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  • Machiavelli, Leonardo, and the Science of Power

    by Roger D. Masters ...
    Series series Frank M. Covey, Jr., Loyola Lectures in Political Analysis
    In recent years, Niccolò Machiavelli's works have been viewed primarily with historical interest as analysis of the tactics used by immoral political officials. Roger D. Masters, a leading expert in the relationship between modern natural sciences and politics, argues boldly in this book that Machiavelli should be reconsidered as a major philosopher whose thought makes the wisdom of antiquity ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by James Burke ...
    The companion volume for the award-winning PBS and BBC series from "one of the most intriguing minds in the western world" ( The Washington Post).The Day the Universe Changed presents a sweeping view of the history of science, technology, and human civilization and examines the moments in history when a change in knowledge radically altered man's understanding of himself and the world around him ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Philosophy of Historiography

    by John Lange ...
    A philosophical examination of the study of history, from its logic and semantics to its metaphysical and epistemological implications.This book is intended for the highly intelligent reader, who is interested in considering the difficulties, problems, and challenges of understanding and writing about the human past. It is popularly enough written, hopefully, to be a joy to read, and scholarly ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The William James Reader

    by Dr. William James ...
    William James was the older brother of novelist Henry James, and a pioneering psychologist and philosopher. His works pushed the boundaries of psychology and helped shape the direction the field would grow in. Collected here are four of his most important books: Essays in Radical Empiricism, The Meaning of Truth, The Varieties of Religious Experience, and What is an Emotion? These books helped ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Introducing Empiricism

    A Graphic Guide

    by Dave Robinson ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Our knowledge comes primarily from experience – what our senses tell us. But is experience really what it seems?The experimental breakthroughs in 17th-century science of Kepler, Galileo and Newton informed the great British empiricist tradition, which accepts a 'common-sense' view of the world – and yet concludes that all we can ever know are 'ideas'.In Introducing Empiricism: A Graphic Guide, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • John Locke

    The Father of Modern Liberalism

    by 50minutes ...
    Series series History
    Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the philosophy of John Locke in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of John Locke. Inspired by great philosophers such as Hobbes and Descartes, Locke sought to respond to the problems of his era through his philosophy. Outraged at the persecution of Protestants by the monarchy in England, he ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Empiricism and Experience

    by Anil Gupta ...
    This book offers a novel account of the relationship of experience to knowledge. The account builds on the intuitive idea that our ordinary perceptual judgments are not autonomous, that an interdependence obtains between our view of the world and our perceptual judgments. Anil Gupta shows in this important study that this interdependence is the key to a satisfactory account of experience. He uses ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Kuhnian Image of Science

    Time for a Decisive Transformation?

    Edited by Moti Mizrahi ...
    Series series Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society
    More than 50 years after the publication of Thomas Kuhn’s seminal book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, this volume assesses the adequacy of the Kuhnian model in explaining certain aspects of science, particularly the social and epistemic aspects of science. One argument put forward is that there are no good reasons to accept Kuhn’s incommensurability thesis, according to which scientific ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Science and Relativism

    Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science

    by Larry Laudan ...
    This provocative book presents spirited debates about the philosophy of science from positivist, realist, pragmatist, and relativist perspectives.In recent years, many members of the intellectual community have embraced a radical relativism regarding knowledge in general and scientific knowledge in particular, holding that Kuhn, Quine, and Feyerabend have knocked the traditional picture of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Metaphysicians of Meaning

    Frege and Russell on Sense and Denotation

    by Gideon Makin ...
    Series series International Library of Philosophy
    Russell's On Denoting and Frege's On Sense and Reference are now widely held to be two of the founding papers of twentieth century philosophy and form the heart of the famous "linguistic turn". The Metaphysicians of Meaning is the first book to challenge the accepted secondary work on these two seminal papers, forcing us to reconsider the interpretation of these two vitally important works on ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Conversion to Catholicism in Early Modern Italy

    by Peter A. Mazur ...
    Series series Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World
    In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, conversion took on a new importance within the Catholic world, as its leaders faced the challenge of expanding the church's reach to new peoples and continents while at the same time reinforcing its authority in the Old World. Based on new archival research, this book details the extraordinary stories of converts who embraced a new religious identity in ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Measuring Wellbeing

    A History of Italian Living Standards

    by Giovanni Vecchi ...
    In 150 years Italy transformed itself from a poor and backward country into one where living standards are among the highest in the world. In Measuring Wellbeing, Giovanni Vecchi provides an innovative analysis of this change by drawing on family accounts that provide engaging insights into life and are the "micro" data that create the foundations for the "macro" picture of variations and ... Read more

    $133.59 CAD