Books by Faculty Members
|
|
Economics and the Virtues: Building a New Moral Foundation Jennifer Baker In Economics and the Virtues, editors Jennifer A. Baker and Mark D. White have brought together fifteen leading scholars in economics and philosophy to offer fresh perspectives on integrating |
 |
The well-Ordered Universe: The Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish Deborah Boyle Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) published books on natural philosophy as well as stories, plays, poems, orations, allegories, and letters. The Well-Ordered Universe explores the development of Cavendish's natural philosophy from the atomism of her 1653 poems to the panpsychist materialism of her 1668 Grounds of Natural Philosophy. |
|
|
Descartes on Innate Ideas Deborah A. Boyle The concept of innateness is central to Descartes’ epistemology; the Meditations display a new, non-Aristotelian method of acquiring knowledge by attending properly to our innate ideas. Yet understanding Descartes’s conception of innate ideas is not an easy task and some commentators have concluded that Descartes held several distinct and unrelated conceptions of innateness. |
 |
Perceiving Reality Christian Coseru What turns the continuous flow of experience into perceptually distinct objects? Can our verbal descriptions unambiguously capture what it is like to see, hear, or feel? How might we reason about the testimony that perception alone discloses? Christian Coseru proposes a rigorous and highly original way to answer these questions by developing a framework for understanding perception as a mode of apprehension that is intentionally constituted, pragmatically oriented, and causally effective. |
 |
Kierkegaard's Dancing Tax Collector Sheridan Hough Prof. Hough’s lastest book explores Kierkegaard's conception of the self through the lens of a minor character in Fear and Trembling. Her work touches on the debt to Kierkegaard owed by many existential philosophers, including Heidegger and de Beauvoir, and explores thematic affinities with Nietzsche.
|
 |
Mirror's Fathom Sheridan Hough Mirror’s Fathom is the story of Tycho Wilhelm Lund—anarchist, pirate, and thief of a legendary mirror. Tycho is also a great-nephew of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and is, when the novel begins, a mild-mannered antiques dealer who is asked to assess the value of some furniture at the home of Regine Schlegel, Kierkegaard’s famously jilted former love. Upon his arrival, Tycho—who has no interest in philosophy—finds himself at a meeting of the Kierkegaard Circle, a group faithfully reading aloud Kierkegaard’s works. |
 |
Nietzsche's Noontide Friend Sheridan Hough Ever since Heidegger lectured on Nietzsche, philosophers have stressed the active side of the Übermensch, the self who aggressively consumes and exploits value. Sheridan Hough, however, argues that there is a distinctly receptive and passive side to the Nietzschean self, and thus a pervasive doubleness in Nietzsche's thought that hasn't been explored before. This doubleness is the focus of Hough's attention here. |
 |
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Larry Krasnoff This book introduces Hegel’s best known and most influential work, Phenomenology of Spirit, by interpreting it as a unified argument for a single philosophical claim: that human beings achieve their freedom through retrospective self-understanding. In clear, non-technical prose, Larry Krasnoff sets this claim in the context of the history of modern philosophy and shows how it is developed in the major sections of Hegel’s text. |
 |
New Essays on the History of Autonomy Larry Krasnoff and Natalie Brender, editors Although Kantian autonomy is often considered independent of time and place, J.B. Schneewind's landmark study, The Invention of Autonomy, has shown that much can be learned by analyzing Kant's moral philosophy in the context of the history of modern moral philosophy. Distinguished contributors accordingly relate Kant's work to the historical context of his predecessors (as well as the empirical context of human agency) in this valuable resource for professionals and advanced students. |
 |
Norms of Assertion: Truth, Lies, and Warrant Rachel McKinnon When we make claims to each other, we're asserting. But what does it take to assert well? Do we need to know what we're talking about? This book argues that we don't. In fact, it argues that in some special contexts, we can lie. |
 |
The Future of Punishment Thomas Nadelhoffer, editor The Future of Punishment brings together some of the leading researchers in philosophy, psychology, and the law to discuss the future of punishment and retribution in a thoroughly interdisciplinary way. |
 |
Moral Psychology Thomas Nadelhoffer, editor Moral Psychology: Historical and Contemporary Readings is the first book to bring together the most significant contemporary and historical works on the topic from both philosophy and psychology. |
