Western philosophy: Enlightenment

This book offers the first study of the Scottish Enlightenment reception and interpretation of the French Revolution.

This book explores and examines the political philosophies of enlightenment women across Europe in the eighteenth century.

Featuring fifteen new essays, this book is the only volume devoted to a scholarly study of Kant''s lectures on ethics.

This collection of essays is the first comprehensive volume dedicated to Kant''s lectures on anthropology and their philosophical importance.

This book explores and examines the political philosophies of enlightenment women across Europe in the eighteenth century.

Featuring fifteen new essays, this book is the only volume devoted to a scholarly study of Kant''s lectures on ethics.

This collection of essays is the first comprehensive volume dedicated to Kant''s lectures on anthropology and their philosophical importance.

First published in 1966.

First published in 1966.

Most academic philosophers and intellectual historians are familiar with the major historical figures and intellectual movements coming out of Scotland in the 18th Century.

Most academic philosophers and intellectual historians are familiar with the major historical figures and intellectual movements coming out of Scotland in the 18th Century.

This collection presents the first sustained examination of the nature and status of the idea of principles in early modern thought.

This collection presents the first sustained examination of the nature and status of the idea of principles in early modern thought.

This book addresses the 'perennial' question of the meaning of life from the point of view of a novel interpretation of Aristotle's teleology.

This book addresses the 'perennial' question of the meaning of life from the point of view of a novel interpretation of Aristotle's teleology.

***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***It is a common enough assumption that good buildings make us feel good just as poor ones can make us feel insecure, depressed or even threatened.

***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***It is a common enough assumption that good buildings make us feel good just as poor ones can make us feel insecure, depressed or even threatened.

The founder of both American pragmatism and semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is widely regarded as an enormously important and pioneering theorist.

The founder of both American pragmatism and semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is widely regarded as an enormously important and pioneering theorist.

Our experience of other individuals as minded beings goes hand in hand with the awareness that they have a unique epistemic and emotional perspective on the experienced objects and situations.

Our experience of other individuals as minded beings goes hand in hand with the awareness that they have a unique epistemic and emotional perspective on the experienced objects and situations.

Like Kant, the German Idealists, and many neo-Kantian philosophers before him, Nietzsche was persistently concerned with metaphysical questions about the nature of objects.

Like Kant, the German Idealists, and many neo-Kantian philosophers before him, Nietzsche was persistently concerned with metaphysical questions about the nature of objects.

The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers reveals how great philosophers of the past sought to answer the question of the meaning of life.

The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers reveals how great philosophers of the past sought to answer the question of the meaning of life.

Nietzsche is undoubtedly one of the most original and influential thinkers in the history of philosophy.

Nietzsche is undoubtedly one of the most original and influential thinkers in the history of philosophy.

Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as well as a final section of readings in philosophical aesthetics that cover multiple art forms.

Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as well as a final section of readings in philosophical aesthetics that cover multiple art forms.

In this book, Michael Huemer and Bryan Frances debate whether - and how - we can gain knowledge of the world outside of our own minds.

This is the first English-language book to examine Kant''s empirical psychology, applying it throughout Kant''s philosophy and to contemporary philosophical issues.

This is the first English-language book to examine Kant''s empirical psychology, applying it throughout Kant''s philosophy and to contemporary philosophical issues.

This volume provides a synoptic view of Kant''s major work of religious thought.

This volume provides a synoptic view of Kant''s major work of religious thought.

This book develops a new reading of the Metaphysical Foundations and articulates an original perspective of Kant''s critical philosophy as a whole.

This book develops a new reading of the Metaphysical Foundations and articulates an original perspective of Kant''s critical philosophy as a whole.

A rigorous and comprehensive commentary, showing how the Religion develops key themes in Kant''s mature philosophy.

A rigorous and comprehensive commentary, showing how the Religion develops key themes in Kant''s mature philosophy.

A guide to two of the most revealing of Kant''s early writings, which facilitates understanding his later practical thought.

A revised translation of Condorcet''s view of progress across history and his prophetic writings on women, slavery, freedom and revolution.

A revised translation of Condorcet''s view of progress across history and his prophetic writings on women, slavery, freedom and revolution.

First comprehensive account of Kant''s cosmopolitanism, offering a novel interpretation of eighteenth-century and current philosophical discussions.

First comprehensive account of Kant''s cosmopolitanism, offering a novel interpretation of eighteenth-century and current philosophical discussions.

Julian Young provides the most comprehensive biography available of the life and philosophy of the nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

Julian Young provides the most comprehensive biography available of the life and philosophy of the nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

This study traces the ways in which Romantic writers responded to a debate over the dangers and rewards of idle contemplation.

This study traces the ways in which Romantic writers responded to a debate over the dangers and rewards of idle contemplation.

Provides a clear and comprehensive explanation of Peirce''s thought and analyses his challenge to nominalism as a theory of meaning.

Provides a clear and comprehensive explanation of Peirce''s thought and analyses his challenge to nominalism as a theory of meaning.

Focuses on Spinoza''s theories regarding human freedom, how it is obtained, and also an interpretation of his ethics.