Faculty Publications

The Bloomsbury Companion to Socrates, 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.

 


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.

 


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

 

 

It is available for purchase here.


Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity

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

 

 

It is available for purchase here.


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.

 

It is available for purchase here.


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

 

 

It is available for purchase here.


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

 

 

It is available for purchase here.


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

 

 

It is available for purchase here.


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

 

 

It is available for purchase here.


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

 

 

It is available for purchase here.


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

 

 

It is available for purchase here.


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

 

 

It is available for purchase here.


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

 

 

It is available for purchase here.


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.

 

It is available for purchase here.


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

 

 

It is available for purchase here.