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Making the Case
(April 2021)
Feminist and Critical Race Philosophers Engage Case Studies
Heidi Grasswick - Editor
Nancy Arden McHugh - Editor
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Epistemic Responsibility
(November 2020)
Lorraine Code - Author
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Develops a new kind of epistemological position that highlights virtue over more standard epistemological theories.
Having adequate knowledge of the world is not just a matter of survival but also one of obligation. This obligation to “know well” is what philosophers have termed “epistemic responsibility.” In this innovative and eclectic study, Lorraine Code explores the po...(Read More) |
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Manufactured Uncertainty
(November 2020)
Implications for Climate Change Skepticism
Lorraine Code - Author
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Wide-ranging critique of the epistemological and ethical assumptions that underlie contemporary debates concerning climate change.
In this provocative work, Lorraine Code returns to the idea of “epistemic responsibility,” as developed in her influential 1987 book of the same name, to confront the telling new challenges we now face to know the world with some sense of responsibilit...(Read More) |
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Being Measured
(December 2019)
Truth and Falsehood in Aristotle's Metaphysics
Mark R. Wheeler - Author
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Advances an interpretation of Aristotle’s theory of truth in terms of accurate measurement.
On the basis of careful textual exegesis and philosophical analysis of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Mark R. Wheeler offers a groundbreaking interpretation of Aristotle’s theory of truth in terms of measurement. Wheeler demonstrates that Aristotle’s investigation of truth and falsehood in the Metaphysics i...(Read More) |
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Confucianism's Prospects
(August 2019)
A Reassessment
Shaun O'Dwyer - Author
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Challenges descriptions of East Asian societies as Confucian cultures and communitarian Confucian models as a political alternative to liberal democracy.
In Confucianism’s Prospects, Shaun O’Dwyer offers a rare critical engagement with English language scholarship on Confucianism. Against the background of historical and sociological research into the rapid modernization of...(Read More) |
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Hyperthematics
(August 2019)
The Logic of Value
Marc M. Anderson - Author
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Presents a new and unique method for developing principles to be applied in creating and increasing value.
In this innovative work, Marc M. Anderson presents an account of value and value creation, which both defines value and introduces a method to manipulate value practically. Using this new methodology, Anderson first explores where value lies in experience, both human and otherwise, uncovering tendencies in human action and...(Read More) |
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Atomistic Intuitions
(October 2018)
An Essay on Classification
Gaston Bachelard - Author
Roch C. Smith - Translated and with an introduction by
Daniel Parrochia - Preface
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An English translation of the French philosopher’s sixth book, in which he seeks to develop a metaphysical context for modern atomistic science.
French philosopher Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) is best known in the English-speaking world for his work on poetics and the literary imagination, but much of his oeuvre is devoted to epistemology and the philosophy of science. Like Thomas Kuhn, whose work he anticipates by t...(Read More) |
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Partial Truths and Our Common Future
(September 2018)
A Perspectival Theory of Truth and Value
Donald A. Crosby - Author
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Argues that a pluralistic understanding of truth can foster productive conversations about common concerns involving religion, science, ethics, politics, economics, and ecology without falling into relativism.
In this book, Donald A. Crosby defends the idea that all claims to truth are at best partial. Recognizing this, he argues, is a necessary safeguard against arrogance, close-mindedness, and potentially violent reactions to...(Read More) |
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Entanglements
(March 2017)
A System of Philosophy
Crispin Sartwell - Author
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Click here to watch Crispin Sartwell discuss his book in nine videos.
Presents strikingly original and contemporary answers to the most traditional philosophical problems in epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and political theory.
A work of maximally ambitious scope with a foundation in humility, Entanglem...(Read More) |
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Kant and Aristotle
(April 2016)
Epistemology, Logic, and Method
Marco Sgarbi - Author
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A historical and philosophical reassessment of the impact of Aristotle and early-modern Aristotelianism on the development of Kant’s transcendental philosophy.
Kant and Aristotle reassesses the prevailing understanding of Kant as an anti-Aristotelian philosopher. Taking epistemology, logic, and methodology to be the key disciplines through which Kant’s transcendental philosophy stood as an ind...(Read More) |
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