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Natural Law and the Theory of Property: Grotius to Hume by Stephen Buckle 9780198240945
RRP: £56.00£53.21Stephen Buckle traces the history of theories of natural law, social order, and property through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.Book InformationISBN 9780198240945Author Stephen BuckleFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Clarendon... -
The Waltz of Reason: The Entanglement of Mathematics and Philosophy by Karl Sigmund 9781541602694
RRP: £28.00£16.46"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here," Plato warned would-be philosophers. Mathematician Karl Sigmund agrees.In The Waltz of Reason, he shows how mathematics and philosophy together have shaped our understanding of space, chance, logic,... -
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson 9780735278516
RRP: £12.99£8.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735278516Author Jordan B. PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House CanadaPublisher Random House CanadaWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm)... -
Treatise on Law by Thomas Aquinas 9780872205482
RRP: £15.99£13.57This new translation of the Treatise on Law offers fidelity to the Latin in a readable new version that will prove useful to students of the natural law tradition in ethics, political theory, and jurisprudence, as well as to students of Western... -
New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression by Peter Joseph 9781946885142
RRP: £12.99£12.41Society is broken. We can design our way to a better one.In our interconnected world, self-interest and social-interest are rapidly becoming indistinguishable. If current negative trajectories remain, including growing climate destabilization,... -
Being Philosophical: An Introduction to Philosophy and Its Methods by Stephen Hetherington 9781509554584
RRP: £17.99£16.04Being Philosophical guides readers through the perplexing initial moments of meeting philosophy by taking them inside philosophical thinking as an activity. In a beginner-friendly voice, Stephen Hetherington elucidates how intellectual ‘tools’ from a... -
The Elements of Law Natural and Politic. Part I: Human Nature; Part II: De Corpore Politico: with Three Lives by Thomas Hobbes
RRP: £9.99£7.32`the state of men without civil society (which state we may properly call the state of nature) is nothing else but a mere war of all against all.' Thomas Hobbes was the first great philosopher to write in English. His account of the human condition,... -
How We Get Along by J. David Velleman
RRP: £22.99£19.56In How We Get Along, philosopher David Velleman compares our social interactions to the interactions among improvisational actors on stage. He argues that we play ourselves - not artificially but authentically, by doing what would make sense coming from... -
Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn’t Enough by Dina Nayeri
RRP: £22.00£15.87The prizewinning author of The Ungrateful Refugee asks who is believed in our society, who is not - and why?'An ambitious and moving exploration of the borders we draw around credible victimhood that will cement Nayeri's position as a master storyteller... -
A Load of Shit by John Berger 9781912475414
RRP: £4.99£4.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475414Author John BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 12Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS -
Code of the Samurai: A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke by Thomas Cleary 9780804831901
RRP: £10.99£10.20Learn the ways of the Japanese Bushido Code with this very readable, modern translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu.Code of the Samurai is a four-hundred-year-old explication of the rules and expectations embodied in Bushido, the Japanese Way of the... -
Why Didn't Nietzsche Get His Act Together? by Elijah Millgram 9780197669303
RRP: £22.99£19.96Nietzsche wrote the philosophical work for which he is most famous while he was coming apart at the seams. The circumstances of Nietzsche's dramatic psychological disintegration make his writing, while popular, often hard for readers to understand... -
Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy: Curiouser and Curiouser by William Irwin 9780470558362
RRP: £15.95£14.38The perfect companion to Lewis Carroll's classic book and director Tim Burton's March 2010 remake of Alice in Wonderland Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland has fascinated children and adults alike for generations. Why does Lewis Carroll introduce us to... -
The Coherence of Theism by Richard Swinburne
RRP: £33.99£29.03The Coherence of Theism investigates what it means, and whether it is coherent, to say that there is a God. Richard Swinburne concludes that despite philosophical objections, most traditional claims about God are coherent (that is, do not involve... -
Death by Shelly Kagan
RRP: £15.99£13.82There is one thing we can be sure of: we are all going to die. But once we accept that fact, the questions begin. In this thought-provoking book, philosophy professor Shelly Kagan examines the myriad questions that arise when we confront the meaning of... -
Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum 9780674503809
RRP: £22.95£18.67How can we achieve and sustain a "decent" liberal society, one that aspires to justice and equal opportunity for all and inspires individuals to sacrifice for the common good? In this book, a continuation of her explorations of emotions and the nature of... -
Here I'm Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis by Adam Blum
RRP: £30.00£23.29Here I'm Alive explores the musical foundation of being human from a psychoanalytic perspective.Writing in collaboration, three psychoanalytic clinicians develop a fresh vision of the essential role of music in psychical life. Through an... -
The Rise of Analytic Philosophy, 1879-1930: From Frege to Ramsey by Michael Potter
RRP: £45.99£40.84In this book Michael Potter offers a fresh and compelling portrait of the birth of modern analytic philosophy, viewed through the lens of a detailed study of the work of the four philosophers who contributed most to shaping it: Gottlob Frege, Bertrand... -
The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida by Dr. Sean Burke
RRP: £31.00£25.85For the late twentieth century, the death of the author assumed a significance analogous to the death of God one hundred years previously. In this now classic study, Sean Burke both provides the first detailed explanation of anti-authorialism and shows... -
