Category Archives: History of Ideas

A History of Women’s Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700

This ground-breaking book surveys the history of women’s political thought in Europe from the late medieval period to the early modern era. The authors examine women’s ideas about topics such as the basis of political authority, the best form of … Continue reading

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Hegelian Metaphysics

The great German idealist philosopher G. W. F. Hegel has exerted an immense influence on the development of philosophy from the early 19th century to the present. But the metaphysical aspects of his thought are still under-appreciated. In a series … Continue reading

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The Uses of the Past from Heidegger to Rorty: Doing Philosophy Historically

In this book Robert Piercey asks how it is possible to do philosophy by studying the thinkers of the past. He develops his answer through readings of Martin Heidegger, Richard Rorty, Paul Ricoeur, Alasdair MacIntyre, and other historically-minded philosophers. Piercey … Continue reading

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Mill’s On Liberty: A Critical Guide (Cambridge Critical Guides)

John Stuart Mill’s essay On Liberty, published in 1859, has had a powerful impact on philosophical and political debates ever since its first appearance. This volume of essays covers the whole range of problems raised in and by the essay, … Continue reading

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Philosophy and the Vision of Language (Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy)

Philosophy and the Vision of Language explores the history and enduring significance of the twentieth-century turn to language as a specific object of investigation and resource for philosophical reflection. It traces the implications of the access to language in some … Continue reading

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Fellow-Feeling and the Moral Life

How do our feelings for others shape our attitudes and conduct towards them? Is morality primarily a matter of rational choice, or instinctual feeling? Joseph Duke Filonowicz takes the reader on an engaging, informative tour of some of the main … Continue reading

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Hume’s Morality: Feeling and Fabrication

Rachel Cohon offers an original interpretation of the moral philosophy of David Hume, focusing on two areas. Firstly, his metaethics. Cohon reinterprets Hume’s claim that moral distinctions are not derived from reason and explains why he makes it. She finds … Continue reading

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Husserl’s Constitutive Phenomenology: Its Problem and Promise (Studies in Philosophy)

If Edmund Husserl’s true philosophy lay in his unpublished research manuscripts, as he argues, then it is in these – rather than the “introductions” and fragmentary studies he published during his lifetime – that we may possibly find a systematic … Continue reading

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Theories of Perception in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy (Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind)

Sense perception is one of the classical themes in philosophy. It is traditionally considered a necessary preamble to many important topics, such as the mind-body relationship, consciousness, knowledge, and skepticism. Perception is also a phenomenon which itself raises philosophical questions, … Continue reading

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Ancient Philosophy of the Self (The New Synthese Historical Library)

This collection studies the various ways and conceptual frameworks with which the ancients approached selfhood. What am I, fundamentally, as a reasoning, acting and affected subject, interpreting the world around me, being distinct from others like and unlike me? The … Continue reading

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