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Anthropic Bias
Anthropic Bias explores how to reason when you suspect that your evidence is biased by "observation selection effects"--that is, evidence that has been filtered by the precondition …
Referential Opacity and Modal Logic
This landmark dissertation (1961) provides a systematic introduction to systems of modal logic and stands as the first presentation of what have become central ideas in philosophy …
Language and History in Adorno's Notes to Literature
Plass argues that Adorno’s essays on literature are of prime importance for an understanding of his aesthetics because they challenge the conceptual limitations of philosophical …
Dialectics of the Body
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 …
Risk, Ambiguity and Decision
Ellsberg elaborates on "Risk, Ambiguity, and the Savage Axioms" and mounts a powerful challenge to the dominant theory of rational decision in this book.
Cajetan's Notion of Existence
Understanding the Many
This book presents a mathematically and logically sophisticated analysis of the many, or the more than one. Covering issues of natural numbers, facts and their proper analysis, …
The Constitution of Consciousness
Through the work of philosophers like Sellars, Davidson, and McDowell, the question of how the mind is related to the world has gained new importance in contemporary analytic …
Humanism in the contemporary era
Phenomenological Reflections on Violence
Following up on his previous book, Violence and Phenomenology, James Dodd presents here an expanded and deepened reflection on the problem of violence. The book’s six essays are …
Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity
Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity explores the theme of human rights in the work of Hannah Arendt. Parekh argues that Arendt's contribution to this debate has been …