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Vindicatio Aristotelis: Two Works of George of Trebizond in the Plato-Aristotle Controversy of the Fifteenth Century

By George of TrebizondEdited and translated by John Monfasani (NHC Fellow, 2011–12) The Greek philosopher George of Trebizond started the Plato-Aristotle Controversy of the Renaissance with two works published in Rome in the late 1450s. The first was his&nbsp Protectio Aristotelis Problematum (The Protection of Aristotle’s Problemata), which was as much a treatise on translation as it was a polemic in … Continued

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William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism: A Biography

By Robert D. Richardson (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) The definitive biography of the fascinating William James, whose life and writing put an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, teaching, and religion — on modernism itselfPivotal member of the Metaphysical Club, author of The Varieties of Religious Experience, eldest sibling in the extraordinary James family, William emerges here … Continued

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Espontaneidade da razão: a analítica conceptual da refutação do empirismo na filosofia de Wittgenstein

By M. S. Lourenço (NHC Fellow, 1979–80) É conhecida a circunstância de Ludwing Wittgenstein ser o criador de dois sistemas filosóficos diferentes, o primeiro expresso no essencial na sua obra Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus e o segundo em obras diversas como Philosophische Unter suchungen, Bemerkungen uber die Grundlagen der Mathematik e o volume recentemente aparecido sob o … Continued

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Evil in Aristotle

Edited by Pavlos Kontos (NHC Fellow, 2017–18) Aristotle's notion of evil is highly elaborate and attractive, yet has been largely overlooked by philosophers. While most recent studies of evil focus on modern understandings of the concept, this volume shows that Aristotle's theory is an invaluable resource for our contemporary understanding of it. Twelve leading scholars … Continued

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Feminist Interpretations of Mary Daly

Edited by Marilyn Frye (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) and Sarah Lucia Hoagland This open-ended anthology is a journey into the very canon that Mary Daly has argued to be patriarchal and demeaning to women. This volume deauthorizes the official canon of Western philosophy and disrupts a related story told by some feminists who claim that Daly’s … Continued

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Fichte: The Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762-1799

By Anthony J. La Vopa (NHC Fellow, 1983–84; 1998–99) In this biographical study of the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte from his birth in 1762 to the crisis in his university career in 1799, Professor La Vopa uses Fichte's life and thought to deepen our understanding of German society, culture, and politics in the age … Continued

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Hobbes

By Bernard Gert (NHC Fellow, 2001–02) Thomas Hobbes was the first great English political philosopher. His work excited intense controversy among his contemporaries and continues to do so in our own time. In this masterly introduction to his work, Bernard Gert provides the first account of Hobbes’s political and moral philosophy that makes it clear why he is regarded … Continued

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Kant’s Search for the Supreme Principle of Morality

By Samuel J. Kerstein (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) At the core of Kant's ethics lies the claim that if there is a supreme principle of morality then it cannot be a principle based on utilitarianism or Aristotelian perfectionism or the Ten Commandments. The only viable candidate for such a principle is the categorical imperative. This book … Continued

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Meaning in Mind: Fodor and His Critics

Edited by Barry Loewer (NHC Fellow, 1988–89) and Georges Rey Even in the eyes of many of his critics, Fodor is widely regarded as the most important philosopher of psychology of his generation. With Noam Chomsky at MIT in the 1960s he mounted a strenuous attack on the behaviourism that then dominated psychology and most … Continued