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

Our culture entertains a schizophrenic attitude towards human nature. On the one hand, egoism is held to be our most powerful motive, playing a crucial cultural role by explaining the appeal of capit …

In Time and Death Carol White articulates a vision of Martin Heidegger »s work which grows out of a new understanding of what he was trying to address in his discussion of death. Acknowledging that t …

Confucian Ethics in Western Discourse brings Chinese philosophers into dialogue with contemporary moral philosophers, identifying how ancient Chinese philosophy can contribute to Western discussions …

Buddhism or Buddhisms? By the time they move on to Buddhism in Japan, many students who have studied its origins in India ask whether this is in fact the same religion, so different can they appear. …

This commentary records, through notes taken by Hermias, Syrianus » seminar on Plato »s Phaedrus, one of the world »s most influential celebrations of erotic beauty and love. It is the only Neoplaton …

Defending pacifism against the charge that it is naïvely utopian, Transformative Pacifism offers a critical theory of the existing world order, and points in the direction of concrete ethical and pol …

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman offers a general audience access to over six decades of insight and expertise from a Nobel Laureate in an accessible and interesting way. Kahneman’s work fo …

One of the most fruitful interdisciplinary boundaries in contemporary scholarship is that between philosophy and cognitive science. Now that solid empirical results about the activities of the human …

Robyn Dawes defines irrationality as adhering to beliefs that are inherently self-contradictory, not just incorrect, self-defeating, or the basis of poor decisions. Such beliefs are unfortunately com …