Faculty Books

Crossing the Stream, Leaving the Cave: Buddhist-Platonic Philosophical Inquiries

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Pierre-Julien Harter and Amber D. Carpenter

Crossing the Stream, Leaving the Cave: Budhist-Platonic Philosophical Inquiries, edited by our very own Prof. Pierre-Julien Harter and Amber D. Carpenter, has been published through Oxford University Press and is available now for purchase.

Crossing the Stream, Leaving the Cave brings philosophers from two of the world's greatest philosophical traditions--Platonic and Indian Buddhist--into joint inquiry on topics in metaphysics, epistemology, mind, language, and ethics. An international team of scholars address selected questions of mututal concern to Buddhist and Platonist: How can knowledge of reality transform us? Will such transformation leave us speechless, or disinterested in the world around us? What is cause? What is self-knowledge? And how can dreams shed light on waking cognition? What do the paradoxes thrown up by abstract thought anout fundamental notions such as being and unity reveal? Is it possible to attain unity in ourselves, and should we even try? Would doing so make us happy--and is such happiness consistent with both contemplation of reality and action in the world? With close readings of texts by Buddhaghosa, Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu, Dignaga, Bhaviveka, Santideva; by Plato, Plotinus, Porphyry, Olympiodorus, and Damascius (among others), these studies consider not just the different answers Buddhists and Platonists might give to these questions, but also the criticisms they might bring to each other's positions, the sort of arguments they use, and the use they they put these arguments to. Bringing Platonic and the Buddhist perspectives jointly to bear creates a cosmopolitan philosophical exchange which yields greater conceptual clairty on the questions and the terms in which they are cast, reveals unnoticed conceptual connections, and opens up new possibilities for addressing central philosophical concerns.

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Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital

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Adrian Johnston

Selfishness is essential to capitalism—or so both advocates and opponents claim. In Infinite Greed, Adrian Johnston argues that this consensus is mistaken. Through a novel synthesis of Marxism and psychoanalysis, he reveals how the relentless pursuit of profits is not fundamentally animated by human acquisitiveness. Instead, capitalism’s strange “infinite greed” demands that individuals sacrifice their pleasures, well-being, and even themselves to serve inhuman capital.

Johnston traces the mechanisms that compel capitalist subjects to obey the cold imperative to accumulate in perpetuity and without limits—and also without regard for the consequences for everyone and everything else. Facing crises such as spiraling wealth inequality and the profit-driven prospect of a looming ecological apocalypse, the rational self-interest of the majority would seem to dictate putting a stop to capitalist accumulation. By bringing together the Marxian critique of political economy with psychoanalytic metapsychology, Johnston shows why and how capitalism, rather than being responsive to people’s rationally selfish interests, disregards and overrides them instead.

Unlike previous syntheses of Marxism and psychoanalysis, Infinite Greed pairs Freudian and Lacanian concepts with the economic heart of Marx’s historical materialism. In so doing, Johnston brings to light the complex intertwining of political and libidinal economies keeping us invested and complicit in perpetuating capitalism and its ills.

 

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The Routledge Handbook of Indian Buddhist Philosophy

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Edited by Pierre-Julien Harter, William Edelglass, Sara McClintock

The Routledge Handbook of Indian Buddhist Philosophy is the first scholarly reference volume to highlight the diversity and individuality of a large number of the most influential philosophers to have contributed to the evolution of Buddhist thought in India. By placing the author at the center of inquiry, the volume highlights the often unrecognized innovation and multiplicity of India’s Buddhist thinkers, whose unique contributions are commonly subsumed in more general doctrinal presentations of philosophical schools. Here, instead, the reader is invited to explore the works and ideas of India’s most important Buddhist philosophers in a manner that takes seriously the weight of their philosophical thought.

The forty chapters by an international and interdisciplinary team of renowned contributors each seek to offer both a wide-ranging overview and a philosophically astute reading of the works of the most seminal Indian Buddhist authors from the earliest writings to the twentieth century. The volume thus also provides thorough coverage of all the main figures, texts, traditions, and debates animating Indian Buddhist thought, and as such can serve as an in-depth introduction to Buddhist philosophy in India for those new to the field. 

