Product Description: Entre le lubrique effréné et la chape de plomb d’une Église castratrice – extrêmes que l’on prête généralement au sexe médiéval dans les productions modernes plus ou moins frelatées, mais à succès – il est sans doute nécessaire, pour un public un peu averti et intéressé, mais somme toute assez large, de proposer une mise au point sur l’amour et ses pratiques dans le monde médiéval...read more

From their grade school classrooms forward, students of science are encouraged to memorize and adhere to the “scientific method”—a model of inquiry consisting of five to seven neatly laid-out steps, often in the form of a flowchart. But walk into the office of a theoretical physicist or the laboratory of a biochemist and ask “Which step are you on?” and you will likely receive a blank stare. This is not how science works. But science does work, and here award-winning teacher and scholar Steven Gimbel provides students the tools to answer for themselves this question: What actually is the scientific method?           Exploring the Scientific Method pairs classic and contemporary readings in the philosophy of science with milestones in scientific discovery to illustrate the foundational issues underlying scientific methodology. Students are asked to select one of nine possible fields—astronomy, physics, chemistry, genetics, evolutionary biology, psychology, sociology, economics, or geology—and through carefully crafted case studies trace its historical progression, all while evaluating whether scientific practice in each case reflects the methodological claims of the philosophers. This approach allows students to see the philosophy of science in action and to determine for themselves what scientists do and how they ought to do it.            Exploring the Scientific Method will be a welcome resource to introductory science courses and all courses in the history and philosophy of science.        

Product Description: Includes essays on Idealism and Thomism, Theory of Concepts by Functional Unity, Being and Spirit, Intellectualism, Spiritual Love and Apperceptive Synthesis, and History of the Notion of Natural Faith. Edited by Andrew Tallon & Pol Vandevelde...read more

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Product Description: Travel back in time in search of long-lost attitudes on love and lust, passion and desire. Beautifully illustrated in full color, this fascinating exploration looks at how ancient civilizations regarded sex and sexuality before hedonism was curtailed by organized religion and relations between the sexes were complicated by a prevailing sense of guilt...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This unique book challenges the traditional distinction between eros, the love found in Greek thought, and agape, the love characteristic of Christianity. Focusing on a number of classic texts, including Plato's Symposium and Lysis, Aristotle's Ethics and Metaphysics,, and famous passages in Gregory of Nyssa, Origen, Dionysius the Areopagite, Plotinus, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas, the author shows that Plato's account of eros is not founded on self-interest. In this way, she restores the place of erotic love as a Christian motif, and unravels some longstanding confusions in philosophical discussions of love.