Philosophy: Modern Philosophy (16th Century-18th Century)

By D. P. Dryer

First published in 1966. Professor Dryer has furnished a highly illuminating account of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason by unfolding its central argument. Kant’s Solution for Verification in Metaphysics brings out the light which Kant has to throw on central topics of philosophy. It takes its place…

Paperback – 2017-10-02
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Routledge Library Editions: Kant

By Hannah Ginsborg

First published in 1990. This title, originally a Ph. D. dissertation submitted to the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University in July 1988, grew out of an interest in the foundations of twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Believing that the idea of the primacy of judgment was an…

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Routledge Library Editions: Kant

By Charles L Griswold

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith are giants of eighteenth century thought. The heated controversy provoked by their competing visions of human nature and society still resonates today. Smith himself reviewed Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality, and his perceptive remarks raise an intriguing…

Hardback – 2017-09-28
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By David Landy

Hume’s Science of Human Nature is an investigation of the philosophical commitments underlying Hume's methodology in pursuing what he calls ‘the science of human nature’. It argues that Hume understands scientific explanation as aiming at explaining the inductively-established universal…

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Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy

Edited by Fabio Gironi

Contemporary interest in realism and naturalism, emerging under the banner of speculative or new realism, has prompted continentally-trained philosophers to consider a number of texts from the canon of analytic philosophy. The philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars, in particular, has proven remarkably able…

Hardback – 2017-09-21
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Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

By Justin Remhof

Like Kant, the German Idealists, and many neo-Kantian philosophers before him, Nietzsche was persistently concerned with metaphysical questions about the nature of objects. His texts often address questions concerning the existence and non-existence of objects, the relation of objects to human…

Hardback – 2017-09-15
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Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

Edited by Dan Kaufman

The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century Philosophy is an outstanding survey of one of the most important eras in the history of Western philosophy - one which witnessed philosophical, scientific, religious and social change on a massive scale. A team of twenty international contributors…

Hardback – 2017-09-11
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Routledge Philosophy Companions

By David Goldblatt, Lee B. Brown, Stephanie Patridge

Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as well as a final section of readings in philosophical aesthetics that cover multiple art forms. Sections include topics that are familiar to students such…

Paperback – 2017-09-07
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By Various

This 11-volume set reissues a host of classic titles on Continental Philosophy. Written by leading scholars in the field, they form an essential reference resource that tackles philosophers and subjects such as Deleuze, Derrida, hermeneutics and phenomenology.…

Hardback – 2017-08-11
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Routledge Library Editions: Continental Philosophy

Edited by Shane D. Courtland

Most philosophers and political scientists readily admit that Thomas Hobbes is a significant figure in the history of political thought. His theory was, arguably, one of the first to provide a justification for political legitimacy from the perspective of each individual subject. Many excellent…

Hardback – 2017-07-20
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Routledge Research in Applied Ethics

Edited by Elizabeth Robinson, Chris W. Surprenant

Most academic philosophers and intellectual historians are familiar with the major historical figures and intellectual movements coming out of Scotland in the 18th Century. These scholars are also familiar with the works of Immanuel Kant and his influence on Western thought. But with the exception…

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Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy

Edited by Emily Carson, Lisa Shabel

There is a long tradition, in the history and philosophy of science, of studying Kant’s philosophy of mathematics, but recently philosophers have begun to examine the way in which Kant’s reflections on mathematics play a role in his philosophy more generally, and in its development. For example, in…

Paperback – 2017-06-07
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