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Event and worldFordham University Press. 2009.
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The Ant Trap: Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social SciencesOxford University Press. 2015.We live in a world of crowds and corporations, artworks and artifacts, legislatures and languages, money and markets. These are all social objects — they are made, at least in part, by people and by communities. But what exactly are these things? How are they made, and what is the role of people in making them? In The Ant Trap, Brian Epstein rewrites our understanding of the nature of the social world and the foundations of the social sciences. Epstein explains and challenges the three prevaili…Read more
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The Politics of Objectivity: An Essay on the Foundations of Political ConflictCambridge University Press. 2015.Modern political conflict characteristically reflects and represents deep-seated but also unacknowledged and un-analyzed disagreements about what it means to be 'objective'. In defending this proposition, Peter J. Steinberger seeks to reaffirm the idea of rationalism in politics by examining important problems of public life explicitly in the light of established philosophical doctrine. The Politics of Objectivity invokes, thereby, an age-old, though now widely ignored, tradition of western thou…Read more
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Universidade de BrasíliaAssociate Professor
Universitaet Witten-Herdecke
Alumnus, 2009
Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of History |
19th Century German Philosophy |
Epistemology |
Areas of Interest
19th Century German Philosophy |