Western philosophy from c 1800

In the 19th century, the history of philosophy becomes the history of a particular science.

The volume takes on the much-needed task of describing and explaining the nature of the relations and interactions between mind, language and action in defining mentality.

The aim of this volume is to assess Friedrich Schleiermacher's contribution to the theory of translation two centuries after his address "e;On the Different Methods of Translating"e; at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin, and to explore its potential for generating future innovative work.

This volume is the first collection of articles dedicated to Ludwig Wittgenstein's thoughts on colour, focusing in particular on his so-called Remarks on Colour, a piece of writing that has received comparably little attention from Wittgenstein scholars.

Nietzsche is known as a severe critic of German Idealism, but what exactly is the relation between his thought and theirs?

The book is the first English translation of Nicolai Hartmann's final book, published in 1953.

The volume takes on the much-needed task of describing and explaining the nature of the relations and interactions between mind, language and action in defining mentality.

This collection establishes Nietzsche's importance as a political philosopher.

The papers in this volume present some of the most recent results of the work about contradictions in philosophical logic and metaphysics; examine the history of contradiction in crucial phases of philosophical thought; consider the relevance of contradictions for political and philosophical actuality.

The aim of this volume is to assess Friedrich Schleiermacher's contribution to the theory of translation two centuries after his address "e;On the Different Methods of Translating"e; at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin, and to explore its potential for generating future innovative work.

This study attempts to elucidate a possible meeting point of the traditions of Eastern and Western metaphysical thinking.

The phenomenological approach to the philosophy of mind, as inaugurated by Brentano and worked out in a very sophisticated way by Husserl, has been severely criticized by philosophers within the Wittgensteinian tradition and, implicitly, by Wittgenstein himself.

Alfred North Whitehead is arguably the most original 20th-century philosopher of nature and metaphysics.

This book compares three approaches to public reason and to the public space accorded to religions: the liberal platform of an overlapping consensus proposed by John Rawls, Jurgen Habermas's discourse ethical reformulation of Kant's universalism and its realization in the public sphere, and the co-founding role which Paul Ricoeur attributes to the particular traditions that have shaped their cultures and the convictions of citizens.

Age and aging are pressing social-political issues.

This volume brings out the varieties of forms of philosophical skepticism that have continued to preoccupy philosophers for the past of couple of centuries, as well as the specific varieties of philosophical response that these have engendered - above all, in the work of those who have sought to take their cue from Kant, Wittgenstein, or Cavell - and to illuminate how these philosophical approaches are related to and bear upon one another.

The idea of a final end of human conduct - the highest good - plays an important role in Kant's philosophy.

The volume collects papers on central aspects of Alexius Meinong's Gegenstandstheorie (Theory of Objects) and its transformation in contemporary logic, semantics and ontology covering the impact of his views on grasping and representation, the status of nonexistent or inconsistent objects and their incorporation in theories like Noneism and Possible-World-Semantics.