englischThis book contains eight long essays, which have never been published in English and which offer a highly original reconstruction of the different elements of Platonic thought, starting with reflections on the writing techniques ‘invented’ by Plato. Two dialogues, the Phaedrus and the [...]

englischPassionate Mind: Essays in Honor of John M. Rist pays tribute to the academic work of a prolific and distinguished scholar in Classics and Philosophy who has authored some 18 books and over 200 scholarly articles and reviews. After graduating from Cambridge University in 1959, Professor Rist [...]

englischHomer and Sophocles, Plato and Aristotle: four great authors, who have let the essence of Greek culture appear with special clarity, are the focus of the collected essays by the Tübingen classical Greek scholar Thomas Alexander Szlezák. His approach to the poetic as to the philosophical [...]

englischThe current Yearbook tackles these questions: Did Comenius fail as a thinker of peace? How relates Comenius universal language to historically grown languages? What was the status of alchemy in early modern times? What is new in Comenius literature?

With contributions by

Andreas [...]

englischThe theory that mental dispositions such as belief and knowledge involve relations between cognitive subjects and propositions or facts is still prevalent (or, rather, is prevalent again) in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind. In other words, numerous philosophers from [...]