Philosophy of science; Darwin and the selfish gene; Knowledge

Worldviews : an introduction to the history and philosophy of science / Richard DeWitt. 2nd ed. Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

The solitary self : Darwin and the selfish gene / Mary Midgley. Durham, England : Acumen, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

How well do facts travel? : the dissemination of reliable knowledge / [edited by] Peter Howlett, Mary S. Morgan. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. (Publisher’s description)

Heidegger; Idealism; Epistemology

Martin Heidegger / Timothy Clark. New York : Routledge, 2011. (Publisher’s description)

Idealism : the history of a philosophy / Jeremy Dunham, Iain Hamilton Grant and Sean Watson. Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011. (Publisher’s description)

Epistemology : a beginner’s guide / Robert M. Martin. New York : Oneworld, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Berkeley; Leibniz; Classical Indian philosophy

Berkeley’s idealism : a critical examination / Georges Dicker. New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. (Publisher’s description)

Leibniz’s mill : a challenge to materialism / Charles Landesman. Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. (Publisher’s description)

Classical Indian philosophy : a reader / Deepak Sarma. New York : Columbia University Press, 2011. (Publisher’s description)

Art

The digital Wunderkammer : 10 chapters on the Iconic Turn / Hubert Burda ; with contributions from: Friedrich Kittler … [et al.]. Munich : Wilhelm Fink : Petrarca, 2011. (Publisher’s description)

Global visual cultures : an anthology / edited by Zoya Kocur. Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. (Publisher’s description)

Nettitudes : let’s talk net art / Josephine Bosma. Rotterdam : Nai Publishers ; Amsterdam : Institute of Network Cultures, 2011. (Publisher’s description)

Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah

The Bodleian Libraries (University of Oxford) have digitized their copy of Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah.  You can read their press release about it, or go directly to the manuscript.  (There is an introductory page with information about it, and you click on the big “Read the manuscript” button in the upper right corner to get to the manuscript itself.)

I know – I don’t read 12th century Hebrew, either.  (I wish I did!) But this is worth a peek, even if you have no idea what is on the page.  It’s amazing to be able to see a book that is more than 800 years old, especially since books this old are generally not available to the public because they are so fragile and precious.

It’s quite an amazing accomplishment, and the story of how the text was made available is interesting, too. Visit the site and experience some good, old-fashioned wonderment.

Myths; Philosophy of language; South African literature

Myths & legends / Mari Griffith. London: National Gallery, 2005. (Click here to access resource)

An introduction to the philosophy of language / Michael Morris. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 2007. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

A history of South African literature / Christopher Heywood. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

American studies; Cremation; Philosophers of Ancient Greece

Encyclopedia of American studies: EAS. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Encyclopedia of cremation / edited by Douglas J. Davies with Lewis H. Mates. Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2005. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Meet the philosophers of ancient Greece: everything you always wanted to know about ancient Greek philosophy but didn’t know who to ask / edited by Patricia F. O’Grady. Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., 2005. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Passive cooling; Logic and mathematics; Unjust laws

Advances in passive cooling / edited by Mat Santamouris. London, U.K. : Earthscan, 2007. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Essays in the philosophy and history of logic and mathematics / Roman Murawski. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Changing unjust laws justly: pro-life solidarity with “the last and least” / Colin Harte. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2005. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Philosophy

Lampert, Laurence. How philosophy became Socratic: a study of Plato’s Protagoras, Charmides, and Republic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Balaguer, Mark. Free will as an open scientific problem.Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Brandom, Robert B. Reason in philosophy: animating ideas. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Indigenous peoples

Timpson, Annis May, ed. First Nations, first thoughts: the impact of indigenous thought in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Couper, Alastair. Sailors and traders: a maritime history of the Pacific peoples. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Santos-Granero, Fernando. Vital enemies: slavery, predation, and the Amerindian political economy of life. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Beard-Moose, Christina Taylor. Public Indians, private Cherokees: tourism and tradition on tribal ground. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)