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Contributors to this volume focus on the character of Socrates as the embodiment of philosophy, employing this as a starting point for exploring various themes in the Apology. These include the relation of philosophy to democracy, rhetoric, politics, or society in general, and the overarching question of what comprises the philosophic life.

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This text is part of a double volume anthology which presents a survey of current philosophical and scientific writings on colour. This second volume provides an overview of colour science and presents work in colour science that is relevant to philosophical thinking about colour.

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For centuries, debates about reason and its other have animated and informed philosophy, art, science, and politics throughout Western civilization but nowhere, arguably, as deeply and turbulently as in Germany. This book explores the myriad issues surrounding these debates.

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The essays in this book deal broadly with the question of what form reasoning about life and society can take in a culture permeated by scientific and technical modes of thought.

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In a novel interpretation of Platos Phaedrus, Tiago Lier argues that Socrates defense of rhetoric stems from a tension between the desires that motivate speech and the limited power of speech to realize those desires. This tension culminates in a philosophical ethic that Socrates and Plato cultivate through their respective forms of rhetoric.

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In a novel interpretation of Platos Phaedrus, Tiago Lier argues that Socrates defense of rhetoric stems from a tension between the desires that motivate speech and the limited power of speech to realize those desires. This tension culminates in a philosophical ethic that Socrates and Plato cultivate through their respective forms of rhetoric.

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Advancing research in artificial intelligence is creating reasoning systems that increasingly emulate or surpass the power of human reasoning.

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This book takes the ideas of six well-known secular Jewish philosophers and views them through the lens of Jewish thought, thereby understanding their writings as part of the Jewish intellectual tradition.

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Reconstructing the Personal Library of William James: Markings and Marginalia from the Harvard Library Collection is a much needed resource to facilitate archival and library research on the life and thought of James by providing scholars with the most comprehensive annotated catalog of his personal library.

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This book brings integrity to the center of philosophical conversations about morality and traces its roots as a philosophical idea to the American pragmatist tradition.

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This book is an investigation of algorithmic contingency and an elucidation of the contemporary situation that we are living in: the regular arrival of algorithmic catastrophes on a global scale. Through a historical analysis of philosophy, computation and media, this book proposes a renewed relation between nature and technics.

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Offers a different perspective on what it means to be a human being and to strive in the world despite the wounding effects of the socialization process. Drawing on the legacies of French poststructuralism, this book builds an alternative to the post-Foucaultian tendency to envision subjectivity as a function of hegemonic systems of power.

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This is a much-needed critical study of epistemological relativism in contemporary American philosophy, with special refence to the views of Alasdair MacIntyre, Hilary Putnam and Richard Rorty.

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Beginning with a review of the major traditional definitions of relativism and the classical arguments against it, this book examines twentieth-century accounts and defenses of relativism and points out that each account faces problems similar to those of the traditional versions.

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This study provides insight into the human desire to return to important places of our past and to establish places of memory. Drawing upon philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, Janet Donohoe uses the idea of a palimpsest as a jumping-off point to explore how we make and preserve memories.

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Erudite exploration of Republicanism as a political ideology and as an oppositional force to the emperors in Rome during the first century AD.