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Essays After FregeCharles Travis presents a series of essays on philosophy of perception, inspired by the insights of Gottlob Frege. He engages with a range of contemporary thinkers, and explores key issues including how perception can make the world bear on what we do or think, and what sorts of capacities we draw on in representing something as...

A captivating hybrid of Gothic, oriental, and satiric fiction, Vathek documents the fall of Vathek, whose obsessive quest for knowledge, pleasure and power leads to his eventual damnation. An extraordinary fantasy, the novel has influenced writers from Byron to Lovecraft. This new edition combines a definitive text with new introduction and notes....

Mindreading, Mirroring, and Embodied CognitionThis collection of essays by Alvin Goldman explores an array of topics in the philosophy of cognitive science, ranging from embodied cognition to the metaphysics of actions and events....

The Philosophy of Reliable ObservationIn Seeing Things, Robert Hudson argues that robustness reasoning lacks the special value it is often claimed to have. Robustness reasoning claims that an observation report is more likely to be true if the report is produced by multiple, independent sources. The book's subsidiary goal is to repudiate a...

German War Planning 1871-1914The existence of the Schlieffen plan has been one of the basic assumptions of twentieth-century military history. It was the perfect example of the evils of German militarism: aggressive, mechanical, disdainful of politics and of public morality. Terence Zuber challenges this orthodox view to present a radically...

Piracy, Publishing, and the Public DomainThis book reveals the impact of copyright law on transatlantic modernism in the United States. Key aspects of modernism-James Joyce&'s reputation in America, Ezra Pound&'s proposals for copyright reform, Samuel Roth&'s activities as a pirate-pornographer-are reexamined in the light of the U.S. law and the...