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This biography addresses the full range of Descartes'' interests and traces his intellectual development.

Taylor is beyond question one of the most distinctive figures in the landscape of contemporary philosophy.

This book traces the careers of Roy Vagelos, who eventually became the CEO of Merck and Co.

This book is a comprehensive study of Leon Walras''s influence in economics.

Compares the ancient sources and modern interpretative models to present a new interpretation of the Roman gens.

This book examines how Thomas Paine created a new literature of politics bridging political philosophy and everyday knowledge.

This book demonstrates the complex unity of Plato''s Gorgias, showing how seemingly disparate themes are woven together.

These essays offer a sampling of the best current work in philosophy of religion.

A description of the transformations in Chinese and Taiwanese responses to the environment across the twentieth century.

Richard Crouter illustrates how Schleiermacher''s life work draws from the Enlightenment and Romanticism.

This book contrasts the continental approach to social science with the Anglo-American tradition.

Collects the basic theories of law propounded by the great philosophers.

Portrayal of Jews as victims of Church persecution but also as participants in Polish society.

The fourth volume of Barbarism and Religion, first published in 2005, which focuses on eighteenth-century Europe.

This book examines the significance of Machiavelli''s political thinking for the development of modern republicanism.

A major reappraisal of enlightenment debates about cultural diversity, and their current resonance.

Kant''s philosophy considered under one unifying standpoint: his conception of our capacity to form judgements.

Reinhold''s Letters on the Kantian Philosophy is arguably the most influential book ever written concerning Kant.

This book was the first new translation in English for fifty years of this classic of western political thought.

A translation of the most important work in moral philosophy written between Kant and Hegel.

An interesting and ambitious comparative study of the emergence of Enlightenment in Scotland and Naples.

Linked essays presenting British history as oceanic and global, rather than simply history.

This book explores how seasonal variation in resource abundance might have driven primate and human evolution.

In this 2005 book, Tim O''Keefe reconstructs the philosopher Epicurus'' theory of freedom.

This book discusses much of Heidegger''s later thought on metaphysics as ''ontotheology'', education, and National Socialism.

Examines the role of geography in the historical writings of the early medieval period.

This 2005 book proposes a model for understanding religious debates in the Churches of England and Scotland from 1603 to 1625.

The first in-depth study of the development of philosophy of science during the Cold War.

This 2005 book examines the significance of the mathematician Archytas of Tarentum in fourth-century Greece.

George di Giovanni stresses the revolutionary character of Kant''s critical thought.

This book explains the reconciliation of religion and politics in the work of John Locke.

An important reexamination of the Realist tradition and its relevance for contemporary international relations.

A book about Kant''s views on causality as understood in their proper historical context.

This book offers a readable and compelling introduction to the work of Gilles Deleuze.

This book is a major contribution to the study of the philosopher F.

First comprehensive study of the origin''s of Jung''s psychology and the rise of modern psychology.

An introduction to the core beliefs and theological structure of the Mormon church, first published in 2003.

An introductory history of university-trained physicians from the middle ages to the eighteenth century.

A convenient and accessible guide to Blaise Pascal presenting the full range of his achievement.

Edited work on behavioural strategies of primates in foraging for food, and avoiding being eaten.

This offers a philosophical perspective on an eighteenth-century movement influential on western culture.

These essays form a most convenient and accessible guide to Darwin.

The first comprehensive modern history of the origins and emergence of German philosophy.

John Duns Scotus was one of the principal figures in medieval philosophy and theology.

Bertrand Russell ranks as one of the giants of twentieth-century philosophy.

The essays in this volume discuss Putnam''s major philosophical contributions.

This book examines the relationships between humans and other primates and the implications for primate conservation.

Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the philosophical giants of the last fifty years.

The essays in this 2003 book offer a systematic account of the philosophical importance of Kant''s lectures on anthropology.

Analysis of impact of infanticide on social organization and reproductive behavior in primates including humans.