'Sojourn' is an epic space opera by Timothy Sproule and Daniel Smyth, unfolding a thousand years in the future. Humanity, once displaced and forced to seek refuge amongst the stars, emerges as heroes in an ancient alien conflict, only to face a resurging threat that jeopardizes their hard-won peace. Long Description: A millennium into the future, the galaxy has undergone unimaginable transformations. 'Sojourn,' by Timothy Sproule and Daniel Smyth, weaves a thrilling narrative set in a time...

In this book Daniel Smyth offers a comprehensive overview of Immanuel Kant's conception of intuition in all its species – divine, receptive, sensible, and human. Kant considers sense perception a paradigm of intuition, yet claims that we can represent infinities in intuition, despite the finitude of sense perception. Smyth examines this heterodox combination of commitments and argues that the various features Kant ascribes to intuition are meant to remedy specific cognitive shortcomings th...

How can human beings, who are liable to error, possess knowledge? The skeptic finds this question impossible to answer. If we can err, then it seems the grounds on which we believe do not rule out that we are wrong. Most contemporary epistemologists agree with the skeptic that we can never believe on grounds that exclude error. Sources of Knowledge moves beyond this predicament by demonstrating that some major problems of contemporary philosophy have their roots in the lack of a m...

With a new foreword by Dermot Moran‘the work here presented seeks to found a new science – though, indeed, the whole course of philosophical development since Descartes has been preparing the way for it – a science covering a new field of experience, exclusively its own, that of "Transcendental Subjectivity"’ - Edmund Husserl, from the author’s preface to the English EditionWidely regarded as the principal founder of phenomenology,...

Heidegger's radical thinking on the meaning of truth in a "clear and comprehensive critical edition" ( Philosophy in Review).Martin Heidegger's 1925–26 lectures on truth and time provided much of the basis for his momentous work, Being and Time. Not published until 1976—three months before Heidegger's death—as volume 21 of his Complete Works, it is nonetheless central to Heidegger's overall project of reinterpreting Western thought in terms of tim...

“There are monsters among us. There always have been and there always will be. I’ve known that ever since I can remember, just like I’ve always known I was one……Well, half of one, anyway.”Welcome to the Big Apple. There’s a troll under the Brooklyn Bridge, a boggle in Central Park, and a beautiful vampire in a penthouse on the Upper East Side—and that’s only the beginning. Of course, most humans are oblivious to the preternatural nightlife around them, but Cal Leandros is o...

Burt C. Hopkins presents the first in-depth study of the work of Edmund Husserl and Jacob Klein on the philosophical foundations of the logic of modern symbolic mathematics. Accounts of the philosophical origins of formalized concepts—especially mathematical concepts and the process of mathematical abstraction that generates them—have been paramount to the development of phenomenology. Both Husserl and Klein independently concluded that it is impossible to separate the historical origin of...

Half-human/half-monster Cal Leandros knows that family is a pain. But now that pain belongs to his half-brother, Niko. Niko's shady father is in town, and he needs a big favor. Even worse is the reunion being held by the devious Puck race-including the Leandros' friend, Robin- featuring a lottery that no Puck wants to win.As Cal tries to keep both Niko and Robin from paying the ultimate price for their kin, a horrific reminder from Cal's own past arrives to remind him that blood is...

Edmund Husserl is the founder of phenomenology and the Logical Investigations is his most famous work. It had a decisive impact on twentieth century philosophy and is one of few works to have influenced both continental and analytic philosophy.This is the first time both volumes have been available in paperback. They include a new introduction by Dermot Moran, placing the Investigations in historical context and bringing out their contemporary philosophical importa...

"By far the deepest and most thorough study of Heidegger's reading of Hegel and its centrality to his account of the history of metaphysics." —Taylor Carman, Barnard CollegeA provocative reassessment of Heidegger's critique of German Idealism from one of the tradition's foremost interpreters.Heidegger claimed that Western philosophy ended—failed, even—in the German Idealist tradition. In The Culmination, Robert B. Pippin explores the ramifications of...

"[An] invaluable contribution . . . changes the world—if only a little bit—by helping us to understand how we ought to understand ourselves." —Jensen Suther, Radical PhilosophyHegel claimed that the heart of his entire system was a book widely regarded as among the most difficult in the history of philosophy, The Science of Logic. The book presents his metaphysics, an enterprise that he insists can only be properly understood as a "logic," or a "sc...

The fifth edition of the classic philosophical work, featuring Heidegger's margin notes from his personal copy of the book, plus four new appendices."One of Heidegger's most important and extraordinary works. . . . Indispensable for anyone interested in Heidegger's thought as well as in current trends in hermeneutics, ethics, and political philosophy." — InterpretationSince its original publication in 1929, Martin ...