This book of political philosophy argues that libertarianism provides more efficient decision-making than any other political order. It links this idea to the theory of knowledge, revealing the connection between how we know and how we are governed.
Life and Mind
This provocative book argues that life and mind elude purely materialistic explanations. It posits intelligence as a precondition for organic existence, a serious challenge to modern science, and culminates in a philosophical proof of the mind system.
Science cannot tell us life’s meaning, and belief limits our freedom to learn from reality. To those who do not surrender their right to decide for themselves, life offers a unique opportunity to apply their insights and unlock the mind from its own beliefs.
This volume celebrates life writing, where individuals overcome trauma to find joy. Scholars explore personal narratives—testimonies, diaries, and letters—that challenge sociocultural issues like migration and discrimination while affirming our need for human connection.
This scholarly edition of Lincoln Steffens’ muck-raking classic dissects Gilded Age corruption in America’s cities. With new analysis and historical context, it reveals the timeless moral and social-political phenomenon of corruption and the nature of reform.
Locating and Losing the Self in the World
This collection on comparative philosophy explores locating and losing the self in the world. Essays draw on diverse viewpoints from Kant and Simone de Beauvoir to Nāgārjuna and Nishida Kitarō, examining the self’s engagement with the world.
The relation between logic and knowledge is an underdeveloped theme. This book’s ambition is to stimulate renewed reflection upon it by collecting essays from leading figures, each followed by a discussant’s comments to create an ongoing dialogue.
This book offers philosophical reflections on new forms of domination, vulnerability and alienation at work. Following Hannah Arendt, it addresses the crisis of work and loneliness as a political problem of exclusion and meaninglessness.
Maimonides on God and Duns Scotus on Logic and Metaphysics (Volume 12
Moses Maimonides and John Duns Scotus are key figures who bookend a major thirteenth-century philosophical tradition. This volume explores Maimonides’s work on God and creation alongside the revolutionary logic and metaphysics developed by Scotus.
Mapping Leopardi
Explore the private laboratory of Giacomo Leopardi, Italy’s great poet and materialist thinker. This collection of essays investigates his Zibaldone, revealing early reflections against anthropocentrism and questioning humanity’s purpose in the world.
Matter in Marx
Was Marx truly a “materialist”? This book argues that the more interesting question is what kind he developed. It provides a surprising answer: a materialism without matter. On this basis, new light is shed on the base-superstructure analogy, progress, and political action.
Meaning without Analyticity
This book explores a non-behavioristic theory of meaning, rejecting the analytic-synthetic distinction. It answers challenges from the revival of pragmatism by bringing it into contact with analytic philosophy, where Frege and Quine meet Peirce, James, and Dewey.
Medieval and Early Modern Epistemology
This author-meets-critics volume evaluates Robert Pasnau’s After Certainty. Pasnau presents the history of epistemology as a gradual lowering of expectations for certain knowledge, concluding that contemporary epistemology is now estranged from its tradition.
Medieval Metaphysics, or is it “Just Semantics”? (Volume 7
Medieval thinkers, driven by metaphysical and epistemological commitments, sought to discern how concepts latch onto reality. This book follows these attempts concerning the signification of theological discourse, Trinitarian semantics, and essential definition.
Medieval Skepticism, and the Claim to Metaphysical Knowledge (Volume 6
This collection of essays explores medieval skepticism and metaphysical knowledge. It features scholarly exchanges on Siger of Brabant’s strategy against the skeptic, Walter Chatton’s critique of Ockhamism, and key issues in the metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas.
Memories and Portraits
Philosopher H. G. Callaway blends history and autobiography in a narrative of travel across three continents. He illuminates American thought through fascinating cultural contrasts, merging the formalism of analytic philosophy with American pragmatism.
Mental Representation (Volume 4
Contrary to common belief, medieval philosophers saw intentionality in physical phenomena like reflections and sounds. Mental Representation explores their intricate views on cognition and representation, shedding new light on historical and contemporary philosophy of mind.
This book clarifies Metacognition and Theory of Mind, comparing the two concepts. It offers practical suggestions for educators to enhance students’ metacognitive abilities and analyzes the link between Theory of Mind and language.
This advanced text on formal logic covers semantics, axiomatics, and proofs of soundness, completeness, and Gödel’s theorems. It also discusses the pictorial semantics of logic diagrams, the evaluation of everyday argumentation, and Nether Logic, the logic of falsehood.
Metamorphosis through Conscious Living
This collection proposes that engagement with the sacred is what makes research and practice transpersonal, the sacred ‘other’ that lives both within and beyond us as individuals and unique cultures.