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Physics

Philosophy

Scientific Perspectivism

Giere Ronald N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226292137, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
160 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 line drawings, 12 colour illus.

Many people assume that the claims of scientists are objective truths. But "Scientific Perspectivism" argues that the acts of observing and theorizing are both matters of perspective – which makes scientific knowledge contingent. Using the example of...

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Philosophy

Psychology

Intimacies

Bersani Leo, Phillips Adam

ISBN: PB: 9780226043456, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
134 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here present a fascinating dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy. Their conversation takes as its point of departure psychoanalysis and its central...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu's "Spirit of the Laws"

Pangle Thomas L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226645490, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
208 pp., 23x15 cm

The "Spirit of the Laws" – Montesquieu's huge, complex, and enormously influential work – is considered one of the central texts of the Enlightenment, laying the foundation for the liberally democratic political regimes that were to embody its values...

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Philosophy

Physics of The Healing A Parallel English-Arabic Text in Two Volumes

Avicenna

ISBN: HB: 9780842527477, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, May 2010
1168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Avicenna's "Physics" is the very first volume that he wrote when he began his monumental encyclopedia of science and philosophy, "The Healing". Avicenna's reasons for beginning with Physics are numerous: it offers up the principles needed to understa...

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Philosophy

Women Studies

Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex Selected Philosophical and Moral Writings

Suchon Gabrielle

ISBN: PB: 9780226779218, ISBN: HB: 9780226779201, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones

During the oppressive reign of Louis XIV, Gabrielle Suchon (1632-1703) was the most forceful female voice in France, advocating women's freedom and self-determination, access to knowledge, and assertion of authority. This volume collects Suchon's wri...

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Philosophy

Logic and Pragmatism Selected Essays by Giovanni Vailati

Arrighi Claudia, Cantu Paola de Zan Mauro, Suppes Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9781575865904, ISBN: HB: 9781575865911, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
350 pp., 23x15 cm

Logic and Pragmatism features a number of the key writings of Giovanni Vailati (1863-1909), the Italian mathematician and philosopher renowned for his work in mechanics, geometry, logic, and epistemology. The selections in this book – many of which a...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Alfarabi and the Foundation of Islamic Political Philosophy

Mahdi Muhsin S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226501871, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
288 pp., 23x15 cm

In this work, Muhsin Mahdi – widely regarded as the preeminent scholar of Islamic political thought – distills more than four decades of research to offer an authoritative analysis of the work of Alfarabi, the founder of Islamic political philosophy....

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Philosophy

Realism for the 21st Century A John Deely Reader

Deely John

ISBN: PB: 9781589661486, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, February 2010
465 pp., 23x15 cm

"Realism for the 21st Century" is a collection of thirty essays from John Deely – a major figure in contemporary semiotics and an authority on scholastic realism and the works of Charles Sanders Peirce. The volume tracks Deely's development as a prag...

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Philosophy

Symbolic Construction of Reality The Legacy of Ernst Cassirer

Barash Jeffrey Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780226036861, University of Chicago Press, December 2008
248 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In 1933 eminent philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945) fled Nazi Germany for the United States. His fame in Europe having already been established through a public debate with Martin Heidegger in 1929, Cassirer would go on to become a noteworthy infl...

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Philosophy

Hope Now The 1980 Interviews

Sartre Jean-Paul, Levy Benny

ISBN: PB: 9780226476315, University of Chicago Press, August 2007
142 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In March of 1980, just a month before Sartre's death, Le Nouvel Observateur published a series of interviews, the last ever given, between the blind and debilitated philosopher and his young assistant, Benny Levy. Readers were scandalized and denounc...

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