Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600 books

Medieval Skepticism, and the Claim to Metaphysical Knowledge presents three sets of essays. The first is an exchange...  Read More >>

One of the most celebrated of Plato's ideas was that if human society was ever to function successfully then philosophers...  Read More >>

The title of this Festschrift to Stephen Brown points to the understanding of medieval philosophy and theology in...  Read More >>

Medievalism has become a central concern for those studying and teaching medieval history. It can be distinguished...  Read More >>

In Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages, Michelle Karnes revises the history of medieval...  Read More >>

Medieval semantic theories develop out of Aristotle s On Interpretation, in which he notes that Spoken sounds are...  Read More >>

It is supposed to be common knowledge in the history of ideas that one of the few medieval philosophical contributions...  Read More >>

Knowledge, Mental Language, and Free Will traverses the medieval philosophical landscape of metaphysics, logic and...  Read More >>

Suitable for those wishing to understand such diverse puzzles as why citizens often readily support dictatorships,...  Read More >>

In his own day, Karl Leonhard Reinhold was considered one of the major figures in philosophical thought of the late...  Read More >>

Since the early period of German Idealism, the phenomenon of the tragic has been in the focus of philosophical self-understanding...  Read More >>

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The Dialogues of Love by Yehudah Abravanel (c. 1465 c. 1525) is one of the most interesting examples of the encounter...  Read More >>

There is broad agreement in the medieval tradition that we conceive things in the world owing to the transmission...  Read More >>

In Kant's Human Being, Robert B. Louden continues and deepens avenues of research first initiated in his highly...  Read More >>

This book argues that the irreducible singularity of each person as a psychical subject implies the privacy of the...  Read More >>

The University of Basel was founded in 1460 on the basis of a privilege from Pope Pius II. As a young man, this...  Read More >>

The Assumption of Agency Theory revisits the Turing Test and examines what Turing s assessor knew. It asks important...  Read More >>

Philosophy of Mind introduces readers to one of the liveliest fields in contemporary philosophy by discussing mind-body...  Read More >>

This book proposes the notion that the task of ethics is to help people become fully human and investigates how...  Read More >>

This volume collects medieval Latin texts from the 8th to the 14th centuries that shape a pseudo-historical image...  Read More >>

Is philosophy endangered by a scientific culture increasingly influenced by demands of utility and efficiency? What...  Read More >>

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Exploring Renaissance humanists debates on matter, life and the soul, this volume addresses the contribution of...  Read More >>