Essential reading for students and researchers in Asian and comparative philosophy, The Routledge Handbook of Indian Buddhist Philosophy is also an excellent resource for specialists in Buddhist philosophy, as well as for contemporary philosophers interested in learning about the rigorous and rich traditions of Buddhist philosophy in India.

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Newton's Third Rule and the Experimental Argument for Universal Gravity

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Mary Domski

This book provides a reading of Newton’s argument for universal gravity that is focused on the evidence-based, "experimental" reasoning that Newton associates with his program of experimental philosophy. It highlights the richness and complexity of the Principia and also draws important lessons about how to situate Newton in his natural philosophical context.

The book has two primary objectives. First, it defends a novel interpretation of the third of Newton’s four Rules for the Study of Natural Philosophy – what the author terms the Two-Set Reading of Rule 3. Second, it argues that this novel interpretation of Rule 3 sheds additional light on the differences between Newton’s experimental philosophy and Descartes’s "hypothetical philosophy," and that it also illuminates how the practice of experimental philosophy allowed Newton to make a universal force of gravity the centerpiece of his explanation of the system of the world.

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Objective Fictions Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Marxism

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Edited by Adrian Johnston, Boštjan Nedoh, Alenka Zupančič

Relying on contemporary continental philosophy, psychoanalytic theory and the Marxist tradition, this volume moves beyond the deadlock between nominalism and realism. It rethinks the relationship between objectivity and fiction through engaging with a series of 'objective fictions', including fetishes, semblances, lies, rumours, sophistry, fantasies, and conspiracy theories, among other phenomena. What all these phenomena exhibit are paradoxical entanglements of subjectivity with objectivity and of fiction with truth.

When it comes to questions of objectivity in current philosophical debates and public discourse, we are witnessing the re-emergence and growing importance of two classical, opposed approaches: nominalism and (metaphysical) realism. Today’s nominalist stances, by absolutizing intersubjectivity, are moving towards the abandonment of the very notion of truth and objective reality. By contrast, today’s realist positions, including those bound up with scientific discourse, insist on the category of the object-in-itself as irreducible to any kind of subjective mediation. However, despite their seeming mutual exclusivity, both approaches share fundamental presuppositions, namely, those of neat separations between the spheres of subjectivity and objectivity as well as between the realms of fiction and truth.

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Idealism, Relativism, and Realism: New Essays on Objectivity Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide

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Edited by: Dominik Finkelde and Paul M. Livingston

Several debates of the last years within the research field of contemporary realism – known under titles such as "New Realism," "Continental Realism," or "Speculative Materialism" – have shown that science is not systematically the ultimate measure of truth and reality. This does not mean that we should abandon the notions of truth or objectivity all together, as has been posited repeatedly within certain currents of twentieth century philosophy. However, within the research field of contemporary realism, the concept of objectivity itself has not been adequately refined. What is objective is supposed to be true outside a subject’s biases, interpretations and opinions, having truth conditions that are met by the way the world is. The volume combines articles of internationally outstanding authors who have published on either Idealism, Epistemic Relativism, or Realism and often locate themselves within one of these divergent schools of thought. As such, the volume focuses on these traditions with the aim of clarifying what the concept objectivity nowadays stands for within contemporary ontology and epistemology beyond the analytic-continental divide.

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Meaning and Non-existence: Kumārila's Refutation of Dignāga's Theory of Exclusion

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Kei Kataoka and John Taber

In the Apohavāda chapter of his Ślokavārttika, the seventh-century Hindu philosopher Kumārila undertakes an exhaustive critique of the distinctive Buddhist theory of meaning, the “theory of exclusion”, or Apohavāda. According to this theory, which was introduced by the sixth-century Buddhist thinker Dignāga, a word refers not to some positive entity such as a universal, but to an “exclusion”. It became one of the core teachings of the Buddhist epistemological tradition. The debate on it is illustrative of the Buddhist-Brahmin disputes that shaped the development of classical Indian philosophy. This translation of Kumārila’s chapter, together with a critical edition, is accompanied by a running explanation based on the classical commentaries and extensive notes.

