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Philosophy

Hegel's Realm of Shadows Logic as Metaphysics in "The Science of Logic"

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226703411, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Hegel frequently claimed that the heart of his entire system was a book widely regarded as among the most difficult in the history of philosophy, "The Science of Logic". This is the book that presents his metaphysics, an enterprise that he insists ca...

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Film Studies

Philosophy

Philosophical Hitchcock "Vertigo" and the Anxieties of Unknowingness

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226668246, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 colour plates, 36 halftones

On the surface, "The Philosophical Hitchcock: Vertigo and the Anxieties of Unknowingness", is a close reading of Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece "Vertigo". This, however, is a book by Robert B. Pippin, one of our most penetrating and creative phi...

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Philosophy

Ethics and Practice in Science Communication

Priest Susanna, Goodwin Jean, Dahlstrom Michael F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226497815, ISBN: HB: 9780226540603, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables

From climate to vaccination, stem-cell research to evolution, scientific work is often the subject of public controversies in which scientists and science communicators find themselves enmeshed. Especially with such hot-button topics, science communi...

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Philosophy

Companion to John Dewey's "Democracy and Education"

Phillips D. C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226408378, ISBN: HB: 9780226408231, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
184 pp., 21.6x14 cm

This year marks the centenary publication of John Dewey's magnum opus, "Democracy and Education". Despite its profound importance as a foundational text in education, it is notoriously difficult and – dare we say it – a little dry. In this charming a...

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Philosophy

Marvelous Clouds Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media

Peters John Durham

ISBN: PB: 9780226421353, ISBN: HB: 9780226253831, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table

When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth: that the natural world and the technological world are...

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Philosophy

Dogs

Run, Spot, Run The Ethics of Keeping Pets

Pierce Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780226209890, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A life shared with pets brings many emotions. We feel love for our companions, certainly, and happiness at the thought that we're providing them with a safe, healthy life. But there's another emotion, less often acknowledged, that can be nearly as po...

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Philosophy

History of Art

After the Beautiful Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226325583, ISBN: HB: 9780226079493, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 colour plates, 36 halftones

In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility – the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegel's approach to art has been influen...

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Philosophy

Interanimations Receiving Modern German Philosophy

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226259659, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this latest book, renowned philosopher and scholar Robert B. Pippin offers the thought-provoking argument that the study of historical figures is not only an interpretation and explication of their views, but can be understood as a form of philoso...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Aristotle's Teaching in the "Politics"

Pangle Thomas L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226213651, ISBN: HB: 9780226016030, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
368 pp., 23x15 cm

With "Aristotle's Teaching in the 'Politics'", Thomas L. Pangle offers a masterly new interpretation of this classic philosophical work. It is widely believed that the "Politics" originated as a written record of a series of lectures given by Aristot...

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Evolution

Philosophy

Philosophy of Pseudoscience Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem

Pigliucci Massimo, Boudry Maarten

ISBN: PB: 9780226051963, ISBN: HB: 9780226051796, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings

What sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience? In this volume, the contributors seek to answer this question, known to philosophers of science as "the demarcation problem". This issue has a long history in philos...

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