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Experience and Nature by John Dewey 9780486204710
RRP: $18.69$11.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486204710Author John DeweyFormat PaperbackPage Count 14454Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Essential Mary Midgley by David Midgley 9780415346429
RRP: $33.53$29.19Feared and admired in equal measure, Mary Midgley has carefully yet profoundly challenged many of the scientific and moral orthodoxies of the twentieth century. The Essential Mary Midgley collects for the first time the very best of this famous... -
Aping Mankind by Raymond Tallis
RRP: $24.50$22.28Neuroscience has made astounding progress in the understanding of the brain. What should we make of its claims to go beyond the brain and explain consciousness, behaviour and culture? Where should we draw the line? In this brilliant critique Raymond... -
Introduction to Phenomenology by Dermot Moran 9780415183734
RRP: $47.72$42.48Introduction to Phenomenology is an outstanding and comprehensive guide to phenomenology. Dermot Moran lucidly examines the contributions of phenomenology's nine seminal thinkers: Brentano, Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Arendt, Levinas, Sartre,... -
Consciousness Speaks by Balsekar 9780929448145
RRP: $20.64$18.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929448145Author BalsekarFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Atlantic BooksPublisher Atlantic BooksWeight(grams) 519g -
Introducing Logic: A Graphic Guide by Dan Cryan 9781848310124
RRP: $11.60$8.64Logic is the backbone of Western civilization, holding together its systems of philosophy, science and law. Yet despite logic's widely acknowledged importance, it remains an unbroken seal for many, due to its heavy use of jargon and mathematical... -
Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge by Michael Suk-Young Chwe
RRP: $28.38$22.39Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals... -
The Foundations of Arithmetic Revised 2e Revised by G Frege 9780631126942
RRP: $45.09$39.77A philosophical discussion of the concept of numberIn the book, The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number, Gottlob Frege explains the central notions of his philosophy and analyzes the perspectives of... -
Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information by Gilbert Simondon
RRP: $28.37$25.27A long-awaited translation on the philosophical relation between technology, the individual, and milieu of the living From Democritus's atomism to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, from Aristotle's reflections on the individual to Husserl's call for a... -
In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance by Amelia Jones 9780367533762
RRP: $41.27$37.06This volume is a study of the connected ideas of "queer" and "gender performance" or "performativity" over the past several decades, providing an ambitious history and crucial examination of these concepts while questioning their very bases.Addressing... -
Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics by Sylvana Tomaselli 9780691169033
RRP: $45.15$35.78A compelling portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft that shows the intimate connections between her life and workMary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, first published in 1792, is a work of enduring relevance in women's rights advocacy... -
The Stoics Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia by Brad Inwood
RRP: $21.92$18.23This volume gathers together the most important evidence about Stoic thought surviving from the ancient world. It is an expanded version of the section on Stoicism in Inwood and Gerson's Hellenistic Philosophy, consolidating related texts into larger,... -
Lacan: Anti-Philosophy 3 by Alain Badiou
RRP: $25.80$20.50Alain Badiou is arguably the most significant philosopher in Europe today. Badiou's seminars, given annually on major conceptual and historical topics, constitute an enormously important part of his work. They served as laboratories for his thought and... -
The Philosophy of Logical Atomism by Bertrand Russell
RRP: $21.92$19.63Logical Atomism is a philosophy that sought to account for the world in all its various aspects by relating it to the structure of the language in which we articulate information. In The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, Bertrand Russell, with input from... -
The Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer
RRP: $8.37$8.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486435503Author Arthur SchopenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Architecture of Ethics by Thomas Fisher
RRP: $47.72$41.96Ethics is one of the most important and least understood aspects of design practice. In his latest book, Thomas Fisher shows how ethics are inherent to the making of architecture - and how architecture offers an unusual and useful way of looking at... -
Maxims by Francoi de La Rochefoucauld
RRP: $14.18$10.02The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here in more than 600 penetrating and pithy aphorisms.About the AuthorLa Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) was a French classical... -
Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the Construction of a South Asian Diaspora by Anindya Raychaudhuri 9781783482634
RRP: $45.15$41.91Is it possible to think of a counter-hegemonic, progressive nostalgia that celebrates and helps sustain the marginalised? What might such a nostalgia look like, and what political importance might it have?Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the... -
Genius: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Robinson
RRP: $11.60$8.32Homer, Leonardo da Vinci, Mozart, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy; Curie, Darwin, Einstein, Galileo, and Newton. What do these world-famous artists and scientists have in common?- apart from the fact that their achievements predate our own time by a century or... -
Is St. Thomas's Aristotelian Philosophy of Nature Obsolete? by C. Robert Koons
