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For centuries philosophers have disputed whether the sky really is blue or whether this blueness is only in the eye of the beholder. Carnie introduces a radical new way on the way our senses operate.

Marion Boyars, 2007; 320 pp.; EN; pb

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Hendrik Lorenz presents a comprehensive study of Plato's and Aristotle's conceptions of non-rational desire. They see this as something that humans share with animals, and which aims primarily at the pleasures of food, drink, and sex. Lorenz explores the cognitive resources that both philosophers make available for explanation of such desires, and what they take rationality to add to the motivational structures of humans. He exposes a remarkable degree of continuity between their thought in this area.

Oxford, 2009; 229 pp.; EN; index; pb

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Meer dan 200 geleden werd Charles Darwin geboren en zijn werk is nog steeds springlevend. Met name zijn Origin of Species is van groot belang. Het is meer dan een theorie in de biologie. De filosofische betekenis ervan gaat over de grenzen van de natuurwetenschappen heen, het heeft ook onze opvattingen over kennis, moraal en religie veranderd. In een heldere en meeslepende monografie zet filosoof Michael Ruse deze veranderingen op een rij.

Ten Have, 2009; 384 pp.; NL; index; ills. b/w; pb

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What is the relationship between contemporary intellectual culture and the European Enlightenment it claims to reject. Cascardi revisits the arguments advanced in Horkheimer and Adorno's seminal work Dialectic of Enlightenment.

Cambridge; 268 pp.; EN; index; pb

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What is cunning, and how did it develop a pejorative connotation. Herzog applies his erudite style and barbed humor to his examination of the idea of cunning and how it connects to our concepts of rationality and morality.

Princeton, 2006; 197 pp.; EN; index; hb

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Kuhn explores the ways in which Decameron's sexual themes lead into philosophical inquiry, moral argument, and aesthetic and literary criticism. Stories and storytelling are to be interpreted in terms of a wider cultural context.

Columbia, 2005; 177 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Tad Schmaltz presents a systematic study of Descartes' theory of causation and its relation to the medieval and early scholastic philosophy that provides its historical context. Schmaltz argues that Descartes accepted what, in the context of scholastic debates regarding causation, is the antipode of occasionalism, namely the view that creatures rather than God are the causal source of natural change.

Oxford, 2007; 237 pp.; EN; index; hb

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In this unusual philosophy book, Osborne shows that Plato's views on reincarnation and Aristotle's views on the souls of plants and animals reveal a continuous thread of life in which humans are not morally superior to beasts. By reflecting on the work of the ancient poets and philosophers, Osborne argues, we can see when and how we lost touch with the natural intelligence of dumb animals.

Oxford, 2009; 262 pp.; EN; index; pb

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This is the first book to trace systematically the philosophical origins and development of the idea that the improvement of human understanding requires public activity, through discussion of the work of Descartes, Locke, Hobbes, Leibniz and Spinoza.

Cambridge, 2001; 220 pp.; EN; index; hb

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O'Neill reads Montaigne's Essays from their central principle of friendship as a communicative and pedagogical practice operative in society, literature and politics. He also engages the principal critical readings of the Essays over the last century that have examined with great brilliance their history, structure and psychology.

Liverpool Univ., 2001; 264 pp.; EN; index; hb

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This is a collection of Paul Hoffman's wide-ranging essays on Descartes composed over the past 25 years. The essays in part I include his celebrated Unity of Descartes's Man. In Part II he argues that Descartes retains the Aristotelian theory of causation. In Part III he argues that Descartes accepts the Aristotelian theory of cognition. The essays in Part IV examine Descartes's theory of the passions of the soul.

Oxford, 2009; 282 pp.; EN; index; hb

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In this compact, beautifully illustrated book, Bloom again combines his lifelong interests in religion and literature, first observing our present-day obsession with angels. Every angel is terrifying, Rilke wrote. For Bloom, too, this is true...

Yale, 2007; 71 pp.; EN; ills. col; S; hb

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