Christopher Janaway 
Schopenhauer: ‚The World as Will and Representation‘: Volume 1 [EPUB ebook] 

On Memory, Marriage, Tears, and Meditation offers readers the tools for reading Augustine“s journey to human emotions through his writings on feeling, marriage, conversion, and meditation. Augustine …

Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology provides a philosophical examination of what has been called the most powerful metaphor in biology: The machine metaphor. The chapter …

The enduring assumption that human behaviour is governed by innate morality and reason is at odds with the persistence of human deprivation, injustice, brutality, inequality and conflict. This book o …

How did Nietzsche and Sartre come to represent alternative modes of philosophy as antithetical thinkers? What exactly is their philosophical connection and how far does it extend? Tracing the connect …

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is widely held to be one of the most important thinkers in the history of philosophy. His contributions to ethics, political philosophy and psychology in particular were hug …

“Nagel and Newman accomplish the wondrous task of clarifying the argumentative outline of Kurt Godel“s celebrated logic bomb.“ – The Guardian In 1931 the mathematical logician Kurt Godel published …

Charles Sanders Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, is a hugely important and influential thinker in the history of American philosophy. His philosophical interests were broad and he made significant …

Is knowing a purely passive reception of something concrete outside the mind, or when we know something, are we creating something too? Spanning more than 500 years of philosophical enquiry from the …

Foucault and Latin America is the first volume to tracethe influence of Foucault“s theories on power, discourse, government, subjectivity and sexuality in Latin Americanthought. …

In the 18th century, the pre-modern Judeo-Greco-Christian problem of freedom and determinism is transformed by Kant into the modern problem of the freedom of human agency in the natural and cultural …