Books in the Routledge Advances in the History of Philosophy series

Focusing on autobiography as philosophy, this collection discusses several autobiographies in the light of their authors' work, and considers whether there are any philosophical tasks for which life accounts are particularly appropriate. It contains a general discussion about the relation between philosophical and autobiographical writing.

This book traces a misunderstanding about the relation of concepts and reality in the history of philosophy and proposes a Hegelian-based solution.

This volume brings together a collection of new essays by leading scholars on the subject of causation in the early modern period, from Descartes to Lady Mary Shepherd. Aimed at researchers, graduate students and advanced undergraduates, the volume advances the understanding of early modern discussions of causation, and situates these discussions in the wider context of early modern philosophy and science. Specifically, the volume contains essays on key early modern thinkers, such as Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, Kant. It also contains essays that examine the important contributions to the causation debate of less widely discussed figures, including Louis la Forge, Thomas Brown and Lady Mary Shepherd.