Author: James Strick
Publisher: Thoemmes Continuum
Keywords: evolution, anti, debates, darwin, press, thoemmes, spontaneous, generation, debate
Number of Pages: 2770
Published: 2001-04
List price: $630.00
ISBN-10: 1855068729
ISBN-13: 9781855068728

’Carefully selected by James Strick, this comprehensive collection of primary source materials resurrects the forgotten man of evolutionary theory, Henry Charlton Bastian, and opens a new window on controversies which divided the ranks of evolutionary naturalists. The hostile reaction of Thomas Henry Huxley and his allies to Bastian’s challenge - that they accept the theory of spontaneous generation and the materialism connected with it - shows just how far they were willing to go to sanitize evolutionary theory for public consumption while maintaining their own respectability. Str

Author: James Fieser
Publisher: Thoemmes Continuum
Keywords: volumes, vol, amp, writings, epistemological, hume, metaphysical, responses
Number of Pages: 750
Published: 2005-03-01
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 1843711168
ISBN-13: 9781843711162

This major new work is the second part of an important new series, Early Responses to Hume’s Writings, a collection of 18th and 19th-century critical publications on Hume’s philosophical, political, economic and historical writings. The themes of the two volumes printed here are the replies to Hume’s metaphysical philosophy and epistemology. They contain responses to the Treatise Books 1 and 2, and the metaphysical and epistemological portions of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and A Dissertation on the Passions. Topics covered include causality, personal identity,

Authors:Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, Robert H. Wozniak,
Publisher: Thoemmes Continuum
Keywords: psychology, vol, classics, press, english, thoemmes, intelligence
Number of Pages: 588
Published: 2001-04
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 1855066602
ISBN-13: 9781855066601

Writing from a rigorously deterministic and positivistic stance and drawing on evidence from psychopathology and neural physiology, Taine mounted an influential attack on the tendency toward reification inherent in faculty psychology. For Taine, terms such as ’self’, ’memory’, and ’season’ stood not for entities but simply for successions of mental events.

Author: John Valdimir Price
Publisher: Thoemmes Continuum
Keywords: eighteenth, sources, aesthetics
Number of Pages: 2822
Published: 1998-09-15
List price: $1,740.00
ISBN-10: 1855065991
ISBN-13: 9781855065994

Author: John R. Shook
Publisher: Thoemmes Continuum
Keywords: american, thought, history, functionalism, school, chicago
Number of Pages: 1400
Published: 2001-01-15
List price: $720.00
ISBN-10: 1855068648
ISBN-13: 9781855068643

The Chicago School of Functionalism was a major revolutionary force in psychology and philosophy. Its stunningly original use of evolutionary biology and experimental psychology created a novel pragmatic approach to the explanation of human behavior and intelligence. John Dewey, James Angell, and their students defended the astounding claim that a theory of reasoning and knowledge could be erected on empirical investigations into the natural functionings of the human nervous system. Volume 1 contains central documents of the functionalist tradition, displaying its foundations and growth. Dewey

Authors:G. A. J. Rogers, Karl Schuhmann,
Publisher: Thoemmes Press
Keywords: classic, texts, continuum, leviathan, hobbes, thomas
Number of Pages: 856
Published: 2006-03-15
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 184371132X
ISBN-13: 9781843711322

By a deep and careful analysis of the text, enabling a new printing history of Leviathan to be constructed, this edition demonstrates that the traditional picture is substantially wrong. Both the Bear and Ornaments editions contain corrections and changes by Hobbes himself and are therefore central to reconstructing his text. In their substantial Introduction the editors examine all previous editions of Leviathan (as well as the manuscript copy prepared for Hobbes as a presentation copy for the King), throwing light on its history and calling into question the assumptions of previous editors.

Author: Manuel Delanda
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: social, complexity, theory, assemblage, philosophy, society, new
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 2006-11-14
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0826491693
ISBN-13: 9780826491695

Manuel DeLanda is a distinguished writer, artist and philosopher. In his new book, he offers a fascinating look at how the contemporary world is characterized by an extraordinary social complexity. Since most social entitles, from small communities to large nation-states, would disappear altogether if human minds ceased to exist, Delanda proposes a novel approach to social ontology that asserts the autonomy of social entities from the conceptions we have of them. This highly original and important book takes the reader on a journey that starts with personal relations and climbs up one scale at