History of Philosophy Books

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1. The Routledge Handbook of German Idealism

   Edited by Brian O'Connor, Michael Rosen, Hans Jörg Sandkühler

   The course of German Idealism, which lasted from roughly from Kant to Schelling, is one of the most important and influential periods in the history of philosophy. The Routledge Handbook of German Idealism is a superb resource for all students and scholars of the movement....

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-45392-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Routledge Library Editions: Plato

   By Various

   Plato is perhaps the best known and most widely studied of all the ancient Greek philosophers. A pupil of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, his ideas have inspired and influenced scholars of nearly every era. His famous series of dialogues have become a standard part of the western philosophical...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-59194-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Mill's Radical Liberalism: An Essay in Retrieval

   By Jonathan Riley

   In this major reinterpretation and contemporary defence of Mill's political philosophy, Riley offers a new reading of Mill's radical doctrine that is quite distinct from the prevalent and vague understanding of the term 'liberalism'. Based on the argument of On Liberty, the book begins by...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-18909-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Is the Mental a Myth?

   Edited by Joseph Schear

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-48587-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Feminist Encounters with Legal Philosophy

   Edited by Maria Drakopoulou

   Presenting feminist readings of texts from the legal philosophical and jurisprudential canon, the papers collected here offer an interdisciplinary and critical challenge to established modes of reading law. Feminist approaches to law usually take the form of either critical engagements with legal...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-49760-2 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)

6. Causation and Modern Philosophy

   Edited by Keith Allen, Tom Stoneham

   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. Aimed at researchers, graduate students and advanced undergraduates, the volume advances the understanding of early modern...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-88355-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Routledge Library Editions: Emile Durkheim: 4-Volume Set

   By Various

   This four volume set is dedicated to the work of Emile Durkheim, one of the most important and prolific sociologists in the field, who is commonly cited as a founding father of modern social science. With volumes published between 1975 and 1991, this collection brings together a range of...

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-58427-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. The Routledge Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, 2nd Edition

   By Marie McGinn

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-45256-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science: Rationality without Foundations

   By Stefano Gattei

   This book seeks to rectify misrepresentations of Popperian thought with a historical approach to Popper’s philosophy, an approach which applies his own mature view, that we gain knowledge through conjectures and refutations, to his own development, by portraying him in his intellectual growth as...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-88776-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Heredity, Race, and the Birth of the Modern

    By Sara Eigen Figal

    This book places under sustained scrutiny some of our most basic modern assumptions about inheritance, genealogy, blood relations, and racial categories. It has at its core a deceptively simple question, one too often taken for granted: what constitutes "good" bonds among humans, and what...

    September 2010 | 978-0-415-88780-9 | Paperback (Routledge)