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T.S. Eliot and the Art of Collaboration
Richard Badenhausen examines the crucial role that collaboration with other writers played in the development of T. S. Eliot’s works from the...
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Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy
Adam Smith is the best known among economists for his book, The Wealth of Nations, often viewed as the keystone of modern economic thought. For many...
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Clement of Alexandria
Clement of Alexandria (150–215) lived and taught in the most lively intellectual centre of his day. This book offers a comprehensive account of how...
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Victorian Renovations of the Novel
This study of narrative technique in Victorian novels introduces the concept of narrative annexes whereby unexpected characters, impermissible...
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Hardwired Behavior
This book explores the impact of neuroscience research over the past 20 or more years on brain function as it affects moral decisions. Findings show...
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The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought
This is the first general and comprehensive treatment of the political thought of ancient Greece and Rome ever to be published in English. It begins...
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Ancestry and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
This study addresses the question of why ideas of ancestry and kinship were so important in nineteenth-century society, and particularly in the...
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Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy
This book explores the epistemological and ethical issues at the foundations of environmental philosophy, emphasizing the conservation of...
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Plato’s Lysis
The Lysis is one of Plato’s most engaging but also puzzling dialogues; it has often been regarded, in the modern period, as a philosophical...
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The Teaching of English
For the first time textbooks and other educational writings published in England and America in the three centuries before the ‘modern’ phase of...
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Cognition and the Brain
This volume provides an up to date and comprehensive overview of the philosophy and neuroscience movement, which applies the methods of neuroscience...
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Epicurus on Freedom
In this book, Tim O’Keefe reconstructs the theory of freedom of the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341–271/0 BCE). Epicurus\' theory has...
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New Light on Boswell
Boswell’s Life of Johnson is established as one of the foremost literary biographies in the English language. This collection of new essays,...
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The Methodology of Experimental Economics
The experimental approach in economics is a driving force behind some of the most exciting developments in the field. The ‘experimental...
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Irenaeus of Lyons
Eric Osborn’s book presents a major study of Irenaeus (125–200), bishop of Lyons, who attacked Gnostic theosophy with positive ideas as well as...
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Wordsworth’s Pope
Recent studies of the concepts and ideologies of Romanticism have neglected to examine the ways in which Romanticism defined itself by reconfiguring...
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The Methodology of Experimental Economics
The experimental approach in economics is a driving force behind some of the most exciting developments in the field. The ‘experimental...
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Archytas of Tarentum
Archytas of Tarentum is one of the three most important philosophers in the Pythagorean tradition, a prominent mathematician, who gave the first...
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Women, Nationalism, and the Romantic Stage
In the 1780s and 90s, theatre critics described the stage as a state in political tumult, while politicians invoked theatre as a model for politics...
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Arguments about Arguments
Following an approach that is empirical but not psychological, and dialectical but not dialogical, Maurice Finocchiaro defines concepts such as...
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The Talking Greeks
When considering the question of what makes us human, the ancient Greeks provided numerous suggestions. This book argues that the defining criterion...
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Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England
Speculative investment and the popular novel can be seen as analogous in the early eighteenth century in offering new forms of ‘paper credit’;...
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Making Sense of Heritability
In this book, Neven Sesardic defends the view that it is both possible and useful to measure the separate contributions of heredity and environment...
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Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity
This work brings together Philip van der Eijk’s previously-published essays on the close connections that existed between medicine and philosophy...
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