John Searle

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This is the only true comprehensive introduction to Searle's work. As such, it will be of particular value to advanced undergraduates, graduates, and professionals in philosophy, psychology, linguistics, cognitive and computer science, and literary theory.

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Wittgenstein's Copernican Revolution

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
This book sets out to defend Wittgenstein against the charge that he is a linguistic idealist. The early chapters are concerned to elucidate what linguistic realism and linguistic idealism claim, and to show how Wittgenstein's contribution to an understanding of the relation between language and reality cuts through these two opposite philosophical theses […]

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A Companion to African Philosophy

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
This volume, comprised of 42 newly commissioned and 5 adapted essays, provides comprehensive coverage of African philosophy, ranging across disciplines and throughout the ages.The essays encompass all the main branches of philosophy - logic, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, religion, and politics, among others - as these have occupied the African mind in […]

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The Philosophy of Thomas Reid: A Collection of Essays

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
This volume is part of a wave of interest in Thomas Reid. It presents an essay by Reid setting out his account of causality and agency, followed by ten essays exploring aspects of his thought. His relation to other thinkers, such as Kant, is also explored.

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Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism?

Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Pri
Presents a range of views that attempt to do justice to the ambiguity and richness of Nietzsche's thought. This book explores in depth Nietzsche's attitudes toward Jews, Judaism, Christianity, anti-Semitism, and National Socialism. It interrogates Nietzsche's writings for fascist and anti-Semitic proclivities.

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Letters

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Letters

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Jean Francois Lyotard

Publisher: Routledge
An essential student guide to Lyotard and issues in his work, including modernity and the postmodern, the sublime, ethics, history and representation, art and the unpresentable, knowledge and the university and the future.

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Rules, Reasons and Norms

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Presents a series of interconnected essays. This book discusses the rule-following character of thought; considers how choice can be responsive to different sorts of factors, while being under the control of thought and reasons; and, examines the implications of this view of choice and rationality for the normative regulation of social behaviour.

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Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Reprinted from the posthumous edition of 1777 and edited with introduction, comparative tables of contents, and analytical index by L. A. Selby-Bigge. Third edition with text revised and notes by P. H. Nidditch.

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The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
The philosophy of the social sciences is concerned with a wide range of problems that pertain to explanations of human action and thought. This volume surveys the full range of issues that philosophy of social science now encompasses.

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