The Significance of Beauty

P M Matthews

• Hardcover | Engels | New Synthese Historical Library | nr. 44
• In the Critique of Judgment , Kant argues that feeling is part of the system of the mind. Judgments of taste based on feeling are a unique kind of jud... Lees meer

Pufendorf's Theory of Sociability: Passions, Habits and Social Order

Heikki Haara

• Hardcover | Engels | New Synthese Historical Library | nr. 77
• This book centres on Samuel Pufendorf's (1632-1694) moral and political philosophy, a subject of recently renewed interest among intellectual historia... Lees meer

The Logic of Gersonides

Charles H Manekin

• Hardcover | Engels | New Synthese Historical Library | nr. 40
• In the great libraries of Europe and the United States, hidden in fading manuscripts on forgotten shelves, lie the works of medieval Hebrew logic. Fro... Lees meer

Aristotle's Theory of Abstraction

Allan Bäck

• Paperback | Engels | New Synthese Historical Library | nr. 73
• This book investigates Aristotle's views on abstraction and explores how he uses it. In this work, the author follows Aristotle in focusing on the sci... Lees meer

Augustus de Morgan and the Logic of Relations

Daniel D Merrill

• Hardcover | Engels | New Synthese Historical Library | nr. 38
• The middle years of the nineteenth century saw two crucial develop- ments in the history of modern logic: George Boole's algebraic treat- ment of logi... Lees meer

Leibniz and the Natural World

Pauline Phemister

• Hardcover | Engels | New Synthese Historical Library | nr. 58
• In the present book, Pauline Phemister argues against traditional Anglo-American interpretations of Leibniz as an idealist who conceives ultimate real... Lees meer

Knowledge and Demonstration

Orna Harari

• Hardcover | Engels | New Synthese Historical Library | nr. 56
• This study explores the theoretical relationship between Aristotle's theory of syllogism and his conception of demonstrative knowledge. More specifica... Lees meer

Medieval Formal Logic

• Hardcover | Engels | New Synthese Historical Library | nr. 49
• Central topics in medieval logic are here treated in a way that is congenial to the modern reader, without compromising historical reliability. The ac... Lees meer

John of the Cross and the Cognitive Value of Mysticism

S Payne

• Hardcover | Engels | New Synthese Historical Library | nr. 37
• Among Anglo-American philosophers, interest in mysticism has typically been limited to the question of whether or not mystical and religious experi- e... Lees meer

Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration

• Hardcover | Engels | New Synthese Historical Library | nr. 63
• This volume serves as an introduction to a rich and as yet under-explored period in the history of women's ideas. The volume provides a partial insigh... Lees meer

Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers with Special Properties

• Hardcover | Engels | New Synthese Historical Library | nr. 206
• Framework Science.- Polymers for Multifunctional Applications: Some General Considerations.- An Objective for Polymers with Unusual Properties: Polyme... Lees meer

The Logical Grammar of Abelard

R Pinzani

• Hardcover | Engels | New Synthese Historical Library | nr. 51
• Abelard is one of the foremost protagonists of the "twelfth-century Renaissance". He 'picks up the baton' from Boethius resuming the activity of comme... Lees meer

The Medieval Heritage in Early Modern Metaphysics and Modal Theory, 1400-1700

• Hardcover | Engels | New Synthese Historical Library | nr. 53
• On the most basic level, the articles brought together in the present volume aim to contribute to the charting of the (often subtle) links between the... Lees meer

Averroes' Questions in Physics

• Hardcover | Engels | New Synthese Historical Library | nr. 39
• overall title and the commentary of Narboni, but in which the treatise is given a close association rath De Substantia Orbis VII, which immedi- ately ... Lees meer

Infinity in Early Modern Philosophy

• Paperback | Engels | New Synthese Historical Library | nr. 76
• Examines a crucial but understudied philosophical topic in early modern philosophy Looks at the writings of such early modern thinkers as Hobbes, Cave... Lees meer

Piety, Peace, and the Freedom to Philosophize

• Hardcover | Engels | New Synthese Historical Library | nr. 47
• The 11 essays collected here have been composed by members of the North American Spinoza Society. They exhibit the fruits of the research, investigati... Lees meer

Moral Psychology in History: From the Ancient to Early Modern Period

• Hardcover | Engels | New Synthese Historical Library | nr. 79
• This book provides a comprehensive study of major issues of moral psychology throughout history, from ancient to early modern philosophy. The volume f... Lees meer

Philosophical Languages in the Seventeenth Century

Jaap Maat

• Hardcover | Engels | New Synthese Historical Library | nr. 54
• This book discusses three linguistic projects carried out in the seventeenth century: the artificial languages created by Dalgamo and Wilkins, and Lei... Lees meer

Aristotle's Theory of Abstraction

Allan Bäck

• Hardcover | Engels | New Synthese Historical Library | nr. 73
• This book investigates Aristotle's views on abstraction and explores how he uses it. In this work, the author follows Aristotle in focusing on the sci... Lees meer

The Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge

• Hardcover | Engels | New Synthese Historical Library | nr. 48
• This volume brings together a number of authors that see themselves as contribu- tors to, or critical commentators on, a new field that has recently e... Lees meer

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Marcelo Dascal

• Hardcover | Engels | New Synthese Historical Library | nr. 60
• Leibniz is known to the wide public and to many scholars mainly as a logician and mathematician, and as the creator of a fascinating but strange metap... Lees meer

Leibniz and the English-Speaking World

• Hardcover | Engels | New Synthese Historical Library | nr. 62
• These essays comprise a first attempt to assess overall the attention awarded to Leibniz's philosophy in the English-speaking world in his own time an... Lees meer

Possibility, Agency, and Individuality in Leibniz's Metaphysics

Ohad Nachtomy

• Hardcover | Engels | New Synthese Historical Library | nr. 61
• Leibniz's notion of possibility is one of his most significant contributions to philosophy as well as one of the cornerstones of his metaphysics. This... Lees meer

Transformations in Medieval and Early-Modern Rights Discourse

• Hardcover | Engels | New Synthese Historical Library | nr. 59
• Rights language is a fundamental feature of the modern world. Virtually all significant social and political struggles are waged, and have been waged ... Lees meer