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Rene Descartes
Suitable for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of science.
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Voltaire
First published in French as Traitae sur la Tolaerance, A l'occasion de la mort de Jean Calas, 1763 –Title page verso.
The author was prepared to go to any lengths in his search for certainty - even to deny those things that seemed most self-evident. In this book, he developed a…
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Desmond Clarke
Reappraises the fourth royal governor of North Carolina, one-time surveyor-general of Ireland, known for his pamphlets on Irish and colonial economics and for his geographer’s interest in the Northwest Passage…
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Man, God, Religion, and State, is a reflection on our physical, philosophical, and political, past, present, and possible future. This book may challenge the religious views of some readers, but…
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Stolen Inheritance has a universal appeal, but should prove to be of particular interest to those who are looking to connect or re-connect with the peoples of Africa and Eurasia…
Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is the father of modern philosophy, and one of the greatest thinkers of all time. This intellectual biography of Descartes provides an account of Descartes’ intellectual and…
Descartes is commonly read as the paradigm defender of substance dualism, a theory caricatured by Ryle as the ‘dogma of the ghost in the machine’. The author shows that a…
This collection of original essays deals with Cartesian themes and problems, especially as these arise in connection with Cartesian natural science and the theory of perception, agency, mentality, divinity, and…
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Volume I of The Cambridge History of Africa provides the first relatively complete and authoritative survey of African prehistory from the time of the first hominids in the Plio-Pleistone up…
Desmond M. Clarke
The over-riding objective of Berkeley’s long philosophical career was to counteract objections to religious belief that resulted from new philosophies associated with the Scientific Revolution, and his radical empiricism and…
Desmond M. Clarke (University College Cork)
Descartes’ main contribution was positing a philosophy that would be sympathetic to the key concepts of the Scientific Revolution. This is the first biography in English that addresses the full…
Desmond M. Clarke (National University of Ireland, Cork)
The seventeenth century witnessed the first publications that argued for the equality of men and women. Desmond M. Clarke presents new translations of the three most important ones, with excerpts…
Desmond M. Clarke presents a thematic history of French philosophy from the middle of the sixteenth century to the beginning of Louis XIV’s reign. He explores the thought of lawyers…
J. Desmond Clark (University of California, Berkeley)
The Kalambo Falls basin in central Africa provides one of the longest and richest records of man’s activity in the African continent, with successive human occupation levels and horizons covering…
A team of leading scholars survey the development of philosophy in the period of extraordinary intellectual change from the mid-16th century to the early 18th century. They cover metaphysics and…
Graham Reynolds
Viola Desmond s Canada is groundbreaking book aimed at providing both general readers and students of Canadian history with a concise overview of the narrative of the Black experience in…
This is the eight volume set of The Cambridge History of Africa.
First full comprehensive guide to one of the most important genres of music in the Middle Ages.
This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