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Reasons and Lives in Buddhist Traditions

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Dan Arnold, Cécile Ducher, and Pierre-Julien Harter

Particularly known for his groundbreaking and influential work in Tibetan studies, Matthew Kapstein is a true polymath in Buddhist and Asian studies more generally; possessing unsurpassed knowledge of Tibetan culture and civilization, he is also deeply grounded in Sanskrit and Indology, and his highly accomplished work in these cultural and civilizational areas has exemplified a whole range of disciplinary perspectives.

Reflecting something of the astonishing range of Matthew Kapstein’s work and interests, this collection of essays pays tribute to a luminary in the field by exemplifying some of the diverse work in Buddhist and Asian studies that has been impacted by his scholarship and teaching. Engaging matters as diverse as the legal foundations of Tibetan religious thought, the teaching careers of modern Chinese Buddhists, the history of Bhutan, and the hermeneutical insights of Vasubandhu, these essays by students and colleagues of Matthew Kapstein are offered as testament to a singular scholar and teacher whose wide-ranging work is unified by a rare intellectual selflessness.

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50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology

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Edited by Gail Weiss, Ann V. Murphy, and Gayle Salamon

Phenomenology, the philosophical method that seeks to uncover the taken-for-granted presuppositions, habits, and norms that structure everyday experience, is increasingly framed by ethical and political concerns. Critical phenomenology foregrounds experiences of marginalization, oppression, and power in order to identify and transform common experiences of injustice that render “the familiar” a site of oppression for many. In Fifty Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, leading scholars present fresh readings of classic phenomenological topics and introduce newer concepts developed by feminist theorists, critical race theorists, disability theorists, and queer and trans theorists that capture aspects of lived experience that have traditionally been neglected. By centering historically marginalized perspectives, the chapters in this book breathe new life into the phenomenological tradition and reveal its ethical, social, and political promise. This volume will be an invaluable resource for teaching and research in continental philosophy; feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; critical race theory; disability studies; cultural studies; and critical theory more generally.

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Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945-2015

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Edited by Dr. Kelly Becker and Dr. Iain Thomson

This landmark achievement in philosophical scholarship brings together leading experts from the diverse traditions of Western philosophy in a common quest to illuminate and explain the most important philosophical developments since the Second World War. Focusing particularly (but not exclusively) on those insights and movements that most profoundly shaped the English-speaking philosophical world, this volume bridges the traditional divide between 'analytic' and 'Continental' philosophy while also reaching beyond it. The result is an authoritative guide to the most important advances and transformations that shaped philosophy during this tumultuous and fascinating period of history, developments that continue to shape the field today. It will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary philosophy of all levels and will prove indispensable for any serious philosophical collection.

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Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume Two: A Weak Nature Alone

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Dr. Adrian Johnston

Adrian Johnston’s trilogy Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism aims to forge a thoroughly materialist yet antireductive theory of subjectivity. In this second volume, A Weak Nature Alone, Johnston focuses on the philosophy of nature required for such a theory. This volume is guided by a fundamental question: How must nature be rethought so that human minds and freedom do not appear to be either impossible or inexplicable within it? Asked differently: How must the natural world itself be structured such that sapient subjects in all their distinctive peculiarities emerged from and continue to exist within this world?

In A Weak Nature Alone, Johnston develops his transcendental materialist account of nature through engaging with and weaving together five main sources of inspiration: Hegelian philosophy, Marxist materialism, Freudian-Lacanian metapsychology, Anglo-American analytic neo-Hegelianism, and evolutionary theory and neurobiology. Johnston argues that these seemingly (but not really) strange bedfellows should be brought together so as to construct a contemporary ontology of nature. Through this ontology, nonnatural human subjects can be seen to arise in an immanent, bottom-up fashion from nature itself.

