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The American Philosopher
By: Borradori, Giovanna; Crocitto, Rosanna (trans.)
Published by: The University of Chicago Press
In this lively look at current debates in American philosophy, leading philosophers talk candidly about the changing character of their discipline. In the spirit of Emerson's The American Scholar, this book explores the identity of the American philosopher. Through informal conversations, the participants discuss the rise of post-analytic philosophy in America and its relations to European thought and to the American pragmatist tradition. They comment on their own intellectual development as well as each others' work, charting the course of American philosophy over the past few decades. Giovanna Borradori, in her substantial introduction, explains the history of the analytic movement in America and the home-grown reaction against it. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American philosophy was a socially engaged interdisciplinary enterprise. In transcendentalism and pragmatism, then the dominant currents in American thought, philosophy was connected to history, psychology, and public issues. But in the 1930s, the imported European movement of logical positivism redefined philosophical discourse in terms of mathematical logic and theory of language. Under the influence of this analytic view, American philosophy became a professionalized discipline, divorced from public debate and intellectual history and antagonistic to the other, more humanistic tradition of continental thought. The American Philosopher explores the opposition between analytic and continental thought and shows how recent American work has begun to bridge the gap between the two traditions. Through a reexamination of pragmatism, and through an attempt to understand philosophy in a more hermeneutical way, the participants narrow the distance between America's distinctly scientific philosophy and Europe's more literary approach. Moving beyond classical analytic philosophy, the participants confront each other on a number of topics. The logico-linguistic orientations of
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Price: $26.00
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Ancient Ethics
By: Suave Meyer, Susan
Published by: Routledge
This is the first comprehensive guide and only substantial undergraduate level introduction to ancient Greek ethics, covering the ethical theories of all the major philosophers (including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle) and schools (Stoics, Skeptics, Epicureans, Pyrrhonism) from the earliest times to the Hellenistic philosophers analyzing their main arguments and assessing their legacy.
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Price: $35.95
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Ancient Philosophy
By: Annas, Julia
Published by: Oxford University Press (UK)
Getting away from the presentation of ancient philosophy as a succession of Great Thinkers, the book aims to give readers a sense of the freshness and liveliness of ancient philosophy, and of its wide variety of themes and styles.
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Price: $8.95
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Ancient Philosophy
By: Kenny, Anthony
Published by: OUP Oxford
Sir Anthony Kenny tells the fascinating story of the birth of philosophy and its remarkable flourishing in the ancient Mediterranean world. This is the first of four volumes in which he unfolds a magisterial new history of Western philosophy. Specially written for a broad popular readership, but serious and deep enough to offer a genuine understanding of the great philosophers, Kenny's lucid and stimulating history will become the definitive work for anyone interested in the people. and ideas that shaped the course of Western thought. - ;Sir Anthony Kenny tells the fascinating story of the birth of philosophy and its remarkable flourishing in the ancient Mediterranean world. This is the first of four volumes in which he unfolds a magisterial new history of Western philosophy. Specially written for a broad popular readership, but serious and deep enough to offer a genuine understanding of the great philosophers, Kenny's lucid and stimulating history will become the definitive work for anyone interested in the people. and ideas that shaped the course of Western thought. - ;Bertrand Russell apparently wrote his History of Western Philosophy in a hurry to raise funds. Although this reamins a popular work, it is a patchy and unreliable source. By contrast, Kenny's history of philosophy is the product of a lifetime of scholarship and this is manifest on every page. The other celebrated history of philosophy is that of Frederick Copleston, which runs to twelve volumes. Although this contains a wealth of detail and remains a valuable resource,. Kenny is by far the better philosopher and writer. - James Ladyman, Times Higher Education Supplement
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Ancient Philosophy of the Self
By: Remes, Pauliina (ed.); Sihvola, Juha (ed.)
Published by: Springer Milan
A collection that studies the various ways and conceptual frameworks with which the ancients approached selfhood. It also explores the influence of ancient philosophy on Western and Islamic philosophy of the medieval era.
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Price: $189.00
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The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry Revisited
By: Levin, Susan B.
Published by: OUP Oxford
In this study, Levin explores Plato's engagement with the Greek literary tradition in his treatment of key linguistic issues. This investigation, conjoined with a new interpretation of the Republic's familiar critique of poets, supports the view that Plato's work represents a valuable precedent for contemporary reflections on ways in which philosophy might benefit from appeals to literature.
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Price: $65.00
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Angels in Medieval Philosophical Inquiry
By: Iribarren, Isabel (ed.); Lenz, Martin (ed.)
Published by: Ashgate
This collection of essays is a significant scholarly contribution to angelology. The unifying theme is that of the role of angels in philosophical inquiry, where each contribution represents a case study in which the angelic model is seen to motivate developments in specific areas and periods of medieval philosophical thought.
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Price: $99.95
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Animals and Agency
By: McFarland, Sarah E (ed.); Hediger, Ryan (ed.)
Published by: Brill Academic Publishers
This collection examines the question of nonhuman animal agency by shifting emphasis from the human perspective toward that of other animals, exploring modes of animal resistance to human behaviors, and considering the ways the presence of animals refracts human notions like agency and species.
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Price: $149.00
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Anne Conway
By: Hutton, Sarah
Published by: Cambridge University Press
Sarah Hutton's study places Anne Conway in her historical and philosophical context, by reconstructing her social and intellectual milieu. Her book offers an insight into both the personal life of a very private woman, and the richness of seventeenth-century intellectual culture.
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Price: $64.00
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