Edmund Husserl was the founding father of phenomenology and one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. This collection will make available, in one place, the very best essays on Husserl's thought from the past seventy years. It will draw together a range of writings, many of which are otherwise inaccessible, that have been recognized as seminal contributions not only to an understanding of this great philosopher but also to the development of his phenomenology.
Edmund Husserl was the founding father of phenomenology and one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. This collection will make...
This collection brings together recent scholarship on Frege, including new translations of German material, made available to Anglophone scholars for the first time. Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) has come to be recognized as someone who, in demonstrating the affinity of logic with mathematics, laid the foundations for modern philosophy of language and modern logic. Frege regarded logic as the foundation for philosophy. In so doing he instigated a radical change in the stance of the majority of Western philosophers whose main pre-occupation had been with the nature of logic rather than logic....
This collection brings together recent scholarship on Frege, including new translations of German material, made available to Anglophone scholars for ...
Immanuel Kant is renowned for a dramatic shift in thinking about the world known as his Copernican Revolution. Experience is not the result simply of the mind's passive receipt of sense impressions: rather, the mind actively organizes our experience as experience of objects with qualities. We impose order on the world, applying categories which are universally valid. Since we actively shape experience, knowledge of the world is possible.
Immanuel Kant is renowned for a dramatic shift in thinking about the world known as his Copernican Revolution. Experience is not the result simply of ...
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was one of the 17th century's most important thinkers. A philosopher, mathematician and scientist, his work is comparable in scope and importance only to that of Newton and Descartes. His work dominated German philosophy until Kant, and was revived in the early part of the 20th century, when his work on logic was re-discovered.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was one of the 17th century's most important thinkers. A philosopher, mathematician and scientist, his work is c...
Richard Rorty (1931 2007) remains one of the contemporary world s most influential thinkers. He has been a major figure in philosophy ever since the publication of his first important paper, Mind-Body Identity, Privacy, and Categories in 1965, but it was the release of his seminal Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979) that caused the literature on his work to expand exponentially, a process which has accelerated since his death in 2007; scores of new articles and books about Rorty appear every year, and even his biography has proved to be an academic bestseller. Rorty s enduring...
Richard Rorty (1931 2007) remains one of the contemporary world s most influential thinkers. He has been a major figure in philosophy ever since th...
Daniel Dennett has been one of the central voices in the philosophy of mind for at least the past forty years. Unlike most philosophers of his generation, Dennett s work has resonated far and wide. It has powerfully influenced the development of cognitive science, robotics, developmental psychology, and artificial intelligence. Indeed, his work has led to many new lines of inquiry. For example, he has developed a theory of consciousness which provides an approach to naturalizing mind which...
A new title in Routledge s Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers series, this is a two-volume collection of the very best recent scholarship on Theodor W. Adorno (1903 69). It is an essential successor to an earlier four-volume collection, "Theodor Adorno" (Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory) (978-0-415-30464-1), edited by Simon Jarvis and published by Routledge in 2006.
Recent decades have seen a remarkable growth of scholarly studies devoted to Theodor W. Adorno s philosophy and social theory. Every year, conferences and publications all over the world testify to a lively...
A new title in Routledge s Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers series, this is a two-volume collection of the very best recent scholarship...
Elizabeth Anscombe (1919 2001) was one of the most important philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century, making major contributions in philosophy of mind, ethics, and metaphysics. She is particularly renowned for her work on intention and action. A pupil and friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Anscombe showed a deep understanding of his aims and methods, while being a bold and original thinker in her own right.
Anscombe published two monographs and numerous articles in her lifetime, and left a considerable "Nachlass." The monograph "Intention" (1957) has been hugely influential...
Elizabeth Anscombe (1919 2001) was one of the most important philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century, making major contributions i...
