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Prince of Networks
re.press 2009; US$ 25.00This book is the first treatment of Bruno Latour specifically as a philosopher. Part One covers four key works in Latour?s career in metaphysics: Irreductions, Science in Action, We Have Never Been Modern, and Pandora?s Hope. In Part Two, the author identifies Latour?s key contributions to ontology, while criticizing his focus on the relational character... more...
Changing Choices
Amsterdam University Press 2007; US$ 85.00This book is a must read for all behavioural, economic, and social scientists with theoretical interest and some understanding of multidimensional data analyses. more...
Essays on Being
Oxford University Press 2009; US$ 27.99In this series of essays published over forty years Charles Kahn explicates the ancient Greek concept of Being. His linguistic aim of explaining the meaning of the verb einai is intertwined with his historical and philosophical project of understanding how the concept came to be central to Greek philosophy from Parmenides to Aristotle. - ;This volume... more...
Unity and Time in Metaphysics
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 112.00The contributions to this collection deal with the fundamental problem of unity, which plays a decisive role in many contemporary debates (even when this role is not acknowledged). Questions like whether there can be unities that persist through time ? e.g. persons who remain the same throughout their lives ? are discussed from various perspectives.... more...
The True and the Evident (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 44.95First published in English in1966, The True and The Evident is a translation of Franz Brentano?s posthumous Wahrheit und Evidenz , edited by Oscsar Kraus. The book includes Brentano?s influential lecture "On the Concept of Truth", read before the Vienna Philosophical Society, a variety of essays, drawn from the immense wealth of Brentano?s unpublished... more...
Speculative Philosophy
Lexington Books 2009; US$ 64.99In this illuminating volume, Donald Phillip Verene challenges philosophy to pass beyond the limits of criticism and reflection toward a form of speculative philosophy that express the Hegelian sense in which the True is the whole and the Socratic sense in which the aim of philosophy is self-knowledge. more...
Through a Glass Darkly
Marquette University Press 2006; US$ 27.00The modern hope of attaining purely rational and objective knowledge has faltered, to the joy of some and worry of others. Philosophy's attempt to see reality with a god's-eye view is increasingly viewed as unlikely or undesirable, but what fills the vacuum now that the modern project is in jeopardy? Through a Glass Darkly examines the thought... more...
Issues in Interpretation Theory
Marquette University Press 2006; US$ 30.00A selection of 11 presentations from a seminar on phenomenology and hermeneutics held at Marquette University since 2002 explore a range of issues and a variety of methods in the two areas of philosophy. Among their topics are the genesis of the Heideggerian interrogation on the origin of the work of art, a phenomenological reading of Samuel Beckett's... more...
Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, 5
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 34.99Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is the forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character: this series is a much-needed focus for it. OSM offers a broad view of the subject, featuring not only the traditionally central topics such as existence, identity, modality,... more...
A Companion to Epistemology
Wiley 2009; US$ 218.95With nearly 300 entries on key concepts, review essays on central issues, and self-profiles by leading scholars, this companion is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume reference guide to epistemology. Epistemology from A-Z is comprised of 296 articles on important epistemological concepts that have been extensively revised to... more...