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Dharmakīrti’s Theory of Exclusion (apoha)

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Dr. John Taber

Authors: Vincent Eltschinger, John Taber, Michael Torsten Much, and Isabelle Ratié

The Pramāṇavārttika (Commentary on the Means of Knowledge) is the magnum opus of the great sixth-century Indian Buddhist philosopher Dharmakīrti, one of the founders of the logico-epistemological school of Buddhist thought or “Buddhist Logic.” The Pramāṇavārttika was regarded, both by his followers and opponents, as the definitive attempt to ground the teachings of Mahāyāna Buddhism rigorously on theories of metaphysics, epistemology, logic, and philosophy of language. Dharmakīrti’s positions on problems in these areas set the agenda for Indian philosophy through the eleventh century CE. Key to Dharmakīrti’s system is the theory of apoha, “exclusion.” Although originally a theory of meaning proposed by his predecessor Dignāga, Dharmakīrti used it as a vehicle for articulating, in a philosophically precise way, the central Mahāyāna Buddhist teaching of the (ultimately) erroneous nature of all conceptual thought.

This volume is the first part of a three-part translation of the lengthy presentation and defense of the theory of apoha in the first chapter of the Pramāṇavārttika (verses 40–185, together with Dharmakīrti’s autocommentary or Svavṛtti) by an international team of scholars: Vincent Eltschinger (Sorbonne), John Taber (University of New Mexico), Michael Torsten Much (University of Vienna), and Isabelle Ratié (University of Paris III). Work on this volume was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Scholarly Editions and Translations division. The translation of the second part of the Apoha Section (vv. 92–142) is underway.

A New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek, and Dialectical Materialism

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Dr. Adrian Johnston

In 2012, philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Žižek published what arguably is his magnum opus, the one-thousand-page tome Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism. A sizable sequel appeared in 2014, Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism. In these two books, Žižek returns to the German idealist G. W. F. Hegel in order to forge a new materialism for the twenty-first century. Žižek’s reinvention of Hegelian dialectics explores perennial and contemporary concerns: humanity’s relations with nature, the place of human freedom, the limits of rationality, the roles of spirituality and religion, and the prospects for radical sociopolitical change.

In A New German Idealism, Adrian Johnston offers a first-of-its-kind sustained critical response to Less Than Nothing and Absolute Recoil. Johnston, a leading authority on and interlocutor of Žižek, assesses the recent return to Hegel against the backdrop of Kantian and post-Kantian German idealism. He also presents alternate reconstructions of Hegel’s positions that differ in important respects from Žižek’s version of dialectical materialism. In particular, Johnston criticizes Žižek’s deviations from the secular naturalism and Enlightenment optimism of his chosen sources of inspiration: not only Hegel, but Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud too. In response, Johnston develops what he calls transcendental materialism, an antireductive and leftist materialism capable of preserving and advancing the core legacies of the Hegelian, Marxian, and Freudian traditions central to Žižek.

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Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan's 'The Freudian Thing'

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Dr. Adrian Johnston

This book offers readers a uniquely detailed engagement with the ideas of legendary French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The Freudian Thing is one of Lacan’s most important texts, wherein he explains the significance and stakes of his “return to Freud” as a passionate defence of Freud’s disturbing, epoch-making discovery of the unconscious, against misrepresentations and criticisms of it. However, Lacan is characteristically cryptic in The Freudian Thing. The combination of his writing style and vast range of references renders much of his thinking inaccessible to all but a narrow circle of scholarly specialists. Johnston’s Irrepressible Truth opens up the universe of Lacanian psychoanalysis to much wider audiences by furnishing a sentence-by-sentence interpretive unpacking of this pivotal 1955 essay. In so doing, Johnston reveals the precision, rigor, and soundness of Lacan’s teachings.

Dr. Johnston's book is now available from Palgrave Macmillan and may be purchased via the Amazon link here.

