Arthur Schopenhauer 
Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings [PDF 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 …

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 …

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. …

The self for Kant is something real, and yet is neither appearance nor thing in itself, but rather has some third status. Appearances for Kant arise in space and time where these are respectively for …

Logic has acquired a reputation for difficulty, perhaps because many of the approaches adopted have been more suitable for mathematicians than computer scientists. This book shows that the subject is …

Q: Why do organisms need cognition? A: To get information about their environments. Q: Why such information? A: Because organisms need to guide their behaviors to goals. Q: Why guidance? A: Because i …

Dewey»s students at Columbia saw him as ‘an Aristotelian more Aristotelian than Aristotle himself.’ However, until now, there has been little consideration of the influence Greek thought had on the …

At the time of his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was widely acclaimed as one of the world»s most influential contemporary thinkers. Stanley Cavell, who has been a leading intellectual figure from the …

A live issue in anthropology and development studies, humanism is not typically addressed by analytic philosophers. Arguing for humanism as a view about truths, Humanism and Embodiment insists that d …