Richard Atkins: 6 books

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) is regarded as the founding father of pragmatism and a key figure in the development of American philosophy, yet his practical philosophy remains under-acknowledged and misinterpreted. In this book, Richard Atkins argues that Peirce did in fact have developed and...

This is one of the saddest stories of WWII. It is the tale of a man who loved military and excelled at every turn; one who gave every ounce of physical, mental and spiritual energy to serve his country. But the fortunes of war were destined to treat this fine man badly. Death, and the ultimate insult,...

No reasonable person would deny that the sound of a falling pin is less intense than the feeling of a hot poker pressed against the skin, or that the recollection of something seen decades earlier is less vivid than beholding it in the present. Yet John Locke is quick to dismiss a blind man's report...

The fifteenth and sixteenth states to join the United States of America, Kentucky and Tennessee were cut from a common cloth -- the rich region of the Ohio River Valley. Abounding with mountainous regions and fertile farmlands, these two slaveholding states were as closely tied to one another, both...

Bringing together the expertise of rhetoricians in English and communication as well as media studies scholars, Arguments about Animal Ethics delves into the rhetorical and discursive practices of participants in controversies over the use of nonhuman animals for meat, entertainment, fur, and vivisection....

Dossier 1 – Les racines de l’islamo-gauchisme → Entretien avec Jacques Julliard. « L’islamo-gauchisme, c’est la haine de l’identité française » Jacques Julliard raconte la genèse du mouvement islamo-gauchiste, ses accointances avec l’islamisme anti-occidental et sa dérive idéologique....