The talking greeks: speech, animals, and the other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato

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Dante and Renaissance Florence

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Simon Gilson explores Dante's reception in his native Florence between 1350 and 1481. He traces the development of Florentine civic culture and the interconnections between Dante's principal 'Florenti..

Romanticism, aesthetics, and nationalism

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The reception of Kant's critical philosophy (Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel)

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The period from Kant to Hegel is one of the most intense and rigorous in modern philosophy. The central problem at the heart of it was the development of a new standard of theoretical reflection and ..

Theories of vagueness

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Vague expressions, such as "heap," "red" and "child," proliferate throughout natural languages, and an increasing amount of philosophical attention is being directed at theories of the logic and seman..

Language and learning: philosophy of language in the hellenistic age

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Hellenistic philosophers and scholars laid the foundations upon which Western tradition developed analytical grammar, linguistics, philosophy of language and other disciplines. Building on the pioneer..

The texts of early greek philosophy: the complete fragments and selected testimonies of major Presocratics (2 vol. set)

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Aristotle on truth

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Aristotle's theory of truth has been the most influential account of the concept of truth from Antiquity onwards. In this book, the first dedicated to this topic, Paolo Crivelli discusses all the main..

Between logic and intuition (Essays in honour of Charles Parsons)

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This collection of new essays offers a "state-of-the-art" conspectus of major trends in the philosophy of logic and philosophy of mathematics. A distinguished group of philosophers addresses issues at..

Mathematical thought and its objects

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Medicine and philosophy in classical Antiquity: doctors and philosophers on nature, soul, health and disease

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This wide-ranging collection, written in a highly accessible style, studies the close connections that existed between medicine and philosophy throughout antiquity. Medical authors such as the Hippocr..

A history of theatre in Spain

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Plato's introduction of forms

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Scholars of Plato are divided between those who emphasize the literature of the dialogues and those who emphasize the argument of the dialogues, and between those who see a development in the thought ..

Method and politics in Plato's 'Statesman'

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This book is a philosophical analysis of Plato's dialogue the Statesman. Dr Lane finds that rather than being transitional between the Republic and the Laws, the Statesman deserves a special place of ..

Phenomenal consciousness (A naturalistic theory)

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How can phenomenal consciousness exist as an integral part of a physical universe? How can the technicolor phenomenology of our inner lives be created out of the complex neural activities of our brain..

The beginnings of medieval romance: fact and fiction, 1150-1220

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Up to the twelfth century, writing in the western vernaculars dealt almost exclusively with religious, historical and factual themes, all of which were understood to convey the truth. The second half ..

Pappus of Alexandria and the mathematics of late Antiquity

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This book is at once an analytical study of one of the most important mathematical texts of antiquity, the Mathematical Collection of the fourth-century AD mathematician Pappus of Alexandria, and also..

Scientific essentialism

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"Scientific Essentialism defends the view that the fundamental laws of nature depend on the essential properties of the things on which they are said to operate and are therefore not independent of th..

Cross-examining Socrates (A defense of the interlocutors in Plato's ea

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This book is a rereading of the early dialogues of Plato from the point of view of the people with whom Socrates engages in debate. Existing studies are thoroughly dismissive of the interlocutors and ..

Foucault and classical Antiquity: power, ethics and knowledge

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This book is a critical examination of Michel Foucault's relation to ancient Greek thought, in particular his famous analysis of Greek history of sexuality. Wolfgang Detel offers a new understanding o..

Fairies in Nineteenth-century art and literature

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Although fairies are now banished to the realm of childhood, these diminutive figures were central to the work of many Victorian painters, novelists, poets and even scientists. It would be no exaggera..

Nietzsche, biology and metaphor

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"Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor explores the German philosopher's response to the intellectual debates sparked by the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. By examining the abundance of ..

Carnap and Twentieth-century thought: explication as enlightenment

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The myth of morality

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In The Myth of Morality, Richard Joyce argues that moral discourse is hopelessly flawed. At the heart of ordinary moral judgments is a notion of moral inescapability, or practical authority, which, up..