Human Science / Philosophy

The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Documentary History

by Bruce A. Kimball

Based upon the author's twenty-five years of experience leading seminars concerning the history of liberal education, this collection presents a uniquely comprehensive and salient set of documents, ranging from...

A Philosopher and Appeasement: R.G. Collingwood and the Second World War

by Peter Johnson

This book is volume one of a two-part series. Taken together, the two volumes of A Philosopher at War examine the political thought of the philosopher and archaeologist, R.G. Collingwood, against the background...

The Problem with God: Why Atheists, True Believers, and Even Agnostics Are All Wrong

by Peter Steinberger

Whether people praise, worship, criticize, or reject God, they all presuppose at least a rough notion of what it means to talk about God. Turning the certainty of this assumption on its head, a nationally-respected...

Modern Just War Theory: A Guide to Research

by Michael Farrell

Modern Just War Theory: A Guide to Research, by scholar and librarian Michael Farrell, serves as a manual for students and scholars studying Christian just war theory, helping them navigate the wealth of just...

Posthuman Personhood

by Daryl J. Wennemann

Wennemann argues that the traditional concept of personhood may be fruitfully applied to the ethical challenge we face in a posthuman age. The book posits that biologically non-human persons like robots, computers,...

Reimagining Life: Philosophical Pessimism and the Revolution of Surrealism

by Raihan Kadri

The innovative, wide-ranging study deftly traverses fields of art, politics, philosophy, psychology, and literature. Reimagining Life redefines Surrealism's place in modern intellectual history and offers a...

The Science Delusion: Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers

by Curtis White

One of our most brilliant social critics—author of the bestselling The Middle Mind—presents a scathing critique of the “delusions” of science alongside a rousing defense of the tradition of Romanticism...

Adventures of the Symbolic: Postmarxism and Democratic Theory

by Warren Breckman

Marxism’s collapse in the twentieth century profoundly altered the style and substance of Western European radical thought. To build a more robust form of democratic theory and action, prominent theorists...

The Self Beyond Itself: An Alternative History of Ethics, the New Brain Sciences, and the Myth of Free Will

by Heidi M. Ravven

Few concepts are more unshakable in Western culture than free will, the idea that people are fundamentally free to make good or bad decisions. Scholar Heidi M. Ravven throws a wrench into this conventional view,...

The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics

by Martha C. Nussbaum

The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance: the fear of death, love...

Kierkegaard, Communication, and Virtue: Authorship as Edification

by Mark A. Tietjen

In contrast to recent postmodern and deconstructionist readings, Mark A. Tietjen believes that the purpose behind Kierkegaard's writings is the moral and religious improvement of the reader. Tietjen defends...

If A, Then B: How Logic Shaped the World

by Michael Shenefelt & Heidi White

While logical principles seem timeless, placeless, and eternal, their discovery is a story of personal accidents, political tragedies, and broad social change. If A, Then B begins with logic’s emergence twenty-three...

Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity

by Hartmut Rosa & Jonathan Trejo-Mathys

Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration,...

From a 'Necessary Evil' to the Art of Contingency: Michael Oakeshott's Conception of Political Activity

by Suvi Soininen

This book presents a comprehensive study of Oakeshott's conception of political activity. The author first examines Oakeshott in the contexts of liberal, conservative and Idealist thought, and then presents...

This Is Philosophy of Mind

by Pete Mandik

This is Philosophy of Mind presents students of philosophy with an accessible introduction to the core issues related to the philosophy of mind.

• Includes issues related to the mind-body problem, artificial intelligence,...

Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas (Second Edition)

by Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy & Mark Lilla

In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu,...

The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas (Second Edition)

by Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy & John Banville

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel Kant

Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century--an activist of the intellect who marshaled...

The Certainty of Uncertainty: Dialogues Introducing Constructivism

by Bernhard Poerksen

Nothing that can be said is independent of us. Whatever can be said is coloured by our dreams and aspirations, by the way our brain works, by human nature and human culture. Whoever claims to know or to observe...

In Defence of Modernity: Vision and Philosophy in Michael Oakeshott

by Efraim Podoksik

Although Oakeshott's philosophy has received considerable attention, the vision which underlies it has been almost completely ignored. This vision, which is rooted in the intellectual debates of his epoch, cements...

Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience

by Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou

Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou defy theoretical humanities’ deeply-entrenched resistance to engagements with the life sciences. Rather than treat biology and its branches as hopelessly reductive and...