Non-Fiction

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Dr. Lange’s Non-Fiction
Many are unaware that Dr. Lange also both edit­ed and wrote a num­ber of non-fic­tion books on phi­los­o­phy, and one book about explor­ing the range of human sex­u­al­i­ty. Browse below to take a look for yourself.
 
values-and-imperatives Values and Imperatives: Studies in Ethics
As John Lange, edi­tor; Written by C.I. Lewis
1st Published 1969 ISBN — 0–8047-0687–5 Buy_Amazon
The late Clarence Irving Lewis (1883–1964) was one of America’s most dis­tin­guished philoso­phers. His ear­ly rep­u­ta­tion was based large­ly on his con­tri­bu­tions to log­ic and epis­te­mol­o­gy, but in his lat­er years he became increas­ing­ly con­cerned with ques­tions of ethics. This vol­ume, con­sist­ing large­ly of pre­vi­ous­ly unpub­lished papers and lec­tures, con­tributes sub­stan­tial­ly to our under­stand­ing of his eth­i­cal views as they were refined and clarified.
Cognitivity-Paradox The Cognitivity Paradox
An Inquiry Concerning the Claims of Philosophy
1st Published 1970 ISBN — 0–691-07159–4 Buy_Amazon
While quick to ques­tion the claims to knowl­edge that oth­ers make, philoso­phers have not so read­i­ly sub­mit­ted their own affir­ma­tions to the same scruti­ny. In fact, it seems to be the com­mon con­vic­tion of philoso­phers that the asser­tions they make are cog­ni­tive, are true or false, and that philo­soph­i­cal dis­agree­ment is gen­uine dis­agree­ment. In this stim­u­lat­ing essay Professor Lange con­fronts this assump­tion, presents his own view of phi­los­o­phy as pro­pos­al, and then seeks a solu­tion to the para­dox that his view pos­es for philosophy.
Imaginative-Sex Imaginative Sex
An Inquiry Concerning the Claims of Philosophy
1st Published 1974 ISBN — 0–7592-1728–9 Buy_Amazon
Imaginative Sex out­lines John Norman’s phi­los­o­phy on rela­tions between the sex­es. In the first nine chap­ters, from “Imaginative Sex: The New Sexual Revolution,” through “Love, Hunters and Evolution,” “Marriage, Sex and Normality,” “Sex and the Brain,” “Marriage and the Ventilation of Emotions,” “Privacy,” “Disease,” “Requirements for Imaginative Sex,” to “Imaginative Techniques,” Norman details and devel­ops his the­o­ries and ideas about sex in the mod­ern age. In the tenth chap­ter, “Sensuous Fantasies: Recipes for Pleasure,” he presents fifty‑three sce­nar­ios designed to rein­tro­duce fan­ta­sy and inti­ma­cy to the bed­room. Examples include: the Aphrodisiac Fantasy, the Rites‑of‑Submission Fantasy, the Lady Fantasy, the I‑Am‑His‑Slave‑Girl Fantasy, the Safari Fantasy, and the Blindfolded‑Lovers Fantasy, as well as many oth­er sen­su­ous sug­ges­tions, detailed for the enjoy­ment of all tru­ly adult readers.
Find out the ways in which role-play­ing can spice up any love life. The book ends with an epi­logue and a set of appen­dices that cov­er these impor­tant top­ics: Garments, Ties, Apparel in Fantasy, Notes on How to Buy a Slave Girl, and Notes on Investments, Documents, and Conception.
historiography The Philosophy of Historiography
1st Published 2010 ISBN — 1–61756-130–4 Buy_Amazon
This book is intend­ed for the high­ly intel­li­gent read­er, who is inter­est­ed in con­sid­er­ing the dif­fi­cul­ties, prob­lems, and chal­lenges of under­stand­ing and writ­ing about the human past. It is pop­u­lar­ly enough writ­ten, hope­ful­ly, to be a joy to read, and schol­ar­ly enough to be seri­ous­ly instruc­tive. The book has two major pur­pos­es, first, to give a read­er an exten­sive, detailed overview of the field as it cur­rent­ly exists, and, sec­ond, to con­sid­er­ably enlarge the field itself, as it is the first book in the area to con­sid­er not only the epis­te­mol­o­gy of the field, but, in detail, its log­ic and seman­tics, its meta­physics, its axi­ol­o­gy and its aesthetics.
Philosophy-and-the-Challenge-of-SDL691397150-1-26440 Philosophy and the Challenge of the Future
1st Published 2012 ISBN — 1–61756-733–7 Buy_Amazon
The sci­ences, as opposed to pol­i­tics and reli­gion, have their roots in phi­los­o­phy. Philosophy has been spo­ken of as the moth­er of the sci­ences, although she is, in many cas­es, more of a grand­moth­er or great grand­moth­er. Scientists were orig­i­nal­ly regard­ed as “nat­ur­al philoso­phers,” name­ly, philoso­phers inter­est­ed in nature. There has often been an inti­mate rela­tion­ship between sci­ence and phi­los­o­phy, exceed­ing the facts of intel­lec­tu­al geneal­o­gy. The man­sions of phi­los­o­phy are best built, after all, on the foun­da­tions of fact, and she is deeply indebt­ed to her “nat­ur­al philoso­phers,” whom, in my view, she is enti­tled to claim and see as her own. What won­drous con­tri­bu­tions to a human world view, or world vision, are owed to Copernicus and Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and Einstein, Darwin, and Freud, and thou­sands of oth­ers. Philosophy divorced from nature is mal­nour­ished, if not starved, if not bar­ren. The tele­scope and micro­scope con­tributed more to phi­los­o­phy than Hegel and Aquinas. A ten­sion is gen­er­at­ed, in eras of cog­ni­tive advance, between a sta­tus-quo, but revis­able, “com­mon sense” and new real­i­ties, new dis­cov­er­ies. One of the places where phi­los­o­phy spends her time is the bor­der ter­ri­to­ry between a new sci­ence and an old com­mon sense. What sense can we make of new truths, new pos­si­bil­i­ties, in, say, repro­g­e­net­ics, cloning, genet­ic engi­neer­ing, arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, arti­fi­cial life, and such? How shall we think about them? Should they alter our view of the world, not mere­ly addi­tive­ly, as in learn­ing a new tele­phone num­ber, but rad­i­cal­ly, as in tak­ing seri­ous­ly the hypoth­e­sis that wind is a mete­o­ro­log­i­cal phe­nom­e­non and not the breath of a god, that the earth moves, that man might be trans­formed and find him­self become an alien onto him­self. How shall we choose him to be? Philosophy has new things to do, and new places to go. It is time she started.
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