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Philosophy

New Treatise on the Uniqueness of Consciousness

Shili Xiong, Makeham John

ISBN: HB: 9780300191578, Yale University Press, July 2015
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

This book, the first English translation of what many consider to be the most original work of Chinese philosophy produced in the twentieth century, draws from Buddhist and Confucian philosophy to develop a critical inquiry into the relation between...

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Philosophy

Culture and the Death of God

Eagleton Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780300212334, Yale University Press, June 2015
264 pp., 21x14 cm

How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this thought-provoking book the contradictions, difficulties and significance of the...

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Philosophy

Tunguska, or the End of Nature A Philosophical Dialogue

Hampe Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226123127, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 5 halftones, 5 line drawings

On June 30, 1908, a mysterious explosion erupted in the skies over a vast woodland area of Siberia. Known as the Tunguska Event, it has been a source of wild conjecture over the past century, attributed to causes ranging from meteors to a small black...

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Philosophy

Objectivity and Diversity Another Logic of Scientific Research

Harding Sandra

ISBN: PB: 9780226241364, ISBN: HB: 9780226241227, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Worries about scientific objectivity seem never-ending. Social critics and philosophers of science have argued that invocations of objectivity are often little more than attempts to boost the status of a claim, while calls for value neutrality may be...

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Philosophy

Confronting Aristotle's Ethics Ancient and Modern Morality

Garver Eugene

ISBN: PB: 9780226270197, ISBN: HB: 9780226283982, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is the good life? Posing this question today would likely elicit very different answers. Some might say that the good life means doing good – improving one's community and the lives of others. Others might respond that it means doing well – cult...

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Philosophy

Mind, Self, and Society The Definitive Edition

Mead George Herbert

ISBN: PB: 9780226112732, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
536 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

George Herbert Mead is widely recognized as one of the most brilliantly original American pragmatists. Although he had a profound influence on the development of social philosophy, he published no books in his lifetime. This makes the lectures collec...

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Philosophy

Kant's Organicism Epigenesis and the Development of Critical Philosophy

Mensch Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780226271514, ISBN: HB: 9780226021980, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
256 pp., 23x15 cm

Because it laid the foundation for nearly all subsequent epistemologies, Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" has overshadowed his other interests in natural history and the life sciences, which scholars have long considered as separate from his...

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History of Art

Modular Objects Civil Society

Oppenheimer Geof

ISBN: HB: 9780945323235, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, May 2015
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 143 halftones

"Modular Objects Civil Society" creatively reimagines the ways in which communities collectively produce meaning through the social environments they inhabit – and thereby cultivate. At its heart, the book is a reflection on the performance of living...

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Philosophy

On Historical Distance

Salber Phillips Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780300213874, ISBN: HB: 9780300140378, Yale University Press, April 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

Conceptions of distance are foundational to historical thought, but Mark Salber Phillips gives the idea new subtlety and meaning. He argues that distance is a matter not just of time and space but also of form, affect, ideology, and understanding. In...

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Philosophy

Deepest Human Life An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone

Samuelson Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226272771, ISBN: HB: 9780226130385, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Sometimes it seems like you need a PhD just to open a book of philosophy. We leave philosophical matters to the philosophers in the same way that we leave science to scientists. Scott Samuelson thinks this is tragic, for our lives as well as for phil...

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