International Library of Philosophy
Plato's Theory of Knowledge
1st Edition
By Francis MacDonald Cornford
November 16, 2010
This is Volume V of ten on a series on Ancient Philosophy that includes the works of Aristotle, Plato and the history of Greek philosophy. Originally published in 1935, this study looks ‘the ‘Theaetetus’ and the ‘Sophist’ of Plato translated with a running commentary....
Political Pluralism: A Study in Contemporary Political Theory
1st Edition
By Kung Chuan Hsiao
November 16, 2010
First published in 2000. This is Volume IV of 6 from the Ethics and Political Philosophy series. It includes a study in contemporary political theory looking at political pluralism or the pluralistic theory of the state, giving a definition of the monistic state and describes the essential features...
Possibility
1st Edition
By Scott Buchanan
November 16, 2010
This is Volume II of seven in the Philosophy of Religion and General Philosophy series. Originally published in 1927, this essay takes the position of the bewildered individual seeking an intellectual way of life. In philosophy this is called methodology. It may not lead to future discovery or ...
Psyche: The cult of Souls and the Belief in Immortality among the Greeks
1st Edition
By Erwin Rohde
November 16, 2010
First published in 2000. This is Volume VI of seven in the Library of Philosophy series on Philosophy of Religion and General Philosophy. Written around 1925, This book entitled Psyche, offers an account of the opinions held by the Greeks about the life of the human soul after death, and is thus ...
Religion, Philosophy and Psychical Research: Selected Essays
1st Edition
By C.D. Broad
November 16, 2010
This is Volume I of seven in a series on the Philosophy of Religion and General Philosophy. Originally published in 1953, this is a collection of selected essays looking at Psychical Research to philosophy, arguments around the validity of a personal God and also looking at afterthoughts at the ...
Scientific method: An Inquiry into the Character and Validity of Natural Laws
1st Edition
By A.D. Ritchie
November 16, 2010
This is Volume V of a series of six on the Philosophy of Science. Originally published in 1923, this study offers an enquiry into the character and validity of natural laws- to state what kind of reasons there can be for holding any scientific theories whatever, whether they are those of Pythagoras...
The Doctrine of Signatures: A Defence of Theory in Medicine
1st Edition
By Scott Buchanan
November 16, 2010
First published in 2000. This is Volume II of six in the Library of Philosophy series on the Philosophy of Science. Written in 1938, this text explores the author's interest in the freedom of speculation, and the doubts and fears of individual thinkers who may doubt the intellectual process and ...
The History of Materialism
1st Edition
By F.A. Lange
November 16, 2010
This is Volume I of five in a series on Epistemology and Metaphysics. Originally published in 1865, this book offers the history of materialism and a criticism of its present importance in that period of time, presented in three parts....
The Individual and the Community: A Historical Analysis of the Motivating Factors Of Social Conduct
1st Edition
By Wen Kwei Liao
November 16, 2010
This is Volume V of six in a collection on Ethics and Political Philosophy. Originally published in 1933, it presents a historical analysis of the motivating factors of social conduct....
The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science: A Historical and Critical Essay
1st Edition
By Edwin Arthur Burtt
November 16, 2010
This is Volume III of six in a series on the Philosophy of Science. Originally published in 1924, this book presents a historical and critical essay on Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science....
The Nature of Life
1st Edition
By R. Rignano
November 16, 2010
First published in 2000. This is Volume IV of six in the Library of Philosophy series on the Philosophy of Science. Written in 1930, this volume looks at the nature of vital phenomena, which has been for so long the subject of dispute between vitalists and mechanists. It discusses the concepts of ...
The Philosophy of Music
1st Edition
By William Pole
November 16, 2010
This is Volume V in a series of seven on the Philosophy of Religion and General Philosophy. Originally published in 1924. The trained musician may have made a thorough study of technical methods in composition, but yet have no knowledge either of the physical basis of music or of the philosophical...