Author : Donald Rutherford
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : History
ISBN :
An exploration of one of the most innovative periods in the history of Western philosophy.
Author : Paul Guyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 2006-01-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139827030
The philosophy of Immanuel Kant is the watershed of modern thought, which irrevocably changed the landscape of the field and prepared the way for all the significant philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This 2006 volume, which complements The Cambridge Companion to Kant, covers every aspect of Kant's philosophy, with a particular focus on his moral and political philosophy. It also provides detailed coverage of Kant's historical context and of the enormous impact and influence that his work has had on the subsequent history of philosophy. The bibliography also offers extensive and organized coverage of both classical and recent books on Kant. This volume thus provides the broadest and deepest introduction currently available on Kant and his place in modern philosophy, making accessible the philosophical enterprise of Kant to those coming to his work for the first time.
Author : Donald Rutherford
Publisher :
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 10,95 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy, Modern
ISBN : 9781139827010
Author : Steven Nadler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 40,60 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0470998830
This is a reference for early modern philosophy. Representing the most contemporary research in the history of early modern philosophy, it is organized by thinker rather than theme, and covers every important philosopher and philosophical movement of 16th- and 18th-century Europe.
Author : James Hankins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 49,43 MB
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139827480
The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, published in 2007, provides an introduction to a complex period of change in the subject matter and practice of philosophy. The philosophy of the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries is often seen as transitional between the scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages and modern philosophy, but the essays collected here, by a distinguished international team of contributors, call these assumptions into question, emphasizing both the continuity with scholastic philosophy and the role of Renaissance philosophy in the emergence of modernity. They explore the ways in which the science, religion and politics of the period reflect and are reflected in its philosophical life, and they emphasize the dynamism and pluralism of a period which saw both new perspectives and enduring contributions to the history of philosophy. This will be an invaluable guide for students of philosophy, intellectual historians, and all who are interested in Renaissance thought.
Author : A. A. Long
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 27,30 MB
Release : 1999-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521446679
A 1999 Companion to Greek philosophy, invaluable for new readers, and for specialists.
Author : John Cottingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 36,13 MB
Release : 1992-09-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139824910
Descartes occupies a position of pivotal importance as one of the founding fathers of modern philosophy; he is, perhaps the most widely studied of all philosophers. In this authoritative collection an international team of leading scholars in Cartesian studies present the full range of Descartes' extraordinary philosophical achievement. His life and the development of his thought, as well as the intellectual background to and reception of his work, are treated at length. At the core of the volume are a group of chapters on his metaphysics: the celebrated 'Cogito' argument, the proofs of God's existence, the 'Cartesian circle' and the dualistic theory of the mind and its relation to his theological and scientific views. Other chapters cover the philosophical implications of his work in algebra, his place in the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, the structure of his physics, and his work on physiology and psychology.
Author : Paul Guyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 1992-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139824899
The fundamental task of philosophy since the seventeenth century has been to determine whether the essential principles of both knowledge and action can be discovered by human beings unaided by an external agency. No one philosopher contributed more to this enterprise than Kant, whose Critique of Pure Reason (1781) shook the very foundations of the intellectual world. Kant argued that the basic principles of the natural science are imposed on reality by human sensibility and understanding, and thus that human beings are also free to impose their own free and rational agency on the world. This 1992 volume is the only systematic and comprehensive account of the full range of Kant's writings available, and the first major overview of his work to be published in more than a dozen years. An internationally recognised team of Kant scholars explore Kant's conceptual revolution in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, moral and political philosophy, aesthetics, and the philosophy of religion.
Author : Vere Chappell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 1994-06-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139824961
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. The essays in this volume provide a systematic survey of Locke's philosophy informed by the most recent scholarship. They cover Locke's theory of ideas, his philosophies of body, mind, language, and religion, his theory of knowledge, his ethics, and his political philosophy. There are also chapters on Locke's life and subsequent influence. New readers and non-specialists will find this the most convenient, accessible guide to Locke currently available.
Author : Tom Ricketts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 23,30 MB
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 113982578X
Gottlob Frege (1848–1925) was unquestionably one of the most important philosophers of all time. He trained as a mathematician, and his work in philosophy started as an attempt to provide an explanation of the truths of arithmetic, but in the course of this attempt he not only founded modern logic but also had to address fundamental questions in the philosophy of language and philosophical logic. Frege is generally seen (along with Russell and Wittgenstein) as one of the fathers of the analytic method, which dominated philosophy in English-speaking countries for most of the twentieth century. His work is studied today not just for its historical importance but also because many of his ideas are still seen as relevant to current debates in the philosophies of logic, language, mathematics and the mind. The Cambridge Companion to Frege provides a route into this lively area of research.
