Voltaire's Vine and Other Philosophies: How Gardens Inspired Great Writers
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Why did Marcel Proust have bonsai beside his bed? What was Jane Austen doing, coveting an apricot?...
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
Daniel Klein and Thomas Cathcart
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Here's an accusation - Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything. When it comes to language, it all...
The Denial of Nature: Environmental Philosophy in the Era of Global Capitalism
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A study of the increasingly precarious relationship between humans and nature, this book seeks to go...
Success and Suppression: Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance
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The Renaissance marked a turning point in Europe's relationship to Arabic thought. On the one hand,...
Understanding Liberal Democracy: Essays in Political Philosophy
Nicholas Wolterstorff and Terence Cuneo
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Understanding Liberal Democracy presents notable work by Nicholas Wolterstorff at the intersection...
Understanding Institutions: The Science and Philosophy of Living Together
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Understanding Institutions proposes a new unified theory of social institutions that combines the...
New Perspectives in Philosophy of Education: Ethics, Politics and Religion
David Lewin, Alexandre Guilherme and Morgan White
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New Perspectives in Philosophy of Education seeks to build a bridge between philosophical reflection...
Eating Otherwise: The Philosophy of Food in Twentieth-Century Literature
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This book explores the philosophical implications of the popular adage that 'you are what you eat'...
Language Lost and Found: On Iris Murdoch and the Limits of Philosophical Discourse
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Language Lost and Found takes as its starting-point Iris Murdoch's claim that "we have suffered a...