Overview :Though it did not yet exist as a discrete field of scientific inquiry, biology was at the heart of many of the most important debates in sev... Read More
Overview :What would the global history of philosophy look like if it were told not as a story of ideas but as a series of job descriptions--ones that... Read More
Overview :This book examines the early modern science of generation, which included the study of animal conception, heredity, and fetal development. A... Read More
Overview :From sex and music to religion and politics, a history of irrationality and the ways in which it has always been with us--and always will be... Read More
Overview :Anton Wilhelm Amo (c.1703-after 1752) was the first African philosopher in the modern period to write in the European philosophical traditio... Read More
Overview :People have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge during... Read More
Overview :An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it--and explains why they have died... Read More