Shakespeare’s plays contributed significantly to the creation of a sense of British nationhood at...
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Is Nature Enough?
Is nature all there is? John Haught examines this question and in doing so addresses a fundamental issue in the dialogue of science with religion....
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Galen: On Diseases and Symptoms
Galen’s treatises on the classification and causation of diseases and symptoms are an important component of his prodigious oeuvre, forming a...
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Swift’s Parody
Jonathan Swift’s prose has been discussed extensively as satire, but its major structural element, parody, has not received the attention it...
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Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder
Playwrights throughout history have used the emotion of wonder to explore the relation between feeling and knowing in the theatre. In Shakespeare and...
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Linguistic Turns in Modern Philosophy
This book traces the linguistic turns in the history of modern philosophy and the development of the philosophy of language from Locke to...
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Science and Ethics
In Science and Ethics, Bernard Rollin examines the ideology that denies the relevance of ethics to science. Providing an introduction to basic...
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