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Philosophy

Foundations and Methods from Mathematics to Neuroscience Essays Inspired by Patrick Suppes

Crangle Colleen E., Garcia de la Sienra Adolfo, Longino Helen E.

ISBN: PB: 9781575867458, ISBN: HB: 9781575867441, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2015
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

During his long and continuing scholarly career, Patrick Suppes has contributed significantly both to the sciences and to scientific philosophies. In this volume, an international group of Suppes's colleagues, collaborators, and students seeks to bui...

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Philosophy

Friendship

Grayling A. C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205367, ISBN: HB: 9780300175356, Yale University Press, August 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

A central bond, a cherished value, a unique relationship, a profound human need, a type of love. What is the nature of friendship, and what is its significance in our lives? How has friendship changed since the ancient Greeks began to analyze it, and...

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Philosophy

Formal Methods and Empirical Practices Conversations with Patrick Suppes

Ferrario Roberta, Schiaffonati Viola

ISBN: PB: 9781575866529, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, July 2014
151 pp., 23x15 cm

The philosopher Patrick Suppes has developed a unique and influential approach to studying the foundations of science – he combines an understanding of the main principles of scientific theories in axiomatic terms and formal models with a hands-on ap...

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Philosophy

Freedom and the End of Reason On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy

Velkley Richard L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226155173, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "Freedom and the End of Reason", Richard L. Velkley offers an influential interpretation of the central issue of Kant's philosophy and an evaluation of its position within modern philosophy's larger history. He persuasively argues that the whole o...

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Philosophy

Forgiveness

Jankelevitch Vladimir

ISBN: PB: 9780226045658, ISBN: HB: 9780226392134, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
208 pp., 23x15 cm

Philosopher Vladimir Jankelevitch has only recently begun to receive his due from the English-speaking world, thanks in part to discussions of his thought by Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, and Paul Ricoeur. His international readers have long val...

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Philosophy

Fable of the World A Philosophical Enquiry into Freedom in Our Times

Mairet Gerard

ISBN: HB: 9781906497194, Seagull Books, September 2010
346 pp., 19.8x16 cm

Modern political theory begins with the rise of the philosophical concept and practice of sovereignty in the sixteenth century. Over the course of the next several centuries, sovereignty was generalized as the form of the modern state – eventually, t...

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Philosophy

Gender Studies

Foucault and the Iranian Revolution Gender and the Seductions of Islamism

Afary Janet, Anderson Kevin B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226007861, ISBN: HB: 9780226007854, University of Chicago Press, June 2005
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In 1978, as the protests against the Shah of Iran reached their zenith, philosopher Michel Foucault was working as a special correspondent for "Corriere della Sera and le Nouvel Observateur". During his little-known stint as a journalist, Foucault tr...

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Philosophy

Biography & Memoires

Friedrich Hayek A Biography

Ebenstein Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226181509, University of Chicago Press, April 2003
411 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

In the first full biography of Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992), Alan Ebenstein chronicles the life, works, and legacy of the visionary thinker, from his early years in fin-de-siecle Vienna to his remarkable career as a Nobel Prize winning economist, poli...

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Philosophy

Freedom and Karl Jaspers' Philosophy

Young-Bruehl Elisabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300026290, Yale University Press, July 1981
248 pp., 21.6x14 cm, black&white illus.

As a founding father of Existentialism, Karl Jaspers has been seen as a twentieth-century successor to Nietzsche and Kierkegaard; as an exponent of reason, he has been seen as an heir of Kant. But studies tracing influences upon his thought or placin...

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