“…While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had faced many decades earlier--and that had landed him in jail. …”

“…In "Calvino, Manzoni and the Grey Zone," Carlo Ginzburg pithily writes about the mental dialogue between Holocaust survivor Primo Levi and two Italians who profoundly influenced Levi's search for these "unexplored pockets of exception"--his contemporary Italo Calvino and the nineteenth-century novelist and philosopher Alessandro Manzoni. And finally, in "Schema and Bias", he probes whether the historian can clearly see into the past, peering through the layers of bias, which include their own prejudices, or if relativism is the only path."…”

“…Wideman's first novel in a decade conjures the author of The Wretched of the Earth and his urgent relevance todayWideman's fascinating new novel weaves together fiction, biography, and memoir to evoke the life and message of Frantz Fanon, the influential author of The Wretched of the Earth. A philosopher, psychiatrist, and political activist, Fanon was a fierce, acute critic of racism and oppression. …”
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“…Plato's Ghost" evokes Yeats' lament that any claim to worldly perfection inevitably is proven wrong by the philosopher's ghost; Gray demonstrates how modernist mathematicians believed they had advanced further than anyone before them, only to make more profound mistakes. …”

“…Understanding the emergence of a scientific culture - one in which cognitive values generally are modelled on, or subordinated to, scientific ones - is one of the foremost historical and philosophical problems with which we are now confronted. …”

“…Zimmerman begins by distinguishing three well-established views about the nature of moral obligation: the Objective, Subjective, and Prospective Views. Some philosophers have attempted to reconcile the three views in question, but these attempts are shown to fail. …”

“…Engaging closely with contemporary literary and philosophical work in the field from the UK and US, Helen Small distinguishes between arguments that retain strong Victorian roots (Mill on happiness; Arnold on use value) and those that have developed or been substantially altered since. …”

“…Addressing this problem requires an interesting and fruitful detour through the theory of directed graphs, allowing us to draw interesting connections between philosophical problems and purely mathematical ones. …”

“…Sixteen specially commissioned essays introduce and explore the contributions of those philosophers who have shaped the subject, from its origins in the work of the ancient Greeks to contemporary developments in the 21st Century. …”

“…Collins is our guide as he takes us through the writings of many of the world's greatest thinkers,- philosophers, preachers, poets, scientists - both past and present, including such luminaries as C. …”

“…Drawing on a wide range of philosophical influences, but avoiding unnecessary technicality, a view is developed whereby arithmetic can be known through the examination of empirically grounded concepts. …”

“…Taking readers on a tour of the practice of mathematics and the philosophical ideas that drive the discipline, Lynn Gamwell points out the important ways mathematical concepts have been expressed by artists. …”

“…Given their ubiquitous character, one might think that there would be a standard metaphysical account of properties and objects, but they remain a philosophical mystery. Douglas Ehring presents a defense of tropes--properties and relations understood as particulars--and of trope bundle theory as the best accounts of properties and objects, and advocates a specific brand of trope nominalism, Natural Class Trope Nominalism. …”

“…'Civil Religion' offers philosophical commentaries on more than twenty thinkers stretching from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. …”

“…Lucian lightens the majestic tone of the Platonic-style dialogue and adds a dramatic satirical aspect, thereby blending two quite different genres (the philosophical dialogue and comedy) into an entirely new genre. …”

“…In order to rediscover these links, this research makes use of texts and compositions by French grammarians, orators, poets, musicians and philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries. The interdisciplinary approach allows us to rediscover an astonishing abundance of ideas, images and methods of which we are at the same time the heirs, and without which the experimental work of the 19th-century phoneticians would not have been possible. …”

“…Not only is the disposition of its research endeavours grounded on a philosophical basis, it is also embedded in the empirical. …”

“…L’enquête linguistique menée dans l’ouvrageo montre que les deux manières de concevoir les événements qui divisent profondément les philosophes contemporains, sont en réalité présentes et pour ainsi dire disponibles dans la pensée inscrite dans les structures d’une langue comme le français. …”