This edited volume explores the notion of “artifice” in modern visual culture, ranging from the eighteenth century to the present, in countries around the globe.

Artifice has been regarded as a primarily Western phenomenon, playing as it does a central role in European art theory since the Renaissance. This volume proposes that artifice is better understood as a transcultural artistic phenomenon and requires far broader conceptualization across international contexts. It acquaints readers...

This Element offers a brief overview of Buddhist thought and modern scholarly approaches to its diverse forms of moral reflection. It then explores two of the most prominent philosophers from the main strands of the Indian Buddhist tradition - Buddhaghosa and Santideva - in a comparative fashion.

Pontius Pilate is one of the most enigmatic figures in Christian theology. The only non-Christian to be named in the Nicene Creed, he is presented as a cruel colonial overseer in secular accounts, as a conflicted judge convinced of Jesus's innocence in the Gospels, and as either a pious Christian or a virtual demon in later Christian writings. This book takes Pilate's role in the trial of Jesus as a starting point for investigating the function of legal judgment in Western society and the way...

The study of Islamic philosophy has entered a new and exciting phase in the last few years. Both the received canon of Islamic philosophers and the narrative of the course of Islamic philosophy are in the process of being radically questioned and revised. Most twentieth-century Western scholarship on Arabic or Islamic philosophy has focused on the period from the ninth century to the twelfth.

It is a measure of the transformation that is currently underway in thefield that, unlike other refer...

Hoe komt betekenis tot stand? Hoe past taal op de werkelijkheid? In Taal en betekenis leidt Martin Stokhof de lezer langs de voornaamste kwesties in de taalfilosofie. Dit nieuwe deel in de serie Boom Basisboeken is een volledig geactualiseerde versie van het eerder bij Boom onder dezelfde titel verschenen, succesvolle studieboek. Bij uitstek geschikt voor studenten wijsbegeerte, taalwetenschap, kunstmatige intelligentie en psychologie.Martin Stokhof is hoogleraar taalfilosofie aan de Universi...

The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy is a wide-ranging 2003 introduction to the study of philosophy in the ancient world. It will be an invaluable guide for all who are interested in the philosophical thought of this rich and formative period.

The Social Contract, originally published as On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Rights by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is a 1762 book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality (1754). The Social Contract helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in Europe, especially in France. The Social Contract argued against the idea tha...

This volume examines the philosophy of Avicenna, the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world. Leading scholars deal with his ideas in areas ranging from medicine to theology and his impact on the Christian, Jewish and Muslim traditions. The book is of interest to graduate students of Arabic and medieval philosophy.

Now revised and containing three new chapters, this book provides an accessible introduction to the fundamental problems in the theory of knowledge. Written primarily for students taking a first course in epistemology, it will be of interest to anyone wanting to know more about this important area of philosophy.

Onmisbaar voor iedereen die weleens met de mond vol tanden staat en die de trucjes van de discussiepartner zat is.

Social media en het dagelijkse maatschappelijke debat wemelen van fakenieuws, des- en misinformatie, maar ook van discussietrucs als jij-bakken en whataboutismen. Voor fakenieuws is terecht veel aandacht, maar voor drogredenen, hoewel net zo schadelijk voor een eerlijk debat, veel minder.

Drogredenen bevat onmisbare munitie tegen manipulerende politici en andere drogredenaars. He...