In this study Dr. Gregory examines how Diderot borrowed from Lucretius, Buffon, Maupertuis, and probability theory, and combined ideas from …
The philosophy of Immanuel Kant is the watershed of modern thought, which irrevocably changed the landscape of the field and …
W. V. Quine is one of the most eminent philosophers alive today. Now in his mid-eighties he has produced a …
Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. …
Presents a synthesis of four areas of modern scientific theory--parallel universes, epistemology, evolution, and universal computation--showing how they are linked …
Imre Lakatos's Proofs and Refutations is an enduring classic, which has never lost its relevance. Taking the form of a …
Realism and the Aim of Science is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper’s Postscript to the Logic of …
Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, "Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have …
In this volume, phenomenologists from the West join hands with specialists from mainland China and Hong Kong to discuss the …
I Edmund Husserl's Logische Untersuchungen is, by any standard and also by nearly common consent, a great philosophical work. Within …
This study proposes a double thesis. The first concerns the Logische Untersuchungen itself. We will attempt to show that its …
The twelve original studies collected in this volume examine different aspects of Edmund Husserl's Logical Investigations. They are authored by …
Reasoning about knowledge—particularly the knowledge of agents who reason about the world and each other's knowledge—was once the exclusive province …
David and Mary Norton present the definitive scholarly edition of Hume's Treatise, one of the greatest philosophical works ever written. …
A compact, coherent introduction to the study of rational belief, this text provides points of entry to such areas of …
Written over the last 18 months of his life and inspired by his interest in G. E. Moore's defense of …
Rush Rhees, a close friend of Wittgenstein and a major interpreter of his work, shows how Wittgenstein's On Certainty concerns …
This radical reading of Wittgenstein's third and last masterpiece, On Certainty , has major implications for philosophy. It elucidates Wittgenstein's …
Ludwig Wittgenstein is arguably the most important philosopher of the twentieth century. In On Certainty he discusses central issues in …
This book sheds unprecedented light on Wittgenstein's third masterpiece, On Certainty , clarifying his thoughts on basic beliefs and rebuttal …
Raymond Tallis's The Explicit Animal (1991) was a passionate attack on attempts to explain human consciousness in purely biological terms. …
This new, revised edition of Kant's Prolegomena, the best introduction to the theoretical side of his philosophy, presents his thought …
This collection of seminal essays on the Prolegomena provides the student of philosophy with an invaluable overview of the issues …
Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in the Early Husserl focuses on the first ten years of Edmund Husserl’s work, from …
What is belief? "Beliefs aim at truth" is the commonly accepted starting point for philosophers who want to give an …
In this new introductory textbook to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Jill Vance Buroker explains the role of this first …
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is arguably the single most important work in western philosophy. The book introduces and assesses: …
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is difficult. Most people will need a guidebook to achieve an adequate understanding of this …
Professor Strawson seeks to detach the true analytical and critical achievement of Kant's work from the unacceptable metaphysics with which …
Kant’s "Critique of Pure Reason" is so outstanding among modern philosophical works, that it can be termed "the" foundation of …
