This book is an engagement between a great modern philosopher defending classical philosophy against an army of challengers to the very notion of philosophy as

A comprehensive defence of the rationalist view that insight independent of experience is a genuine basis for knowledge.

A new form of philosophizing known as ordinary language philosophy took root in England after the Second World War, promising a fresh start and a way out of lon

One of the leading humanists of Quattrocento Italy, Lorenzo Valla (ca. 1406-1457) has been praised as a brilliant debunker of medieval scholastic philosophy. In

Adler's 53rd book explores philosophy--its relation to and difference from other disciplines, such as history, mathematics, empirical science, and even poetry--