RRP: $25.80$25.03"The Analytic Thomist," Rob Koons, delivered the 2021 Aquinas Lecture at the University of Dallas. Here he engages the possibility of a bridge between philosophy and metaphysics proper. Koons boldly lays out his position: without Aristotelian... -
Discourses: v. 1: Bks.I & II by Epictetus
RRP: $32.19$30.17From slave to sage.Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (AD 54-68) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian in 89 or 92, he settled permanently... -
The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle by Jonathan Barnes
RRP: $39.98$32.53Aristotle is one of the very greatest thinkers in the Western tradition, but also one of the most difficult. The contributors to this volume do not attempt to disguise the nature of that difficulty, but at the same time they offer a clear exposition of... -
The Humanist Movement in Modern Britain: A History of Ethicists, Rationalists and Humanists by Callum G. Brown
RRP: $25.79$21.34Humanists have been a major force in British life since the turn of the 20th century. Here, leading historians of religious non-belief Callum Brown, David Nash, and Charlie Lynch examine how humanist organisations brought ethical reform and rationalism... -
The Body by Lisa Blackman 9781845205904
RRP: $30.95$27.08Questions around 'the body' are central to social theory. Our changing understanding of the body now challenges the ways we conceive power, ideology, subjectivity and social and cultural process. The Body: the key concepts highlights and analyses the... -
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Intersecting Lives by Francois Dosse 9780231145619
RRP: $38.70$34.77In May 1968, Gilles Deleuze was an established philosopher teaching at the innovative Vincennes University, just outside of Paris. Felix Guattari was a political militant and the director of an unusual psychiatric clinic at La Borde. Their meeting was... -
The Life of Reason: Or, the Phases of Human Progress - All Five Volumes, Complete and Unabridged by George Santayana 9780359033560
RRP: $30.24$26.95All five volumes of George Santayana's philosophical masterwork exploring the manifestations of reason in life are united in this superb edition. The Life of Reason begins boldly, with Santayana explaining his concept of reason in great detail. How a... -
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell by Bertrand Russell
RRP: $43.85$39.22Bertrand Russell was born in 1872 and died in 1970. One of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, he transformed philosophy and can lay claim to being one of the greatest philosophers of all time. He was a Nobel Prize winner for... -
Meditations (Collins Classics) by Marcus Aurelius
RRP: $9.02$6.19HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Our life is what our thoughts make it The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have also been a... -
The Life of Reason: Or, the Phases of Human Progress - All Five Volumes, Complete and Unabridged (Hardcover) by George Santayana 9780359033553
RRP: $52.27$47.29All five volumes of George Santayana's philosophical masterwork exploring the manifestations of reason in life are united in this superb edition. The Life of Reason begins boldly, with Santayana explaining his concept of reason in great detail. How a... -
Modern Mathematical Logic by Joseph Mileti
RRP: $64.49$57.73This textbook gives a complete and modern introduction to mathematical logic. The author uses contemporary notation, conventions, and perspectives throughout, and emphasizes interactions with the rest of mathematics. In addition to covering the basic... -
Death by Shelly Kagan
RRP: $20.63$17.83There 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... -
Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind by Andy Clark
RRP: $23.21$21.19How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, including consciousness itself? An... -
Politics: v. 21 by Aristotle
RRP: $32.19$30.17The natural state of mankind.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years ... -
Aristotle by Christopher Shields 9780415622493
RRP: $33.53$29.71In this extensively revised new edition of his excellent guidebook, Christopher Shields introduces the whole of Aristotle's philosophy, showing how his powerful conception of human nature shaped much of his thinking on the nature of the soul and the... -
Existentialism: An Introduction 2e by K Aho
RRP: $23.21$20.69Existentialism: An Introduction has established itself as the most comprehensive and accessible book on the subject available. In this fully revised and expanded second edition, Kevin Aho draws on a wide range of existentialist thinkers from both the... -
Reading Capital: The Complete Edition by Louis Althusser
$45.33Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations. Louis Althusser, the French Marxist philosopher, maintained that Marx's project could only be revived... -
The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays by Hans-Georg Gadamer
RRP: $29.66$22.07This volume explores some of the more important of Hans-Georg Gadamer's extensive writings on art and literature. The principal text included is 'The Relevance of the Beautiful', Gadamer's most sustained treatment of philosophical aesthetics. The eleven... -
Kierkegaard's Writings IV, Part II: Either/Or by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: $54.18$41.05Soren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher rediscovered in the twentieth century, is a major influence in contemporary philosophy, religion, and literature. He regarded Either/Or as the beginning of his authorship, although he had... -
Naturales Quaestiones: v. 1: Bks.I-III by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: $32.19$30.17Following nature in pursuit of ethics.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making,... -
The Four Noble Truths: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought: v. 1 by Geshe Tashi Tsering
RRP: $16.76$11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861712700Author Geshe Tashi TseringFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.