Author: Daris Ray Swindler
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Keywords: primates, introduction
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 1998-06
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0295977043
ISBN-13: 9780295977041

A comprehensive guide to the evolutionary history of the world’s prosimians, monkeys, and apes--and of humankind’s interactions with them. This account of 65 million years of adaptation and evolution concludes with a chapter on the threat that HOMO SAPIENS now pose to the survival of the world’s nonhuman primates. 42 photos. 72 drawings.

Author: J. K. Swindler
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: weaving
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 1991-06-28
List price: $78.00
ISBN-10: 0847676676
ISBN-13: 9780847676675

In this moderate realist account of the whole range of issues facing contemporary analytic philosophy, J. K. Swindler aims to fill the gap in the literature between extreme realism and extreme nominalism. He discusses such fundamental concepts as existence, property, universality, individual, and necessity; analyzes the paradoxes of negative existentials and the substitutivity of co-referential terms; and defends objectivity in philosophy. The study moves through three phases: first, an argument that objective philosophical truth is attainable; second, an extended realist analysis of fundament