John Cottingham 
Rene Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy [PDF ebook] 
With Selections from the Objections and Replies

First published in 2000. Starting with Kripke”s quotation on intuitive content being philosophic evidence, in this essay, the author aims to demonstrate how contemporary philosophy relies on intuiti …

The Platonic tradition affords extraordinary resources for thinking about the meaning and value of work. In this historical survey of the tradition, Jeffrey Hanson draws on the work of its major thin …

Thinking Reeds is an evocative collection of contemplations, delving into the vast tapestry of human existence and the intricacies of our emotional landscapes. Through ‘Thoughts, ‘ ‘Second Thoughts, …

How does one start with Derrida? In this exciting and accessible book, Sean Gaston presents a new kind of introduction to Jacques Derrida, arguably the most important and influential European th …

What is the self? Is it the impregnable cogito of Descartes or the shattered self of Nietzsche? Or has it become serendipitously constituted from pieces of fairy tales and novels, childhood comics an …

Alienation After Derrida rearticulates the Hegelian-Marxist theory of alienation in the light of Derrida”s deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence. Simon Skempton aims to demonstrate in what w …

A comprehensive survey of the current context and ethical implications of human-nonhuman genetic combinations. The idea of human-nonhuman combinations has been a recurrent theme throughout the histor …

After tracing the history of psychology at Iowa, the contributors reflect on the institution”s leadership role in the development of the discipline, describe its long tradition of significant theore …

Life is a constant search for meaning, and reflective minds need to find deeper and more comprehensive meaning than that normally proffered by the orthodox teaching of any creedal religion. When this …

Originally published in 1967. This is an examination of warrant statements – statements which indicated something about the grounds on behalf of some further judgement, choice or action. The first pa …