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  • The History and Philosophy of Materialism

    Edited by Charles T. Wolfe, John Symons ...
    Series series Rewriting the History of Philosophy
    Materialism - the view that facts are dependent upon or reducible to physical processes - is one of the most long-standing and controversial of all philosophical theories. Originating in antiquity, its proponents include Epicurus, Hobbes, Diderot, Darwin and Marx, whilst its impact on modern physics and consciousness debates reverberates strongly today. It is also an important yet generally ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences

    by Delphine Bellis, Zvi Biener, Justin E. H. Smith, Angus Gowland, Ruth Hagengruber, Hiro Hirai, Martin Lenz, Gideon Manning, Silvia Manzo, Cesare Pastorino, Marius Stan, Kirsten Walsh ...
    Series series Reference Module Humanities
    This Encyclopedia offers a fresh, integrated and creative perspective on the formation and foundations of philosophy and science in European modernity. Combining careful contextual reconstruction with arguments from traditional philosophy, the book examines methodological dimensions, breaks down traditional oppositions such as rationalism vs. empiricism, calls attention to gender issues, to ... Read more

    $899.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Biology Before Biology

    Edited by Cécilia Bognon-Küss, Charles T. Wolfe ...
    Series series History and Philosophy of Biology
    The use of the term "biology" to refer to a unified science of life emerged around 1800 (most prominently by scientists such as Lamarck and Treviranus, although scholarship has indicated its usage at least 30-40 years earlier). The interplay between philosophy and natural science has also accompanied the constitution of biology as a science.Philosophy of Biology Before Biology examines biological ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life Science, 1800-2010

    Edited by Sebastian Normandin, Charles T. Wolfe ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Vitalism is understood as impacting the history of the life sciences, medicine and philosophy, representing an epistemological challenge to the dominance of mechanism over the last 200 years, and partly revived with organicism in early theoretical biology. The contributions in this volume portray the history of vitalism from the end of the Enlightenment to the modern day, suggesting some ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • Materialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction

    by Charles T. Wolfe ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book provides an overview of key features of (philosophical) materialism, in historical perspective. It is, thus, a study in the history and philosophy of materialism, with a particular focus on the early modern and Enlightenment periods, leading into the 19th and 20th centuries. For it was in the 18th century that the word was first used by a philosopher (La Mettrie) to refer to himself. ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Canguilhem and Continental Philosophy of Biology

    Edited by Giuseppe Bianco, Charles T. Wolfe, Gertrudis Van de Vijver ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This edited volume presents papers on this alternative philosophy of biology that could be called “continental philosophy of biology,” and the variety of positions and solutions that it has spawned. In doing so, it contributes to debates in the history and philosophy of science and the history of philosophy of science, as well as to the craving for ‘history’ and/or ‘theory’ in the theoretical ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Mechanism, Life and Mind in Modern Natural Philosophy

    Edited by Charles T. Wolfe, Paolo Pecere, Antonio Clericuzio ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume emphasizes the diversity and fruitfulness of early modern mechanism as a program, as a concept, as a model. Mechanistic study of the living body but also of the mind and mental processes are examined in careful historical focus, dealing with figures ranging from the first-rank (Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Cudworth, Gassendi, Locke, Leibniz, Kant) to less well-known individuals (Scaliger ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge

    Embodied Empiricism in Early Modern Science

    Edited by Charles T. Wolfe, Ofer Gal ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    It was in 1660s England, according to the received view, in the Royal Society of London, that science acquired the form of empirical enquiry we recognize as our own: an open, collaborative experimental practice, mediated by specially-designed instruments, supported by civil discourse, stressing accuracy and replicability. Guided by the philosophy of Francis Bacon, by Protestant ideas of this ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy

    Edited by Christopher Donohue, Charles T. Wolfe ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This Open Access book combines philosophical and historical analysis of various forms of alternatives to mechanism and mechanistic explanation, focusing on the 19th century to the present. It addresses vitalism, organicism and responses to materialism and its relevance to current biological science. In doing so, it promotes dialogue and discussion about the historical and philosophical importance ... Read more

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  • The Discourse of Modernism

    by Timothy J. Reiss ...
    Timothy J. Reiss perceives a new mode of discourse emerging in early seventeenth-century Europe; he believes that this form of thought, still our own, may itself soon be giving way. In The Discourse of Modernism, Reiss sets up a theoretical model to describe the process by which one dominant class of discourse is replaced by another. He seeks to demonstrate that each new mode does not constitute a ... Read more

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  • Kant's Organicism

    Epigenesis and the Development of Critical Philosophy

    by Jennifer Mensch ...
    "A striking and radical rereading of [Kant's first Critique] through the concept of epigenesis . . . Mensch's reading is bold and innovative." — Radical PhilosophyThe towering achievement of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason has long overshadowed his other interests in natural history and the life sciences, which were considered separate from his theoretical philosophy—until now. In Kant's ... Read more

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  • Sympathy

    A History

    Edited by Eric Schliesser ...
    Series series Oxford Philosophical Concepts
    Our modern-day word for sympathy is derived from the classical Greek word for fellow-feeling. Both in the vernacular as well as in the various specialist literatures within philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, economics, and history, "sympathy" and "empathy" are routinely conflated. In practice, they are also used to refer to a large variety of complex, all-too-familiar social phenomena: for ... Read more

    $44.99 USD