Philosophy

Rousseau: The Arguments of the Philosophers

The Philosophes of the Enlightenment era were a renowned group of French thinkers, famous for their brilliant advocacy and advancement…

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A Farewell to Marx: An Outline and Appraisal of His Theories

Here is a quote to consider: “[Karl Marx’s] real mission in life was to contribute in one way or another…

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Kant’s Theory of Evil: An Essay on the Dangers of Self-love and the Aprioricity of History

Pablo Muchnik’s Kant’s Theory of Evil provides a defense of the continuing relevance of Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy by systematically addressing interpretive…

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Becoming William James

In the introduction Howard M. Feinstein wrote on the occasion of the reprinting of his Becoming William James (Cornell, 1999),…

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Standing on Aristotle’s Shoulders: David Roochnik on the Life and Work of Aristotle

 The third and final member of a chain of Athenian philosophers who would shape the foundation of Western philosophy, Aristotle (384…

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What’s Within: Colin McGinn on Nativism from Plato to Chomsky

The "Father of Modern Philosophy", René Descartes (1596–1650) was one of the most prominent voices of the Scientific Revolution. A…

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Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize

How does an intense friendship between two Nobel Prize Laureates, who were leaders of the French Resistance against the Nazis,…

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Tom Stoppard: A Life

Hermione Lee, an award-winning biographer, best known for her biographies of Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, and Penelope Fitzgerald, hazards this…

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Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach

Based on lectures given at Columbia University for its annual Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture Series, professor of philosophy Philip…

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Incompleteness: Rebecca Goldstein on the Life and Work of Kurt Gödel

Best known for his Incompleteness Theorem, Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) is considered one of the most important mathematicians and logicians of the…

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