The Logic of Being

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Dr. Paul Livingston

The Logic of Being

Realism, Truth, and Time

PAUL M. LIVINGSTON

In The Logic of Being, Paul Livingston examines the relationship of truth and time from a perspective that draws on Martin Heidegger’s inquiry into the question of being, as well as twentieth-century analytic philosophy of language and logic. In his influential earlier work The Politics of Logic, Livingston elaborated an innovative “formal” or “metaformal realism.” In the Logic of Being, he now extends this concept into a “temporal realism” that accounts for the reality of temporal change and becoming while also preserving realism about logic and truth.

Livingston employs a formal and phenomenological method of analysis to articulate and defend a position of realism about being, time, and their relationship, on which all of these are understood as structured and constituted in a way that does not depend on the human mind, consciousness, or subjectivity. This approach provides a basis for new logically and phenomenologically based accounts of the structure of linguistic truth in relation to the appearance of objects and of the formal structure of time as given. 

Livingston draws on philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to Davidson and Heidegger in this exploration of truth and time. In it, readers and scholars will discover innovative connections between Continental and analytic philosophy.

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The Problems of Contemporary Philosophy

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Dr. Paul Livingston

This accessible new book provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the defining problems of contemporary philosophy. Its unique feature is to focus on problems that cut across the established divide between “analytic” and “continental” philosophical traditions. Instead of segregating the two traditions, as is usually done, the authors offer a critical orientation and guide for readers who are not exclusively affiliated with either approach and who want to understand the increasingly shared questions philosophers are asking and addressing today.

Each chapter starts with a fundamental overarching question: (1) What and how can we know? (2) What is the structure of the world? (3) What goes beyond the physical world? (4) What is to be done? (5) What does it mean to orient oneself philosophically? Under these headings, the authors critically examine the discipline’s most fundamental problems. Their approach reveals deep and unexpected connections across the analytic/continental divide, and opens up new ways of thinking about critique itself. No other book about contemporary philosophy is as comprehensive and cosmopolitan.

The Problems of Contemporary Philosophy provides newcomers and seasoned philosophers alike with an entertaining, engaging, and far-reaching portrait of today’s philosophical landscape. It is an exemplary instance of thinking across and beyond the analytic/continental divide. 

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Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide: Pluralist Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century

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Dr. Paul Livingston

Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide: Pluralist Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century, a new anthology co-edited by Dr. Livingston is now available from Routledge Press and may be purchased via the Amazon link below.

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Adventures in Transcendental Materialism: Dialogues with Contemporary Thinkers

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Dr. Adrian Johnston

Dr. Adrian Johnston's book, Adventures in Transcendental Materialism:  Dialogues with Contemporary Thinkers, is set for publication in April 2014 by Edinburgh University Press. 

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A Luxury of the Understanding: On the Value of True Belief

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Dr. Allan Hazlett

Dr. Allan Hazlett's book, A Luxury of the Understanding: On the Value of True Belief, was published in 2013 by Oxford University Press. 

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Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume One: The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy

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Dr. Adrian Johnston

Northwestern University Press has just released a new book by Professor Adrian Johnston entitled Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume One: The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy. This is the first installment of a trilogy as well as the first book to appear in the new Diaeresis series at Northwestern U.P. co-edited by Professor Johnston with Slavoj Žižek and Todd McGowan.

Dr. Johnston's book recently earned a very positive review on NDPR. 

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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience

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Dr. Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou

Dr. Adrian Johnston, working with Catherine Malabou, has published Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience .

Dr. Johnston's recent book, Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience, just earned a very positive review in NDPR.

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Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary

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Dr. Ann Murphy

Dr. Ann Murphy's book, Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary, was published in 2012 by SUNY Press.

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The Bloomsbury Companion to Socrates

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John Bussanich (Editor), Nicholas D. Smith (Editor)

This comprehensive and accessible guide to Socrates life and death, character and philosophical concerns, features thirteen specially commissioned sections, written by a team of leading experts in the field of ancient philosophy, covering every aspect of Socratic thought. The Companion presents a comprehensive overview of the various features, themes and topics apparent in Socrates' thought, including Socratic irony, metaphysics, epistemology, happiness, virtue, moral psychology, philosophy of love, political philosophy, and religious belief. It concludes with a thoroughly comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources.