Spacecraft by Timothy Morton
RRP: £9.99£7.89Science fiction is filled with spacecraft. On Earth, actual rockets explode over Texas while others make their way to Mars. But what are spacecraft, and just what can they teach us about imagination, ecology, democracy, and the nature of objects? Why do... -
Classical Indian Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 5 by Peter Adamson 9780198851769
RRP: £28.99£20.68Peter Adamson and Jonardon Ganeri present a lively introduction to one of the world's richest intellectual traditions: the philosophy of classical India. They begin with the earliest extant literature, the Vedas, and the explanatory works that these... -
The Dialogical Roots of Deduction: Historical, Cognitive, and Philosophical Perspectives on Reasoning by Catarina Dutilh Novaes 9781108790925
RRP: £24.99£22.37This comprehensive account of the concept and practices of deduction is the first to bring together perspectives from philosophy, history, psychology and cognitive science, and mathematical practice. Catarina Dutilh Novaes draws on all of these... -
Soul and Form by Georg Lukacs 9780850362510
RRP: £14.95£13.29GyArgy LukAcs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. "Soul and Form" was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of... -
Philosophical Papers: Volume 2: Philosophy and the Human Sciences by Charles Taylor
RRP: £26.99£22.40Charles Taylor has been one of the most original and influential figures in contemporary philosophy: his 'philosophical anthropology' spans an unusually wide range of theoretical interests and draws creatively on both Anglo-American and Continental... -
Valuing Emotions by Michael Stocker 9780521567862
RRP: £37.99£32.57This 1996 book is the result of a uniquely productive union of philosophy, psychoanalysis and anthropology, and explores the complexity and importance of emotions. Michael Stocker places emotions at the very centre of human identity, life and value. He... -
Essence of the Bhagavad Gita: A Contemporary Guide to Yoga, Meditation, and Indian Philosophy by Eknath Easwaran
RRP: £11.99£9.24The Bhagavad Gita opens with a crisis - Prince Arjuna despairs on the battlefield, unsure if he should fight his kinsmen in a dreadful war. For Easwaran, the Gita's epic battle represents the war in our own hearts and Arjuna's anguish reflects the human... -
Capitalism: The Story behind the Word by Michael Sonenscher 9780691238883
RRP: £13.99£12.28How the history of a word sheds new light on capitalism and modern politicsWhat exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what’s at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? In Capitalism, Michael... -
The Platonic Tradition Peter Kreeft 9781587316500
RRP: £18.00£17.86The Platonic tradition in Western philosophy is not just one of many equally central traditions. It is so much THE central one that the very existence and survival of Western civilization depends on it. It is like the Confucian tradition in Chinese... -
The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy by Maggie Berg 9781442645561
RRP: £25.00£22.02If there is one sector of society that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock, demanding increased speed and efficiency from faculty regardless... -
Wakeful World, The - Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature Emma Restall Orr 9781780994079
RRP: £11.99£10.41Over the past few hundred years, animism has been dismissed as a primitive, naive and irrational perspective, irrelevant within the civilised West. In The Wakeful World, Emma Restall Orr argues that this is based on the misrepresentation, drawn in... -
I've Been Thinking by Daniel C. Dennett 9780393868050
£27.16Daniel C. Dennett, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering the thorniest, most fundamental mysteries of the mind. Do we have free will? What is consciousness and how did it come about? What distinguishes human... -
Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will by Kevin J. Mitchell
RRP: £25.00£19.59An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision... -
Higher RMPS: Morality & Belief, Second Edition Joe Walker 9781510457812
£29.65Exam Board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: RMPSFirst Teaching: August 2018First Exam: June 2019The only resource for RMPS at Higher level, by a bestselling author and expert in the field. Completely updated with the latest SQA assessment changes.This book... -
Unflattening by Nick Sousanis
RRP: £21.95£20.38The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. Nick Sousanis... -
Being Better: Stoicism for a World Worth Living in Kai Whiting 9781608686933
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608686933Author Kai WhitingFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
The Infinite Mindfield: A Quest to Find the Gateway to Higher Consciousness Anthony Peake 9781780285719
RRP: £14.99£10.05For thousands of years voyagers of inner space - spiritual seekers, shamans and mystics - have returned from their inner travels reporting another level of reality that is more real than the one we inhabit in 'waking life'. Others have claimed that... -
The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume 2: A Verse-by-Verse Commentary: Chapters 7-12 Like a Thousand Suns by Eknath Easwaran
RRP: £21.99£15.23A comprehensive manual for living a spiritual life, based on a verse-by-verse commentary on India's timeless scripture - from the author of its best-selling translation.(The ebook The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living 9781586381455 includes all three... -
The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith 9780865970120
RRP: £10.95£9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865970120Author Adam SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 682g -
The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist's Point of View by Tim Crane 9780674088832
RRP: £24.95£20.20"[A] lucid and thoughtful book... In a spirit of reconciliation, Crane proposes to paint a more accurate picture of religion for his fellow unbelievers." -James Ryerson, New York Times Book ReviewContemporary debate about religion seems to be going... -
The Devil: A New Biography by Philip C. Almond 9781350274259
RRP: £15.99£13.42It is often said that the devil has all the best tunes. He also has as many names as he has guises. Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Beelzebub (in Christian thought), Ha-Satan or the Adversary (in Jewish scripture) and Iblis or Shaitan (in Islamic tradition) has...