Dennis C. Rasmussen 
Pragmatic Enlightenment [PDF ebook] 
Recovering the Liberalism of Hume, Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire

Edward Urwick’s original work draws upon Plato’s best known work, the Republic, to provide a new interpretation of Plato’s teaching based upon Indian religious thought. Most scholars have sought to i …

First published in 1934. Unlike previous translations, this translation of Lao Tzu”s Tao Tê Ching is based not on the medieval commentaries but on a close study of the whole of early Chinese literat …

Michel Henry (1922-2002) was a French philosopher and novelist whose work spanned decades and genres while remaining united by a singular vision. In this specially commissioned collection, eight inte …

Skepticism remains a central and defining issue in epistemology, and in the wider tradition of Western philosophy. To better understand the contemporary position of this important philosophical subje …

The Ecological Community offers important and previously unexplored responses to the environmental crisis. The premise of this volume, writes editor Roger Gottlieb, is that the environmental crisis c …

Holism maintains that a phenomenon is more than the sum of its parts. Yet analysis–a mental process crucial to comprehension–involves dismantling the whole to grasp it piecemeal and relationally. W …

Freedom and Democracy in an Imperial Context: Dialogues with James Tully gathers leading thinkers from across the humanities and social sciences in a celebration of, and critical engagement with, the …

This introduction to the study of politics explores the multiple meanings of ‘governance’ as well as the several senses of what it means to be a ‘subject.’ It takes the reader on a journey through an …

First published in 2002. This is Volume VI of seventeen in the Philosophy of Mind and Psychology series. Written in 1970, this work is an exercise in constructive philosophy, looking at the subject o …

Work on the norms of belief in epistemology regularly starts with two touchstone essays: W.K. Clifford”s ‘The Ethics of Belief’ and William James”s ‘The Will to Believe.’ Discussing the central the …