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The Sensitivity Principle in Epistemology

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edited by Kelly Becker and Tim Black

Dr. Kelly Becker, working with Tim Black at Cal State, Northridge, has published a collection of brand new essays on Nozick's (and Dretske's and Goldman's) sensitivity principle in epistemology. The book, entitled (naturally enough) The Sensitivity Principle in Epistemology, is available from Cambridge University Press.

Dr. Becker's book recently earned a very positive review on NDPR

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Can the Veda speak?

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Dr. John Taber with Vincent Eltschinger and Helmut Krasser

Dr. John Taber, working with Vincent Eltschinger and Helmut Krasser, has published an annotated English translation of the last section of Dharmakīrti’s Pramānavārttikasvavrtti (PVSV 164,24–176,16, ad stanzas 1.312–340). The book, entitled Can the Veda speak? is available through the Austrian Academy of Science Press.

The Politics of Logic: Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the Consequences of Formalism

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Dr. Paul Livingston

Dr. Paul Livingston's new book, The Politics of Logic: Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the Consequences of Formalism, was published August 2011 by Routledge Press.

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Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity

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Dr. Iain Thomson

Dr. Iain Thomson's new book, Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity, was published April 2011 by Cambridge University Press.

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Discourse on a New Method: Reinvigorating the Marriage of History and Philosophy of Science

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edited by Mary Domski and Michael Dickson

The new book Discourse on a New Method: Reinvigorating the Marriage of History and Philosophy of Science, edited by Mary Domski and Michael Dickson, was published November 2010 by Open Court.

The volume honors the work of Michael Friedman in the history and philosophy of science. It includes contributions from some of the most well‑respected scholars currently working in the history of philosophy, history of science, and philosophy of science, and Michael Friedman generously contributed a 230 page original essay that presents his current positions on the issues raised by other contributors. It was reviewed by NDPR in April 2011.

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Philosophical History and the Problem of Consciousness

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Dr. Paul Livingston

Dr. Paul Livingston's book, Philosophical History and the Problem of Consciousness, was published November 2009 by Cambridge University Press.

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Badiou, Zizek, and Political Transformations

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Dr. Adrian Johnston

Dr. Adrian Johnston's book, Badiou, Zizek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence of Change, was published October 2009 by Northwestern University Press.

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The Riddle of the World

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Dr. Barbara Hannan

Dr. Barbara Hannan's book, The Riddle of the World, was published February 2009 by Oxford University Press.

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Philosophy and the Vision of Language

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Dr. Paul Livingston

Dr. Paul Livingston's book, Philosophy and the Vision of Language, was published June 2008 by Routledge Press.

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Zizek's Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity

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Dr. Adrian Johnston

Dr. Adrian Johnston's book, Zizek's Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity, was published March 2008 by Northwestern University Press.

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Epistemology Modalized

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Dr. Kelly Becker

Dr. Kelly Becker's book, Epistemology Modalized, was published May 2007 by Routledge Press.

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The Demands of Taste in Kant's Aesthetics

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Dr. Brent Kalar

Dr. Brent Kalar's book, The Demands of Taste in Kant's Aesthetics, was published December 2006 by Continuum Press.

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Heidegger on Ontotheology

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Dr. Iain Thomson

Dr. Iain Thomson's book, Heidegger on Ontotheology: Technology and the Politics of Education, was published July 2005 by Cambridge University Press.

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A Hindu Critique of Buddhist Epistemology

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Dr. John Taber

Dr. John Taber's book, A Hindu Critique of Buddhist Epistemology: The 'Determination of Perception' Chapter of Kumarila Bhatta's Slokavarttika (annotated edition), was published February 2005 by Routledge Press.

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Wittgenstein and William James

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Dr. Russell Goodman

Dr. Russell Goodman's book, Wittgenstein and William James, was published July 2002 by Cambridge University Press.

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