Medieval Western philosophy

Ockham Explained is an important and much-needed resource on William of Ockham, one of the most important philosophers of the Middle Ages.

First published in 1548, On the Beauty of Women purports to record two conversations shared by a young gentleman, Celso, and four ladies of the upper bourgeoisie in the vicinity of Florence.

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Declining church attendance.

Ranging over 2,500 years of philosophical writing, this five-volume collection of essays is an unrivalled companion to the study and reading of philosophy.

In Mind and Body Robert Kirk offers an introduction to the complex tangle of questions and puzzles roughly labelled the mind-body problem.

Noonan shows that at the core of postmodern philosophy, with its claim that culture creates humans, is a concern to dethrone the modern understanding of human beings as subjects, as builders of their world and free when those world-building activities are the outcome of free choices.

In Part 1 Hill examines the effect of the idea of spatial infinity on seventeenth-century literature, arguing that the metaphysical cosmology of Nicholas of Cusa provided Renaissance writers, such as Pascal, Traherne, and Milton, with a way to construe the vastness of space as the symbol of human spiritual potential.

Jay Newman first puts the contemporary problem of inauthentic culture into philosophical and historical context.

The typical Cartesian collection contains papers which treat the problems arising out of Descartes's philosophy as though they and it appeared for the first time in a recent journal.

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Kierkegaard as Humanist is an extensive analysis of Kierkegaard's concepts of self, freedom, possibility, and necessity.

This book introduces readers to Thomistic philosophy through selected topics such as being, God, teleology, truth, persons and knowledge, ethics, and universals.

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Thomas More remains one of the most enigmatic thinkers in history, due in large part to the enduring mysteries surrounding his best-known work, Utopia.

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In this volume, noted philosopher Lenn E.

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Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science.

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This book contains the most explicit formulation of Hegel''s enduringly influential dialectical method and of the categorical system underlying his thought.

This book contains the most explicit formulation of Hegel''s enduringly influential dialectical method and of the categorical system underlying his thought.

This volume presents translations of seven prominent medieval Jewish rationalists covering topics both theological and philosophical.

A comprehensive presentation of the philosophical work of the fifteenth-century Renaissance thinker Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.

A comprehensive treatment of the seventeenth-century philosopher Pierre Gassendi.

In this text Stacey traces the formative impact of Seneca''s political philosophy upon medieval and Renaissance thinking about princely government.

This 1998 collection of essays is unparalleled in the depth of its coverage of all facets of Galileo''s work.

Ten leading scholars introduce all the important aspects of Aquinas'' thought.

In this 2001 volume, sixteen specially-commissioned essays discuss major areas of the philosophy and theology of Augustine of Hippo.

Offers a full discussion of all significant aspects of this medieval philosopher''s thought.

This volume, first published in 2003, spans a millennium of thought extending from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas and into the fourteenth century.

This volume explores the range of Montaigne''s philosophy and its social and intellectual contexts.

Explores the major ideas of one of the most important philosophers and theologians of the Middle Ages.

A comprehensive study of Abelard''s life and work not only in philosophy and theology but also in literature.

A substantial revision of standard narratives of the trajectory of republican political theory.

This volume offers translations of a series of Aquinas''s disputed questions on ethical topics.

An introduction to a central text in early modern philosophy.

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

An introduction to medieval economic thought from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries.

This book treats Montaigne as a serious thinker in his own right.

A 2002 edition of Adam Smith''s Theory of Moral Sentiments, an important text in the history of moral and political thought.

A new translation of Bruno''s most characteristic and important texts on causality and magic.

This book shows how the Age of Reason actually began during the late Middle Ages.

This volume contains English translations of texts on mind and knowledge at the centre of medieval philosophy.

A major new study of Aquinas and his central project: the understanding of human nature.

A noted scholar elucidates the distinguishing characteristics of the works of several Jewish thinkers of the Middle Ages.

This comprehensive reference volume features essays by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field.

Responding to the recent upsurge of interest in Thomas Aquinas, this book goes straight to the heart of the contemporary debates about Thomism.

Anyone new to philosophy soon encounters new ideas that challenge their hidden biases and cherished beliefs, or are at odds with common sense and tradition.