Jan von Plato 
Creating Modern Probability [PDF ebook] 
Its Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy in Historical Perspective

This book offers a new anthropological understanding of the socio-cosmological and ontological characteristics of the Isthmo-Colombian Area, beyond established theories for Amazonia, the Andes and Me …

The contributors set out to demonstrate the influence of the computer – not just in the philosophy of mind, where the influence has been enormous, but also in epistemology, metaphysics, logic and the …

Written when Maine de Biran was coming into his philosophical maturity, in 1807, “Of Immediate Apperception“ was the first complete statement of his own philosophy of the will. It was the winning e …

What does Heidegger“s controversial notion of the Event mean? Can it be read as an historical prophecy connected to his political affinity with Nazism? And what has this concept to do with the possi …

This book provides a comparative analysis and a systemic categorization of the Populist Radical Left Parties (PRLPs) in Western Europe. Institutional and socio-economic aspects have transformed the p …

This volume explores Nietzsche“s decisive encounter with the ancient philosopher, Epicurus. The collected essays examine many previously unexplored and underappreciated convergences, and investigate …

This book examines from different perspectives the moral significance of non-human members of the biotic community and their omission from climate ethics literature. The complexity of life in an age …

Danilo Facca investigates the contribution of Aristotelianism in the emergence of a system of philosophical disciplines for schools and universities in the late Renaissance and Early Modern age. Facc …

This carefully selected and integrated series of discourses on the central issues of political life presents Robert M. Mac Iver“s views on ethics and politics, society and the state, government and …

The philosopher Abu Nasr al-Farabi (c. 870-c. 950 CE) is a key Arabic intermediary figure. He knew Aristotle, and in particular Aristotle“s logic, through Greek Neoplatonist interpretations translat …