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31. Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species

    By Mary Gregory

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    In this study Dr. Gregory examines how Diderot borrowed from Lucretius, Buffon, Maupertuis, and probability theory, and combined ideas from these sources in an innovative fashion to hypothesize that species are mutable and that all life arose randomly from a single prototype....

    Published October 22nd 2006 by Routledge
32. Time, Space, and Ethics in the Thought of Martin Heidegger, Watsuji Tetsuro, and Kuki Shuzo

    By Graham Mayeda

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    In this book, Graham Mayeda demonstrates how Watsuji Tetsuro and Kuki Shuzo, two twentieth-century Japanese philosophers, criticize and interpret Heideggerian philosophy, articulating traditional Japanese ethics in a modern idiom....

    Published June 26th 2006 by Routledge
33. Hegel's Critique of Essence

    A Reading of the Wesenlogic

    By Franco Cirulli

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    This volume shows how The Doctrine of Essence intersects with perennial philosophical questions including above all, the relationship between freedom and determinism. The Doctrine of Essence is of central importance, since it is a critical description of traditional categories which also...

    Published May 25th 2006 by Routledge
34. Dialectics of the Body

    Corporeality in the Philosophy of Theodor Adorno

    By Lisa Yun Lee

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    The study of Theodor Adorno has largely ignored or dismissed the enigmatic and provocative moments in his writing on the body. Dialectics of the Body corrects this gap by arguing that Adorno's analysis of reified society emanates and returns to the body and that hope and desire are present...

    Published December 25th 2004 by Routledge
35. The Constitution of Consciousness

    A Study in Analytic Phenomenology

    By Wolfgang Huemer

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    Published December 12th 2004 by Routledge
36. The Beautiful Shape of the Good

    Platonic and Pythagorean Themes in Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment

    By Mihaela Fistioc

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    First published in 2002...

    Published July 11th 2002 by Routledge
37. Understanding the Many

    By Byeong-uk Yi

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    First published in 2002...

    Published May 30th 2002 by Routledge
38. Reality and Impenetrability in Kant's Philosophy of Nature

    By Daniel Warren

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    This book highlights Kant's fundamental contrast between the mechanistic and dynamical conceptions of matter, which is central to his views about the foundations of physics, and is best understood in terms of the contrast between objects of sensibility and things in themselves....

    Published August 23rd 2001 by Routledge
39. Names and Nature in Plato's Cratylus

    By Rachel Barney

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    This study offers a ckomprehensive new interpretation of one of Plato's dialogues, the Cratylus. Throughout, the book combines analysis of Plato's arguments with attentiveness to his philosophical method....

    Published August 8th 2001 by Routledge
40. Essays on Linguistic Context Sensitivity and its Philosophical Significance

    By Steven Gross

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    Drawing upon research in philosophical logic, linguistics and cognitive science, this study explores how our ability to use and understand language depends upon our capacity to keep track of complex features of the contexts in which we converse....

    Published July 8th 2001 by Routledge