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  • (Un)Doing History

    Thinking with the European Middle Ages

    by Vanita Seth ...
    Against the grain of much contemporary scholarship within medieval studies, this work emphasizes the radical alterity and historical rupture that the Middle Ages represents in European history.Through an engagement with three contentious debates in medieval studies – historiography, race and individuated subjectivity – Vanita Seth’s work employs postcolonial and postmodern theorizing to explore ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Europe's Indians

    Producing Racial Difference, 1500–1900

    by Vanita Seth, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    Europe’s Indians forces a rethinking of key assumptions regarding difference—particularly racial difference—and its centrality to contemporary social and political theory. Tracing shifts in European representations of two different colonial spaces, the New World and India, from the late fifteenth century through the late nineteenth, Vanita Seth demonstrates that the classification of humans into ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Diaspora Poetics and Homing in South Asian Women's Writing

    Beyond Trishanku

    by Izabella Kimak, Marina Carter, Sam Naidu, Setara Pracha, Shuhita Bhattacharjee, Vanita Seth, Gurbir Singh Jolly, María Alonso Alonso, María Jesús Cabarcos Traseira, Mitali P. Wong, Reshmi J. Hebbar ...
    This anthology of essays, deliberates chiefly on the notion of locating home through the lens of the mythical idea of Trishanku, implying in-between space and homing, in diaspora women’s narratives, associated with the South Asian region. The idea of in-between space has been used differently in various cultures but gesture prominently on the connotation of ‘hanging’ between worlds. Historically, ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

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    by Keith Sewell ...
    "Leaving Truth" offers a radically new, and potentially conclusive, contribution to our ancient science vs. religion debate. It is a collection of five essays, one main and four subsidiary. The collection addresses how we can most coherently select proposals as knowledge, and the limitation from this on the kinds of proposals that we can select. Though at first glance abstruse and academic, ... Read more

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  • Rationality for Mortals : How People Cope with Uncertainty

    How People Cope with Uncertainty

    by Gerd Gigerenzer ...
    Series series Evolution and Cognition
    Gerd Gigerenzer's influential work examines the rationality of individuals not from the perspective of logic or probability but from the point of view of adaptation to the real world of human behavior and interaction with the environment. Seen from this perspective human behavior is more rational than it might otherwise appear. This work is extremely influential and has spawned an entire research ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Rationality Through Reasoning

    by John Broome ...
    Series series The Blackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy
    Rationality Through Reasoning answers the question of how people are motivated to do what they believe they ought to do, built on a comprehensive account of normativity, rationality and reasoning that differs significantly from much existing philosophical thinking.Develops an original account of normativity, rationality and reasoning significantly different from the majority of existing ... Read more

    $34.00 USD

  • British Goblins

    by Wirt Sikes ...
    British Goblinsby Wirt SikesDespite the title, this book is actually a study of Welsh fairy folklore.In a certain sense Wales may be spoken of as the cradle of fairy legend. It is not now disputed that from the Welsh were borrowed many of the first subjects of composition in the literature of all the cultivated peoples of Europe. In the ground it covers, while this volume deals especially with ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Self-Knowledge

    by Brie Gertler ...
    Series series New Problems of Philosophy
    How do you know your own thoughts and feelings? Do we have ‘privileged access’ to our own minds? Does introspection provide a grasp of a thinking self or ‘I’?The problem of self-knowledge is one of the most fascinating in all of philosophy and has crucial significance for the philosophy of mind and epistemology. In this outstanding introduction Brie Gertler assesses the leading theoretical ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Between Saying and Doing : Towards an Analytic Pragmatism

    Towards an Analytic Pragmatism

    by Robert B. Brandom ...
    Between Saying and Doing aims to reconcile pragmatism (in both its classical American and its Wittgensteinian forms) with analytic philosophy. It investigates the relations between the meaning of linguistic expressions and their use. Giving due weight bot ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Sources of Knowledge

    On the Concept of a Rational Capacity for Knowledge

    by Andrea Kern ...
    Translated by Daniel Smyth ...
    How can human beings, who are liable to error, possess knowledge? The skeptic finds this question impossible to answer. If we can err, then it seems the grounds on which we believe do not rule out that we are wrong. Most contemporary epistemologists agree with the skeptic that we can never believe on grounds that exclude error. Sources of Knowledge moves beyond this predicament by demonstrating ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Metaphysicians of Meaning

    Frege and Russell on Sense and Denotation

    by Gideon Makin ...
    Series series International Library of Philosophy
    Russell's On Denoting and Frege's On Sense and Reference are now widely held to be two of the founding papers of twentieth century philosophy and form the heart of the famous "linguistic turn". The Metaphysicians of Meaning is the first book to challenge the accepted secondary work on these two seminal papers, forcing us to reconsider the interpretation of these two vitally important works on ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Chinese Metaphysics and its Problems

    Edited by Chenyang Li, Franklin Perkins ...
    This volume of new essays is the first English-language anthology devoted to Chinese metaphysics. The essays explore the key themes of Chinese philosophy, from pre-Qin to modern times, starting with important concepts such as yin-yang and qi and taking the reader through the major periods in Chinese thought - from the Classical period, through Chinese Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism, into the ... Read more

    $30.39 USD