Western philosophy: Enlightenment

In this book, Henrik Lagerlund offers students, researchers, and advanced general readers the first complete history of what is perhaps the most famous of all philosophical problems: skepticism.

How does perception give us access to external reality?

Argues for the discourse of truth-both ''factual'' and ''rational''-as an essential and defining feature of political enterprise.

Explores concepts that bring together the thinking of Spinoza and Marx.

Derek Parfit's On What Matters is widely recognized as elegant, profound, and destined to change the landscape of moral philosophy.

Based on the original handwritten manuscript, this book provides a new, accurate edition of Hume's important work, faithful to his original text, marginal notes, and changes.

This volume collects the private letters and published epistles of English women philosophers of the early modern period (c.

This volume collects the private letters and published epistles of English women philosophers of the early modern period (c.

Un libro fundamental en la historia del pensamiento: la obra que dejó, para publicar después de su muerte, un cura del norte de Francia del siglo XVIII, Jean Meslier, al que leyeron todos los ilustrados radicales.

Many philosophers today take the empiricist or rationalist stance that mainstream economics is self-centered and naive.

For scholars working on almost any aspect of American thought, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia to Philosophers in America presents an indispensable reference work.

Written by Robert Wicks, a recognised Kant specialist who teaches at the University of Auckland, Kant: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place.

Can scientific explanation ever make reference to God or the supernatural?

Heidegger's Shadow is an important contribution to the understanding of Heidegger's ambivalent relation to transcendental philosophy.

Immanuel Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is a seminal text in modern philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of religion.

Immanuel Kant influenced a large and productive group of political philosophers in the 1790s.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) is the most eminent literary figure of the German Enlightenment and a writer of European significance.

The World We Want compares the future world that Enlightenment intellectuals had hoped for with our own world at present.

Through his clinical work and extensive engagement with major figures of the philosophical tradition, Jung developed an original and pluralistic psycho-ethical model based on the cooperation of consciousness with the unconscious mind.

A clear and original perspective on Kantian ethics that focuses on the dignity, vulnerability and perfectibility of human rational agency.

"e;Have the courage to use your own understanding!

In this book, Alison Laywine takes up the mystery of the Transcendental Deduction in Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

Rousseau''s relation to the Western intellectual tradition is re-examined through a series of ''conversations'' between Rousseau and other ''great thinkers''.

Kantian Genesis of the Problem of Scientific Education terms the dominant educational paradigm of our time as scientific education and subjects it to historical analysis to bring its tacit racial, colonial and Eurocentric biases into view.

This collection of essays challenges the prevailing assumption that eighteenth-century German philosophy prior to Kant was largely defined by post-Leibnizian rationalism and, accordingly, a low esteem of the cognitive function of the senses.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Enlightening, thought-provoking and illuminating.

Im Mittelpunkt dieses Buches steht die Rekonstruktion der impliziten Logik der transzendentalen Logik Kants.

Philosophy in Minutes distils 200 of the most important philosophical ideas into easily digestible, bite-sized sections.

Explores the relationship between self-knowledge, individuality, and personal development by reconstructing Kant''s account of personhood.

This work, first published in 1985, offers a general interpretation of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature.

The Routledge Guidebook to Berkeley's Three Dialogues is an engaging introduction to the last of a trio of works that cemented Berkeley's position as one of the truly great philosophers of the western canon.

This volume brings together a collection of new essays by leading scholars on the subject of causation in the early modern period, from Descartes to Lady Mary Shepherd.

This book provides new insights into understanding Descartes'' philosophy of mind, especially the role and significance of the senses and emotions.

First published in 1966.

First published in 1752, Excerpt from the Doctrine of Reason [Auszug aus der Vernunftlehre] was written as a textbook and widely adopted by many 18th-century German instructors, but most notably by Immanuel Kant.

'Astonishing .

Macht versucht, sich die Welt in jeder Hinsicht gefügig zu machen.

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 18th-century Germany philosophers were occupied with questions of who we are and what we should be.

Luxury has been associated with superficiality, consumerism and meaninglessness throughout the history of serious philosophical thought.

Immanuel Kant was a philosopher at the end of the 18th century Enlightenment.

How to Reach Enlightenment offers practical strategies for those who are struggling to find an enlightened way of life, bringing straightforward self-help techniques to the world of spirituality.

Immanuel Kant is among the most pivotal thinkers in the history of philosophy.

The Kant Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Immanuel Kant, one of the most important and influential thinkers in the history of philosophy.

This book addresses the problem of self-knowledge in Kant's philosophy.

First published in 1990.

This book applies ecolinguistics and psychoanalysis to explore how films fictionalising environmental disasters provide spectacular warnings against the dangers of environmental apocalypse, while highlighting that even these apparently environmentally friendly films can still facilitate problematic real-world changes in how people treat the environment.