19th Century Philosophy

David E. Cooper elucidates Nietzsche's educational views in detail, in a form that will be of value to educationalists as well as philosophers. In this title, first published in 1983, he shows how these views relate to the rest of Nietzsche's work, and to modern European and Anglo-Saxon philosophica..

First published in 1989, this book considers Bertrand Russell’s exchanges with his elders in philosophy, with his contemporaries, and with one of his most outstanding pupils. The conversations presented cover subjects such as: the nature of relations; the relation of the subject and object in knowle..

First published in 1989, this book considers Bertrand Russell’s exchanges with his elders in philosophy, with his contemporaries, and with one of his most outstanding pupils. The conversations presented cover subjects such as: the nature of relations; the relation of the subject and object in knowle..

This book presents the thought of Charles S. Peirce and its relevancy to linguistics - in particular to semiotics, or the study of signs...

Originally published in 1988, this collection brings together a wide range of original readings on Friedrich Nietzsche, reflecting many aspects of Neitzsche in contemporary philosophy, literature and the social sciences. The Nietzsche these contributors discuss is the Nietzsche who exceeds any attem..

First published in 1923, this title explores the schools of religious thought and practice that sprung up towards the end of the nineteenth century and at the start of the twentieth. In particular, the author explores the numerous ways in which ‘Eastern’ religious traditions, or at least spiritual p..

This volume covers the birth of sociology and the social sciences, the development of French spiritualism, the beginning of American pragmatism, the rise of science and mathematics, and the maturation of hermeneutics and phenomenology...

In this book, scholars examine the nature and significance of Peirce’s work on perception, iconicity, and diagrammatic thinking. Abjuring any strict dichotomy between presentational and representational mental activity, Peirce’s theories transform the Aristotelian, Humean, and Kantian paradigms that..

This book presents a systematic interpretation of Charles S. Peirce’s work based on a Kantian understanding of his teleological account of thought and inquiry. Departing from readings that contrast Peirce’s treatment of purpose, end, and teleology with his early studies of Kant, Gabriele Gava instea..

This book presents a systematic interpretation of Charles S. Peirce’s work based on a Kantian understanding of his teleological account of thought and inquiry. Departing from readings that contrast Peirce’s treatment of purpose, end, and teleology with his early studies of Kant, Gabriele Gava instea..

This anthology of readings in contemporary Western philosophy focuses on 19th-century philosophers who represent a variety of responses to the issue of their day: whether or not there was a knowable, nonhuman rational order upon which thinking persons could willfully choose to act. The selections ar..

This collection of essays is one of the first critical engagements with On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason. Chapters by leading Schopenhauer scholars examine the possible interpretations of the principle of rational thought and argue for a new, Kantian-inspired formulation an..